This Privacy Policy describes how your personal information is collected, used, and shared when you visit or make a purchase from https://www.solarshieldglasses.com (the “Site”).
PERSONAL INFORMATION WE COLLECT
When you visit the Site, we automatically collect certain information about your device, 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, we collect information 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. We refer to this automatically-collected information as “Device Information”.
We collect Device Information using the following technologies:
- “Cookies” are data files that are placed on your device or computer and often include an anonymous unique identifier. For more information about cookies, and how to disable cookies, visit http://www.allaboutcookies.org.
- “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 used to record information about how you browse the Site.
Additionally 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 generally 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; and
When in line with the preferences you have shared with us, provide you with information or advertising relating to our products or services.
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
We share your Personal Information with third parties to help us use your Personal Information, as described above. For example, we use Shopify to power our online store–you can read more about how Shopify uses your Personal Information here: https://www.shopify.com/legal/privacy. We also use Google Analytics to help us understand how our 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, 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.
DO NOT TRACK
Please note that we do not alter our Site’s data collection and use practices when we see a Do Not Track signal from your browser.
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.
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. 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, 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 18.
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.
CONTACT US
For more information about our privacy practices, if you have questions, or if you would like to make a complaint, please contact us by e‐mail at [email protected] or by mail using the details provided below:
Solar Shield® Sunglasses
123 Solar Way
Sunny, FL, 12345
United States
PURPOSE OF THIS PRIVACY POLICY
The purpose of this Privacy Policy is to disclose and explain how Solar Shield® collects, uses, shares and protects your personal information when you visit our website or make a purchase. It outlines the types of data we gather, how we use them to provide services to you, and the rights and choices you have over your personal information.
We created this policy to demonstrate Solar Shield’s® firm commitment to your privacy and data protection. Please read the policy in its entirety to understand our practices regarding your personal data.
WHAT INFORMATION DO WE COLLECT?
We collect both Personal Data and Non-Personal Data from site visitors:
Personal Data includes any information relating to an identified or identifiable person. The Personal Data we collect includes:
- Contact Data: Such as your name, phone numbers, mailing addresses when you create an account or make a purchase.
- Financial Data: Bank account and payment information used to process payments if you make a purchase.
- Transaction Data: Details like the purchases and subscriptions you’ve made.
- Profile Data: Account username and password, preferences, feedback, and survey responses.
- Usage Data: Information about how you use our website, products and services.
Non-Personal Data is data that cannot identify you specifically. It includes:
- Device data: Such as your computer’s IP address, operating system, browser type and version.
- Geographic data: Your general location based on IP address.
- Web analytics: How long you visit our site, what pages you look at, what links you click.
- Marketing analytics: How you interact with our marketing messages and advertisements.
HOW DO WE USE THIS INFORMATION?
We use your Personal Data in the following ways:
- Provide products, services, and customer support you request.
- Process orders and send order confirmations.
- Communicate with you about our products or your account.
- Create and manage your online account.
- Notify you about new products and services that may interest you.
- Improve the products, services, content, and site functionality.
- Prevent fraud, criminal activity, or misuses of our site.
- Conduct research and analysis to maintain, protect, develop our business.
- Ensure compliance with legal and regulatory requirements.
- Send marketing communications that we believe may interest you via email or social media.
- Personalize and customize your experience on our site.
- Allow you to participate in contests and surveys.
- Combine with additional data collected from third parties to improve relevancy of ads shown.
We use Non-Personal Data to:
- Analyze site traffic patterns and how our site is used.
- Perform analytics to improve our products, site design, and services.
- Display relevant promotions and advertising on our site.
- Identify and repair errors on our site.
SHARING OF PERSONAL DATA
We will not rent, sell or share your Personal Data with third parties except in these cases:
- With your clear consent and direction to do so.
- With our trusted third party service partners who work on our behalf and have agreed to privacy restrictions. Examples are payment processors, shipping, marketing, and data storage services.
- If required to do so by law or regulations.
- In connection with any merger, sale of company assets, financing or acquisition.
We take steps to ensure our service partners protect your privacy and keep your Personal Data secure. We do not allow them to use your Personal Data for their own purposes.
We may share Non-Personal Data with third parties at our discretion. No permission is required from you to share this data.
YOUR RIGHTS OVER PERSONAL DATA
If you are a resident of the European Economic Area (EEA), you have certain rights and protections under the law regarding the processing of your Personal Data, including:
- The right to request access to your Personal Data held by us.
- The right to correct inaccurate Personal Data we may hold about you.
- The right to restrict or object to certain data processing.
- The right to have your data erased from our systems.
- The right to receive a copy of your Personal Data in a machine-readable format so it can be transferred.
- The right to withdraw your consent for data collection, use or processing.
To make a request regarding your Personal Data, please contact us via email at [insert email address] and specify which right you wish to exercise. We will respond to requests in a timely manner.
OPT-OUT OF MARKETING
You may opt-out of email marketing communications from us by using the unsubscribe link within the messages.
You can also contact us at [insert email] to have your contact information removed from any email or other marketing lists.
COOKIES AND TRACKING TECHNOLOGY
A cookie is a small text file placed onto an Internet user’s web browser or device that enables features and functionality on our site. We use first-party and third-party cookies for things like:
- Signing into our site and services.
- Enabling marketing automations and communications.
- Analyzing how our site is performing and how visitors navigate it.
- Personalizing content and site functionality.
You have control over cookie settings on your browser or device. You can block or restrict cookies by adjusting your browser settings at any time. Please note that certain features of our site and services may not function properly if you restrict cookies.
We also use web analytics services from third parties such as Google Analytics to help us analyze traffic and usage trends for our site. These services use cookies and similar tracking technologies to collect and analyze data about site traffic patterns. This helps us understand things like:
- How many visitors arrive at our site.
- What pages, products, and services are most popular.
- What times of day or days of the week are busiest.
The information allows us to continually improve our site design, functionality, and services. These analytics services only collect Non-Personal Data via cookies and tracking technologies. We do not allow web analytics services to use the collected data for their own purposes.
You can prevent web analytics services from recognizing you when you visit our site by using the Opt-out Browser Add-on provided by Google Analytics.
SECURITY OF YOUR PERSONAL DATA
We take all reasonable administrative, physical and electronic security measures to protect the confidentiality and security of your Personal Data against loss, misuse, unauthorized access, disclosure or modification. Security measures include firewalls, data encryption, physical access controls to our data centers, and authorization controls for accessing data.
While we take all reasonable precautions to safeguard your Personal Data, no security measures can be 100% secure. We cannot guarantee the absolute security of your data.
CHILDREN’S PRIVACY
Our website is not directed to children under the age of 13. We do not intentionally collect Personal Data from children under 13 without obtaining parental consent. If you are the parent or guardian of a child under 13 that has provided us with Personal Data, please contact us so we can take action.
CHANGES TO THIS POLICY
We may need to update this Privacy Policy from time-to-time as our services, applicable laws, regulations or technologies change. We reserve the right to modify this policy at any time, so please review it frequently. The effective date at the top indicates when this Privacy Policy was last updated. If we make significant changes, we will notify users directly or post a prominent notice on our website.
CONTACT US
If you have questions, concerns or complaints about our Privacy Policy, please contact us at:
Solar Shield Sunglasses
123 Solar Way
Sunny, FL 12345
Email: [email protected]
We will respond to all requests, questions or concerns within a reasonable timeframe.