This Confidentiality Guideline explains the methods by which your personal details are gathered, utilized, and disseminated when you visit or make a transaction at Store awesomegiftstore.com.

SECTION 1 – HOW DO WE HANDLE YOUR DATA?

Upon making a purchase at our store, we acquire personal details like your name, address, and email as part of the purchase and sales activities.
Browsing our site also results in automatic reception of your computer’s Internet Protocol (IP) address which helps in understanding your browser and operating system.
Email promotions: Post-purchase or if subscribed to our newsletter, you may receive emails regarding our store, novel items, and other notifications.

SECTION 2 – APPROVAL

How is your approval obtained?
Providing personal data for transaction completion, credit card verification, order placement, delivery arrangement, or returns implies your agreement to our collecting and using it for that particular purpose.
For secondary purposes, like marketing, we directly request explicit consent or offer an option to decline.

How can I revoke my approval?
Changing your mind after opting in allows you to withdraw approval for us contacting you and for the continuous gathering, usage, or revelation of your details at any time by reaching out to [email protected]

SECTION 3 – REVELATION

We might reveal your personal details if legally mandated or upon breaching our Service Terms.

Payment:
Opting for a direct payment channel results in storage of your credit card information, encrypted through the Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard (PCI-DSS). Storage of purchase transaction details only persists as long as necessary for the transaction completion, after which it is obliterated.
All direct payment channels comply with PCI-DSS standards overseen by the PCI Security Standards Council, comprising entities like Visa, Mastercard, American Express, and Discover.
PCI-DSS requirements ensure your credit card details are securely managed by our store and providers.

SECTION 4 – OUTSIDE SERVICES

Typically, third-party providers engaged by us process your details only to the extent necessary to perform their services for us.
However, some third-party service providers, such as payment channels and processors may have independent confidentiality policies related to the information you engage with for purchase-related transactions.
We advise reviewing their privacy policies to comprehend their handling of your personal data.
Moreover, certain providers might be located in various jurisdictions different from yours or ours. Hence, proceeding with a transaction utilizing a third-party service implies your data might be subject to the regulations of the jurisdiction(s) where the service provider or its operations are located.
For instance, if you reside in Canada and utilize a US-based payment channel, your personal data involved in the transaction may be exposed under US legislation, including the Patriot Act.
Once departing from our store’s site or being redirected to an external site or application, our Privacy Policy or Terms of Service no longer govern you.

Links
Clicking links on our store may redirect away from our site. We don’t take responsibility for the privacy customs of other sites and suggest reviewing their privacy declarations.
Google analytics:
Our store adopts Google Analytics for insights into our visitors and visited pages.

SECTION 5 – PROTECTION

To safeguard your personal data, we adopt suitable precautions and adhere to industry-leading practices, aiming to prevent inappropriate loss, misuse, access, disclosure, alteration, or destruction.
When you disclose your credit card details, they are encrypted through SSL technology and stored with AES-256 encryption. Although no Internet transmission or electronic storage method is perfectly secure, we comply with all PCI-DSS stipulations and implement well-recognized industry norms.

SECTION 6 – COOKIES

Below is a list of cookies we utilize. We’ve enumerated them here so you can determine whether to opt-out.
_session_id, unique token, sessional, Permits Shopify to save session details (referrer, landing page, etc).
_shopify_visit, no data held, Persistent for 30 minutes from the last visit, Utilized by our site provider’s internal stats tracker to log visitation count
_shopify_uniq, no data held, expires midnight (relative to the visitor) of the next day, Counts the number of store visits by a single user.
cart, unique token, persistent for 2 weeks, Holds data about your cart contents.
_secure_session_id, unique token, sessional
storefront_digest, unique token, indefinite; If the shop is password-protected, this ascertains current visitor access.
PREF, persistent for a very limited duration, Set by Google, indicates who visits the store and from which location


SECTION 7 – AGE OF APPROVAL

By utilizing this site, you confirm being at least the legal majority in your region or that you are of legal majority granting permission for your minor dependents’ access to this site.

SECTION 8 – REVISION OF THIS CONFIDENTIALITY GUIDELINE

We preserve the right to amend this confidentiality guideline at any moment, so frequent ructions are encouraged. Amendments take effect immediately upon website posting. Notable changes will prompt notifications here, keeping you informed about data collection, utilization, and disclosure circumstances.
If our store undergoes acquisition or merger with another entity, your details might be transferred to the new owners to perpetuate sales.

QUESTIONS AND COMMUNICATION DETAILS

To access, correct, modify, or erase any personal data we possess about you, submit a complaint, or request more information, reach our Privacy Compliance Officer via the provided details: [email protected]