This privacy policy is for us to be transparent and to help you understand what information we collect from you, how we collect it, why we collect it, and how we use it. This also puts you in control by having the choice to manage, delete, and update your information.
A. ABOUT OUR WEBSITE
Our website address is https://www.flairdecorum.com. You can contact us at hello@flairdecorum.com.
By visiting or using our website, it means that you trust us with your information. It also means that you accept and agree to the terms and conditions stated and agree to be bound by the Privacy Policy and Terms and Conditions at the time that you access our website or give any personal information to us. If you do not agree, accept, or want to be bound by this Privacy Policy, please do not access /use our website or give any of your information to us.
B. COLLECTION AND USAGE OF PERSONALLY IDENTIFIABLE
INFORMATION
B.1. What information do we collect and how it is collected
When you access or use our website you may provide some personal information such as but not limited to your name and email address, when you,
- subscribe to our newsletter (or click “I Agree” to receive news, promotions, etc.)
- get a free resource
- email us
- contact us/message or communicate with us through the website/chat
- comment on our website/blog posts
- fill out a form
- respond to online surveys or participate in contests or promotions
In addition to your name and email address, if you place an order or purchase anything on this website such as but not limited to a service, a digital product, or a physical product, you may provide your phone number, address, and debit/credit card information/Paypal or payment tool information.
Children’s Privacy
We respect the privacy of children and “child” means an individual under the age of 13. All information and content on this website is intended for individuals over the age of 18. Children under the age of 13 are prohibited from using this website. We do not knowingly collect, use or disclose personal information from children under the age of 13 without prior parental or guardian consent. If you believe personal information is collected from someone under the age of 13 without parental or guardian consent, then please contact us to have that information deleted.
B.2. How we use your personal information
We use your name and email address that you provide to us to do the following as consented by you to
a. send you our newsletter, updates about new blog posts, promotions about products
b. send free resources straight to your email address or to a link where you can access it
c. send you featured products we recommend through our website that you can further decide if you would like to purchase in the future
d. ask for feedback regarding our products or website to help improve our content or offerings
As mentioned above, your phone number, address, and debit/credit card information/Paypal or payment tool information that you provide to us will be used to process your purchase of our digital/physical product or service.
B.3. Disclosure of your information (How we share your information)
We respect you and protect your personal information, so we do not sell, rent, or trade your personal information to any third parties.
We follow the law and we do not disclose your information to third parties without your consent except
1. with our website hosting partner and email marketing service provider (company that sends emails on our behalf) as we need their services to run our website and email our subscribers with news, promotions, and activities of our website; please rest assured that we carefully chose reliable and safe third-party service providers that are well-known in the industry.
2. to be pursuant to the law in helping to deal with any legal issues or complaints.
3. if a government agency or investigatory body requests or to protect us legally
B.4. How long data will be retained
We will retain your personal data as long as the purpose for processing or keeping the data is still in effect. For example, if you only agree to receive the free resource BUT DO NOT AGREE TO receive our newsletters, then your name and email address will be removed from our system once you receive the free resource.
B.5. Disclosure of whether data is stored, shared or processed
Our website and services are hosted in the United States. If you are an international visitor, you should note that by providing your personal information, you are: (i) permitting the transfer of your personal information to the United States which may not have the same data protection laws as the country in which you reside; and (ii) permitting the use of your personal information in accordance with this Privacy Policy.
B.6. How to opt-out or unsubscribe from our email list
Should you like to opt-out from our emailer, you may click the “unsubscribe” button at the bottom of the email we send to you. If you have any concerns about unsubscribing or opting out, please contact hello@flairdecorum.com.
C. COMMENTS AND SOCIAL MEDIA
If you leave a comment, the comment and its metadata are retained indefinitely. This is so we can recognize and approve any follow-up comments automatically instead of holding them in a moderation queue. When you leave a comment, your name, email address and website/organization name is not shared with a third party and may be used to communicate with you.
Social media accounts and sharing options are available on this website. Social media sites (Facebook, Twitter, YouTube, LinkedIn, Pinterest, Instagram and so forth) can track your personal information. Should you choose to interact with us on social media, please note that you will be voluntarily disclosing that personal information. This information is no longer private. It becomes public information and can be collected and used by others. We have no control over and take no responsibility for the use, storage or dissemination of such publicly-disclosed personal information by you.
