Privacy Policy

PRIVACY POLICY

PRIVACY STATEMENT

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SECTION 1

This Privacy Policy describes how familyrootslove.com (the “Site” or “we”) collects, uses, and discloses your Personal Information when you visit or make a purchase from the Site.
 

SECTION 2- CONTACT

After reviewing this policy, if you have additional questions, want more information about our privacy practices, or would like to make a complaint, please get in touch with us by e-mail at elitedesign_09@abv.bg or by mail using the details provided below:

1Al. Stambolijski , 1, 2777 Dobrinishte , Bulgaria

 

SECTION 3- COLLECTING PERSONAL INFORMATION

When you visit the Site, we collect information about your device, your interaction with the Site, and knowledge necessary to process your purchases. We may also collect additional information if you contact us for customer support. This Privacy Policy refers to any information about an identifiable individual (including the information below) as “Personal Information”. See the list below for more information about what Personal Information we collect and why.

 

SECTION 4- DEVICE INFORMATION

Purpose of collection: to load the Site accurately for you and to perform analytics on Site usage to optimize our Site.

Source of collection: Collected automatically when you access our Site using cookies, log files, web beacons, tags, or pixels.

Disclosure for a business purpose: shared with our processor Shopify

Personal Information collected: version of web browser, IP address, time zone, cookie information, what sites or products you view, search terms, and how you interact with the Site

 

SECTION 5- ORDER INFORMATION

Purpose of collection: to provide products or services to you to fulfil our contract, to process your payment information, arrange for shipping, and provide you with invoices and order confirmations, 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.

Source of collection: collected from you.

Disclosure for a business purpose: shared with our processor Shopify.

Among the types of Personal Data that this Website collects, by itself or through third parties, there are Cookies; Usage Data; email address; first name; last name; country; gender; unique device identifiers for advertising (Google Advertiser ID or IDFA, for example); geographic position; language.

Complete details on each type of Personal Data collected are provided in the dedicated sections of this privacy policy or by specific explanation texts displayed before the Data collection.


The User may freely provide Personal Data, or, in case of Usage Data, collected automatically when using this Website.


Unless specified otherwise, all Data requested by this Website is mandatory, and failure to provide this Data may make it impossible for this Website to provide its services. In cases where this Website specifically states that some Data is not mandatory, Users are free not to communicate this Data without consequences to the Service's availability or functioning.


Users who are still determining which Personal Data is mandatory are welcome to contact the Owner.


Any use of Cookies – or other tracking tools – by this Website or by the owners of third-party services used by this Website serves the purpose of providing the Service required by the User, in addition to any other purposes described in the present document and the Cookie Policy, if available.

Users are responsible for any third-party Personal Data obtained, published or shared through this Website and confirm that they have the third party's consent to provide the Data to the Owner.

 

SECTION 6- MINORS

The Site is not intended for individuals under the age of 18. We do not intentionally collect Personal Information from children. If you are the parent or guardian and believe your child has provided us with Personal Information, please contact us at the address above to request deletion.

 

SECTION 7- SHARING PERSONAL INFORMATION

We'd like to share your Personal Information with service providers to help us provide our services and fulfil our contracts with you, as described above. For example:

Our store is hosted on Shopify Inc. They provide us with an online e-commerce platform that allows us to sell our products and services to you. 
Your data is stored through Shopify’s data storage, databases and the general Shopify application. They store your information on a secure server behind a firewall.

Payment: 
Suppose you choose a direct payment gateway to complete your purchase, Shopify stores your credit card data. It is encrypted through the Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard (PCI-DSS). Your purchase transaction data is stored only as long as 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. 
For more insight, you may also want to read Shopify’s Terms of Service (https://www.shopify.com/legal/terms) or Privacy Statement (https://www.shopify.com/legal/privacy).

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

 

SECTION 7- THIRD-PARTY SERVICES

In general, the third-party providers used by us will only collect, use and disclose your information to the extent necessary to allow them to perform the services they provide to us. 
However, certain third-party service providers, such as payment gateways and other payment transaction processors, have their privacy policies concerning the information we are required to provide for your purchase-related transactions. 
For these providers we would recommend that you read their privacy policies so you can understand how these providers will handle your personal information. 
In particular, remember that certain providers may be located in or have facilities in a different jurisdiction than you or us. So if you elect to proceed with a transaction that involves the services of a third-party service provider, then your information may become subject to the laws of the jurisdiction(s) in which that service provider or its facilities are located. 
For example, if you are located in Canada,nd your transaction is processed by a payment gateway in the United States. Your personal information used in completing that transaction may be subject to disclosure under United States legislation, including the Patriot Act. 
Once you leave our store’s website or are redirected to a third-party website or application, you are no longer governed by this Privacy Policy or our website’s Terms of Service.

