This Privacy Policy (Privacy Statement) explains how your personal information is collected, used, and shared when you visit or make a purchase from www.hobbyxstyle.com  (“HOBBYXSTYLE”,  “we”, “us” or “our”, “Site”). Personal information means all data that can be personally related to you, e.g. name, address, telephone number, email address, or user behavior.

Collection and Use of Personal Data

If you visit our site for informational purposes but don’t register with us, create an account, order something, or otherwise deliberately transfer information to us, we collect information from your browser to help us serve our websites to you.

What Personal Data We Collect

Depending on the products and services you use, we collect different kinds of personal data from or about you.

Data about use of our services and device information: When you visit our site,  we collect including information about your web browser, IP address, date and time of the request, time zone, the page from which you came to visit us, your operating system and its interface, and some of the cookies that are installed on your device. Additionally, as you browse the Site, we collect information about the individual web pages or products that you view, what websites or search terms referred you to the Site and information about how you interact with the Site. We refer to this automatically-collected information as “Device Information”.

Data you provide: For some personalized products, we allow customers custom names, dates of birth, photo, Order Information. Or sometimes, you contact us via the contact form, you will have to provide us the name, email, and the issue with your order. So, we will collect this information.

Data about payments: If you make a purchase, we collect personal data in connection with the purchase. This data includes your payment data, such as your transaction ID, the status of the transaction, as well as billing, shipping, and contact details. We do not store any information about your credit cards, such as card numbers and other card information, and other account and authentication information. We receive the payment via PayPal or Stripe, so all the information relating to your credit card is stored and collected by PayPal and Stripe, so please refer to the PayPal Privacy Statement and Stripe Privacy.

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.

–  “Google Analytics” we use Google Analytics to analyze and regularly improve the use of our website, such as how can you find us, the webpage you are viewing, the page you click to, the time you are on our site. The statistics these yields allow us to improve our website and make it more interesting for you as a user. The legal bases for our use of Google Analytics are your consent and our legitimate interests.

Third-party provider information: Google LLC, 1600 Amphitheatre Parkway, Mountain View, CA 94043, USA. See also the terms of use (https://www.google.com/analytics/terms/us.html) and privacy overview (https://support.google.com/analytics/answer/6004245? ) for Google Analytics as well as Google’s privacy policy: https://policies.google.com/privacy.

How We Use Your Personal Data

We use personal data to provide, improve, and develop our products and services, fulfill orders placed through our website, to communicate with you, to offer you targeted advertisements and services, and to protect us and our customers.

Fulfill orders: We use the Order Information that we collect generally to fulfill any orders placed through the Site (including processing your payment information, arranging for shipping, and providing you with invoices and/or order confirmations).

Providing, improving, and developing our products and services: We use personal data to help us provide, improve, personalize, and develop our products, services, and advertising. This includes using personal data for purposes such as data analysis, research, and audits. Such processing is based on our legitimate interest in offering you products and services and for business continuity. If you enter a contest or other promotion, we may use the personal data you provide to administer those programs. Some of these activities have additional rules, which may contain further data about how we use personal data, so we encourage you to read those rules carefully before participating.
Communicating with you: Subject to your prior express consent, we may use personal data to send you marketing communications in relation to our own products and services, communicate with you about your account or transactions, and inform you about our policies and terms. If you no longer wish to receive email communications for marketing purposes, please Contact Us to opt-out. We also may use your data to process and respond to your requests when you contact us. Subject to your prior express consent, we may share your personal data with third-party partners who may send you marketing communications in relation to their products and services.
Offering and measuring targeted advertisements and services: Subject to your prior express consent, we may use personal data to personalize your experience with our products and services and on third-party websites and applications and to determine the effectiveness of our promotional campaigns.
Promoting safety and security: We use personal data to help verify accounts and user activity, as well as to promote safety and security, such as by monitoring fraud and investigating suspicious or potentially illegal activity or violations of our terms or policies. Such processing is based on our legitimate interest in helping ensure the safety of our products and services.

