TheMinerMag.com Privacy Policy
Last updated: 26th June 2024 This
Privacy Policy describes how TheMinerMag.com (the “Site”, “we”, “us”, or
“our”) collects, uses, and discloses your personal information when you
visit, use our services, or make a purchase from theminermag.com (the
“Site”) or otherwise communicate with us (collectively, the “Services”).
For purposes of this Privacy Policy, “you” and “your” means you as the
user of the Services, whether you are a customer, website visitor, or
another individual whose information we have collected pursuant to this
Privacy Policy
Please read this Privacy Policy carefully
By using and
accessing any of the Services, you agree to the collection, use, and
disclosure of your information as described in this Privacy Policy
If
you do not agree to this Privacy Policy, please do not use or access any
of the Services
Changes to This Privacy Policy We may update this
Privacy Policy from time to time, including to reflect changes to our
practices or for other operational, legal, or regulatory reasons
We
will post the revised Privacy Policy on the Site, update the “Last
updated” date and take any other steps required by applicable law
How
We Collect and Use Your Personal Information To provide the Services, we
collect and have collected over the past 12 months personal information
about you from a variety of sources, as set out below
The information
that we collect and use varies depending on how you interact with us
In
addition to the specific uses set out below, we may use information we
collect about you to communicate with you, provide the Services, comply
with any applicable legal obligations, enforce any applicable terms of
service, and to protect or defend the Services, our rights, and the
rights of our users or others
What Personal Information We Collect The
types of personal information we obtain about you depends on how you
interact with our Site and use our Services
When we use the term
“personal information”, we are referring to information that identifies,
relates to, describes or can be associated with you
The following
sections describe the categories and specific types of personal
information we collect
Information We Collect Directly from You
Information that you directly submit to us through our Services may
include: – Basic contact details including your name, address, phone
number, email
– Order information including your name, billing address,
shipping address, payment confirmation, email address, phone number
–
Account information including your username, password, security
questions
– Shopping information including the items you view, put in
your cart or add to your wishlist
– Customer support information
including the information you choose to include in communications with
us, for example, when sending a message through the Services
Some
features of the Services may require you to directly provide us with
certain information about yourself
You may elect not to provide this
information, but doing so may prevent you from using or accessing these
features
Information We Collect through Cookies We also automatically
collect certain information about your interaction with the Services
(“Usage Data”)
To do this, we may use cookies, pixels and similar
technologies (“Cookies”)
Usage Data may include information about how
you access and use our Site and your account, including device
information, browser information, information about your network
connection, your IP address and other information regarding your
interaction with the Services
Information We Obtain from Third Parties
Finally, we may obtain information about you from third parties,
including from vendors and service providers who may collect information
on our behalf, such as: – Companies who support our Site and Services,
such as Shopify
– Our payment processors, who collect payment
information (e.g., bank account, credit or debit card information,
billing address) to process your payment in order to fulfill your orders
and provide you with products or services you have requested, in order
to perform our contract with you
– When you visit our Site, open or
click on emails we send you, or interact with our Services or
advertisements, we, or third parties we work with, may automatically
collect certain information using online tracking technologies such as
pixels, web beacons, software developer kits, third-party libraries, and
cookies
Any information we obtain from third parties will be treated in
accordance with this Privacy Policy
We are not responsible or liable
for the accuracy of the information provided to us by third parties and
are not responsible for any third party’s policies or practices
For
more information, see the section below, Third Party Websites and Links.
How We Use Your Personal Information – Providing Products and Services.
We use your personal information to provide you with the Services in
order to perform our contract with you, including to process your
payments, fulfill your orders, to send notifications to you related to
you account, purchases, returns, exchanges or other transactions, to
create, maintain and otherwise manage your account, to arrange for
shipping, facilitate any returns and exchanges and to enable you to post
reviews
– Marketing and Advertising
We use your personal information
for marketing and promotional purposes, such as to send marketing,
advertising and promotional communications by email, text message or
postal mail, and to show you advertisements for products or services.
