Privacy policy

PRIVACY POLICY

This Privacy Policy describes how india-blake.myshopify.com (the “Site” or “we”) collects, uses, and discloses your Personal Information when you visit or make a purchase from the Site. By accessing or using the Site, you agree to the terms of this Privacy Policy. This Privacy Policy may change from time to time and your continued use of the Site after we make changes is deemed to be an acceptance of those changes, so please check the Privacy Policy periodically for updates. 

This Privacy Policy applies to information we collect: (i) on the Site and (ii) in email, text and any other electronic messages between you and the Site. It does not apply to information collected: (i) by us offline or through any other means, including on any other website operated by us or any third party or (ii) any third party, including through any application or content (including advertising) that may link or be accessible from the Site. 

COLLECTING PERSONAL INFORMATION

When you visit the Site, we collect certain information about your device, your interaction with the Site, and information necessary to process your purchases. We may also collect additional information if you contact us for customer support. In this Privacy Policy, we refer to any information that can uniquely identify an individual (including the information below) as “Personal Information”. See the list below for more information about what Personal Information we collect and why.

Device information

  • Examples of Personal Information collected: details of your visit to our Site, including 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.
  • Purpose of collection: to load the Site accurately for you, to improve the Site and deliver a more personalized service by storing information about your preferences, allowing us to customize our Site according to your individual interests, speed up searches, recognize you when you return to our Site and to perform analytics on Site usage to optimize our Site. 
  • Source of collection: Collected automatically when you access our Site using cookies, log files, web beacons, tags, or pixels. See the section of this policy titled “Cookies” for more information.   
  • Disclosure for a business purpose: shared with our processor, Shopify.  
  • Order and Customer Support Information
  • Examples of Personal Information collected: name, billing address, shipping address, payment information (including credit card numbers and bank account information) and email address. Our email list is managed by Flodesk. If you elect to join our email list, your subscription will be governed by the terms of use and privacy policy of Flodesk, which may have provisions that differ from the provisions of our policies. To ensure your privacy is protected, we recommend that you review the policies of Flodesk prior to joining our email list. These policies are available at https://www.privacypolicies.com/privacy/view/bb9c8c7ecbee39b15f2f5be574def422 and https://help.flodesk.com/en/articles/3186402-flodesk-terms-of-service.  If you do not wish to have your email address used by us to promote our own products or services, you can opt-out by sending us an email stating your request to opt-out@indiablakedesigns.com. This opt-out does not apply to information provided to us as a result of product purchase or other transactions. 

We use Shopify Payments, Apple Pay, Google Pay and Affirm to facilitate payments on our Site. Your payment data is stored through these databases and their general applications. For more insight, you may also want to read the terms of use and/or privacy statements for each of the above mentioned payment processors, available at the URLs below: 

In order to offer you payment methods facilitated through any of the above listed payment processors, we may pass your personal data gathered at the point of checkout in the form of contact and order details to one or more of these processors in order for it to assess whether you qualify for their payment methods and to tailor those payment methods for you. Your personal data is transferred and processed in accordance with such processor’s own privacy policy.  

  • Purpose of collection: to provide products or services to you to fulfill 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, provide customer support, and when in line with the preferences you have shared with us, provide you with information or advertising relating to our products or services and other legitimate and lawful purposes, where permitted by applicable local law. 
  • Source of collection: collected from you.
  • Disclosure for a business purpose: shared with our processor Shopify. Certain personal information will also be shared with Flodesk as well as our payment processors: Shopify Payments, Apple Pay, Google Pay and Affirm. 

MINORS

The Site is not intended for individuals under the age of 16. We do not intentionally collect Personal Information from children. If you are the parent or guardian and believe your child has provided us with Personal Information, please contact us at contact@indiablakedesigns.com to request deletion.

SHARING PERSONAL INFORMATION

We share your Personal Information with service providers to help us provide our services and fulfill our contracts with you, as described above. For example:

  • 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.
  • We use Shopify Payments, Apple Pay, Google Pay and Affirm to facilitate your online purchases. You can read more about how these third parties use your Personal Information by accessing their respective terms of use and/or privacy policies.  
  • We may share your Personal Information to comply with applicable laws and regulations, to respond to a subpoena, search warrant or other lawful request for information we receive, or to otherwise protect our rights.
  • If we are acquired by or merged with, another company, if substantially all of our assets are transferred to another company, or as part of a bankruptcy proceeding, we may transfer the Personal Information we collected from you to another company or individual. 
  • We may share your Personal Information when we believe it is necessary to investigate, prevent or take action regarding possible illegal activities, suspected fraud, situations involving potential threats to the safety of any person, violations of our Terms of Use or Privacy Policy or as evidence in litigation in which we are involved. 
  • We may share aggregated or de-identified information about you with third parties for marketing, advertising, research or similar purposes.

We are committed to protecting your privacy. Therefore, we do not sell or rent your Personal Information to any third party. Further, we do not share your Personal Information with any third parties for their direct marketing purposes. 

 

BEHAVIORAL ADVERTISING

As described above, we use your Personal Information to provide you with targeted advertisements or marketing communications we believe may be of interest to you. For example:

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.

We share information about your use of the Site, your purchases, and your interaction with our ads on other websites with our advertising partners. We collect and share some of this information directly with our advertising partners, and in some cases through the use of cookies or other similar technologies (which you may consent to, depending on your location).


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:

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/.

USING PERSONAL INFORMATION

We use your Personal Information to provide our services to you, which includes: offering products for sale, processing payments, shipping and fulfillment of your order, and keeping you up to date on new products, services, and offers.

