
Privacy Policy, GDPR, Cookies
COPYRIGHT
All products displayed on our website, online shop, or featured on other platforms such as Amazon or Etsy are © of Crowned for Excellence. Products, whether in part or in full, may not be copied or reproduced for any purpose or in any format.
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PRIVACY POLICY AND GDPR COMPLIANCE
Our first priority is protecting your private information. This Statement of Privacy applies to Crowned for Excellence and https://www.crownedforexcellence.com and governs data collection and usage. For the purposes of this Privacy Policy, unless otherwise stated all references to Crowned for Excellence and www.crownedforexcellence.com website is an online blog. By using www.crownedforexcellence.com website, you consent to the data practices described in this statement.
GDPR
If you are a resident of the EEA, you have the right to access the Personal Information we hold about you, to port it to a new service, and to ask that your Personal Information be corrected, updated, or erased. If you would like to exercise these rights, please contact us through the contact information below.
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Your Personal Information will be initially processed in Ireland and then will be transferred outside of Europe for storage and further processing, including to Canada and the United States. For more information on how data transfers comply with the GDPR, see Shopify’s GDPR Whitepaper: https://help.shopify.com/en/manual/your-account/privacy/GDPR.
Automatic decision-making
If you are a resident of the EEA, you have the right to object to processing based solely on automated decision-making (which includes profiling), when that decision-making has a legal effect on you or otherwise significantly affects you.
We do not engage in fully automated decision-making that has a legal or otherwise significant effect using customer data.
Our processor Shopify uses limited automated decision-making to prevent fraud that does not have a legal or otherwise significant effect on you.
Services that include elements of automated decision-making include:
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Temporary denylist of IP addresses associated with repeated failed transactions. This denylist persists for a small number of hours.
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Temporary denylist of credit cards associated with denylisted IP addresses. This denylist persists for a small number of days.
COLLECTION OF YOUR PERSONAL INFORMATION
In order to better provide you with products and services offered on the Site, www.crownedforexcellence.com may collect personally identifiable information, such as your:
– First and Last Name
– Mailing Address
– E-mail Address
– Phone Number
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Order information
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Examples of Personal Information collected: name, billing address, shipping address, payment information (including credit card numbers, Paypal details), email address, and phone number.
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Purpose of collection: to provide products or services to you to fulfil our contract, to process your payment information, arrange for shipping, and provide you with invoices and/or order confirmations, communicate with you, screen our orders for potential risk or fraud, and when in line with the preferences you have shared with us, provide you with information or advertising relating to our products or services.
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Source of collection: collected from you.
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Disclosure for a business purpose: shared with our processor Shopify, payment gateways (Visa, Mastercard, Amex, Paypal) or our fulfillment centre, Printful and relevant product shipping companies.
Device information
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Examples of Personal Information collected: version of web browser, IP address, time zone, cookie information, what sites or products you view, search terms, and how you interact with the Site.
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Purpose of collection: to load the Site accurately for you, and to perform analytics on Site usage to optimize our Site.
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Source of collection: Collected automatically when you access our Site using cookies, log files, web beacons, tags, or pixels.
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Disclosure for a business purpose: shared with our processor Shopify and the print-on-demand company we use namely, Printful for the fulfilment of product orders placed on this site.
Customer support information
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Examples of Personal Information collected: Name & Surname, Email address. Depending on the support required, this may include an address if it is product related.
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Purpose of collection: to provide customer support.
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Source of collection: collected from the customer
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Disclosure for a business purpose: Information for product related support may need to be shared with fulfilment centres if the need arises.
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If you purchase Crowned for Excellence products and services, we collect billing and credit card information. This information is used to complete the purchase transaction.
Please keep in mind that if you directly disclose personally identifiable information or personally sensitive data through Crowned for Excellence’s public message boards, this information may be collected and used by others.
We do not collect any personal information about you unless you voluntarily provide it to us. However, you may be required to provide certain personal information to us when you elect to use certain products or services available on the Site.
