Privacy Policy

Privacy Policy

SECTION 1 – PERSONAL INFORMATION

What do we do with your information?

When you buy a product from our store, as part of the transaction process, we collect personal information, like your name, e-mail, and home address.

In addition, the moment you start to browse our website, we instantly have your PC’s IP – in other words, internet protocol. We’ll be able to find out more information concerning your browser and operating system.

If applicable, and with your permission we may send you e-mails about our store, newly released products, and other updates, you may be interested in.

SECTION 2 - CONSENT

How do we get your consent?

The moment you give us your personal information alongside with a verification of your complete transaction, such as your verified credit card information, and you have successfully placed an order, our company will infer that you have given your content to us to use your information for the fulfilling of your order.

If we do ask for your personal information for other reasons, such as for marketing purposes, then we would ask for your consent directly and we would give you the option to say “no”.

How do I withdraw my consent?

You’re able to withdraw your consent anytime if you change your mind. Reach us at support@northsidedog.com. 

SECTION 3 – DISCLOSURE

Our company may disclose your personal information if the law requires us doing so or if you happen to violate the rules of our Terms of Service.

SECTION 4 - SHOPIFY

Our online store is being hosted by Shopify Inc. They are an e-commerce platform that enables us to offer products and services.

Your given data is saved through our platform’s storage, databases, and Shopify as a whole. The data is being saved on a highly secured server behind a firewall.

Payment

You have the option to choose a direct payment gateway in order to complete the entire purchase process. After which, Shopify saves your credit card data.

It’s being encrypted through the use of Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard (PCI-DSS). The purchase transaction data is saved only when it’s necessary to complete the entire purchase transaction process. The moment that’s complete, the data is deleted.

The direct payment gateway follows the standards made by PCI-DSS and are controlled by the PCI Security Standards Council. This is an effort joined together by popular brands, such as Visa, Discover, and American Express.

SECTION 5 - THIRD-PARTY SERVICES

As a whole, all of the third-party providers that are utilized by us will only have the power to collect, use, and finally, disclose the information to the degree necessary to permit them to perform the needed services they offer to our company.

On the other hand, there are certain third-party service providers, like payment gateways and related others, which carry their own privacy policies with respect to the specified information that the company is required to give them for your transactions.

For extra measures, we highly recommend that you check out their privacy policies so that you will be informed as to how your personal data will be handled.

In addition, you have to keep in mind that there are providers are based in different jurisdictions. Meaning, the moment that you have left our website or you’ve been redirected to another website or app, then you are no longer covered by our Policies.

Links

Clicking on links may direct you to a different website or application away from our site. We are not responsible for the privacy practices of third-party sites.

SECTION 6 - SECURITY

We do whatever it takes to protect your personal information, we follow the best industry practices to do so in order to keep it safe from being lost, misused, disclosed, or destroyed.

When you provide us with your credit card information, it’s being encrypted with the use of secure socket layer technology and it’s saved with an AES-256 encryption.

 

SECTION 7 – COOKIES

Down below is the list of cookies that our company uses.

_session_id, unique token, sessional, enables Shopify to save data about your session (referrer, landing page, etc).

_shopify_visit, no data held, Insistent for 30 minutes from the last visit, utilized by our website provider’s internal stats tracker to save the frequency of visits

_shopify_uniq, no data held, expires midnight (relative to the visitor) of the next day, records the number of visits to a store made by a single client

cart, unique token, persistent for 2 weeks, saves data about the things of your cart.

_secure_session_id, unique token, sessional

storefront_digest, unique token, unspecified. If the shop has a password, this is often used to establish if the current visitor has permission.

PREF, persistent for a very short period, set by Google and saves who visits the store and from where

SECTION 8 - AGE OF CONSENT

When you are using our site, it means you are in the age of majority in your jurisdiction. It also indicates that you have given your consent to enable any of the small dependents of this site.

SECTION 9 - ALTERATIONS TO THIS PRIVACY POLICY

We have the right to change this privacy policy at any given time, so you need to check this page frequently. Any changes will immediately take effect upon updating this posting on the website.

If the company makes any material changes to the policy, you will be notified that it has been modified. If our online store has been merged with a different company, your personal data will be transferred to the new owner of the site.