Privacy policy

This Privacy Policy describes how Void Putters (the "Site", "we", "us", or "our") collects, uses, and discloses your personal information when you visit, use our services, or make a purchase from voidputters.com (the "Site") or otherwise communicate with us (collectively, the "Services"). For purposes of this Privacy Policy, "you" and "your" means you as the user of the Services, whether you are a customer, website visitor, or another individual whose information we have collected pursuant to this Privacy Policy.

Please read this Privacy Policy carefully. By using and accessing any of the Services, you agree to the collection, use, and disclosure of your information as described in this Privacy Policy. If you do not agree to this Privacy Policy, please do not use or access any of the Services.


Last updated: April 2023

1. Collecting Personal Information

We collect various types of personal information when you interact with voidputters.com (the "Site") or use our services (collectively, the "Services"). This includes device information, order information, account data, and customer support details. We use this information to provide, maintain, and improve our Services and communicate with you. Below is a summary of the personal information we collect:

I. Device Information

  • Purpose of collection: To load the Site accurately for you, optimize our Site’s performance, and conduct analytics on Site usage.
  • Source of collection: Automatically collected through cookies, log files, web beacons, tags, or pixels when you interact with our Site.
  • Disclosure for business purpose: Shared with our service providers, including Shopify.
  • Personal Information collected: IP address, browser version, time zone, cookie information, pages viewed, and search terms.

II. Order Information

  • Purpose of collection: To fulfill orders, process payments, arrange shipping, send invoices, provide order confirmations, screen for fraud, and send promotional offers.
  • Source of collection: Directly from you.
  • Disclosure for business purpose: Shared with Shopify and payment processors.
  • Personal Information collected: Name, billing address, shipping address, payment information, email address, and phone number.

III. Account Information

  • Purpose of collection: To create and manage your account, including user authentication and security.
  • Source of collection: Directly from you.
  • Personal Information collected: Username, password, and security questions.

IV. Customer Support Information

  • Purpose of collection: To provide customer support and resolve issues.
  • Source of collection: Directly from you.
  • Personal Information collected: Information you provide during support interactions.

V. Cookies and Usage Data

  • Purpose of collection: To improve user experience and personalize advertising.
  • Source of collection: Automatically collected through cookies, pixels, and other technologies.
  • Personal Information collected: Device details, browsing history, IP address, and usage data.

Minors

The Site is not intended for individuals under the age of [13]. We do not intentionally collect Personal Information from children. If you are the parent or guardian and believe your child has provided us with Personal Information, please contact us at the address above to request deletion.

2. Sharing Personal Information

We share your Personal Information with service providers to help us provide our services and fulfill our contracts with you, as described above. For example:


We use Shopify to power our online store. You can read more about how Shopify uses your Personal Information here: https://www.shopify.com/legal/privacy.

We may 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.

3. Behavioural Advertising

We use your personal information for targeted advertising. This includes sharing information with advertising partners, such as Google and Facebook, to display personalized ads based on your interactions with the Site. You can opt out of targeted advertising through the following:

For more detailed information on how targeted advertising works, visit the Network Advertising Initiative.

4. Using Personal Information

We use your personal Information to provide our services to you, which includes: offering products for sale, processing payments, shipping and fulfillment of your order, and keeping you up to date on new products, services, and offers.

Lawful basis

Pursuant to the General Data Protection Regulation (“GDPR”), if you are a resident of the European Economic Area (“EEA”), we process your personal information under the following lawful bases:


- Your consent;

- The performance of the contract between you and the Site;

- Compliance with our legal obligations;

- To protect your vital interests;

- To perform a task carried out in the public interest;

- For our legitimate interests, which do not override your fundamental rights and freedoms.

Retention

When you place an order through the Site, we will retain your Personal Information for our records unless and until you ask us to erase this information. For more information on your right of erasure, please see the ‘Your rights’ section below.

Automatic decision-making

If you are a resident of the EEA, you have the right to object to processing based solely on automated decision-making (which includes profiling), when that decision-making has a legal effect on you or otherwise significantly affects you.


We do not engage in fully automated decision-making that has a legal or otherwise significant effect using customer data.


Our processor Shopify uses limited automated decision-making to prevent fraud that does not have a legal or otherwise significant effect on you.


Services that include elements of automated decision-making include:


- Temporary blacklist of IP addresses associated with repeated failed transactions. This blacklist persists for a small number of hours.

- Temporary blacklist of credit cards associated with blacklisted IP addresses. This blacklist persists for a small number of days.

5. Selling Personal Information

In certain circumstances, we may disclose your personal information to third parties for legitimate purposes subject to this Privacy Policy. Such circumstances may include:

  • With vendors or other third parties who perform services on our behalf (e.g., IT management, payment processing, data analytics, customer support, cloud storage, fulfillment and shipping).
  • With business and marketing partners, including Shopify, to provide services and advertise to you.Our business and marketing partners will use your information in accordance with their own privacy notices.
  • When you direct, request us or otherwise consent to our disclosure of certain information to third parties, such as to ship you products or through your use of social media widgets or login integrations, with your consent.
  • With our affiliates or otherwise within our corporate group, in our legitimate interests to run a successful business.
  • In connection with a business transaction such as a merger or bankruptcy, to comply with any applicable legal obligations (including to respond to subpoenas, search warrants and similar requests), to enforce any applicable terms of service, and to protect or defend the Services, our rights, and the rights of our users or others.