These may include: (a) registering for an account on our Site; (b) entering a sweepstakes or contest sponsored by us or one of our partners; (c) signing up for special offers from selected third parties; (d) sending us an email message; (e) submitting your credit card or other payment information when ordering and purchasing products and services on our Site. To wit, we will use your information for, but not limited to, communicating with you in relation to services and/or products you have requested from us. We also may gather additional personal or non-personal information in the future.
USE OF YOUR PERSONAL INFORMATION
Crowned for Excellence collects and uses your personal information to operate its website(s) and deliver the services you have requested.
Crowned for Excellence may also use your personally identifiable information to inform you of other products or services available from Crowned for Excellence and its affiliates.
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SHARING INFORMATION WITH THIRD PARTIES
Crowned for Excellence does not and will never sell, rent or lease its customer lists to third parties.
Crowned for Excellence may share data with trusted partners to help perform statistical analysis, send you email or postal mail, provide customer support, or arrange for deliveries. All such third parties are prohibited from using your personal information except to provide these services to Crowned for Excellence, and they are required to maintain the confidentiality of your information.
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We use Shopify to power our online store. You can read more about how Shopify uses your Personal Information here: https://www.shopify.com/legal/privacy.
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We are associated with different Affiliate Marketing companies. The responsibility lies with the customer or visitor to the Crowned for Excellence website to understand how each of these companies use their personal information if and when directed to their website.
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Crowned for Excellence may disclose your personal information, without notice, if required to do so by law or in the good faith belief that such action is necessary to: (a) conform to the edicts of the law or comply with legal process served on Crowned for Excellence or the website; (b) protect and defend the rights or property of Crowned for Excellence; and/or (c) act under exigent circumstances to protect the personal safety of users of Crowned for Excellence, or the public.
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TRACKING USER BEHAVIOUR
Crowned for Excellence may keep track of the websites and pages our users visit within Crowned for Excellence, in order to determine what Crowned for Excellence services are the most popular. This data is used to deliver customised content and advertising within Crowned for Excellence to customers whose behaviour indicates that they are interested in a particular subject area.
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We use Google Analytics to help us understand how our customers use the Site. You can read more about how Google uses your Personal Information here: https://policies.google.com/privacy?hl=en.You can also opt-out of Google Analytics here: https://tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout.
For more information about how targeted advertising works, you can visit the Network Advertising Initiative’s (“NAI”) educational page at http://www.networkadvertising.org/understanding-online-advertising/how-does-it-work.
You can opt out of targeted advertising by:
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FACEBOOK - https://www.facebook.com/settings/?tab=ads
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BING - https://advertise.bingads.microsoft.com/en-us/resources/policies/personalized-ads]
Additionally, you can opt out of some of these services by visiting the Digital Advertising Alliance’s opt-out portal at: http://optout.aboutads.info/.
AUTOMATICALLY COLLECTED INFORMATION
Information about your computer hardware and software may be automatically collected by Crowned for Excellence. This information can include: your IP address, browser type, domain names, access times and referring website addresses. This information is used for the operation of the service, to maintain quality of the service, and to provide general statistics regarding use of www.crownedforexcellence.com website.
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USE OF COOKIES
www.crownedforexcellence.com website may use “cookies” to help you personalize your online experience. A cookie is a text file that is placed on your hard disk by a web page server. Cookies cannot be used to run programs or deliver viruses to your computer. Cookies are uniquely assigned to you, and can only be read by a web server in the domain that issued the cookie to you.
One of the primary purposes of cookies is to provide a convenience feature to save you time. The purpose of a cookie is to tell the Web server that you have returned to a specific page. For example, if you personalise Crowned for Excellence pages, or register with Crowned for Excellence site or services, a cookie helps Crowned for Excellence to recall your specific information on subsequent visits. This simplifies the process of recording your personal information, such as billing addresses, shipping addresses, and so on. When you return to the same Crowned for Excellence website, the information you previously provided can be retrieved, so you can easily use Mighty Woman of Valour features that you customized.
