Privacy Policy
At SHOP AIKEN, LLC, we care deeply about privacy. We believe in transparency, and we’re committed to being upfront about our privacy practices, including how we treat your personal information.
1. Our Privacy Policy
It is SHOP AIKEN, LLC’s policy to respect your privacy regarding any information we may collect while operating our website. This Privacy Policy applies to https://shopaiken.com (hereinafter, “us”, “we”, or “https://shopaiken.com”). We respect your privacy and are committed to protecting personally identifiable information you may provide us through the Website. We have adopted this privacy policy (“Privacy Policy”) to explain what information may be collected on our Website, how we use this information, and under what circumstances we may disclose the information to third parties. This Privacy Policy applies only to information we collect through the Website and does not apply to our collection of information from other sources. This Privacy Policy, together with the Terms of Use posted on our Website, set forth the general rules and policies governing your use of our Website. Depending on your activities when visiting our Website, you may be required to agree to additional terms and conditions.
2. Website Visitors
Like most website operators, SHOP AIKEN, LLC collects non-personally-identifying information of the sort that web browsers and servers typically make available, such as the browser type, language preference, referring site, and the date and time of each visitor request. SHOP AIKEN, LLC’s purpose in collecting non-personally identifying information is to better understand how SHOP AIKEN, LLC’s visitors use its website. From time to time, SHOP AIKEN, LLC may release non-personally-identifying information in the aggregate, e.g., by publishing a report on trends in the usage of its website.
SHOP AIKEN, LLC also collects potentially personally-identifying information like Internet Protocol (IP) addresses for logged in users and for users leaving comments on https://shopaiken.com blog posts. SHOP AIKEN, LLC only discloses logged in user and commenter IP addresses under the same circumstances that it uses and discloses personally-identifying information as described below.
Gathering of Personally-Identifying Information
Certain visitors to SHOP AIKEN, LLC’s websites choose to interact with SHOP AIKEN, LLC in ways that require SHOP AIKEN, LLC to gather personally-identifying information. The amount and type of information that SHOP AIKEN, LLC gathers depends on the nature of the interaction. For example, we ask visitors who sign up for an account at https://shopaiken.com to provide a username and email address.
Security
The security of your Personal Information is important to us, but remember that no method of transmission over the Internet, or method of electronic storage is 100% secure. While we strive to use commercially acceptable means to protect your Personal Information, we cannot guarantee its absolute security.
Advertisements
Ads appearing on our website may be delivered to users by advertising partners, who may set cookies. These cookies allow the ad server to recognize your computer each time they send you an online advertisement to compile information about you or others who use your computer. This information allows ad networks to, among other things, deliver targeted advertisements that they believe will be of most interest to you. This Privacy Policy covers the use of cookies by SHOP AIKEN, LLC and does not cover the use of cookies by any advertisers.
Links To External Sites
Our Service may contain links to external sites that are not operated by us. If you click on a third party link, you will be directed to that third party’s site. We strongly advise you to review the Privacy Policy and terms and conditions of every site you visit.
We have no control over, and assume no responsibility for the content, privacy policies or practices of any third party sites, products or services.
Protection of Certain Personally-Identifying Information
SHOP AIKEN, LLC discloses potentially personally-identifying and personally-identifying information only to those of its employees, contractors and affiliated organizations that (i) need to know that information in order to process it on SHOP AIKEN, LLC’s behalf or to provide services available at SHOP AIKEN, LLC’s website, and (ii) that have agreed not to disclose it to others. Some of those employees, contractors and affiliated organizations may be located outside of your home country; by using SHOP AIKEN, LLC’s website, you consent to the transfer of such information to them. SHOP AIKEN, LLC will not rent or sell potentially personally-identifying and personally-identifying information to anyone. Other than to its employees, contractors and affiliated organizations, as described above, SHOP AIKEN, LLC discloses potentially personally-identifying and personally-identifying information only in response to a subpoena, court order or other governmental request, or when SHOP AIKEN, LLC believes in good faith that disclosure is reasonably necessary to protect the property or rights of SHOP AIKEN, LLC, third parties or the public at large.
If you are a registered user of https://shopaiken.com and have supplied your email address, SHOP AIKEN, LLC may occasionally send you an email to tell you about new features, solicit your feedback, or just keep you up to date with what’s going on with SHOP AIKEN, LLC and our products. We primarily use our blog to communicate this type of information, so we expect to keep this type of email to a minimum. If you send us a request (for example via a support email or via one of our feedback mechanisms), we reserve the right to publish it in order to help us clarify or respond to your request or to help us support other users. SHOP AIKEN, LLC takes all measures reasonably necessary to protect against the unauthorized access, use, alteration or destruction of potentially personally-identifying and personally-identifying information.
Aggregated Statistics
SHOP AIKEN, LLC may collect statistics about the behavior of visitors to its website. SHOP AIKEN, LLC may display this information publicly or provide it to others. However, SHOP AIKEN, LLC does not disclose your personally-identifying information.
