verseofshops.com PRIVACY POLICY

LAST UPDATED: MAY 20, 2024

This privacy policy (“Policy”) describes how verseofshops.com (“Company,” “we,” and “our”) processes, collects, uses, and shares personal information when you use this website {$site} (the “Site”). Please read the information below carefully to understand our practices regarding how we handle your personal information and how we treat it.

PURPOSE OF PROCESSING What is personal data? We collect information about you in various ways, including personal data. As described in this Policy, “personal data” as defined in the General Data Protection Regulation includes any information, whether combined with other data or not, that we collect about you that identifies you as an individual, including, for example, your name, postal code, email, and phone number. Why do we need this personal information? We will process your personal data only in accordance with applicable data protection and privacy laws. We need certain personal data to provide you with access to the site. If you registered with us, you would have been asked to tick to agree to provide this information to access our services, such as purchasing our products or viewing our content. This consent provides us with the legal basis required under applicable law to process your data. You retain the right to withdraw such consent at any time. If you do not agree with the use of your personal data in accordance with this Policy, please do not use our website.

COLLECTING YOUR PERSONAL DATA We collect information about you in the following ways: Information You Provide, includes:

• Personal data you provide when registering to use our website, including your name, address, email, phone number, username, password, and demographic information;
• Personal data that may be contained in any comment or other post you make on our website;
• Personal data you provide in our affiliate program or in other promotions we run on our website;
• Personal data you provide when reporting a problem on our website or when you need customer support;
• Personal data you provide when making purchases on our website;
• Personal data you provide when you contact us by phone, email, or otherwise. Information We Automatically Collect. We automatically log information about you and your computer or mobile device when you access our website. For example, when visiting our website, we log the name and version of your computer or mobile device, the manufacturer and model, the type of browser, the browser language, the monitor resolution, the website visited before our website, the pages viewed and how long you were on a page, access times, and information about your use and actions on our website. We collect information about you using cookies.

COOKIES What are cookies? We may collect information about you using “cookies.” Cookies are small data files stored on your computer or mobile device’s hard drive by your browser. We may use both session cookies (which expire after you close your browser) and persistent cookies (which stay on your computer or mobile device until you delete them) to provide you with a more personal and interactive experience on our website. We use two types of cookies: Firstly, cookies set by us on your computer or mobile device, which we use to recognize when you return to visit our website; and third-party cookies that are from services provided by third parties on our website, and which may be used to recognize when your computer or mobile device visits our and other websites.

Cookies We Use Our website uses the following described cookies:

• Essential Cookies: These cookies are necessary to provide the services available on our website, enabling you to use some of its features. For example, they may allow you to log in to the member area or to load the content of our website quickly. Without these cookies, many of the services available on our website may not function correctly, and we use these cookies solely to provide you with good service.

• Functionality Cookies: These cookies remember choices you have already made on our website, such as language, login details, and other choices you made that can be customized by you. The purpose of these cookies is to remember all the choices you have made to create a more personalized experience without having to re-enter your information on our website.

• Analytics and Performance Cookies: These cookies are used to collect information about traffic to our website and how users use and navigate the website. The information collected does not specifically identify any user. It includes the number of visitors to our website, the websites that referred our website, the pages that users visit, possible websites they visited previously, and other similar information. We use this information to improve and monitor the activity of our website. We use Google Analytics for this purpose. Google Analytics uses its own cookies. It is only used to improve how our website works. You can learn more about Google Analytics cookies here: Google Analytics Cookie Concepts. Learn more about how Google protects your data here: Google Analytics Privacy. You can prevent the use of Google Analytics cookies in your browser by installing an extension in Google Chrome, which you can download here: Google Analytics Opt-out Browser Add-on.

• Advertising Cookies: These cookies analyze how you browse to be able to show you ads that are likely to be of your interest. These cookies use information from your browsing history with your permission to show you relevant third-party ads based on your interests. You can disable cookies that store your browsing history by visiting Your Online Choices. If you choose to remove these cookies, you will still see ads, but they will not be relevant to your interests.

• Social Media Cookies: These cookies are used when you share information on social media or somehow access our content through social media platforms like Facebook, Twitter, or Google+.

Disabling Cookies You can remove or reject cookies through your browser settings. To do this, we recommend you follow the instructions of your browsers (usually found in the “settings” or “help” menu of your browser). Most browsers accept cookies automatically until you change the settings. If you do not accept our cookies, your experience on our site may not be as pleasant. For example, we may not recognize your computer or mobile device, and you may need to log in every time you enter our website.

