PRIVACY STATEMENT


PRIVACY STATEMENT

Last Updated: 10/1/2018

INTRODUCTION

R. Nicole Collection respects your privacy and are committed to protecting it through our compliance with this policy.  This policy describes our practices for collecting, using, maintaining, protecting, and disclosing information that we collect from you or that you provide to us when you visit our site, www.rnicolecollection.

Please read this policy carefully to understand our policies and practices regarding your information and how we will treat it.  By visiting or purchasing something from our website, you agree to this privacy policy. If you do not agree with our policies and practices, your choice is not to use our website.

 

SECTION 1 – WHAT INFORMATION DO WE COLLECT?

Information You Voluntarily Provide to Us.  When you contact us by phone, email or other means, create an account, or fill out any forms or surveys on our website, we collect the personal information you give us such as your name, address and email address.  If you purchase something from our website, we will also ask you to provide payment information, which may include payment card information (such as credit card number, type, and expiration date), billing address, and shipping address. Our payment processor, which is required by credit card issuers to meet specific security requirements, will collect, store, and process your credit card and other payment information on our behalf using industry-standard security measures. We do not store any payment card information.

Information We Automatically Collect.  Like most websites, we may also incorporate technology such as “pixel tags”, “web beacons”, and “cookies” that allow us to track the actions of users automatically.  Pixel tags or web beacons are tracking devices on websites or in e-mails that can monitor the behavior of the user visiting the website or opening the e-mail, and cookies are small files that web servers may place on your computer when you visit a website.  These automatic tracking tools allow us to collect non-personal information, such as location information, information about your internet connection, browser information, information about when you access the website, the website address that linked you to our website, the website that you visit after using our website, and details of how you used our website, such as how often you visited our website and which pages you viewed.  Please see Section 8 – Cookies for more information on the cookies that we use (and how you can disable them).

 

SECTION 2 – HOW WE USE YOUR INFORMATION

We may use information that we collect about you or that you provide to us, including personal information, to measure usage of our website, to analyze the effectiveness of our website, to improve and enhance functionality of our website and related services, to customize the website for you, to provide support for our products and services and respond to requests and inquiries, to provide you with notices, such as updates or changes that we may make to our products and services, and to market and advertise our products and services.

We may from time to time aggregate some of your personal information in certain data analysis, reports, or other interpretations of investment trends for both internal and external purposes.  When aggregating personal information, we make sure that the information is not identifiable to any particular user.

If we intend to use any personal information in any manner that is not consistent with this privacy policy, you will be informed of such anticipated use prior to or at the time at which the personal information is collected.

 

SECTION 3 – DISCLOSURE 

We may disclose your information to service providers or other third parties, such as vendors, technical agents, subcontractors and consultants, to perform certain business-related functions that help make our products and services available and functional, including but not limited to, design services, data analysis and metrics services, technical agents, customer support and email delivery services.

In addition to the disclosures for the purposes above, we may disclose your information to a buyer or other successor as part of a merger, acquisition, change of control or other similar business transfer, to government body or other third party if required to do so by law or in the good faith belief that such action is necessary to comply with a legal obligation, or in specific other cases with your consent.

We may disclose aggregated user statistics and other data with our affiliates, agents and current or prospective business partners.  This aggregate information does not personally identify you.

 

SECTION 4 – CHOICES ABOUT HOW WE COLLECT, USE AND DISCLOSE YOUR INFORMATION

How do you get my consent? When you provide us with personal information to complete a transaction, verify your credit card, place an order, arrange for a delivery or return a purchase, we imply that you consent to our collecting it and using it for that specific reason only. If we ask for your personal information for a secondary reason, like marketing, we will either ask you directly for your expressed consent, or provide you with an opportunity to say no.

How do I withdraw my consent? If after you opt-in, you change your mind, you may withdraw your consent for us to contact you, for the continued collection, use or disclosure of your information, at anytime, by updating your information in your account or by contacting us at r.nicolecollection@gmail.com.  You may also unsubscribe from marketing emails by clicking the unsubscribe link in such emails.  We will not be able to remove your information from the database of any third parties to whom you have previously authorized us to share such information. Please also note that we may still send you important administrative messages.

Do Not Track Signals.  Third parties may keep track of your browsing activities across third party websites.  Certain web browsers enable users to activate a “Do Not Track” signal but we do not currently respond to the “Do Not Track” signal or other similar mechanisms.

Notice to California Residents.  If you would like to request certain information regarding our disclosure of your personal information to third parties for their direct marketing purposes, please send an email to r.nicolecollection@gmail.com.

To request any other changes or information about our collection, use or disclosure of your information, please email us at r.nicolecollection@gmail.com.

 

SECTION 5 – 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 own privacy policies in respect to the information we are required to provide to them for your purchase-related transactions.

For these providers, we recommend that you read their privacy policies so you can understand the manner in which your personal information will be handled by these providers.

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.

 

SECTION 6 – TRANSFER OF YOUR PERSONAL INFORMATION; INTERNATIONAL VISITORS

Our website and related services are provided for access and use by persons located in the United States.  If you view our website or use our services from outside of the United States, you do so at your own risk.  You are solely responsible for ensuring compliance with the laws of your specific jurisdiction, including the specific laws of your jurisdiction regarding the import, export, or re-export of the services.  If you are an international visitor, you acknowledge that by providing your personal information, you are: (a) permitting the transfer of your personal information to the United States which may not have the same data protection laws as the country in which you reside; and (b) permitting the use of your personal information in accordance with this Privacy Policy.

 

SECTION 7 – 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. 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.

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.

 

SECTION 8 – COOKIES

Here is a list of cookies that we use. We’ve listed them here so you that you can choose if you want to opt-out of cookies or not.

  • Session ID, unique token, sessional, Allows Woo Commerce to store information about your session (referrer, landing page, etc).
  •  Website visit, no data held, Persistent for 30 minutes from the last visit, Used by our website provider’s internal stats tracker to record the number of visits
  •  Website uniq, no data held, expires midnight (relative to the visitor) of the next day, Counts the number of visits to a store by a single customer.
  • Cart, unique token, persistent for 2 weeks, Stores information about the contents of your cart.
  •  Secure_Session_ID, unique token, sessional
  •  Unique token, indefinite If the shop has a password, this is used to determine if the current visitor has access.

You have the option to accept or disable cookies at any time through your browsers.  You may refuse to accept browser cookies by activating the appropriate setting on your browser.  Flash cookies are not managed by the same browser settings as are used for browser cookies.  If you choose to disable your cookies, your user experience may be limited.

 

SECTION 9 – 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.

 

SECTION 10 – CHANGES TO THIS PRIVACY POLICY

We reserve the right to modify this privacy policy at any time, so please review it frequently. Changes and clarifications will take effect immediately upon their posting on the website. If we make material changes to this policy, we will notify you here 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 merged with another company, your information may be transferred to the new owners so that we may continue to sell products to you.

 

QUESTIONS AND CONTACT INFORMATION

If you would like to: access, correct, amend or delete any personal information we have about you, register a complaint, or simply want more information contact us at r.nicolecollection@gmail.com.