Privacy Policy

This Privacy Policy is effective upon 20 Aug 2023.

This Privacy Policy aims to give you information on how we collect and process your personal data.

www.creatizon.com referred to as ‘we’, ‘us’ or ‘our’ throughout this Privacy Policy. We are the primary data controller for the purposes of this website and our registered office is 1744N.Sayre, Elmwood Park, lllinois,60707,United States

It is important that you read this Privacy Policy together with any other privacy notice or fair processing notice we may provide on specific occasions when we are collecting or processing personal data about you so that you are fully aware of how and why we are using your data. This Privacy Policy supplements the other notices and is not intended to override them.

We may amend this Privacy Policy at any time by posting the amended terms herein. All amended terms automatically take effect 30 days after they are posted. We will announce any material changes to this Privacy Policy and their rationale by email.

We respect the privacy rights of our visitors and recognize the importance of protecting the information collected about them. This privacy policy is about how we collect, store, and use the personal information that you provide to us.

If you are under 18, you must inform a parent or guardian about our privacy policy to obtain their agreement to the privacy policy before registering, subscribing or placing an order with us.

Information Collection:

We collect and process only the data that is required to allow us to provide our services to you. We collect the following data when you browse or shop at www.creatizon.com

 

  • We process the personal data required to complete and dispatch your purchase, including your name, billing address, delivery address, payment details, mobile number, telephone number and email address. We collect your email address in order to send you confirmation of your order; we collect your telephone number so that we can contact you if there are any issues with the order.

 

  • We collect your email address when you sign up for our free or discounted trial subscription.

 

  • If you register for our account, we collect your name, email address, password, country and IP address.

 

  • When you contact our Customer Service team, we may collect additional data to help us resolve any queries relating to your order, delivery, payments or any other queries.

 

  • We collect and process data about your browsing on www.creatizon.com, including the pages you visit and how you interact with these pages. If you have registered for an account, we collect browsing data about your access to the dedicated areas of the website.

 

  • If you are a customer of www.creatizon.com, or if you have given us your consent, we may collect and process your personal data for marketing activities.

 

  • If you provide us with someone else’s data – for example, if you purchase a product to be delivered to a friend or as a gift – we will collect and process the personal data required to complete the transaction such as the name, delivery address and other contact details for your friend. If you are receiving an item as a gift, we will process your data only to fulfil the gift request and our contractual obligations.

 

  • When you call our Customer Service team, your call will be recorded for training and fraud prevention purposes.

Cookies and Other Data Collection Tools:

  • When you access or use the Services, our web server may send a cookie to your device. “Cookies” are small data files placed on a device’s hard drive or memory when you interact with a website or view a message. Among other things, cookies support the integrity of our account creation process, retain your preferences and account settings, and help evaluate and compile aggregated statistics about user activity.
    Creatizon and its partners use various technologies to collect information when you use our Services, including session replay, sending cookies to your device and using web beacons. By using the Services you consent to the use of such technologies, including cookies, advertising IDs, geolocation, screen capture technology and pixel tags, to collect information about you. These technologies help us personalize your use of our Sites and mobile applications, customize the Services, and mitigate risks and the potential for fraud. These technologies are also used by Creatizon and its advertising partners to deliver ads to you based on your interests and online activities. To the extent we use session replay technology, we may collect on a real-time basis information on how you use and navigate the Services. This may include mouse movements and how you scroll through the Services. Some of our websites and Services may contain electronic images called “web beacons”. Web beacons are objects embedded in a web page or email which are used to check if a user has accessed content. In addition to allowing us to count how many persons read our messages, web beacons allow us to develop statistical information about the activities and features that most interest our users in order to provide more personalized content.

We may use cookies to:

  • Remember that you have visited us or used the Services before and personalize our content for you and remember your preferences (for example, your choice of language or region).
  • Ensure we have enough capacity to accommodate all of our users and that users are finding what they are looking for easily and do not encounter technical errors.
  • Collect anonymous statistical information about how you use the Services (including the length of your web or application session) and the location from which you access the Services, so that we can improve the Services and learn which elements and functions of the Services are most popular with our users.
  • Helps us and our ad partners to deliver ads or messages that are relevant to you and your interests. We may also share this information with third parties for this purpose. For example, these cookies allow us to identify and send you messages about items you have left in your cart and make other purchasing recommendations.

How We Use Third-Party Cookies

  • We may allow third parties to collect information via the Services through cookies, third party plug-ins and widgets. Third party cookies enable third party features or functionality to be provided on or through the Sites (e.g., we may use Google Analytics and Google Adwords to collect and process certain analytics data). Additional data may be collected though Google Analytics (and similar categories of solutions) to help evaluate the visitation and use of our Site.
    To learn more about Google Analytics, please visit www.google.com/policies/privacy/partners/
    and find information about opting-out here: https://tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout
    In addition, you may connect with us or one of our Sites through social networking websites. Prior to submitting information on a social network website or to third parties, you should familiarize yourself with their privacy policies and practices. We are not responsible for the privacy practices of these third parties. For mobile devices, you can manage how your device and browser share certain device data by adjusting the privacy and security settings on your mobile device. To find out more about cookies, including how to see what cookies have been set and how to manage and delete them, visit www.allaboutcookies.org.

