Privacy Policy

Who we are

Our website address is: https://woodenvie.com.

What personal data we collect and why we collect it

Comments

When visitors leave comments on the site we collect the data shown in the comments form, and also the visitor’s IP address and browser user agent string to help spam detection.

An anonymized string created from your email address (also called a hash) may be provided to the Gravatar service to see if you are using it. The Gravatar service privacy policy is available here: https://automattic.com/privacy/. After approval of your comment, your profile picture is visible to the public in the context of your comment.

Media

If you upload images to the website, you should avoid uploading images with embedded location data (EXIF GPS) included. Visitors to the website can download and extract any location data from images on the website.

Contact forms

Cookies

If you leave a comment on our site you may opt-in to saving your name, email address and website in cookies. These are for your convenience so that you do not have to fill in your details again when you leave another comment. These cookies will last for one year.

If you visit our login page, we will set a temporary cookie to determine if your browser accepts cookies. This cookie contains no personal data and is discarded when you close your browser.

When you log in, we will also set up several cookies to save your login information and your screen display choices. Login cookies last for two days, and screen options cookies last for a year. If you select “Remember Me”, your login will persist for two weeks. If you log out of your account, the login cookies will be removed.

If you edit or publish an article, an additional cookie will be saved in your browser. This cookie includes no personal data and simply indicates the post ID of the article you just edited. It expires after 1 day.

Embedded content from other websites

Articles on this site may include embedded content (e.g. videos, images, articles, etc.). Embedded content from other websites behaves in the exact same way as if the visitor has visited the other website.

These websites may collect data about you, use cookies, embed additional third-party tracking, and monitor your interaction with that embedded content, including tracking your interaction with the embedded content if you have an account and are logged in to that website.

Who we use your data

We use your information for business purposes, including to provide the products and services you request, to perform customer service functions, for security and fraud prevention, for marketing and promotional purposes, and to perform website and mobile application analytics.  We may use the information we collect about you to:

(a)  To Provide Our Services – We may process your information when you access or use the WoodenVie service, including to:

  • process or fulfill orders and transactions;
  • maintain and service accounts;
  • deliver gift cards or e-gifts, and any associated personalized messages, in accordance with your instructions;
  • facilitate the functionality of our websites and mobile applications;
  • process payments; and
  • customize experiences and personalization when you are in and around our stores, if you have given permission for location sharing.

(b)  To Communicate With You – We process certain information in order to communicate with you in relation to your accounts, our services, our marketing, and your requests, including to:

  • provide customer service;
  • communicate with you about orders, purchases, returns, ;
  • send you personalized promotions, content, and special offers;
  • communicate with you about our brands, products, events, or other promotional purposes.

(c)  To Enforce our Terms, Agreements, or Policies – To maintain a safe, secure, and trusted environment for you when you use our websites, mobile applications, and other services, we use your personal information to ensure our terms, policies, and agreements with you and any third parties are enforced.

(d)  To Comply with Applicable Laws – We may be required to process certain information under certain laws and regulations, such as tax laws, as well as to:

  • maintain appropriate records for internal administrative purposes; and
  • comply with applicable legal and regulatory obligations, and respond to lawful governmental requests, as needed.

(f)  Targeted Advertising – We may process your information to provide you with targeted advertising (also known as cross-contextual advertising and online behavioral advertising) and offers and promotions that you may be interested in.

How long we retain your data

If you leave a comment, the comment and its metadata are retained indefinitely. This is so we can recognize and approve any follow-up comments automatically instead of holding them in a moderation queue.

For users that register on our website (if any), we also store the personal information they provide in their user profile. All users can see, edit, or delete their personal information at any time (except they cannot change their username). Website administrators can also see and edit that information.

What rights you have over your data

If you have an account on this site, or have left comments, you can request to receive an exported file of the personal data we hold about you, including any data you have provided to us. You can also request that we erase any personal data we hold about you. This does not include any data we are obliged to keep for administrative, legal, or security purposes.

Visitor comments may be checked through an automated spam detection service.