Privacy Statement
Privacy Policy
Last Updated: December 10, 2024
Section 1 - How Do We Use Your Information?
Email Marketing (if applicable)
With your permission, we may send you emails regarding our store updates, new products, and other relevant information.
Data Analysis (if applicable)
With your permission, we may analyze your data to display customized content and product recommendations when you browse our store, based on your interests, habits, and actual needs.
Section 2 - Consent
How Do We Obtain Your Consent?
When you provide us with personal information to complete a transaction, verify credit card details, place an order, arrange delivery, or process a return, you are deemed to consent to our collection of such information and its use solely for the aforementioned specific purposes.
If we need to collect your personal information for secondary purposes such as marketing, we will either directly seek your explicit consent or provide you with an option to opt out.
If you are a member of our store, you acknowledge and consent to the following:
- Your personal information may be shared among all associated stores within the [Company/Brand] network to enable cross-store membership benefits.
- We may use your personal information to send you emails concerning membership level changes, birthday greetings, points, rewards, benefits, redemption programs, and other membership service-related matters.
- We may use your data for marketing and promotional purposes, such as providing targeted advertising and personalized recommendations based on your membership data and shopping behavior.
- We may use your data for retargeting advertising purposes, which may involve sharing your data with third parties for advanced data analysis and the execution of personalized advertising campaigns.
- We may share your data with Shopify for data analysis, such as the development of marketing strategies and the provision of operational recommendations.
How Can You Withdraw Your Consent?
If you change your mind after giving consent, you may withdraw your consent for us to contact you, as well as for the continued collection, use, or disclosure of your personal information, at any time by contacting us via:
- Telephone: [Insert telephone number here]
- Mailing Address: [Insert mailing address here]
Section 3 - Disclosure of Information
We may disclose your personal information if required by law or if you violate our Terms of Service.
Section 4 - About Shopify
Our store is hosted on the platform of Shopify Inc. (hereinafter referred to as "Shopify"). Shopify provides us with an online e-commerce platform that enables us to sell products and services to you.
Your data is stored through Shopify's data storage systems, databases, and the Shopify general application, on secure servers behind a firewall.
Payment-Related Matters
If you choose to complete your purchase via a direct payment gateway, Shopify will store your credit card data. This data is encrypted in accordance with the Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard (PCI-DSS). Your purchase transaction data will only be stored for the period necessary to complete the transaction, and will be deleted upon completion of the transaction.
All direct payment gateways comply with the PCI-DSS standards established by the PCI Security Standards Council, which is a joint initiative of brands such as 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 information, you may review Shopify's Terms of Service (https://www.shopify.com/legal/terms) or Privacy Policy (https://www.shopify.com/legal/privacy).
Section 5 - Third-Party Services
In general, third-party service providers we collaborate with will only collect, use, and disclose your information to the extent necessary to fulfill the services they provide to us.
However, certain third-party service providers, such as payment gateways and other payment transaction processors, have their own independent privacy policies governing the information we are required to provide to them for transactions related to your purchases.
For these providers, we recommend that you review their privacy policies to understand how your personal information will be handled.
It is particularly important to note that the location of some providers or their facilities may be in a different jurisdiction from yours or ours. Therefore, if you choose to conduct a transaction involving the services of a third-party service provider, your information may be subject to the legal provisions of the jurisdiction(s) where the service provider or its facilities are located.
For example, if you are located in Canada and your transaction is processed by a payment gateway located in the United States, the personal information used to complete the transaction may be subject to disclosure in accordance with U.S. legislation, including the Patriot Act.
Once you leave our store's website or are redirected to a third-party website/application, this Privacy Policy and our website's Terms of Service will no longer apply.
Link Disclaimer
Clicking on links on our store may direct you away from our website. We are not responsible for the privacy practices of other websites and recommend that you review their privacy statements.
Section 6 - Information Security
To protect your personal information, we take reasonable precautions and follow industry best practices to prevent unauthorized loss, misuse, access, disclosure, alteration, or destruction of such information.
If you provide us with credit card information, it will be encrypted using Secure Socket Layer (SSL) technology and stored with AES encryption. While no method of internet transmission or electronic storage is 100% secure, we strictly comply with all PCI-DSS requirements and implement other generally accepted industry standards.
Section 7 - Cookie Policy
Below is a list of cookies we use, provided for your reference to choose whether to opt out of cookies:
- _session_id: A unique token, session-level cookie, used by Shopify to store your session information (e.g., referrer, landing page, etc.).
- _shopify_visit: No data stored, a persistent cookie valid for 30 minutes from the last visit, used by our website provider's internal analytics tool to record the number of visits.
- _shopify_uniq: No data stored, expires at midnight (visitor's local time) the next day, used to count the number of visits to the store by a single customer.
- cart: A unique token, a persistent cookie valid for 2 weeks, used to store information about the contents of your shopping cart.
- _secure_session_id: A unique token, session-level cookie.
- storefront_digest: A unique token, permanently valid, used to verify if the current visitor has access permission if the store is password-protected.
Section 8 - Age of Consent
By using this website, you represent that you have reached the age of majority in your state/province of residence; or that you have reached the age of majority and have consented to the use of this website by your minor dependents.
Section 9 - Changes to This Privacy Policy
We reserve the right to modify this Privacy Policy at any time, so please review it regularly.
Changes and clarifications will take effect immediately upon being posted on the website. If we make material changes to this Policy, we will notify you via the email address associated with your account, informing you of the types of information we collect, how we use it, and the circumstances (if any) under which we use and/or disclose it.
You agree to provide current, complete, and accurate account information and undertake to update your account information promptly to ensure we can contact you when necessary.
If our store is acquired or merged with another company, your information may be transferred to the new owner to enable us to continue selling products to you.
Questions and Contact Information
If you wish to: access, correct, amend, or delete any personal information we hold about you, file a complaint, or obtain more information, please contact our Privacy Compliance Officer via:
- Mailing Address: [info@littlegreenyard.com]
- Attention: Privacy Compliance Officer