Privacy Policy – Cool Gadgets Club

1 Who we are

Cool Gadgets Club

Email admin@coolgadgetsclub.com

Address Via Pandolfini 15, Firenze, 50122, Italy

2 Privacy Policy

This Application collects some Personal Data from its Users.

Your privacy is important to us, that’s why we follow a few basic principles:
• We value your privacy and we take the best care to treat your data lawfully and ethically
• We store personal information for only as long as we have a reason to keep it.
• We aim for full transparency on how we gather, use, and share your personal information.

This Privacy Policy describes how your personal information is collected, used, and shared when you visit or make a purchase from https://coolgadgetsclub.com (the “Site”).

3 Which information we collect

Any information regarding a natural person, a legal person, an institution or an association, which is, or can be, identified, even indirectly, by reference to any other information, including a personal identification number.

When we talk about Personal Information or Personal Data in this Privacy Policy, we are talking both about “Subscriptions and Order Information” and “Device and Usage Information” and as described below.

3.1 Subscriptions and Order Information

When you register or make a purchase through the Site, we collect the information you provide that are useful or needed to process your order or subscription, including your name, billing address, shipping address, email address, and phone number. We refer to this information as “Subscriptions and Order Information.”

For users that register on our website, we also store the personal information they provide in their user profile. All users can see, edit, or delete their personal information at any time (except they cannot change their username). Website administrators can also see and edit that information.

Registering or making a purchase is considered an explicit affirmation of your consent. Failure to give your permission will result in your inability to use our website and its services.

3.1.1 Payment information

Payment information (including credit card numbers) which you enter on our site are processed by Stripe Inc which is our service provider for the payment gateway, so we do not hold your credit card data at any time. you can read more about how Stripe manages your Personal Information here:

https://stripe.com/privacy-center/legal

You are given the possibility to store your payment methods for quick reuse. Even though payment data is stored at Stripe Inc please be aware that if you decide to use this feature, anyone accessing the site with your credentials (username and password) will be able to place an order using your stored payment method. We are not responsible for any fraudulent use of this feature.

3.1.2 Mailing list or newsletter

By registering on the mailing list or for the newsletter, the User’s email address will be added to the contact list of those who may receive email messages containing information of commercial or promotional nature concerning this Application. Your email address might also be added to this list as a result of signing up to this Application or after making a purchase.

Whenever you provide your email address and submit the form you will find a link to this privacy policy and/or explanation on the reason why we ask for your data. By submitting the form, you express your consent on the usage of your data for the purposes described in this Privacy Policy.

You can revoke your consent at any time by using the link at the bottom of each email you receive-

Please note that if you are a customer and made a purchase, even if you opted out from our email marketing campaign, you will still receive all our emails regarding your purchase.

3.1.3 Contact forms

By filling in the contact forms with their Data, the User authorizes this Application to use these details to reply to requests for information, quotes or any other kind of request as indicated by the form’s header.

3.1.4 Comments

If you leave a comment, the comment and its metadata are retained indefinitely. This is so we can recognize and approve any follow-up comments automatically instead of holding them in a moderation queue.

An anonymized string created from your email address (also called a hash) may be provided to the Gravatar service to see if you are using it. The Gravatar service privacy policy is available here: https://automattic.com/privacy/. After approval of your comment, your profile picture is visible to the public in the context of your comment.

3.2 Device and Usage Information

When you visit the Site, we (or third party services employed in this Application) automatically collect certain information about your device, including information about your web browser, IP address or domain names, time zone, the IP addresses of your computer, the URI addresses (Uniform Resource Identifier), the time of the request, the method utilized to submit the request to the server, the size of the file received in response, the numerical code indicating the status of the server’s answer (successful outcome, error, etc.), the country of origin, the features of the browser and the operating system utilized by the User, various time details per visit (e.g., the time spent on each page within the Application) and details about the path followed within the Application with special reference to the sequence of pages visited, and other parameters about the device operating system and/or the User’s IT environment and some of the cookies that are installed on your device. Additionally, as you browse the Site, we collect information about the individual web pages or products that you view, what websites or search terms referred you to the Site, and information about how you interact with the Site. We refer to this automatically-collected information as “Device and Usage Information”.

