This Privacy Policy describes how your personal information is collected, used, and shared when you visit or make a purchase from BeardedDogLeather.co.za.

WHAT PERSONAL INFORMATION WE COLLECT

When you visit the Site, we automatically collect certain information about your device, including information about your web browser, IP address, time zone, 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. 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.

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.

Also, when you make a purchase or attempt to make a purchase through the Site, we collect certain information from you, including your name, billing address, shipping address, payment information, email address, and phone number. This is called Order Information.

By Personal Information in this Privacy Policy, we refer to both Device Information and Order Information.

HOW DO WE USE YOUR PERSONAL INFORMATION

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

Communicate with you.

Screen our orders for potential risk or fraud.

When in line with the preferences you have shared with us, provide you with information or advertising relating to our products or services.

We use the Device Information that we collect to help us screen for potential risk and fraud (in particular, your IP address), and more generally to improve and optimise our Site.

 

SHARING YOUR PERSONAL INFORMATION

We share your Personal Information with third parties to help us use your Personal Information, as described above. We also use Google Analytics to help us understand how our customers use Bearded Dog Leather. 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 requests for information we receive, or to otherwise protect our rights.

 

CONSENT

When you share personal information with us for a specific purpose such as completing a transaction, confirming your credit card, placing an order, organising delivery, or processing returns, you are implicitly agreeing to allow us to collect and utilise that information solely for that purpose. If we seek your information for marketing purposes, we will directly request your consent and offer you the choice to decline. Should you decide to opt-in for marketing and later decide otherwise, you can retract your consent by contacting us via email at info@beardeddogleather.co.za

 

SECURITY

To protect your personal information, we take reasonable precautions and follow industry best practices to make sure it is not inappropriately lost, misused, accessed, disclosed, altered, or destroyed. We do not store any credit card details; these are securely stored by our third-party partner YOCO.

COOKIES

We use your browser’s cookies to give you a better experience. Cookies are used to store specific information about your browser, device etc. You can choose whether you’d like to disallow cookies or not.

DATA RETENTION

When you place an order through the Site, we will maintain your Order Information for our records unless and until you ask us to delete this information.

AGE OF CONSENT

By using this website, you affirm that you are either of legal age or that you have obtained permission from your legal guardians to allow minors under their care to use this website.

UPDATES

We may update this privacy policy from time to time to reflect, for example, changes to our practices or for other operational, legal, or regulatory reasons. If you have questions and/or require more information, do not hesitate to contact us at info@beardeddogleather.co.za If our store is acquired or merges with another company, your information may be transferred to the new owners to ensure continuity of product sales to you.