Privacy policy
Keeping You in Control
As we strive towards empowering you every way we possibly can, we guarantee that when it comes to your privacy with regards to Karmasio, you are always in good hands.
With devotion to our principles as an entity, we appreciate,value and respect every user's privacy, freedom of choice and safe decision-making options. Accordingly, we strongly suggest that you take a few minutes to read the following privacy policy as a detailed description of how your personal information is collected, used and shared when visiting and/or making a purchase from karmasio.com.
In perfect alignment with our continuous effort to empower our estimable clients - and while this is our privacy policy - understanding it keeps you in control.
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Here we go.
Personal Information
The term 'Personal Information' used in this privacy policy collectively refers to both 'Device Information' and 'Order Information'.
Upon your valued visit, this website automatically recognizes and collects specific information about the device you have chosen to use when surfing its pages. This information includes: your web browser, IP address, time zone and some of the cookies that already exist on your device.
Once you access this website, we also obtain data about your various interactions: such as the websites/search terms that successfully referred you to our website and the specific pages/products you view throughout your visit. We refer to this automatically-collected data as 'Device Information'.
The following technologies are what we use in order to receive the device information stated and explained above:
- Cookies
Simply put, cookies are data files stored on your device, often including an anonymous, unique identifier. For more information about cookies and how to disable them, visit: http://www.allaboutcookies.org.
- Log Files
This tech-term refers to computer-generated files used in order to track the various activities occurring throughout a user's visit. Log files, moreover, collect other data, including your:
IP address, browser type, internet service provider, referral/exit pages and date/time stamps.
- Web Beacons, Pixels and Tags
For further analytical purposes, web beacons, pixels and tags are forms of electronic files used to monitor, track and record your activity across this website's different pages.
Additionally, when you attempt to make/succeed in making a purchase from this website, we receive voluntarily-given information from your end to process your order(s). This information includes your: name, billing address, shipping address, payment method details (ex: credit card numbers), email address and phone number. We refer to this information as 'Order Information'.
How Do We Use Your Personal Information?
The 'order information' that you share with us on this website is generally used to fulfill any/all of your placed orders. Accordingly, it serves to process your payment information, for example, arrange for your order's shipment, provide you with invoices and/or order confirmations, etc.
We also use your 'order information' to:
- Communicate with you.
- Screen all orders to avoid potential risks and prevent any/all fraud attempts.
- Keep you updated with our latest product/service updates with relevance to the preferences you have previously shared with us.
As for the retrieved 'device information', it certainly assists our safeguarding procedures against potential risks and fraud attempts; particularly when attaining a user's IP address.
Generally speaking, however, all 'device information' fundamentally aids and boosts our relentless effort towards improving and optimizing karmasio.com in every way we can. For example, since such specific data is indispensable when generating analytics about how our valued users browse and interact on the website, it therefore essentially guides our understanding of our clients' needs, interests, likes, dislikes, etc., enabling our teams to not only assess the performance of our marketing/advertising activities but also better our products/services.
Why/How Do We Share Your Personal Information?
As clarified above, your 'personal information' helps us enhance our offered services/products and understand behavioural patterns throughout our website. Accordingly - and in order to actually do so - we share this information with third parties.
Here's how:
· We use Shopify, for example, to amp up our online store performance. You can read more about how Shopify uses your 'personal information' right here: https://www.shopify.com/legal/privacy.
· We also use Google Analytics to help us analyze and put-in-numbers our valued visitors' behavioural patterns on the website. You can read more about how Google uses your 'personal information' here: https://www.google.com/intl/en/policies/privacy/l and also opt-out of Google Analytics here: https://tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout.
· Finally, we may be obligated to share your 'personal information' in specific cases in order to comply with applicable laws and regulations, in response to a subpoena, for instance, search warrants or other lawful requests for information we receive. This information may be used to, otherwise, protect our rights.
· Behavioural Advertising
As previously stated and explained above, we use our users' 'personal information' to provide them - and potential clients of course - with targeted advertisements and marketing campaigns that we believe may be of interest. For more information on how targeted advertising works, we recommend that you visit this exceptionally educational page, brought to you by the Network Advertising Initiative (NAI): http://www.networkadvertising.org/understanding-online-advertising/how-does-it-work.
With equivalent importance, when we say that keeping you in control is what we strive towards, we truly mean it:
You can easily opt-out of targeted advertising by using these links:
- Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/settings/?tab=ads
- Google: https://www.google.com/settings/ads/anonymous
- Bing: https://advertise.bingads.microsoft.com/en-us/resources/policies/personalized-ads
More of your very own, fully deserved control:-
- You can opt-out of some of such services by visiting the Digital Advertising Alliance’s opt-out portal right here: http://optout.aboutads.info/.
- Do Not Track
We hereby do NOT alter our website's data collection operations nor any of our used practices when we receive a 'Do Not Track' signal from your browser, as such unethical, invasive and immoral means certainly defy our principles, values, brand promises and everything we, at Karmasio, believe in. Your privacy, trust satisfaction, freedom of choice and rights above all else come first.
Your Rights
If you are a European citizen/resident, you have the full right to access any and all 'personal information' we hold about you and to ask that this information be corrected, updated or even deleted. If you would like to exercise this right, please contact us by using any of the 'reach out' information below.
Furthermore, we hereby inform you that we use this information in order to fulfill contracts we might have with you; for example to process any order that you make through this website or otherwise to pursue our legitimate, business interests listed above. Moreover, please note that your information will be transferred to destinations outside of Europe, including Canada and the United States.
Data Retention
Upon placing an order through this website, we hold on to your 'order information' for our records unless and until you ask us to delete it.
Changes
Please note that we may update this privacy policy from time to time in order to state, for example, any changes made to our practices and/or for other operational, legal and/or regulatory reasons.
Reach Out
To us, you come first.
If at any point in time you would like more information on our privacy policy and practices, have further inquiries or would even like to make a complaint/comment, please don't hesitate reach out to us and stay in control. Go ahead and send us an e-mail at info@karmazio.com.
We would always, always love to hear from you!
