Privacy Policy
- INTRODUCTION
This privacy policy explains how we collect and use your personal information to serve you.
- YOUR RIGHT TO CONTROL HOW YOUR PERSONAL INFORMATION IS USED
You have the right to make requests regarding your personal information. You can:
- Review the personal information we have about you or request a copy of it
- Ask us to update or correct personal information if it is inaccurate
- Request that we delete your personal information
- Make choices about receiving email marketing
We will make reasonable efforts to honor your request, even if your country or state does not require us to do so. If you ask us to delete or stop using your personal information, we may not be able to honor that request if the information is required to process your payments or returns; fulfill your order; or comply with tax, audit or regulatory requirements. Please contact us to exercise one or more of these rights.
- TYPES OF INFORMATION WE COLLECT
We collect information about you such as your contact information, payment information, demographic information, shopping preferences and information about the devices you use to shop online. We need to collect personal information in order to provide the products and services you request. If you do not provide the information requested, we may not be able to provide you with these products and services.
The information we collect:
- Contact information, such as name, email address, postal address, phone number
- Payment information, such as credit card number, bank card numbers, cheque,
and other payment details
- Order and refund history
- Demographic information, such as age
- Information about your interests, preferences, and purchase history
- Information may be collected from you if you interact with us on social media
sites, such as Facebook, Instagram and YouTube
- Device and browser information including location information, MAC addresses, IP addresses, Cookies, and other online identifiers
- If you disclose any personal information relating to other people to us or to our service providers, you represent that you have the authority to do so, and to permit us to use the information in accordance with this Privacy Policy
- HOW WE COLLECT YOUR INFORMATION
We collect information about you in a variety of different ways:
- Information you provide to us, such as while making a purchase or signing up for a loyalty or rewards program.
Online Order Information
When you make a purchase from our websites or mobile apps, we ask you to provide us with information about your purchase such as your name, email address, shipping address, phone number, and payment information.
Online Accounts
If you sign up for an online account through our websites or mobile applications, we may ask you to provide your username, password, email address, phone number, payment card information, product preferences, past purchases, or gender. You do not have to create an online account to make a purchase.
If you connect your social media account to your online account, you will share certain personal information from your social media account with us, for example, your name, email address, photo, list of social media contacts, and any other information that may be accessible to us when you connect your social media account to your online account.
Marketing Communications
If you would like to receive marketing communications from us, you may do so by signing up on our websites, mobile applications. We will ask you to provide your email address or phone number so we can send you marketing materials.
Communicating with us
When you contact us about a customer service issue, or to make other inquiries, we collect the content of those communications, and any additional information about the method of communication such as phone, SMS, email, chat, or through social media platforms. For example, if you email us, we will collect your email address, if you send us a text message, we will collect your phone number, and so on.
Loyalty & Rewards Programs
If you enroll in a loyalty or rewards program, we collect information such as your name, email, telephone number, or mailing address in order to track your rewards and allow you to redeem them.
- Information we collect while you interact with our websites, mobile or other apps, social media sites, and other products and services. This often involves information about your device such as IP addresses and MAC addresses, as well as information collected through cookies.
- Information we collect about you from other sources, such as credit card issuers and data analytics firms.
Investigations
We may collect information about you in connection with investigations into
fraudulent or criminal activities on our websites and/or mobile apps.
- Information we create ourselves after we analyze the information we collected about you, such as your shopping preferences.
Aggregated information
We may aggregate and/or anonymize personal information so that it will no longer be considered personal information. We do so to generate other data for our use, which we may use and disclose for any purpose. For example, we may calculate the percentage of our site users who have a particular telephone area code.
- COOKIES AND SIMILAR TECHNOLOGIES
Cookies are little bits of computer code that collect data by tagging along with you while you browse. Most websites, including ours, wouldn’t work very well without certain cookies. They allow us to prevent crashes, display information, fix bugs, and ensure the security of our site (and your account). These types of cookies are often called “strictly necessary” cookies. Because they are needed for our site to work, we don’t provide you with an ability to opt-out of these cookies. But you can remove them by using your browser settings. Keep in mind that certain features of our site may not be available to you.
We also use cookies and similar technologies to gather information about the success of our ad campaigns and use of our products and services. These technologies include Google Analytics, Adobe Analytics, Adobe Flash and others. You can opt-out by visiting Google Analytics Opt-out Browser Add-on and Adobe Your Privacy Choices. You can also adjust your privacy settings for Adobe Flash player by visiting the Website Storage Settings Panel and the Global Storage Settings Panel.
- HOW WE USE YOUR INFORMATION
We use your personal information to provide you with our products and services and to operate our business. We often use the information we collect for multiple purposes. For example, if you make a purchase on our website, we collect several types of data from you and use it in multiple ways: First, we use your shipping address to make sure that our products arrive at your door. We may also use your contact information to send you a receipt of purchase. We may look at your experience on our website to make improvements to it and try to tailor it to your needs. We will also analyze the data you provide us and your behavior on our website to ensure that the activity is not fraudulent. Finally, we use your purchase information for other business-related purposes like accounting and financial reporting.
For example, when you make purchases online, we process your information to fulfill our contractual obligations. When you visit our websites, we have a legitimate interest in using your browsing data to improve our site’s usability, and when you engage with us online, we have a legal obligation to ensure that you are not attempting to defraud us, or our customers.
Providing you with Products and Services
We use your information to process, fulfill and communicate with you about your orders, respond to your customer service inquiries, allow you to use online technologies, enroll you in rewards and loyalty programs, and to inform you of policy or product changes that may impact you. When we use information in this way, we do so for the purpose of fulfilling a contract with you, or to comply with a legal obligation.
