Privacy Policy

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At https://andreagarretson.com we consider the privacy of our visitors to be extremely important. This privacy policy document describes in detail the types of personal information is collected and recorded by https://andreagarretson.com and how we use it. Contact us at andrea@andreagarretson.com if you have any questions or problems regarding the use of your Personal Data and we will gladly assist you.

By using this site or/and our services, you consent to the Processing of your Personal Data as described in this Privacy Policy.

This Privacy Policy is a part of our Terms and Conditions; by agreeing to Terms and Conditions you also agree to this Policy. In the event of collision of terms used in Terms and Conditions and Privacy Policy, the latter shall prevail.

DEFINITIONS

Personal Data – any information relating to an identified or identifiable natural person.
Processing – any operation or set of operations which is performed on Personal Data or on sets of Personal Data.
Data subject – a natural person whose Personal Data is being Processed.
Child – a natural person under 16 years of age.
We/us (either capitalized or not) –

DATA PROTECTION PRINCIPLES

We promise to follow the following data protection principles:

  • Processing is lawful, fair, transparent. Our Processing activities have lawful grounds. We always consider your rights before Processing Personal Data. We will provide you information regarding Processing upon request.
  • Processing is limited to the purpose. Our Processing activities fit the purpose for which Personal Data was gathered.
  • Processing is done with minimal data. We only gather and Process the minimal amount of Personal Data required for any purpose.
  • Processing is limited with a time period. We will not store your personal data for longer than needed.
  • We will do our best to ensure the accuracy of data.
  • We will do our best to ensure the integrity and confidentiality of data.

    DATA WE GATHER

    Information you have provided us with
    This might be your e-mail address, name, billing address, home address etc – mainly information that is necessary for delivering you a product/service or to enhance your customer experience with us. We save the information you provide us with in order for you to comment or perform other activities on the website. This information includes, for example, your name and e-mail address.

    Information automatically collected about you
    This includes information that is automatically stored by cookies and other session tools. For example, your shopping cart information, your IP address, your shopping history (if there is any) etc. This information is used to improve your customer experience. When you use our services or look at the contents of our website, your activities may be logged.

    Information from our partners
    We gather information from our trusted partners with confirmation that they have legal grounds to share that information with us. This is either information you have provided them directly with or that they have gathered about you on other legal grounds.

    Publicly available information
    We might gather information about you that is publicly available.

    HOW WE USE YOUR PERSONAL DATA

    We use your Personal Data in order to:

    • provide our service to you. This includes for example registering your account; providing you with other products and services that you have requested; providing you with promotional items at your request and communicating with you in relation to those products and services; communicating and interacting with you; and notifying you of changes to any services.
    • enhance your customer experience;
    • fulfill an obligation under law or contract;

    We use your Personal Data on legitimate grounds and/or with your Consent.

    On the grounds of entering into a contract or fulfilling contractual obligations, we Process your Personal Data for the following purposes:

    • to identify you;
    • to provide you a service or to send/offer you a product;
    • to communicate either for sales or invoicing;

    On the ground of legitimate interest, we Process your Personal Data for the following purposes:

    • to send you personalized offers* (from us and/or our carefully selected partners);
    • to administer and analyse our client base (purchasing behavior and history) in order to improve the quality, variety, and availability of products/ services offered/provided;

    As long as you have not informed us otherwise, we consider offering you products/services that are similar or same to your purchasing history/browsing behavior to be our legitimate interest.

    With your consent we Process your Personal Data for the following purposes:

    • to send you newsletters and campaign offers (from us and/or our carefully selected partners);
    • for other purposes we have asked your consent for.

    We Process your Personal Data in order to fulfill obligation rising from law and/or use your Personal Data for options provided by law. We reserve the right to anonymize Personal Data gathered and to use any such data. We will use data outside the scope of this Policy only when it is anonymized.

    We might process your Personal Data for additional purposes that are not mentioned here, but are compatible with the original purpose for which the data was gathered. To do this, we will ensure that:

    • the link between purposes, context and nature of Personal Data is suitable for further Processing;
    • the further Processing would not harm your interests and
    • there would be appropriate safeguard for Processing.

    We will inform you of any further Processing and purposes.

    WHO ELSE CAN ACCESS YOUR PERSONAL DATA

    We do not share your Personal Data with strangers. Personal Data about you is in some cases provided to our trusted partners in order to either make providing the service to you possible or to enhance your customer experience.

    We only work with Processing partners who are able to ensure adequate level of protection to your Personal Data. We disclose your Personal Data to third parties or public officials when we are legally obliged to do so. We might disclose your Personal Data to third parties if you have consented to it or if there are other legal grounds for it.