When you visit the Site, you will be displayed a Cookie Notice and asked to give your consent about cookies and other “Device and Usage Information”. The Cookie Notice will include a link to this privacy policy for further explanation. In order to use our site and its services you must give your consent, otherwise, you are kindly asked to leave.

A continued use of our website (even without answering the consent dialog) is assumed to be the same as consenting.

We collect Device and Usage Information using the following technologies:

3.2.1 Cookies

“Cookies” are data files that are placed on your device or computer and often include an anonymous unique identifier. For more information about cookies, and how to disable cookies, visit http://www.allaboutcookies.org.

Cookies are small text files that can be used by websites to make a user’s experience more efficient.

The law states that we can store on your device those cookies that are strictly necessary for the operation of this site. For all other types of cookies, we need your permission.

The permission is given by accepting the cookie notice that you receive when you land on our site.

Also registering or making a purchase is considered an explicit affirmation of your consent.

Failure to give your permission will result in your inability to use our website and its services. A continued use of our website (without answering the consent dialog) is assumed to be the same as consenting.

This site uses different types of cookies.

Preference cookies enable a website to remember information that changes the way the website behaves or looks, like your preferred language or the region that you are in.

Statistic cookies help website owners to understand how visitors interact with websites by collecting and reporting information anonymously.

Marketing cookies are used to track visitors across websites. The intention is to display ads that are relevant and engaging for the individual user and thereby more valuable for publishers and third-party advertisers.

We might make use of some cookies placed on your device by third-party services such as Google or Facebook.

You can choose to have your computer warn you each time a cookie is being sent, or you can choose to turn off all cookies. You do this through your browser settings. Since each browser is a little different, look at your browser’s Help Menu to learn the correct way to modify your cookies.

Please note that we do not alter our Site’s data collection and use practices when we see a Do Not Track signal from your browser.

If you turn cookies off, some of the features that make your site experience more efficient may not function properly.

You can at any time withdraw your consent from the Cookie Notice on our website but be aware that the continued use of our site and our services is in itself an implicit consent, so if you withdraw your consent make sure you do not use our services anymore.

3.2.2 Log Files

“Log files” track actions occurring on the Site, and collect data including your IP address, browser type, Internet service provider, referring/exit pages, and date/time stamps.

For operation and maintenance purposes, this Application and any third-party services may collect files that record interaction with this Application (System logs) or use for this purpose other Personal Data (such as IP Address).

3.2.3 Other Tracking Informations

“Web beacons,” “tags,” and “pixels” are electronic files used to record information about how you browse the Site.

4 When do we collect information

We collect information, when you join the Club, make a purchase, sign up for our newsletter, respond to a survey or marketing communication, surf the website, or use some site features, fill out a form or enter information on our site, provide us with feedback on our products or services

The Personal Data may be freely provided by the User or collected automatically when using this Application.

Users are responsible for any Personal Data of third parties obtained, published or shared through this Application and confirm that they have the third party’s consent to provide the Data to us.

5 How do we use your information?

We may use the information we collect from you in the following ways:

To fulfil any orders placed through the Site (including processing your payment information, arranging for shipping, and providing you with invoices and/or order confirmations.
To communicate with you
To screen our orders for potential risk or fraud;
To provide you with information or advertising relating to our products or services.
To personalize your experience and to allow us to deliver the type of content and product offerings in which you are most interested based on previous or current site activity
To improve our website in order to better serve you (for example, by generating analytics about how our customers browse and interact with the Site, and to assess the success of our marketing and advertising campaigns).
To administer a contest, promotion, survey or other site feature.
To ask for ratings and reviews of services or products
To follow up with you after correspondence (live chat, email or phone inquiries…)
To manage your transactions with us

Failure to provide certain Personal Data may make it impossible for this Application to provide some services.

