The Strands & Stones application and website (“Platform”) and/or its affiliates (hereinafter may be referred to as the `Company`, `we`, `us`, and `our`) respect your privacy and is committed to protecting it through its compliance with its privacy policy.
This policy amongst other things describes:
(i) the type of information that the Company may collect from you when you access or use its websites, applications, and other online services (hereinafter collectively referred to as the `Services`); and,
(ii) the Company`s practices for collecting, using, maintaining, protecting and disclosing that information. We encourage you to read this policy carefully to understand the Company`s policies and practices regarding your information.
By accessing or using its Services and/or registering for an account with the Company, you expressly agree to be bound by the terms and conditions of this privacy policy and you are consenting to the Company’s collection, use, disclosure, and retention of your personal information as described here.
1. Applicability of the Policy
1.1. This policy applies only to the information the Company collects through its Services, in email, text, and other electronic communications sent through or in connection with its Services.
1.2. This Policy does not apply to the information that you provide to, or that is collected by, any third party, that you use in connection with its Services. The Company encourages you to consult directly with such third parties about their privacy practices.
2. Information Gathering
2.1. Some of our services can be used without disclosing personal information, and some require personal information. We may also collect “non-personally identifiable information” (that is, information that cannot be used to identify you). Non-personal information includes information such as web pages viewed. You may need to submit “personal data” to gain access to certain features and benefits of our services. Information that can be used to identify you (described below). Inaccurate information may affect your ability to use the Services, the information you receive while using the Services, and our ability to contact you. For example, your email address and contact number must remain valid, as this may be the primary channel for us to communicate with you. You are responsible for ensuring the accuracy of the personal data you submit to the company.
2.2. We collect various types of information from and about users of our services. This includes: (i) Your data Personal data is information that can be associated with a particular individual and can be used to identify that particular individual. From this data, or any data we have or are likely to access. Personal data is not considered anonymized or aggregated information that is no longer available in combination with other information or to identify a particular individual in any other way. Personal data may include information such as name, email address, phone number (mobile and landline), educational qualifications, occupation, date of birth, monthly income, city, and state, place of residence, Aadhaar number, PAN and post-qualification or professional experience. And/or (ii) Information about internet connections, devices used to access our services, and usage details.
2.3. We may do one of the following: (i) If you provide us, we collect this information directly from you. (ii) Automatically when you navigate our services (information collected automatically includes usage details, IP addresses, cookies, web beacons, and other information collected through tracking technologies) (iii) from other sources, including other third-party sources. For example, updated delivery and address information from our carriers that we use to revise our records and make it easier to deliver your next purchase.
2.4. The information you provide to us:
2.4.1. Your account information: your full name, email address, zip code, password, and other information you may provide in your account, such as B. Gender, mobile number, website. A profile picture (if any) published as part of your account profile. You can optionally provide this information through a third-party registration service such as Facebook or Google. In such cases, we will collect and store all information you provide through these registration services.
2.4.2. Your preferences: Your preferences and settings such as time zone and language. Your Content: The information you provide through our services. Includes your rating, photos, comments, lists, followers, users you follow, order details and history, priority categories, special requests, and contact information for the person you added or notified of your order. Our services, the names and other information we provide with our services, and other information about your account profile.
2.4.3. Search and other activities: The search term you searched for and the results you selected. 2.4.4. Your browsing information: How long you used our Services and which features you used; the ads you clicked on.
2.4.4. Your communications: Communications between you and other users or suppliers through our Services; your participation in a survey, poll, sweepstakes, contest, or promotion scheme; your request for certain features (e.g., newsletters, updates, or other products); your communication with us about employment opportunities posted to the services.
2.4.5. Your transactional information: If you make use of our Services, we may collect and store information about you to process your requests and automatically complete forms for future transactions, including (but not limited to) your phone number, address, email, billing information and credit or payment card information. This information may be shared with third parties which assist in processing and fulfilling your requests, including PCI compliant payment gateway processors. If you write reviews about businesses with which you conduct transactions through our Services, we may publicly display information that you transacted with those businesses.
