PrivacY Policy

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What type of information is collected?
 
We receive, collect and store any information you enter on our website or provide us in any other way. In addition, we collect the Internet protocol (IP) address used to connect your computer to the Internet; login; e-mail address; password; computer and connection information and purchase history. We may use software tools to measure and collect session information, including page response times, length of visits to certain pages, page interaction information, and methods used to browse away from the page. We also collect personally identifiable information (including name, email, password, communications); payment details (including credit card information), comments, feedback, product reviews, recommendations, and personal profile.
 
How do you collect information?
 
When you conduct a transaction on our website, as part of the process, we collect personal information you give us such as your name, address and email address. Your personal information will be used for the specific reasons stated above only.
 
Why do you collect such personal information?
 
We collect such Non-personal and Personal Information for the following purposes:

1. To provide and operate the Services;

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

3. To be able to contact our Visitors and Users with general or personalized service-related notices and promotional messages;

4. To create aggregated statistical data and other aggregated and/or inferred Non-personal Information, which we or our business partners may use to provide and improve our respective services; 

5. To comply with any applicable laws and regulations.

 
How do you store, use, share and disclose your site visitors' personal information?
 
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 services to you. Your data may be stored through Wix.com’s data storage, databases and the general Wix.com applications. They store your data on secure servers behind a firewall.  
 
All direct payment gateways offered by Wix.com and used by our company adhere to the standards set by PCI-DSS as managed by the PCI Security Standards 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.
 
How do you communicate with your site visitors?
 
We may contact you to notify you regarding your account, to troubleshoot problems with your account, to resolve a dispute, to collect fees or monies owed, to send updates about our company, or as otherwise necessary to contact you to enforce our User Agreement, applicable national laws, and any agreement we may have with you. For these purposes we may contact you via email, telephone, text messages, and postal mail.
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What are your data protection rights?
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Every user is entitled to the following:
The right to access – You have the right to request Our Company for copies of your personal data. We may charge you a small fee for this service.
 
The right to rectification – You have the right to request that Our Company correct any information you believe is inaccurate. You also have the right to request Our Company to complete the information you believe is incomplete.
 
The right to erasure – You have the right to request that Our Company erase your personal data, under certain conditions.
 
The right to restrict processing – You have the right to request that Our Company restrict the processing of your personal data, under certain conditions.
 
The right to object to processing – You have the right to object to Our Company’s processing of your personal data, under certain conditions.
 
The right to data portability – You have the right to request that Our Company transfer the data that we have collected to another organization, or directly to you, under certain conditions.
 
How can I withdraw my consent?
 
If you don’t want us to process your data anymore, please contact us at malstromsurfing@gmail.com
 
Privacy policy updates
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. 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. 
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Questions and your contact information
If you would like to: access, correct, amend or delete any personal information we have about you, you are invited to contact us at malstromsurfing@gmail.com
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Cookies
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Cookies are text files placed on your computer to collect standard Internet log information and visitor behavior information. When you visit our websites, we may collect information from you automatically through cookies or similar technology. For further information, visit allaboutcookies.org.
 
How do we use cookies?
 
Our Company uses cookies in a range of ways to improve your experience on our website, including:

• Keeping you signed in

• Understanding how you use our website

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What types of cookies do we use?
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There are a number of different types of cookies, however, our website uses:
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• Functionality – Our Company uses these cookies so that we recognize you on our website and remember your previously selected preferences. These could include what language you prefer and location you are in. A mix of first-party and third-party cookies are used.

• Advertising – Our Company uses these cookies to collect information about your visit to our website, the content you viewed, the links you followed and information about your browser, device, and your IP address. Our Company sometimes shares some limited aspects of this data with third parties for advertising purposes. We may also share online data collected through cookies with our advertising partners. This means that when you visit another website, you may be shown advertising based on your browsing patterns on our website.

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How to manage cookies
You can set your browser not to accept cookies, and the above website tells you how to remove cookies from your browser. However, in a few cases, some of our website features may not function as a result.
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Third party services:
 
