Privacy policy

Privacy Policy

Last Updated and Effective Date: 12/07/2022

YOUR PRIVACY IS IMPORTANT TO US

 

This Privacy Policy describes how lightcollectionshop.com (the “Site” or “we” "light Jewelry") collects, uses, and discloses your Personal Information when you visit or make a purchase from the Site.

The purpose of this Privacy Policy is to provide you with a description of our current personal information collection, use, and disclosure practices, which is also the same for the past 12 months. If you provided us with your personal information, or we obtain personal information about you from other sources, we treat your personal information according to this Privacy Policy.

HOW YOU ACCEPT THE TERMS AND UPDATES TO THE PRIVACY POLICY

BY ACCESSING OR USING THE SITE, YOU CONSENT TO THE COLLECTION, USE, AND DISCLOSING OF YOUR INFORMATION AS SET FORTH IN THIS PRIVACY POLICY. From time to time, we will update this Privacy Policy as we adopt new practices and procedures related to your personal information. Any changes to this Privacy Policy will be placed here and will supersede this version. If we make changes to this Privacy Policy, we will revise the “Last Updated and Effective Date” above and, in some cases, we may send you a notice of our changes as well if you have provided us your e- mail or mailing address.

THE PERSONAL INFORMATION ABOUT YOU AND THE REASON FOR THE COLLECTION

We collect the following personal information from you when you use our Services, and describe the reason why we collect the personal information.

Product Purchases: We collect some or all of the following information from our customers when they purchase our goods or products on our website, at our retail stores or through other means: name, postal address, date of birth, email address, order information, information disclosed in questionnaires, and payment information (e.g., credit card, Apple Pay, Google Pay, Pay Pal, Amazon Pay, After Pay, etc.). This information is collected so that we can process and ship the products or goods you purchased, address customer service issues, and for internal business functions.

Marketing: We may collect from you your name, postal address, email address, and phone number for marketing and sales purposes, including, to send advertisements, catalogs, for promotions, and for other sales communications.

Website: When you visit our website, we collect your Internet Protocol (“IP”) address, cookies, and information regarding your activities and interactions on our website. We collect this information to communicate the content on our website to you, to learn more about our website users and their preferences, to customize your experience on our website, and to tailor suggestions and advertisements.

Customer Service: If you contact our customer service department via our telephone number, email addresses, website contact form, or through live chat, we may collect from you your name, phone number, postal address, email address, and any message or content you upload or communicate to us. We collect this information so that we can address and follow up with you regarding your customer service issues.

As described below, we may collect or have collected in the preceding 12 months the following categories of personal information (“PI” or “personal information”).  We may add to the categories of PI we collect and the purpose we use PI. In that case, we will inform you updating this section of the Privacy Policy.

PI does not include:

 

  1. Publicly available information from government records.
  2. Deidentified or aggregated consumer information.
  3. Information excluded from the CCPA’s scope, such as certain health or medical information, personal information collected, processed, sold, or disclosed pursuant to the federal Gramm-Leach-Bliley Act (Public Law 106-102), and implementing regulations, or the California Financial Information Privacy Act (Division 1.4 (commencing with Section 4050) of the Financial Code), and other categories of information protected by different laws.

 

We have collected your PI for the following business or commercial purposes.  We may change or add to the purposes we collect PI. In that case, we will inform you and obtain your consent when required by law.

 