Use of Information:

Whenever you give us your personal information we will use it in accordance with applicable privacy laws and for the purposes set out in this policy, on the data entry forms you complete, in any relevant terms and conditions and on pages or emails which link to the data entry forms.

  • When you use our services: Your information will be used in the first place to provide the products, services or information you have asked for and to provide you with a personalized shopping experience. We keep the information you provide and may use it for several purposes, including: (i) accounting, billing, reporting and audit; (ii) credit checking or screening; (iii) authentication and identity checks; (iv) credit, debit or other payment card verification and screening; (v) debt collection; (vi) safety, security, health, training, administrative and legal purposes; (vii) data matching and dedupe, statistical and market analysis, and marketing information; (viii) advertising and marketing for us, our Group and third parties; (ix) developing, testing and maintaining systems; (x) studies, research and development; (xi) customer surveys; (xii) customer care and to help us in any future dealings with you, for example by identifying your requirements and preferences; (xiii) where required by law or in connection with legal proceeding or disputes; and (iv) any other uses set out in the terms and conditions for use of our services. For these purposes we may disclose your information to one or more of the other organisations listed in the section called “who we share your personal information with”.
  • Saved payment card details will only be shared with our payment partner and not with any other third parties and will only be used to process your order, using our payment partner’s systems.
  • We may also use your personal information to send you marketing updates, as detailed in the next section if you subscribe to us.
  • Tracking how our online services are used: We collect, and use third parties to collect and share with us, information from visitors to our online services and analyse it to build up a picture of how people use our websites. This helps us improve the services we offer. We may also give anonymous statistics about visitors to other, reputable organisations, but the information we provide will not include details that would allow these organisations to identify you.
  • Testimonials: If you give us feedback, we may use it to improve our services and we may publish it online or offline to promote our business and our services. We will ask for your permission before we publish it.
  • Comments and reviews submitted to our online services: If you wish to submit a comment or feedback on a merchandise featured on our services, we may (but are not obliged to) publish your comment online to promote our business and our services. We will collect your name or username which will be displayed next to your comment, which will be published.
  • Mobile services: When you request our mobile services, we may keep your mobile phone number, the make and model of your phone, the operating system used by your phone and details of your network operator, and we will link a unique identifier to your mobile phone number. We’ll store your device language, country, We need this information in order to provide the features and services enabled through our mobile services and to administer our mobile service.
  • Social networks: If you follow us or interact with us on any of our pages on third party social media platforms, such as Instagram, Facebook, Twitter, Pinterest and Google+, information you provide will be ++subject to the third party’s privacy policy, as well as this privacy policy.
  • Customer surveys: Every now and again, we may ask you for your opinion on our services and the products you have purchased through our services. When we do research or surveys, we may use cookies and may combine the information collected by those cookies with your answers.

Information Disclosure:

  • We will share your information with other companies in our Group, who may use it for their own business purposes, as set out in their privacy policy. These purposes may include financial reporting and analysis, strategic planning, the development of customer segmentation and metrics to provide a consistent view of our customer base, research and analytics, to help us source the right products in future and make better product recommendations, more effective targeting of our marketing campaigns, the creation of inspiring content and editorial features, the development of new products and collaboration opportunities with designer brands. It will also be used to provide more tailored marketing by phone, post, email, SMS or any other means (electronic or otherwise) and you expressly agree to such use.
  • From time to time, we may engage third party business partners to provide information about you or to collect personal information on our behalf. We may also share or match your data with third party business partners to provide you with the products, services or information you ask for or for interest-based advertising. We may pass your information onto one or more of the following organisations: (i) data processing companies, mailing houses and other third party suppliers working on our Group’s behalf; (ii) ad-serving agencies and other advertising intermediaries; (iii) credit reference or fraud prevention agencies, which may keep a record of that information; (iv) research students, universities and other research and development organisations; (v) regulatory bodies, government and enforcement agencies, such as the police.
  • Every now and again, we receive requests for information from government departments, the police and other enforcement agencies. If this happens, and there is a proper legal basis for providing your personal information, we will provide it to the organisation asking for it.
  • We collate information about site traffic, sales, wish lists, and other commercial information which we may pass onto third parties, but this information does not include any details which can identify you personally.
  • We take reasonable measures to protect your personal information from loss, misuse, unauthorized access, disclosure, alteration, or destruction. However, no method of transmission over the internet or electronic storage is completely secure, and we cannot guarantee absolute security.
  • We use secure payment processing services for all online transactions, and we do not store your credit card information on our servers.

