Privacy Policy

This Privacy Policy describes how pgiere.com collects, uses and discloses your personal information when you visit the Site or make a purchase.

Contact Us

If, after reviewing this policy, you have further questions, would like more information about our privacy practices, or would like to make a complaint, please contact us by e-mail at paulineluisegiere@gmail.com or by mail using the contact details provided below:

Pauline Giere, Eulenstraße, 56, 22765 Hamburg, Germany



Collection of personal data

When you visit the Website, we collect certain information about your device, your interaction with the Website and information necessary to process your purchases. We may also collect additional information when you contact us for customer service. In this Privacy Policy, we refer to any information about an identifiable individual (including the information below) as "personal data". Please see the list below for more information about what personal information we collect and why.

 

Device information
Purpose of collection: to accurately load the website for you and perform website usage analytics to optimize our website.

Source of collection: Collected automatically when you access our website using cookies, log files, web beacons, tags or pixels.

Disclosure for a business purpose: shared with our processor Shopify.

Personal data collected: Web browser version, IP address, time zone, cookie information, which websites or products you view, search terms and how you interact with the website.

Order information
Purpose of collection: providing products or services to you for the performance of our contract, processing your payment information, organizing shipping and providing invoices and/or order confirmations, communicating with you, reviewing our orders for potential risk or fraud, and if consistent with the preferences you have communicated, providing you with information or advertising related to our products or services.

Source of collection: collected from you.

Disclosure for a business purpose: jointly with our processor Shopify.

Personal data collected: Name, billing address, shipping address, payment information (including credit card numbers), email address and phone number.

 

Information on customer support
Purpose of the survey: Provision of customer support
Source of data collection: collected from you
Minors

The website is not intended for persons under the age of 16. We do not intentionally collect personal data from children. If you are a parent or legal guardian and believe that your child has provided us with personal data, please contact us at the above address to request deletion.

Disclosure of personal data

We share your personal data with service providers to assist us in providing our services and fulfilling our contracts with you, as described above. For example:

We use Shopify to operate our online store. You can read more about how Shopify uses your personal data here: https://www.shopify.com/legal/privacy.

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 that we receive, or to otherwise protect our rights.

Behavioral advertising

As described above, we use your personal information to provide you with targeted advertising or marketing communications that we believe may be of interest to you. For example:

We use Google Analytics to understand how our customers use the website. You can find more information about how Google uses your personal data here: https://www.google.com/intl/en/policies/privacy/. You can also opt out of Google Analytics here: https://tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout.

We share information about your use of the website, 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).

We use Shopify Audiences to help us show ads on other websites with our advertising partners to shoppers who have shopped with other Shopify merchants and who may also be interested in our offer. We also share information about your use of the site, your purchases, and the email address associated with your purchases with Shopify Audiences, through which other Shopify merchants can make offers that you may be interested in.

For more information about how targeted advertising works, see the Network Advertising Initiative ("NAI") education page at

https://www.networkadvertising.org/understanding-online-advertising/how-does-it-work.

You can deactivate targeted advertising:

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]
In addition, you can opt out of some of these services by visiting the Digital Advertising Alliance's opt-out portal at: https://optout.aboutads.info/

Use of personal data

We use your personal data to provide our services to you, which include the following: Offering products for sale, processing payments, shipping and fulfilling your order and to keep you informed about new products, services and offers.

Legal basis

In accordance with the General Data Protection Regulation ("GDPR"), if you are located in the European Economic Area ("EEA"), we process your personal data based on the following legal bases:

Your consent;

The performance of a contract between you and the Website

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

If you place an order through the Website, we will retain your personal data for our records unless and until you ask us to delete this data. For more information on your right to erasure, please see the "Your rights" section below.

Automated decision making

If you are an EEA resident, you have the right to object to processing based solely on automated decision-making (including profiling) where that decision-making produces legal effects concerning 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 blacklisting of IP addresses related to repeatedly failed transactions. This blacklist remains in place for a small number of hours.

Temporary blacklist of credit cards associated with IP addresses on the blacklist. This blacklist remains for a small number of days.

Your rights

GDPR

If you are an EEA resident, you have the right to access the personal data we hold about you, to transfer it to a new service and to request that your personal data be corrected, updated or deleted. If you wish to exercise these rights, please contact us using the contact information above.

Your personal data will initially be processed in Ireland and then transferred for storage and further processing outside Europe, including to Canada and the United States. For more information about how data transfers comply with the GDPR, see Shopify's GDPR whitepaper:

https://help.shopify.com/en/manual/your-account/privacy/GDPR.

Cookies

A cookie is a small amount of information that is downloaded to your computer or device when you visit our website. We use a number of different cookies, including functionality, performance, advertising and social media or content cookies. Cookies improve your browsing experience by allowing the website to remember your actions and preferences (e.g. login and region selection). This means you don't have to keep re-entering this information every time you come back to the site or browse from one page to another. Cookies also provide information about how people use the website, such as whether they are using it for the first time.

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

Cookies necessary for the functioning of the store

Name Function Duration
Is used in conjunction with access to the Admin. 2y
_secure_session_id Is used in connection with navigation through a shop window. 24h
_shopify_country Used in connection with the checkout. session
_shopify_m Used to manage the customer's privacy settings. 1y
_shopify_tm Used to manage the customer's privacy settings. 30min
_shopify_tw Used to manage the customer's privacy settings. 2w
_storefront_u Used to facilitate the updating of customer account information. 1min
_tracking_consent Tracking settings. 1y
c Used in connection with the checkout. 1y
cart Used in connection with the shopping cart. 2w
cart_currency Used in connection with the shopping cart. 2w
cart_sig Used in connection with the checkout. 2w
cart_ts Used in connection with the checkout. 2w

cart Used in connection with the shopping cart. 2w
cart_currency Is used in connection with the shopping cart. 2w
cart_sig Used in connection with the checkout. 2w
cart_ts Used in connection with the checkout. 2w
cart_ver Used in connection with the shopping cart. 2w
checkout Used in connection with the checkout. 4w
checkout_token Used in connection with the checkout. 1y
dynamic_checkout_shown_on_cart Is used in connection with the checkout. 30min
hide_shopify_pay_for_checkout Used in connection with the checkout. session
keep_alive Used in connection with buyer localization. 2w
master_device_id Used in connection with the merchant login. 2y
previous_step Used in connection with the checkout. 1y
remember_me Used in connection with the checkout. 1y
secure_customer_sig Used in connection with the customer login. 20y
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