WHO WE ARE
This Privacy Policy for Etsy shop MYCatStuffStore (“we”, “us”, or “our”), describes how and why we might access, collect, store, use, and/or share (“process”) your personal information when you use our services (“Services”), including when you:
• visit our website at https://www.etsy.com/shop/MYCatStuffStore
• engage with us in other related ways, including any sales or marketing, or leaving a review
• fill out a form in order to contact us or sign up for the newsletter
We will not use or share your information with anyone except as described in the Privacy Policy.
This Privacy Policy does not apply to the practices of third parties that we do not own or control, including Etsy or any third part services you access through Etsy. You can reference the Etsy Privacy Policy (https://www.etsy.com/legal/privacy) to learn more about its privacy practices.
By accessing or using our Services, you are consenting to the collection, storage, use, and disclosure of your information in accordance with this Privacy Policy. If you do not agree with our policies and practices, please do not use our Services.
INFORMATION COLLECTION AND USE
While using our website we automatically collect information for user analysis.
When you fill out a form or make a purchase, we may ask you to provide us with certain personally identifiable information that can be used to contact or identify you.
Analytics:
While using our website, we automatically collect information about when you visit, use, or navigate the Services. This may give us information such as what pages you click on, how long you stay on a page, time and date of visit, type of device you used to access the internet, country, and how you generally navigate the website. The information is primarily needed to maintain the security and operation of our Services, and for our internal analytics and reporting purposes.
We use Google Analytics. To opt out of being tracked by Google Analytics across the Service, visit https://tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout. For more information on the privacy practices of Google, please visit the Google Privacy & Terms (https://policies.google.com/privacy) page.
Purchasing store products:
While you visit our store we may track location, IP address and browser type for purposes like estimating taxes and shipping.
When products are purchased, personal information may be collected by Etsy and provided to us. This information is collected in order to ship or contact you about your order, respond to your requests (including complaints), payment amounts (Etsy never shares your payment information with us, as payments are processed through Etsy), comply with any legal obligations we have (such as calculating taxes), improve our store offerings, and send you marketing messages (if you choose to receive them). This is information you consent and provide us. Personally identifiable information may include:
• Name
• Email address
• Mailing address
• Payment amounts
• Additional personal information you provide for a custom order
All personal information that you provide to us must be true, complete, and accurate, and you must notify us of any changes to such personal information.
COOKIES AND OTHER TRACKING TECHNOLOGIES
Cookies are small text files that are used to store small pieces of information. They are stored on your device when the website is loaded on your browser. Cookies are widely used by website owners in order to make their websites function properly, make them more secure, as well as to provide reporting information.
Cookies set by the website owner (in this case, MYCatStuffStore) are called “first-party cookies.” First-party cookies are mostly necessary for the website to function the right way. Cookies set by parties other than the website owner are called “third-party cookies”. Third-party cookies enable third-party features or functionality to be provided on or through the website (e.g., advertising, interactive content, and analytics). The parties that set these third-party cookies can recognize your computer both when it visits the website in question and also when it visits certain other websites.
Why do we use cookies?
Some cookies are required for technical reasons in order for our website to operate, and we refer to these as “necessary” cookies. Other cookies also enable us to track and target the interests of our users to enhance the experience on our website. Third parties serve cookies through our website for advertising, analytics, and other purposes.
This allows your web browser to recognize places you have visited. We may use cookies and similar technologies for purposes such as:
• Communicating to us the web browser you use
• Whether you open an email we send
• Other technical information about your device
• Track your internet usage
• To ensure our servers and systems are working properly
• To keep track of cart contents while you’re browsing our site
How can I control cookies?
You have the right to decide whether to accept or reject certain cookies. You can exercise your cookie rights by visiting https://www.etsy.com/legal/cookies/ and learn how to set your cookie preferences for Etsy. Necessary cookies cannot be rejected as they are strictly essential to provide you with services. Cookies you can control include (note: all may not be applicable): functional, analytical, performance, and advertisement.
