Privacy Policy
Last Updated: July 1, 2024
This Privacy Policy describes how Major Peters (the "Site," "we," "us," or "our") collects, uses, and discloses your personal information when you visit, use our services, or make a purchase from major-peters.myshopify.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 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 Services.
CHANGES TO THIS PRIVACY POLICY
We may update this Privacy Policy from time to time 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 we collect and use varies depending on how you interact with us.
In addition to the specific uses set out below, we may use the 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 protect or defend the Services, our rights, and the rights of our users or others.
- Basic contact details, including your name, address, phone number, and email.
- Order information, such as your name, billing address, shipping address, payment confirmation, email address, and phone number.
- Account information, including your username, password, and 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, like sending a message through Services.
- Companies who support our Site and Services, like Shopify, may collect information on on our behalf.
- Our payment processors may also collect payment information such as your bank account, credit or debit card information, and billing address to process your payment and fulfill your orders. This is necessary 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 tracking technologies such as pixels, web beacons, software developer kits, third-party libraries, and cookies.
COOKIES
Like many websites, we use Cookies on our Site. Cookies help us power and improve our Site and Services, remember your actions and preferences, and run analytics to better understand how users interact with our Services in our legitimate interest to administer, improve, and optimize Services. We may allow third-party service 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. For more specific information about the Cookies we use to power our store with Shopify, see https://www.shopify.com/legal/cookies.
HOW WE DISCLOSE PERSONAL INFORMATION
We may disclose your personal information to third parties for legitimate purposes subject to this Privacy Policy. Such circumstances may include:
- Performing services on our behalf (e.g., IT management, payment processing, data analytics, customer support, cloud storage, fulfillment, and shipping) with vendors or other third parties.
- Providing services and advertising to you with business and marketing partners, including Shopify.
- Disclosing certain information to third parties with your consent, such as shipping products or through your use of social media widgets or login integrations.
- Sharing information within our corporate group or with our affiliates in our legitimate interests to run a successful business.
- In connection with a business transaction such as a merger or bankruptcy, complying with legal obligations, responding to subpoenas, search warrants, and similar requests, enforcing applicable terms of service, and protecting or defending our rights, 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 mentioned 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 with business and marketing partners.
- Commercial information such as order information, shopping information, and customer support information.
- Internet or other similar network activity, such as Usage Data.
Category 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.
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 to 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.
SECURITY AND RETENTION OF YOUR INFORMATION
Please be aware that no security measures are perfect or impenetrable, and we cannot guarantee absolute security. In addition, any information you send to us may not be secure while in transit. We recommend that you do not use insecure 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, 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 and may apply only in certain circumstances. 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 about how we use and share your information.
- Right to Delete. You may have a right to request that we delete personal information we have about you.
- Right to Correct. You may have a right to request that we correct inaccurate personal information we have 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 of Portability. You may have a right to receive a copy of your personal information and request that we transfer it to a third party under certain circumstances and with certain exceptions.
- Restriction of Processing: You may have the right to ask us to stop or restrict our processing of personal information.
- Withdrawal of Consent: Where we rely on consent to process your personal information, you may have the right to withdraw this consent.
- Appeal: You may have a right to appeal our decision if we decline to process your request. To do so, you could reply directly to our denial.
- Managing Communication Preferences: We may send you promotional emails, and you may opt out of receiving these at any time by using the unsubscribe option displayed in our emails to you. If you opt out, we may still send you non-promotional emails, such as those about your account or orders that you have made.
You may exercise any of these rights where indicated on our Site or by contacting us using the contact details provided below.
We will not discriminate against you for exercising any of these rights. Before providing a substantive response to the request, we may need to collect information from you to verify your identity, such as your email address or account information. In accordance with applicable laws, you may designate an authorized agent to make requests on your behalf to exercise your rights. Before accepting such a request from an agent, we will require that the agent provide proof that you have authorized them to act on your behalf, and we may need you to verify your identity directly with us. We will respond to your request in a timely manner as required under applicable law.
COMPLAINTS
If you have complaints about how we handle your personal information, please contact us using the contact details provided below. Depending on where you live, if you are not satisfied with our response, you may have the right to appeal our decision by contacting us using the contact details set out below or lodging your complaint with your local data protection authority.
INTERNATIONAL USERS
Please note that we may transfer, store, and process your personal information outside the country you live in, including the United States. Your personal information is also processed by staff and third-party service providers and partners in these countries.
If we transfer your personal information out of Europe, we will rely on recognized transfer mechanisms like the European Commission's Standard Contractual Clauses or any equivalent contracts issued by the relevant competent authority of the UK as relevant, unless the data transfer is to a country that has been determined to provide an adequate level of protection.
CONTACT
Should you have any questions about our privacy practices or this Privacy Policy, or if you would like to exercise any of your rights, please contact us here.