6 Third-party disclosure

We do not sell, trade, or otherwise transfer to outside parties your Personally Identifiable Information unless we have your explicit consent.

Nevertheless, your Personal Information -as described above- might be also communicated to third parties that provide us with specific services needed to run our website and store. This includes website hosting partners and other parties who assist us in operating our website, conducting our business, or serving our users, so long as those parties agree to keep this information confidential.

For European users please be aware that some of our service providers are located outside the EU and therefore, for this purpose, your information may be transferred outside of Europe, including to Canada and the United States.

6.1 Third party services suppliers

Our websites are hosted at Siterubix.com — you can read more about how they manage your Personal Information here

https://siterubix.com/policies

We use WordPress and Woocommerce to power our online store–you can read more about how they manage your Personal Information here:

https://automattic.com/privacy/

We also use Google and Youtube services to help us understand how our customers use the Site, to simplify your login process, share your preferences with your friends, advertising, and remarketing — you can read more about how Google manages your Personal Information here: https://www.google.com/intl/en/policies/privacy/

We use Facebook, Instagram and WhatsApp services to simplify your login process, share your preferences with your friends, advertising, and remarketing you can read more about how Facebook Instagram and WhatsApp manage your Personal Information here: https://www.facebook.com/full_data_use_policy

or here https://help.instagram.com/519522125107875

And here https://www.whatsapp.com/legal?eea=0#privacy-policy-information-you-and-we-share

We use Mailerlite to manage our mailing lists, collect and manage user’s subscriptions, track users interaction with our emails, tag users based on their preferences–you can read more about how Mailerlite manages your Personal Information here

https://www.mailerlite.com/legal/privacy-policy

6.2 Social Login

We use Super Socializer to manage our social sharing and social login

If you decide to use this feature, we collect your public profile data from the social network used to login at our website only if you grant your consent before initiating Social Login. This data includes your first name, last name, email address, link to your social media profile, unique identifier, link to social profile avatar. This data is used to create your user profile at our website. You can revoke this consent at any time by sending us an email.

6.3 Legal Purposes

Finally, we may also release information when it’s release is appropriate to comply with applicable laws and regulations, enforce our site policies, to respond to a subpoena, search warrant or other lawful requests for information we receive, or to otherwise protect our rights. The User declares to be aware that we may be required to reveal personal data upon request of public authorities.

The User’s Personal Data may be used for legal purposes by us, in Court or in the stages leading to possible legal action arising from improper use of this Application or the related services.

6.4 Third-party links

Occasionally, at our discretion, we may include or offer third-party products or services on our website. These third-party sites have separate and independent privacy policies. We, therefore, have no responsibility or liability for the content and activities of these linked sites. Nonetheless, we seek to protect the integrity of our site and welcome any feedback about these sites.

6.5 Embedded content from other websites

Articles on this site may include embedded content (e.g. videos, images, articles, etc.). Embedded content from other websites behaves in the exact same way as if the visitor has visited the other website.

These websites may collect data about you, use cookies, embed additional third-party tracking, and monitor your interaction with that embedded content, including tracking your interaction with the embedded content if you have an account and are logged in to that website.

7 Methods of processing

Your personal information is contained behind secured networks and is only accessible by a limited number of persons who have special access rights to such systems and are required to keep the information confidential. In addition, all information you supply is encrypted via Secure Socket Layer (SSL) technology.

We process the Data of Users in a proper manner and take appropriate security measures to prevent unauthorized access, disclosure, modification, or unauthorized destruction of the Data. Data processing is carried out using computers and/or IT-enabled tools, following organizational procedures and modes strictly related to the purposes indicated. The Data may be accessible to people in charge, involved with the operation of the site (administration, sales, marketing, legal, system administration) or external parties (such as third party technical service providers, mail carriers, hosting providers, IT companies, communications agencies) appointed, if necessary, as Data Processors by the Owner. The updated list of these parties may be requested from the Data

7.1 Place

The Data is processed at our operating offices and in any other places where the third-parties involved with the processing are located. For further information, please contact us.