  • To provide you with information, products, or services you request from us.
  • To fulfill or meet the reason for which the information is provided.
  • To contact you and/or provide you with email alerts and other notices concerning our products, services, events, or news that may be of interest to you.
  • To process payments.
  • To engage in marketing activities.
  • To communicate with you in social media concerning our products and services.
  • To carry out our obligations and enforce our rights including those arising from any contracts entered into with you including for billing, payment, and collections.
  • To review, improve, and monitor our website, applications, online services, and overall client experience, including to provide customization to meet the specific needs.
  • To provide customer service and engage in quality control activities concerning our products and services.
  • For testing, research, analysis and product and service development.
  • To respond to law enforcement requests and as required by applicable law, court order, governmental regulations, or other lawful processes.
  • As described to you when collecting your personal information or as otherwise set forth in the CCPA.
  • To process applications for employment, as well as to evaluate and improve our recruiting efforts.
  • As necessary or appropriate to protect the rights, property, security, and safety of us, our employees, our consumers, our information systems, and the public.
  • To evaluate or conduct a merger, divestiture, restructuring, reorganization, dissolution, or other sale or transfer of some or all of our assets, whether as a going concern or as part of bankruptcy, liquidation, or similar proceeding, in which personal information held by us is among the assets transferred.
  • You. We may collect personal information that you provide to us over the Internet, through our website or mobile app, by email or when you speak with our professionals by phone or in a personal conference. We may also collect information when you attend an event, meet with us, or visit one of our locations.
  • Related Entities and Affiliates. We may collect information about you from our related parties and affiliates, including joint ventures.
  • Social media and related services.
  • Third Parties. We may collect information about you from other third-party sources that are lawfully entitled to provide your data with us. This might include, for example, third party service providers such as information services providers (e.g., data storage), logistics and delivery service providers, customer relationship management and related services providers.

 

WHETHER WE YOUR PERSONAL INFORMATION WITH OTHERS

We do not sell or share your personal information including sensitive personal information to third parties.

We may, however, disclose your personal information with services providers who help us provide the Services, such as, shipping, payment processing, marketing and advertising, email, text and other communications, applications, sales, business and inventory support, photography, and website, software, platform, cloud, data storage and other technical services.

We may also disclose your personal information if necessary to: (1) comply with federal, state, or local laws; (2) comply with a civil, criminal, or regulatory inquiry, investigation, subpoena, or summons by federal, state, or local authorities; (3) cooperate with law enforcement agencies concerning conduct or activity that we reasonably and in good faith believe may violate federal, state, or local laws; or (4) exercise or defend legal claims.

Lastly, we may transfer to a third party personal information as an asset that is part of a merger, acquisition, bankruptcy, or other transaction in which the third party assumes control of all or part of our business.

Of the categories of PI noted above, during the past 12 months, we disclosed the following:

 

Categories of Personal Information Disclosed

Categories of Third Parties to Whom Disclosed

Identifiers

 

Other elements

 

Characteristics of protected classifications under California or federal law.

 

Commercial information

 

Education information.

 

Internet or other electronic network activity.

 

Geolocation data. 

 

Audio, electronic, visual, thermal, olfactory, or similar information.

 

Professional or employment-related information

 

Consumer profile.

 

Sensitive Personal Information 

 

 

  • Third parties as directed by you. We will disclose your PI with those third parties to whom you direct.

 

  • Our business partners. For example, we might disclose your PI with one of our business partners for purposes of collaborating on providing services to you, or to invite you to an event we are organizing. These business partners should also have their own privacy statements that set out the manner in which they will collect, use, and disclose PI. Where applicable, we encourage you to review each such business partner's privacy statement before signing on with them.

 

  • Third parties who perform services on our behalf. For example, we disclose information with certain service providers, including marketing companies, professional service providers, debt collectors, information technology providers, and data storage companies. We might also authorize our service providers to collect PI on our behalf.

 

  • Governmental entities, legal service providers. We may disclose your PI in order to comply with the law and in the course of providing our products and services. We may also disclose information if a government agency or investigatory body submits a request.

 

  • Successors to all or portions of our business. If all or part of our business is sold, we may disclose PI in preparation for or as part of that transaction.

 

 

 RETENTION OF PERSONAL INFORMATION

CHILDREN

This website is not intended for or directed at children under the age of 13. In addition, we do not knowingly collect personal information from children under the age of 13.

DO NOT TRACK NOTICE

Our website currently does not support or respond to Do Not Track requests. Do Not Track is a preference you can set in your web browser to inform websites that you do not want to be tracked. You can enable or disable Do Not Track through your web browser. You can find out more information about opting-out of interest-based advertising at: http://www.networkadvertising.org/choices.

LINKS TO THIRD PARTY WEBSITES

Some portions of our website may contain links to other websites on the Internet that are neither under our control nor maintained by us. Such links do not constitute an endorsement by us of those other websites, the content displayed therein, or the persons or entities associated therewith. You acknowledge that we are providing these links to you only as a convenience, and you agree that we are not responsible for the content of such websites. Your use of these other linked websites is subject to the respective terms of use and privacy policies located on the linked websites.

