Privacy Policy

PRIVACY STATEMENT

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SECTION 1 - WHAT DO WE DO WITH YOUR INFORMATION?

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

SECTION 2 - CONSENT

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 contacting us at sarah@sarahssilks.com or mailing us at:
Sarah's Silks
8591 Trenton Rd. Forestville California US 95436

SECTION 3 - DISCLOSURE

We may disclose your personal information if we are required by law 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, then 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 is 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).

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.
In particular, remember that certain providers may be located in or have facilities that are located a different jurisdiction than either 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.
As an example, if you are located in Canada and your transaction is processed by a payment gateway located in the United States, then 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.

SECTION 6 - 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.

SECTION 7 - COOKIES

We use the following cookies:

Strictly necessary cookies.
These are cookies that are required for the operation of our website. They include, for example, cookies that enable you to log into secure areas of our website, use a shopping cart or make use of online donation services.

Analytical/performance cookie.
These cookies allow us to recognise and count the number of visitors to our digital sites and how the visitors move around our website when they are using it. This helps us to improve the way our website works, for example, by ensuring that users are finding what they are looking for easily.

Functionality cookies.
These are used to recognise you when you return to our website. This enables us to personalise our content for you, greet you by name and remember your preferences (for example, your choice of language or region).

Targeting/ Re-marketing cookies.
These cookies record your visit to our website, the pages you have visited and the links you have followed. We will use this information to make our website and the advertising displayed on it more relevant to your interests. We may also share this information with third parties for this purpose, so they can show content and advertisements that you have shown interest in on our website, about us when you visit their website or digital platform.


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.

Cookie Domain Type Description Duration
test_cookie .doubleclick.net Advertisement The test_cookie is set by doubleclick.net and is used to determine if the user's browser supports cookies. 15 minutes
_fbp .sarahssilks.com Advertisement This cookie is set by Facebook to display advertisements when either on Facebook or on a digital platform powered by Facebook advertising, after visiting the website. 3 months
_landing_page .sarahssilks.com Analytics Shopify installs this cookie to track landing pages. 14 days
_y .sarahssilks.com Analytics This cookie is associated with Shopify's analytics suite. 1 year
_s .sarahssilks.com Analytics This cookie is associated with Shopify's analytics suite. 30 minutes
_shopify_y .sarahssilks.com Analytics This cookie is associated with Shopify's analytics suite. 1 year
_shopify_s .sarahssilks.com Analytics This cookie is associated with Shopify's analytics suite. 30 minutes
_shopify_sa_t .sarahssilks.com Analytics This is a Shopify analytics cookie relating to marketing and referrals. 30 minutes
_shopify_sa_p .sarahssilks.com Analytics This is a Shopify analytics cookie relating to marketing and referrals. 30 minutes
_ga .sarahssilks.com Analytics The _ga cookie, installed by Google Analytics, calculates visitor, session and campaign data and also keeps track of site usage for the site's analytics report. The cookie stores information anonymously and assigns a randomly generated number to recognize unique visitors. 2 years
_gid .sarahssilks.com Analytics Installed by Google Analytics, _gid cookie stores information on how visitors use a website, while also creating an analytics report of the website's performance. Some of the data that are collected include the number of visitors, their source, and the pages they visit anonymously. 1 day
_gcl_au .sarahssilks.com Analytics Provided by Google Tag Manager to experiment advertisement efficiency of websites using their services. 3 months
__cf_bm .boldapps.net Functional This cookie, set by Cloudflare, is used to support Cloudflare Bot Management. 30 minutes
secure_customer_sig www.sarahssilks.com Necessary Shopify sets this cookie to be used in connection with customer login. 1 year
cart_currency www.sarahssilks.com Necessary Shopify sets this cookie to remember the user’s country of origin and populate the correct transaction currency. 14 days
_orig_referrer .sarahssilks.com Necessary Shopify sets this cookie to be used in connection with shopping cart. 14 days
shopify_pay_redirect www.sarahssilks.com Necessary Shopify sets this cookie to enable secure online payment and checkout. 1 hour
_pay_session shop.app Necessary Shopify sets this cookie to enable secure checkout and payment function on the website. session
_shopify_evids www.sarahssilks.com Other No description session
p www.sarahssilks.com Other No description session
_shopify_country www.sarahssilks.com Performance Shopify sets this cookie to store the preferred country setting chosen by the visitor. 30 minutes
__kla_id www.sarahssilks.com Performance This cookie is set by the provider Klsviyo. This cookie is used to collect information on the visitor's behaviour. This information is used for internal analytics and is used to optimize the website. It also register if the visitor has subscribed to news letter. 2 years
_gat www.sarahssilks.com Performance This cookie is installed by Google Universal Analytics to restrain request rate and thus limit the collection of data on high traffic sites. 1 minute

 

SECTION 8 - 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 9 - 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 info@sarahssilks.com