You have the ability to accept or decline cookies. Most Web browsers automatically accept cookies, but you can usually modify your browser setting to decline cookies if you prefer. If you choose to decline cookies, you may not be able to fully experience the interactive features of Crowned for Excellence services or websites you visit.
The length of time that a cookie remains on your computer or mobile device depends on whether it is a “persistent” or “session” cookie. Session cookies last until you stop browsing and persistent cookies last until they expire or are deleted. Most of the cookies we use are persistent and will expire between 30 minutes and two years from the date they are downloaded to your device.
You can control and manage cookies in various ways. Please keep in mind that removing or blocking cookies can negatively impact your user experience and parts of our website may no longer be fully accessible.
Most browsers automatically accept cookies, but you can choose whether or not to accept cookies through your browser controls, often found in your browser’s “Tools” or “Preferences” menu. For more information on how to modify your browser settings or how to block, manage or filter cookies can be found in your browser’s help file or through such sites as www.allaboutcookies.org.
Additionally, please note that blocking cookies may not completely prevent how we share information with third parties such as our advertising partners. To exercise your rights or opt-out of certain uses of your information by these parties, please follow the instructions in the “Behavioural Advertising” section above.
LINKS
This website contains links to other sites. Please be aware that we are not responsible for the content or privacy practices of such other sites. We encourage our users to be aware when they leave our site and to read the privacy statements of any other site that collects personally identifiable information. This includes all affiliate sites and pages we use or promote. The onus remains on the visitor of our website to ensure your safety and privacy.
SECURITY OF YOUR PERSONAL INFORMATION
Crowned for Excellence secures your personal information from unauthorized access, use, or disclosure. Mighty Woman of Valour uses the following methods for this purpose:
– SSL Protocol
When personal information (such as a credit card number) is transmitted to other websites, it is protected through the use of encryption, such as the Secure Sockets Layer (SSL) protocol.
We strive to take appropriate security measures to protect against unauthorized access to or alteration of your personal information. Unfortunately, no data transmission over the Internet or any wireless network can be guaranteed to be 100% secure. As a result, while we strive to protect your personal information, you acknowledge that: (a) there are security and privacy limitations inherent to the Internet which are beyond our control; and (b) security, integrity, and privacy of any and all information and data exchanged between you and us through this Site cannot be guaranteed.
CHILDREN UNDER EIGHTEEN
This website does not include any adult content which may be harmful to children. Crowned for Excellence does not knowingly collect personally identifiable information from children under the age of eighteen. If you are under the age of eighteen, you must ask your parent or guardian for permission to use this website. If you are the parent or guardian and believe your child has provided us with Personal Information, please contact us at the address below to request deletion.
EMAIL COMMUNICATIONS
From time to time, Crowned for Excellence may contact you via email for the purpose of providing announcements, promotional offers, alerts, confirmations, surveys, and/or other general communication. In order to improve our Services, we may receive a notification when you open an email from Crowned for Excellence or click on a link therein.
If you would like to stop receiving marketing or promotional communications via email from Crowned for Excellence, you may opt out of such communications by clicking on the UNSUBSCRIBE button available on all of our email communications. Should you experience any problems with this, please do contact us directly on email: crownedforexcellence@gmail.com and we will endeavour to assist.
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EXTERNAL DATA STORAGE
We may store your data on servers provided by third party hosting vendors with whom we have contracted.
CHANGES TO THIS STATEMENT
Crowned for Excellence reserves the right to change this Privacy Policy from time to time. We will notify you about significant changes in the way we treat personal information by sending a notice to the primary email address specified in your account, by placing a prominent notice on our site, and/or by updating any privacy information on this page. Your continued use of the Site and/or Services available through this Site after such modifications will constitute your: (a) acknowledgment of the modified Privacy Policy; and (b) agreement to abide and be bound by that Policy.
CONTACT INFORMATION
Crowned for Excellence welcomes your questions or comments regarding this Statement of Privacy. If you believe that Crowned for Excellence has not adhered to this Statement, please contact Crowned for Excellence at: crownedforexcellence@gmail.com
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Effective as of 1st July 2022