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SECTION 1 - WHAT DO WE DO WITH YOUR INFORMATION?

When you purchase something from our store, as part of the buying and selling process, we collect the personal information you give us, such as your name, address, phone number 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. We use your browsing information to improve the design and content of our store, to suggest content and products that we think may be relevant to you, and to help us learn things like what pages are most attractive to our visitors, what promotions visitors like to see, and to measure the success of our advertising campaigns. We collect browsing information and allow third parties to collect such information through cookies, pixel tags, web beacons, local storage, and other tracking technologies (collectively, “technologies”) as further described below.

Email marketing (if applicable) : With your permission, we may send you emails about our store, new products and other updates.

We collect your personal information for the business or commercial purposes of delivering the products and services you request, to maintain and customize your account and our interactions with you, and to provide, maintain, and improve our services.

We do not and will not sell personal information about our customers who reside in California, in any other states in the United States or anywhere else in the world where we transact business.

SECTION 2 - CONSENT
Q How do we get your consent?
A

When you provide us with personal information to complete a transaction, verify your credit card, place an order, arrange for a delivery or return a purchase, you imply that you consent to our collecting it and using it for that specific reason only.
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.

Q How do you withdraw your consent?
A

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 any time, by contacting us at naturerepublicusinccs@gmail.com or mailing us at : Nature Republic / 4025 Main St, Flushing, NY 11354 / Attn: Website Administrator

SECTION 3 – PRIVACY RIGHTS

[ California Privacy Rights ]
If you are a resident of California, you may be entitled to certain rights under the California Consumer Privacy Act of 2018 (the “CCPA”).
Under the CCPA and its regulations, California residents have (a) the right to request access to the personal information collected in the previous 12 months; (b) the right to request deletion of personal information; (c) the right to opt out of the “sale”, as defined under the CCPA, of personal information; and (d) the right to non-discrimination for exercising their CCPA rights. These rights are subject to certain exemptions and exceptions as well as certain steps we must take to verify your identity.


[ Right to Know and Delete ]
When exercising your right to know, you have the right to request the following from us, free of charge :

  • The categories of personal information we collect about you;
  • The categories of sources from which we collect your personal information;
  • The business purpose for collecting your personal information;
  • The categories of third parties with whom we share or sell your personal information; and
  • The specific pieces of personal information we have collected about you in the previous 12 months of your request.

To request access to or deletion of your personal information, please submit your request to CCPA Request Email : Click Here* / CCPA Request Hotline : 646-249-9924

* must be clicked from an IP address from California

When exercising your right to deletion please note that cancellation and deletion of your account will result in us and you being unable to access your account. In addition, if you are a California resident under 18 years old and a registered user of our store, you can request that we remove content or information that you have posted to our store. Please note that responding to your request may not ensure complete or comprehensive removal from our store (e.g., if the content or information has been reposted by another user). 

[ Right to Non-Discrimination ]
We will not deny goods or services, charge you a different price, or provide a different level or quality of goods or services just because you exercise your rights under the CCPA.

However, if you refuse to provide your personal information to us or ask us to delete your personal information, and that personal information is necessary for us to provide you with goods or services, we will not be able to complete that transaction. We may also offer our customers promotions, discounts and other deals in exchange for collecting or keeping your personal information.  If you ask us to delete your personal information, you may not be able to continue participating in the special deals we offer in exchange for personal information.


SECTION 4 - DISCLOSURE

We may disclose your personal information if we are required by law to do so or if you violate our Terms of Service.


SECTION 5 – SHOPIFY

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 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 or Privacy Statement


SECTION 6 – INFORMATION WE SHARE WITH THIRD-PARTY SERVICES

We may share your personal information as described in this Privacy Policy with trusted service providers, which include companies that provide hosting and IT services for our store, communications providers that enable us to send emails, payment processing and order fulfillment services, and various partners that enable us to administer and operate the store. We also work third party marketing and advertising companies and may allow them to use technologies, such as cookies, to collect information about your browsing information for interest based advertising.  

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.


SECTION 7 – 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 8 – 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 :

  • _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


SECTION 9 - 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 10 - 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 updated, 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.

If our store is acquired or merged with another company, your information may be transferred to the new owners so that we may continue to sell products to you.


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 us at :

naturerepublicusinccs@gmail.com / Nature Republic / 4025 Main St, Flushing, NY 11354 / Attn: Website Administrator


CALIFORNIA CONSUMER PRIVACY ACT (CCPA)

[ Your Rights Under The Calilfornia Consumer Privacy Act ]

The California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA) provides you with rights regarding how your data or personal information is treated. Under the legislation, California residents can choose to opt out of the “sale” of their personal information to third parties. Based on the CCPA definition, “sale” refers to data collection for the purpose of creating advertising and other communications. Learn more about CCPA and your privacy rights


[ How to opt out ]
By clicking on the link below (only visible for CA residents viewing from CA), we will no longer collect or sell your personal information. This applies to both third-parties and the data we collect to help personalize your experience on our website or through other communications. For more information, view our privacy policy.


To be eligible to opt-out, you must be browsing from California.