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. 
Google Analytics: 
Our store uses Google Analytics to help us learn about who visits our site and what pages are being looked at

 

SECTION 8- BEHAVIOURAL  ADVERTISING

As described above, we use your Personal Information to provide you with targeted advertisements or marketing communications we think may interest you. For example:

 We 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.

 We share information about your use of the Site, your purchases, and your interaction with our ads on other websites with our advertising partners. We collect and share some of this information directly with our advertising partners and, in some cases, through cookies or other similar technologies (which you may consent to, depending on your location).

 We use Shopify Audiences to help us show ads on other websites with our advertising partners to buyers who made purchases with other Shopify merchants and may also be interested in what we offer. We also share information about your use of the Site, your assets, and the email address associated with your purchases with Shopify Audiences, through which other Shopify merchants may make offers you may be interested in.

For more information about targeted advertising, you can visit the Network Advertising Initiative’s (“NAI”) educational page at https://www.networkadvertising.org/understanding-online-advertising/how-does-it-work.

FACEBOOK - https://www.facebook.com/settings/?tab=ads

GOOGLE - https://www.google.com/settings/ads/anonymous

BING - https://advertise.bingads.microsoft.com/en-us/resources/policies/personalized-ads]

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/.

 

SECTION 9- USING PERSONAL INFORMATION 

We use your personal information to provide our services to you, which include: offering products for sale, processing payments, shipping and fulfilment of your order, and keeping you up to date on new products, services, and offers.

 

SECTION 10- LAWFUL BASIS

Under the General Data Protection Regulation (“GDPR”), if you are a resident of the European Economic Area (“EEA”), we process your personal information under the following lawful bases:

 

Your consent

  • The performance of the contract between you and the Site;
  • Compliance with our legal obligations;
  • To protect your vital interests;
  • To perform a task carried out in the public interest;
  • For our legitimate interests, which do not override your fundamental rights and freedoms.

Retention

When you place an order through the Site, we will retain your Personal Information for our records unless and until you ask us to erase this information. Please see the ‘Your rights’ section below for more information on your request of erasure.

Automatic decision-making

Suppose you are a resident of the EEA. In that case, you have the right to object to processing based solely on automated decision-making (which includes profiling) when that decision-making has a legal effect on you or otherwise significantly affects you.

Using customer data, we engage in fully automated decision-making that has a legal or otherwise significant effect.

Our processor Shopify uses limited automated decision-making to prevent fraud that does not have a legal or significant effect on you.

Services that include elements of automated decision-making include:

Temporary blacklist of IP addresses associated with repeated failed transactions. This blacklist persists for a small number of hours.

Temporary blacklist of credit cards associated with blacklisted IP addresses. This blacklist persists for a small number of days.

 

SECTION 11- SELLING PERSONAL INFORMATION

Our Site sells Personal Information, as defined by the California Consumer Privacy Act of 2018 (“CCPA”).

Categories of information sold:

  • information about your use of the Site, your purchases, and the email address associated with your purchase
  • instructions on how to opt-out of sale;
  • We obtain affirmative authorization;
  • We provide a financial incentive to sell information. The incentives we provide are item discounts and price off.

CCPA

If you are a resident of California, you have the right to access the Personal Information we hold about you (also known as the ‘Right to Know’), to port it to a new service, and to ask that your Personal Information be corrected, updated, or erased. If you would like to exercise these rights, please contact us through the contact information above. [OR INSERT ALTERNATIVE INSTRUCTIONS FOR SENDING ACCESS, ERASURE, CORRECTION, AND PORTABILITY REQUESTS]

Please get in touch with us at the address above if you would like to designate an authorized agent to submit these requests on your behalf.

 

SECTION 12- GDP

Suppose you are a resident of the EEA. In that case, you have the right to access the Personal Information we hold about you, to port it to a new service, and to ask that your Personal Information be corrected, updated, or erased. If you would like to exercise these rights, please contact us through the contact information above.

Your Personal Information will be initially processed in Ireland and then transferred outside Europe for storage and further processing, including to Canada and the United States. For more information on how data transfers comply with the GDPR, see Shopify’s GDPR Whitepaper: https://help.shopify.com/en/manual/your-account/privacy/GDPR.