Cookies
To enrich and perfect your online experience, SHOP AIKEN, LLC uses “Cookies”, similar technologies and services provided by others to display personalized content, appropriate advertising and store your preferences on your computer.
A cookie is a string of information that a website stores on a visitor’s computer, and that the visitor’s browser provides to the website each time the visitor returns. SHOP AIKEN, LLC uses cookies to help SHOP AIKEN, LLC identify and track visitors, their usage of https://shopaiken.com, and their website access preferences. SHOP AIKEN, LLC visitors who do not wish to have cookies placed on their computers should set their browsers to refuse cookies before using SHOP AIKEN, LLC’s websites, with the drawback that certain features of SHOP AIKEN, LLC’s websites may not function properly without the aid of cookies.
By continuing to navigate our website without changing your cookie settings, you hereby acknowledge and agree to SHOP AIKEN, LLC’s use of cookies.
E-commerce
Those who engage in transactions with SHOP AIKEN, LLC – by purchasing SHOP AIKEN, LLC’s services or products, are asked to provide additional information, including as necessary the personal and financial information required to process those transactions. In each case, SHOP AIKEN, LLC collects such information only insofar as is necessary or appropriate to fulfill the purpose of the visitor’s interaction with SHOP AIKEN, LLC. SHOP AIKEN, LLC does not disclose personally-identifying information other than as described below. And visitors can always refuse to supply personally-identifying information, with the caveat that it may prevent them from engaging in certain website-related activities.
Business Transfers
If SHOP AIKEN, LLC, or substantially all of its assets, were acquired, or in the unlikely event that SHOP AIKEN, LLC goes out of business or enters bankruptcy, user information would be one of the assets that is transferred or acquired by a third party. You acknowledge that such transfers may occur, and that any acquirer of SHOP AIKEN, LLC may continue to use your personal information as set forth in this policy.
3. Shopping With Us
We collect information about you during the checkout process on our store.
What we collect and store
While you visit our site, we’ll track:
- Products you’ve viewed: we’ll use this to, for example, show you products you’ve recently viewed
- Location, IP address and browser type: we’ll use this for purposes like estimating taxes and shipping
- Shipping address: we’ll ask you to enter this so we can, for instance, estimate shipping before you place an order, and send you the order!
We’ll also use cookies to keep track of cart contents while you’re browsing our site.
When you purchase from us, we’ll ask you to provide information including your name, billing address, shipping address, email address, phone number, credit card/payment details and optional account information like username and password. We’ll use this information for purposes, such as, to:
- Send you information about your account and order
- Respond to your requests, including refunds and complaints
- Process payments and prevent fraud
- Set up your account for our store
- Comply with any legal obligations we have, such as calculating taxes
- Improve our store offerings
- Send you marketing messages, if you choose to receive them
If you create an account, we will store your name, address, email and phone number, which will be used to populate the checkout for future orders.
We generally store information about you for as long as we need the information for the purposes for which we collect and use it, and we are not legally required to continue to keep it. For example, we will store order information for XXX years for tax and accounting purposes. This includes your name, email address and billing and shipping addresses.
We will also store comments or reviews, if you choose to leave them.
Who on our team has access
Members of our team have access to the information you provide us. For example, both Administrators and Shop Managers can access:
- Order information like what was purchased, when it was purchased and where it should be sent, and
- Customer information like your name, email address, and billing and shipping information.
Our team members have access to this information to help fulfill orders, process refunds and support you.
What we share with others
We share information with third parties who help us provide our orders and store services to you; for example Store Owners with whom you shop.
Wishlists
While you visit our site, we’ll track:
- Products you’ve added to the wishlist: we’ll use this to show you and other users your favorite products, and to create targeted email campaigns.
- Wishlists you’ve created: we’ll keep track of the wishlists you create, and make them visible to the store’s staff
We’ll also use cookies to keep track of wishlist contents while you’re browsing our site.
Members of our team have access to the information you provide us. For example, both Administrators and Shop Managers can access:
- Wishlist details, such as products added, date of addition, name and privacy settings of your wishlists
Our team members have access to this information to offer you better deals for the products you love.
Payments
We accept payments through PayPal and Stripe. When processing payments, some of your data will be passed to PayPal or Stripe, including information required to process or support the payment, such as the purchase total and billing information.
Please see the PayPal Privacy Policy and the Stripe Privacy Policy for more details.
4. Privacy Policy Changes
Although most changes are likely to be minor, SHOP AIKEN, LLC may change its Privacy Policy from time to time, and in SHOP AIKEN, LLC’s sole discretion. SHOP AIKEN, LLC encourages visitors to frequently check this page for any changes to its Privacy Policy. Your continued use of this site after any change in this Privacy Policy will constitute your acceptance of such change.
5. Contact Information
If you have any questions about this Privacy Policy, please contact us at help@shopaiken.com.
