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Privacy policy

PRIVACY POLICY

Shimansky acknowledges and respects the privacy of individuals. This policy outlines how we will collect, use, manage, and protect your personal information. By submitting your personal information to us, including but not limited to name, address, contact number, and email address information, you are giving us your consent to the collection, use, and receiving of text messages, emails, and other communication, including disclosure of your information as outlined in this Privacy Policy. You are welcome to contact us if you have any queries relating to our privacy policy.

COLLECTION AND USE OF INFORMATION
The Shimansky Website (hereafter referred to as the ‘Website’) allows users to browse content pages and product catalogs without revealing personal information. However, you may sign up to receive communication from Shimansky, whether through a newsletter, email, and/or RSS feed. Your email address is stored in our secure database.

When you register an account or place an order on the Website, personal information is required to complete the request successfully. Such personal data is necessary and includes, but is not limited to, name, address, contact number, and email address information. We may use the information we collect about you to:
(a) facilitate your order and provide the services you request;
(b) confirm and track your order;
(c) respond to your inquiries and requests;
(d) prevent and detect fraud or abuse;
(e) improve our Website, service, product offerings, marketing, and promotional efforts;
(f) understand customer demographics, preferences, interests, and behavior; and
(g) contact you via text message, email, mail, or telephone regarding products or services that interest you.

The ‘Share this’ link and ‘Email function’ allow you to refer a friend to the Website. By using this function, your and your friend’s details are requested to ensure that your friend will know where the information has come from. Your and your friend’s details may be collected and used following this Privacy Policy.

SHARING OF PERSONAL INFORMATION
All information collected on the Website remains the property of Shimansky and will not be shared or disclosed to any Third Party unless required in terms of the following:
(a) To our shipping provider to courier an order
(b) To our payment gateway provider to confirm and process a transaction
(c) If requested by a registered financial provider (bank) to, but not limited to, verify a transaction and/or to prevent abuse and/or fraud
(d) If requested by law

SERVICE PROVIDERS
Shimansky may use third-party service providers to perform certain services on our behalf. Such services may include, but are not limited to, shipping, payment processing, data storage and management, web analytics, fulfillment, assembly, marketing, mailing, and emailing. These service providers only receive information required to perform their function(s). While Shimansky has made and will make, every attempt to ensure that the personal information shared is kept private, Shimansky will not be held liable if such information is shared on their part.

CLICK-STREAM DATA
Each time you visit the Website, our server collects anonymous information, known as click-stream data. This information includes the type of browser and system you are using, the address of the site you have come from and moved to after your visit, the date and time of your visit, the pages on the Website you have visited, and your server’s IP address.

Shimansky may collect this information for statistical purposes to determine how the Website is used and navigated, including the number of hits, the frequency, and the duration of visits. We may use this information to evaluate and improve our Website performance.

We use analytics tools and other third-party technologies, such as Google Analytics and DoubleClick Cookies, to collect non-personal information through various usage and user metrics when you use our Website. These tools and technologies collect and analyze certain types of information, including cookies, IP addresses, device and software identifiers, referring and exit URLs, onsite behavior and usage information, feature use metrics and statistics, usage and purchase history, MAC Address, mobile unique device ID, and other similar information.

The third-party analytics companies who collect information on our Website and other online products and/or services may combine the information collected with other data they have independently collected from other websites and/or other online or mobile products and services relating to your activities across their network of websites as well as online and/or mobile products and services. Many of these companies collect and use information under their privacy policies.

In addition to our use of technologies as described herein, we may permit certain third-party companies to help us tailor advertising that we think may be of interest to you based on your use of our Website and to collect otherwise and use data about your use of the Website. For more information about this practice, please see the “Third Party Advertising Technologies” section below.

You may opt out of the DoubleClick cookie by visiting the Google advertising opt-out page, or you may opt out of Google Analytics by visiting the Google Analytics opt-out page. Google has additional information about their Remarketing Privacy Guidelines, Policies, and Restrictions.

COOKIES AND WEB BEACONS
A ‘cookie’ is a small piece of information stored by your browser on your computer’s hard drive and serves to collect information about your activities on our Website. A web beacon is a small string of code placed on a webpage or within an email to transfer data.

THIRD-PARTY ADVERTISING TECHNOLOGIES
In addition to using cookies and related technologies as described above, we also may permit certain third-party companies to help us tailor advertising that we think may be of interest to users and to collect and use other data about user activities on our Website (e.g., to allow them to tailor ads on Third Party services). These companies may deliver ads that place cookies and otherwise track user behavior. These companies may use information about user behavior to provide customized advertisements across various services and products. While providing these services and products or placing advertisements, these third-party companies may place or recognize a unique cookie on your computer. They may record information to these cookies based on your activities on the Website and third-party websites. Each company uses this cookie information according to their privacy and security policies.

We use Google AdWords Remarketing to advertise across the Internet. AdWords remarketing will display relevant ads tailored to you
based on what parts of the Website you have viewed. Google AdWords Remarketing allows us to tailor our marketing to suit your needs better and only display relevant ads. If you do not wish to participate in our Google AdWords Remarketing, you can opt-out by visiting Google’s Ads Preferences Manager.

LINKS TO OTHER WEBSITES
Shimansky may provide links to other websites. When you click on these links, you will leave our website and be directed to a third-party website outside our control that is not covered by this privacy policy. Please check the privacy policies on these third-party websites.

ACCESSING AND UPDATING PERSONAL INFORMATION
You can change or update your personal information by accessing your Account on the Website, or you may email or phone us with any changes to your details.

DISCLAIMER
Shimansky reserves the right to update, amend, and/or cancel this privacy policy without prior consent or notice. When revisions to this policy are made, it is automatically updated on the Website and will immediately come into effect. Please check the Privacy Policy each time you visit our website for any updates or amendments. Your use of our Website constitutes your consent to this Privacy Policy, including any amendments or updates. We may make additional features, functionality, offers, activities, or events (“opportunities”) available to you, subject to additional or different privacy rules we disclose concerning those opportunities.