Lifehacklets understands the importance of and respects your personal privacy. Therefore, we’ve created this Privacy Policy so that you know how and when we collect, use, and share information when you purchase an item from Lifehacklets, contact Lifehacklets, or otherwise use Lifehacklets' services (the “Service”) through Etsy.com or its related sites and services (collectively, “Etsy”).
This Privacy Policy does not apply to the practices of third parties that Lifehacklets do not own or control, including Etsy or any third party services you access through Etsy. You can reference the Etsy Privacy Policy to learn more about its privacy practices.
By using or accessing Etsy and the Service, you signify your agreement to be bound by this Privacy Policy. IF YOU DO NOT AGREE TO THIS PRIVACY POLICY YOU MAY NOT ACCESS OR OTHERWISE USE OUR SERVICE OR PARTICIPATE IN OUR SERVICES.
Key aspects of our privacy practices described in this Privacy Policy include the following explanations:
• The information we collect and why we collect it;
• How we use that information;
• How we share information; and
• The choices we offer.
Personally Identifiable Information That We Collect
To fulfill your order, you must provide Lifehacklets with certain information (which you authorized Etsy to provide to Lifehacklets), such as your name, email address, postal address, payment information, and the details of the product that you’re ordering. You may also choose to provide Lifehacklets with additional personal information (for a custom order, for example), if you contact Lifehacklets directly or leave a review.
Non-Personal Or Aggregate Information That We Collect
When you access Etsy, we may automatically collect non-personally identifiable information from you, such as IP host address, web pages viewed, browser type, operating system, referring service, search information, device type, page views, usage and browsing habits on Etsy and the Service and similar data. We may also aggregate demographic information collected from our users (such as the number of users in a particular geographical location) in a manner which does not identify any one individual. We may also aggregate information collected offline in connection with Etsy and the Service, obtain non-personally identifiable information from third-party sources and develop aggregate information by anonymizing previously collected personally identifiable information.
It is possible at times when collecting non-personally identifiable information through automatic means that we may unintentionally collect or receive personally identifiable information that is mixed in with the non-personally identifiable information. While we will make reasonable efforts to prevent such incidental data collection, the possibility still exists. If you believe that we have inadvertently collected your personal information, please notify us.
Analytics and Conversion Tracking
We may use analytics services that use cookies, javascript and similar technologies to help us analyze how users use the Service. The information generated by these services about your use of the Service (including your IP address or a truncated version of your IP address) is transmitted to and stored by analytics service providers on their servers. Those service providers will use this information for the purpose of evaluating your, and other users’, use of the Service, compiling reports for us on website activity and providing other services relating to website activity and Internet usage.
We may collect information about your computer, including your IP address, operating system, and browser type, for system administration and in order to create reports. This is statistical data about our users’ browsing actions and patterns, and does not identify any individual.
For example, we use cookies for Google Analytics (the “Analytics Service”). The Analytics Service is a web-based analytics tool that helps website owners understand how visitors engage with their website. The Analytics Service customers can view a variety of reports about how visitors interact with their website so that they can improve it.
Like many services, the Analytics Service uses first-party cookies to track visitor interactions as in our case, where they are used to collect information about how visitors use our site. We then use the information to compile reports and to help us improve the Service.
Cookies contain information that is transferred to your computer’s hard drive. These cookies are used to store information, such as the time that the current visit occurred, whether the visitor has been to the site before and what site referred the visitor to the web page.
The Analytics Service collects information anonymously. They report website trends without identifying individual visitors. You can opt out of the Analytics Service without affecting how you visit Etsy. For more information on opting out of being tracked by Google Analytics across all websites you use, visit https://tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout.
We may also use Google conversion tracking and/or similar services to help us understand your and other users’ use of the Service.
