PRIVACY POLICY
LEGAL DISCLAIMER
This Privacy Policy describes how your personal information is collected, used, and shared when you visit or make a purchase from the “Site" www.cardcouture.co.nz.
THE COLLECTION OF PERSONAL INFORMATION
When you visit the Site, certain information about your device is collected automatically, including information about your web browser, IP address, time zone, and some of the cookies that are installed on your device. Additionally, as you browse the Site, information is collected about the individual web pages or products that you view, what websites or search terms referred you to the Site, and information about how you interact with the Site. This automatically-collected information is referred to as "Device Information”, and is collected using the following technologies:
“Cookies” are data files that are placed on your device or computer and often include an anonymous unique identifier.
“Log files” track actions occurring on the Site, and collect data including your IP address, browser type, Internet service provider, referring/exit pages, and date/time stamps.
“Web beacons,” “tags,” and “pixels” are electronic files that record information about how you browse the Site.
ORDER INFORMATION
Additionally when you make a purchase or attempt to make a purchase through the Site, certain information is collected from you, including your name, billing address, shipping address, payment information (including credit card numbers, email address, and phone number. This information is referred to as “Order Information.”
EMBEDDED CONTENT ON OTHER WEBSITES
Articles on this site may include embedded content (e.g. videos, images, articles, etc.). Embedded content from other websites behaves in the exact same way as if the visitor has visited the other website. These websites may collect data about you, use cookies, embed additional third-party tracking, and monitor your interaction with that embedded content, including tracing your interaction with the embedded content if you have an account and are logged in to that website. “Personal Information” in the context of this Privacy Policy, refers to all the information types mentioned above.
WEBSITE FORMS
When you send us a message through a contact form, the data is collected, along with your IP address and browser user agent string to help spam detection.
COOKIES
As with most websites, this site uses cookies to help provide you with the best experience. Cookies are small data files that are placed on your computer or mobile phone when you browse websites. Cookies are used on this website to make it work as expected, to remember your settings during and between visits, improve the speed/security of our website, allow you to share pages with social networks like Facebook, and more.
Due to limited resources, there is no facility for you to turn off non-essential cookies. You can block cookies at any time by activating the setting on your browser that allows you to refuse the setting of all or some cookies. To find out more on how to manage and delete cookies, visit aboutcookies.org. For more details on advertising cookies, and how to manage them, visit youronlinechoices.eu (EU based), or aboutads.info (US based). It’s important to note that restricting or disabling the use of cookies can limit the functionality of sites, or prevent them from working correctly at all. Also, opting out of advertising cookies will not mean you won’t see adverts, just simply that they won’t be tailored to you any longer.
WHAT IS THE LEGAL BASIS FOR PROCESSING DATA?
For those in the European Union, in terms of the legal grounds for processing information about you under EU data protection laws, your information is used:
as necessary to fulfill a contractual obligation to you
consistent with your consent, which you may revoke at any time through updating your profile;
as necessary for the legitimate business interests, and profitable service to you and others, unless those interests are overridden by your interests or fundamental rights and freedoms that require protection of personal data.
as necessary in the public interest; and
as necessary to comply with legal obligations;
HOW YOUR INFORMATION IS USED
Order Information that is collected to fulfill any orders placed through the Site (including processing your payment information, arranging for shipping, and providing you with invoices and/or order confirmations). In additionally, the Order Information may be use to:
Communicate with you;
Screen orders for potential risk or fraud; and
When in line with the preferences you have shared, provide you with information or advertising relating to the products or services.
Device Information is collected to help screen for potential risk and fraud (in particular, your IP address), and more generally to improve and optimise this Site i.e. by generating analytics about how customers browse and interact with the Site, and to assess the success of marketing and advertising campaigns etc.
SHARING YOUR PERSONAL INFORMATION
Your Personal Information is shared with third parties as described above. For example, Mailchimp may be used to power an email marketing campaign. You can read more about how Mailchimp uses your Personal Information here: https://mailchimp.com/legal/privacy/.
Google Analytics is used to help understand how customers use the Site. You can read more about how Google uses your Personal Information here: https://www.google.com/intl/en/policies/privacy/. You can also opt-out of Google Analytics here: https://tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout.
Finally, your Personal Information may be used to comply with applicable laws and regulations, to respond to a subpoena, search warrant or other lawful request for information received, or to otherwise protect our rights.
BEHAVIOURAL ADVERTISING
As described above, your Personal Information is used to provide you with targeted advertisements or marketing communications that may be of interest to you. For more information about how targeted advertising works, you can visit the Network Advertising Initiative’s (“NAI”) educational page at https://www.networkadvertising.org/understanding-online-advertising/how-does-it-work. Additionally, you can opt out of some of these services by visiting the Digital Advertising Alliance’s opt-out portal at: https://optout.aboutads.info/.
WHAT RIGHTS YOU HAVE OVER YOUR DATA
If you have made a purchase on this site, or have left comments, you can request to receive an exported file of the personal data held, including any data you have provided. You can also request that any personal data be erased, with the exception of any data that must be kept for administrative, legal, or security purposes.
You have the right to access personal information and to ask that your personal information be corrected, updated, or deleted. If you would like to exercise this right, please contact sandie@lovebyte.co.nz.
Additionally, if you are a European resident, processing your information is necessary in order to fulfill the contract i.e. if you purchase the eBook through the Site. Additionally, please note that your information will be transferred outside of Europe, including to Canada and the United States.
DATA RETENTION
When you place an order through the Site, your Order Information will be maintained unless and until you ask us to delete this information. For users that register on this website (if any), the personal information they provide is stored in their user profile. All users can see, edit, or delete their personal information at any time (except they cannot change their username). Website administrators can also see and edit that information.
CHANGES
This privacy policy may be updated from time to time in order to reflect, for example, changes to practices or for other operational, legal or regulatory reasons.
CONTACT
For more information about these privacy practices, if you have questions, or if you would like to make a complaint, please email sandie@lovebyte.co.nz