PRIVACY POLICY
OUR POLICY
Effective Date: October 12, 2016
Welcome to the website of Thistle Cards (the “Site,” which may include any mobile applications and mobile sites). (“Thistle Cards”, “we”, “us” and/or “our”). This Site is operated by Thistle Cards and/or its affiliates and has been created to provide information about our organization and to provide e-commerce services (the “Services”) to our Site visitors (“user,” “you,” or “your”). This Privacy Policy sets forth Thistle Cards’s policy with respect to information including personally identifiable data, such as your name, email address, postal address, phone number, credit card information, device location, transaction information, date of birth, your address book or contact list and your photographs (collectively, “Personal Information”), and other information that is collected from Site visitors.
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INFORMATION WE COLLECT
When you interact with us through the Site, we may collect and store Personal Information and other information from you, as further described below:
Personal Information That You Provide Through the Site: We collect Personal Information from you when you voluntarily provide such information, such as when you access the Site, purchase goods or services on the Site, contact us with inquiries, respond to one of our surveys, register for access to the Thistle Cards Services, share your address book, post photographs or use certain Services, such as sending or responding to Thistle Cards correspondence, including event invitations, save-the-dates, cards, personalized stationery and announcements (collectively “Stationery”). Wherever Thistle Cards collects Personal Information, we make an effort to provide a link to this Privacy Policy. For example, you share information when you:
• Make an in-store or online purchase or other transaction with us;
• Create an account on our Site;
• Conduct a transaction or request a Service where we collect information;
• Request customer service or contact us;
• Subscribe to our emails or agree to accept offers from us;
• Post a review or comment on one of our social media pages, or post a rating, review or other user-generated content on our Site; and
By voluntarily providing us with Personal Information, you are consenting to our use of it in accordance with this Privacy Policy. This Privacy Policy is intended to cover collection of information on the Site from residents of Malaysia. If you provide Personal Information to this Site, you acknowledge and agree that such Personal Information may be transferred from your current location to the offices and servers of Thistle Cards and the authorized third parties referred to herein located in the Malaysia.
DEMOGRAPHIC OR OTHER DATA
We may also collect and store demographic or other data, such as age, gender, zip code or similar information, from you when you voluntarily provide such information. We may also receive information about you from other sources, online or offline, and add it to the information you provide to us.
INFORMATION ABOUT OTHER
We may also collect and store personal information about other people that you provide to us through your use of the Thistle Cards Services, such as, guests’ contact information to allow them to respond to and comment on your Thistle Cards Stationery or other correspondence. At your request, we may send reminders to guests and display their names to other guests of the same event. Other than as described in this Privacy Policy, we will not intentionally sell or otherwise disclose guest contact information that you submit to any third party. You may also delete your name from a particular event’s guest list by contacting the event host via the Service or emailing hello@thistlecards.com.my requesting to be removed on the invitation page.
IP ADDRESSES AND DEVICE INFORMATION
We collect technical information when you visit our Site or use our mobile applications or Services. This includes information such as Internet Protocol (IP) address, the type of mobile device you use, your device operating system and browser type, a unique device identifier, the address of a referring websites, the path you take through our Site, and other information about your session on our websites. We may use such IP address for various purposes, including to analyze and report upon the usage of our Site, and, along with the content, features and Services made available through the Site, diagnose and prevent service or technology problems affecting our Site, and monitor and prevent fraud and abuse.
You also provide us information in other ways through technology. Some of this information may be linked to you personally. This information helps our Services work more effectively and supports our customer marketing and analytics efforts – our work to understand our customers’ needs and provide information about our products and services. Here are some examples:
Browsing Information: We use technologies such as cookies, web beacons, pixel tags and mobile device identifiers to collect information about the use of our Site. Cookies allow us to provide you relevant information as you use or return to our Site. A cookie is a piece of information that the computer that hosts our Site gives to your browser when you access the Site. Cookies help provide additional functionality to the Site and help us analyze Site usage more accurately. For instance, our Site may set a cookie on your browser that allows you to access the Site without needing to remember and then enter a password more than once during a visit to the Site.
Cookies enable you to place an order on our Web site. They also allow us to enhance and personalize your online shopping experience, so the information you receive is more relevant to you. For example, we may use cookies to:
• Remember what items are in your shopping bag
• Recognize you when you return to our Site
• Enables faster checkout, if you have created an account at cecinewyork.com
• Study how our customers navigate through our Site and which products they request in site searches
• Deliver personalized marketing from Thistle Cards
In all cases in which we use cookies, we will not collect Personal Information except with your permission, which you may set through your web browser. You can disable cookies at any time by using your browser options; however, if you turn off cookies, we will not be able to track your order or enable you to make a purchase from our website. In addition, we will not be able to recognize you as a registered user to allow you access to your account information. You still can order over the telephone by contacting customer service. Leaving cookies turned on allows you to take advantage of some of the Site’s features.
Web beacons allow us to know if a certain page was visited, an email was opened, or if ad banners on our websites and other sites were effective.
