PRIVACY POLICY & SECURITY

PRIVACY POLICY & SECURITY

Our Privacy Policy describes how your personal information is collected, used, and shared when you visit or make a purchase from www.minorgoods.com

DEVICE INFORMATION

When you visit our Site, we automatically collect certain information about your device, including information about your web browser, IP address, time zone. Additionally, as you browse our Site, we collect information about the individual web pages or products that you view, what websites or search terms referred you to our Site, and information about how you interact with our Site. We refer to this automatically-collected information as “Device Information.” We collect Device Information using Cookies.

 “Cookies” are data files that are placed on your device or computer and often include an anonymous unique identifier. Cookies also provide us with information about how our website is used so we can keep it is as up to date, relevant and error-free as possible. If you are concerned about your data and for more information about cookies, and how to disable cookies, visit http://www.allaboutcookies.org

-Strictly necessary cookies - these are cookies that are essential to the operation of our website

-Analytical/performance cookies. These cookies allow us to recognise and count the number of visitors to our website.

-Functionality cookies - These cookies are used to recognise you when you return to our website.

-Targeting Cookies - These cookies record your visit to our website, the pages you have visited and the links you have followed.

Here is a list of cookies that we use. We’ve listed them here so you that you can choose if you want to opt-out of cookies or not.

_session_id, unique token, sessional, Allows Shopify to store information about your session (referrer, landing page, etc).

_shopify_visit, no data held, Persistent for 30 minutes from the last visit, Used by our website provider’s internal stats tracker to record the number of visits

_shopify_uniq, no data held, expires midnight (relative to the visitor) of the next day, Counts the number of visits to a store by a single customer.

cart, unique token, persistent for 2 weeks, Stores information about the contents of your cart.

_secure_session_id, unique token, sessional

storefront_digest, unique token, indefinite If the shop has a password, this is used to determine if the current visitor has access.

ORDER INFORMATION

When you make a purchase or attempt to make a purchase through the Site, we collect certain information from you, including your name, billing address, shipping address, payment information (including credit card numbers), email address, and phone number.  We refer to this information as “Order Information.”

When we talk about “Personal Information” in this Privacy Policy, we are talking both about Device Information and Order Information.

HOW DO WE USE YOUR PERSONAL INFORMATION?

We use the Order Information that we collect 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).  Additionally, we use this Order Information to, communicate with you, screen our orders for potential risk or fraud.

When in line with the preferences you have shared with us, if you sign up to our newsletter we may use your email address to send you information about new products or news about minor goods. You can opt out of these at any point and you can ask for personal data to stop being recorded at any time by emailing info@minorgoods.com with the subject unsubscribe, we will then remove you from our mailing list and delete your data.

We use the Device Information that we collect to help us screen for potential risk and fraud (in particular, your IP address), and more generally to improve and optimize our Site (for example, by generating analytics about how our customers browse and interact with the Site, and to assess the success of our marketing and advertising campaigns).

SHARING YOUR PERSONAL INFORMATION

Our store is hosted on Shopify Inc. They provide us with the online e-commerce platform that allows us to sell our products and services to you. We share your Personal Information with Shopify to help us use your Personal Information, as described above.  They store your data on a secure server behind a firewall and adhere to GDPR legislation. You can read more about how Shopify uses your Personal Information here:  https://www.shopify.com/legal/privacy

Finally, we may also share your Personal Information to comply with applicable laws and regulations, to respond to a subpoena, search warrant or other lawful request for information we receive, or to otherwise protect our rights.

YOUR RIGHTS

If you are a European resident, you have the right to access personal information we hold about you and to ask that your personal information be corrected, updated, or deleted. If you would like to exercise this right, please contact us through the contact information below. If you do not agree with our Privacy Policy, please do not provide us with Personal Information.

Additionally, if you are a European resident we note that we are processing your information in order to fulfill contracts we might have with you (for example if you make an order through the Site), or otherwise to pursue our legitimate business interests listed above.

DATA RETENTION

When you place an order through the Site, we will maintain your Order Information for our records unless and until you ask us to delete this information.

MINORS

The Site is not intended for individuals under the age of 16.

CHANGES

We may update this privacy policy from time to time in order to reflect, for example, changes to our practices or for other operational, legal or regulatory reasons.

PAYMENT

If you choose a direct payment gateway to complete your purchase, then Shopify stores your credit card data. Direct Payments on our site are processed using Stripe a secure and trusted online payment gateway. Stripe has been audited by a PCI-certified auditor, and is certified to PCI Service Provider Level 1. It is encrypted through the Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard (PCI-DSS). Your purchase transaction data is stored only as long as is necessary to complete your purchase transaction. After that is complete, your purchase transaction information is deleted.

All direct payment gateways adhere to the standards set by PCI-DSS as managed by the PCI Security Standards Council, which is a joint effort of brands like Visa, MasterCard, American Express and Discover.

PCI-DSS requirements help ensure the secure handling of credit card information by our store and its service providers.

SECURITY

To protect your personal information, we take precautions and follow industry best practices to make sure it is not inappropriately lost, misused, accessed, disclosed, altered or destroyed.

If you provide us with your credit card information, the information is encrypted using secure socket layer technology (SSL) and stored with a AES-256 encryption. Although no method of transmission over the Internet or electronic storage is 100% secure, we follow all PCI-DSS requirements and implement additional generally accepted industry standards.

LINKS

When you click on links on our store, they may direct you away from our site. We are not responsible for the privacy practices of other sites and encourage you to read their privacy statements.

CONTACT US

For more information or questions about our privacy policy and GDPR (General Data Protection Regulation) or the data we hold please contact us by e-mail at info@minorgoods.com