PRIVACY POLICY

This Privacy Policy describes how your personal information is collected, used, and shared when you visit or make a purchase from www.viet-knife.com.

PERSONAL INFORMATION WE COLLECT

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 that are installed on your device. Additionally, as you browse the Site, we collect information about the individual web pages or products that you view, what websites or search terms led you to the Site, and information about how you interact with the Site. We refer to this automatically-collected information as “Device Information.”

We collect Device Information using the following technologies:

COOKIES (COOKIES)

Here’s a list of cookies we use. We’ve listed them here so you can decide whether or not to opt-out of them.

_session_id, a unique session identifier, allows WordPress to store session-related information (referrer, landing page, etc.).

_WordPress_visit, no data retained, persists for 30 minutes from the last visit. Used by our website provider’s internal stats tracking system to record the number of visits.

_WordPress_uniq, no data retained, expires at midnight (depending on the visitor’s location) the next day. Calculates the number of visits to a store by a single customer.

cart, unique identifier, persists for 2 weeks, stores shopping cart information.

_secure_session_id, unique session identifier

storefront_digest, unique identifier, undefined if the store has a password, it’s used to determine if the current visitor has access.

• “Log files” track actions occurring on the Site and collect data including your IP address, browser type, Internet service provider, referring/exit pages, and date/time stamps.
• “Web beacons,” “tags,” and “pixels” are electronic files used to record information about how you browse the Site.

Moreover, when you make or try to make a purchase through the Site, we collect certain information from you, including your name, billing address, shipping address, payment information (including credit card numbers, email address, and phone number. We refer to this information as “Order Information.”

When we talk about “Personal Information” in this Privacy Policy, we are referring to both Device Information and Order Information.

HOW DO WE USE YOUR PERSONAL INFORMATION?

Generally, we use the Order Information that we collect to fulfill any orders placed through the Site (including processing your payment information, arranging for shipping, and providing you with invoices and/or order confirmations). Additionally, we use this Order Information to:

• 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 related to our products or services.

We use the Device Information (especially your IP address) that we collect to screen for potential risk and fraud (in particular, your IP address), and more generally to improve and optimize our Site (for example, by generating analytics about how our customers browse and interact with the Site, and to assess the success of our marketing and advertising campaigns).

We share your Personal Information with third parties that help us use it for the purposes described above. For instance, we use WordPress to host our online store – to learn more about how WordPress uses your Personal Information, please see: https://wordpress.org/about/privacy/. We also use Google Analytics to understand how our customers use the Site – to find out more about how Google uses your Personal Information, visit: https://www.google.com/intl/en/policies/privacy/. You can also opt-out of Google Analytics here: https://tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout.

Lastly, we might also share your Personal Information to comply with applicable laws and regulations, respond to a subpoena, search warrant, or other lawful requests for information we receive, or to protect our rights.

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

You can opt out of targeted advertising here:

FACEBOOK – https://www.facebook.com/settings/?tab=ads GOOGLE – https://www.google.com/settings/ads/anonymous BING – https://about.ads.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 https://optout.aboutads.info/?c=3&lang=en.

DO NOT TRACK

Please note that we don’t change our Site’s data collection and usage practices when we see a Do Not Track signal from your browser.

YOUR RIGHTS

If you are a European resident, you have the right to access the personal information we hold about you and to ask for it to be corrected, updated, or deleted. If you wish to exercise this right, please contact us using the contact information provided below. Furthermore, if you are a European resident, note that we process your information to fulfill contracts we might have with you (for instance if you make an order through the Site) or to pursue our legitimate business interests listed above. Also, please note that your information will be transferred outside of Europe, including to Canada and the US.

DATA RETENTION

When you place an order through the Site, we will keep your Order Information in our records unless and until you ask us to delete it.

CHANGES

We may update this privacy policy from time to time to reflect, for example, changes to 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 wish to make a complaint, please contact us by email at contact@viet-knife.com or by mail using the details provided below: 33, Rue de Condé, 2nd floor, Lyon, 69002, France.