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

PERSONAL INFORMATION WE COLLECT

When you visit the Site, we automatically collect certain information about your device, including information about your web browser, IP address, time zone, 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 Information.”

We collect Device Information using the following technologies:

- “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 https://www.allaboutcookies.org.

- “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.

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

Additionally, when you make a purchase or attempt to make a purchase through the Site, we collect certain information from you, including your name, billing address, shipping address, payment information (including PayPal information), email address, and phone number. We refer to this information as “Order Information.”

When we talk about “Personal Information” in this Privacy Policy, we are talking both about Device Information and Order Information.

HOW DO WE USE YOUR PERSONAL INFORMATION?

We use the Order Information that we collect generally 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). Additionally, we use this Order Information to:

Communicate with you;

Screen our orders for potential risk or fraud; and

Provide you with information or advertising relating to our products or services. You can find a link to change your preferences for receiving such messages at the bottom of any such message you receive.

We use the Device Information that we collect to help us screen for potential risk and fraud (in particular, your IP address), and more generally to improve and optimize our Site (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).
We also use this information to display (customized) adds to you inside the Google network (Google Ads), Facebook platform and on Instagram.

SHARING YOUR PERSONAL INFORMATION

We share your Personal Information with third parties to help us use your Personal Information, as described above. For example, we use Magento to power our online store. We also 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://www.google.com/intl/en/policies/privacy/. You can also opt-out of Google Analytics here: https://tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout.


We also work with other parties that help us deliver our products and services. These parties are:

Payment processors

We work with Multisafepay and PayPal to process payments. We only share personal information that is required to process your payments. For all payments, secured connections though SSL are being used.

Email marketing

We make use of the services offered by Mailchimp to send and manage our newsletters. We only share the information necessary to deliver and personalize the emails that we sent. We don’t share any information that Mailchimp can use for any other purposes.

Hosting

We use services offered by Digital Ocean and Cloudlfare to host our website and keep our website protected. All personal information stored on our website is hosted on servers owned by Digital Ocean.

Shipping & Logistics

In order to ship orders to our customers, we use services offered by various couriers around the globe including, but not limitated to, DHL, Royal Mail, Postnl and UPS. We use services offered by Sendcloud and Picqer to connect our Magento platform to these third-party platforms for fulfillment purposes. Order information and address data is shared with these platform to process orders and create shipping labels. It’s possible that these parties use subcontractors to deliver their services. All personal information we share will only be used for delivery purposes. If one of the parties uses data for analyses, they will anonymize the data provided.

Finally, we may also share your Personal Information to comply with applicable laws and regulations, to respond to a subpoena, search warrant or other lawful requests 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 more information about how targeted advertising works, you can visit the Network Advertising Initiative’s (“NAI”) educational page at https://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

Inside our newsletters received by email, you can find the ‘unsubscribe’ link at the bottom of each email. Unsubscribing means that your email will be erased from the specific mailing list.

Additionally, you can opt out of some of these services by visiting the Digital Advertising Alliance’s opt-out portal at: https://optout.aboutads.info/.

DO NOT TRACK

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.

YOUR RIGHTS

You have the right to access the personal information we hold about you and to ask that your personal information be corrected, updated, or deleted. If you would like to exercise this right, please contact us through the contact information below.

Note that we are processing your information in order to fulfil contracts we might have with you (for example if you make an order through the Site), or otherwise to pursue our legitimate business interests listed above. Additionally, please note that your information will be transferred outside of Europe, including to Canada and the United States.

DATA RETENTION

When you place an order through the Site, we will maintain your Order Information for at least 7 years to meet accounting regulations.

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 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 [email protected] or by mail using the details provided below:

Piercing Mania B.V., Stavangerweg 14-A, 9723 JC, Groningen, Netherlands

Contact person: N. Schuurman