Processing of personal information:

  • When we use your information as described in this policy, this may involve sending your information outside the European Economic Area (EEA). When we do this, we make sure that appropriate steps are taken to protect your personal information and your rights. By providing us with your personal information, you agree that we may transfer, store and process your information outside the EEA. Governments in certain countries such as the USA have broad powers to access data for security, crime prevention and detection and law enforcement purposes.

MARKETING OPT-IN AND OPT-OUT PROVISION:

  • We offer you the chance to receive news which, depending on your preferences, we will discuss them with you by phone or send them to you via email, SMS and/or direct mail. These may include alerts for new products, features, enhancements, special offers, upgrade opportunities, contests, events of interest, and one-off marketing promotions. You can opt-out of receiving these updates, if you wish.
  • You have the right to ask us not to use your personal information for marketing. At all times, we will offer you the opportunity to unsubscribe from any service or update to which you have subscribed, if you change your mind. Whenever you receive marketing from us, we will tell you how to unsubscribe. To opt out of direct mail, please contact our Customer Service team on (+44) 7477252349 or by email at Support@creatizon.com

 

Protection of personal information:

  • We will take reasonable care to maintain appropriate safeguards to ensure the security, integrity and privacy of the information you have provided to us. We have put in place technology and security policies which are designed to protect the personal information we hold about you. We also follow the security procedures that applicable privacy laws require. These cover storing, using and releasing any information you have provided and, as well as measures designed to prevent unauthorised access or use. When you place an order or access your account information, we use a Secure Socket Layer (SSL) encryption which encrypts your information before it is sent to us to protect it from unauthorised use.

 

About Third Party Links:

  • Our online services contain hyperlinks to websites that are owned and operated by other organisations, such as PayPal, Stripe etc. These websites have their own privacy and cookie policies, and we urge you to read them. They control how your personal information is used when you give it to these other organisations or they collect it with cookies. We do not approve any other websites and we are not responsible for any information, material, products or services that are on or accessible through those websites or for the privacy practices of websites run by other organisations. If you use these other websites you do so at your own risk.

 

Additional Disclosures for Region-Specific Residents

Residents of California

This section describes how we collect, use, process, and disclose personal information of California consumers and the rights you may have under California law. These disclosures are intended to supplement this Privacy Policy with information required by the California Consumer Privacy Act. We note that the definition of “personal information” in California is expanded to include information that identifies, relates to, or could reasonably be linked with a particular person or household.

To understand what personal information we may have collected about you in the past 12 months, and from where we collected it, please see the section The Information We Collect above.

We collect this personal information, as further described in the How We Use Your Personal Information section above, to operate, manage, and maintain our business, to provide our products and services, and to accomplish our business purposes and objectives.

We may share such personal information with the third parties listed in the above section How we share your personal information. California law also requires that we provide you with information about certain disclosures to such third parties, where the disclosure involves monetary or other consideration. California treats these disclosures are “sales” of information, even where no money is exchanged. Some of the disclosures we make constitute “sales” under California law and involve the disclosure of the following types of personal information:

  • Identifiers, such as contact information, IP address, and other online identifiers;
  • Personal information, as defined in the California customer records law, such as contact information;
  • Internet or network activity information, such as browsing history and interactions with our website; and
  • Geolocation data, such as IP location.

We do not sell, or have actual knowledge of any sale of, the personal information of minors under 18 years of age.

We also disclose the following personal information to third parties for our operational “business purposes” as defined by California law:

IDENTIFIERS, SUCH AS NAME, CONTACT INFORMATION, IP ADDRESS AND OTHER ONLINE IDENTIFIERS;

Service providers; Business reorganization; Group companies; Mandatory disclosures and legal rights

PERSONAL INFORMATION, AS DEFINED IN THE CALIFORNIA CUSTOMER RECORDS LAW, SUCH AS NAME AND CONTACT INFORMATION, AND PAYMENT CARD NUMBER;

Service providers; Auditors, advisors, and financial institutions; Business reorganization; Group companies; Mandatory disclosures and legal rights

CHARACTERISTICS OF PROTECTED CLASSIFICATIONS UNDER CALIFORNIA OR FEDERAL LAW, SUCH AS SKIN TONE OR COLOR;

Service providers; Business reorganization; Group companies

COMMERCIAL INFORMATION, SUCH AS TRANSACTION INFORMATION AND PURCHASE HISTORY;

Service providers; Auditors, advisors, and financial institutions; Group companies; Business reorganization, Mandatory disclosures and legal rights

INTERNET OR NETWORK ACTIVITY INFORMATION, SUCH AS BROWSING HISTORY AND INTERACTIONS WITH OUR WEBSITE;

Service providers; Business reorganization; Group companies; Mandatory disclosures and legal rights

GEOLOCATION DATA, SUCH AS IP LOCATION;

Service providers; Business reorganization; Group companies; Mandatory disclosures and legal rights

ELECTRONIC AND SIMILAR INFORMATION; AND

Service providers; Business reorganization; Group companies; Mandatory disclosures and legal rights

INFERENCES DRAWN FROM ANY OF THE PERSONAL INFORMATION LISTED ABOVE TO CREATE A PROFILE ABOUT, FOR EXAMPLE, AN INDIVIDUAL’S PREFERENCES AND CHARACTERISTICS.

