BLUE CHISEL STUDIO PRIVACY POLICY
This Privacy Policy describes how your personal information is collected, used, and shared when you visit or make a purchase from bluechiselstudio.com (the “Site”).
(last modified Aug. 31, 2020)
Personal Information Collected
When you visit this Site, certain information about your device is collected automatically, including information about your web browser, IP address, time zone, and some of the cookies that are installed on your device. Also collected, as you browse the Site, is information about the individual web pages or products you view, which websites or search terms referred you to the Site, and information about how you interact with the Site. This automatically-collected information is referred to as “Device Information.”
Device Information is Collected Using the Following Technologies:
Cookies are data files that are placed on your device or computer and often include an anonymous unique identifier. You have the ability to accept or decline cookies by modifying the settings on your browser. For more information about cookies, and how to disable cookies, visit http://www.allaboutcookies.org.
Log files track actions occurring on the Site, and collect data including your IP address, browser type, internet service provider, referring/exit pages, and date/time stamps.
Web beacons, tags, and pixels are electronic files used to record information about how you browse the Site.
Additionally, when you make a purchase or attempt to make a purchase through the Site, certain information may be collected from you, including your name, billing address, shipping address, payment information (including credit card numbers), email address, and phone number. This information is referred to as “Order Information.”
The “Personal Information” referred to in this Privacy Policy is both Device Information and Order Information.
How Your Personal Information is Used
Order Information that is collected is generally used to fulfill any orders placed through the Site (including processing your payment information, arranging for shipping, and providing you with invoices and/or order confirmations). For payments via PayPal, the payment information you enter will be shared with PayPal.
Additionally, this Order Information is used to:
• Communicate with you
• Screen orders for potential risk or fraud
• According to the preferences you have shared with us, provide you with information or advertising relating to our products or services.
The Device Information collected (particularly your IP address) is used to help screen for potential risk and fraud and, more generally, to improve and optimize this site (for example, by generating analytics about how customers browse and interact with the Site).
Sharing Your Personal Information
Your Personal Information is shared with third parties to help the Site use your Personal Information, as described above. For example, WooCommerce (a subsidiary of Automattic.com), is used to power the Site’s online store.
You can read more about how WooCommerce uses your Personal Information here:
https://automattic.com/privacy/.
The Site also uses Google Analytics to help in understanding how customers use the Site – you can read more about how Google uses your Personal Information here: https://www.google.com/intl/en/policies/privacy/
You can also opt-out of Google Analytics here:
https://tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout.
Finally, your Personal Information may be shared to comply with applicable laws and regulations, to respond to a subpoena, search warrant or other lawful request for information received by the Site, or to otherwise protect the Site’s rights.
Mailing Lists and Shop Announcements
Your Personal Information may be used, as stated in this Policy, to administer an email mailing list program which serves to inform users about products, services, and news. Subscription to the mailing list is handled via an automated online process whereby subscribers give their explicit permission to be subscribed and can, should they choose to be removed from the list, unsubscribe at any time.
The Site uses Mailchimp as the Email Marketing Service provider. You can review Mailchimp’s privacy policy here:
https://mailchimp.com/legal/privacy/.
If you are a European resident, you have the right to access personal information the Site holds about you and to ask that your personal information be corrected, updated, or deleted. If you would like to exercise this right, please refer to the contact information below.
Additionally, if you are a European resident, we note that we are processing your information in order to fulfill contracts we might have with you (for example if you make an order through the Site), or otherwise to pursue our legitimate business interests listed above.
Further, please note that your information will be transferred outside of Europe, including to Canada.
Data Retention
When you place an order through the Site, your Order Information will be maintain for the Site’s records unless and until you ask to have this information deleted.
Security
This Site has security measures in place to safeguard the transmission of confidential content and to protect against the loss, misuse, and alteration of the information under our control.
Changes
The Site reserves the right to update this privacy policy from time to time in order to reflect, for example, changes to our practices or for other operational, legal or regulatory reasons.
Contact Blue Chisel Studio
For more information about the Site’s privacy practices, if you have questions, or if you would like to make a complaint, please contact us either through the contact page or by e-mail at bluechiselstudio@gmail.com.