USA Keratin Privacy Policy
SECTION 1
What do we do with your information?
Protecting the privacy of those that we support or whom support us is an essential value of our company. When you purchase something from USA keratin online store, as part of the buying and selling process, we collect the personal information you give us such as your name, address and email address. 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.
Email marketing: With your permission, we may send you emails about our store, new products and other updates.
The collection and logging of any of your personal details submitted through contact forms (name, phone number, email address and messages) or purchase transaction on this website are stored securely. We will never sell or change your personal details with any other unrelated entity. Check Security Section 6 below
SECTION 2
About your consent
When you provide us with personal information to complete a transaction, verify your credit card securely, place an order, arrange for a delivery or return a purchase, we imply that you consent to our collecting it and using it for that specific reason only. Your information will not be used for any other purpose other than those specified here.
If we ask for your personal information for a secondary reason, like marketing, we will either ask you directly for your expressed consent, or provide you with an opportunity to say no.
About withdrawing your consent
If after you opt-in, you change your mind, you may withdraw your consent for us to contact you, for the continued collection, use or disclosure of your information, at anytime, by contacting us using the email provided below in SECTION 10
SECTION 3
About Disclosure
We may disclose your personal information only in the cases in which we are required by law to do so or if you violate our Terms of Service.
SECTION 4
About our ecommerce Platform
Our store is hosted on Shopify Inc. They provide us with the online e-commerce platform that allows us to sell our products and services to you. Your data is stored through Shopify’s data storage, databases and the general Shopify application. They store your data on a secure server behind a firewall.
Payment: If you choose a direct payment gateway to complete your purchase, then Shopify stores your credit card data. It is securely encrypted through the Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard (PCI-DSS). Your purchase transaction data is stored only as long as is necessary to complete your purchase transaction. After that is complete, your purchase transaction information is deleted.
All direct payment gateways adhere to the standards set by PCI-DSS as managed by the PCI Security Standards Council, which is a joint effort of brands like Visa, MasterCard, American Express and Discover.
PCI-DSS requirements help ensure the secure handling of credit card information by our store and its service providers. For more insight, you may also want to read Shopify’s Terms of Service (https://www.shopify.com/legal/terms) or Privacy Statement (https://www.shopify.com/legal/privacy).
SECTION 5
About third Party Services
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.
Links
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.
Google analytics
Our store uses Google Analytics to help us learn about who visits our site and what pages are being looked at. Check the link below for information about Google Analytics Cookies
SECTION 6
About your Security
To protect your personal information, we take reasonable precautions and follow industry best practices to make sure it is not inappropriately lost, misused, accessed, disclosed, altered or destroyed.
If you provide us with your credit card information, the information is encrypted using secure socket layer technology (SSL) and stored with a AES-256 encryption. Although no method of transmission over the Internet or electronic storage is 100% secure, we follow all PCI-DSS requirements and implement additional generally accepted industry standards.SECTION 7
About Cookies
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.
Shopify Cookies
- _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, sessional.
- storefront_digest: unique token, indefinite If the shop has a password, this is used to determine if the current visitor has access.
- PREF: persistent for a very short period, Set by Google and tracks who visits the store and from where.
Site Google Analytics Cookies
According to Google Analytics they do not store any personal information about you through our website. Here is the list of the main cookies that might be setup
- _ga: Used to distinguish users.
- _gid: Used to distinguish users.
- _gat: Used to throttle request rate..
- AMP_TOKEN: Contains a token that can be used to retrieve a Client ID from AMP Client ID service. Other possible values indicate opt-out, inflight request or an error retrieving a Client ID from AMP Client ID service..
- _gac_
: campaign related information for the user. If you have linked your Google Analytics and AdWords accounts, AdWords website conversion tags will read this cookie unless you opt-out.
How to control cookies?
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.
You can opt out of customized ads by visiting:
To opt-out of Google Analytics:
Managing Cookies in Selected Browsers
If you use our website without opting out, it means that you understand and agree to data collection for the purpose of marketing ads to you.
SECTION 8
About age of consent
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.
SECTION 9
About changes to this privacy policy
We reserve the right to modify this privacy policy at any time, so please review it frequently. Changes and clarifications will take effect immediately upon their posting on the website. If we make material changes to this policy, we will notify you here that it has been updated1, so that you are aware of what information we collect, how we use it, and under what circumstances, if any, we use and/or disclose it.
SECTION 10
Questions and contact information
If you would like to: access, correct, amend or delete any personal information we have about you, register a complaint, or simply want more information contact our Privacy Compliance Officer at info@usakeratin.com or by mail at:
Usa Keratin
2054 NW 55th ave
pompano beach, FL, 33063.
1. [Last Updated: 09/15/2017]↩
