Privacy policy

Arkitaip Limited ('We', 'Our Store') are committed to protecting and respecting your privacy. This privacy policy ('Privacy Policy') applies to personal data that we collect from you as a user of this website ('www.arkitaip.com'), newsletter subscriber, or as a customer. It provides information on what personal data we collect, why we collect the personal data, how it is used and the lawful basis on which your personal data is processed, and what your rights are under the applicable data protection and privacy laws, including the General Data Protection Regulation ('GDPR'). ‘Personal data’ as used in this Privacy Policy means any information that relates to you from which you can be identified.By using our website or submitting your personal data, you are taken to accept the terms of this Privacy Policy, so please read it carefully. 

 You may provide us with information about you by filling in forms on our website or by corresponding with us by phone, e-mail, or otherwise. This includes information you provide when you register to use our site, subscribe to our newsletter-service, search for a product, place an order on our website, and when you report a problem with our website. The information you give us may include your name, address, e-mail address and phone number, financial and credit card information, delivery details, payment details, personal description and photograph. When you browse our store, we also automatically receive your computer’s internet protocol (IP) address in order to provide us with information that helps us learn about your browser and operating system.

With regard to each of your visits to our site we may automatically collect the following information:technical information, including the Internet protocol (IP) address used to connect your computer to the Internet, your login information, browser type and version, time zone setting, browser plug-in types and versions, operating system and platform;information about your visit, including the full Uniform Resource Locators (URL) clickstream to, through and from our site (including date and time); products you viewed or searched for; page response times, download errors, length of visits to certain pages, page interaction information (such as scrolling, clicks, and mouse-overs), and methods used to browse away from the page and any phone number and email used to call or email our customer service. 

We may receive information about you if you use any of the other sites we operate or the other services we provide. In this case we will have informed you when we collected that data that it may be shared internally and combined with data collected on this site. We are also working closely with third parties (including, for example, sub-contractors in technical, payment and delivery services, advertising networks, analytics providers, search information providers, credit reference agencies) and may receive information about you from them.

In general, the third-party providers used by us will only collect, use and disclose your information to the extent necessary to allow them to perform the services they provide to us. However, certain third-party service providers, such as payment gateways and other payment transaction processors, have their own privacy policies in respect to the information we are required to provide to them for your purchase-related transactions. For these providers, we recommend that you read their privacy policies so you can understand the manner in which your personal information will be handled by these providers. In particular, remember that certain providers may be located in or have facilities that are located a different jurisdiction than either you or us. So if you elect to proceed with a transaction that involves the services of a third-party service provider, then your information may become subject to the laws of the jurisdiction(s) in which that service provider or its facilities are located. As an example, if you are located in Canada and your transaction is processed by a payment gateway located in the United States, then your personal information used in completing that transaction may be subject to disclosure under United States legislation, including the Patriot Act. Once you leave our store’s website or are redirected to a third-party website or application, you are no longer governed by this Privacy Policy or our website’s Terms of Service. 

When you click on links on our store, they may direct you away from our site. We are not responsible for the privacy practices of other sites and encourage you to read their privacy statements.

Our website uses cookies to distinguish you from other users of our website. This helps us to provide you with a good experience when you browse our website and also allows us to improve our site. 

Here is a list of cookies that we use. We’ve listed them here so you that you can choose if you want to opt-out of cookies or not. 

- _session_id, unique token, sessional, Allows Shopify to store information about your session (referrer, landing page, etc). 

-_shopify_visit, no data held, Persistent for 30 minutes from the last visit, Used by our website provider’s internal stats tracker to record the number of visits 

-_shopify_uniq, no data held, expires midnight (relative to the visitor) of the next day, Counts the number of visits to a store by a single customer.cart, unique token, persistent for 2 weeks, Stores information about the contents of your cart. 

- _secure_session_id, unique token, sessionalstorefront_digest, unique token, indefinite If the shop has a password, this is used to determine if the current visitor has access.

We will use this information: 

- to maintain your registration, to carry out our obligations arising from any contracts entered into between you and us and to provide you with the information, products and services that you request from us

- to provide you with information about special offers and promotions and other goods and services we offer that are similar to those that you have already purchased or enquired about

- to provide you, or permit selected third parties (including, for example, sub-contractors in technical, payment and delivery services, advertising networks, analytics providers, search information providers, credit reference agencies) to provide you, with information about goods or services we feel may interest you. If you are an existing customer, we will only contact you by electronic means (e-mail or SMS) with information about goods and services similar to those which were the subject of a previous sale or negotiations of a sale to you. If you are a new customer, and where we permit selected third parties to use your data, we (or they) will contact you by electronic means only if you have consented to this. If you do not want us to use your data in this way, or to pass your details on to third parties for marketing purposes, please tick the relevant box situated on the form on which we collect your data (the order form at check-out)

- to notify you about changes to our service by post or email

- to ensure that content from our site is presented in the most effective manner for you and for your computer.

We will use this information: 

- to administer our site and for internal operations, including troubleshooting, data analysis, testing, research, statistical and survey purposes

- to improve our site to ensure that content is presented in the most effective manner for you and for your computer

- to allow you to participate in interactive features of our service, when you choose to do so

- as part of our efforts to keep our site safe and secure

- to measure or understand the effectiveness of advertising we serve to you and others, and to deliver relevant advertising to you

- to make suggestions and recommendations to you and other users of our site about goods or services that may interest you or them.

The lawful bases for our processing your personal data are: 

- Legitimate Interest: it is in our legitimate interest to process your personal data to enable us to provide you with our services and that legitimate interest is fairly balanced with your rights and freedoms.

- Contract: our processing of your personal data is necessary to allow us to perform contracts for your benefit.

- Consent: where our processing of personal data is not because of our legitimate interest or by way of performance of our contract, we may do so with your consent.

We may combine this information with information you give to us and information we collect about you. We may us this information and the combined information for the purposes set out above (depending on the types of information we receive). 

SECTION 2 - Disclosure & Consent

- We may share your information with selected third parties including: suppliers, business partners, and sub-contractors for the performance of any contract we enter into with them or you. 

- Advertisers and advertising networks that require the data to select and serve relevant adverts to you and others. We do not disclose information about identifiable individuals to our advertisers, but we may provide them with aggregate information about our users. We may make use of the personal data we have collected from you to enable us to comply with our advertisers’ wishes by displaying their advertisement to that target audience. 

- Analytics and search engine providers that assist us in the improvement and optimisation of our site. 

- Credit reference agencies for the purpose of assessing your credit score where this is a condition of us entering into a contract with you.We may disclose your personal information to third parties:In the event that we sell or buy any business or assets, in which case we may disclose your personal data to the prospective seller or buyer of such business or assets.

If Arkitaip Limited or substantially all of its assets are acquired by a third party, in which case personal data held by it about its customers will be one of the transferred assets. If we are under a duty to disclose or share your personal data in order to comply with any legal obligation, or in order to enforce or apply our terms and conditions of use and other agreements; or to protect the rights, property, or safety of Arkitaip Limited, our customers, or others. This includes exchanging information with other companies and organisations for the purposes of fraud protection and credit risk reduction.

By using this site, you represent that you are at least the age of majority in your state or province of residence, or that you are the age of majority in your state or province of residence and you have given us your consent to allow any of your minor dependents to use this site.