Privacy Policy

The Elder Statesman Privacy Policy

This Privacy Policy describes how your personal information is collected, used, and shared when you visit or make a purchase from https://www.elder-statesman.com (the “Site”) and any other time you interact with our company (“Services”).

 

PERSONAL INFORMATION WE COLLECT

We collect the following categories and types of “Personal Information”:

  • Contact Information: your first and last name, mailing address, email address, and phone number (we refer to any contact information collected about you when you make a purchase or attempt to make a purchase on our Site as “Order Information”)
  • Other identifying information: IP address, device information (“Device Information”);
  • Internet or other electronic activity: your browsing and click history, including information about how you navigate within our Site and Services and which elements of our Site and Services you use the most;
  • Commercial information: products purchased or viewed on our Site; and
  • Inferences drawn from the categories described above in order to create a profile about you to reflect your preferences, characteristics, behavior and attitude.

Note that we do not collect financial information, but our Service Providers collect it to process your payments.

 

We collect Device Information using the following technologies:

    - “Cookies” are data files that are placed on your device or computer and often include an anonymous unique identifier. For more information about cookies, and how to disable cookies, visit http://www.allaboutcookies.org.

    - “Log files” track actions occurring on the Site, and collect data including your IP address, browser type, Internet service provider, referring/exit pages, and date/time stamps.

    - “Web beacons,” “tags,” and “pixels” are electronic files used to record information about how you browse the Site.”

 

HOW DO WE USE YOUR PERSONAL INFORMATION?

  • Transactional Purposes: We use your contact information and commercial information to:
  • Receive, process, confirm, send and track your order or registration;
  • Communicate with you about your order or registration; and
  • Process any registration you make to one of our Services.
  • Analytical Purposes: We use your other identifying information, internet activity and browsing history and commercial information to analyze preferences, trends and statistics.
  • Marketing and Promotional Purposes: We use your contact information, commercial information, internet or other electronic activity, and inferences to:
  • Inform you of our new products, services and offers;
  • Provide you with targeted advertising;
  • Run contests, promotions and sweepstakes; and
  • Provide you with other information from and about our Company, including personalized marketing communications.
  • Maintenance and Improvement of the Site and Services: We use your contact information, commercial information, and internet activity and browsing history to:
  • Provide you with the Site and Services, including to send you alerts about your account;
  • Handle your customer services requests; and
  • Help us diagnose technical and service problems and administer our stores, the Site, and the Services.
  • Security and Fraud Prevention: We use your contact information, other identifying information, commercial information, internet activity and browsing history, and inferences to protect the Site and services, our Company, and others and to prevent fraud, theft and misconduct.

 

Sources of Personal Information

We collect Personal Information from the following sources:

  • We collect information directly from you. We collect contact information directly from you.
  • We collect information from you passively. We collect internet or other electronic activity passively using tools like browser cookies, as described in this Privacy Policy.

 

CATEGORIES OF THIRD PARTIES WE SHARE PERSONAL INFORMATION WITH

Service Providers

From time to time, we may establish a business relationship with other businesses whom we believe trustworthy and who have confirmed that their privacy practices are consistent with ours (“Service Providers”).  For example, we may contract with Service Providers to provide certain services, such as hosting and maintenance, data storage and management, and marketing and promotions.  We only provide our Service Providers with the information necessary for them to perform these services on our behalf.  Each Service Provider must agree to use reasonable security procedures and practices, appropriate to the nature of the information involved, in order to protect your Personal Information from unauthorized access, use, or disclosure.  Service Providers are prohibited from using Personal Information other than as specified by us.

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 also 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://www.google.com/intl/en/policies/privacy/.  You can also opt out of Google Analytics here:  https://tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout.

 

Our Affiliates

We may share Personal Information with businesses controlling, controlled by, or under common control with our Company. 

Corporate Transactions

If our Company is merged, acquired, or sold, or in the event of a transfer of some or all of our assets, we may disclose or transfer Personal Information in connection with such transaction.  You will have the opportunity to opt out of any such transfer if, in our discretion, it will result in the handling of your Personal Information in a way that differs materially from this Privacy Policy.

 

Compliance with Laws and Law Enforcement 

Finally, we may also share your Personal Information to comply with applicable laws and regulations, to respond to a subpoena, search warrant, or other lawful requests for information we receive, or to otherwise protect our rights. We cooperate with government and law enforcement officials and private parties to enforce and comply with the law.  We may disclose Personal Information and any other information about you to government or law enforcement officials or private parties if, in our discretion, we believe it is necessary or appropriate in order to respond to legal requests (including court orders and subpoenas), to protect the safety, property, or rights of our company or of any third party, to prevent or stop any illegal, unethical, or legally actionable activity, or to comply with the law.

 

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 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:

  INCLUDE OPT-OUT LINKS FROM WHICHEVER SERVICES ARE BEING USED.

  COMMON LINKS INCLUDE:

    FACEBOOK - https://www.facebook.com/settings/?tab=ads 

    GOOGLE - https://www.google.com/settings/ads/anonymous 

 

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/ 

 

DO NOT TRACK

Please note that we do not alter our Site’s data collection and use practices when we see a Do Not Track signal from your browser.

 

YOUR RIGHTS

If you are a European resident, you have the right to access personal information we hold about you and to ask that your personal information be corrected, updated, or deleted. If you would like to exercise this right, please contact us through the contact information below.

Additionally, if you are a European resident we note that we are processing your information in order to fulfill contracts we might have with you (for example if you make an order through the Site), or otherwise to pursue our legitimate business interests listed above.  Additionally, please note that your information will be transferred outside of Europe, including to Canada and the United States.

 

DATA RETENTION

When you place an order through the Site, we will maintain your Order Information for our records unless and until you ask us to delete this information.

 

SECURITY

We maintain physical, electronic, and procedural safeguards to protect the confidentiality and security of information transmitted to us.  However, no data transmission over the Internet or other network can be guaranteed to be 100% secure.  As a result, while we strive to protect information transmitted on or through the Site or Services, we cannot and do not guarantee the security of any information you transmit on or through the Site or Services, and you do so at your own risk.

 

MINORS

The Site is not intended for individuals under the age of 18.

 

CHANGES

We may update this privacy policy from time to time in order to reflect, for example, changes to our practices or for other operational, legal or regulatory reasons.

 

CONTACT US

For more information about our privacy practices, if you have questions, or if you would like to make a complaint, please contact us by e-mail at web@elder-statesman.com or by mail using the details provided below:

 2416 Hunter St, Los Angeles, CA, 90021, United States