Please read the next carefully to understand our views and practices about your personal data and how we will treat it. By providing your details to Gaya Crafts on our website, you consent to maintaining, recording, holding, and using the information you give to Gaya Crafts at the time of ordering to process your orders, improve our service to you, and inform you of promotions.
We take your privacy very seriously and will not pass your details to any third party without your permission, other than where we have to do so to get your order to you, e.g., our delivery courier. From time to time, Gaya Crafts send information about discounts and offers on products and our other items unless you have told us not to do so when signing up through the site. Relevant European Union law will apply to these terms and conditions.
Gaya Crafts may change this policy from time to time by updating this page. You should check this page to make sure that you are happy with any changes. This policy is effective from 2024-11-01.
What we collect & how we use your personal information
We use your personal information in ways that are compatible with the purposes for which it was collected or authorized by you, including for the following purposes: to present, operate or improve the Site, including analysis of Site activity; to inform you about products or promotions available from Gaya Crafts; to fulfill your order; to authorize access to this Site; to validate your identity or verify communications from you; to offer and administer programs; to customize or tailor your experience of the Site; to manage, store and enhance your data and preferences; to communicate about, and administer your participation in, special programs, surveys, contests, online campaigns, online programs, other offers or promotions, and to deliver emails; to send you confirmations, updates, security alerts, and support and administrative messages and otherwise facilitate fulfillment of your order; for marketing purposes, including but not limited to, facilitating interest-based advertising, creating customer profiles, creating custom audiences to target online and mobile advertising, sending integrated marketing messages across channels and devices, personalizing email and SMS marketing that we send to you, sending other promotional materials, and notifying you about special promotions, offers, events or opportunities that may be of interest to you or to the extent that you have provided prior consent; to improve our customer service, conduct customer satisfaction, market research, and quality reviews; to administer general recordkeeping; to comply with all applicable legal requirements; to manage our contractual relationship with you; to investigate possible fraud or other violations of our Terms of Use or this Privacy Policy; and for any other purpose that is disclosed to you at the point of collection of the personal information, for any purpose for which you provide your prior consent, or for any other lawful purpose.
Security
We are committed to ensuring that your information is secure. In order to prevent unauthorised access or disclosure we have put in place suitable physical, electronic and managerial procedures to safeguard and secure the information we collect online. All credit card details are entered on a secure page and are transferred using SSL.
Cookies and their policy
We use: Google Analytics
Anonymous visitor statistics: we use cookies to compile visitor statistics such as how many people have visited our website, what type of technology they are using, how long they spend on the site, what page they look at etc. This helps us to continuously improve our website. These so called “analytics” programs also tell us if , on an anonymous basis, how people reached this site (e.g. from a search engine) and whether they have been here before helping us to put more money into developing our services for you instead of marketing spend.
Turning cookies off: you can usually switch cookies off by adjusting your browser settings to stop it from accepting cookies. Doing so however will likely limit the functionality of our and a large proportion of the world’s websites as cookies are a standard part of most modern websites. Rather than switching off cookies in your browser you may find that anti-spyware software achieves the same objective by automatically deleting cookies considered to be invasive. Learn more about managing cookies with antispyware software.
Granting us permission to use cookies: if the settings on your software that you are using to view this website (your browser) are adjusted to accept cookies we take this, and your continued use of our website, to mean that you are fine with this. Should you wish to remove or not use cookies from our site you can learn how to do this in Turning cookies off part, however doing so will likely mean that our site will not work as you would expect.
Our cookies help us: make our website work as you’d expect; save you having to login every time you visit the site; remember your settings during and between visits; improve the speed and security of the site; allow you to share pages with social networks like Facebook; personalize our site to help you get what you need faster; continuously improve our website for our clients; make our marketing more efficient.
More about our cookies: making our shopping basket and checkout work; determining if you are logged in or not; remembering your search settings; remembering if you have accepted our terms and conditions; showing you which pages you have recently visited; allowing you to add comments to our site; tailoring content to your needs; functionality provided by third parties. like an embedded YouTube video.
Privacy policy updates and 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 the website. We will not reduce your rights under this Privacy Policy without your explicit consent. If we make material changes to this policy, we will notify you here that it has been updated, so that you are aware of what information we collect, how we use it, and under what circumstances, if any, we use and/or disclose it.
Nevertheless, you should review this Privacy Policy from time to time to be sure you are aware of the most recent version.
Data retention
As a general rule, we keep your data for only as long as it is needed to complete the purpose for which it was collected or as required by law. We may need to keep your data for longer than our specified retention periods to honor your requests, including to continue keeping you opted out of marketing emails, or to comply with legal or other obligations.
How to contact us?
If you have any questions, comments or concerns about this Privacy Policy, or if you would like to exercise the choices discussed above, please contact us:
via e-mail: gmgayacrafts@gmail.com