If you choose to reject cookies, you may still use our website though your access to some functionality and areas of our website may be restricted. You may also set or amend your web browser controls to accept or refuse cookies.
How can I control cookies on my browser?
You can change the settings of your browser to block/delete the cookies. As the means by which you can refuse cookies through your web browser controls vary from browser to browser, you should visit your browser’s help menu for more information.
Types of cookies we use:
Necessary: cookies that are required to enable the basic features of this site, such as adjusting your consent preferences. These cookies do not store any personally identifiable data.
Functional: cookies that perform certain functionalities like sharing the content of the website on social media platforms, collecting feedback, and other third-party features.
Analytical: cookies that are used to understand how visitors interact with the website. These cookies help provide information on metrics such as the number of visitors, bounce rate, traffic source, etc.
Advertisement: cookies that are used to provide visitors with customized advertisements based on the pages you visited previously and to analyze the effectiveness of the ad campaigns.
What about other tracking technologies, like web beacons?
Cookies are not the only way to recognize or track visitors to a website. We may use other similar technologies from time to time, like web beacons (sometimes called “tracking pixels” or “clear gifs”). These are tiny graphics files that contain a unique identifier that enables us to recognize when someone has visited our website or opened an email including them. This allows us, for example, to monitor the traffic pattern of users from one page within a website to another, to deliver or communicate with cookies, to understand whether you have come to the website from an online advertisement displayed on a third-party website, to improve site performance, and to measure the success of email marketing campaigns. In many instances, these technologies are reliant on cookies to function properly, and so declining cookies will impair their functioning.
CONTROLS FOR DO-NOT-TRACK FEATURES:
Most web browsers and some mobiles include a Do-Not-Track (“DNT”) feature or setting you can activate to signal your privacy preference not to have data about your online browsing activities monitored and collected. At this stage, no uniform technology standard for recognizing and implementing DNT signals has been finalized. As such, we do not currently respond to DNT browser signals or any other mechanism that automatically communicates your choice not to be tracked online. If a standard for online tracking is adopted that we must follow in the future, we will inform you about that practice in a revised version of this Privacy Policy.
California law requires us to let you know how we respond to web browser DNT signals. Because there currently is not an industry or legal standard for recognizing or honoring DNT signals, we do not respond to them at this time.
EMBEDDED CONTENT FROM OTHER WEBSITES
Articles on this site may include embedded content (e.g. videos, images, articles, etc.). Embedded content from other websites behaves in the same way as if the visitor has visited the other website.
These websites may collect data about you, use cookies, embed additional third-part 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.
WHO WE SHARE YOUR DATA WITH
We may share your data with third-party vendors, service providers, contractors, or agents (“third parties”) who perform service for us or on our behalf and require access to such information to do that work.
The third parties we may share personal information with are as follows:
• Etsy: as necessary to provide our services and comply with our obligations under both the Etsy Sellery Policy and Etsy Terms of Use
• Service Providers: we engage certain third parties to perform functions and provide services to our shop, such as delivery companies
• Web and Mobile Analytics: Google Analytics
We may also disclose your personal information for the following: to comply with applicable law, regulation, court order or other legal process.
HOW LONG WE RETAIN YOUR DATA
We will keep your personal information only as long as necessary for the purposes outlined in this Privacy Policy, unless a longer retention period is required or permitted by law (such as tax, accounting, or other legal requirements).
Purchase information will be stored for 4 years for tax and accounting purposes; this includes your name, email address, and billing and shipping addresses.
We do not keep your financial information. The financial information you provide is processed via your selected payment option through Etsy.
HOW WE SECURE YOUR DATA
The security of your information is important to us and we have implemented appropriate and reasonable technical and organizational security measures designed to protect the security of any personal information we process. We rely on reputable and reliable third-party vendors to collect information.
