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MAI LIFESTYLE INDOOR DECOR PRIVACY POLICY

 

This Privacy Policy describes how your personal information is collected, used, and shared when you visit or make a purchase from https://www.mailifestyleindoordecor.com (the “Site”).

 

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 referred 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” are data files that are placed on your device or computer and often include an anonymous unique identifier. For more information about cookies, and how to disable cookies, visit http://www.allaboutcookies.org. 

•  “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.

 

For the exhaustive list of cookies we collect see; the list of cookies section below:

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CART  -The association with your shopping cart.

CATEGORY_INFO - Stores the category info on the page, that allows to display pages more quickly.

COMPARE - The items that you have in the Compare Products list.

CURRENCY - Your preferred currency

CUSTOMER - An encrypted version of your customer id with the store.

CUSTOMER_AUTH -An indicator if you are currently logged into the store.

CUSTOMER_INFO - An encrypted version of the customer group you belong to.

CUSTOMER_SEGMENT_IDS - Stores the Customer Segment ID

EXTERNAL_NO_CACHE - A flag, which indicates whether caching is disabled or not.

FRONTEND - Your session ID on the server.

GUEST-VIEW - Allows guests to edit their orders.

LAST_CATEGORY - The last category you visited.

LAST_PRODUCT - The most recent product you have viewed.

NEW MESSAGE - Indicates whether a new message has been received.

NO_CACHE - Indicates whether it is allowed to use cache.

PERSISTENT_SHOPPING_CART - A link to information about your cart and viewing history if you have asked the site.

POLL - The ID of any polls you have recently voted in.

POLL - Information on what polls you have voted on.

RECENTLY COMPARED - The items that you have recently compared.

STF - Information on products you have emailed to friends.

STORE - The store view or language you have selected.

USER_ALLOWED_SAVE_COOKIE - Indicates whether a customer allowed to use cookies.

VIEWED_PRODUCT_IDS - The products that you have recently viewed.

WISHLIST - An encrypted list of products added to your Wishlist.

WISHLIST_CNT -The number of items in your Wishlist.

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Additionally when you make a purchase or attempt 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 talking both about Device Information and Order Information.

 

HOW DO WE USE YOUR PERSONAL INFORMATION?

 

We use the Order Information that we collect generally to fulfill any orders placed through the Site (including processing your payment information, arranging for shipping, and providing you with invoices and/or product guarantees).  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 relating to our products or services.

We use the Device Information that we collect to help us 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).

 

SHARING YOUR PERSONAL INFORMATION

 

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

 We also 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://www.google.com/intl/en/policies/privacy/.  You can also opt-out of Google Analytics here:  https://tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout.

 

Finally, we may also 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.

 

BEHAVIOURAL 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 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:

 

    FACEBOOK - https://www.facebook.com/settings/?tab=ads

 

    GOOGLE - https://www.google.com/settings/ads/anonymous

 

    BING - https://advertise.bingads.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:  http://optout.aboutads.info/. DO NOT TRACK

Please note that we do not alter our Site’s data collection and use practices when we see a Do Not Track signal from your browser.  

 

YOUR RIGHTS

If you are a South African resident, you have the right to access personal information we hold about you and to ask that your personal information be corrected, updated, or deleted. If you would like to exercise this right, please contact us through the contact information below.

Additionally, if you are a South African resident we note that we are processing your information in order to fulfill contracts we might have with you (for example if you make an order through the Site).

 

DATA RETENTION

When you place an order through the Site, we will maintain your Order Information for our records unless and until you ask us to delete this information.

 

MINORS

The Site is not intended for individuals under the age of 18.

 

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.

In accordance with the Constitution of the Republic of South Africa, 1996; the Protection of Personal Information Act 4 of 2013 (POPIA), the Promotion of Access to Information Act 2 of 2000, as a company we are mandated to comply with POPIA.

The act requires bodies to inform data subjects of the manner in which their personal information is used, disclosed and destroyed.

The company is committed to protecting the privacy of all data subjects, and ensure that their information is used appropriately, transparently, securely and in accordance with applicable laws.

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