EMAIL AND SMS COMMUNICATION

We use third parties to improve our ability to identify visitors to our website. As part of this service, we may make available identifiers to these third parties including our visitors’ IP addresses, cookies, and hashed versions of email addresses captured from your visit. We, and third parties, use this data to obtain more information about our visitors and reach out to them through other channels, such as email and/or direct mail. You have the right to opt-out of this activity. To opt-out, please follow the instructions on our Terms page under the SMS Communication section.

SOCIAL MEDIA SHARING FEATURES

This website may offer social media sharing features or other integrated tools, which let you share actions you take on this website with other media, and vice versa. These features may collect information about your IP address and which page you are visiting on our website, and they may set a cookie or employ other tracking technologies. The use of such features enables the sharing of information with your friends or the public, depending on the settings you establish with the third party that provides the social sharing feature. Social media sharing features and widgets are either hosted by a third party or hosted directly on our website. Your interactions with those features are governed by the privacy policies of the companies that provide them. For more information about the purpose and scope of data collection and processing in connection with social media sharing features, please visit the privacy policies of the third parties that provide these features.

 

Contact

After reviewing this policy, if you have additional questions, want more information about our privacy practices, or would like to make a complaint, please use the contact form available on website. 

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 about an identifiable 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
    • 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 
    • 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 
  • Order information
    • 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 
    • Personal Information collected: name, billing address, shipping address, payment information (including credit card numbers, email address, and phone number.
  • Customer support information
    • Purpose of collection:
    • Source of collection:
    • Disclosure for a business purpose:
    • Personal Information collected: 
    • Purpose of collection: to provide customer support.
    • Source of collection: collected from you
    • Disclosure for a business purpose: 
    • Personal Information collected: 

Minors

The Site is not intended for individuals under the age of 13. 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 above to request deletion.

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:

  • 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://www.google.com/intl/en/policies/privacy/. 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).
  • We use Shopify Audiences to help us show ads on other websites with our advertising partners to buyers who made purchases with other Shopify merchants and who may also be interested in what we have to offer. We also share information about your use of the Site, your purchases, and the email address associated with your purchases with Shopify Audiences, through which other Shopify merchants may make offers you may be interested in.

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
  • GOOGLE 
  • INSTAGRAM
  • TWITTER
  • 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/.

    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 blacklist of IP addresses associated with repeated failed transactions. This blacklist persists for a small number of hours.
    • Temporary blacklist of credit cards associated with blacklisted IP addresses. This blacklist persists for a small number of days.

    Selling Personal Information

    Our Site sells Personal Information, as defined by the California Consumer Privacy Act of 2018 (“CCPA”).

    • categories of information sold;
    • IF USING SHOPIFY AUDIENCES: information about your use of the Site, your purchases, and the email address associated with your purchase
    • instructions on how to opt-out of sale;
    • whether your business sells information of minors (under 16) and whether you obtain affirmative authorization;
    • if you provide a financial incentive to sell information, provide information about what that incentive is.]

     

    Your rights

    CHILDREN RETENTION OF PERSONAL INFORMATION

    This website is not intended for or directed at children under the age of 13. In addition, we do not knowingly collect personal information from children under the age of 13.

    DO NOT TRACK NOTICE

    Our website currently does not support or respond to Do Not Track requests. Do Not Track is a preference you can set in your web browser to inform websites that you do not want to be tracked. You can enable or disable Do Not Track through your web browser. You can find out more information about opting-out of interest-based advertising at: http://www.networkadvertising.org/choices.

    LINKS TO THIRD PARTY WEBSITES

    Some portions of our website may contain links to other websites on the Internet that are neither under our control nor maintained by us. Such links do not constitute an endorsement by us of those other websites, the content displayed therein, or the persons or entities associated therewith. You acknowledge that we are providing these links to you only as a convenience, and you agree that we are not responsible for the content of such websites. Your use of these other linked websites is subject to the respective terms of use and privacy policies located on the linked websites.