7.2 Retention time

The Data is kept for the time necessary to provide the service requested by the User, or stated by the purposes outlined in this document, and the User can always request that we suspend or remove the data.

When you place an order through the Site, we will maintain your Order Information for our records unless and until is needed to complete the transactions we have in place with you.

7.3 Rights of Users

If you have an account on this site or have left comments, you can request to receive an exported file of the personal data we hold about you, including any data you have provided to us. You can also request that we erase any personal data we hold about you. This does not include any data we are obliged to keep for administrative, legal, or security purposes.

7.4 Changes to this privacy policy

We reserve the right to make changes to this privacy policy at any time by giving notice to our Users on this page. It is strongly recommended to check this page often, referring to the date of the last modification listed at the bottom. If a User objects to any of the changes to the Policy, the User must cease using this Application and can request that we remove the Personal Data. Unless stated otherwise, the then-current privacy policy applies to all Personal Data we have about Users.

8 Notice to European Users

This privacy statement has been prepared in fulfilment of the obligations under GDPR

9 Notice to US Users

This privacy policy has been compiled to better serve those who are concerned with how their ‘Personally Identifiable Information’ (PII) is being used online. PII, as described in US privacy law and information security, is information that can be used on its own or with other information to identify, contact, or locate a single person, or to identify an individual in context. Please read our privacy policy carefully to get a clear understanding of how we collect, use, protect or otherwise handle your Personally Identifiable Information in accordance with our website.

9.1 California Online Privacy Protection Act

According to CalOPPA, we agree to the following:

Users can visit our site anonymously.

Our Privacy Policy link includes the word ‘Privacy’ and can easily be found on the page specified above.

You will be notified of any Privacy Policy changes:

On our Privacy Policy Page

Can change your personal information:

By emailing us

9.2 COPPA (Children Online Privacy Protection Act)

When it comes to the collection of personal information from children under the age of 13 years old, the Children’s Online Privacy Protection Act (COPPA) puts parents in control. The Federal Trade Commission, United States’ consumer protection agency, enforces the COPPA Rule, which spells out what operators of websites and online services must do to protect children’s privacy and safety online.

We do not market to children under the age of 13 years old.

The Site is not intended for individuals under the age of 18.

9.3 Fair Information Practice

The Fair Information Practices Principles form the backbone of privacy law in the United States and the concepts they include have played a significant role in the development of data protection laws around the globe. Understanding the Fair Information Practice Principles and how they should be implemented is critical to comply with the various privacy laws that protect personal information.

In order to be in line with Fair Information Practices we will take the following responsive action, should a data breach occur:

We will notify you via email

Within 7 business days

9.4 CAN-SPAM Act

The CAN-SPAM Act is a law that sets the rules for commercial email, establishes requirements for commercial messages, gives recipients the right to have emails stopped from being sent to them, and spells out tough penalties for violations.

We collect your email address in order to:

Send information, respond to inquiries, and/or other requests or questions
Market to our mailing list or continue to send emails to our clients after the original transaction has occurred.

To be in accordance with CAN-SPAM, we agree to the following:

Not use false or misleading subjects or email addresses.
Identify the message as an advertisement in some reasonable way.
Include the physical address of our business or site headquarters.
Monitor third-party email marketing services for compliance, if one is used.
Honour opt-out/unsubscribe requests quickly.
Allow users to unsubscribe by using the link at the bottom of each email.

If at any time you would like to unsubscribe from receiving future emails, you can email us at

Follow the instructions at the bottom of each email.

and we will promptly remove you from our correspondence.

Please be aware that if you are a customer and made a purchase, even if you opted out from our email marketing campaign, you will still receive all our emails regarding your purchase.

10 CONTACT US

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 admin@coolgadgetsclub.com or by mail using the details provided below:

Cool Gadgets Club

VIA PANDOLFINI 15, FIRENZE, 50122, Italy