Privacy Statement

Owner: French is Tough

ARTICLE 1 – COLLECTION OF PERSONAL INFORMATION

When you make a purchase from our store, we collect personal information such as your name, address, and email address as part of our buying and selling process.

When you browse our store, we automatically receive your computer's internet protocol (IP) address, which provides us with details about the browser and operating system you are using.

If applicable, with your permission, we may send you emails about our store, new products, and other updates.

ARTICLE 2 - CONSENT

How do you give your consent?

By providing us with your personal information to complete a transaction, verify your credit card, place an order, arrange for a delivery, or return a purchase, you imply your consent for us to collect and use that information for the specific reason stated.

If we require your personal information for a secondary reason, such as marketing, we will either ask for your explicit consent or provide you with an opportunity to decline.

How do you withdraw your consent?

If you change your mind after opting in, you may withdraw your consent for us to contact you or continue collecting, using, or disclosing your information by contacting us at frenchistough@gmail.com at any time.

ARTICLE 3 – DISCLOSURE

We may disclose your personal information if required by law or if you violate our Terms of Service.

ARTICLE 4 – 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, 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 necessary to complete your purchase. After that, 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 information, you may also want to read Shopify's Terms of Service here or Privacy Statement here.

ARTICLE 5 – THIRD-PARTY SERVICES

In general, the third-party providers we use will only collect, use, and disclose your information to the extent necessary 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 regarding the information we are required to provide to them for your purchase-related transactions.

We recommend reading their privacy policies to understand how your personal information will be handled by these providers.

Please note that certain providers may be located in or have facilities located in a different jurisdiction than you or us. If you proceed with a transaction involving a third-party service provider, your information may become subject to the laws of the jurisdiction(s) in which that service provider or its facilities are located.

For example, if you are located in Canada and your transaction is processed by a payment gateway located in the United States, 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:

Clicking on certain links on our site may redirect you away from our site. We are not responsible for the privacy practices of other sites and encourage you to read their privacy statements.

ARTICLE 6 – SECURITY

To protect your personal information, we take reasonable precautions and follow industry best practices to ensure it is not inappropriately lost, misused, accessed, disclosed, altered, or destroyed.

If you provide us with your credit card information, it is encrypted using secure socket layer technology (SSL) and stored with 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 industry standards.

Cookies:

Here is a list of cookies that we use. We've listed them here so that you can choose whether or not to opt-out of cookies.

_session_id: unique session identifier, allows Shopify to store information about your session (referrer, landing page, etc.).

_shopify_visit: no data held, persists 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 at midnight (relative to the visitor) of the next day, counts the number of visits to a store by a single customer.

cart: unique identifier, persists for 2 weeks, stores information about the contents of your cart.

_secure_session_id: unique session identifier

storefront_digest: unique identifier, indefinite if the shop has a password, used to determine if the current visitor has access.

ARTICLE 7 – 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 and that you have given us your consent to allow any of your minor dependents to use this site.

ARTICLE 8 – 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 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.

Questions and contact information

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, please contact our Privacy Compliance Officer at frenchistough@gmail.com
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