    EMAIL AND SMS COMMUNICATION

    We use third parties to improve our ability to identify visitors to our website. As part of this service, we may make available identifiers to these third parties including our visitors’ IP addresses, cookies, and hashed versions of email addresses captured from your visit. We, and third parties, use this data to obtain more information about our visitors and reach out to them through other channels, such as email and/or direct mail. You have the right to opt-out of this activity. To opt-out, please follow the instructions on our Terms page under the SMS Communication section.

    SOCIAL MEDIA SHARING FEATURES

    This website may offer social media sharing features or other integrated tools, which let you share actions you take on this website with other media, and vice versa. These features may collect information about your IP address and which page you are visiting on our website, and they may set a cookie or employ other tracking technologies. The use of such features enables the sharing of information with your friends or the public, depending on the settings you establish with the third party that provides the social sharing feature. Social media sharing features and widgets are either hosted by a third party or hosted directly on our website. Your interactions with those features are governed by the privacy policies of the companies that provide them. For more information about the purpose and scope of data collection and processing in connection with social media sharing features, please visit the privacy policies of the third parties that provide these features.

     

    NOTICE TO CALIFORNIA RESIDENTS

    Shine the Light. If you are a California resident, California Civil Code Section 1798.83 permits you to request information regarding the disclosure of your personal information by certain members of the Company to third parties for the third parties’ direct marketing purposes. Requests may be made one time per calendar year. If applicable, this information would include the categories of customer information and the names and addresses of those businesses with which we disclosed customer information for the immediately prior calendar year (e.g., requests made in 2022 will receive information regarding 2021 sharing activities). You may submit your request using the contact information at the end of this Policy.

    Eraser Law. If you are a California resident under the age of 18, and a registered user of any site where this policy is posted, You may submit your request using the contact information at the end of this Policy. Please be aware that such a request does not ensure complete or comprehensive removal of the content or information you have posted and that there may be circumstances in which the law does not require or allow removal even if requested.

    California Consumer Privacy Act. The section concerning the California Consumer Privacy Act (“CCPA Section”) applies solely to individuals who are residents of the State of California (“consumers” or “you”) as required under the California Consumer Privacy Act, as amended (“CCPA”). This CCPA Section describes our policies and practices regarding the collection, use, and disclosure of personal information we collect about you, including personal information we obtain when you access or use the webite, or through other channels including but not limited to visiting one of our locations, phone and email conversations, attending our events, social media interactions on our websites and other third party websites such as social media sites, viewing our emails, or through our authorized services providers.

    This CCPA Section supplements and amends the information contained in the Privacy Policy with respect to California residents. Any terms defined within the CCPA have the same meaning when utilized within this CCPA Section. All other terms shall have the meaning set forth in the Privacy Policy or Terms of Use as applicable. The other provisions of the Privacy Policy continue to apply except as modified in this CCPA Section.

    This CCPA Section does not apply to personal information we collect about you as a job applicant to, an employee of, owner of, director of, officer of, or contractor of the .  This CA Addendum also does not apply to personal information we collect about you as an employee, owner, director, officer, or contractor of a company, partnership, sole proprietorship, non-profit, or government agency when your communications or transactions with the Company occur solely within the context of the Company conducting due diligence regarding, or providing or receiving a product or service to or from, such company, partnership, sole proprietorship, non-profit, or government agency.

    Please read this CCPA Section  carefully before using the site or submitting information to us.  By accessing or visiting the site, you indicate your understanding that the collection, use, and sharing of your information is subject to the terms of this CCPA Section. 

    IF YOU DO NOT CONSENT TO THE COLLECTION, USE, AND DISCLOSURE OF YOUR PERSONAL INFORMATION AS DESCRIBED IN THIS CCPA SECTION, PLEASE DO NOT PROVIDE US WITH SUCH INFORMATION. 

    Right To Know About Personal Information Collected, Disclosed, or Sold

    We generally describe in this Privacy Policy our current and past 12-month practices related to the categories of personal information we collect, how we collect and use the personal information, and how we disclose your personal information. In addition to what is described above, as a California resident, you also have the right to request more information regarding the following topics for the preceding 12 months, to the extent applicable:

    • The categories and specific pieces of personal information we have collected about you.
    • The categories of sources from which we have collected your personal information.
    • The business or commercial purpose why we collected or, if applicable, sold your personal information.
    • The categories of third parties with whom we disclosed your personal information.
    • The categories of personal information that we have shared with third parties about you for a business purpose.