We also may use pixel tags – tiny graphic images – to tell us what parts of our Site you have visited or to measure the effectiveness of any searches you may do on our site. Pixel tags also enable us to send you email in a format you can read and let us know when you have opened an email message from us.
We may also contract with other companies who use cookies or other online tools such as pixel tags to measure the performance of a marketing effort on our behalf. We prohibit these companies from using this information for their own marketing purposes or from sharing this information with anyone other than Thistle Cards .
We also contract with third-party advertising companies to serve ads on our behalf across the Internet. To do this, they will collect anonymous information about your visits to our Site and your interaction with our products and services. They may also use information about your visits to this Site and other websites to target advertisements. These targeted advertisements may appear on other sites that you visit. This anonymous information is collected through the use of a cookie or pixel tag – industry standard technology used by most major websites. No personally identifiable information is collected in this process. To opt-out of this type of messaging, please update your mail preferences.
We use these tools to provide a continuous and more personalized shopping experience for you.
Browser Do Not Track Signals: Although our Site currently does not have a mechanism to recognize the various web browser Do Not Track signals, we do offer our customers choices to manage their preferences that are provided in the previous sections above. To learn more about browser tracking signals and Do Not Track please visit http://www.allaboutdnt.org/.
NON-PERSONALLY IDENTIFIABLE DATA
In addition to the Personal Information that we collect (as described in this Privacy Policy), when you interact with Thistle Cards through the Site, we receive and store certain information that cannot currently be used to identify you (“non-personally identifiable information”). Such non-personally identifiable information is collected passively using various technologies such as web beacons and may be used to track usage of the Site, determine whether Stationery or messages have been opened or acted upon or customize Thistle Cards Services. Unless you have registered for the Site, the non-personally identifiable information we gather through the use of tracking technologies will not be matched with any Personal Information. Thistle Cards may store such non-personally identifiable information itself or such non-personally identifiable information may be included in databases owned and maintained by Thistle Cards affiliates, agents or service providers. The Site may use and share such non-personally identifiable information and pool it with other information to track, for example, the total number of visitors to our Site, the number of visitors to each page of our Site, and the domain names of our visitors’ Internet service providers. It is important to note that no Personal Information is available or used in this process of collecting non-personally identifiable information.
AGGREGATED PERSONAL INFORMATION
In an ongoing effort to better understand and serve the users of the Thistle Cards Services, Thistle Cards often conducts research on its customer demographics, interests and behavior based on the Personal Information and other information provided to us. This research may be compiled and analyzed on an aggregate basis, and this type of aggregated information does not identify you personally (the “Aggregate Data”), and Thistle Cards may share this Aggregate Data with its affiliates, agents and business partners. Thistle Cards may also disclose Aggregate Data in order to describe our services to current and prospective business partners, and to other third parties for other lawful purposes.
Thistle Cards does not provide any personal information to third parties for their own direct marketing purposes. If you want to request a notice or have any questions about our privacy practices, please send an e-mail to hello@thistlecards.com.my with the subject line "Request for Privacy Information".
OUR USE OF YOUR PERSONAL INFORMATION AND OTHER INFORMATION
Thistle Cards uses the Personal Information you provide in a manner that is consistent with this Privacy Policy. If you provide Personal Information for a certain reason, we may use the Personal Information in connection with the reason for which it was provided. For instance, if you contact us by e-mail, we will use the Personal Information you provide to answer your question or resolve your problem. Also, if you provide Personal Information in order to obtain access to the Thistle Cards Services, we will use your Personal Information to provide you with access to such services, to monitor your use of such services and to contact you regarding your use of such services. In addition, Thistle Cards or its authorized service provider may use financial information or payment method to process payment for any purchases made on the Site, to protect against or identify possible fraudulent transactions, and otherwise as needed to manage our business. Thistle Cards and its subsidiaries and affiliates (the “Related Companies”) may also use your Personal Information and other personally non-identifiable information collected through the Site to help us improve the content and functionality of the Site, to better understand our users and to improve the Thistle Cards Services. Thistle Cards and its affiliates may use this information to contact you in the future to tell you about services we believe will be of interest to you. If we do so, each communication we send you will contain instructions permitting you to “opt-out” of receiving future communications. In addition, if at any time you wish not to receive any future communications or you wish to have your name deleted from our mailing lists, please contact us as indicated below.
Thistle Cards may collect and store personal information about other people that you provide to us through your use of the Services. Thistle Cards may use such information to help us improve the content and functionality of the Site, to better understand our users and to improve the Thistle Cards Services. Among other things, we may use guests’ contact information to offer guests the opportunity to contact each other through the Site. Thistle Cards will provide guests with the means to communicate with one another through the Site but will not disclose guests’ email addresses with other guests unless a guest opts-in to accept a specific guest’s request for his or her email address.]
If Thistle Cards intends on using any Personal Information in any manner that is not consistent with this Privacy Policy, you will be informed of such anticipated use prior to or at the time at which the Personal Information is collected.