2.4.6. Public Posts: You can also post information (ratings, reviews, tips, photos, comments, likes, bookmarks, friends, lists, etc.) for publishing or viewing (“Posting”). Provide publicly accessible areas of our Services or send them to other users or third parties of our Services (collectively, “User Contributions”). User posts are published and shared with others at your own risk. Please note that there are no complete or intrusive security measures (see the Security section below). In addition, you have no control over the behavior of other users of the service that you choose to share your posts. Therefore, we cannot guarantee that users’ posts will not be visible to unauthorized persons.
2.4.7. We may display this information on our Services, share it with businesses, and share it with more users through third-party websites and services. Be careful when disclosing sensitive information about yourself in such posts.
2.4.8. We use the information you provide to analyze and improve features, improve the quality of our services, and personalize your experience when using our services. We also use this information to display relevant advertising, support you, contact you and comply with our legal obligations.
2.5. Information that we may automatically collect includes, among other things, the following information:
2.5.1. Even if you use the service without registering or logging in, we may automatically collect certain information about the computer or device (including mobile devices) that you use to access and use the service.
2.5.2. Usage Information: Details about the use of the service, including traffic data, location data, logs, other communication data, and resources accessed and used on or through the service.
2.5.3. Computer and device information: Information about your computer, internet connection, and mobile device, including IP address, operating system, platform, browser type, and other browsing information (connection, speed, connection type, and so on). The device type, the device’s unique device ID, information about the cellular network, and the device’s phone number.
2.5.4. Stored Information and Files: Our service also has access to metadata and other information related to other files stored on your mobile device. This may include photos, audio and video clips, personal contacts, and roster information.
2.5.5. Location Information: Our application collects real-time information about the location of your approved device.
2.5.6. Last Visited URL: The URL of the last visited website before visiting our website.
2.5.7. Mobile device ID: A unique mobile device ID (IDFA, GAID, or other device ID on an Apple device such as an iPhone or iPad). When using our services on mobile devices, the mobile device ID (a unique identifier assigned to the device by the manufacturer instead of a cookie to identify you). We can do this to save your tastes and track your use of our application. In contrast to cookies, IDs cannot be removed from mobile devices. Advertising companies may use device IDs to track application usage, track the number of ads displayed, measure ad performance, and display more relevant ads. Analytical companies may use mobile device IDs to track application usage.
2.5.8. Your preferences: Your preferences and settings such as time zone and language.
2.5.9. Your Activities in the Services: Information about your activities in the Services, including B. Search Queries, Comments, Domain Names, Search Results Selected, Clicks, Pages Displayed and the Order of These Pages., The time when we accessed our service, the date and time the service was used, error logs, and other similar information.
2.5.10. Mobile Status: For mobile application users, the online or offline status of the application.
2.5.11. Applications: When you use a company application, the company may collect information about the presence and/or absence and/or details of other applications on your mobile phone. The uses for which we collect information may vary by categories such as shopping, fashion, dining, and travel. This will allow us to better understand you and your tastes and allow the company to provide you with a personalized experience. We collect, process, and store user IDs linked to social media accounts (such as Facebook and Google accounts) that you use to log in to, connect to, or use the Services. There may be cases. For more information on how this information is shared when you connect to your account, see your social media provider’s privacy policy and help.
3. Use of information
We use the information we collect from you and information about you for a variety of purposes, including:
3.1. Purchase and supply of goods and services. We use your data to contact you about receiving, processing, executing orders, providing products and services, processing payments, orders, products and services, and promotional offers.
3.2. Service delivery, troubleshooting, and improvement. We use your data to provide functionality, analyze performance, fix errors, and improve the usability and effectiveness of our services.
3.3. Recommendations and personalization. We use your data to recommend features, products, and services that you may be interested in, identify your preferences and personalize your service experience. You can also share your preferences and the services you use with your company’s network followers for marketing and other promotional activities of our services.
3.4. Obey legal obligations. In some cases, we collect and use your data to comply with the law. For example, we collect business and bank account information from sellers for identity verification and other purposes.
3.5. Communicate with you. We use your data to communicate with you about our services through a variety of channels (telephone, email, chat, etc.).