    You may submit a request for the information above by calling using our contact form. Once you contact us through one of these channels, we will need to verify the request to process it.

    Right To Request Deletion Of Your Personal Information

    You have the right to request that we delete the personal information we collected or maintained about you. Once we receive your request, we will let you know what, if any, personal information we can delete from our records, and we will direct any service providers and contractors with whom we disclosed your personal information to also delete your personal information from their records.

    There may be circumstances where we cannot delete your personal information or direct service providers or contractors to delete your personal information from their records. Some of these instances include, but are not limited to, if we need to: (1) retain your personal information to complete a transaction or provide a good or service; (2) detect security incidents, protect against malicious, deceptive, fraudulent, or illegal activity, or prosecute those responsible for that activity; (3) debug to identify and repair errors that impair existing intended functionality; (4) exercise free speech or ensure the right of another consumer to exercise his or her right to free speech; (5) comply with the law; and (6) use your personal information for internal and lawful purposes.

    • Complete the transaction for which the PI was collected, provide a good or service requested by you, or reasonably anticipated by you within the context of our ongoing business relationship with you, or otherwise perform a contract between the Company and you.
    • Help to ensure security and integrity to the extent the use of the consumer's PI is reasonably necessary and proportionate for those purposes.
    • Debug to identify and repair errors that impair existing intended functionality.
    • Exercise free speech, ensure the right of another consumer to exercise his or her right of free speech, or exercise another right provided for by law.
    • Comply with the California Electronic Communications Privacy Act pursuant to Chapter 3.6 (commencing with Section 1546) of Title 12 of Part 2 of the Penal Code.
    • Engage in public or peer-reviewed scientific, historical, or statistical research that confirms or adheres to all other applicable ethics and privacy laws, when the Company's deletion of the information is likely to render impossible or seriously impair the ability to complete such research, if you have provided informed consent.
    • To enable solely internal uses that are reasonably aligned with your expectations based on your relationship with the Company and compatible with the context in which the consumer provided the information.
    • Comply with a legal obligation.

    You may contact us to delete your information by using our contact form. Once you contact us through one of these channels, we will need to verify the request to process it.

    Right to Request Correction.

    You have the right to request that the Company correct any inaccurate personal information we maintain about you, taking into account the nature of that information and purpose for processing it. Upon receipt of a verifiable consumer request (see below), and as required by the CCPA, we will provide a response to such requests.

    You have the right to direct that the Company limit the use of sensitive personal information we collect about you to (i) uses that an average consumer would expect are reasonably necessary to provide the goods and or services you have requested, (ii) perform certain other activities permitted under the CCPA, and (iii) what is permitted by applicable law. Your right to direct the Company under this paragraph applies only to sensitive personal information that we collect or processed for the purpose of inferring characteristics about you.

    Right to Non-Discrimination for the Exercise of Your Privacy Rights

    We will not discriminate against you for exercising any of your rights under the CCPA, as described above. This includes, but is not limited to: (A) denying good or services to you; (B) charging you different prices or rates for goods or services, including through the use of discounts or other benefits or imposing penalties; (C) providing a different level or quality of goods or services; or (D) suggesting that you will receive a different price or rate for goods or services or a different level or quality of goods or services.

    How to submit. To submit a California Consumer Rights request as outlined in this CA Addendum, please contact the Company by using our contact form. We reserve the right to only respond to verifiable consumer requests.  A verifiable consumer request is one made by any individual who is:

    • the consumer who is the subject of the request,
    • a consumer on behalf of the consumer’s minor child, or
    • by a natural person or person registered with the Secretary of State authorized to act on behalf of a consumer.

    What to submit. If we request, you must provide us with sufficient information to verify your identity and/or authority to act on behalf of a consumer. In general, we may ask you to provide identifying information that we already maintain about you or we may use a third-party verification service. In either event, we will try to avoid asking you for sensitive PI to verify your identity. We may not be able to respond to your request or provide you with PI if we cannot verify your identity or authority to make the request and confirm the PI relates to you.  However, making a verifiable consumer request does not require you to create an account with us.

