STAR FLOORING PRIVACY POLICY
LAST UPDATED: AUGUST 13, 2020
This privacy policy (“Policy”) describes how Star Flooring ("Company," "we," and "our") processes, collects, uses, and shares personal information when you use this website {$site} (the “Site”). Please read the information below carefully to understand our practices regarding how we handle your personal information and how we treat that information.
PURPOSE OF PROCESSING
What are personal data?
We collect information about you in several ways, including personal data. As described in this Policy, "personal data" as defined in the General Data Protection Regulation, includes any information, whether combined with other data or not, that we collect about you as an individual, including, for example, your name, postal code, email, and phone number.
Why do we need this personal information?
We will only process your personal data in accordance with applicable data protection and privacy laws. We need certain personal data to provide you with access to the site. If you have registered with us, you will have been asked to check to agree to provide this information to access our services, such as purchasing our products or viewing our content. This consent provides us with the legal basis we require under applicable law to process your data. You retain the right to withdraw such consent at any time. If you do not agree with the use of your personal data in accordance with this Policy, please do not use our website.
COLLECTING YOUR PERSONAL DATA
We collect information about you in the following ways:
Information you give us includes:
• Personal data that you provide when registering to use our website, including your name, address, email, phone number, username, password, and demographic information;
• Personal data that may be contained in any comment or other post you make on our website;
• Personal data that you provide in our affiliate program or in other promotions we run on our website;
• Personal data that you provide when reporting a problem on our website or when you need customer support;
• Personal data that you provide when making purchases on our website;
• Personal data that you provide when contacting us by phone, email, or otherwise.
Information we collect automatically.
We automatically record information about you and your computer or mobile device when you access our website. For example, when you visit our website, we record the name and version of your computer or mobile device, the manufacturer and model, the type of browser, browser language, monitor resolution, the website visited before entering our website, the pages viewed, and how long you spent on a page, access times, and information about your use and actions on our website. We collect information about you using cookies.
COOKIES
What are cookies?
We may collect information about you using "cookies". Cookies are small data files stored on your computer's hard drive or mobile device in your browser. We may use both session cookies (which expire after you close your browser) and persistent cookies (which remain on your computer or mobile device until you delete them) to provide you with a more personal and interactive experience on our website. We use two types of cookies: First-party cookies placed by us on your computer or mobile device, which we use to recognize when you return to our website; and third-party cookies that are services provided by third parties on our website and may be used to recognize when your computer or mobile device visits our and other websites.
Cookies we use
Our website uses the following cookies described below:
Type of cookies and their purpose
Essential cookies
These cookies are necessary to provide the services available on our website so that you can use some of its features. For example, they may allow you to log into the member area, or load our website's content quickly. Without these cookies, many of the services available on our website may not function properly, and we only use these cookies to provide you with a good service.
Functionality cookies
This cookie allows us to remember the choices you have made on our website, such as language, login details, as well as other choices you have made that may be customized by you. The purpose of these cookies is to remember all the choices you have made to create a more personalized experience without having to enter your data again on our website.
Analytical and performance cookies
These cookies are used to collect information about traffic on our website and how users use and navigate the website. The information collected does not specifically identify any user. It includes the number of visitors to our website, the websites that refer to our website, the pages users visit, the potential websites they visited previously, and similar information. We use this information to improve and monitor our website's activity. We use Google Analytics for this purpose. Google Analytics uses its own cookies. It is only used to improve how our website works. You can find out more information about Google Analytics cookies here: https://developers.google.com/analytics/resources/concepts/gaConceptsCookies
Learn more about how Google protects your data here: http://www.google.com/analytics/learn/privacy.html
You can prevent the use of this Google Analytics cookie in your browser by installing an extension in Google Chrome, you can download this extension here: http://tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout?hl=en-GB
Advertising cookies
These cookies analyze how you browse so that we can show you ads that are likely to be of interest to you. These cookies use information from your browsing history, with your permission, to show you relevant ads from third parties based on your interests. You can disable cookies that store your browsing history by visiting the website http://www.youronlinechoices.com/uk/your-ad-choices. If you choose to remove this type of cookie, you will still see ads, but they will not be relevant to your interests.
Social media cookies
These cookies are used when you share information on social networks or in some way access our content through social networks such as Facebook, Twitter, or Google+.
Disabling cookies
You can remove or reject cookies through your browser settings. To do this, we recommend that you follow the instructions for your browser (usually you can find this information in the “settings” of your browser under “help” or “tools”). Most browsers accept cookies automatically until you change their settings.
If you do not accept our cookies, your experience on our site will not be as pleasant. For example, we may not recognize your computer or mobile device, and you may have to log in every time you visit our website.
ADVERTISEMENT
We may use third parties to present ads when you visit our website. These companies may collect information such as browser type, time and day, type of ad clicked, on this and other websites to display the most relevant ads to you. These companies typically use their system to collect this data, which is subject to their privacy policies.
USING YOUR PERSONAL DATA
We may use your personal data in the following ways:
• to maintain and improve our website, products, and services;
• to manage your account, including communications we have with you regarding your account, if you have an account on our website;
• to operate and administer our affiliate program and other promotions you may participate in on our website;
• to respond to your comments and questions and to provide customer support;
• to send information, including technical information, updates, security alerts, and support;
• with your consent, we do email marketing about promotions, and other news, including information about our products or services offered by us or by our affiliates. You can unsubscribe from our email list at any time.