PRIVACY POLICY

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Who we are

Customer Accounts

If you create an account on our website, we collect and store the personal information you provide, such as your name, email address, and any information required to manage your account. Account information allows you to access your order history, manage your purchases, and receive customer support. You may update or request deletion of your account information at any time, subject to any legal or administrative obligations requiring us to retain certain records.

Orders & Payments

When you place an order, we collect the information necessary to process your purchase, including your contact information, billing and shipping details, and order history. Payment transactions are processed securely by our third-party payment providers, and we do not store your complete payment card information on our website. We retain order information as necessary to fulfill purchases, provide customer support, comply with legal and accounting obligations, prevent fraud, and maintain business records.

Third-Party Services

We may share limited personal information with trusted third-party service providers who assist in operating our website and fulfilling our services. These may include payment processors, eCommerce platforms, shipping providers, email service providers, analytics services, and other business partners. These providers receive only the information necessary to perform their services and are expected to protect your information in accordance with applicable privacy laws.

Data Retention

We retain personal information only for as long as necessary to fulfill the purposes described in this Privacy Policy, including providing our services, maintaining customer accounts, processing orders, complying with legal, tax, accounting, and regulatory obligations, resolving disputes, and enforcing our agreements. When personal information is no longer required, it is securely deleted or anonymized where reasonably practicable.

If you leave a comment, the comment and its metadata are retained indefinitely. This is so we can recognize and approve any follow-up comments automatically instead of holding them in a moderation queue.

For users that register on our website (if any), we also store the personal information they provide in their user profile. All users can see, edit, or delete their personal information at any time (except they cannot change their username). Website administrators can also see and edit that information.

Comments / rEVIEWS

When visitors leave comments on the site we collect the data shown in the comments form, and also the visitor’s IP address and browser user agent string to help spam detection.

An anonymized string created from your email address (also called a hash) may be provided to the Gravatar service to see if you are using it. The Gravatar service privacy policy is available here: https://automattic.com/privacy/. After approval of your comment, your profile picture is visible to the public in the context of your comment.

Cookies

If you leave a comment on our site you may opt-in to saving your name, email address and website in cookies. These are for your convenience so that you do not have to fill in your details again when you leave another comment. These cookies will last for one year.

If you visit our login page, we will set a temporary cookie to determine if your browser accepts cookies. This cookie contains no personal data and is discarded when you close your browser.

When you log in, we will also set up several cookies to save your login information and your screen display choices. Login cookies last for two days, and screen options cookies last for a year. If you select “Remember Me”, your login will persist for two weeks. If you log out of your account, the login cookies will be removed.

If you edit or publish an article, an additional cookie will be saved in your browser. This cookie includes no personal data and simply indicates the post ID of the article you just edited. It expires after 1 day.

What rights you have over your data

If you have an account on this site, or have left comments, you can request to receive an exported file of the personal data we hold about you, including any data you have provided to us. You can also request that we erase any personal data we hold about you. This does not include any data we are obliged to keep for administrative, legal, or security purposes.

Where your data is sent

Visitor comments may be checked through an automated spam detection service.