    Additionally, you will need to describe your request with sufficient detail to allow us to review, understand, assess, and respond.  We will not use the PI we collect from an individual to determine a verifiable request for any other purpose, except as required by law.

    Our response. We reserve the right to charge a fee to process or respond to your request if it is excessive, repetitive, or manifestly unfounded. If we determine that a request warrants a fee, we will attempt to notify you as to why we made that decision and provide a cost estimate before completing your request. We will endeavor to respond to a verifiable consumer request within forty-five (45) calendar days of receipt, but we may require an extension of up to forty-five (45) additional calendar days to respond and we will notify you of the need for the extension.

    If you have an account with us, we will deliver our written response to that account.  If you do not have an account with us, we will deliver our written response by mail or electronically, at your option.  Any disclosures we provide will only cover the 12-month period preceding the receipt of your verifiable consumer request. With respect to personal information collected on and after January 1, 2022, and to the extent expressly permitted by applicable regulation, you may request that such disclosures cover a period beyond the 12 months referenced above, provided doing so would not require a disproportionate effort by us. The response we provide will also explain the reasons we cannot comply with a request, if applicable. To the extent permitted by the CCPA, we will respond to no more than two requests during any 12-month period.

    Authorized Agent

    You may authorize a natural person, or a business registered with the California Secretary of State to act on your behalf with respect to the right under this CA Addendum. When you submit a Request to Know or a Request to Delete, unless you have provided the authorized agent with a qualifying power of attorney, you must provide your authorized agent written permission (signed by you) to act on your behalf and verify the authorized agent’s identity with us. We reserve the right to deny requests from persons or businesses claiming to be authorized agents that do not submit sufficient proof of their authorization. 

    This privacy policy (“Privacy Policy”) describes the policies and practices of (sometimes referred to as “Light Collection Shop,” "Light Jewelry", “ us,” “we,” or “our”) relating to the information we collect when This section of the Privacy Policy describes our policies and practices regarding the collection, use, and disclosure of personal information we collect about consumers, including personal information we obtain when you access or use this Site, or through other channels including phone and email conversations, attending our events, social media interactions on our websites and social media platforms, or through our authorized services providers. The creation of this Privacy Policy grows from our fundamental respect for your right to privacy and will serve to guide our relationship with you. We value the privacy and security of your “personal information,” which as used herein means information that identifies, relates to, describes, is reasonably capable of being associated with, or could reasonably be linked, directly or indirectly, with you or your household. As such, we take complying with data privacy and security laws very seriously.

    The purpose of this Privacy Policy is to provide you with a description of our current personal information collection, use, and disclosure practices, which is also the same for the past 12 months. If you provided us with your personal information, or we obtain personal information about you from other sources, we treat your personal information according to this Privacy Policy.

    HOW YOU ACCEPT THE TERMS AND UPDATES TO THE PRIVACY POLICY

    BY ACCESSING OR USING THE SITE, YOU CONSENT TO THE COLLECTION, USE, AND DISCLOSING OF YOUR INFORMATION AS SET FORTH IN THIS PRIVACY POLICY. From time to time, we will update this Privacy Policy as we adopt new practices and procedures related to your personal information. Any changes to this Privacy Policy will be placed here and will supersede this version. If we make changes to this Privacy Policy, we will revise the “Last Updated and Effective Date” above and, in some cases, we may send you a notice of our changes as well if you have provided us your e- mail or mailing address.

    THE PERSONAL INFORMATION ABOUT YOU AND THE REASON FOR THE COLLECTION

    We collect the following personal information from you when you use our Services, and describe the reason why we collect the personal information.

    Product Purchases: We collect some or all of the following information from our customers when they purchase our goods or products on our website, at our retail stores or through other means: name, postal address, date of birth, email address, order information, information disclosed in questionnaires, and payment information (e.g., credit card, Apple Pay, Google Pay, Pay Pal, Amazon Pay, After Pay, etc.). This information is collected so that we can process and ship the products or goods you purchased, address customer service issues, and for internal business functions.

    Marketing: We may collect from you your name, postal address, email address, and phone number for marketing and sales purposes, including, to send advertisements, catalogs, for promotions, and for other sales communications.