3.6. We use your data to display advertisements based on the interests of features, products, and services that you may be interested in. We do not use any personally identifiable information to display interest-based advertising.
3.7. Fraud prevention and credit risk. We use your personal information to prevent and detect fraud and misuse, and to protect the safety of our users, companies, and others. You can also use scoring techniques to assess and manage credit risk.
3.8. To manage competitions and sweepstakes.
3.9. To fulfill the obligations of the company and exercise the rights under all contracts entered into between you and the company, including claims and debt collection.
3.10. Prepare and review reports and data to investigate your company’s user base and service usage patterns. Conduct investigations according to internal review protocols to ensure privacy protection and use anonymized data for investigations. Used for internal purposes such as auditing. Understand users (what they do with the service, what features they like, how they use them, etc.) and improve the content and functionality of the service (for example, to suit their interests). By personalizing the content), processing and completing the transaction, and making a special offer.
3.11. To serve other purposes for which you provide us with information and/or for other purposes with your consent.
4. Sharing of the Data
4.1. We may also divulge private statistics that we accumulate otherwise you offer, as defined on this privateness policy, withinside the following ways:
4.1.1. General Information Disclosures
a. To our retaining organizations, subsidiaries, and affiliates
b. To contractors, advertisers/carriers, and vendors whom we use to guide our business (e.g., mistics and delivery, to accumulate payments) and who are certain via way of means of contractual duties to preserve private data private and use it handiest for the functions for which we divulge it to them.
c. To a client or different successor withinside the occasion of a merger, divestiture, restructuring, reorganization, dissolution, or different sale or switch of a few or all the Company`s property, whether or not as a going subject or as a part of bankruptcy, liquidation or comparable proceeding, wherein private data held via way of means of the Company approximately the customers of our Services are the various property transferred.
4.1.2. To satisfy the reason for that you offer it.
4.1.3. For some other reason disclosed via way of means of us whilst you offer the data.
4.2. Service Providers. We may also share your data with outdoor companies that we use for a whole lot of functions, together with shipping your communications through emails, messages, or tele-name to tell you approximately the offerings and/or merchandise that can be of hobby to you, push notifications in your cellular tool on our behalf, offer voice reputation offerings to manner your spoken queries and questions, assist us to examine the use of our Services, and manner and accumulate payments. Some of our merchandise, offerings, and databases are hosted via way of means of website hosting offerings vendors. We additionally may also use companies for different projects, together with accomplishing surveys for us. We may also share the data approximately with those companies’ handiest to allow them to carry out their offerings.
4.3. Legal Purposes. We may also share your data to analyze, prevent, or take movement concerning viable unlawful sports or to conform with a felony manner. We may share your data to analyze and deal with threats or ability threats to the bodily protection of any person, to analyze and deal with violations of this Privacy Policy or the Company`s Terms of Service, and/or to shield the rights, belongings, and protection of the Company, our employees, customers, or the public. This may also contain the sharing of your data with regulation enforcement, authorities’ agencies, courts, and/or different companies due to felony requests together with a subpoena, courtroom docket order, or authorities call for to conform with the regulation.
4.4. Social Networks. If you engage with social media capabilities on our Services, together with the Facebook Like button, or use your social media credentials to log-in or publish content, those capabilities may also accumulate data approximately for your use of the Services, in addition, to store the data at the social media carrier. Your interactions with social media organizations are ruled by way of means of their terms of service and privacy policies.
4.5. To read our Terms of Use for different agreements, which include for purchase, billing, payments, website, and/or application use whatsoever, please visit the link https://Strands & Stones.com/terms-conditions.
4.6. Consent. We may also share your data on some other occasions wherein we’ve got your consent.
5. Third-Party Links and Services
The service may contain links to third-party websites. Using these features may lead to the collection, processing, or disclosure of information about you. Please note that we are not responsible for the content or privacy practices of other websites or services that may be linked to our services. We make no warranties or representations regarding third-party websites or services. Our privacy policy does not apply to information provided or collected by these third parties. We strongly recommend that you read these third-party privacy policies before using them.
