At Divinitie by Smita, accessible at divinitiebysmita.com, we are committed to protecting your personal information and your right to privacy. This Privacy Policy outlines how we collect, use, and safeguard your information when you visit our e-commerce website. By using our site, you agree to the practices outlined below.
1. Who We Are
Our website address is: http://divinitiebysmita.com.
2. Information We Collect
We collect personal information, including:
- Personal Data: Name, email address, shipping address, and payment details provided during the checkout process.
- Browsing Data: Information about your use of our website, gathered through cookies and other tracking technologies, to help improve your shopping experience.
- Comments: When visitors leave comments, we collect data from the comments form, the visitor’s IP address, and browser user agent string to assist with spam detection. An anonymized string created from the email address (a hash) may be provided to the Gravatar service to verify profile image availability. The Gravatar service privacy policy can be found here. After comment approval, the profile picture is visible in the context of the comment.
3. Media
If you upload images to our website, please avoid including embedded location data (EXIF GPS), as visitors can download and extract any location data from images on the site.
4. Cookies
We use cookies for various purposes:
- If you leave a comment, you may opt-in to saving your name, email, and website in cookies for convenience, so you won’t need to re-enter details for future comments. These cookies last one year.
- Temporary cookies are set when you visit the login page to check if your browser accepts cookies; they contain no personal data and are discarded when you close your browser.
- Login cookies and screen display preference cookies are also set upon login, with login cookies lasting two days and screen preferences lasting a year. Selecting “Remember Me” keeps the login active for two weeks.
- Editing or publishing an article saves a cookie in your browser with no personal data; it indicates the post ID of the edited article and expires after one day.
5. Embedded Content from Other Websites
Articles on our site may include embedded content (e.g., videos, images, articles). Embedded content from other websites behaves as if you visited the other website, which may collect data about you, use cookies, embed third-party tracking, and monitor your interaction with the embedded content.
6. How We Use Your Information
We may use the collected information in the following ways:
- Order Processing: To complete and deliver your orders.
- Customer Support: To respond to inquiries and provide support.
- Marketing: To send promotional emails, only with your consent.
- Site Improvement: To analyze and enhance website functionality.
7. Sharing Your Data
We only share your information with trusted third parties as necessary to:
- Process Payments: Using secure payment processors.
- Fulfill Orders: Sharing your address with shipping companies.
- Email Marketing: With your permission, using third-party email marketing tools.
- Password Resets: If a password reset is requested, your IP address will be included in the reset email. We do not sell or rent your personal information to other businesses.
8. Data Retention
- Comments: Comments and their metadata are retained indefinitely to recognize and approve follow-up comments automatically.
- User Profiles: For registered users, we store personal information in the user profile until the account is deleted or edited. Account-related data remains on record until you specifically request its deletion.
9. Your Rights
If you have an account on this site or have left comments, you can request an exported file of the personal data we hold about you. You can also request data deletion, excluding any data retained for administrative, legal, or security purposes.
10. Security
We implement industry-standard encryption to protect payment transactions and store your personal data on secure servers with firewall protection. However, please note that no method of online transmission or storage is completely secure.
11. Data Transmission
Visitor comments may be reviewed by an automated spam detection service.
12. Age Restrictions
Our website is intended for users who are 18 years or older. We do not knowingly collect information from individuals under 18.
13. Changes to This Policy
We reserve the right to update this Privacy Policy as necessary. Changes to the policy will not be actively communicated to users, so please review this page periodically for any updates.