1. Introduction
Your privacy is very important to us. At Thread Stone Designs. we have a few fundamental principles that we follow:
- We don’t ask you for personal information unless we truly need it. (We can’t stand services that ask you for things like your gender or income level for no apparent reason.)
- We don’t share your personal information with anyone except to comply with the law, develop our products, or protect our rights.
- We don’t store payment information on our servers.
It is our policy to respect your privacy regarding any information we may collect while operating our websites.
2. Website Visitors
Like most website operators, Sophia Lauren Candle Co. 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. Sophia Lauren Candle Co.’s purpose in collecting non-personally identifying information is to better understand how Sophia Lauren Candle Co.’s visitors use its website.
Sophia Lauren Candle Co. also collects potentially personally-identifying information like Internet Protocol (IP) addresses for logged in users and for users making purchases in our store. Sophia Lauren Candle Co. only discloses IP addresses under the same circumstances that it uses and discloses personally-identifying information as described below.
3. Gathering of Personally-Identifying Information
Thread Stone Designs may collect statistics about the behavior of visitors to its websites. For instance, Thread Stone Designs may monitor the most popular pages on our website or view which products get the most views. This information is for internal use only, and is not made publicly available, and Thread Stone Designs does not disclose personally-identifying information other than as described below.
4. Aggregated Statistics
This site uses cookies – small text files that are placed on your machine to help the site provide a better user experience. In general, cookies are used to retain user preferences, store information for things like shopping carts, and provide anonymised tracking data to third party applications like Google Analytics. Cookies generally exist to make your browsing experience better. However, you may prefer to disable cookies on this site and on others. The most effective way to do this is to disable cookies in your browser. We suggest consulting the help section of your browser.
5. Protection of Certain Personally-Identifying Information
Thread Stone Designs 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 Thread Stone Designs’s behalf or to provide services available at Thread Stone Designs’s websites, 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 Thread Stone Designs’s websites, you consent to the transfer of such information to them. Thread Stone Designs 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, Thread Stone Designs discloses potentially personally-identifying and personally-identifying information only in response to a subpoena, court order or other governmental request, or when Thread Stone Designs believes in good faith that disclosure is reasonably necessary to protect the property or rights of Thread Stone Designs, third parties or the public at large. If you are a registered user of an Thread Stone Designs website and have supplied your email address, Thread Stone Designs 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 Thread Stone Designs and our products. We primarily use our various product blogs 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. Thread Stone Designs takes all measures reasonably necessary to protect against the unauthorized access, use, alteration or destruction of potentially personally-identifying and personally-identifying information.
6. Cookies
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. Thread Stone Designs uses cookies to help Thread Stone Designs identify and track visitors, their usage of Thread Stone Designs website, and their website access preferences. Thread Stone Designs visitors who do not wish to have cookies placed on their computers should set their browsers to refuse cookies before using Thread Stone Designs’s websites, with the drawback that certain features of Thread Stone Designs’s websites may not function properly without the aid of cookies.
7. Email Addresses
Your email address is collected to help us support your shopping experience throughout the site, and facilitate communication including notification emails or follow up care.
8. Privacy Policy Changes
Although most changes are likely to be minor, Thread Stone Designs may change its Privacy Policy from time to time, and in Thread Stone Designs’s sole discretion. Thread Stone Designs 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.
9. Your Data Rights
General Rights
If you have a registered account on this website or have left comments, you can request an exported file of the personal data we retain, including any additional data you have provided to us. You can also request that we erase any of the personal data we have stored. This does not include any data we are obliged to keep for administrative, legal, or security purposes. In short, we cannot erase data that is vital to you being an active customer (i.e. basic account information like an email address). If you wish that all of your data is erased, we will no longer be able to offer any support or other product-related services to you.GDPR Rights
Your privacy is critically important to us. Going forward with the GDPR we aim to support the GDPR standard. AncoraThemes permits residents of the European Union to use its Service. Therefore, it is the intent of AncoraThemes to comply with the European General Data Protection Regulation. For more details please see here: EU GDPR Information Portal.10. Third Party Websites
ThemeREX may post links to third party websites on this website. These third party websites are not screened for privacy or security compliance by AncoraThemes, and you release us from any liability for the conduct of these third party websites.
All social media sharing links, either displayed as text links or social media icons do not connect you to any of the associated third parties unless you explicitly click on them.
Please be aware that this Privacy Policy, and any other policies in place, in addition to any amendments, does not create rights enforceable by third parties or require disclosure of any personal information relating to members of the Service or Site. AncoraThemes bears no responsibility for the information collected or used by any advertiser or third party website. Please review the privacy policy and terms of service for each site you visit through third party links.
11. Release of Your Data for Legal Purposes
At times it may become necessary or desirable to AncoraThemes, for legal purposes, to release your information in response to a request from a government agency or a private litigant. You agree that we may disclose your information to a third party where we believe, in good faith, that it is desirable to do so for the purposes of a civil action, criminal investigation, or other legal matter. In the event that we receive a subpoena affecting your privacy, we may elect to notify you to give you an opportunity to file a motion to quash the subpoena, or we may attempt to quash it ourselves, but we are not obligated to do either. We may also proactively report you, and release your information to, third parties where we believe that it is prudent to do so for legal reasons, such as our belief that you have engaged in fraudulent activities. You release us from any damages that may arise from or relate to the release of your information to a request from law enforcement agencies or private litigants.
Any passing on of personal data for legal purposes will only be done in compliance with laws of the country you reside in.