Privacy Policy Information

Who we are

Thank you for accessing the website https://www.cartiacollective.com

We respect your privacy and want you to know about the policies we have in place to collect, use, process, share, and protect your personal information. By interacting with Cartia Collective through our websites, mobile application(s), products, and services, you consent to the use of information that is collected or submitted as described in this privacy policy.

What personal data do we collect and why do we collect it

We collect the following categories of information in order to provide products and services to you, to communicate with you, to enhance our products, services, and operations, and for other operational, legal, and compliance purposes:

-Identifiers, such as name, phone number, email address, credit card number, or other similar identifiers.

-Identifiers (Online), such as Internet URL, Internet service provider, date/time stamp, device model, unique device identifiers, and other online identifiers.

-Customer Account Details/Commercial information, such as products or services you purchased or considered purchasing.

-Geolocation data, such as the location of your device or computer, shipping and billing address(es), your city, your country of residence/your organization’s country of operation.

-Age, gender, or other protected classifications.

-Other personal information, if it identifies, relates, and can be reasonably associated with or linked to you.

Comments

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.

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

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.

Site/Application- Cartia Collective uses cookies to:

* speed up navigation 

* track site usage 

* recognize users and user access privileges 

*enable selection and purchase of products on this Site/Application record your browsing activity and purchases 

This Site’s/Application’s cookies do not and cannot infiltrate a user’s hard drive to gather any confidential information. 

This Site/Application also uses web beacons (also known as clear GIF technology or “action tags”) to: 

* help deliver cookies 

* track views of a web page 

* track analytics

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.

Log Files: Like most websites, the Site server automatically recognizes the Internet URL from which you access this Site/Application. We may also log your Internet protocol (IP) address, Internet service provider, and date/time stamp for system administration, order verification, internal marketing and system troubleshooting purposes. (An IP address may indicate the location of your computer on the Internet.) 

Why we collect your data

We collect information from users in several different ways, with the goal of providing an efficient, meaningful, and customized shopping experience. For example, we can use your personal information to: 

* Record and quickly bring up information you’ve given previously 

* Help you quickly find information, products, and services 

* Create content that is relevant to you 

* Alert you of our new information, products, and services 

Registration and Ordering: In order to use certain parts of this Site/Application or order products, all customers must fill out an online registration form with personal information, including but not limited to, your name, gender, shipping and billing address(es), phone number, email address, and credit card number. In addition, we may ask for your country of residence and/or your organization’s country of operation, so that we can comply with applicable laws and regulations. This information is used for billing, order processing, and internal marketing as well as to communicate with you about your order and our site. 

Email Addresses: Several locations on the Site/Application allow you to enter your email address for purposes including but not limited to: registering for free promotional notices, requesting notification when new brands or product styles arrive, or signing up for our email newsletter. In addition, any participation in promotional contests organized by Cartia Collective is completely voluntary and requires disclosure of contact information needed to notify winners and award prizes. We may post the names and cities of contest winners on our Site/Application. 

Who do we share your data with

If you request a password reset, your IP address will be included in the reset email.

Our billing & security partners

We may share some of your personal information with our billing & security partners in order to ensure that your payment is processed smoothly.

Our logistics partners

We may share some of your personal information with our logistics partners so that they can deliver the products you buy to the address you have given us. This would generally include the delivery address, recipient’s name, and contact details if necessary.

How long we retain your data

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.

What rights do 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 do we send your data

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

How we use your contact information

Internal Use: We use your personal information to process your order and provide you with customer service. We may use your personal information internally to collect general information about visitors to this Site/Application, improve our content and layout, improve our outreach, and market our services and products. 

Communication with You: We will use your personal information to communicate with you about Cartia Collective and your orders. All customers must provide an email address to allow communication with us regarding orders placed. We may send you a confirmation email after you register with us as well as service-related announcements as necessary (for example, temporary suspension of service for maintenance.) You may also submit your email address to request notification when we receive a new brand, product style, or product, or to sign up for our email newsletter and special offers. You can unsubscribe or opt out of future emails at any time (see the Opt Out/Corrections section below for more details). 

We sell merchandise, not information — We do not sell, rent, trade, license, or otherwise disclose your personal or financial information to anyone, except in the following specific situations: 

Third-party service providers: Like most online retailers, we sometimes use third-party service providers to perform specific functions on our behalf. Any information disclosed to them is solely to help in their provision of service. For example, we provide your name, shipping address, email, and phone number to partners such as DHL and UPS in order to guarantee delivery of your orders, and we may use relevant customer information in order to monitor the quality of the third party’s service. 

Similarly, we must provide your credit card number to financial services organizations such as credit card processors and issuers in order to process payments. We protect all submissions of your credit card number for authorization with state-of-the-art data encryption. (More in the Data Security section.) 

Legal requirement to disclose information: We may be required to disclose the information if subpoenaed, served with a court order, or requested by law-enforcement officials conducting investigations, or if we are otherwise required by law to disclose such information. We will also release personal information when necessary to protect our legal rights or enforce our Terms of Use and other agreements. For example, we may share information to reduce the risk of fraud, or to prevent fraud by users who attempt fraud or other illegal activity on our Site/Application. 

Merger and/or sale of assets: We do not normally sell, trade or rent personal information to other companies in the course of our business. However, it is possible that we might acquire, merge with, or be acquired by another company, or that we might dispose of some or all of our assets, in which case your personal information could be disclosed to another company, subject to the Privacy Notice in effect.  

Non-personally identifiable information: We may share information that does not identify you or any user, such as the number of daily visitors to a particular page, or the size of an order placed on a certain date, with third parties such as advertising partners. 

Additional information

How we protect your data

This Site/Application incorporates physical, electronic, and administrative procedures to safeguard the confidentiality of your personal information, such as: 

* Safeguarding all financial transactions done through this Site/Application with Secure Sockets Layer (“SSL”) encryption 

* Granting only employees who are providing a specific service access to your personal information 

* Working only with third-party service providers who we believe adequately secure all computer hardware. 

While our business is designed with safeguarding your personal information in mind, please remember that 100% security does not presently exist anywhere, online or offline. 

What third parties do we receive data from

We collect anonymous information on website activity. We use this data to evaluate our website’s performance and to improve the content we display to you. To evaluate the effectiveness of our online advertising, we may use third parties to collect statistical data. No Personal Information is collected on these occasions. We may log IP addresses (the electronic address of a computer connected to the internet) to analyse trends, administer our website, track users’ movements, and gather broad demographic information.

Our website uses Google AdWords, Google Analytics, and the Google Display Network together to serve ads to you on other websites after you have visited our website. This practice is known as remarketing and is a tool that Google offers to businesses. If you would like to opt out of receiving advertising like this from Google, you can manage these settings by visiting the Google Ads Preferences Manager.

What automated decision-making and/or profiling do we do with user data?

Cartia Collective also uses Google technology to better understand user behavior. When you use our website and perform certain actions such as making purchases or adding items to your cart, we use Google technology to record this. This enables us to re-market to you using Google technology and means that you may see ads from Early Settler when you visit other websites. You can opt out of Google’s, and our, use of these cookies by visiting Google’s advertising privacy policies.

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