Google Analytics - usage tracking and analysis:
We use "Google Analytics" on our website. Google Analytics is a tracking and analytics service provided by Google Inc., 1600 Amphitheater Parkway, Mountain View, CA 94043, USA ("Google"), which evaluates the use of our website on our behalf.
We use Google Analytics to analyze the use of our website and to improve our online presence, the technical features and the design for you, as well as detect and fend off fraud and security attacks. Here lies our legitimate interest in the processing of usage data by Google.
To analyze the use of our website, Google stores cookies (text files) on your device. These cookies transfer information to Google, which Google uses to provide us with the analyzes and reports we require. An identification of your person is not possible through these cookies or this information.
We only use the setting "anonymize-ip", which makes the anonymization of your IP-address. This means that your IP-address will be truncated by Google within member states of the European Union or in parties to the Agreement on the European Economic Area prior to transmission to Google servers in the United States. Only in exceptional cases your IP-address will be fully transmitted to and shortened at the Google servers in the United States.
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Your IP address will not be merged with other Google data. As a result, an identification of your person can be excluded.
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You can prohibit the storage of the Analytics tracking cookies at any time in the settings of your browser and delete stored cookies. The respective settings vary depending on the browser type used. Also modern browsers offer the possibility to activate the option "Do-Not- Track" and thus to prevent tracking.
If you wish to prevent the tracking of your user behavior (including your IP address) as well as the processing of this data by Google, you can alternatively download and install the web browser plugin provided by Google: https://tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout?hl=en
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By entering into a contract processing agreement, we are committing Google to comply with applicable data protection laws. The contract data processing contract was concluded with: Google Dublin, Google Ireland Ltd., Gordon House, Barrow Street, Dublin 4, Ireland.
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Google has also committed to the Privacy Shield Agreement and certified there. This requires Google to comply with the standards and regulations of European data protection law. Information on the Privacy Shield Agreement can be found here: https://www.dataprivacyframework.gov/s/
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For more information about Google's data usage and privacy and related topics, please visit: https://policies.google.com/?hl=en
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Google Adwords - Conversion Tracking:
Google AdWords is the advertising program of Google Inc., 1600 Amphitheater Parkway, Mountain View, CA 94043, United States ("Google").
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We use Google AdWords or Conversion Tracking to measure the performance of our ads on Google search pages and to improve our offerings.
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To generate the statistics, Google saves an individual cookie on your computer when you click on an ad. This cookie does not serve your personal identification but responds to the "conversion tag" after the request via the online form. This allows us and Google to see how many people have clicked on an ad and whether a request has been sent. Personal data is not part of the evaluation.
You can prohibit the storage of cookies at any time in the settings of your browser and delete stored cookies. The respective settings vary depending on the browser type used. You can also disable cookies for conversion tracking by setting your browser to block cookies from the domain "www.googleadservices.com".
Here are the Google privacy policies for Google AdWords and Google 
Conversion Tracking: https://www.google.com/policies/privacy/
 
Google Maps:
We use interactive maps of "Google Maps", the online mapping service of Google Inc., 1600 Amphitheater Parkway, Mountain View, CA 94043, USA ("Google"), which are incorporated on our website.
We use Google Maps' integrated map service to provide you with information about our location or other information about our offer in a user-friendly way. Personal information or information about your location will not be disclosed.
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By visiting pages of our presence where Google Maps interactive maps are embedded, Google receives personally identifiable information, such as: For example, your IP address and possibly your location, the URL of our page or sub-page you are on, as well as other tracking information transmitted to Google's servers. We have no influence on this data collection and possible processing.
If you have a Google Account and are logged in to Google in parallel, Google may be able to associate and process that information with your account.
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Google's applicable Google Maps privacy policy can be found here: https://www.google.com/policies/privacy/
Google has also committed to the Privacy Shield Agreement and certified there. This requires Google to comply with the standards and regulations of European data protection law. Information on the Privacy Shield Agreement can be found here: https://www.dataprivacyframework.gov/s/
 
Google Fonts:
We use fonts embedded in our website from Google Web Fonts, Google Inc.'s online font plugin, 1600 Amphitheater Parkway, Mountain View, CA 94043, USA ("Google").
We use Google's integrated font service to make texts on our website uniform and user-friendly across systems. Personal information will not be disclosed to us.
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By visiting pages of our presence, your browser connects to Google Web Fonts and stores them in your browser. This will give Google personally identifiable information, such as For example, your IP address, the URL of our page or sub-page you are on, and other tracking information transmitted to Google's servers. We have no influence on this data collection and possible processing.
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Google's applicable Google Web Fonts privacy policy can be found here: https://www.google.com/policies/privacy/
 
Google has also committed to the Privacy Shield Agreement and certified there. This requires Google to comply with the standards and regulations of European data protection law. Information on the Privacy Shield Agreement can be found here: https://www.dataprivacyframework.gov/s/
 
Youtube Video Plugins
We use embedded YouTube videos ("plugins") on our site to present an attractive online offer. Operator of the video pages is the Google subsidiary YouTube, LLC, 901 Cherry Ave, San Bruno, CA 94066, USA.
When you visit one of our sites with an embedded YouTube video, YouTube will connect to your device. This will give YouTube, or Google personal information such. For example, your IP address, the URL of our page or sub-page you are on, and other tracking information transmitted to Google's servers. We have no influence on this data collection and possible processing.
We always include YouTube videos with the "nocookie" option.
If you have a YouTube account and are logged in to it, YouTube may associate your user behavior with your user account.
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You can find the privacy policy of YouTube at: https://www.google.com/intl/en/policies/privacy/
Google has also committed to the Privacy Shield Agreement and certified there. This requires Google to comply with the standards and regulations of European data protection law. Information on the Privacy Shield Agreement can be found here: https://www.dataprivacyframework.gov/s/
 
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