INFORMATION WE SHARE WITH OTHERS AND YOUR PRIVACY RIGHTS
Thistle Cards is not in the business of selling your information. We consider this information to be a vital part of our relationship with you. There are, however, certain circumstances in which we may share your Personal Information with certain third parties without further notice to you, as set forth below:
AGENTS, CONSULTANTS AND RELATED THIRD PARTIES
Thistle Cards , like many businesses, sometimes hires other companies to perform certain business-related functions. Examples of such functions include mailing information, maintaining databases, analyzing data, marketing, and processing payments. When we employ another company to perform a function of this nature, we only provide them with the information that they need to perform their specific function, and they may only use such information for our benefit and the purposes for which they were engaged.
BUSINESS TRANSFERS
As we develop our business, we might sell, buy or merge businesses or assets. In the event of a corporate sale, merger, reorganization, dissolution or similar event, Personal Information, Non-Personally Identifiable Data and Aggregated Personal Information may be part of the transferred assets.
RELATED COMPANIES
We may also share your Personal Information with our Related Companies for purposes consistent with this Privacy Policy.
LEGAL REQUIREMENTS
Thistle Cards may disclose your Personal Information if required to do so by law or in the good faith belief that such action is necessary to (i) comply with a legal obligation or a government request, (ii) verify compliance with or enforce our Terms of Service or protect and defend the rights or property of Thistle Cards , users of the Site or others, (iii) act in urgent circumstances to protect the personal safety of users of the Site or the public, or (iv) protect against legal liability.
Your Choices about Communications from Thistle Cards You can access the Site without providing any Personal Information when you browse the Site. If you choose not to provide any Personal Information, you will not be able to use certain Thistle Cards Services, such as purchasing goods and services.
EXCLUSIONS
This Privacy Policy does not apply to any Personal Information collected by Thistle Cards other than Personal Information collected through the Site. This Privacy Policy shall not apply to any unsolicited information you provide to Thistle Cards through this Site or through any other means. This includes, but is not limited to, information posted to any public areas of the Site (collectively, “Public Areas”), any ideas for new products or modifications to existing products, and other unsolicited submissions (collectively, “Unsolicited Information”). All Unsolicited Information shall be deemed to be non-confidential and Thistle Cards shall be free to reproduce, use, disclose, and distribute such Unsolicited Information to others without limitation, attribution or compensation.
INTERNATIONAL USERS
If you are using or visiting the Site from other regions with laws governing data collection and use, please note that by such use or visit you are agreeing to the transfer of your information to Malaysia and to processing globally. By providing your information, you consent to any transfer and processing in accordance with this Privacy Policy.
LINKS TO OTHER WEBSITES
This Privacy Policy applies only to the Site. This Site may contain links to other web sites not operated or controlled by Thistle Cards (the “Third-Party Sites”). The policies and procedures described here do not apply to the Third-Party Sites. The links from this Site do not imply that Thistle Cards endorses or has reviewed the Third-Party Sites. We suggest contacting those sites directly for information on their privacy policies.
HOW WE USE EMAIL
When you provide us your email address, we will email you as necessary to process your order, respond to a request or provide customer service. For example, after you place an order on the Site, you will receive an email confirmation and, in most cases, an email with package tracking information.
SECURITY
Thistle Cards takes reasonable steps (including physical, electronic and procedural measures) to protect the Personal Information provided via the Site from loss, misuse, and unauthorized access, disclosure, alteration, or destruction. To help guard your information, our Site uses Secure Sockets Layer (SSL). SSL encrypts your credit card number, name and address so only Thistle Cards is able to decode your information. Please note that email is not encrypted and is not considered to be a secure means of transmitting credit card information.
To be sure your connection is secure, look at the bottom status bar of your browser window. If you see an unbroken key or a closed lock (depending on your browser), the SSL is active and your information is secure. Most browsers offer additional security alerts as well.
Please note that this is not a guarantee that such information may not be accessed, disclosed, altered or destroyed by breach of such firewalls and secure server software. No Internet or e-mail transmission or electronic storage of information is ever fully secure or error free. In particular, information sent to or from this Site via email may not be secure. Therefore, you should take special care in deciding what information you send via the Site or the Services. Please keep this in mind when disclosing any Personal Information to Thistle Cards via the Internet.
PRIVACY OF CHILDREN
Thistle Cards does not knowingly collect Personal Information from children under the age of 12. If you are under the age of 12, please do not submit any Personal Information through the Site. We encourage parents and legal guardians to monitor their children’s Internet usage and to help enforce our Privacy Policy by instructing their children never to provide Personal Information on this Site without their permission. If you have reason to believe that a child under the age of 12 has provided Personal Information to Thistle Cards through this Site, please contact us, and we will endeavor to delete that information from our databases.
UPDATES AND POLICY CHANGES
From time to time, we may use customer information for unanticipated uses not previously disclosed in our privacy notice. If our information practices change, we will post these changes on our Site. We encourage you to review our privacy policy periodically.
QUESTIONS OR COMMENTS?
For questions, comments or assistance, we invite you to contact us.