Privacy Policy

 

This Privacy Policy describes how your personal information is collected, used, and shared when you visit or purchase from www.houseofpearl.ca (the “Site”).

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Personal Information We Collect

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When you visit our Site, we 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 web pages or products that you view, what websites or search terms referred you to the Site, and information about how you interact with the Site. We refer to this automatically-collected information as “Device Information.”

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We collect Device Information using the following:

• “Cookies” are data files that are placed on your device or computer and often include an anonymous unique identifier.

• “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.
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When you attempt to purchase or successfully make a purchase through the Site, we collect 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.”

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

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How Do We Use Personal Information?

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We use the Order Information to fulfill orders placed through the Site (including processing your payment information, shipping and providing you with invoices and/or order confirmations).

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Additionally, we use this Order Information to:

• Communicate with you, screen orders for potential risk or fraud; and provide you with information or advertising relating to our products or services in accordance with the preferences you may have provided.
   

We use the Device Information to help us screen for potential risk and fraud (in particular, your IP address) as well as to improve and optimize our Site.

When you place an order through the Site, we will maintain your Order Information for our records,

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Sharing Your Personal Information

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We share your Personal Information with third parties to help us use your Personal Information, as described above.

Our online store is powered by Wix and we use Google Analytics. You can read more about their policies on their respective websites.

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

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We may update this privacy policy from time to time in order to reflect, for example, changes to our practices or for other operational, legal or regulatory reasons.