 

SECTION 13- COOKIES

A cookie is a small amount of information downloaded to your computer or device when you visit our Site. We use several different cookies, including functional, performance, advertising, and social media or content cookies.

Cookies improve your browsing experience by allowing the website to remember your actions and preferences (such as login and region selection). This means you don’t have to re-enter this information when you return to the site or browse from page to page.

Cookies also provide information on how people use the website, for instance, whether it’s their first time visiting or if they are frequent visitors.

We use the following cookies to optimize your experience on our Site and to provide our services.

 

https://www.shopify.com/legal/cookies 

Cookies Necessary for the Functioning of the Store

Name    Function              Duration

_ab        Used in connection with admin access.             2y

_secure_session_id         Used in connection with navigation through a storefront.              24h

_shopify_country             Used in connection with checkout.           Session

_shopify_m        Used for managing customer privacy settings.     1y

_shopify_tm       Used for managing customer privacy settings.     30min

_shopify_tw       Used for managing customer privacy settings.     2w

_storefront_u    Used to facilitate updating customer account information.            1min

_tracking_consent           Tracking preferences.     1y

c             Used in connection with checkout.           1y

cart        Used in connection with shopping cart.   2w

cart_currency    Used in connection with shopping cart.   2w

cart_sig Used in connection with checkout.           2w

cart_ts  Used in connection with checkout.           2w

cart_ver              Used in connection with shopping cart.   2w

checkout             Used in connection with checkout.           4w

checkout_token               Used in connection with checkout.           1y

dynamic_checkout_shown_on_cart         Used in connection with checkout.           30min

hide_shopify_pay_for_checkout Used in connection with checkout.           session

keep_alive          Used in connection with buyer localization.          2w

master_device_id            Used in connection with merchant login.               2y

previous_step    Used in connection with checkout.           1y

remember_me   Used in connection with checkout.           1y

secure_customer_sig      Used in connection with customer login. 20y

shopify_pay        Used in connection with checkout.           1y

shopify_pay_redirect      Used in connection with checkout.           30 minutes, 3w or 1y depending on value

storefront_digest            Used in connection with customer login. 2y

tracked_start_checkout Used in connection with checkout.           1y

checkout_one_experiment          Used in connection with checkout.           session

Reporting and Analytics

Name    Function              Duration

_landing_page   Track landing pages.       2w

_orig_referrer    Track landing pages.       2w

_s           Shopify analytics.             30min

_shopify_d          Shopify analytics.             session

_shopify_s          Shopify analytics.             30min

_shopify_sa_p   Shopify analytics relating to marketing & referrals.            30min

_shopify_sa_t    Shopify analytics relating to marketing & referrals.            30min

_shopify_y          Shopify analytics.             1y

_y           Shopify analytics.             1y

_shopify_evids   Shopify analytics.             session

_shopify_ga       Shopify and Google Analytics.     session

The length of time that a cookie remains on your computer or mobile device depends on whether it is a “persistent” or “session” cookie. Session cookies last until you stop browsing and persistent cookies last until they expire or are deleted. Most of the cookies we use are persistent and will expire between 30 minutes and two years from the date they are downloaded to your device.

You can control and manage cookies in various ways. Please keep in mind that removing or blocking cookies can negatively impact your user experience and parts of our website may no longer be fully accessible.

Most browsers automatically accept cookies, but you can choose whether or not to accept cookies through your browser controls, often found in your browser’s “Tools” or “Preferences” menu. For more information on how to modify your browser settings or how to block, manage or filter cookies can be found in your browser’s help file or through such sites as: www.allaboutcookies.org.

Additionally, please note that blocking cookies may not completely prevent how we share information with third parties such as our advertising partners. To exercise your rights or opt-out of certain uses of your information by these parties, please follow the instructions in the “Behavioural Advertising” section above.

 

SECTION 14- DO NOT TRACK

Please note that because there is no consistent industry understanding of how to respond to “Do Not Track” signals, we do not alter our data collection and usage practices when we detect such a signal from your browser.

 

SECTION 15- 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.

 

SECTION 16- COMPLAINTS

As noted above, if you would like to make a complaint, please contact us by e-mail or by mail using the details provided under “Contact” above.

 If you are not satisfied with our response to your complaint, you have the right to lodge your complaint with the relevant data protection authority. You can contact your local data protection authority, or our supervisory authority here: 

info@familyrootslove.com

 

Last updated: [26.10.2022]