Privacy Policy
Who we are
Gift N Gadget-etc
Our location Is Arizona, USA
Reach us at our contact form anytime
Our website address is: https://www.giftngadget-etc.net
What personal data we collect and why we collect it
While you visit our site, we’ll track:
- Products you’ve viewed. We’ll use this to, for example, show you products you’ve recently viewed.
- Location, IP address and browser type. We’ll use this for purposes like estimating taxes and shipping.
- Shipping address. We’ll ask you to enter this so we can, for instance, estimate shipping before you place an order, and send you the order!
We’ll also use cookies to keep track of cart contents while you’re browsing our site.
When you purchase from us, we’ll ask you to provide information including your name, billing address, shipping address, email address, phone number, username and password. We’ll use this information to:
- Send you information about your account and order
- Respond to your requests, including refunds and complaints
- Process payments and prevent fraud
- Set up your account for our store
- Comply with any legal obligations we have, such as calculating taxes
- Improve our store offerings
- Send you marketing messages, if you choose to receive them
When you create an account, we will store your name, address, email and phone number, which will be used to populate the checkout for future orders.
Credit card/payment details are not entered or stored on this site. All orders are processed off site on a secured server.
Comments
When you leave comments on our site we collect the data shown in the comments form, also your IP address and browser user agent string to help spam detection.
Media
If you upload images to the website, you should avoid uploading images with embedded location data (EXIF GPS) included. Visitors to the website can download and extract any location data from images on the website.
Contact forms
Personal data that you enter is captured when you submit a contact form. We keep contact form submissions for a one week for customer service purposes only, but we do not use or share the information submitted through them for marketing purposes.
Cookies
Cookies do not record or store any personal data. If you want, you can prevent the use of cookies. You can manage or request the general deactivation or cancellation of cookies through your browser. If you do this though, please be advised this action might slow down or prevent access to some parts of the site.
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 have an account and you log in to this site, 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.
Third-party cookies
We may also utilize third-party cookies, which are cookies sent by a third-party to your computer. Permanent cookies are often third-party cookies. The majority of third-party cookies consist of tracking cookies used to identify online behavior, understand interests and then customize advertising for users. You may clear your cookies whenever you like.
Embedded content from other websites
Articles on this site may include embedded content (e.g. videos, images, articles, etc.). Embedded content from other websites behaves in the exact same way as if the visitor has visited the other website.
These websites may collect data about you, use cookies, embed additional third-party tracking, and monitor your interaction with that embedded content, including tracking your interaction with the embedded content if you have an account and are logged in to that website.
Support in configuring your browser: You can manage cookie through the settings of your browser on your device. However, deleting cookies from your browser may remove the preferences you have set for this website.
For further information and support, you can also visit the specific help page of the web browser you are using:
Analytics
Third-party analytical cookies may also be installed. They are sent from the domains of the aforementioned third parties external to the site. Third-party analytical cookies are used to detect information on user behavior on our website. This placed anonymously, in order to monitor the performance and improve the usability of the site. Third-party profiling cookies are used to create profiles relating to users, in order to propose advertising in line with the choices expressed by the users themselves.
What we share with others
Who on our team has access
Members of our team have access to the information you provide us. For example, both Administrators and Shop Managers can access:
- Order information for what was purchased, when it was purchased and where it should be sent, and
- Customer information: Your name, email address, billing and shipping information.
Our team members have access to this information to help fulfill orders, process refunds and support you.
Payments
We accept payments through PayPal. When processing payments, some of your data will be passed to PayPal, including information required to process or support the payment, such as the purchase total and billing information.
Information includes:
- Name
- Address
- Phone
- City/State/Zip
- Unique payment identifier
- Payment provider identifier
To better understand how a provider uses and stores the data shared with them, check their privacy policies directly:
Wishlist
Products you’ve added to the wishlist will be used used to show you and other users (if you set to public) your favorite products, and to create targeted email campaigns.
We will keep track of the wishlists you’ve created, and make them visible to the store’s staff. We’ll also use cookies to keep track of wishlist contents while you’re browsing our site.
Social Networks
This website incorporates buttons for social networks, in order to allow easy sharing of content on your favorite social networks. These plugins are programmed so as not to set any cookies when accessing the page, to safeguard the privacy of users. Cookies may be set, however, if you make voluntary use of the social network. Please note that if you browse while being logged into the social network then you have already consented to the use of cookies conveyed through this website at the time that you registered with the particular social network.
The collection and use of information obtained by means of the social network are governed by the respective privacy policies of the social network.
How long we retain your data
We generally store information about you for as long as we need the information for the purposes for which we collect and use it, and we are not legally required to continue to keep it.
We will also store comments or reviews, if you choose to leave them.
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, we also store the personal information they provide in their user profile. You can see, edit, or delete your personal information at any time (except you cannot change your username). Website administrators can also see and edit that information.
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 we send your data
Your comments may be checked through an automated spam detection service.
Additional information
How we protect your data
We use secure physical and digital systems to store your personal data when appropriate. We ensure that your personal data is protected against unauthorized access, disclosure, or destructions.
Please note, however, that no system involving the transmission of information via the internet, or the electronic storage of data, is completely secure. However, we take the protection and storage of your personal data very seriously. We take all reasonable steps to protect your personal data.
Personal data is stored throughout your relationship with us. We delete your personal data upon request for cancellation of your account or other general request for the deletion of data.
What data breach procedures we have in place
In the event of a breach of your personal data, you will be notified in a reasonable time frame, but in no event later than two weeks, and we will follow all applicable laws regarding such breach.
Disclosure of Personal Data
Although our policy is to maintain the privacy of your personal data as described herein, we may disclose your personal data if we believe that it is reasonable to do so in certain cases, in our sole and exclusive discretion. Such cases may include, but are not limited to:
- To satisfy any local, state, or Federal laws or regulations
- To respond to requests, such discovery, criminal, civil, or administrative process, subpoenas, court orders, or writs from law enforcement or other governmental or legal bodies
- To bring legal action against a user who has violated the law or violated the terms of use of our website
- As may be necessary for the operation of our website
- To generally cooperate with any lawful investigation about our users
- If we suspect any fraudulent activity on our website or if we have noticed any activity which may violate our terms or other applicable rules