Introduction
At Painters Pyramid® Stands, we are committed to protecting your privacy. This Privacy Policy explains how we collect, use, and disclose information about you when you visit our website or make a purchase from us.
Please take a moment to familiarize yourself with our privacy practices. By visiting our website or making a purchase, you agree that your personal information will be handled as described in this policy.
Collection of Information
Information You Provide Directly to Us
We collect information you provide directly to us, such as:
- Contact information, including name, email address, mailing address, phone number, etc. This is collected when you register for an account, make a purchase, request information, sign up for our newsletter, participate in a contest or promotion, submit content, communicate with us via third-party social media sites, request customer support or otherwise communicate with us.
- Financial information, such as credit/debit card numbers and billing information. This is collected when you make a purchase.
- Account credentials, such as usernames and passwords. This is collected when you register for an account.
- Profile information, such as purchases, order history, interests, preferences and survey responses. This is collected when you voluntarily provide information on our website.
- Communications, such as when you contact us directly by email or phone or share information via social media.
Information Collected Automatically
We may automatically collect certain types of information when you visit or make purchases through our website. This information helps us personalize your experience, improve the performance and security of our website, and provide you with offers, promotions, and information that may be of interest.
Information automatically collected includes:
- Log data and device information, such as browser type, operating system, internet service provider, device identifiers, pages viewed, links clicked, Internet Protocol (IP) address, date/time stamps, and website navigation paths. This is collected using cookies, web beacons, and similar technologies.
- Location information, such as your computer or mobile device’s location based on your IP address. We may collect this when you make a purchase to estimate taxes and shipping costs.
- Transaction information, such as products purchased, purchase amount, date and time of transaction, payment method, and other transaction details. This is collected when you make purchases.
- Usage information, such as the features or pages you use, the links you click, number of logins, duration of visits, and other site usage data. This is collected using browser cookies.
Information from Other Sources
We may obtain information about you from other sources, including third-parties, business partners, public databases, and social media platforms. This may include:
- Demographic data, such as age, gender, family status, interests, and zip code. This may be obtained from third-party sources that provide consumer data.
- Marketing data, such as details about products you have bought or searched for, or pages you have visited on other sites. This may be obtained from online and offline data append providers.
- Social media data, such as details about your social media activity. This may be obtained if you link your social media account to our website or interact with our social media accounts.
- Public records, such as information found in commercial and public databases. This may include property records or court records, which we may use for identity verification.
We use this information to supplement the data we collect directly in order to better understand your interests and provide more relevant offers, products, and services.
Use of Information
We primarily use your information to provide, maintain, and improve our website and store as well as to provide services you request. We may use the information collected for the following purposes:
- Provide and deliver products or services you request, process transactions, and send you related information.
- Send you technical notices, security alerts, administrative messages, product and service updates, marketing emails and other communications. You may opt-out of marketing communications as described below.
- Display customized content and advertising that may be of interest to you.
- Perform analytics, research and reporting.
- Prevent potentially illegal activities and enforce our Terms of Use.
- Protect the rights and safety of you, our other users, and third parties as required or permitted by law.
Disclosure of Information
We will not share your personal information with third parties without your consent, except in the following circumstances:
- Service providers: We share information with third party vendors and service providers that perform services on our behalf, such as payment processing, order fulfillment, website hosting, marketing, analytics, customer service, fraud prevention, and legal services. These third parties are only provided with the information necessary to perform their services and are required to protect your information.
- Business transfers: As part of a purchase, sale, merger, bankruptcy, reorganization, or similar event, your information may be transferred as a business asset. In such case, we will make reasonable efforts to notify you.
- Law enforcement: We may share information needed to investigate, prevent or take action regarding illegal activities, suspected fraud, safety of person or property, violation of our policies, or as evidence in litigation.
- Legal requirements: We may be required to disclose information in response to lawful requests by public authorities, including to meet national security or law enforcement requirements.
- With your consent: We may share your information other than as described in this policy with your permission. For example, with your consent we would share your information with companies other than our service providers.
Data Retention
We retain your personal information for the period required to fulfill the purposes outlined in this policy unless a longer retention period is mandated by law. We will then dispose of your information by deleting or anonymizing it after this period.
Your Rights
If you are a European resident, you have the following data protection rights:
- You can access, modify, correct, restrict or delete your personal information.
- You can object to processing of your personal information or ask us to stop processing it temporarily.
- You can request portability of your personal information.
- You can opt-out of marketing communications we send you at any time. You can exercise this right by clicking on the “unsubscribe” or “opt-out” link in the marketing emails we send you.
- If we have collected and processed your personal information with your consent, you can withdraw your consent at any time.
- You can file a complaint with a data protection authority or contact us with any questions or concerns about your rights.
Cookies and Tracking
We and our service providers use cookies, web beacons, tags, scripts, and similar technologies to recognize you when you visit our website and enable certain features. Most browsers allow you to modify your settings to decline or delete cookies, though this may affect the proper functioning of our website.
Our cookies serve various purposes, like improving site functionality, analytics, marketing, and personalizing content. Some specific examples include:
- Authentication cookies that recognize you when you visit our website or fill out a form.
- Security cookies that help identify and prevent potential security risks.
- Preferences cookies that enable website features and provide a personalized experience.
- Marketing cookies that help tailor ads and recommend products that may interest you.
- Analytics cookies that allow us to understand how visitors interact with our website and monitor performance.
In addition to cookies, we also use web beacons and similar technologies to track website usage and activity. Our web beacons do not collect personal information.
Third Party Sites
Our website and services may contain links to or integrate with third party sites like social media platforms. These third parties may use cookies alone or in combination with web beacons or other tracking technologies to collect information about you. We do not control these third party tracking technologies.
Security
We maintain reasonable and appropriate security measures to protect the security of your information against risks like loss, misuse, unauthorized access or disclosure, alteration, or destruction. For example we use SSL encryption on our website and store information in secure facilities. However, no method of transmitting or storing data is completely secure. As a result, while we strive to protect your information, we cannot guarantee that it will be 100% secure.
Children’s Privacy
Our website and store are not directed at children under the age of 13 and we do not knowingly collect personal information from children under 13 without parental consent. If you believe your child has provided personal information to our site, you can contact us to request that we delete the information.
Changes to this Policy
We may update this Privacy Policy from time to time as we add new products and services, as we improve our current offerings and as technologies and laws change. Any changes will be effective upon posting the revised Privacy Policy.
We encourage you to periodically review this page for the latest information on our privacy practices. The effective date at the top of this policy indicates when the policy was last updated. If we make any material changes to the ways we collect, use or share personal information that affect your privacy rights, we will provide notice through our website.
International Data Transfers
We are a global company and we may store or process information that we collect in the United States, the European Economic Area (EEA), or other countries. We will protect your information consistent with this policy wherever it is processed.
Contact Us
If you have any questions about our Privacy Policy or want to exercise your rights, you can contact us by email at [email protected].