Service providers; Business reorganization; Group companies; Mandatory disclosures and legal rights

 

Your Rights

  • You have a right to notice, upon collection, of the categories of personal information collected and for which purposes the data will be used. You have the right to access a copy of the categories and specific pieces of personal information that the company collects, uses, and shares about you, and the right to ask the company to delete/anonymize your personal information, with limited exceptions. You also have the right to opt-out of the “sale” of your personal information. Finally, you have the right to be free from discrimination for exercising your rights.
  • You may exercise your right to opt-out of data “sales” by managing your preferences here.
  • If you wish to exercise any of these other rights or have any questions or concerns regarding the processing of your personal information, please email us at Support@creatizon.com. We will respond to your request consistent with applicable law.
  • Please note, however, before we will be able to process your request for access or deletion of personal information, we will need to properly verify your identity for security purposes. Where we possess appropriate information about you on file (e.g., name, phone number, email, or physical address), we will attempt to verify your identity using that information. We will be able to confirm the precise information we require to verify your identity in your specific circumstances if and when you make such a request.
  • To use an authorized agent to make a request on your behalf, you will need to directly confirm with us that you provided the authorized agent permission to submit the request, provide the company with signed permission for the authorized agent to act on your behalf, and you will need to verify your identity, directly with the company.
  • This CCPA Notice does not apply to our job applicants, employees, contractors, owners, directors, or officers where the personal information we collect about those individuals relates to their current, former, or potential role with us.

Residents of Nevada

  • As a Nevada resident, you have the right to ask certain companies not to sell your personal information in exchange for money under the Nevada’s privacy law, SB260. Consistent with this Policy, we do not engage in such sales for monetary consideration, without your consent.

Residents of Virginia

  • This portion of our Policy only applies to residents of the state of Virginia after January 1, 2023. This portion of our Policy advises Virginia residents of rights provided in the Virginia Consumer Data Protection Act (the “VCDPA”) and how Virginia residents may exercise those rights. You may exercise any of the rights in this Section by emailing us at Support@creatizon.com. If we refuse to take action regarding your exercise of any of the rights described in this section, you may appeal our refusal to do so by emailing Support@creatizon.com.
    Rights to Confirm and Access. You have the rights to confirm whether we are processing your personal information and you have the right to access such personal information;
  • Right to Correct. You have the right to correct inaccuracies in your personal information, as appropriate given the nature of the personal information and our processing purpose;
  • Right to Delete. You have the right to delete personal information provided by or obtained about you;
  • Right to Obtain a Copy. You have the right to obtain a copy of your personal information that you provided to us in a portable format, and to the extent technically feasible, a readily usable format that allows you to transmit the data to another data controller, where the processing is carried out by automated means; and/or
  • Right to Opt-Out. You have a right to opt-out of our: 1) processing for targeted advertising (whether the information was collected through online trackers or otherwise), 2) selling your personal information, or 3) profiling in a way that produces legal or otherwise significant effects concerning you. Please note that we do not sell personal information for monetary consideration without your consent, but you may opt-out of targeted advertising and certain other online tracking through the practices described in this Policy.

Residents of Canada

  • If you reside in Canada, your consent to use or share your Personal Data for the marketing purposes identified above is optional and is not required as a condition of obtaining the Services. If you do not want your personal information to be used or shared for these additional purposes, please email us at Support@creatizon.com. We do not collect social insurance numbers from Canadian consumers.

Children’s Privacy:

  • Our website is not intended for use by individuals under the age of 18. We do not knowingly collect personal information from children. If you believe that we have inadvertently collected personal information from a child, please contact us immediately, and we will take steps to delete the information.If you have questions or concerns about the Internet and privacy for your child, we encourage you to check out the FTC Guidelines for protecting your child’s privacy online.

Updates to the Privacy Policy:

  • We may update this Privacy Policy from time to time. Any changes will be posted on this page, and the “Last Updated” date at the top of the policy will reflect the updated version. We encourage you to review this Privacy Policy periodically.
  • If you have any questions or concerns about our Privacy Policy, please contact us at support@creatizon.com.
  • By using the website, you acknowledge that you have read, understood, and agreed to the terms of this Privacy Policy. If you do not agree with any of these terms, please refrain from using our website.