For Marketing Communications and Promotions
We use your personal information to send you marketing communications about our products and services, and promotions. We may send you emails, postal mail, text messages, phone calls, or social media messages that we believe you would be interested in. We will do this because we have a legitimate interest to do so.
For Business Reporting and Providing Personalized Services and Ads
We use your personal information to analyze or predict our customer preferences in order to prepare aggregated trend reports on how our digital content is used, so we can improve our products and services. We also use personal information to better understand you and your preferences, so that we can personalize our interactions with you and provide you with information and/or offers tailored to your interests. We use information in this way we have a legitimate interest to do so.
Allowing you to participate in promotions and events
We may use your personal information to allow you to participate in local community events, promotions, and in-store experiences. Some of these may have additional rules containing information about how we will use and disclose your personal information. We use this information for the purpose of fulfilling a contract with you or because we have a legitimate interest to do so.
For other business purposes
We may use your personal information to learn more about our customer base, perform data analyses, address problems with our technology, improve our products and services or develop new ones, to investigate and prevent fraud or other illegal activity, to enforce our Terms & Conditions Policy, and to provide a more consistent experience across our channels. Finally, we may be required to use your personal information to comply with applicable law, for auditing purposes, or to respond to requests from government authorities. We will engage in these activities to fulfill a contract with you, to comply with a legal obligation, and/or because we have a legitimate interest in doing so.
- HOW WE SHARE PERSONAL INFORMATION
We may share your personal information with third parties who provide services to you or us, with promotional partners, with social media companies, or with other third parties as needed to carry out our business, or comply with a legal obligation.
Public posting and social sharing
When you post public comments on our websites, on public forums like our social media sites, blogs, and online reviews, your comments are accessible by other members of the public.
Social media logins and other integrations
When you log into your customer account using your social media account credentials, or use other social media services with us, your personal information will be disclosed to the social media account provider in connection with your login. By doing so, you authorize us to facilitate this sharing of information, and you understand that this sharing is governed by the social media site’s privacy policy that you used to log into your account.
Marinia Fashions’s service providers
Marinia Fashion uses third parties to provide services to you or us. This includes managing customer information; fulfilling promotions; sending marketing communications; conducting surveys; hosting websites; analyzing data; processing payments; fulfilling and shipping orders; or providing network security, accounting, auditing, and other services. We do not authorize these service providers to use or disclose your information for purposes other than why we have retained them.
Third party partners
You may share information with other companies when we work with them to promote our products, services, offers, or other promotions to our customers.
Script or Loyalty Programs
If you participate in third party scrip, loyalty, or similar programs that a Marinia brand also participates in, we will share your information with them to facilitate the program. This may include sending your purchase information to credit card processors, so part of your purchase may be donated to participating schools or other non-profit organizations. If you participate in loyalty programs, we may send your information to the vendor administering the program. This
information may include your name, email, credit card number, your purchase history, and other information you have provided to us through the program. Once your information is provided to the third party it will be handled in accordance with their privacy policy. You should review the privacy policy before entering into a rewards, loyalty, or script program, so that you have a complete understanding of how your information is being used.
To fulfill legal obligations and with government agencies
We may share information about you if necessary or appropriate, in our good faith judgment, to comply with laws or regulations, or in response to a valid subpoena, order, or government request, or to protect the operations, privacy, safety, property or rights of Marinia Fashion or others.
During a sale or business transaction
In the event of any potential or actual reorganization, merger, sale, joint venture, assignment, transfer or other disposition of all or any portion of our business, assets, or stock (including in connection with any bankruptcy or similar proceedings), your personal information may be shared with third parties such as the acquiring entity and its advisors.
- HOW WE STORE AND SECURE YOUR INFORMATION
- Where We Store Information.
The Personal Information that we collect is stored in the United States. Your personal information may be subject to the laws of the states in which it is stored or used.
- Information Retention.
We will retain your personal information for as long as needed to provide the service to you (for example, as long as you have an online account with us) or as needed to fulfill our own obligations, such as preventing fraud, meeting regulatory requirements, resolving disputes, improving our services or maintaining security, and in each case, as consistent with applicable law. We may retain non-personal information that has been sufficiently aggregated or anonymized for a longer period.
- Information Security.
We do our best to provide you with a safe and convenient shopping experience. We have put in place a wide variety of technical and organizational security measures to help protect you and the personal information we collect about you. Please note that we will never email you asking for account information like your user name, date of birth, credit card information, or other personal information. Finally, we will never email you with attachments that can be opened. If you received a suspicious email that appears to be from us please contact us.
- Third Party Services.
We are not responsible for, and this policy does not address, the privacy practices of other third parties, such as Facebook, Apple, Google, Microsoft, or any other app developers, social media platforms, operating system providers, wireless or telecommunications service providers, or device manufacturers. The inclusion of a link on our services does not imply an endorsement of the linked sites or services by us or our affiliates.
- Sensitive Information.
Unless we request it, we ask that you not send us, and you not disclose, any sensitive personal information (e.g., social security numbers, information related to racial or ethnic origin, political opinions, religion or other beliefs, health, biometrics or genetic characteristics, criminal background, or trade union membership) on or through our services or otherwise to us.
- Third Party Payment Service.
We make certain third-party payment service processors available to you such as PayPal. If you wish to use one of these services, your personal information will be collected by such third party and will be subject to the third party’s privacy policy. We have no control over, and are not responsible for this third party’s collection, use, and disclosure of your personal information.
- Changes to this Policy.
We will post updates to our privacy policy on our websites. If we change the policy in a manner that materially impacts your privacy rights, we will provide additional notice to you.
CONTACT INFORMATION
Questions about our Privacy Policy should be sent to us. Please go to our contact page and fill in the contact form.