Google's advertising requirements can be summed up by Google's Advertising Principles. They are put in place to provide a positive experience for users. https://support.google.com/adwordspolicy/answer/1316548?hl=en
Why We Need Your Information and How We Use It
Lifehacklets relies on a number of legal bases to collect, use, and share your information, including:
• as needed to provide Lifehacklets' services, such as when Lifehacklets use your information to fulfil your order, to settle disputes, or to provide customer support;
• when you have provided your affirmative consent, which you may revoke at any time, such as by signing up for a mailing list owned or controlled by Lifehacklets;
• if necessary to comply with a legal obligation or court order or in connection with a legal claim, such as retaining information about your purchases if required by tax law; and
• as necessary for the purpose of Lifehacklets' legitimate interests, if those legitimate interests are not overridden by your rights or interests, such as 1) providing and improving Lifehacklets' services. Lifehacklets uses your information to provide the services you requested and in Lifehacklets' legitimate interest to improve Lifehacklets' services; and 2) Compliance with the Etsy Seller Policy and Terms of Use. Lifehacklets uses your information as necessary to comply with Lifehacklets' obligations under the Etsy Seller Policy and Terms of Use.
Information Sharing and Disclosure
Information about Lifehacklets' customers is important to Lifehacklets' business. Lifehacklets shares your personal information for very limited reasons and in limited circumstances, as follows:
• Etsy. Lifehacklets shares information with Etsy as necessary to provide you Lifehacklets' services and comply with Lifehacklets' obligations under both the Etsy Seller Policy and Etsy Terms of Use.
• Service providers. Lifehacklets engages certain trusted third parties to perform functions and provide services to Lifehacklets' shop, such as delivery companies. Lifehacklets will share your personal information with these third parties, but only to the extent necessary to perform these services.
• Business transfers. If Lifehacklets sells or merges Lifehacklets' business, Lifehacklets may disclose your information as part of that transaction, only to the extent permitted by law.
• Compliance with laws. Lifehacklets may collect, use, retain, and share your information if Lifehacklets has a good faith belief that it is reasonably necessary to: (a) respond to legal process or to government requests; (b) enforce Lifehacklets' agreements, terms and policies; (c) prevent, investigate, and address fraud and other illegal activity, security, or technical issues; or (d) protect the rights, property, and safety of Lifehacklets' customers, or others.
Data Retention
Lifehacklets retains your personal information only for as long as necessary to provide you with Lifehacklets' services and as described in Lifehacklets' Privacy Policy. However, Lifehacklets may also be required to retain this information to comply with Lifehacklets' legal and regulatory obligations, to resolve disputes, and to enforce Lifehacklets' agreements. Lifehacklets generally keeps your data for the following time period unless otherwise required by law: indefinitely. We may also sync your data to a 3rd party service (e.g Amazon Web Services, Google, etc.), and data is retained there until unsubscribed or deleted.
How We Protect Your Information
The security of your personally identifiable information is very important to us. When we collect your personally identifiable information online, we use reasonable efforts to protect it from unauthorized access. However, due to the inherent open nature of the Internet, we cannot guarantee that your personally identifiable information will be completely free from unauthorized access by third parties such as hackers and your use of the Service demonstrates your assumption of this risk. Etsy has security protocols for sensitive/credit information (such as transaction information), and we have put in place reasonable physical, electronic, and managerial procedures to safeguard the information we collect. All transactions are processed through a gateway provider (Etsy) and are not stored or processed on Lifehacklets’ servers. Your personal information is contained behind secured networks and is only accessible by a limited number of persons who have special access rights to such systems, and are required to keep the information confidential. Only those employees who need access to your information in order to perform their duties are authorized to have access to your personally identifiable information. For more information on protecting your privacy, please visit www.ftc.gov/privacy.
Other Services
As a convenience to you, we may provide links to third-party Services from within our Service. We are not responsible for the privacy practices or content of these third-party sites. When you link away from our Service, you do so at your own risk.
Your Rights
If you reside in certain territories, including the EU, you have a number of rights in relation to your personal information. While some of these rights apply generally, certain rights apply only in certain limited cases. Lifehacklets describes these rights below:
• Access. You may have the right to access and receive a copy of the personal information Lifehacklets holds about you by contacting Lifehacklets using the contact information below.
