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Privacy Policy

Last Updated: 9/9/2022

Welcome to the Bestechman! This Privacy Policy describes how bestechman.com (the “Site” “we” “us” or “our”) collects, uses, and discloses your Personal Information when you visit or make a purchase from the Site.

1. Collecting Personal Information
When you visit the Site, we collect certain information about your device, your interaction with the Site, and information necessary to process your purchases. We may also collect additional information if you contact us for customer support. In this Privacy Policy, we refer to any information that can uniquely identify an individual (including the information below) as “Personal Information”. See the list below for more information about what Personal Information we collect and why.


● Device information
Examples of Personal Information collected: version of web browser, IP address, time zone, cookie information, what sites or products you view, search terms, and how you interact with the Site.
1) Purpose of collection: to load the Site accurately for you, and to perform analytics on Site usage to optimize our Site.
2) Source of collection: Collected automatically when you access our Site using cookies, log files, web beacons, tags, or pixels.
3) Disclosure for a business purpose: shared with our processor Shopify.


 Order information
Examples of Personal Information collected: name, billing address, shipping address, payment information (including credit card numbers), email address, and phone number.
1) Purpose of collection: to provide products or services to you to fulfill our contract, to process your payment information, arrange for shipping, and provide you with invoices and/or order confirmations, communicate with you, screen our orders for potential risk or fraud, and when in line with the preferences you have shared with us, provide you with information or advertising relating to our products or services.
2) Source of collection: collected from you.
3) Disclosure for a business purpose: shared with our processor Shopify.


● Customer support information
Examples of Personal Information collected: name, email, message
1) Purpose of collection: to provide customer support.
2) Source of collection: collected from you.
3) Disclosure for a business purpose: shared with our processor Shopify.

2. Sharing Personal Information
We share your Personal Information with service providers to help us provide our services and fulfill our contracts with you, as described above. For example:
● We use Shopify to power our online store. You can read more about how Shopify uses your Personal Information 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 we receive, or to otherwise protect our rights.

3. Using Personal Information
We use your personal Information to provide our services to you, which includes: offering products for sale, processing payments, shipping and fulfillment of your order, and keeping you up to date on new products, services, and offers.
● Legal Bases for Processing
Pursuant to the General Data Protection Regulation (“GDPR”), if you are a resident of the European Economic Area (“EEA”), we process your personal information under the following lawful bases:
Your consent;
The performance of the contract between you and the Site;
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
When you place an order through the Site, we will retain your Personal Information for our records unless and until you ask us to erase this information. For more information on your right of erasure, please see the ‘Your rights’ section below.
● Automatic decision-making
If you are a resident of the EEA, you have the right to object to processing based solely on automated decision-making (which includes profiling), when that decision-making has a legal effect on you or otherwise significantly affects you.
We [DO/DO NOT] engage in fully automated decision-making that has a legal or otherwise significant effect using customer data.
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 denylist of IP addresses associated with repeated failed transactions. This denylist persists for a small number of hours.
Temporary denylist of credit cards associated with denylisted IP addresses. This denylist persists for a small number of days.

4. Protecting children's privacy
We are committed to protecting children's privacy on the internet and we do not knowingly collect PI from children under the age of 13 in the U.S. or 16 in the EU or United Kingdom. If you are under the age of 13 in the U.S. or 16 in the EU or United Kingdom, do not use our websites or provide any PI to us. If we learn we have collected or received PI from a child under 13 in the U.S. or 16 in the EU or United Kingdom without verification of parental consent, we will delete that information in accordance with applicable law. If you believe we may have any information about a child under 13 in the U.S. or 16 in the EU or United Kingdom, please contact us using the “Contact Us” page.


5. Behavioural Advertising
As described above, we use your Personal Information to provide you with targeted advertisements or marketing communications we believe may be of interest to you. For example:
● We use Google Analytics to help us understand how our customers use the Site. You can read more about how Google uses your Personal Information here: https://policies.google.com/privacy?hl=en.You can also opt-out of Google Analytics here: https://tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout.


● Social media platforms and widgets. Our websites may include social media features, such as the Facebook Like button. These features may collect information about your IP address and which page you are visiting on our websites, and they may set a cookie to make sure the feature functions properly. Social media features and widgets are either hosted by a third party or hosted directly on our websites. We maintain a presence on multiple social media platforms, including Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram. Any information, communications, or materials you submit to us via a social media platform is done at your own risk without any expectation of privacy. We cannot control the actions of other users of these platforms or the actions of the platforms themselves. Your interactions with those features and platforms are governed by the privacy policies of the companies that provide them.


● Contests and sweepstakes. We may, from time to time, offer surveys, contests, sweepstakes, or other promotions on our websites or through social media (collectively, “Promotions”). Participation in our Promotions is completely voluntary. Information requested for entry may include PI. A Promotion may be held under a privacy policy or terms and conditions that are in addition to or separate from this Privacy Statement. If the terms of the Promotion’s privacy policy or terms of use conflicts with this Privacy Statement, those additional or separate provisions will prevail. We use the information you provide to administer our Promotions. We may also, unless prohibited by the Promotion’s rules or law, use the information provided to communicate with you, or other people you select, about our products and services. We may share this information with our affiliates and other organizations or service providers in line with this Privacy Statement and the rules posted for our Promotions.