Sharing your Personal Information

We share your Personal Information with third parties to help us use your Personal Information, as described above. For example, we 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. We are also using Facebook Pixel to help us understand how our customers use the Site. Ex the viewed product to help us retarget. You can read more about Facebook Data Policy here: https://www.facebook.com/policy.php

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 request for information we receive, or to otherwise protect our rights.

Cookies and Similar Technologies

We use cookies and similar technologies to provide, protect, and improve our products and services, such as by personalizing content, offering and measuring advertisements, understanding user behavior, and providing a safer experience.

You can remove or reject cookies using your browser or device settings, but in some cases doing so may affect your ability to use our products and services.

Disclosure of Personal Data

We make certain personal data available to strategic partners that work with us to provide our products and services or help us market to customers. Personal data will only be shared by us with these companies in order to provide or improve our products, services, and advertising; it will not be shared with third parties for their own marketing purposes without your prior express consent.
We share personal data with companies that provide services on our behalf, such as email services, marketing, sponsoring of sweepstakes, contests, and other promotions, auditing, fulfilling customer orders, data analytics, providing customer service, and conducting customer research and satisfaction surveys. These companies are obligated to protect your data and may be located wherever we operate.

Your Rights

We take reasonable steps to ensure that your personal data is accurate, complete, and up to date. You have the right to access, correct, or delete the personal data that we collect. You are also entitled to restrict or object, at any time, to the further processing of your personal data. You have the right to receive your personal data in a structured and standard format. You may lodge a complaint with the competent data protection authority regarding the processing of your personal data.

To protect the privacy and the security of your personal data, we may request data from you to enable us to confirm your identity and right to access such data, as well as to search for and provide you with the personal data we maintain. There are instances where applicable laws or regulatory requirements allow or require us to refuse to provide or delete some or all of the personal data that we maintain.

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.

Third-Party Websites and Services

Our websites, products, and services may contain links to or the ability for you to access third-party websites, products, and services. We are not responsible for the privacy practices employed by those third parties, nor are we responsible for the information or content their products and services contain. This Privacy Statement applies solely to data collected by us through our products and services. We encourage you to read the privacy policies of any third party before proceeding to use their websites, products, or services.

Data Security, Integrity, and Retention

We use reasonable technical, administrative, and physical security measures designed to safeguard and help prevent unauthorized access to your data, and to correctly use the data we collect. For example, access to your personal data is restricted to our employees, contractors, and agents who need access to such data to perform their assigned job duties.

It is important that you take precautions to protect against unauthorized access to your products, account credentials, and computer or other devices. If you feel that the security of your account or personal data has been compromised, please immediately Contact Us. Please be aware that, despite our best efforts, no security system is impenetrable. In the event of a security breach, we will promptly notify you and the proper authorities if required by law.

We will retain your personal data for as long as it is necessary to fulfill the purposes outlined in this Privacy Statement unless a longer retention period is required or permitted by law.

Changes to this Privacy Statement

We may periodically change this Privacy Statement to keep pace with new technologies, industry practices, and regulatory requirements, among other reasons. We expect most such changes to be minor. Any non-material changes will take effect immediately upon posting of an updated Privacy Statement.

However, there may be cases where changes to the Privacy Statement may be more significant. In such cases, we will first provide a more prominent notice.

Your continued use of our products and services after the effective date of the Privacy Statement means that you accept the revised Privacy Statement. If you do not agree to the revised Privacy Statement, please refrain from using our products or services and Contact Us to close any account you may have created.

Contact Us

If you have any questions regarding this Privacy Statement or its implementation, here is how you can reach us:

In relation to the use of your personal data for the following purposes: [email protected]

  • providing, improving, and developing our products and services;
  • communicating with you;
  • sharing your personal data with third-party partners for marketing communications;
  • offering and measuring targeted advertisements and services;
  • promoting safety and security.

In relation to the use of your personal data for the provision of products and services you requested: [email protected]