This may include using your personal information to better tailor the
Services and advertising on our Site and other websites
– Security and
Fraud Prevention
We use your personal information to detect,
investigate or take action regarding possible fraudulent, illegal or
malicious activity
If you choose to use the Services and register an
account, you are responsible for keeping your account credentials safe.
We highly recommend that you do not share your username, password, or
other access details with anyone else
If you believe your account has
been compromised, please contact us immediately
– Communicating with
you
We use your personal information to provide you with customer
support and improve our Services
This is in our legitimate interests in
order to be responsive to you, to provide effective services to you, and
to maintain our business relationship with you
Cookies Like many
websites, we use Cookies on our Site
For specific information about the
Cookies that we use related to powering our store with Shopify, see
https://www.shopify.com/legal/cookies
We use Cookies to power and
improve our Site and our Services (including to remember your actions
and preferences), to run analytics and better understand user
interaction with the Services (in our legitimate interests to
administer, improve and optimize the Services)
We may also permit third
parties and services providers to use Cookies on our Site to better
tailor the services, products and advertising on our Site and other
websites
Most browsers automatically accept Cookies by default, but you
can choose to set your browser to remove or reject Cookies through your
browser controls
Please keep in mind that removing or blocking Cookies
can negatively impact your user experience and may cause some of the
Services, including certain features and general functionality, to work
incorrectly or no longer be available
Additionally, blocking Cookies
may not completely prevent how we share information with third parties
such as our advertising partners
How We Disclose Personal Information
In certain circumstances, we may disclose your personal information to
third parties for legitimate purposes subject to this Privacy Policy.
Such circumstances may include: – With vendors or other third parties
who perform services on our behalf (e.g., IT management, payment
processing, data analytics, customer support, cloud storage, fulfillment
and shipping)
– With business and marketing partners, including
Shopify, to provide services and advertise to you
[[NOTE TO MERCHANT:
INSERT THE FOLLOWING SENTENCE IF USING SHOPIFY’S AD SERVICES, SUCH AS
SHOPIFY AUDIENCES]] [For example, we use Shopify to support personalized
advertising with third-party services]
Our business and marketing
partners will use your information in accordance with their own privacy
notices
– When you direct, request us or otherwise consent to our
disclosure of certain information to third parties, such as to ship you
products or through your use of social media widgets or login
integrations, with your consent
– With our affiliates or otherwise
within our corporate group, in our legitimate interests to run a
successful business
– In connection with a business transaction such as
a merger or bankruptcy, to comply with any applicable legal obligations
(including to respond to subpoenas, search warrants and similar
requests), to enforce any applicable terms of service, and to protect or
defend the Services, our rights, and the rights of our users or others.
We have, in the past 12 months disclosed the following categories of
personal information and sensitive personal information (denoted by *)
about users for the purposes set out above in “How we Collect and Use
your Personal Information” and “How we Disclose Personal about users for
the purposes set out above in “How we Collect and Use your Personal
Information” and “How we Disclose Personal Information”: Category: –
Identifiers such as basic contact details and certain order and account
information – Commercial information such as order information, shopping
information and customer support information – Internet or other similar
network activity, such as Usage Data Categories of Recipients: – Vendors
and third parties who perform services on our behalf (such as Internet
service providers, payment processors, fulfillment partners, customer
support partners and data analytics providers) – Business and marketing
partners – Affiliates We do not use or disclose sensitive personal
information for the purposes of inferring characteristics about you.