    Website: When you visit our website, we collect your Internet Protocol (“IP”) address, cookies, and information regarding your activities and interactions on our website. We collect this information to communicate the content on our website to you, to learn more about our website users and their preferences, to customize your experience on our website, and to tailor suggestions and advertisements.

    Customer Service: If you contact our customer service department via our telephone number, email addresses, website contact form, or through live chat, we may collect from you your name, phone number, postal address, email address, and any message or content you upload or communicate to us. We collect this information so that we can address and follow up with you regarding your customer service issues.

    As described below, we may collect or have collected in the preceding 12 months the following categories of personal information (“PI” or “personal information”).  We may add to the categories of PI we collect and the purpose we use PI. In that case, we will inform you updating this section of the Privacy Policy.

    PI does not include:

     

    1. Publicly available information from government records.
    2. Deidentified or aggregated consumer information.
    3. Information excluded from the CCPA’s scope, such as certain health or medical information, personal information collected, processed, sold, or disclosed pursuant to the federal Gramm-Leach-Bliley Act (Public Law 106-102), and implementing regulations, or the California Financial Information Privacy Act (Division 1.4 (commencing with Section 4050) of the Financial Code), and other categories of information protected by different laws.

     

    We have collected your PI for the following business or commercial purposes.  We may change or add to the purposes we collect PI. In that case, we will inform you and obtain your consent when required by law.

     

    • To provide you with information, products, or services you request from us.
    • To fulfill or meet the reason for which the information is provided.
    • To contact you and/or provide you with email alerts and other notices concerning our products, services, events, or news that may be of interest to you.
    • To process payments.
    • To engage in marketing activities.
    • To communicate with you in social media concerning our products and services.
    • To carry out our obligations and enforce our rights including those arising from any contracts entered into with you including for billing, payment, and collections.
    • To review, improve, and monitor our website, applications, online services, and overall client experience, including to provide customization to meet the specific needs.
    • To provide customer service and engage in quality control activities concerning our products and services.
    • For testing, research, analysis and product and service development.
    • To respond to law enforcement requests and as required by applicable law, court order, governmental regulations, or other lawful processes.
    • As described to you when collecting your personal information or as otherwise set forth in the CCPA.
    • To process applications for employment, as well as to evaluate and improve our recruiting efforts.
    • As necessary or appropriate to protect the rights, property, security, and safety of us, our employees, our consumers, our information systems, and the public.
    • To evaluate or conduct a merger, divestiture, restructuring, reorganization, dissolution, or other sale or transfer of some or all of our assets, whether as a going concern or as part of bankruptcy, liquidation, or similar proceeding, in which personal information held by us is among the assets transferred.
    • You. We may collect personal information that you provide to us over the Internet, through our website or mobile app, by email or when you speak with our professionals by phone or in a personal conference. We may also collect information when you attend an event, meet with us, or visit one of our locations.
    • Related Entities and Affiliates. We may collect information about you from our related parties and affiliates, including joint ventures.
    • Social media and related services.
    • Third Parties. We may collect information about you from other third-party sources that are lawfully entitled to provide your data with us. This might include, for example, third party service providers such as information services providers (e.g., data storage), logistics and delivery service providers, customer relationship management and related services providers.

     

    WHETHER WE YOUR PERSONAL INFORMATION WITH OTHERS

    We do not sell or share your personal information including sensitive personal information to third parties.

    We may, however, disclose your personal information with services providers who help us provide the Services, such as, shipping, payment processing, marketing and advertising, email, text and other communications, applications, sales, business and inventory support, photography, and website, software, platform, cloud, data storage and other technical services.

    We may also disclose your personal information if necessary to: (1) comply with federal, state, or local laws; (2) comply with a civil, criminal, or regulatory inquiry, investigation, subpoena, or summons by federal, state, or local authorities; (3) cooperate with law enforcement agencies concerning conduct or activity that we reasonably and in good faith believe may violate federal, state, or local laws; or (4) exercise or defend legal claims.

    Lastly, we may transfer to a third party personal information as an asset that is part of a merger, acquisition, bankruptcy, or other transaction in which the third party assumes control of all or part of our business.

    Of the categories of PI noted above, during the past 12 months, we disclosed the following:

     

    Categories of Personal Information Disclosed

    Categories of Third Parties to Whom Disclosed

    Identifiers

     

    Other elements

     

    Characteristics of protected classifications under California or federal law.

