Privacy Policy

This Privacy Policy outlines our policies and procedures regarding the collection, use, and disclosure of your information when you use our website. It explains your privacy rights and how the law protects you.

We only collect your data if you provide it to us. We only use such information to provide and improve the website and our services.

Definitions

For the purposes of this privacy policy:

• You means the individual accessing or using the service or the company or other legal entity on behalf of which such individual is accessing or using the service, as applicable.
• Company (referred to as either “the company,” “we,” “us,” or “our” in this policy) refers to [Your Copper Pot Company Name], [Your Address], [City, State, Zip Code].
• Account means a unique account created for you to access our service or parts of our service.
• Website refers to https://www.yourcopperpotcompany.com/.
• Service Provider means any natural or legal person who processes the data on behalf of the company. It refers to third-party companies or individuals employed by the company to facilitate the website, to provide services on behalf of the company, or to assist the company in analyzing how the website is used.
• Third-party social Media Service refers to any website or any social network website through which a user can log in or create an account to view information about or interact with the company.
• Personal Data is any information that relates to an identified or identifiable individual.
• Usage Data refers to data collected automatically, either generated by the use of the website (for example, the duration of a page visit).
• Cookies are small files that are placed on your computer, mobile device, or any other device by a website containing information regarding your visit to the website.
• Consent refers to your permission to collect, use, transfer, and store your data as outlined herein. By using our website and voluntarily providing your data to us, your consent is explicitly implied.

Collecting and Using Your Data

While using our website, we ask you to provide us with certain personally identifiable information that can be used to contact or identify you. Personally identifiable information may include but is not limited to first and last name, email address, phone number, and/or physical and/or mailing address.

Usage data is collected automatically when using the website. Usage data may include information such as your device’s internet protocol address (“IP address”), browser type and version, the pages of our website that you visit, the time and date of your visit, the time spent on individual pages, and other diagnostic data. Usage data collected by way of visiting our website does not include personally identifiable information.

When you access the website by or through a mobile device, we may collect certain information automatically, including, but not limited to, the type of mobile device you use, the IP address of your device’s connection, your mobile device operating system, the type of mobile internet browser you use, and other website usage data as above.

Tracking Technologies and Cookies

Our website uses cookies and similar technologies to track the activity on our website and store certain information in order to improve and analyze our website. Cookies are used to identify users who have accepted the use of cookies on the website. The website uses cookies to remember settings you have selected during your visit to the website, such as items in your shopping cart and/or your login details.

Cookies are essential to provide you with services available through the website and to enable you to use some of its features. They help authenticate users and prevent fraudulent use of user accounts. Without these cookies, the services that you have asked for cannot be provided, and we only use these cookies to provide you with those services.

You can instruct your browser to refuse all cookies or to indicate when a cookie is being sent. However, if you do not accept cookies, you may not be able to use some parts of our website.

Cookies can be “persistent” or “session” cookies. Persistent cookies remain on your personal computer or mobile device when you go offline, while session cookies are deleted as soon as you close your web browser. Our website may use both types of cookies.

Use of Your Data

The company may use personal data for the following purposes:

• To provide and maintain our website: including monitoring the usage of our website.
• To manage your account: to manage your registration as a user of the website. The personal data you provide can give you access to different functionalities of the service that are available to you as a registered user.
• For the performance of a contract: the development, compliance, and undertaking of the purchase contract for the products, items, or services you have purchased or any other contract with us through the website.
• To contact you: to contact you by email, telephone calls, SMS, or other equivalent forms of electronic communication regarding updates or informative communications related to functionalities, products, or contracted services, including security updates.
• To provide you with information: to send news, special offers, and general information about other goods, services, and events that we offer that are similar to those that you have already purchased or inquired about unless you have opted not to receive such information.
• To manage your requests: to attend and manage your requests to us.

We may share your personal and/or usage information in the following situations:

• With website service providers: we may share your usage information with service providers only as necessary to monitor and analyze the use of our website and to maintain our website.
• With merchant processing providers: for payment processing, to contact you.
• With other users: when you share personal information or otherwise interact in public areas with other users, such as commenting on blog posts or providing reviews. All website users may view such information, and may be publicly distributed outside of our website.

Retention of Your Data

The company will retain your data only for as long as necessary for the purposes set out in this privacy policy. We will retain and use your data to the extent necessary to comply with our legal obligations (for example, if we are required to retain your data to comply with applicable laws), resolve disputes, and enforce our legal agreements and policies.

The company will also retain usage data for internal analysis purposes. Usage data is generally retained for a shorter period, except when this data is used to strengthen the security or improve the functionality of our website or we are legally obligated to retain this data for longer periods.

Transfer of Your Data

Your information, including personal data, is processed on the server(s) where our website is hosted, the company’s operating offices, and in any other places where the parties involved in the processing are located. This means that this information may be transferred to and maintained on computers located outside your state, province, country, or other governmental jurisdiction where the data protection laws may differ from those of your local jurisdiction.

Your consent to this privacy policy, followed by your submission of such information, represents your agreement to that transfer.

The company will take all steps reasonably necessary to ensure that your data is treated securely and in accordance with this privacy policy, and no transfer of your data will take place to an organization or a country unless there are adequate controls in place, including the security of your data and other personal information.

Disclosure of Your Data

• Business transactions: Your data may be disclosed to our merchant services provider to facilitate online purchase transactions. If the company is involved in a merger, acquisition, or asset sale, your data may be transferred. We will provide notice before your data is transferred and becomes subject to a different privacy policy.
• Law enforcement: Under certain circumstances, the company may be required to disclose your data if required to do so by law or in response to valid requests by public authorities (e.g., a court or a government agency).
• Other legal requirements: The company may disclose your data in the good faith belief that such action is necessary to comply with a legal obligation, protect and defend the rights or property of the company, prevent or investigate possible wrongdoing in connection with our services, protect the personal safety of users of the website or the public, or protect against legal liability.
• Security of your data: The security of your data 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 data, we cannot guarantee its absolute security.

Detailed Information on the Processing of Your Data

Service providers have access to your data only to perform their tasks on our behalf and are obligated not to disclose or use it for any other purpose.

• Analytics: We may use third-party service providers to monitor and analyze the use of our website.
• Google Analytics: Google Analytics is a web analytics service offered by Google that tracks and reports website traffic. Google uses the data collected to track and monitor the use of our service. This data is shared with other Google services. You can opt out of having made your activity available to Google Analytics by installing the Google Analytics opt-out browser add-on. For more information on the privacy practices of Google, please visit the Google privacy and terms web page: https://policies.google.com/privacy.

Contact Us

If you have any questions about this Privacy Policy, please get in touch with us.