1. Information We Collect:
a. Personal Information: We may collect personal information such as your name, email address, shipping and billing address, phone number, and payment information when you make a purchase or create an account on our website.
b. Browsing Information: We gather non-personal information like IP addresses, browser types, device information, and pages visited to improve our website’s functionality and user experience.
2. How We Use Your Information:
a. To process and fulfill your orders, communicate order updates, and provide customer support.
b. To personalize your shopping experience, including showing tailored product recommendations and relevant content.
c. To send you promotional offers, newsletters, and marketing communications if you have opted to receive them. You can opt out of these communications at any time.
d. To improve our website’s functionality, analyze user behavior, and make necessary enhancements.
3. Sharing Your Information:
a. We may share your personal information with trusted third-party service providers who assist us in operating our website, processing payments, delivering orders, and conducting marketing campaigns.
b. Your information may be shared when required by law, in response to legal processes, or to protect our rights and interests.
c. In the event of a merger, acquisition, or sale of all or a portion of our assets, your information may be transferred to the new entity.
4. Your Choices:
a. You can review, update, or delete your account information by logging into your account settings.
b. You can opt out of receiving promotional communications by following the “unsubscribe” instructions in the emails you receive or by contacting us directly.
5. Security:
We implement industry-standard security measures to protect your personal information from unauthorized access, alteration, disclosure, or destruction.
6. Children’s Privacy:
Our website is not intended for individuals under the age of 18 years. We do not knowingly collect personal information from minors. If you are a parent or guardian and believe your child has provided us with personal information, please contact us to have it removed.
7. Changes to Privacy Policy:
We may update this Privacy Policy from time to time to reflect changes in our practices or for other operational, legal, or regulatory reasons. The updated policy will be posted on our website.
8. Comments:
When visitors leave comments on the website, we collect the data shown in the comments form, and also the visitor’s IP address and browser user agent string to help spam detection. An anonymized string created from your email address (also called a hash) may be provided to the Gravatar service to see if you are using it. The Gravatar service privacy policy is available here: https://automattic.com/privacy/. After approval of your comment, your profile picture is visible to the public in the context of your comment.
9. Media:
If you upload images to the website, you should avoid uploading images with embedded location data (EXIF GPS) included. Visitors to the website can download and extract any location data from images on the website.
10. Cookies:
We use cookies and similar technologies to track your preferences, gather statistical data, and enhance your browsing experience. You can modify your browser settings to manage cookies or receive notifications when cookies are being used. If you leave a comment on our site you may opt-in to saving your name, email address and website in cookies.
These are for your convenience so that you do not have to fill in your details again when you leave another comment. These cookies will last for one year. If you visit our login page, we will set a temporary cookie to determine if your browser accepts cookies. This cookie contains no personal data and is discarded when you close your browser.
When you log in, we will also set up several cookies to save your login information and your screen display choices. Login cookies last for two days, and screen options cookies last for a year. If you select “Remember Me”, your login will persist for two weeks.
If you log out of your account, the login cookies will be removed. If you edit or publish an article, an additional cookie will be saved in your browser. This cookie includes no personal data and simply indicates the post ID of the article you just edited. It expires after 1 day.
11. Embedded content from other websites:
When visitors leave comments on the site we collect the data shown in the comments form, and also the visitor’s IP address and browser user agent string to help spam detection. Suggested text: Articles on this site may include embedded content (e.g. videos, images, articles, etc.). Embedded content from other websites behaves in the exact same way as if the visitor has visited the other website. These websites may collect data about you, use cookies, embed additional third-party tracking, and monitor your interaction with that embedded content, including tracking your interaction with the embedded content if you have an account and are logged in to that website.
12. Who we share your data with:
If you request a password reset, your IP address will be included in the reset email.
13. How long we retain your data:
If you leave a comment, the comment and its metadata are retained indefinitely. This is so we can recognize and approve any follow-up comments automatically instead of holding them in a moderation queue. For users that register on our website (if any), we also store the personal information they provide in their user profile. All users can see, edit, or delete their personal information at any time (except they cannot change their username). Website administrators can also see and edit that information.
14. What rights you have over your data
Visitor comments may be checked through an automated spam detection service.
15. Contact Us:
For any questions, concerns, or requests related to your privacy and data protection, please contact our Data Protection Officer at contact us page.
Thank you for entrusting Markchris Technology online store (“website”) with your personal information. Your privacy and trust are of the utmost importance to us.
