Privacy policy

This Privacy Policy describes how astirgirl.com (the “Site” or “we”) collects, uses, and discloses your Personal Information when you visit or make a purchase from the Site.

Contact

After reviewing this policy, if you have additional questions, want more information about our privacy practices, or would like to make a complaint, please contact us through our Contact Us page.

Collecting Personal Information

When you visit the Site, we collect certain information about your device, your interaction with the Site, and information necessary to process your purchases. We may also collect additional information if you contact us for customer support. In this Privacy Policy, we refer to any information about an identifiable individual (including the information below) as “Personal Information”. See the list below for more information about what Personal Information we collect and why.

  • Device information
    • Purpose of collection: to load the Site accurately for you, and to perform analytics on Site usage to optimize our Site.
    • Source of collection: Collected automatically when you access our Site using cookies, log files, web beacons, tags, or pixels 
    • Disclosure for a business purpose: shared with our processor Shopify 
    • Personal Information collected: version of web browser, IP address, time zone, cookie information, what sites or products you view, search terms, and how you interact with the Site 
  • Order information
    • Purpose of collection: to provide products or services to you to fulfill our contract, to process your payment information, arrange for shipping, and provide you with invoices and/or order confirmations, communicate with you, screen our orders for potential risk or fraud, and when in line with the preferences you have shared with us, provide you with information or advertising relating to our products or services.
    • Source of collection: collected from you.
    • Disclosure for a business purpose: shared with our processor Shopify 
    • Personal Information collected: name, billing address, shipping address, payment information (including credit card numbers), email address, and phone number. 

Sharing Personal Information

We share your Personal Information with service providers to help us provide our services and fulfill our contracts with you, as described above. For example:

  • We use Shopify to power our online store. You can read more about how Shopify uses your Personal Information here: https://www.shopify.com/legal/privacy.
  • We may 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.

Behavioral Advertising

As described above, we use your Personal Information to provide you with targeted advertisements or marketing communications we believe may be of interest to you. For example:

For more information about how targeted advertising works, you can visit the Network Advertising Initiative’s (“NAI”) educational page at https://www.networkadvertising.org/understanding-online-advertising/how-does-it-work.

You can opt out of targeted advertising by:

 Additionally, you can opt out of some of these services by visiting the Digital Advertising Alliance’s opt-out portal at: https://optout.aboutads.info/.

Using Personal Information

We use your personal Information to provide our services to you, which includes: offering products for sale, processing payments, shipping and fulfillment of your order, and keeping you up to date on new products, services, and offers.

Retention

When you place an order through the Site, we will retain your Personal Information for our records unless and until you ask us to erase this information. For more information on your right of erasure, please see the ‘Your rights’ section below.

Selling Personal Information

Our Site sells Personal Information, as defined by the California Consumer Privacy Act of 2018 (“CCPA”).

Your Rights

CCPA

This Privacy Policy ("Policy") describes the collection and use of your information as you interact with Astir Girl , by phone, online or other direct contact. It applies to information we collect from all sources, including but not limited to our operations, our website www.astirgirl.com   (the "Site"), mobile sites, and applications. This Policy does not apply to other websites, regardless of whether they are operated by affiliates or business partners of Astir Girl or whether they are linked to the Site.

By using our services and/or the Site, you consent to the collection, use, and sharing or disclosure of your information by Astir Girl consistent with this Policy. The Policy will change from time to time, so please check this page for updated versions as you may not be otherwise notified. However, your continued use of Astir Girl services and/or Site serves as your acceptances of this Policy as amended from time to time. 

You may choose not to provide requested information, or may choose to restrict the use of cookies, but that may limit the services Astir Girl is able to provide to you.

In general, we may receive and store any information you enter on our website or give us in any other way. Such information Astir Girl collects is categorized as Non-Personally Identifiable Information and Personally Identifiable Information.

Non-Personally Identifiable Information

Non-Personally Identifiable Information is information that does not personally identify you. Non-personally identifiable information may be derived from personally identifiable information by removing individual identities. Non-Personally Identifiable Information may also be aggregate information, or information without personally identifiable information that is used in the aggregate as a statistical measure. Astir Girl may use and/or disclose such non-personally identifiable information for a variety of purposes.

Personally Identifiable Information

Personally Identifiable Information is information that does personally identify you as an individual. Examples include your name, address, telephone number, billing information or email address. Non-Personally Identifiable Information (such as information about your activity with our services or Site, or demographic information) is characterized as Personally Identifiable Information if linked to Personally Identifiable Information that identifies you.