6. Anonymous or anonymized data
We may anonymize and/or anonymize information collected from you through the Services or in any other way, including the use of third-party web analytics tools, as described below. As a result, the use and disclosure of aggregated and/or anonymized information are not restricted by this privacy policy and can be used and shared with others without restriction.
7. Cookies
7.1. A cookie is an alphanumerical identifier that contains a small amount of data that is stored on the hard drive of the user device and contains information about the user that is commonly used as an anonymous unique identifier. We may only provide certain features through “cookies” and may collect information about you who use these cookies. Please note that cookies do not give the Company access to your device. Other websites may place their own cookies or other files on their devices, collect data, or request personal information for which the Company is not responsible. We encourage you to read the privacy policy of all external websites. We also use third-party cookies for marketing and advertising purposes. Please note that most web browsers are set to accept cookies by default.
7.2. We strive to give you choices about the personal information you provide to us.
8. Safety Precautions
8.1. We warrant that we will follow appropriate physical, electronic and administrative procedures to protect and prevent unauthorized access to your information and to ensure the security of your data. These safety precautions take into account the confidentiality of the information we collect, process, and store, as well as current state-of-the-art technology. We follow generally accepted industry standards to protect the personal information transmitted, both in transit and after it is received. Access to the service is provided using a secure server and adheres to security guidelines to protect the server from unauthorized access. However, by using the service, users accept the inherent security implications of sending data over the Internet and the World Wide Web. This is not always completely secure, so there are always certain inherent risks when using the service.
8.2. We are not responsible for any disclosure of your data due to transmission errors, unauthorized access by third parties, or other causes beyond our control. They play an important role in protecting your personal data. Do not give your account username, password, or other security information to anyone. If you receive instructions using your username and password, you are deemed to have approved such instructions.
9. Legal Age
9.1. This service is not intended for users under the age of 18 unless permitted by applicable local law (statutory age). We do not knowingly collect, sell or solicit information from users under the age of 18, and your use of our Services may enter into legally binding contracts under the Indian Contract Act of 1872. Only available to users.
9.2. If you are under the age of 18, you must use the service under the supervision of a parent or guardian. If we find that the submitter of your personal information is under the age of 18, we will remove your account and related information as soon as possible.
10. Data Retention
We keep your private data according to the relevant laws, for a duration no longer than is needed for the cause for which it became accrued or as required under any relevant law. We may also keep the data for the legal functions until prohibited by the law for doing so. Thereafter, we can both delete your private data or de-pick it out so that it’s far nameless and now no longer attributed to your identity. We may also archive the data to prevent, investigate, or pick out feasible wrongdoing in reference to the Service or to conform with felony obligations. We might also hold to keep your data in anonymized shape for analytical and studies functions.
11. Job Applicants
If your data is submitted to us through our Service whilst making use of a role with the Company, the data may be used to recollect your application. We may also keep your data for any duration of time. This data can be shared with different businesses for the cause of comparing your qualifications for the precise role or different to be had positions, to accumulate, keep and examine candidate submissions.
12. Your Consent
12.1. By accessing this website and/or using the Services or sharing your data with us, you consent to the series, use, storage, disclosure, and in any other case processing of your data at the Services following this Privacy Policy.
12.2. You, at the same time when you share your data with us when it comes to the Services or any associate systems or establishments, consent to us (along with our different company entities, affiliates, lending companions, generation companions, advertising channels, enterprise companions and other parties) to communicate with you or contact you through SMS, instant messaging apps, and/or electronic mail for the functions distinct on this Privacy Policy.
13. Changes to this Privacy Policy
We reserve the right to amend this Privacy Policy from time to time to mirror adjustments withinside the law, our data use, and practices, the capabilities of our services, or advances in a generation. Please check this web page periodically for any updates. If we make any adjustments to this Privacy Policy, we can publish the adjustments here. Please evaluate the adjustments carefully. Your persisted use of the Services following the posting of adjustments to this Privacy Policy will represent your consent and attractiveness of these adjustments.
14. Contact Us
If you’ve got any queries regarding the Company`s Privacy Policy or in case you would love to elevate another inquiry, you can email us at sandsjewelery@gmail.com.