Privacy Policy

WELCOME TO OUR PRIVACY POLICY YOUR PRIVACY IS CRITICALLY IMPORTANT TO US.

It is Dope Gift Ideas’s policy to respect your privacy regarding any information we may collect while operating our website. This Privacy Policy applies to https://dopegiftideas.com (hereinafter, “us”, “we”, “site”, DGI, dopegiftideas.com, or “https://dopegiftideas.com”). We respect your privacy and are committed to protecting personally identifiable information you may provide us through the Website. We have adopted this privacy policy (“Privacy Policy”) to explain what information may be collected on our Website, how we use this information, and under what circumstances we may disclose the information to third parties. This Privacy Policy applies only to information we collect through the Website and does not apply to our collection of information from other sources.This Privacy Policy, together with the Terms of Use posted on our Website, set forth the general rules and policies governing your use of our Website. Depending on your activities when visiting our Website, you may be required to agree to additional terms and conditions.

WEBSITE VISITORS

Like most website operators, Dope Gift Ideas collects non-personally-identifying information of the sort that web browsers and servers typically make available, such as the browser type, language preference, referring site, and the date and time of each visitor request. Dope Gift Ideas’s purpose in collecting non-personally identifying information is to better understand how Dope Gift Ideas’s visitors use its website. From time to time, Dope Gift Ideas may release non-personally-identifying information in the aggregate, e.g., by publishing a report on trends in the usage of its website.Dope Gift Ideas also collects potentially personally-identifying information like Internet Protocol (IP) addresses for logged in users and for users leaving comments on https://dopegiftideas.com blog posts. Dope Gift Ideas only discloses logged in user and commenter IP addresses under the same circumstances that it uses and discloses personally-identifying information as described below.

GATHERING OF PERSONAL-IDENTIFYING INFORMATION
Certain visitors to Dope Gift Ideas’s websites choose to interact with Dope Gift Ideas in ways that require Dope Gift Ideas to gather personally-identifying information. The amount and type of information that Dope Gift Ideas gathers depends on the nature of the interaction. For example, we ask visitors who sign up for a blog at https://dopegiftideas.com to provide a username and email address.

PROTECTION OF CERTAIN PERSONALLY-IDENTIFYING INFORMATION

Dope Gift Ideas discloses potentially personally-identifying and personally-identifying information only to those of its employees, contractors and affiliated organizations that (i) need to know that information in order to process it on Dope Gift Ideas’s behalf or to provide services available at Dope Gift Ideas’s website, and (ii) that have agreed not to disclose it to others. Some of those employees, contractors and affiliated organizations may be located outside of your home country; by using Dope Gift Ideas’s website, you consent to the transfer of such information to them. Dope Gift Ideas will not rent or sell potentially personally-identifying and personally-identifying information to anyone. Other than to its employees, contractors and affiliated organizations, as described above, Dope Gift Ideas discloses potentially personally-identifying and personally-identifying information only in response to a subpoena, court order or other governmental request, or when Dope Gift Ideas believes in good faith that disclosure is reasonably necessary to protect the property or rights of Dope Gift Ideas, third parties or the public at large. If you are a registered user of https://dopegiftideas.com and have supplied your email address, Dope Gift Ideas may occasionally send you an email to tell you about new features, solicit your feedback, or just keep you up to date with what’s going on with Dope Gift Ideas and our products. We primarily use our blog to communicate this type of information, so we expect to keep this type of email to a minimum. If you send us a request (for example via a support email or via one of our feedback mechanisms), we reserve the right to publish it in order to help us clarify or respond to your request or to help us support other users. Dope Gift Ideas takes all measures reasonably necessary to protect against the unauthorized access, use, alteration or destruction of potentially personally-identifying and personally-identifying information.

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:

– “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.
– “Web beacons,” “tags,” and “pixels” are electronic files used to record information about how you browse the Site.

Additionally 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 (including credit card numbers, email address, and phone number. We refer to this information as “Order Information.”

When we talk about “Personal Information” in this Privacy Policy, we are talking both about Device Information and Order Information.

HOW DO WE USE YOUR PERSONAL INFORMATION? 

We use the Order Information that we collect generally to fulfill 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; and
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 optimize our Site (for example, by generating analytics about how our customers browse and interact with the Site, and to assess the success of our marketing and advertising campaigns).

SHARING YOUR PERSONAL INFORMATION   

We share your Personal Information with third parties to help us use your Personal Information, as described above. For example, we use WordPress, WooCommerce, and MailerLite to power our online store–you can read more about how WordPress, WooCommerce, and MailerLite uses your Personal Information here: https://wordpress.org/about/privacy/  and https://automattic.com/privacy/ and https://www.mailerlite.com/legal/privacy-policy We also use Google Analytics to help us understand how our customers use the Site–you can read more about how Google uses your Personal Information here: https://www.google.com/intl/en/policies/privacy/. You can also opt-out of Google Analytics here: https://tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout.

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 request for information we receive, or to otherwise protect our rights.

As described above, we use your Personal Information to provide you with targeted advertisements or marketing communications we believe may be of interest to you. For more information about how targeted advertising works, you can visit the Network Advertising Initiative’s (“NAI”) educational page at http://www.networkadvertising.org/understanding-online-advertising/how-does-it-work.