LAWFUL BASIS

Pursuant to the General Data Protection Regulation (“GDPR”), if you are a resident of the European Economic Area (“EEA”), we process your personal information under the following lawful bases:

  • Your consent;
  • The performance of the contract between you and the Site;
  • Compliance with our legal obligations;
  • To protect your vital interests;
  • To perform a task carried out in the public interest;
  • For our legitimate interests, which do not override your fundamental rights and freedoms.

RETENTION

When you place an order through the Site, we will retain your Personal Information for our records unless and until you ask us to erase this information. For more information on your right of erasure, please see the ‘Your rights’ section below.

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.

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:

  • Temporary denylist of IP addresses associated with repeated failed transactions. This denylist persists for a small number of hours.
  • Temporary denylist of credit cards associated with denylisted IP addresses. This denylist persists for a small number of days.

YOUR RIGHTS

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 at opt-out@indiablakedesigns.com.  

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.

CCPA

If you are a resident of California, you have certain rights regarding your Personal Information. You have the right to request the following information: (1) the specific pieces of Personal Information we have collected about you (also known as the ‘Right to Know’), (2) the categories of Personal Information we have collected about you, (3) the categories of sources from which your personal information is collected, (4) the categories of personal information we have sold or disclosed for a business purpose, (5) the categories of third parties to whom your personal information was sold or disclosed for a business purpose and (6) the business or commercial purpose for collecting or selling your personal information. You also have the right to request that your Personal Information be corrected, updated, or erased, subject to certain exceptions. If you would like to exercise these rights, please contact us at contact@indiablakedesigns.com.  Once we receive and confirm your verifiable consumer request, we will delete (or direct our service providers to delete) your Personal Information from our records, unless an exception applies. 

If you would like to designate an authorized agent to submit these requests on your behalf, please contact us at the address below. This will require proof of a valid power of attorney, your valid government issued identification and the authorized agent’s valid government issued identification. We cannot respond to requests where the identity and authority of the requestor cannot be confirmed. Please note that you may only make a verifiable request for access or data portability twice within a 12-month period. 

We Do Not Sell Your Personal Information 

We do not “sell” the personal information we collect, and we will not sell it without providing you the opportunity to opt-out.

Non-Discrimination 

California consumers who choose to exercise their rights described in this section will not be: (1) denied goods or services, (2) charged different prices or rates for goods or services, including through granting discounts or other benefits, or imposing penalties or (3) provided a different level of quality of goods or services. 


COOKIES

A cookie is a small amount of information that’s downloaded to your computer or device when you visit our Site. We use a number of different cookies, including functional, performance, advertising, and social media or content cookies. Cookies make your browsing experience better by allowing the website to remember your actions and preferences (such as login and region selection). This means you don’t have to re-enter this information each time you return to the site or browse from one page to another. Cookies also provide information on how people use the website, for instance whether it’s their first time visiting or if they are a frequent visitor. Our site contains links to Facebook, Instagram and similar social media sites that enable you to “like” or share the content of our Site with other people via social media. When you use these “share” buttons, a third-party cookie is installed. The privacy implications on this will vary from social network to social network and will be dependent on the privacy settings you have chosen on these networks. 

We use the following cookies to optimize your experience on our Site and to provide our services.

COOKIES NECESSARY FOR THE FUNCTIONING OF THE STORE

Name

Function

_ab

Used in connection with access to admin.

_secure_session_id

Used in connection with navigation through a storefront.

cart

Used in connection with shopping cart.

cart_sig

Used in connection with checkout.

cart_ts

Used in connection with checkout.

checkout_token

Used in connection with checkout.

secret

Used in connection with checkout.

secure_customer_sig

Used in connection with customer login.

storefront_digest

Used in connection with customer login.

_shopify_u

Used to facilitate updating customer account information.

REPORTING AND ANALYTICS

Name

Function

_tracking_consent

Tracking preferences.

_landing_page

Track landing pages

_orig_referrer

Track landing pages

_s

Shopify analytics.

_shopify_fs

Shopify analytics.

_shopify_s

Shopify analytics.

_shopify_sa_p

Shopify analytics relating to marketing & referrals.

_shopify_sa_t

Shopify analytics relating to marketing & referrals.

_shopify_y

Shopify analytics.

_y

Shopify analytics.

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.

DO NOT TRACK

Please note that because there is no consistent industry understanding of how to respond to “Do Not Track” signals, we do not alter our data collection and usage practices when we detect such a signal from your browser.

CHANGES

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. If we make material changes to how we treat your Personal Information, we will post the new privacy policy on this page. You are responsible for periodically visiting our Site and this Privacy Policy to check for any changes. 

Data security 

We have implemented measures designed to secure your personal information from accidental loss and from unauthorized access, use, alteration and disclosure. However, the safety of your information also depends on you. Where you have chosen a password for access to our Site, you are responsible for keeping this password confidential. We ask you not to share your password with anyone. The information you share in a public area of our Site may be viewed by any user of the Site. Unfortunately, the transmission of information via the internet is not completely secure. Although we do our best to protect your personal information, we cannot guarantee the security of your personal information transmitted to our Site. Any transmission of personal information is at your own risk. We are not responsible for circumvention of any privacy settings or security measures contained on the Site. 

CONTACT

For more information about our privacy practices, if you have questions, or if you would like to make a complaint, please contact us by e-mail at contact@indiablakedesigns.com or by mail using the details provided below:

181 North 11th Street , Brooklyn NY 11211, United States

Last updated: November 16, 2021