my Woof's Privacy Policy
This Privacy Policy describes how mywoof.store (the
“Site” or “we”) collects, uses, and discloses your Personal Information when
you visit or make a purchase from the Site.
# Collecting Personal Information
When you visit the Site, we collect certain information about your device, your
interaction with the Site, and information necessary to process your purchases.
We may also collect additional information if you contact us for customer
support. In this Privacy Policy, we refer to any information that can uniquely
identify an individual (including the information below) as “Personal
Information”. See the list below for more information about what Personal
Information we collect and why.
Device information
- **Examples of Personal Information collected:** version of web browser,
IP address, time zone, cookie information, what sites or products you view,
search terms, and how you interact with the Site.
- **Purpose of collection:** to load the Site accurately for you, and to
perform analytics on Site usage to optimize our Site.
- **Source of collection:** Collected automatically when you access our
Site using cookies, log files, web beacons, tags, or pixels.
- **Disclosure for a business purpose:** shared with our processor Shopify.
Order information
- **Examples of Personal Information collected:** name, billing address,
shipping address, payment information (including credit card numbers, email
address, and phone number.
- **Purpose of collection:** to provide products or services to you to
fulfill our contract, to process your payment information, arrange for
shipping, and provide you with invoices and/or order confirmations, communicate
with you, screen our orders for potential risk or fraud, and when in line with
the preferences you have shared with us, provide you with information or
advertising relating to our products or services.
- **Source of collection:** collected from you.
- **Disclosure for a business purpose:** shared with our processor Shopify.
Customer support information
- **Examples of Personal Information collected:** name, email address, and
phone number.
- **Purpose of collection:** to provide customer support.
- **Source of collection:** collected from you.
- **Disclosure for a business purpose:** shared with our processor Shopify.
## Minors
The Site is not intended for individuals under the age of 16. We do not
intentionally collect Personal Information from children. If you are the parent
or guardian and believe your child has provided us with Personal Information,
please contact us at the address below to request deletion. Contact us at
main@mywoof.store
# Sharing Personal Information
We share your Personal Information with service providers to help us provide
our services and fulfill our contracts with you, as described above. For
example:
- We use Shopify to power our online store. You can read more about how Shopify
uses your Personal Information
here: https://www.shopify.com/legal/privacy.
- We may share your Personal Information to comply with applicable laws and
regulations, to respond to a subpoena, search warrant or other lawful request
for information we receive, or to otherwise protect our rights.
## Behavioural Advertising
As described above, we use your Personal Information to provide you with
targeted advertisements or marketing communications we believe may be of
interest to you. For example:
- *[INSERT IF APPLICABLE]* We use Google Analytics to help us understand
how our customers use the Site. You can read more about how Google uses your
Personal Information here: https://policies.google.com/privacy?hl=en.
You can also opt-out of Google Analytics
here: https://tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout.
We share information about your use of the Site, your
purchases, and your interaction with our ads on other websites with our
advertising partners. We collect and share some of this information directly
with our advertising partners, and in some cases through the use of cookies or
other similar technologies (which you may consent to, depending on your
location).
For more information about how targeted advertising works, you can visit the
Network Advertising Initiative’s (“NAI”) educational page
at http://www.networkadvertising.org/understanding-online-advertising/how-does-it-work.
You can opt out of targeted advertising by:
- *FACEBOOK -* https://www.facebook.com/settings/?tab=ads
- *GOOGLE -* https://www.google.com/settings/ads/anonymous
Additionally, you can opt out of some of these services by visiting the Digital
Advertising Alliance’s opt-out portal at: http://optout.aboutads.info/.
# Using Personal Information
We use your personal Information to provide our services to you, which
includes: offering products for sale, processing payments, shipping and
fulfillment of your order, and keeping you up to date on new products,
services, and offers.
## Lawful basis
Pursuant to the General Data Protection Regulation (“GDPR”), if you are a
resident of the European Economic Area (“EEA”), we process your personal
information under the following lawful bases:
- Your consent;
- The performance of the contract between you and the Site;
- Compliance with our legal obligations;
- To protect your vital interests;
- To perform a task carried out in the public interest;
- For our legitimate interests, which do not override your fundamental rights
and freedoms.
## Retention
When you place an order through the Site, we will retain your Personal
Information for our records unless and until you ask us to erase this
information. For more information on your right of erasure, please see the
‘Your rights’ section below.
## Automatic decision-making
If you are a resident of the EEA, you have the right to object to processing
based solely on automated decision-making (which includes profiling), when that
decision-making has a legal effect on you or otherwise significantly affects
you.
We *[DO/DO NOT]* engage in fully automated decision-making that has a
legal or otherwise significant effect using customer data.
Our processor Shopify uses limited automated decision-making to prevent fraud
that does not have a legal or otherwise significant effect on you.
Services that include elements of automated decision-making include:
- Temporary denylist of IP addresses associated with repeated failed
transactions. This denylist persists for a small number of hours.
