Privacy Policy
WHAT DO WE DO WITH YOUR PERSONAL INFORMATION?
“Personal Information” is information that (i) You provide to LSN and (ii) personally identifies you. Personal Information includes your name, email and postal address, billing, credit card and banking information, telephone numbers and other data that can be used to personally identify or contact you.
When you purchase something from our store, as part of the buying and selling process, we collect this Personal Information. 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.
Email marketing (if applicable): With your permission, we may send you emails about our store, new products and other updates.
CONSENT
How do you get my consent? 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, we 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.
How do I withdraw my consent? If after you opt-in, you change your mind, you may withdrawing your consent for us to contact you, for the continued collection, use or disclosure of your information, at anytime, by contacting us at customerservice@tfeesstraws.com or mailing us at:
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233 Gates Road
Little Ferry, New Jersey, US, 07643
DISCLOSURE
We may disclose your Personal Information if we are required by law to do so or if you violate our Terms of Service.
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 here or Privacy Statement here.
THIRD-PARTY SERVICES
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.
Links
When you click on links on our store, they may direct you away from our site. We are not responsible for the privacy practices of other sites and encourage you to read their privacy statements.
Google analytics:
Our store uses Google Analytics to help us learn about who visits our site and what pages are being looked at.
Public forums and chat rooms
LSN's Sites may make chat rooms, forums, message boards, and/or news groups available to its users. Any information that is disclosed in these areas becomes public information and You should always be careful when deciding to disclose Your personal information.
Wireless Communications
If the email address you provide to LSN is a wireless address, you agree to receive messages at such address from LSN. You understand that your wireless carrier's standard rates apply to these messages. you represent and warrant that you are the owner or authorized user of the wireless device on which messages will be received, and that you are authorized to approve the applicable charges associated therewith.
Information Sharing And Onward Transfer
LSN reserves the right to sell, rent or otherwise share some or all of your Personal Information with other companies or individuals outside of LSN if:
You have consented to such sale, rental or sharing; and/or LSN becomes involved in a merger, acquisition, or any form of sale of all of its assets. In such circumstances, LSN will provide notice before Personal Information is transferred and becomes subject to a different privacy policy.
In addition, LSN reserves the right to share non-personally identifiable information relating to users of the Site or the LSN services with our partners and advertisers. The information will not be linked to any personal identifiable information. When you sign up for any third party service, information may be shared with the third party and your privacy will be maintained in accordance with the third party privacy policy.
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.
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.
- Google analytics
- PREF - persistent for a very short period, Set by Google and tracks who visits the store and from where
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. Consistent with the Federal Children's Online Privacy Protection Act of 1998 (COPPA), we will never knowingly request personally identifiable information from anyone under the age of 13 without requesting parental consent.
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.
CALIFORNIA USER CONSUMER RIGHTS
In accordance with California Civil Code Sec. 1789.3, California resident users are entitled to know that they may file grievances and complaints with the California Department of Consumer Affairs, 400 R Street, STE 1080, Sacramento, CA 95814; or by telephone at (916) 445-1254 or (800) 952-5210; or by email to dca@dca.ca.gov. For more information about protecting Your privacy, You may wish to visit: www.ftc.gov.
SEVERABILITY
If any provision of this Privacy Policy is found to be illegal, void, or unenforceable, that provision will be deemed severed from the balance of the agreement and will not affect the validity and enforceability of the remaining provisions, which will continue in full force and effect.
ACKNOWLEDGEMENT
By completing forms provided by LSN and providing personal information through the Site, through any means, and by using the Site and services contained therein, You hereby represent and warrant that:
- You have read, understand and agree to LSN's Privacy Policy;
- You are an actual person of at least 18 years of age, You have the right to provide the information that You submit to LSN, and the information You submit is accurate, complete and truthful; and
- If You do not agree to the terms of this Privacy Policy, then do not provide Your information to LSN through any means. In such case, LSN is relieved of any of its obligations to You as set forth in this Privacy Policy.
QUESTIONS AND CONTACT INFORMATION
This Site is owned and operated by Like Second Nature, Inc., 95 Worth Street Suite 3E, New York, NY 10013 ("LSN").
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 our Privacy Compliance Officer at customerservice@tfeestraws.com or by mail at
Attn:Privacy Compliance Officer
233 Gates Road
Little Ferry, New Jersey, US, 07643