Privacy Policy
WHAT WE COLLECT
We may collect the following information:
- Name
- Contact information including email address
- Demographic information such as postcode, preferences and interests
- Other information relevant to customer surveys and/or offers
USE OF INFORMATION COLLECTED
We use your information for on the following business purposes:
- To provide the services you request
- To respond to inquiries we receive from you or in connection with a transaction you initiate
- to analyse, manage and improve the website
- To notify you of special offers and other services that we believe may be of interest to you
- To notify you that you have been selected as a winner of a contest or sweepstakes
- To help us diagnose problems with our server or other technical issues relating to the performance of the website; or
- for any specific business purpose stated at the time you provide your information
DISCLOSURE
- We may disclose your personal information if we are required by law to do so or if you violate our Terms of Service. This is the only scenario where your personal information will be disclosed. we will NEVER sell your information to third parties for marketing purposed.
- We retain your information; for no longer than necessary. taking into account any legal obligations we have (e.g. to maintain records for tax purposes), any specific legal basis we have for using your information (e.g. you consent, performance of a contract with you or out legitimate interests as a business). For specific retention periods in relation to certain information which we collect from you, please see main section below -
- Order information - when you place an order for goods and services, we retain that information indefinitely or until you request that we delete unless this conflicts with our compliance and legal responsibility.
- Correspondence and enquiries - when you make an enquiry or correspond with us for any reason, whether by email or via our contact form, we will retain your information for as long as it takes to respond to and resolve your enquiry and indefinitely afterwards unless it is requested to be deleted AND it does not interfere with our compliance with laws and out legitimate business interest.
- E-Newsletter - we retain the information you used to sign up from our e-newsletter for as long as you remain subscribed (i.e. you do not unsubscribe) or if we decide to cancel our e-newsletter service, which ever comes earlier.
- In any other circumstances, we will retain your information for no longer than necessary, taking into account the following
- the purpose(s) and use of your information both now and in the future (such as whether it is necessary to continue to store that information in order to continue to perform our obligations under a contract with you or to contact you in the future)
- Whether we have any legal obligation to continue to process your information (such as any record-keeping obligations imposed by relevant law or regulations)
- How valuable your information is (both now and in the future)
- Any agree relevant agreed industry practices on how long information should be retained
- The levels of risk, cost and liability involved with us continuing to hold the information
- how hard it is to ensure that the information can be kept up to date and accurate; and
- Any relevant surrounding circumstances (such as the nature and status of our relationship with you)
SECURITY
"Don-Threads" goes to great length to keep your information private and safe, we take appropriate physical, electronic and administrative steps to maintain the security and accuracy of personally identifiable information we collect, including limiting the number of people who have physical access to our database servers, in addition, it is our policy to never send your card numbers via e-mail. Our customer services team also operate over a private secure network. Please note, however; e-mail is not encrypted and is not considered to be a secure means of transmitting payment information.
We use Secure Socket Layers (SSL), the industry standard in transferring information to process your orders. The SSL encrypts, or translates your order information into a highly indecipherable code, which is processed immediately. All credit card transactions occur in a secure area of our site, to protect you from any loss, misuse or alteration of information collected. When you have finished shopping and begin the checkout process, you will move into the secure area of our site. Once you've entered the page address (URL) will change from http to https to let you know you are in a secure area. Also, a key or a closed lock will appear in the address bar and/or the lower right hand corner of your screen to notify you of this change. You will remain in this secure zone for the entire checkout process.
Unfortunately, despite our best efforts, the transmission of data over the interned cannot be guaranteed to be 100% secure. While we use every reasonable means to ensure the security of the information you transmit to us, we cannot guarantee that such information will not be intercepted by third parties. We will however, prosecute any unauthorized of fraudulent transactions to the fullest extend permitted to us by law.
PROCESSING YOUR PAYMENT
After you place an order on our web site you will ned to make a payment for the goods or services you have ordered. In order to process your payment we use a third party payment processor (Shopify payments) and a fraud gateway to ensure that your order is not fraudulent (Signify Inc. Your payment will be processed by Shopify Payments.
Shopify Payments collects, uses and processes your information, including payment information, in accordance with their privacy policies. You can access their privacy policy via the following link(s); Shopify Payments: https://shop.app/policy Signify; https;//www.signifyd.com/privacy/
YOUR RIGHTS
You have the following rights:
- The right to be informed about our processing or your personal data which is in the aim of this Notice;
- The right to request access to personal data we hold about you at any time;
- the right to ask us to update and correct any out-of-date or incorrect personal data that we hold about you;
- The right to object to processing of your personal data and/or to withdraw any consent you have given us and opt out of any marketing communications that we may send you;
- the right to prevent processing that is likely to cause damage or distress to you or anyone else;
- The certain rights in relation to automated decision making including profiling;
- The right to request that we erase your personal data in certain circumstances (the right to be forgotten) for example when the data is no longer necessary for the purpose for which we collected it;
- The right to have your personal data provided to you by us in a structured, commonly used and machine-readable format and transmitted to another data controller. This is know as the right to data portability