However, despite our safeguards and efforts to secure your information, no electronic transmission over the Internet or information storage technology can be guaranteed to be 100% secure, so we cannot promise or guarantee that hackers, cybercriminals, or other unauthorized third parties will not be able to defeat our security and improperly collect, access, steal, or modify your information. Although we will do our best to protect your personal information, transmission of personal information to and from our Services is at your own risk and you should only access the Services within a secure environment.
WHAT RIGHTS YOU HAVE OVER YOUR DATA
Under certain US state data protection laws you have rights. However, these rights are not absolute, and in certain cases, we may decline your request as permitted by law. These rights include:
• Right to know whether or not we are processing your personal data
• Right to access your personal data
• Right to correct inaccuracies in your personal data
• Right to request the deletion of your personal data
• Right to obtain a copy of the personal data you previously shared with us
• Right to opt out of the processing of your personal data if it is used for targeted advertising (or sharing as defined under California’s privacy law), the sale of personal data, or profiling in furtherance of decisions that produce legal or similarly significant effects (“profiling”)
Depending upon the state where you live, you may also have the following rights:
• Right to access the categories of personal data being processed (as permitted by applicable law, including Minnesota’s privacy law)
• Right to obtain a list of the categories of third parties to which we have disclosed personal data (as permitted by applicable law, including California’s and Delaware’s privacy law)
• Right to obtain a list of specific third parties to which we have disclosed personal data (as permitted by applicable law, including Minnesota’s and Oregon’s privacy law)
• Right to limit use and disclosure of sensitive personal data (as permitted by applicable law, including California’s privacy law)
To exercise these rights, you can contact us using the information at the bottom of the page.
IS YOUR INFORMATION TRANSFERRED INTERNATIONALLY?
Our servers are located in the United States. If you are accessing our Services from outside the United States, please be aware that your information may be transferred to, stored by, and processed by us in our facilities and in the facilities of the third parties with whom we may share your personal information.
IF YOU ARE LOCATED IN THE EU OR UK, THIS SECTION APPLIES TO YOU
The General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) and UK GDPR require us to explain the valid legal basis we rely on in order to process your personal information. As such, we may rely on the following legal bases to process your personal information:
• Consent. We may process your information if you have given us permission (i.e., consent) to use your personal information for a specific purpose. You can withdraw your consent at any time by contacting us.
• Legal Obligations. We may process your information where we believe it is necessary for compliance with our legal obligations, such as to cooperate with a law enforcement body or regulatory agency, exercise or defend our legal rights, or disclose your information as evidence in litigation in which we are involved.
You have the right (a) to request a copy of your personal information that we store, (b) to request rectification or erasure, (c) to restrict the processing of, (d) to data portability, and (e) not to be subject to automated decision-making. You can contact us using the information at the bottom of the page.
IF YOU ARE LOCATED IN CANADA, THIS SECTION APPLIES TO YOU
We may process your information if you have given us specific permission (i.e., express consent) to use your personal information for a specific purpose, or in situations where your permission can be inferred (i.e., implied consent). You can withdraw your consent at any time by contacting us.
You have the right (a) to request a copy of your personal information that we store, (b) to request rectification or erasure, (c) to restrict the processing of, (d) to data portability, and (e) not to be subject to automated decision-making. You can contact us using the information at the bottom of the page.
CHILDREN'S PROTECTION
We do not knowingly collect personal information from people under the age of eighteen. If you are under 18, you may only use the website with permission of a parent or guardian. If you become aware of any data we may have collected from children under age 18, please contact us at nikki@mycatstuff.us.
LINKS TO OTHER SITES
Our website contains links to other sites that are not operated by us. If you click on a third-party link, you will be directed to that third party’s site. We advise you to review the Privacy Policy of every site you visit.
PRIVACY POLICY CHANGES
We reserve the right to update or make changes to our Privacy Policy at any time, and at our sole discretion. We encourage visitors to check this page for any changes.
CONTACT INFORMATION
For any questions or concerns about this Policy, please contact us:
• https://www.etsy.com/shop/MYCatStuffStore and select the “Contact” button
• nikki@mycatstuff.us
• PO Box 80313
Billings, MT 59108
USA
