Privacy
What personal data we collect and why we collect it
Some visitors to An Affair to Remember, and all Customers of An Affair to Remember choose to interact with An Affair to Remember in ways that require An Affair to Remember gather personally-identifiable information. The amount and type of information we gather depends on the nature of the interaction. For example, to place an order with us, a Customer is required to provide information such as their name, mailing address, billing address, and financial information to facilitate the processing of your order. In other cases, such as commentary on our Blog, Reviews on our products and Support Tickets, a user is asked to provide additional information only insofar as is necessary or appropriate to fulfill the purpose of the visitor’s interaction with An Affair to Remember. An Affair to Remember does not disclose personally-identifiable information other than as described below. Visitors may always refuse to supply peronsally-identifable information, with the caveat that it may prevent them from engaging in certain website-related activities.
Accounts
- Any customer may check out as a “guest user” of An Affair to Remember at any time, or a Customer may opt to register an account with An Affair to Remember in order to gain access to certain features such as Wishlists, Waitlists, Previous Orders, Support Tickets via Account Dashboard, Shipping and Billing Address Details, Placing Reviews Of Products, Tracking Details via Account Dashboard, Manage Returns via Account Dashboard, and provide special access to specific customer promotions and training tools.
When you open an account with us, we ask that you provide an email address and a password. We use this information to:
- Send you information about your account, orders, and order tracking.
- Respond to your requests, including refunds, returns and complaints.
- Process payments and prevent fraud.
- Set up your account so can access our website.
- Comply with any legal obligations we may have, such as calculating taxes..
- Improve our site’s offerings.
Media
Our website allows a user with a Customer Account to upload image to the website. 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.
Cookies
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. An Affair to Remember uses cookies to help An Affair to Remember identify and track visitors, their usage of An Affair to Remember website, and their website access preferences. An Affair to Remember visitors who do not wish to have cookies placed on their computers should set their browsers to refuse cookies before using An Affair to Remember s websites, with the drawback that certain features of An Affair to Remember s websites may not function properly without the aid of 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 have an account and you log in to this site, 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.
Google Analytics gathers information allowing us to understand interactions with our websites and ultimately refine that experience to better serve you.
Who do we share your data with?
An Affair to Remember only discloses potentially personally-identifying and personally-identifying information to it’s employees, contractors and affiliated organizations that (i) need to know that information in order to process it on An Affair to Remember behalf or to provide services available at An Affair to Remember’s website, and (ii) who have agreed not to disclose it to others. Some of those employees, contracts and affiliated organizations may be located out outside of your home country; by using An Affair to Remember website, you consent to the transfer of such information to them. An Affair to Remember will not rent or sell potentially-identifying and personally-identifying information to anyone. Other than to its employees, contractors and affiliated organizations, as described above, An Affair to Remember discloses potentially personally-identifying and personally-identifying information only in response to a subpoena, court order or other governmental request, or when An Affair to Remember believes in good faith that disclosure is reasonably necessary to protect the property or rights of An Affair to Remember third parties or the public at large. If you are a registered user of an An Affair to Remember website and have supplied your email address, An Affair to Remember 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 An Affair to Remember and our products. If you send us a request (for example via email or via our contact form), 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. An Affair to Remember takes all measures reasonably necessary to protect against the unauthorized access, use, alteration or destruction of potentially personally-identifying and personally-identifying information.
Who on our team has access
Members of our team have access to the information you provide us. For example, both Administrators and Shop Managers can access:
- Order information like what was purchased, when it was purchased and where it should be sent, and
- Customer information like your name, email address, and billing and shipping information.
Our team members have access to this information to help fulfill orders, process refunds and support you.
How long do 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 (with the exception of being able to change their username). Website administrators can also see and edit that information.
Security logs are retained for 14 days.
Business Transfers
If An Affair to Remember, or substantially all of its assets, were acquired, or in the unlikely event that An Affair to Remember 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 An Affair to Remember may continue to use your personal information as set forth in this policy.
What rights do you have over your data?
If you have an account on this website, have placed an order through this website, have opted into any email list or marketing service provided by this website, or have left comments and reviews, 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.