Privacy Policy

SECTION 1 - WHAT DO WE DO WITH YOUR INFORMATION?

When you purchase something in our store, we collect personal information that you provide to us as part of the buying and selling process, such as your name, address, and email address. When you browse our store, we also automatically receive the internet protocol (IP) address of your computer to provide us with information about your browser and operating system. Email marketing (if applicable): With your consent, we may send you emails about our store, new products, and other updates.

SECTION 2 - CONSENT

How do we obtain your consent? When you provide us with personal information to complete a transaction, verify your credit card, place an order, arrange a delivery, or return a purchase, we assume that you consent to us collecting and using it for that specific purpose. If we ask for your personal information for a secondary purpose, such as marketing, we will ask you directly for your explicit consent or provide you with the option to opt-out.

How do I withdraw my consent? If you change your mind after signing up, you can withdraw your consent for us to contact you, or for the continued collection, use, or disclosure of your information, at any time by contacting us at info@bouwblokkenwereld.com.

SECTION 3 - DISCLOSURE

"We may disclose your personal information if we are legally required to do so or if you violate our Terms of Service."

SECTION 4 - SHOPIFY

'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. Your data is stored through Shopify's data storage, databases, and the general Shopify application. They store your data on a secure server behind a firewall.'

Payment: If you choose a direct payment gateway to complete your purchase, Shopify stores your credit card information. This is encrypted via the Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard (PCI-DSS). Your purchase transaction data is only retained as long as necessary to complete your purchase transaction. After that, your purchase transaction data is deleted. All direct payment gateways comply with PCI-DSS standards as managed by the PCI Security Standards Council, a joint effort of brands such as Visa, Mastercard, American Express, and Discover. PCI-DSS requirements help ensure the secure processing of credit card information by our store and its service providers. For more insight, you can also read Shopify's Terms of Service (https://www.shopify.com/legal/terms) or Privacy Policy (https://www.shopify.com/legal/privacy).

SECTION 5 - SERVICES OF THIRD PARTIES

Generally, the third-party providers we use will only collect, use, and disclose your information to the extent necessary to enable them to provide the services they offer to us. However, certain third-party service providers, such as payment gateways and other payment processors, have their own privacy policies regarding the information we are required to provide them for your purchase-related transactions. For these providers, we recommend reading their privacy policies so that you understand how your personal information is handled by them.

"Keep in mind that certain providers may be located in a different jurisdiction than you or us. If you choose to proceed with a transaction that involves the services of a third-party service provider, your information may be subject to the laws of the jurisdiction in which that service provider or its facilities are located."

For example: if you are in Canada and your transaction is processed by a payment gateway in the United States, your personal information used in that transaction may be subject to disclosure under U.S. law, including the Patriot Act.

"Once you leave our store website or are redirected to a third-party website or application, you are no longer covered by this Privacy Policy or the Terms of Service of our website."

Links When you click on links in our store, they may take you away from our site. We are not responsible for the privacy practices of other sites and recommend that you read their privacy statements.

Google Analytics: Our store uses Google Analytics to help us learn who visits our site and which pages are viewed.

SECTION 6 - SAFETY

To protect your personal information, we take reasonable precautions and follow industry best practices to ensure that it is not improperly lost, misused, accessed, disclosed, altered, or destroyed. If you provide us with your credit card information, it is encrypted using SSL technology (secure socket layer) and stored with AES-256 encryption. Although no method of transmission over the Internet or electronic storage is 100% secure, we comply with all PCI-DSS requirements and implement additional generally accepted industry standards.

SECTION 7 - COOKIES

Here is a list of cookies that we use. We have listed them here so you can choose whether to refuse cookies.

_session_id: unique token, session-based. This allows Shopify to store information about your session (referrer, destination page, etc.).

'_shopify_visit: no data stored. Lasting for 30 minutes from the last visit. Used by the internal statistics tracker of our website provider to record the number of visits.'

'_shopify_uniq: no data stored. Expires at midnight (relative to the visitor) of the following day. Counts the number of visits to a store by a single customer.'

cart: unique token, valid for 2 weeks. Stores information about the contents of your shopping cart.

_secure_session_id: unique token, session-bound.

storefront_digest: unique token, unlimited. If the store has a password, it is used to determine whether the current visitor has access.

PREF: persistent for a very short period. Set by Google and tracks who visits the store and from where.

SECTION 8 - AGE OF CONSENT

By using this site, you declare that you are at least the age of majority in your state or province of residence, or that you are of legal age in your state or province of residence and you have given us permission to allow your minor dependents to use this site.

SECTION 9 - CHANGES TO THIS PRIVACY POLICY

We reserve the right to change this privacy policy at any time, so please review it regularly. Changes and clarifications will take effect immediately upon posting on the website. If we make material changes to this policy, we will notify you that it has been updated so that you are aware of what information we collect, how we use it, and under what circumstances, if any, we use and/or disclose it.

"If our store is acquired or merges with another company, your information may be transferred to the new owners so that we can continue selling products to you."