● Aggregate data providers. Our company utilizes third party aggregate data providers that collect publicly available information. This information can then be used to validate identity, addresses, and other information used in our business processes.


● For more information about how targeted advertising works, you can visit the Network Advertising Initiative’s (“NAI”) educational page at http://www.networkadvertising.org/understanding-online-advertising/how-does-it-work.
You can opt out of targeted advertising by:
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]
Additionally, you can opt out of some of these services by visiting the Digital Advertising Alliance’s opt-out portal at: http://optout.aboutads.info/.

6. Cookies
A cookie is a small amount of information that’s downloaded to your computer or device when you visit our Site. We use a number of different cookies, including functional, performance, advertising, and social media or content cookies. Cookies make your browsing experience better by allowing the website to remember your actions and preferences (such as login and region selection). This means you don’t have to re-enter this information each time you return to the site or browse from one page to another. Cookies also provide information on how people use the website, for instance whether it’s their first time visiting or if they are a frequent visitor.

● We use the following cookies to optimize your experience on our Site and to provide our services.
Cookies Necessary for the Functioning 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 length of time that a cookie remains on your computer or mobile device depends on whether it is a “persistent” or “session” cookie. Session cookies last until you stop browsing and persistent cookies last until they expire or are deleted. Most of the cookies we use are persistent and will 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 keep in mind that removing or blocking cookies can negatively impact your user experience and parts of our website may no longer be fully accessible.


Most browsers automatically accept cookies, but you can choose whether or not to accept cookies through your browser controls, often found in your browser’s “Tools” or “Preferences” menu. For more information on how to modify your browser settings or how to block, manage or filter cookies can be found in your browser’s help file or through such sites as www.allaboutcookies.org.

Additionally, please note that blocking cookies may not completely prevent how we share information with third parties such as 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 “Behavioural Advertising” section above.


● Do Not Track
Please note that because there is no consistent industry understanding of how to respond to “Do Not Track” signals, we do not alter our data collection and usage practices when we detect such a signal from your browser.

7. Electronic Newsletters
Bestechman.com offers free electronic newsletters that are dispatched by an email service provider (ESP). We collect email addresses of individuals who voluntarily subscribe, create accounts, participate in promotions, and purchase products on our websites. Individuals may subscribe, update their profile, or unsubscribe from one or more of our mailing lists at any time online, by clicking the link in the footer of our promotional emails.

In certain locations on our websites in which we obtain PI from you, we may include “check boxes” for the purpose of soliciting your consent to receive special offers and other information from Bestechman.com. If given your consent, you may receive promotional information from us by email, U.S. mail or other means. You will have the opportunity at any time to “opt-out” of receiving future commercial emails from Bestechman.com either by following the instructions located at the bottom of the email we send you.

Bestechman.com delivers newsletters, and marketing and product offerings promoted in newsletters, by email only to registered recipients. We do not purchase 3rd party email lists.

8. Your Rights
● CCPA - California Privacy Rights
If you are a resident of California, you have the right to access the Personal Information we hold about you (also known as the ‘Right to Know’), to port it to a new service, and to ask that your Personal Information be corrected, updated, or erased. If you would like to exercise these rights, or if you would like to designate an authorized agent to submit these requests on your behalf, please contact us at info@bestechman.com.

● GDPR - General Data Protection Regulation Rights
If you are a data subject in the EU, you have the following rights under the General Data Protection Regulation:
If you are a resident of the EEA, you have the right to access the Personal Information we hold about you, to port it to a new service, and to ask that your Personal Information be corrected, updated, or erased. If you would like to exercise these rights, please contact us through info@bestechman.com.

Your Personal Information will be initially processed in Ireland and then will be transferred outside of Europe for storage and further processing, including to Canada and the United States. For more information on how data transfers comply with the GDPR, see Shopify’s GDPR Whitepaper: https://help.shopify.com/en/manual/your-account/privacy/GDPR.

9. Changes to this Privacy Statement
Bestechman.com reserves the right to change this Privacy Statement at any time. When we do, we will also revise the “Last Updated” date above. If we make material changes to the Privacy Statement, we will notify you more directly, such as by placing a prominent notice on our website or via email at the email address we have on file for you. Please check this page periodically for changes. Your continued use of this website following the posting of changes to these terms will mean you accept those changes. Information collected prior to the time any change is posted will be used according to the rules and laws that applied at the time the information was collected.

10. Your Consent
By accepting our privacy policy, you expressly authorize us to use the information you provide with our service providers, which may be located outside of your country of residence, even if such information is covered by local banking laws and to the extent permitted by law, you expressly waive your rights under such banking laws with regard to us and any of our trusted business partners and service providers. you acknowledge and agree that the sharing of such information is necessary to provide the service and this consent is given for the duration of your relationship with us.

Contact
If you have any further questions or would like more information, please contact us at: info@bestechman.com

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