Privacy Policy

SFERA APEVA LLC Privacy Policy

This Privacy Policy describes how your personal information is collected, used and shared when you visit or make a purchase from SFERA APEVA (the "Site").

PERSONAL INFORMATION COLLECTED

When you visit the Site, we automatically collect certain information about your device, including information about your web browser, IP address, time zone and some of the cookies installed on your device. In addition, as you browse the Site, we collect information about the individual web pages or products you view, the websites or search terms that led you to the Site, and information about how you interact with the Site. This automatically collected information is referred to as "Device Information".

We collect Device Information using the following technologies:

COOKIES - The following is a list of the cookies we use. We list them here so that you can choose whether or not to allow them.
_session_id, a unique session ID, allows Shopify to store information about your session (report, landing page, etc.).
_shopify_visit, no data retained, stays 30 minutes from the last visit. Used by our website provider's internal statistics tracking system to record the number of visits.
_shopify_uniq, no data retained, expires at midnight (depending on the visitor's location) the following day. Calculates the number of visits per store per unique customer.
cart, unique identifier, kept for 2 weeks, stores information about your shopping cart.
_secure_session_id, unique session identifier
storefront_digest, unique identifier, undefined if the store has a password, used to determine if the current visitor has access.
"Logs" track website activity and collect data such as your IP address, the type of browser you use, your internet service provider, referring and exit pages, and timestamps (date and time).
"Invisible pixels", "beacons" and "pixels" are electronic records that record information about how you browse the Website.
Also, when you make or attempt to make a purchase through the Site, we collect certain information about you, such as your name, billing address, shipping address, payment information (including credit card numbers, email address and telephone number). This automatically collected information is referred to as "Order Information".

When we use the term "Personal Information" in this Privacy Policy, we mean both Device Information and Order Information.

HOW DO WE USE YOUR PERSONAL INFORMATION?

In general, we use the Order Information we collect to process any order placed through the Site (including processing your payment information, arranging the shipment of your order, and providing invoices and/or order confirmations). In addition, we use this Order Information to:

Communicate with you,
assess potential fraud or risk; and
Where this is consistent with the preferences you have made known to us, to provide you with information or advertising about our products or services.
We use the Device Information (in particular your IP address) we collect to assess potential fraud or risk and generally to improve and optimize our Website (for example, by generating analytics about how our customers browse and interact with the Website and to evaluate the success of our advertising and marketing campaigns).

 

SHARING YOUR PERSONAL INFORMATION

We share personal information with third parties to help us use it for the purposes described above. For example, we use Shopify to host our online store - for more information about how Shopify uses your Personal Information, visit: https://www.shopify.com/legal/privacy We also use Google Analytics to better understand how our customers use the Site - for more information about how Google uses your Personal Information, visit: https://www.google.com/intl/ro/policies/privacy/.

You can turn off Google Analytics here: https://tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout.

Finally, we may also disclose Personal Information to comply with applicable laws and regulations, to respond to a subpoena, search warrant or other lawful request for information we receive, or to protect our rights.

BEHAVIOURAL ADVERTISING

As mentioned above, we use your Personal Information to provide you with targeted advertisements or marketing messages that we believe will be of interest to you. For more information about how targeted advertising works, you can visit the Network Advertising Initiative (NAI) information page at: http://www.networkadvertising.org/understanding-online-advertising/how-does-it-work.

You can opt out of targeted advertising here:

SOME COMMON LINKS:

FACEBOOK - https://www.facebook.com/settings/?tab=ads
GOOGLE - https://www.google.com/settings/ads/anonymous
BING - https://about.ads.microsoft.com/ro-ro/resources/policies/personalized-ads
In addition, you can opt out of some of these services by visiting the Digital Advertising Alliance's opt-out portal at: https://optout.aboutads.info/?c=3&lang=ro.

NO TRACKING

Please note that we do not change our Site's data collection and usage practices when we detect a "Do Not Track" signal from your browser.

YOUR RIGHTS

If you are a resident of Europe, you have the right to access the personal data we hold about you and to request that it be corrected, updated or deleted. If you wish to exercise this right, please contact us using the contact details below.

Also, if you are a resident of Europe, please note that we process your information in order to fulfil the contracts we have entered into with you (for example, if you place an order through the Website) or to pursue our legitimate business interests set out above. Please also note that your information will be transferred outside Europe, including to Canada and the USA.

DATA RETENTION

When you place an order through the Site, we will retain your order details in our records unless and until you request us to delete them.

ADULTS

The Website is not intended for persons under the age of 18.

CHANGES

We may amend this Privacy Policy from time to time to reflect, for example, changes in our practices or for other operational, legal or regulatory reasons.

CONTACT US

For more information about our privacy practices, if you have questions, or if you would like to make a complaint, please contact us by email at:

contact@sfera-apeva.com