This Privacy Policy is effective upon May 21, 2018.
What information do we collect?
This privacy policy aims to give you information on how we collect and process your personal data.
The LOTUFFLEATHER.COM website, mobile site and any other means of collecting personal data are controlled by Lotuff Leather, referred to as “we”, “us” or “our” throughout this Privacy Policy. We are the primary data controller for the purposes of this website and our registered office is 1 Sims Avenue, Unit 101, Providence, Rhode Island, 02909 USA.
It is important that you read this Privacy Policy together with any other privacy notice or fair processing notice we may provide on specific occasions when we are collecting or processing personal data about you so that you are fully aware of how and why we are using your data. This Privacy Policy supplements the other notices and is not intended to override them.
We may amend this Privacy Policy at any time by posting the amended terms herein. All amended terms automatically take effect 30 days after they are posted. We will announce any material changes and their rationale to this Privacy Policy through email.
Scope
This Privacy Policy describes our collection, use, disclosure, retention and protection of your personal data. It applies to any LOTUFFLEATHER.COM web or mobile view where this Privacy Policy appears.
By navigating to a LOTUFFLEATHER.COM website or mobile view, by transacting and by registering an account, you are agreeing to the terms of this Privacy Policy.
Lotuff Leather is the data controller of your personal data and is responsible for the collection, use, disclosure, retention and protection of your personal information in accordance with the General Data Protection Regulation.
The Personal Information we collect is used to identify you, including your name, physical address, email address, telephone number, financial information, log-in and password details, and details of transactions made by you through LOTUFFLEATHER.COM. Personal Information is collected when you create an account with the Site, purchase products on the Site, upload or post content to our Site and Blog, use the Services we offer, or visit the Site. We also collect your communications with Lotuff Leather with respect to the Site and the Services. Your Personal Information is used for our internal purposes to improve and personalize the Services for you and to provide excellent partner and customer support, as well as to identify you when you sign in to your account, to enable us to provide you with the Service, to process and fulfill orders for products, to send you information you may find useful or which you have requested from us, to administer your account, to enable us to contact you upon request, and for other purposes that we disclose to you when we request your Personal Information. By providing Lotuff Leather your email address, you consent to our using the email address to send you Lotuff Leather-related notices, including any notices required by law, in lieu of communication by postal mail. We may also use your email address to send you other messages, including order confirmations and information regarding product orders, changes to features of LOTUFFLEATHER.COM, and special offers.
Additionally, we collect certain non-personal default information customarily logged by web server software. Such information may include your originating IP address, the date and time of your visit, your browser type, the previous site you visited, the content you upload and review and Services you use, the products you review and order, and the pages and images requested. Non-personal information is used to maintain, evaluate, and improve our ability to be of service to you.
Should you reside in the European Economic Area, Lotuff Leather may transfer your personal information outside of the European Economic Area to authorized third parties. Where we use third party service providers based outside of the European Economic Area, we may use specific contracts approved by the European Commission which give personal data the same protection it has in Europe. Where we use third party service providers based in the US, we may transfer data to them if they are part of the Privacy Shield which requires them to provide similar protection to personal data shared between Europe and the US. By providing your Personal Information, you consent to any transfer and processing in accordance with this Policy.
Collection & Cookies
We collect, process and retain personal information from you and any devices you may use when you navigate to a LOTUFFLEATHER.COM web or mobile view, by transacting, by registering an account and otherwise interacting with us.
We may also collect personal information from you if you physically enter our Providence studio or attend an event.
We capture customer data, purchase data and browsing behavior as part of the LOTUFFLEATHER.COM customer service program. This is so we can optimize and personalize your experience with LOTUFFLEATHER.COM.
The personal information we collect includes the following:
- Personal information including payment related information you give us when you register or purchase through the site or mobile site;
- Content that you generate when interacting with our customer service team including details we require to contact you and verify your identity;
- Content we generate via machine learning algorithms as they apply to personalizing your experience by curating more specifically the items you have an interest in, as well as supporting general service optimization;
- Other content that you generate through browsing activity including intended purchases, your marketing preferences, completion of surveys, wish-lists, and participation in promotional activity; and
- Device identifiers such as IP addresses, cookie IDs, IDFAs and other device identifiers, as well as geo location information, IoT technologies and connection information such as statistics on your page views, traffic to and from the sites, referral URL, ad data, your browsing history, hashed email addresses, and your web log information.
If you give us personal data about someone else, you must do so only with their explicit and prior consent.
We may allow you to share information with social media sites, or use social media sites to create your account or to connect your account with the respective social media site. Those social media sites may give us automatic access to certain personal information retained by them about you (e.g., content viewed by you, content liked by you and information about the advertisements you have been shown or may have clicked on). Where this information is received by us, we will use this information to further personalize your experience with LOTUFFLEATHER.COM.
We use cookies, web beacons and similar technologies to collect information about the pages you view, the links you click and other actions you take on our Services, within our advertising or e-mail content.
Cookies are text files stored on your computer when you visit web pages.
To make full use of the online shopping and personalized features on LOTUFFLEATHER.COM, your computer, tablet or mobile phone will need to accept cookies, as we can only provide you with certain personalized features of this website by using them.
Here’s a list of the main cookies we use and what we use them for:
First party cookies – cookies that LOTUFFLEATHER.COM drops.
At LOTUFFLEATHER.COM, we use cookies to keep track of what you have in your cart and to remember you when you return to our site.