• Change, restrict, delete. You may also have rights to change, restrict Lifehacklets' use of, or delete your personal information. Absent exceptional circumstances (like where Lifehacklets is required to store data for legal reasons) Lifehacklets will generally delete your personal information upon request.
• Object. You can object to (i) Lifehacklets' processing of some of your information based on Lifehacklets' legitimate interests and (ii) receiving marketing messages from Lifehacklets after either a.) providing your express consent to receive them or b.) establishing a business relationship by purchasing a product or service from Lifehacklets. In such cases, Lifehacklets will delete your personal information unless Lifehacklets has compelling and legitimate grounds to continue using that information or if it is needed for legal reasons.
• Complain. If you reside in the EU and wish to raise a concern about Lifehacklets' use of your information (and without prejudice to any other rights you may have), you have the right to do so with your local data protection authority.
Changes to this Privacy Policy
We reserve the right, at our discretion, to change, modify, add, or remove portions from this Privacy Policy at any time. However, if at any time in the future we plan to use personally identifiable information in a way that materially differs from this Privacy Policy, including sharing such information with more third parties, we will post such changes here and provide you the opportunity to opt-out of such differing uses. Your continued use of the Service and our services following the posting of any changes to this Privacy Policy means you accept such changes.
Opt-Out Process
All unsubscribe or opt-out requests may be made by clicking the “unsubscribe” link at the bottom of the relevant email. We process unsubscribe requests made to mailing lists owned or controlled by Lifehacklets within a reasonable time after receipt. However, we are not responsible for, and in some cases we are incapable of, removing your personally identifiable information from the lists of any third party who has previously been provided your information in accordance with this Privacy Policy or your consent. You should contact such third parties directly. If you would like to update or correct any personally identifiable information that you have provided to us, please email us and once we confirm your information, we will update such information within a reasonable amount of time.
Communications with Lifehacklets
By providing your contact information to us (including, without limitation, your email address, physical address, and phone number) (collectively the “Channels”) to us, you expressly consent to receive communications from us. We may use the Channels to communicate with you, to send information that you have requested or to send information about other products or services developed or provided by us or our business partners, provided that, we will not give your contact information to another party to promote their products or services directly to you without your consent or as set forth in this Privacy Policy.
By using the Service, you expressly consent to receive in-product communications from us (including, without limitation, push notifications on the Etsy App).
By providing your phone number to us, you expressly consent to receive phone calls and/or text messages from us. We will not give your phone number to another party to promote their products or services directly to you without your consent or as set forth in this Privacy Policy.
Any phone calls and/or text messages delivered to your phone or device may cause you to incur extra data, text messaging, or other charges from your wireless carrier. MESSAGE AND DATA RATES MAY APPLY. You are solely responsible for any carrier charges incurred as a result of phone and/or text communications from Lifehacklets.
Any communication or material you transmit to us by email or otherwise, including any data, questions, comments, suggestions, or the like is and will be treated as, non-confidential and nonproprietary. Except to the extent expressly covered by this Privacy Policy, anything you transmit or post may be used by us for any purpose, including but not limited to, reproduction, disclosure, transmission, publication, broadcast, and posting. Furthermore, you expressly agree that we are free to use any ideas, concepts, know-how, or techniques contained in any communication you send to us, as well as any data developed using the content of such communication, without compensation and for any purpose whatsoever, including but not limited to, developing, manufacturing and marketing products and services using such information.
No Rights of Third Parties
This Privacy Policy does not create rights enforceable by third parties, nor does it require disclosure of any personal information relating to users of the Service.
Governing Law
This Privacy Policy and our legal obligations hereunder are subject to the laws of the State of Minnesota regardless of your location. You hereby consent to the exclusive jurisdiction of and venue in the courts located in the State of Minnesota, County of Clay, in all disputes arising out of or relating to the Services.
How to Contact Lifehacklets
For purposes of EU data protection law, Lifehacklets is the data controller of your personal information. If you have any questions or concerns, you may contact Lifehacklets at http://lifehacklets.com/contact/. Alternately, you may mail Lifehacklets at:
Lifehacklets - c/o Cas Johnson, 3908 13th St S, Moorhead, MN 56560 USA