You can opt out of targeted advertising by:

COMMON LINKS INCLUDE:
FACEBOOK – https://www.facebook.com/settings/?tab=ads
GOOGLE – https://www.google.com/settings/ads/anonymous
BING – https://advertise.bingads.microsoft.com/en-us/resources/policies/personalized-adsAdditionally, you can opt out of some of these services by visiting the Digital Advertising Alliance’s opt-out portal at: http://optout.aboutads.info/.

DO NOT TRACK

Please note that we do not alter our Site’s data collection and use best practices when we see a Do Not Track signal from your browser.

YOUR RIGHTS
If you are a European resident, you have the right to access personal information we hold about you and to ask that your personal information be corrected, updated, or deleted. If you would like to exercise this right, please contact us through the contact information below.

Additionally, if you are a European resident we note that we are processing your information in order to fulfill contracts we might have with you (for example if you make an order through the Site), or otherwise to pursue our legitimate business interests listed above. Additionally, please note that your information will be transferred outside of Europe, including to Canada and the United States.

SECURITY

The security of your Personal Information is important to us, but remember that no method of transmission over the Internet, or method of electronic storage is 100% secure. While we strive to use commercially acceptable means to protect your Personal Information, we cannot guarantee its absolute security.

ADVERTISEMENTS

Ads appearing on our website may be delivered to users by advertising partners, who may set cookies. These cookies allow the ad server to recognize your computer each time they send you an online advertisement to compile information about you or others who use your computer. This information allows ad networks to, among other things, deliver targeted advertisements that they believe will be of most interest to you. This Privacy Policy covers the use of cookies by Dope Gift Ideas and does not cover the use of cookies by any advertisers.

LINKS TO EXTENAL SITES

Our Service may contain links to external sites that are not operated by us. If you click on a third party link, you will be directed to that third party’s site. We strongly advise you to review the Privacy Policy and terms and conditions of every site you visit.We have no control over, and assume no responsibility for the content, privacy policies or practices of any third party sites, products or services. https://dopegiftideas.com uses Google AdWords for remarketinghttps://dopegiftideas.com uses the remarketing services to advertise on third party websites (including Google) to previous visitors to our site. It could mean that we advertise to previous visitors who haven’t completed a task on our site, for example using the contact form to make an enquiry. This could be in the form of an advertisement on the Google search results page, or a site in the Google Display Network. Third-party vendors, including Google, use cookies to serve ads based on someone’s past visits. Of course, any data collected will be used in accordance with our own privacy policy and Google’s privacy policy. You can set preferences for how Google advertises to you using the Google Ad Preferences page, and if you want to you can opt out of interest-based advertising entirely by cookie settings or permanently using a browser plugin.

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 by email to delete this information.

AGGREGATED STATISTICS

Dope Gift Ideas may collect statistics about the behavior of visitors to its website. Dope Gift Ideas may display this information publicly or provide it to others. However, Dope Gift Ideas does not disclose your personally-identifying information.

AFFILIATE DISCLOSURE

This site uses affiliate links and does earn a commission from certain links. This does not affect your purchases or the price you may pay.  

COOKIES

Our site uses cookies. To enrich and perfect your online experience, Dope Gift Ideas uses “Cookies”, similar technologies and services provided by others to display personalized content, appropriate advertising and store your preferences on your computer.A cookie is a string of information that a website stores on a visitor’s computer, and that the visitor’s browser provides to the website each time the visitor returns. Dope Gift Ideas uses cookies to help Dope Gift Ideas identify and track visitors, their usage of https://dopegiftideas.com, and their website access preferences. Dope Gift Ideas visitors who do not wish to have cookies placed on their computers should set their browsers to refuse cookies before using Dope Gift Ideas’s websites, with the drawback that certain features of Dope Gift Ideas’s websites may not function properly without the aid of cookies. By continuing to navigate our website without changing your cookie settings, you hereby acknowledge and agree to Dope Gift Ideas’s use of cookies.

E-COMMERCE

Those who engage in transactions with Dope Gift Ideas – by purchasing Dope Gift Ideas’s services or products, are asked to provide additional information, including as necessary the personal and financial information required to process those transactions. In each case, Dope Gift Ideas collects such information only insofar as is necessary or appropriate to fulfill the purpose of the visitor’s interaction with Dope Gift Ideas. Dope Gift Ideas does not disclose personally-identifying information other than as described below. And visitors can always refuse to supply personally-identifying information, with the caveat that it may prevent them from engaging in certain website-related activities.

BUSINESS TRANSFERS

If Dope Gift Ideas, or substantially all of its assets, were acquired, or in the unlikely event that Dope Gift Ideas goes out of business or enters bankruptcy, user information would be one of the assets that is transferred or acquired by a third party. You acknowledge that such transfers may occur, and that any acquirer of Dope Gift Ideas may continue to use your personal information as set forth in this policy.

MINORS
Dope Gift Ideas (the site) is not intended for minors.

PRIVACY POLICY CHANGES
We may update this privacy policy from time to time in order to reflect, for example, changes to our practices or for other operational, legal or regulatory reasons. Although most changes are likely to be minor, Dope Gift Ideas may change its Privacy Policy from time to time, and in Dope Gift Ideas’s sole discretion. Dope Gift Ideas encourages visitors to frequently check this page for any changes to its Privacy Policy. Your continued use of this site after any change in this Privacy Policy will constitute your acceptance of such change.

CONTACT US
For more information about our privacy practices, if you have questions, or if you would like to make a complaint, please contact us by email at: questions@dopegiftideas.com