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PRIVACY POLICY

Type of Website: E-commerce

Effective date: January 1st 2022

 

The Website www.earthlydiscoveries.com is owned and operated by Bianca Forcillo-Pilon and Vincent L’Ecuyer.

We can be contacted at earthlydiscoveries@outlook.com

PURPOSE OF THE PRIVACY POLICY

The purpose of this Privacy Policy is to inform the users of our Website about the following aspects:

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  1. The personal data we will collect;

  2. The use of the collected data;

  3. Who has access to the collected data;

  4. The rights of the Website users; and

  5. The Websites cookie policy.

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This Privacy Policy applies in addition to the Terms and Conditions of our Website.

CONSENT

By using the Earthly Discoveries Website, users agree that they consent to:

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  1. The conditions established in this Privacy Policy; and

  2. The collection, use and retention of the data listed in this Privacy Policy.

PERSONAL DATA WE COLLECT

We only collect data which helps us achieve the purpose established in this Privacy Policy. We guarantee that we will not collect any additional data beyond the data that is listed below without notifying you.

DATA COLLECTED AUTOMATICALLY

When you visit and use www.earthlydiscoveries.com, we may automatically collect and store the following information:

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  1. IP address;

  2. Location;

  3. Hardware and software details;

  4. Clicked links;

  5. Content viewed; and

  6. Personal identifiable information such as name, email, password, communications, payments details (credit card information), comments, feedback, and product reviews, recommendations, personal profile.

DATA COLLECTED IN A NON-AUTOMATIC WAY

The following data may also be collected when you perform certain functions or use certain tools on our Website:

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  1. First and last name;

  2. Age;

  3. Date of birth;

  4. Sex;

  5. Email address;

  6. Phone number;

  7. Address;

  8. Payment information; and

  9. Auto fill data.

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The data could be collected by using some of the following methods listed below:

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  1. When a user contact us and/or sends us an email;

  2. When a user purchases a product in our store;

  3. When a user creates themselves an account on our Website;

  4. When a user subscribes to our newsletter; and

  5. When a user is using our Website.

HOW WE USE PERSONAL DATA

The data collected on our Website will only be used for the purposes identified in this Privacy Policy. We will not use your data beyond what we disclose in this Privacy Policy.

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We collect non-personal and personal information for the following purposes:

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  1. To provide and operate our services;

  2. To provide our users with ongoing customer assistance and technical support;

  3. To provide our users with shipping and delivery services;

  4. To be able to contacts our visitors and users with general or personalized service-related notices and promotional messages;

  5. To create statistical data which we or our business partners may use to provide and/or improve our respective services;

  6. To offer marketing for our campaigns and our events;

  7. To notify users regarding their account;

  8. To troubleshoot problems related to users accounts;

  9. To resolve a dispute;

  10.  To collect fees or money that is owed;

  11. To poll users opinions through surveys or questionnaires,

  12. To send updates about our company; and

  13. To comply with any applicable laws and regulations in Canada.

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Please note, that for these purposes we may contact users of our Website (www.earthlydiscoveries.com) via email, telephone, text messages, and postal mail.

WHO WE SHARE PERSONAL DATA WITH

Employees

We may disclose user data to any member of our organization who reasonably needs access it so they may achieve the purposes stated in this Privacy Policy.

 

Third Parties

We may share users data with the following third party:

 

  • WIX

 

We may share users data with third parties for the following purposes:

 

Our company is hosted on the Wix.com platform. Wix.com provides us with the online platform that allows us to sell our products and our services to users. Data may be stored through Wix.com’s data storage, databases and the general Wix.com applications. However, they store the data on a secure server behind a firewall.

 

All direct payment gateways offered by Wix.com and used by our company (Earthly Discoveries) adhere to the standards set by PCI-DSS as managed by the PCI Security Standard Council, which is a joint effort of brands like Visa, MasterCard, American Express and Discover. PCI-DSS requirements help ensure the secure handling of credit card information by our store and its service providers.

 

Please note, third parties will not be able to access our user data beyond what is reasonably necessary to achieve the given purpose.

