This Privacy Statement describes how your personal information is collected, used, and shared when you visit or make a purchase from www.thousandpetaled.com (the “Website”, “Site”).
We are committed to protecting the Personal Data (defined below) that you share with us, and explaining how we collect, process, and share that information online. We collect your Personal Data on the Website (defined below) to enhance the services we offer you, maintain and improve the Website, protect the security of you and our Website, comply with legal obligations, and inform you about other services and products that may be available through us, our affiliated companies, and our marketing partners.
This Privacy Statement applies to Personal Data collected on our websites, mobile applications, cloud-based services, or controlled widgets embedded in communication platforms, each with a link to this Privacy Statement (collectively, the “Site”). It covers how we collect, use, share, and otherwise process personal information as of the date that this Privacy Statement is posted. It does not apply to any other information collected by us through any other means. By “Personal Data,” we mean information that identifies or can identify you personally.
The Site contains links to third-party websites, including websites of our business partners. We do not own, operate or control the websites of those third-parties. Accordingly, this Privacy Statement does not apply to any websites maintained or operated by third-parties for the collection, use, storage, disclosure, or other processing of your Personal Information. When you click on those links, you will go to a third-party website where you will be subject to that website’s privacy statement and we encourage you to read that policy statement.
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.
We collect and process the Personal Data that you directly and voluntarily provide through our Website when: (i) you place online orders; (ii) register to our Website; (iii) and/or your use of other functionalities available on the Website (for example: to subscribe to our newsletter, to participate in promotions or surveys, to submit comments, reviews, or other user-generated content, to send a request to our Client Service, to connect or interact with us through social networks, etc.). We may also collect and processes the Personal Data that you provide by filling in information on “My Account.” If you decide to register the Website through the Social login function, please be informed that we will have access to the Personal Data of your social account (for example, your email address and your public profile) in accordance with the privacy settings of the applicable social media platform. For more information, please refer to the related privacy statements on the applicable social media platform; we does not oversee or control such social media services or user profiles on these platforms and does not establish privacy settings or rules regarding how Personal Data is used on such platforms.
The items of Personal Data collected include personal information (title, name and surname, country, day and month of birth), contact and billing details (postal address, billing address, payment card information, email, telephone), details of purchases and/or other information regarding you that you may decide to provide during the interactions with our Client Service or with sales staff. We refer to this information as “Order Information”.
Furthermore, when you voluntarily send an email through our Website and/or to the addresses indicated in our Website, we collect your email address so that we can reply to any request, as well as any additional Personal Data contained in your message.
When we talk about “Personal Information” in this Privacy Statement, 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 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.
BEHAVIOURAL ADVERTISING
As described above, we use your Personal Information to provide you with targeted advertisements or marketing communications we believe 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 http://www.networkadvertising.org/understanding-online-advertising/how-does-it-work.
You can opt out of targeted advertising by using the links below:
– 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: http://optout.aboutads.info/.
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.
YOUR CALIFORNIA PRIVACY RIGHTS (California residents only)
If you are a California resident, California law also provides you with the following rights with respect to your personal information:
– The right to know what personal information we have collected, used, disclosed and sold about you.
– The right to request that we delete any personal information we have collected about you.
– The right to opt-out of the sale of your personal information.
– To submit a request under the California Consumer Privacy Act (“CCPA”) please contact us through the contact information below.
In addition and as set forth below, California law requires us to identify, for the 12-month period prior to the date of this Policy, what information we may have “sold” about you. Please be assured that this does not mean that we have received money in exchange for your personal information. Instead, there are instances where we have shared the following information about you, collected through cookies, in order to provide you with personalized services:
– Internet and other electronic network activity information, including browsing history, search history, areas of our Website that you visit and information regarding your interaction with the Website or any advertisements we display.
– Device identifiers, including your Internet Protocol address, online identifier and location.
– Your preferences and interests based on information collected when you browse our Website.
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.
SECURITY
To protect your personal information, we take reasonable 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.
AGE OF CONSENT
By using this site, you represent that you are at least the age of majority in your state or province of residence, or that you are the age of majority in your state or province of residence and you have given us your consent to allow any of your minor dependents to use this site.
Personal Data of minors
You must be at least 16 years old (depending on the state of residence) in order to provide us with Personal Data, and at least 18 years old to purchase products from our Website.
If we have actual knowledge that a minor has provided, through the Website or otherwise, their Personal Data, we will de-activate the minor’s account and disable the minor’s Personal Data in our systems.
CHANGES
We may update this privacy statement 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 email at privacy (at) thousandpetaled (dot) com or by mail using the details provided below:
Thousand Petaled
[Attn: A Delightful Concept, LLC]
2108 N St Ste N, Sacramento, CA, 95816-5712, United States