Any such interactions via comments and social media with us do not subject us to any kind of liability related to misuse of your information by others.
D. REGARDING COOKIES
Cookies are small pieces of text files containing small amounts of information downloaded to your mobile device, tablet, or computer when you visit a website such as ours.
When you open our website, you will notice that we ask consent from you to allow cookies.
You are not required to accept any cookies to use our website. You may choose not to accept any cookies when using our website or turn off cookies in your computer / browser. However, by doing so you may not be able to view all the features and content of our website.
What is the purpose of cookies?
Cookies help our website remember information about your visit, making it easier to visit our site again and making it more useful to you.
For example, cookies make surfing online quicker by remembering what sites you visited, your IP address, location, and time of visit, along with your preferences. Therefore, cookies help improve website navigation and user experience.
If you leave a comment on our site you may opt-in to saving your name, email address, and website in cookies. It will be more convenient to you since you do not have to fill in your details again when you post another comment.
If you visit our website, we will set a temporary cookie (or session cookie) to determine if your browser accepts cookies. This cookie contains no personal data and is discarded when you close your browser.
Lastly, we may use cookies to help us with website analytics and effective affiliate marketing and to show ads relevant to you.
How to Delete Cookies
To delete cookies, please go to the Help menu of your browser for details.
E. USE OF WEB BEACONS AND PIXELS
In conjunction with the use of cookies, third parties may also use web beacons, which are also known as clear GIFs, web bugs or pixel tags to collect general information about your use of our website. They monitor user activity and are used to track customer behavior data. This information may be relevant to third parties such as the ad networks used on our website to tailor the advertising based on your behavior and interests.
We may use social media pixels to track and collect general information about your use in compliance with different social media sites (Facebook, Twitter, etc) for the purpose of promoting products, tracking conversions, remarketing, running target advertisements and so forth.
Third parties like Facebook may use their own cookies, web beacons and other technologies to collect and receive information from our website for the purpose of providing target advertisements. You may see our ads on Facebook after you have visited our website.
F. WEBSITE VISITOR INFORMATION
To better understand our visitors and improve the content, services, and products we offer, we may collect some anonymous information when you visit our website such as device-related information like browser type, IP address, server log information (date and time of visit) or “referral data” collected in logs which means what website(s) you visited prior to our website that led you to our website. This is intended to improve our marketing campaigns, personalize the advertisements, and for analytics purposes.
G. USE OF WEB ANALYTICS SERVICES (Google Analytics)
Like many websites around the world, we use the help of “Analytics Services” like Google Analytics to monitor and analyze the web traffic or the number of visitors of our website. Thus, this “analytics services” collect information from our website visitors like frequency of visitors’ usage, what specific articles are visited, date of visit, other sites previously visited, and geographic location of visitors.
If you want to know more, please read “How Google uses data when you use our partners’ sites or apps” by clicking this link.
We use this information to determine what content/products interests our visitors, improve our content or website, show appropriate advertisements, and make sure we constantly offer visitors quality information and products on our website.
If you want to know more about Google Analytics’ Privacy Policy and Terms of Use, click this link.
If you want to prevent your data from being used by Google Analytics, you can install the Google Analytics opt-out browser add-on by clicking this link.
H. HOW WE USE AND RECOMMEND THIRD-PARTY LINKS
When you navigate through our website or read our posts, we usually include, recommend, and advertise third-party links, products, and services. When you click on these links you are now bound by their Privacy Policy and Terms of Use. Thus, please ensure that you fully agree with their terms and policies before you give any information or purchase anything from these third-party links. We are not responsible for activities or practices of these third parties. You may communicate with them directly if you have any questions.
Articles on this website may include embedded content (e.g. videos, images, advertisements, etc.). Embedded content from other websites behaves in the exact same way as if the visitor has visited the other website. These websites may collect data about you, use cookies, embed additional third-party tracking, and monitor your interaction with that embedded content, including tracing your interaction with the embedded content if you have an account and are logged in to that website.
Affiliate Links
Some of our posts contain affiliate links, which means we earn a commission for products or services purchased through these links without any additional cost to you.
Advertising Tools
We use advertising tools to show you relevant and engaging advertisements by matching them based on our website content and site visitors.