OTHER DISCLOSURES

We guarantee that we will not sell or share your data with other third parties, except in the following cases:

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  1. If the law requires it;

  2. If it is required for any legal proceeding;

  3. To prove or protect our legal rights; and

  4. To buyers or potential buyers of this company in the event that we seek to sell the company.

 

Please note, if you follow hyperlinks from our Website to another Site, we are not responsible for and nor do we have control over their privacy policies and practices.

HOW LONG DO WE STORE PERSONAL DATA

User data will be stored until the purpose the data was collected for has been achieved.

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If the data needs to be preserved for a longer period of time, users will be notified.

PROTECTION OF PERSONAL DATA

While we take all reasonable precautions to ensure that the user data is secure and that users are protected, there always remains the risk of harm. The Internet as a whole can be insecure at times and therefore we are unable to guarantee the security of user data beyond what is reasonably practical.

HOW TO ACCESS, MODIFY, DELETE THE DATA COLLECTED OR WITHDRAW CONSENT

If you would like to know if we have collected your personal data, how we have used your personal data, if we have disclosed your personal data and to who we disclosed your personal data, or if you would like your data to be deleted or modified in any way, please contact us using the following email address: earthlydiscoveries@outlook.com.

COOKIE POLICY

A cookie is a small file, stored on a user’s hard drive by a website. Its purpose is to collect data relating the user’s browsing habits. You can choose to be notified each time a cookie is transmitted. You can also choose to disable cookies entirely in your internet browser, however this may affect the quality the user’s experience.

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We use the following type of cookies on our Website:

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  • Third-Party Cookies

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Third-Party Cookies are created by a website other than ours.

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We use Wix.com Third-Party cookies to:

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  1. Provides us (Earthly Discoveries) with an online platform that allows us to sell our products and our services to users.

  2. Identify who registers to our Website.

  3. Monitor and analyze the performance, operation and effectiveness of the platform.

  4. Ensure our platform is secure and safe to use.

 

To abide and respect the data privacy laws and regulations we have included a cookie banner on our Website. The cookie banner allows us to inform all of our site visitors and users that we are using cookies on our Website.

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Type of Cookies used by our third party; Wix.com:

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Name: XSRF-TOKEN

Purpose: Used for security reasons.

Duration: Session

Type: Essential

 

Name: hs

Purpose: Used for security reasons.

Duration: Session

Type: Essential

 

Name: svSession

Purpose: Used in connection with user login.

Duration: 2 Years

Type: Essential

 

Name: SSR-caching

Purpose: Used to indicate the system from which the site was rendered.

Duration: 1 Minute

Type: Essential

 

Name: _wixCIDX

Purpose: Used for system monitoring/ debugging.

Duration: 3 Months

Type: Essential

 

Name: _wix_browser_sess

Purpose: Used for system monitoring/ debugging.

Duration: Session

Type: Essential

 

Name: Consent-policy

Purpose: Used for cookie banner parameters.

Duration: 12 Months

Type: Essential

 

Name: smSession

Purpose: Used to identify logged in site members.

Duration: Session

Type: Essential

 

Name: TS*

Purpose: Used for security and anti-fraud reasons.

Duration: Session

Type: Essential

 

Name: bSession

Purpose: Used for system effectiveness measurement.

Duration: 30 Minutes

Type: Essential

 

Name: Fedops.logger.sessionld

Purpose: Used for stability and effectiveness measurements.

Duration: 12 Months

Type: Essential

 

Name: wixLanguage

Purpose: Used on multilingual websites to save user language preference.

Duration: 12 Months

Type: Functional

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*Please note that our Website may use cookies that aren't listed in the list above.

 

If you follow hyperlinks from our Website to another Site, we are not responsible for and nor do we have control over their privacy policies, their cookie policies and their practices.

MODIFICATIONS

We reserve the right to modify this Privacy Policy at any time, so please review it frequently. Changes and clarifications will take effect immediately upon their posting on our Website. When we amend this Privacy Policy we will update the “Effective Date” at the top of this Privacy Policy. If judged necessary, we may notify users by email of changes that we made to this Privacy Policy.

CONTACT INFORMATION

If you have any questions, concerns or complaints, you may contacts us at earthlydiscoveries@outlook.com.

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