Privacy Policy

This Privacy Policy describes how artful-vandalism.com (the "Website" or "we") collects, uses, and discloses your personal data when you visit the Website or make a purchase.

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 support. In this privacy policy, we refer to any information that can uniquely identify a natural person (including the information listed below) as "personal data". See the list below for more information on what personal data we collect and why.

Device Information

  • Examples of collected personal data: Version of web browser, IP address, time zone, cookie information, which websites or products you view, search terms, and how you interact with the Website.
  • Purpose of collection: To correctly load the Website for you and conduct analyses on Website usage to optimize our Website.
  • Source of collection: Automatically collected when you access our Website via cookies, log files, web beacons, tags, or pixels.
  • Disclosure for business purposes: Shared with our service provider Shopify.

Order Information

  • Examples of collected personal data: Name, billing address, shipping address, payment information (including credit card numbers), email address, and phone number.
  • Purpose of collection: To provide products or services and fulfill our contract with you, process your payment information, arrange shipping, send you invoices and/or order confirmations, communicate with you, verify our orders for potential risks or fraud, and, if it aligns with the preferences you have communicated to us, provide you with information or advertising relating to our products or services.
  • Source of collection: Collected from you.
  • Disclosure for business purposes: Shared with our service provider Shopify.

Disclosure of Personal Data

We share your personal data with service providers who 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. For more information on how Shopify uses your personal data, please see here: https://www.shopify.com/legal/privacy.
  • We may disclose your personal data to comply with applicable laws and regulations, respond to a subpoena, search warrant, or other lawful request for information we receive, or otherwise protect our rights.

Behavioral Advertising

As described above, we use your personal data to provide you with targeted advertisements 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. For more information on how Google uses your personal data, please see 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 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 similar technologies (which you may consent to, depending on your location).
  • Our Mess-ID is: G-6Y1K9RY4LK.
For more information on how targeted advertising works, please visit the Network Advertising Initiative's educational page at http://www.networkadvertising.org/understanding-online-advertising/how-does-it-work. 

 

You can opt out of targeted advertising by:

Use of Personal Data

We use your personal data to provide our services to you, which includes: offering products for sale, processing payments, shipping and handling your order, and keeping you informed about new products, services, and offers.

Lawful Basis

Under the General Data Protection Regulation ("GDPR"), if you are a resident of the European Economic Area ("EEA"), we process your personal data under the following lawful bases:

  • Your consent;
  • The performance of the contract between you and the Website;
  • For our legitimate interests, which do not override your fundamental rights and freedoms.

Retention

When you place an order through the Website, we will maintain your personal data for our records unless and until you ask us to delete this information. For more information on your right to deletion, see the "Your Rights" section below.

Automated Decision Making

If you are a resident of the EEA, you have the right to object to processing that is based solely on automated decision making (including profiling) if that decision making has a legal effect on you or otherwise significantly affects you.

We do NOT engage in fully automated decision making that has a legal or otherwise significant effect using customer data.

Our service provider Shopify uses limited automated decision making to prevent fraud that has no legal or otherwise significant effect on you.

Services that include elements of automated decision making include:

  • Temporary blocklist of IP addresses associated with repeated failed transactions. This blocklist lasts for a small number of hours.
  • Temporary blocklist of credit cards associated with listed IP addresses. This blocklist lasts 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 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 would like to exercise these rights, please contact us through the contact information below.

Your personal data is initially processed in Ireland and then transferred outside of Europe for storage and further processing, including to Canada and the United States. For more information on how data transfers under the GDPR are conducted, please 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 the right to access the personal data we hold about you (also known as the "right to know"), to transfer it to a new service, and to request that your personal data be corrected, updated, or deleted. If you would like to exercise these rights, please contact us through the contact information below.

If you would like to designate an authorized agent to make these requests on your behalf, please contact us at the address provided below.

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 variety of different cookies, including functional, performance, advertising, and social media or content cookies. Cookies enhance your browsing experience by allowing the Website to remember your actions and preferences (such as login and region selection). This means that you do not have to enter this information every time you visit the Website. Cookies also provide information about how people use the Website, such as whether they are visiting for the first time or are frequent visitors.

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

Cookies Necessary for the Functionality 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 duration for which a cookie remains on your computer or mobile device depends on whether it is a "persistent" or "session" cookie. Session cookies remain on your device until you close your browser, and persistent cookies remain on your device until they expire or are deleted. Most of the cookies we use are persistent cookies and 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 note that removing or blocking cookies may negatively impact your user experience, and parts of our Website may become inaccessible.

Most browsers accept cookies automatically, but you can choose whether or not to accept cookies through your browser controls, which are often located in your browser's "Tools" or "Settings" menu. For more information on how to change your browser settings or block, manage, or filter cookies, see your browser's help file or websites such as www.allaboutcookies.org.

Please note that blocking cookies may not fully prevent how we share information with third parties like 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 "Behavioral Advertising" section above.

DO NOT TRACK

Please note that we do not alter our Website's data collection and use practices when we see a "Do Not Track" signal from your browser because there is no consistent industry understanding of how to respond to such signals.

Changes

We may update this privacy policy from time to time to reflect, for example, changes to our practices or for other operational, legal, or regulatory reasons.

Contact

For more information about our privacy practices, questions, or if you would like to submit a complaint, please contact us by email at artful-vandalism.com or by mail using the details provided below:

SocialCommerce Simon Passoth, Schmelztalstraße 31, 53604 Bad Honnef, Germany

Last updated on: April 4, 2024

If you are not satisfied with our response to your complaint, you have the right to lodge your complaint with the appropriate data protection authority. You can contact your local data protection authority or our supervisory authority here: https://ico.org.uk/make-a-complaint/ .