Privacy Policy

Thank you for visiting the Privacy Policy of Bling! Handmade. This Privacy Policy explains how Bling! Handmade collects, uses, and shares information about you when you access or use our website.

Our policy is based on the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), as set out in Regulation (EU) 2016/679 of the European Parliament and the Council.

Bling! Handmade is committed to the protection and confidentiality of personal data, having adopted the measures it deems appropriate to ensure the accuracy, integrity and confidentiality of personal data, as well as all other rights enjoyed by the respective holders.

Users are responsible for any third-party data they provide or share through the Services and confirm that they have the third-party’s consent to provide such data to us.

Information We Collect

We may collect and combine information about you when you access or use the Services, including:

Contact Information: such as:

• address (street address, city, state, zip code)

Log and Usage Information: such as browser type you use, hardware model, operating system, IP address, unique device identifiers, access times, pages viewed, links clicked, and browsing behavior such as time spent, what site you came from, what site you visit when you leave us, and browsing behavior.

Account Information: if you create an account, we collect the information you provide to us related to the account, such as name, username, password, and email address.

Transactional Information: such as items placed in your cart, products purchased, product details, shipping information, purchase price, purchased date and payment information.

How We Use Your Information

We use information we collect about you to provide, maintain, and improve our Services and other interactions we have with you. For example, we use the information collected to:

• Facilitate and improve our online experience;
• Provide and deliver products and services, perform authentication, process transactions and returns, and send you related information, including confirmations, receipts, invoices, customer experience surveys, and product or Services-related notices;
• Process and deliver promotions;
• Respond to your comments and questions and provide customer service;
• If you have indicated to us that you wish to receive notifications or promotional messages;
• Detect, investigate and prevent fraudulent transactions and other illegal activities and protect our rights and property and others;
• Comply with our legal and financial obligations;
• Monitor and analyze trends, usage, and activities;
• Provide and allow our partners to provide advertising and marketing targeted toward your interests.

How We May Share Information

We may share your Personal Information in the following situations:

• Third Party Services Providers. We may share data with service providers, vendors, contractors, or agents who complete transactions or perform services on our behalf, such as those that assist us with our business and internal operations like shipping and delivery, payment processing, fraud prevention, customer service, gift cards, experiences, personalization, marketing, and advertising;
• Change in Business. We may share data in connection with a corporate business transaction, such as a merger or acquisition of all or a portion of our business to another company, joint venture, corporate reorganization, insolvency or bankruptcy, financing or sale of company assets;
• To Comply with Law. We may share data to facilitate legal process from lawful requests by public authorities, including to meet national security or law enforcement demands as permitted by law.
• With Your Consent. We may share data with third parties when we have your consent.
• With Advertising and Analytics Partners. See the section entitled “Advertising and Analytics” below.

Google Analytics

We use Google Analytics, an analytics service provided by Google LLC. We use this service to help analyze how users use the Service, with a view to analyzing usage across devices and offering improvements for all users. To learn more about Google Analytics, please visit their Privacy Policy. To opt-out of this feature by installing the Google Analytics Opt-out Browser Add-on, please click here.

Data Security

We implement commercially reasonable security measures designed to protect your information. Despite our best efforts, however, no security measures are completely impenetrable.

Data Retention

We store the information we collect about you for as long as necessary for the purpose(s) for which we collected it or for other legitimate business purposes, including to meet our legal, regulatory, or other compliance obligations.

Privacy Rights

Individuals located in certain countries, including the European Economic Area (EEA) and the United Kingdom, have certain statutory rights under the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) in relation to their personal data.

To the extent information we collect is associated with an identified or identifiable natural person and is protected as personal data under GDPR, it is referred to in this Privacy Policy as “Personal Data”.

Processing Personal Data

We may process your Personal Data under applicable data protection law on the following legal grounds:

• Contractual Necessity: we may process your Personal Data to enter into or perform a contract with you.
• Consent: where you have provided consent to process your Personal Data. You may withdraw your consent at any time.
• Legitimate interest: we process your Personal Data to provide our Services to you such as to provide our online user experience, communicate with you, provide customer service, market, analyze and improve our business, and to protect our Services.

Cookies

Cookies are small text files held on your computer, which allow us to give you the best browsing experience possible.

We use cookies to help identify you as a customer and to tailor your experiences on our website, such as tracking your shopping basket contents and remembering what stage you are at during the order process.

You are free to disable these cookies, but these may stop our website from functioning properly.

Our Website Will:

• Remember the items stored in your shopping basket
• Remember what stage of the order process you are at
• Check whether you are logged in or purchasing as a guest

Changes to this Privacy Policy

Bling! Handmade may change this Privacy Policy from time to time. We encourage you to visit this page to stay informed. If the changes are material, we may provide you additional notice to your email address or through our Services. Your continued use of the Services indicates your acceptance of the modified Privacy Policy.

Newsletters

You can opt out of receiving our marketing emails and/or newsletters by contacting us as described under “Contact Us” below. We may still send you transactional messages, which include Services-related communications and responses to your questions.

Responsible for the website and Data Processing

Lúcia Isabel Nabais de Almeida Marques, responsible for the brand Bling! Handmade, based in Av. Dr. António Rodrigues Manito N°99 3°ESQ 2900-068 Setúbal, PT236545582.

Contact Us

If you have questions, comments, or concerns about this Privacy Policy, you may contact us at:

• www.bling-handmade.com
• geral@bling-handmade.com