Privacy policy
This Privacy Policy was last updated on December 18, 2013. It describes how we collect personal information when you visit our Site, Yourmadeinitaly.com. Please note that any third party websites accessible through our Site (such as advertisers, PayPal, etc.) have their own privacy policies that are likely to be different from ours; please check directly with each such third party.
What information do we collect?
The only personally identifiable information we collect about you is the information you provide to us yourself when registering an account, placing an order, submitting content or contacting us for any reason. This information may include your name, address, phone number, email and credit card info.
We also collect anonymous information about aggregate site usage. This includes the statistics we gather about unique visits, repeat visits and page views are all based on IP addresses.
Why do we ask for personal information about you?
We need your personal information in order to be able to provide our services, personalize your experience on our Site, process payment or contact you for promotional purposes or otherwise.
Aggregate demographic information about our users is valuable to our advertisers, as it provides them with some important, yet anonymous information about potential customers.
We also collect information so that we can notify you about updates and improvements on our Site.
How do we use the information we collect?
We use your contact and payment information in order to fulfill your orders.
We may share aggregate site user information with our partners at any time. We will not share your personally identifiable information with any third party unless we tell you otherwise when we collect the information. When you register at our site and subscribe to Yourmadeinitaly.com daily emails, you consent to being contacted by Yourmadeinitaly.com.
We may keep and store user data for history and statistical purposes even after the account is deleted.
When can we disclose your information?
We won’t sell or rent your personal information to third parties for their marketing purposes without your explicit consent. We may, however, disclose personal information to respond to legal requirements, enforce our Terms and Conditions , this Privacy Policy, respond to claims that user’s content violates others’ rights, or protect anyone's rights, property, or safety. We may also share personal information with 1) our service providers who help with our business operations, 2) a buyer of our business when personal information is among the assets transferred.
How do we use cookies?
Yourmadeinitaly.com uses cookies to speed up the login process for you at various pages on the Site. When you register with Yourmadeinitaly.com with unique login credentials, we place a cookie on your computer that will remind our system of those login credentials to facilitate access next time you visit the Site. This cookie allows you to access areas of the Site without having to log on multiple times. Nothing in a cookie allows us to identify you individually. Your computer is assigned a number and that number is tracked using the cookie. This number is only meaningful in the context of our secure database system.
We also use cookies to log your activity on the Site. Everything we learn from these logs will be used to enrich your experience on our Site. It will help us understand what you like and don't like, so we can focus our energies more effectively and provide you with better information and services.
The cookies we use are categorized as follows:
a. Strictly necessary cookies. These cookies are essential in order to enable you to navigate through our Site and use its features, such as accessing its secure areas. Without these cookies services you have asked for cannot be provided.
b. Performance cookies. These cookies collect information about how visitors use our Site, for instance which pages users go to most often, and if they get error messages from pages. These cookies don’t collect information that identifies a user. All information these cookies collect is aggregated and therefore anonymous. It is only used to improve how our Site works. By using our Site, you agree that we can place these cookies on your device.
c. Functionality cookies. These cookies allow our Site to remember choices you make (such as your user name, language or the region you are in) and provide enhanced, more personal features. These cookies can also be used to remember changes you have made to text size, fonts and other parts of web pages that you can customize. They may also be used to provide services you have asked for such as commenting on a post. The information these cookies collect may be anonymized and they cannot track your browsing activity on other websites. By using our Site, you agree that we can place these cookies on your device.
d. Targeting cookies or advertizing cookies. These cookies are used to deliver adverts more relevant to you and your interests They are also used to limit the number of times you see an advertisement as well as help measure the effectiveness of an advertising campaign. They are usually placed by advertising networks with the software operator’s permission. They remember that you have visited a website, and this information is shared with other organizations such as advertisers. Quite often targeting or advertising cookies will be linked to site functionality provided by the other organizations.
Data security
We adhere to generally accepted industry standards to protect the personal information submitted to us, both during transmission and once we receive it. We cannot guarantee the security of your personal information transmitted to our Service because any transmission of information over the Internet has its inherent risks. Any transmission of personal information is at your own risk. We are not responsible for circumvention of any privacy settings or security measures contained on the Site.
Children’s Privacy
We do not knowingly collect or distribute personally identifiable information from children under the age of 13. If you are the parent or guardian of a child under the age of 13 and believe that we have collected personally identifiable information contrary to this policy or the Children’s Online Privacy Protection Act (COPPA), please contact us by e-mail so that we may delete such information.
Changes to this Privacy Policy
We may amend this Privacy Policy from time to time. If we make any substantial changes in the way we use your personal information, we will notify you by posting a prominent notice in our Privacy Policy or in other locations on our site or by sending you an email to inform you of our updated Privacy Policy.
Contact Us
Please direct your questions, concerns and feedback to privacy@yourmadeinitaly.com