[[NOTE TO MERCHANT- INSERT THE FOLLOWING PARAGRAPH AND LISTS IF USING
SHOPIFY’S AD SERVICES SUCH AS SHOPIFY AUDIENCES OR ENGAGING IN ANY OTHER
ACTIVITY THAT MAY BE CONSIDERED “SELLING” OR “SHARING” PERSONAL
INFORMATION OR PROCESSING PERSONAL INFORMATION FOR “TARGETED
ADVERTISING”]] We have “sold” and “shared” (as those terms are defined
in applicable law) personal information over the preceding 12 months for
the purpose of engaging in advertising and marketing activities, as
follows
Category of Personal Information – Identifiers such as basic
contact details and certain order and account information – Commercial
information such as records of products or services purchased and
shopping information – Internet or other similar network activity, such
as Usage Data Categories of Recipients – Business and marketing partners
User Generated Content The Services may enable you to post product
reviews and other user-generated content
If you choose to submit user
generated content to any public area of the Services, this content will
be public and accessible by anyone
We do not control who will have
access to the information that you choose to make available to others,
and cannot ensure that parties who have access to such information will
respect your privacy or keep it secure
We are not responsible for the
privacy or security of any information that you make publicly available,
or for the accuracy, use or misuse of any information that you disclose
or receive from third parties
Third Party Websites and Links Our Site
may provide links to websites or other online platforms operated by
third parties
If you follow links to sites not affiliated or controlled
by us, you should review their privacy and security policies and other
terms and conditions
We do not guarantee and are not responsible for
the privacy or security of such sites, including the accuracy,
completeness, or reliability of information found on these sites.
Information you provide on public or semi-public venues, including
information you share on third-party social networking platforms may
also be viewable by other users of the Services and/or users of those
third-party platforms without limitation as to its use by us or by a
third party
Our inclusion of such links does not, by itself, imply any
endorsement of the content on such platforms or of their owners or
operators, except as disclosed on the Services
Children’s Data The
Services are not intended to be used by children, and we do not
knowingly collect any personal information about children
If you are
the parent or guardian of a child who has provided us with their
personal information, you may contact us using the contact details set
out below to request that it be deleted
As of the Effective Date of
this Privacy Policy, we do not have actual knowledge that we “share” or
“sell” (as those terms are defined in applicable law) personal
information of individuals under 16 years of age
[[NOTE TO MERCHANT:
PLEASE CONSULT WITH LEGAL COUNSEL IF YOUR SITE IS CHILD FOCUSSED OR
DIRECTED, AS MORE SPECIFIC DISCLOSURES MAY BE REQUIRED.]] Security and
Retention of Your Information Please be aware that no security measures
are perfect or impenetrable, and we cannot guarantee “perfect security.”
In addition, any information you send to us may not be secure while in
transit
We recommend that you do not use unsecure channels to
communicate information you send to us may not be secure while in
transit
We recommend that you do not use unsecure channels to
communicate sensitive or confidential information to us
How long we
retain your personal information depends on different factors, such as
whether we need the information to maintain your account, to provide the
Services, comply with legal obligations, resolve disputes or enforce
other applicable contracts and policies
Your Rights and Choices
Depending on where you live, you may have some or all of the rights
listed below in relation to your personal information
However, these
rights are not absolute, may apply only in certain circumstances and, in
certain cases, we may decline your request as permitted by law
– Right
to Access / Know
You may have a right to request access to personal
information that we hold about you, including details relating to the
ways in which we use and share your information
– Right to Delete
You
may have a right to request that we delete personal information we
maintain about you
– Right to Correct
You may have a right to request
that we correct inaccurate personal information we maintain about you
–
Right of Portability
You may have a right to receive a copy of the
personal information we hold about you and to request that we transfer
it to a third party, in certain circumstances and with certain
exceptions
– Right to Opt out of Sale or Sharing or Targeted
Advertising
You may have a right to direct us not to “sell” or “share”
your personal information or to opt out of the processing of your
personal information for purposes considered to be “targeted
advertising”, as defined in applicable privacy laws
Please note that if
you visit our Site with the Global Privacy Control opt-out preference
signal enabled, depending on where you are, we will automatically treat
this as a request to opt-out of the “sale” or “sharing” of information
for the device and browser that you use to visit the Site.