Privacy Policy
1. Introduction
Postcard Projects ("Company", "we", "our", "us") respects your privacy and is committed to protecting your personal data. This privacy policy ("Policy") explains how we collect, use, disclose, and safeguard your information when you visit our website www.postcardmagazinetheory.com (the "Site"). Please read this Policy carefully. If you do not agree with the terms of this Policy, please do not access the Site.
2. Information We Collect
We may collect information about you in a variety of ways. The information we may collect on the Site includes:
Personal Data
- Personally identifiable information, such as your name, shipping address, email address, and telephone number, and demographic information, such as your age, gender, hometown, and interests, that you voluntarily give to us when you register with the Site or when you choose to participate in various activities related to the Site, such as online chat and message boards.
Derivative Data
- Information our servers automatically collect when you access the Site, such as your IP address, your browser type, your operating system, your access times, and the pages you have viewed directly before and after accessing the Site.
Financial Data
- Financial information, such as data related to your payment method (e.g., valid credit card number, card brand, expiration date) that we may collect when you purchase, order, return, exchange, or request information about our services from the Site.
Mobile Device Data
- Device information, such as your mobile device ID, model, and manufacturer, and information about the location of your device if you access the Site from a mobile device.
3. Use of Your Information
Having accurate information about you permits us to provide you with a smooth, efficient, and customized experience. Specifically, we may use information collected about you via the Site to:
- Create and manage your account.
- Process your transactions and send you related information.
- Email you regarding your account or order.
- Fulfill and manage purchases, orders, payments, and other transactions related to the Site.
- Send you a newsletter.
- Provide you with customer support.
- Perform internal analytics and research.
- Deliver targeted advertising, coupons, newsletters, and other information regarding promotions and the Site to you.
- Enable user-to-user communications.
- Enforce our terms, conditions, and policies.
- Comply with legal obligations.
4. Disclosure of Your Information
We may share information we have collected about you in certain situations. Your information may be disclosed as follows:
By Law or to Protect Rights
- If we believe the release of information about you is necessary to respond to legal process, to investigate or remedy potential violations of our policies, or to protect the rights, property, and safety of others, we may share your information as permitted or required by any applicable law, rule, or regulation.
Third-Party Service Providers
- We may share your information with third parties that perform services for us or on our behalf, including payment processing, data analysis, email delivery, hosting services, customer service, and marketing assistance.
Marketing Communications
- With your consent, or with an opportunity for you to withdraw consent, we may share your information with third parties for marketing purposes, as permitted by law.
Business Transfers
- We may share or transfer your information in connection with, or during negotiations of, any merger, sale of company assets, financing, or acquisition of all or a portion of our business to another company.
Third-Party Advertisers
- We may use third-party advertising companies to serve ads when you visit the Site. These companies may use information about your visits to the Site and other websites that are contained in web cookies and other tracking technologies to provide advertisements about goods and services of interest to you.
Affiliates
- We may share your information with our affiliates, in which case we will require those affiliates to honor this Policy. Affiliates include our parent company and any subsidiaries, joint venture partners, or other companies that we control or that are under common control with us.
Business Partners
- We may share your information with our business partners to offer you certain products, services, or promotions.
5. Security of Your Information
We use administrative, technical, and physical security measures to help protect your personal information. These measures include, but are not limited to:
- Data Encryption: All sensitive data is encrypted during transmission and at rest using industry-standard encryption protocols.
- Access Controls: Access to your personal information is restricted to authorized personnel only, and we require our employees and contractors to follow strict confidentiality obligations.
- Secure Payment Processing: We partner with reputable payment processing companies that use robust security measures to ensure your financial data is protected.
- Regular Security Audits: We conduct regular security audits and assessments to identify and address vulnerabilities.
- Two-Factor Authentication (2FA): We offer two-factor authentication for an added layer of security for your account.
- Secure Hosting: Our servers are hosted in a secure environment with advanced security features, including firewalls and intrusion detection systems.
While we have taken reasonable steps to secure the personal information you provide to us, please be aware that despite our efforts, no security measures are perfect or impenetrable, and no method of data transmission can be guaranteed against any interception or other type of misuse.
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6. Controls for Do-Not-Track Features
Most web browsers and some mobile operating systems include a Do-Not-Track ("DNT") feature or setting you can activate to signal your privacy preference not to have data about your online browsing activities monitored and collected. No uniform technology standard for recognizing and implementing DNT signals has been finalized. As such, we do not currently respond to DNT browser signals or any other mechanism that automatically communicates your choice not to be tracked online. If a standard for online tracking is adopted that we must follow in the future, we will inform you about that practice in a revised version of this Policy.
7. Options Regarding Your Information
Account Information
- You may at any time review or change the information in your account or terminate your account by:
- Logging into your account settings and updating your account
- Contacting us using the contact information provided below
Upon your request to terminate your account, we will deactivate or delete your account and information from our active databases. However, some information may be retained in our files to prevent fraud, troubleshoot problems, assist with any investigations, enforce our Terms of Use, and/or comply with legal requirements.
Emails and Communications
- If you no longer wish to receive correspondence, emails, or other communications from us, you may opt out by:
- Noting your preferences at the time you register your account with the Site
- Logging into your account settings and updating your preferences
- Contacting us using the contact information provided below
If you no longer wish to receive correspondence, emails, or other communications from third parties, you are responsible for contacting the third party directly.
8. Contact Us
If you have questions or comments about this Privacy Policy, please contact us at:
admin@postcardmagazinetheory.com
9. Changes to This Policy
We may update this Privacy Policy from time to time in order to reflect, for example, changes to our practices or for other operational, legal, or regulatory reasons. Any changes will be posted on this page, and if the changes are significant, we will notify you by email or by placing a prominent notice on our Site. Your continued use of the Site following the posting of changes to this Policy will constitute your acceptance of those changes.
Effective Date: June 2018