    HOW WE SECURE YOUR DATA

    We do our best to keep your Personal Data safe.  We use safe protocols for communication and transferring data (such as HTTPS). We use anonymizing and pseudonymizing where suitable. We monitor our systems for possible vulnerabilities and attacks.

    Even though we try our best we can not guarantee the security of information. However, we promise to notify suitable authorities of data breaches. We will also notify you if there is a threat to your rights or interests. We will do everything we reasonably can to prevent security breaches and to assist authorities should any breaches occur.

    If you have an account with us, note that you have to keep your username and password secret.

    CHILDREN’S INFORMATION

    We believe it is important to provide added protection for children online. We encourage parents and guardians to spend time online with their children to observe, participate in and/or monitor and guide their online activity.

    https://andreagarretson.com does not knowingly collect any personally identifiable information from children under the age of 13. If a parent or guardian believes that https://andreagarretson.com has in its database the personally-identifiable information of a child under the age of 13, please contact us immediately (using the contact in the first paragraph) and we will use our best efforts to promptly remove such information from our records.

    COOKIES AND OTHER TECHNOLOGIES WE USE

    We use cookies and/or similar technologies to analyse customer behavior, administer the website, track users’ movements, and to collect information about users. This is done in order to personalize and enhance your experience with us.

    A cookie is a tiny text file stored on your computer. Cookies store information that is used to help make sites work. Only we can access the cookies created by our website. You can control your cookies at the browser level. Choosing to disable cookies may hinder your use of certain functions.

    We use cookies for the following purposes:

    • Necessary cookies – these cookies are required for you to be able to use some important features on our website, such as logging in. These cookies don’t collect any personal information.
    • Functionality cookies – these cookies provide functionality that makes using our service more convenient and makes providing more personalized features possible. For example, they might remember your name and e-mail in comment forms so you don’t have to re-enter this information next time when commenting.
    • Analytics cookies – these cookies are used to track the use and performance of our website and services
    • Advertising cookies – these cookies are used to deliver advertisements that are relevant to you and to your interests. In addition, they are used to limit the number of times you see an advertisement. They are usually placed to the website by advertising networks with the website operator’s permission. These cookies remember that you have visited a website and this information is shared with other organisations such as advertisers. Often targeting or advertising cookies will be linked to site functionality provided by the other organisation.

    You can remove cookies stored in your computer via your browser settings. Alternatively, you can control some 3rd party cookies by using a privacy enhancement platform such as optout.aboutads.info or youronlinechoices.com. For more information about cookies, visit allaboutcookies.org.

    We use Google Analytics to measure traffic on our website. Google has their own Privacy Policy which you can review here. If you’d like to opt out of tracking by Google Analytics, visit the Google Analytics opt-out page.

    DoubleClick DART Cookie

    → Google, as a third party vendor, uses cookies to serve ads on https://andreagarretson.com.
    → Google’s use of the DART cookie enables it to serve ads to our site’s visitors based upon their visit to https://andreagarretson.com and other sites on the Internet.
    → Users may opt out of the use of the DART cookie by visiting the Google ad and content network privacy policy at the following URL – http://www.google.com/privacy_ads.html

    Our Advertising Partners
    Some of our advertising partners may use cookies and web beacons on our site. Our advertising partners include …….

    • Google
    • CJ
    • Amazon
    • Rakuten Linkshare
    • ShareASale

    While each of these advertising partners has their own Privacy Policy for their site, an updated and hyperlinked resource is maintained here: Privacy Policies.

    You may consult this listing to find the privacy policy for each of the advertising partners of https://andreagarretson.com.

    These third-party ad servers or ad networks use technology in their respective advertisements and links that appear on https://andreagarretson.com and which are sent directly to your browser. They automatically receive your IP address when this occurs. Other technologies (such as cookies, JavaScript, or Web Beacons) may also be used by our site’s third-party ad networks to measure the effectiveness of their advertising campaigns and/or to personalize the advertising content that you see on the site.

    https://andreagarretson.com has no access to or control over these cookies that are used by third-party advertisers.

    Amazon
    We are a participant in the Amazon Services LLC Associates Program, an affiliate advertising program designed to provide a means for us to earn fees by linking to Amazon.com and affiliated sites.

    CONTACT INFORMATION

    andrea@andreagarretson.com

    CHANGES TO THIS PRIVACY POLICY

    We reserve the right to make change to this Privacy Policy.
    Last modification was made May 21, 2019.

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