- Temporary denylist of credit cards associated with denylisted IP addresses.
This denylist persists for a small number of days.
# Your rights
## GDPR
If you are a resident of the EEA, you have the right to access the Personal
Information we hold about you, to port it to a new service, and to ask that
your Personal Information be corrected, updated, or erased. If you would like
to exercise these rights, please contact us through the contact information
below *[OR INSERT ALTERNATIVE INSTRUCTIONS FOR SENDING ACCESS, ERASURE,
CORRECTION, AND PORTABILITY REQUESTS].*
Your Personal Information will be initially processed in Ireland and then will
be transferred outside of Europe for storage and further processing, including
to Canada and the United States. For more information on how data transfers
comply with the GDPR, see Shopify’s GDPR
Whitepaper: https://help.shopify.com/en/manual/your-account/privacy/GDPR.
## CCPA
If you are a resident of California, you have the right to access the Personal
Information we hold about you (also known as the ‘Right to Know’), to port it
to a new service, and to ask that your Personal Information be corrected,
updated, or erased. If you would like to exercise these rights, please contact
us through the contact information below.
If you would like to designate an authorized agent to submit these requests on
your behalf, please contact us at the address below. Contact at main@mywoof.store
# Cookies
A cookie is a small amount of information that’s downloaded to your computer or
device when you visit our Site. We use a number of different cookies, including
functional, performance, advertising, and social media or content cookies.
Cookies make your browsing experience better by allowing the website to
remember your actions and preferences (such as login and region selection).
This means you don’t have to re-enter this information each time you return to
the site or browse from one page to another. Cookies also provide information
on how people use the website, for instance whether it’s their first time
visiting or if they are a frequent visitor.
We use the following cookies to optimize your experience on our Site and to
provide our services.
## Cookies Necessary for the Functioning of the Store
| Name | Function |
| --- | --- |
| _ab | Used in connection with access to admin. |
| _secure_session_id | Used in connection with navigation through a storefront.
|
| cart | Used in connection with shopping cart. |
| cart_sig | Used in connection with checkout. |
| cart_ts | Used in connection with checkout. |
| checkout_token | Used in connection with checkout. |
| secret | Used in connection with checkout. |
| secure_customer_sig | Used in connection with customer login. |
| storefront_digest | Used in connection with customer login. |
| _shopify_u | Used to facilitate updating customer account information. |
## Reporting and Analytics
| Name | Function |
| --- | --- |
| _tracking_consent | Tracking preferences. |
| _landing_page | Track landing pages |
| _orig_referrer | Track landing pages |
| _s | Shopify analytics. |
| _shopify_fs | Shopify analytics. |
| _shopify_s | Shopify analytics. |
| _shopify_sa_p | Shopify analytics relating to marketing & referrals. |
| _shopify_sa_t | Shopify analytics relating to marketing & referrals. |
| _shopify_y | Shopify analytics. |
| _y | Shopify analytics. |
The length of time that a cookie remains on your computer or mobile device
depends on whether it is a “persistent” or “session” cookie. Session cookies
last until you stop browsing and persistent cookies last until they expire or
are deleted. Most of the cookies we use are persistent and will expire between
30 minutes and two years from the date they are downloaded to your device.
You can control and manage cookies in various ways. Please keep in mind that
removing or blocking cookies can negatively impact your user experience and
parts of our website may no longer be fully accessible.
Most browsers automatically accept cookies, but you can choose whether or not
to accept cookies through your browser controls, often found in your browser’s
“Tools” or “Preferences” menu. For more information on how to modify your
browser settings or how to block, manage or filter cookies can be found in your
browser’s help file or through such sites
as [www.allaboutcookies.org](https://minimog-demo.myshopify.com/admin/settings/www.allaboutcookies.org).
Additionally, please note that blocking cookies may not completely prevent how
we share information with third parties such as our advertising partners. To
exercise your rights or opt-out of certain uses of your information by these
parties, please follow the instructions in the “Behavioural Advertising”
section above.
## Do Not Track
Please note that because there is no consistent industry understanding of how
to respond to “Do Not Track” signals, we do not alter our data collection and
usage practices when we detect such a signal from your browser.
# Changes
We may update this Privacy Policy from time to time in order to reflect, for
example, changes to our practices or for other operational, legal, or
regulatory reasons.
# Contact
For more information about our privacy practices, if you have questions, or if
you would like to make a complaint, please contact us by e-mail at main@mywoof.store
*Last updated: [DATE]*
If you are not satisfied with our response to your complaint, you have the
right to lodge your complaint with the relevant data protection authority. You
can contact your local data protection authority, or our supervisory authority
here: *[ADD CONTACT INFORMATION OR WEBSITE FOR THE DATA PROTECTION
AUTHORITY IN YOUR JURISDICTION. FOR
EXAMPLE:* https://ico.org.uk/make-a-complaint/*]*