We may use Google AdSense advertising along with any other third-party advertising on the website. Google is a third party that also uses cookies to serve ads on the website for the purpose of providing a positive user experience. Google’s use of advertising cookies enables it and its partners to serve ads based on your visit to our site and/or other sites on the Internet. Third-party vendors such as Google use cookies to serve ads based on a user’s prior visits to the website. You can opt-out of Google by visiting their privacy policy and Ad Settings. To opt out of other third-party vendor’s use of cookies for personalized advertising you can visit www.aboutads.info
We have no control over these third parties and they have their own privacy policies. Neither are we responsible for the activities and practices of these third parties. You should contact them directly and read their privacy policies for any questions. You also agree that your use of these third-party websites is solely at your risk.
I. EMAIL MARKETING
As mentioned above, we disclose your information to our email marketing service provider who sends our newsletters for us. We ensure that before we partner with our email marketing service provider that they are compliant with laws regarding data privacy such as the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR).
J. REGARDING THE GENERAL DATA PROTECTION REGULATION (GDPR) FOR THE EUROPEAN UNION
We understand that this website will be visited by users all over the world and so we comply with the relevant laws, which include the GDPR for our visitors residing within the European Union.
If you are from a country in the European Union and you have visited our website or opted-in to our email subscription, you have these rights as stated in the articles of the GDPR.
1. Right to be informed of how your personal data is being processed. You will find this information within this document (our Privacy Policy).
2. Right of access, or the right to request your personal information from our website.
3. Right to rectification, or the right to change the personal data that you gave us to correct and/or update any inaccuracies.
4. Right to erasure, or “right to be forgotten” means your personal data can be erased and/or processing of your data must cease under certain circumstances, as you require.
5. Right to restriction of processing or to restrict/limit the processing of your personal information when you do not want your data to be used but do not want it to be erased.
6. Right to data portability means you can request for a copy of your personal data or request it to be transmitted from us to a different business.
7. Right to object to the processing of your personal data if you find it unlawful, improper, or you simply wish for it not to be processed. Here we still retain your personal data but will not process it anymore, unless you want it erased.
8. Right to human intervention, or the right to not be subject to automated decisions that could be harmful, and to request human intervention.
If you would like to exercise your rights above please contact hello@flairdecorum.com.
K. REGARDING CALIFORNIA RESIDENTS
If you are a resident of California in the United States and you wish to request access, review, and make changes to the personal information (if any) that you have provided to us, please email us at hello@flairdecorum.com.
We collect and share your personal information to our website hosting partner Google Analytics to monitor and analyze the web traffic of our website (please refer to Section G), and to our email marketing service provider who sends our newsletters for us.
Lastly, upon entering our website we make our visitors aware of our Privacy Policy, which can be found in the Cookie Consent section as well as in the footer. The link to our Privacy Policy has the word “Privacy”.
L. SECURITY
The security of your personal information is important to us, and we strive to follow generally commercial industry standards to protect your personal information submitted to us voluntarily and automatically. However, no method of transmission over the Internet is 100% secure and we cannot guarantee the absolute security of your information. When you make a credit card purchase or purchase through any means on the website, you will be directed to a third-party vendor to complete the transaction. Any information you provide during the checkout process is not stored on our website but instead provided to the third-party vendor that completes the purchase transaction.
By using this website, you agree to hold us harmless for any security breach and for any unauthorized use of your personal information by third parties. You also agree that we cannot be held responsible for any disclosure of your information through our website without our knowledge and consent.
M. EFFECTIVE DATE OF PRIVACY POLICY AND UPDATES
This Privacy Policy was last updated and effective: August 1, 2021
We may change or update this Privacy Policy from time to time depending on how our website may change in the future.
Thus, you will still be governed by the terms of the version of the Privacy Policy at the time you provided your consent or personal information to us. Any personal information that is collected by our website is covered by the Privacy Policy in effect at the time such information is collected.
We will revise the last updated date above whenever we make changes.
Kindly read this Privacy Policy regularly for updates.
N. CONTACT INFORMATION
Please do not hesitate to contact us for any questions/ feedback regarding our website. We’ll be glad to hear from you so we can improve our website and offerings!
You may send an email to hello@flairdecorum.com for faster communication. We will respond in a few days or as soon as we can.
You may also send us a message through hello@flairdecorum.com if you:
1. have any concerns/complaints,
2. want us to stop processing or using your information,
3. want us to delete your personal information with us, or
4. want to exercise your right as a user of our website as stated above.