     

    Commercial information

     

    Education information.

     

    Internet or other electronic network activity.

     

    Geolocation data. 

     

    Audio, electronic, visual, thermal, olfactory, or similar information.

     

    Professional or employment-related information

     

    Consumer profile.

     

    Sensitive Personal Information 

     

     

    • Third parties as directed by you. We will disclose your PI with those third parties to whom you direct.

     

    • Our business partners. For example, we might disclose your PI with one of our business partners for purposes of collaborating on providing services to you, or to invite you to an event we are organizing. These business partners should also have their own privacy statements that set out the manner in which they will collect, use, and disclose PI. Where applicable, we encourage you to review each such business partner's privacy statement before signing on with them.

     

    • Third parties who perform services on our behalf. For example, we disclose information with certain service providers, including marketing companies, professional service providers, debt collectors, information technology providers, and data storage companies. We might also authorize our service providers to collect PI on our behalf.

     

    • Governmental entities, legal service providers. We may disclose your PI in order to comply with the law and in the course of providing our products and services. We may also disclose information if a government agency or investigatory body submits a request.

     

    • Successors to all or portions of our business. If all or part of our business is sold, we may disclose PI in preparation for or as part of that transaction.

     

     

     

     

     

    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 above. [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 above. [OR INSERT ALTERNATIVE INSTRUCTIONS FOR SENDING ACCESS, ERASURE, CORRECTION, AND PORTABILITY REQUESTS]

    If you would like to designate an authorized agent to submit these requests on your behalf, please contact us at the address above.

    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.

    [Be sure to check this list against Shopify’s current list of cookies on the merchant storefront: https://www.shopify.com/legal/cookies ]

    Cookies Necessary for the Functioning of the Store

    Name Function Duration
    _ab Used in connection with access to admin. 2y
    _secure_session_id Used in connection with navigation through a storefront. 24h
    _shopify_country Used in connection with checkout. session
    _shopify_m Used for managing customer privacy settings. 1y
    _shopify_tm Used for managing customer privacy settings. 30min
    _shopify_tw Used for managing customer privacy settings. 2w
    _storefront_u Used to facilitate updating customer account information. 1min
    _tracking_consent Tracking preferences. 1y
    c Used in connection with checkout. 1y
    cart Used in connection with shopping cart. 2w
    cart_currency Used in connection with shopping cart. 2w
    cart_sig Used in connection with checkout. 2w
    cart_ts Used in connection with checkout. 2w
    cart_ver Used in connection with shopping cart. 2w
    checkout Used in connection with checkout. 4w
    checkout_token Used in connection with checkout. 1y
    dynamic_checkout_shown_on_cart Used in connection with checkout. 30min
    hide_shopify_pay_for_checkout Used in connection with checkout. session
    keep_alive Used in connection with buyer localization. 2w
    master_device_id Used in connection with merchant login. 2y
    previous_step Used in connection with checkout. 1y
    remember_me Used in connection with checkout. 1y
    secure_customer_sig Used in connection with customer login. 20y
    shopify_pay Used in connection with checkout. 1y
    shopify_pay_redirect Used in connection with checkout. 30 minutes, 3w or 1y depending on value
    storefront_digest Used in connection with customer login. 2y
    tracked_start_checkout Used in connection with checkout. 1y
    checkout_one_experiment Used in connection with checkout. session

    Reporting and Analytics

    Name Function Duration
    _landing_page Track landing pages. 2w
    _orig_referrer Track landing pages. 2w
    _s Shopify analytics. 30min
    _shopify_d Shopify analytics. session
    _shopify_s Shopify analytics. 30min
    _shopify_sa_p Shopify analytics relating to marketing & referrals. 30min
    _shopify_sa_t Shopify analytics relating to marketing & referrals. 30min
    _shopify_y Shopify analytics. 1y
    _y Shopify analytics. 1y
    _shopify_evids Shopify analytics. session
    _shopify_ga Shopify and Google Analytics. session


    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.

    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.

    Complaints

    As noted above, if you would like to make a complaint, please contact us by contact form on website.

    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.

    Last updated: 12/07/22