PRIVACY POLICY
The terms below make up Abode Studio’s Privacy Policy and describe to you as the user of Our Site what we collect from you, what we store, how we store it + what we do with your information after you are no longer engaged with Our Site. If you have any further questions after reading these terms please contact: hello@abodestudio.com
Capitalized terms not otherwise defined herein shall have the meaning as described to them in Abode Studio’s Terms of Use.
WHAT TYPES OF INFORMATION MAY WE COLLECT DURING YOUR USE OF OUR SITE?
After you consent to our Terms of Use through your interaction with Our Site or by your submission of information, then we collect and process necessary data to fulfill the services and transactions that you have requested through Our Site. All information submitted through Our Site or through our customer service will be collected, stored and destroyed as set forth in the terms of this Privacy Policy. In order to perform the services for you on Our Site we may also collect the following information:
- IP Address (automatically submitted by your computer)
- Name (first name or first initial, last name and middle name or middle initial)
- Home Address (mailing address or P.O.)
- E-mail address
- Telephone numbers (home, office and/or mobile)
- Age (for consent purposes)
- Credit card information
We collect this information because we have a legitimate business interest in order to provide, fulfill and perform the services that you have requested through our website.
This website uses cookies to help keep track of items you put into your shopping cart including when you have abandoned your cart and this information is used to determine when to send cart reminder messages via SMS.
The above excludes text messaging originator opt-in data and consent; this information will not be shared with any third parties.
SECTION 1 - WHAT DO WE DO WITH YOUR INFORMATION?
After we collect your information, we store it only for the term that is necessary in order to fulfill your order and retain your information as a customer for at least three (3) years from the date of your transaction. We store your information in a secure manner for purposes of managing and monitoring return activity, facilitating ease of return of merchandise orders and for our profiling of our customers and their regions in an aggregate manner to help us improve our product offerings, for example to allow us to understand regional preferences for certain types of merchandise. We may utilize third party vendors that have satisfied our requirements for security of such information including aggregation of such data in order to provide services to allow us to understand trends in the data that we provide to them. We will not provide personal information in an identifiable manner to third parties unless you consent to such provision of such data.
You may allow us to perform Email marketing by providing your electronic consent through Our Site. We may send you emails about our merchandise, our store or our partners’ stores to inform you of new products, services and other updates only if you consent to such emails. If you believe that you are receiving marketing emails from us and you have not consented, please immediately email us at hello@abodestudio.com and we will remove your name from any marketing lists to prevent further marketing emails from being sent to you.
SECTION 2 - CONSENT
How do we get your consent to gather your information? When you provide us with personal information to complete a transaction or to verify your credit card or to place an order, arrange for a delivery or return a purchase, then we imply that you have consented to our collecting your information for such purposes. If we seek your consent for a secondary reason, like e-mail marketing, we will either ask you directly for your expressed consent or provide you with an opportunity to opt out.
What to do if you would like to withdraw your consent? If after you opt-in, you change your mind, you may withdraw your consent for us to contact you, for the continued collection, use or disclosure of your information, at any time, by contacting us at hello@abodestudio.com.
SECTION 3 - DISCLOSURE OF YOUR INFORMATION
We may disclose your personal information if we are required by law to do so or if you violate our Terms of Service, for example by using Our Site in an unauthorized manner.
SECTION 4 - SHOPIFY
Our store is hosted on Shopify Inc. They provide us with the online e-commerce platform that allows us to sell our products and services to you.
Your data is stored through Shopify’s data storage, databases and the general Shopify application. They store your data on a secure server behind a firewall.
Payment:
If you choose a direct payment gateway to complete your purchase, then Shopify stores your credit card data. It is encrypted through the Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard (PCI-DSS). Your purchase transaction data is stored only as long as is necessary to complete your purchase transaction. After that is complete, your purchase transaction information is deleted.
All direct payment gateways adhere to the standards set by PCI-DSS as managed by the PCI Security Standards Council, which is a joint effort of brands like Visa, MasterCard, American Express and Discover.
PCI-DSS requirements help ensure the secure handling of credit card information by our store and its service providers.
For more insight, you may also want to read Shopify’s Terms of Service here or Privacy Statement here.
SECTION 5 - THIRD-PARTY SERVICES
In general, the third-party providers used by us will only collect, process or subprocess and disclose your information to the extent necessary to allow them to perform the services they provide to us. Certain third-party service providers, such as payment gateways and other payment transaction processors, have their own privacy policies in respect to the information we are required to provide to them for your purchase-related transactions. For these providers, we recommend that you read their privacy policies so you can understand the manner in which your personal information will be handled by these providers. Some providers may be located in or have facilities that are located a different jurisdiction than either you or us. So if you elect to proceed with a transaction that involves the services of a third-party service provider, then your information may become subject to the laws of the jurisdiction(s) in which that service provider or its facilities are located. Once you leave Our Site or are redirected to a third-party website or application, you are no longer governed by this Privacy Policy or our website’s Terms of Service. When you click on links on our store, they may direct you away from Our Site. We are not responsible for the privacy practices of other sites and encourage you to read their privacy statements.
SECTION 6 - SECURITY
Our Site uses reasonable precautions and follows industry best practices to make sure your data is not inappropriately lost, misused, accessed, disclosed, altered or destroyed. If you provide us with your credit card information, the information is encrypted using industry standard encryption technology. Although no method of transmission over the Internet or electronic storage is 100% secure, we, and our third-party service providers follow all PCI-DSS requirements and implement additional generally accepted industry standards.
SECTION 7 - COOKIES
We may use cookies on Our Site for your convenience and ease of loading of Our Site on your browser and computer systems. You will be prompted to accept these Cookies. Please review your internal operating system and browser configurations if you wish to disable cookies or to delete cookies from your computer or other device. If you disable cookies Our Site may take additional time to load or may not function as anticipated on your computer or device.
SECTION 8 - AGE OF CONSENT
By using Our Site, you represent that you are at least the age of majority in your state or province of residence, or that you are the age of majority in your state or province of residence and you have given us your consent to allow any of your minor dependents to use Our Site.
SECTION 9 - CHANGES TO THIS PRIVACY POLICY
We reserve the right to modify this privacy policy at any time and although we will attempt to provide notice if we change the policy but are not required to provide notice of the changes and therefore you should check this privacy policy frequently to see any changes. Changes and clarifications will take effect immediately upon their posting on Our Site. If we make material changes to this policy, we will notify you here that it has been updated, so that you are aware of what information we collect, how we use it, and under what circumstances, if any, we use and/or disclose it. If our store is acquired or merged with another company, your information may be transferred to the new owners so that we may continue to sell products to you.
QUESTIONS AND CONTACT INFORMATION
If you would like to: access, correct, amend or delete any personal information we have about you, register a complaint, or simply want more information contact hello@abodestudio.com.