We have, in the past 12 months disclosed the following categories of personal information and sensitive personal information (denoted by *) about users for the purposes set out above in "How we Collect and Use your Personal Information" and "How we Disclose Personal Information":

CategoryCategories of Recipients
  • Identifiers such as basic contact details and certain order and account information
  • Commercial information such as order information, shopping information and customer support information
  • Internet or other similar network activity, such as Usage Data
  • Vendors and third parties who perform services on our behalf (such as Internet service providers, payment processors, fulfillment partners, customer support partners and data analytics providers)
  • Business and marketing partners
  • Affiliates

We do not use or disclose sensitive personal information to infer characteristics about you.

We have “sold” and “shared” (as those terms are defined in applicable law) personal information over the preceding 12 months for the purpose of engaging in advertising and marketing activities, as follows.

Category of Personal InformationCategories of Recipients
Identifiers such as basic contact details and certain order and account informationBusiness and marketing partners
Commercial information such as records of products or services purchased and shopping informationBusiness and marketing partners
Internet or other similar network activity, such as Usage DataBusiness and marketing partners

6. Your rights

GDPR

If you are a resident of the EEA, you have the right to access the Personal Information we hold about you, to port it to a new service, and to ask that your Personal Information be corrected, updated, or erased. If you would like to exercise these rights, please contact us through the contact information above. 


Your Personal Information will be initially processed in Ireland and then will be transferred outside of Europe for storage and further processing, including to Canada and the United States. For more information on how data transfers comply with the GDPR, see Shopify’s GDPR Whitepaper: https://help.shopify.com/en/manual/your-account/privacy/GDPR.

CCPA

If you are a resident of California, you have the right to access the Personal Information we hold about you (also known as the ‘Right to Know’), to port it to a new service, and to ask that your Personal Information be corrected, updated, or erased. If you would like to exercise these rights, please contact us through the contact information above.


If you would like to designate an authorized agent to submit these requests on your behalf, please contact us at the address above.

7. Cookies

A cookie is a small amount of information that’s downloaded to your computer or device when you visit our Site. We use a number of different cookies, including functional, performance, advertising, and social media or content cookies. Cookies make your browsing experience better by allowing the website to remember your actions and preferences (such as login and region selection). This means you don’t have to re-enter this information each time you return to the site or browse from one page to another. Cookies also provide information on how people use the website, for instance whether it’s their first time visiting or if they are a frequent visitor.


We use the following cookies to optimize your experience on our Site and to provide our services.


[Be sure to check this list against Shopify’s current list of cookies on the merchant storefront: https://www.shopify.com/legal/cookies ]

Cookies Necessary for the Functioning of the Store

Reporting and Analytics

The length of time that a cookie remains on your computer or mobile device depends on whether it is a “persistent” or “session” cookie. Session cookies last until you stop browsing and persistent cookies last until they expire or are deleted. Most of the cookies we use are persistent and will expire between 30 minutes and two years from the date they are downloaded to your device.


You can control and manage cookies in various ways. Please keep in mind that removing or blocking cookies can negatively impact your user experience and parts of our website may no longer be fully accessible.


Most browsers automatically accept cookies, but you can choose whether or not to accept cookies through your browser controls, often found in your browser’s “Tools” or “Preferences” menu. For more information on how to modify your browser settings or how to block, manage or filter cookies can be found in your browser’s help file or through such sites as: www.allaboutcookies.org.


Additionally, please note that blocking cookies may not completely prevent how we share information with third parties such as our advertising partners. To exercise your rights or opt-out of certain uses of your information by these parties, please follow the instructions in the “Behavioural Advertising” section above.

Do Not Track

Please note that because there is no consistent industry understanding of how to respond to “Do Not Track” signals, we do not alter our data collection and usage practices when we detect such a signal from your browser.

8. 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.

9. Complaints

If you have complaints about how we process your personal information, please contact us using the contact details provided below. If you are not satisfied with our response to your complaint, depending on where you live you may have the right to appeal our decision by contacting us using the contact details set out below, or lodge your complaint with your local data protection authority.


International Users:

Please note that we may transfer, store and process your personal information outside the country you live in, including the United States. Your personal information is also processed by staff and third party service providers and partners in these countries.


If we transfer your personal information out of Europe, we will rely on recognized transfer mechanisms like the European Commission's Standard Contractual Clauses, or any equivalent contracts issued by the relevant competent authority of the UK, as relevant, unless the data transfer is to a country that has been determined to provide an adequate level of protection.


Contact:

Should you have any questions about our privacy practices or this Privacy Policy, or if you would like to exercise any of the rights available to you, pleas email us at support@voidputters.com. Our physical location is at 10637 Roselle Street, ste F, San Diego CA 92121, United States.


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