ADVERTISING We may use third parties to display ads when you visit our website. These companies may collect information such as browser type, time and day, type of ad clicked on this and other websites to show you the most relevant ads. These companies typically use their systems to collect this data, which is subject to their privacy policies.

USING YOUR PERSONAL DATA We may use your personal data in the following ways:

• To maintain and improve our website, products, and services;
• To manage your account, including communications we have with you regarding your account, if you have an account on our website;
• To operate and administer our affiliate program and other promotions you may participate in on our website;
• To respond to your comments and questions and to provide customer support;
• To send information, including technical information, updates, security alerts, and support;
• With your consent, we perform email marketing about promotions, and other news, including information about our products, or services offered by us, or our affiliates. You can stop receiving these communications at any time; all our emails always include an opt-out option. Even if you opt out of our list, we may send non-marketing emails, including emails about any account you may have with us (if you have one), or transactions you have with us;
• To process payments you have made on our website;
• When we deem it necessary and appropriate (a) to comply with the law (b) to comply with legal requests and processes, including requests from public and governmental authorities; (c) to comply with our Policy; and (d) to protect the rights, privacy, safety, yours and others.
• To analyze and study services;
• As described below in “Sharing Your Personal Data”.

SHARING YOUR PERSONAL DATA We may share your personal data in the following ways:

• To Third Parties Designated by You. We may share your data with third parties to whom you have given your consent.
• Services Provided by Third Parties. We may share your personal data with third parties that perform some services such as (data analysis, payment processing, customer support, email marketing, and other similar services).

THIRD-PARTY WEBSITES Our website may contain links to third-party sites. This Policy does not cover third-party privacy policies. These third-party sites have their own privacy policies and we do not accept any responsibility for these sites, their functions, or privacy policies. Please read the privacy policies of these third-party sites before submitting any information.

USER-GENERATED CONTENT You may share your personal data with us when you submit and generate content on our website, including blog comments, support messages on our website. Please be aware that any information you post on our website becomes public knowledge and will be accessible to all users of our website, including visitors. We suggest you exercise caution when deciding to disclose your personal data or any other information on our website. Any personal information posted on our website will not remain private or confidential.

If you provide us with any reviews or comments, we may make this information public on our website.

INTERNATIONAL DATA TRANSFER Your information, including personal data that we collect from you, may be transferred to, stored in, and processed by us outside the country where you reside, where data protection and privacy regulations may not offer the same level of protection as in other countries. By accepting this privacy policy, you agree to the transfer, storage, and processing of your data. We will take all necessary measures to ensure that your data is treated securely and in accordance with our policies.

SECURITY We strive to take all necessary technical and administrative measures to protect your data as securely as possible. Unfortunately, no system is 100% secure, and we cannot guarantee the complete security of your data. If you think your data is no longer secure with us (for example, if access to your account has been compromised), please contact us immediately and report the issue.

RETENTION We will retain your personal information for 30 days unless a longer period is necessary or permitted by law. OR We will retain your personal information as long as it is necessary and permitted by you so that you can use our website until you close your account or end your subscription unless a longer period is necessary or permitted by law.

OUR POLICY WITH CHILDREN Our website is not directed at children under the age of 18. If a parent or guardian learns that their child has provided personal data on our website without their consent, they should contact us immediately. We will delete all such data as quickly as possible.

YOUR RIGHTS

• Opt-out: You can contact us at any time to opt out of our list; (i) email marketing communications (ii) our collection of sensitive personal data (iii) any new processing of personal data that we may carry out.
• Access: You can access the information we hold about you at any time by contacting us.
• Change: You can also contact us to update or correct any personal information we hold about you.
• Move: Your personal information can be transferred. You have the flexibility to move your data to another service if you wish.
• Erase: In some situations, for example when the information we hold about you is no longer relevant or is incorrect, you may ask us to erase your data.

If you want to exercise any of these rights, please contact us. Please make it clear in your request (i) what information you want; and (ii) which of the above rights you wish to use. For your protection, we can only complete your requests if they are made with the same email associated with your data, we will verify your identity before making any changes. We will respond to your request as soon as possible, no later than 30 days. Please note that we may need to retain some information for record-keeping purposes.

COMPLAINTS support@verseofshops.com We will respond to your contact as quickly as possible, within a maximum of 30 days. We hope to resolve any situation brought to us by you, in any case, if we find that your complaint is not applicable, you have the right to contact your local data protection authority.

CONTACT INFORMATION We appreciate your comments and questions about our privacy policy. You can contact us by email at: support@verseofshops.com