What We Collect

We may collect the following Personally Identifiable Information:

  • Profile/Account Information you provide, such as: name, address, telephone number, email address, and any information required for a discount if applicable. Some of this information may be required while other information is optional.
  • Information you provide when posting a review or comment, sending a message to or communicating with Astir Girl (through any means), or participating in a contest or promotion. If a contest or promotion is co-branded or co-hosted with another entity, the collection, use, and sharing of such information may occur through Astir Girl or the other entity.
  • Information related to your use of the Site and internet activity, such as: your Internet Protocol (IP) address, your browser type, the device used (computer, mobile device etc.), the device identifier if applicable, the web address visited prior to accessing the Site, and your activity on the Site.
  • Information related to your interaction with Astir Girl emails, such as: whether you open or click on an email and whether you forwarded the email.
  • Information provided from third parties (social media services, commercially available sources, or business affiliates and partners etc.) such as your name, contact information, transaction and purchase information, use of certain applications or your relationship with various products and service providers. For example, if you access or connect Astir Girl through a social media platform, we may collect your user name, any information or content the social media platform provides (profile picture, email address or contact lists, information you made public through the platform etc.)

How We Collect It

Information collected by Astir Girl may be directly provided by you, or collected passively through technologies like cookies, web beacons, pixels and clear GIFs. If enabled in your browser, cookies may be downloaded to the device you use to access the Site. They may deliver content and/or a user experience tailored to your preferences, or facilitate Site function. If you set your browser to not accept cookies (for assistance try the Help portion of your browser’s toolbar), your use of the Site may be impaired.

Web beacons, pixels, and clear GIFs are transparent image files that, if allowed, provide Astir Girl with some of your information, such as: website usage information, interaction with emails. Such technologies may be used in conjunction with cookies. Astir Girl may also collect cookies from Site visitors in order to utilize third party online advertising.

Why We Collect It

Information collection assists Astir Girl in the administration and improvement of our business and the Site. Personally Identifiable Information may be used to:

  • Provide and manage our services
  • Deliver relevant content and recommendations
  • Deliver relevant online advertising
  • Enable social sharing functionality
  • To contact you
  • To protect our rights and the rights of others

Third parties, such as advertisers on the Site, may also collect information from you (such as by setting cookies on your device). Astir Girl may not have any interaction with such information collection, nor control over such third-party passive information collection. Similarly, Astir Girl may also receive information from third parties about you, including Personally Identifiable Information. Astir Girl may combine such information with the information we collect about you, and once combined such information is subject to this Policy.

Who We May Share It With

Astir Girl may share or disclose your Personally Identifiable Information to third parties such as:

  • Service Providers (data storage and processing facilities, payment processing etc.) in order to conduct Astir Girl business.
  • Third party, independent storage companies you interact with or conduct business with on the Site.
  • Acquirers, successors, or assignees as appropriate in a business transaction such as a merger, acquisition, or bankruptcy.
  • Other third parties as appropriate to protect our property, legal rights, and interests, or the property or rights of others, or as required by law.

Accessing Your Information & Your Choices

You can access and update your profile information by logging into your account on the Site.

You may choose not to provide requested information, or may choose to restrict the use of cookies, but that may limit the services Astir Girl is able to provide to you. You may also choose to close your online account by contacting us through the Contact Us page. We may retain certain information associated with your account even after it is closed.

You may unsubscribe from marketing emails. You may or may not be able to unsubscribe from transactional emails.

You may be able to request transactional information be sent to you by text message. If you participate in our text message system you will be able to opt out. Contact us at the Contact Us page if you need assistance.

Please note that given a lack of industry standards regarding "do-not-track" (DNT) signals, Astir Girl does not take action in response to these signals. In other words, if your browser transmits a DNT signal, we may continue tracking.

Security Measures

Astir Girl takes reasonable measures to protect your personally identifiable information. However, you supply information to Astir Girl at your own risk as data security measures cannot be guaranteed to be fully effective.

Links

The Site may link to third-party websites Astir Girl does not own or operate, such as social media platforms. Your use and activity on third-party websites is not governed by this Policy. Please consult the third-party’s website for their privacy policy. Astir Girl is not responsible for the conduct or privacy policies of third parties, even if the Site links to third parties.

Contact

Please contact us through the Contact Us page with any questions or comments.

Cookies

A cookie is a small amount of information that’s downloaded to your computer or device when you visit our Site. We use a number of different cookies, including functional, performance, advertising, and social media or content cookies. Cookies make your browsing experience better by allowing the website to remember your actions and preferences (such as login and region selection). This means you don’t have to re-enter this information each time you return to the site or browse from one page to another. Cookies also provide information on how people use the website, for instance whether it’s their first time visiting or if they are a frequent visitor.