Privacy Policy

Strawtopia Privacy Policy

(Effective Date: December 11^th 2018)

Strawtopia.com values our customers and users. We respect your privacy and understand that your personal information is significant to you; we share your concerns about how and what personal data is collected, used and shared. We have designed and written this Privacy Policy to describe our information gathering and dissemination practices.

We are committed to safeguarding your personal information and will always handle your personal information with discretion. We comply with all applicable data protection, privacy legislation and codes affecting your personal information.

This Privacy Policy applies to Strawtopia.com, our marketing, and sale activities. Please note that we reserve the right to review and update our Privacy Policy. We may amend or update this policy from time to time. If we believe the changes are material, we’ll let you know by doing one (or more) of the following: (i) posting the changes on or through the Services, (ii) sending you an email or message about the changes. We encourage you to check back regularly and review any updates.

In this Privacy Policy, the terms ‘’Strawtopia’’ ‘’We”,”Our”,”Site” and “Us” refers to www.strawtopia.com. The terms “You” and “Your” refer to you, the user/visitor/customer of the Site.

The Privacy Policy set forth means you agree to this Privacy Policy when you: 1) access or use the Site; and/ or 2) accept to receive e-mail from us when you have clicked on join/ subscribe and/ or submit to sign-up  for an user account. If you do not agree to this Privacy Policy, please do not use this Site.

This Privacy Policy addresses the following:

1. Personal Information that we collect about you
2. How we use your information
3. Payment Methods
4. Sharing of Personal Information
5. E-mail Opt-out Policy
6. Data Retention
7. Your Rights
8. Security of Your Information
9. Cookies and other tracking technologies we use

Personal information we collect includes:

• User Name
• Name
• Date of Birth
• E-mail Address
• Postal Address
• Phone Number

2. How we use your information

When you provide your personal data to us means you consent to Strawtopia using the data we gathered in order to meet our commitments to you and to provide you with the service you expect from Strawtopia.com. We may collect and use your personal information when you interact with Strawtopia in the following ways:

• Registera personal account at Strawtopia.com
• Processing and fulfilling your order (including sending you emails to confirm your order status and shipment)
• Marketing /Promotional E-mail
• Gift cards for others
• Loyalty Program
• Customer Service

Registering a personal account at Strawtopia.com – If you register an account at Strawtopia.com, we collect and process the registration information that you provide, which is your user name, name, email address, date of birth, postal address, mobile number for the purposes of administering and securing your account on our site, contacting you when there is problem occurred. We collect ‘Date of Birth’ to validate that if you are at legal age (18) for online shopping. If you are, your account will be registered successfully; if not, you cannot sign up, and we will delete all of the information that you filled in the register form.

Processing and fulfilling your order – We collect and use the Personal Information that you provide, such as your order details, postal address, and email address when you purchase an item on Strawtopia.com, for the purpose of processing and fulfilling your order, including sending you emails of your order status and shipment confirmation.

Marketing / Promotion E-mail– We may send you our marketing/promotional emails when you consent to receive this information from Strawtopia.com. We process your email address for this request. And you have a right to opt-out of receiving these emails at any time if you do not want us to send these to you anymore; just unsubscribe it by following the instructions in the message.

Loyalty Reward Program & VIP Program – The personal data that we may collect for these programs are the same as what you provided to us when registering a Strawtopia account. As Strawtopia Loyalty Program is directly connected with your registered account at Strawtopia.com, which means, when you sign up for an account, you will start earning points if you make a purchase or complete other activities but not a must, which means, you have a right not to do the activities. You have a right to join our VIP program or not. 

Customer Service – We process the Personal Data (name, email address, purchase details, phone number) you provide to us when contacting our customer service team for the purposes of reviewing any issues you raise and when replying to you.

3. Payment Methods

We use third-party services such as PayPal for payment processing.

Strawtopia.com will not store or collect your payment details. That information is provided directly to our third-party payment processors whose use of personal information is governed by their Privacy Polic. These payment processors adhere to the standards set by PCI-DSS as managed by the PCI Security Standards Council, which is a joint effort of brands like Visa, Mastercard, American Express and Discover. PCI-DSS requirement helps ensure the secure handling of payment information.

The payment processors we work with are:

PayPal – www.paypal.com 

4. Sharing of Personal Information

For your privacy, we promise that we do not, and will not, sell any of your personal data to any third party; however, we may share your personal information for very limited reasons and in limited circumstances, as follows:

• Business transfers. If we sell or merge our business, we may disclose your information as part of that transaction, only to the extent permitted by law.
• Through third-party apps to enable website function.
• Compliance with laws. We may collect, use, retain, and share your information if we have a good faith belief that it is reasonably necessary to: (a) respond to legal process or to government requests; (b) enforce our agreements, terms and policies; (c) prevent, investigate, and address fraud and other illegal activity, security, or technical issues; or (d) protect the rights, property, and safety of our customers, or others.

5. Email Opt-out Policy

We will, from time to time, send you promotional information, such as special offers, only if you want to hear from us. If you prefer not to receive them, you can choose to opt out of email promotional communications by clicking the ‘Unsubscribe’ button in the body of the email.

If you ask us to remove your email address from promotional lists, we will comply with your request. It may take up to 5 working days to process your email request, during which period you may continue to receive communications from Strawtopia.

If you change your mind, you can start receiving promotional communications from us again by contacting us at privacy@strawtopia.com or from My Account clicking on the subscribe button.

6. Data Retention

Strawtopia retains your personal information in order to provide you with our services and as described in our Privacy Policy. Your personal details will be stored in a non-EU server, where all data is stored encrypted in the U.S. and Hong Kong SAR.

And we’ll only keep your data as long as you your account is active.

You have a number of rights in relation to your personal information. While some of these rights apply generally, certain rights apply only in certain limited cases. We describe these rights below:

• Right to Access.You may have the right to access and receive a copy of the personal information we hold about                                you by contacting us using the contact information below.
• Right of Portability.You, the user, have rights to request us to send your personal information to you, or another person or service that you appointed. We will comply immediately when requested us to.  
• Right to Amend (Change, restrict, delete).You have rights to change, restrict our use of, or delete your personal information. Absent exceptional circumstances (like where we are required to store data for legal reasons) we will generally delete your personal information upon request.
• Withdrawing Consent.Where you have provided your consent, you have the right to withdraw your consent to our processing of your information and your use of the Services. For example, you can withdraw your consent to email marketing by the unsubscribe link in such communications or by changing your account settings. You can choose to withdraw your consent to our processing of your information and your use of the Services at any time by closing your account through account settings and then emailing privacy@strawtopia.com request information be deleted. This deletion is permanent and your account cannot be reinstated.
• Right to be Forgotten.If you, the user, contact us with the intention of having your personal data removed from the database, we will comply immediately without question asked.
• Right to Object.You can object to (i) our processing of some of your information based on our legitimate interests and (ii) receiving marketing messages from us after providing your express consent to receive them. In such cases, we will delete your personal information unless we have compelling and legitimate grounds to continue using that information or if it is needed for legal reasons.
• Right to Complain.If you wish to raise a concern about our use of your information (and without prejudice to any other rights you may have), you have the right to do so with your local data protection authority.

8. Security of your information

We encrypt information you input. The security of your personal information is important to us. We follow generally accepted standards to protect the personal information submitted to us, both during transmission and after it is received. Your account transmission is protected by your password. It is important that you protect against unauthorized access to your account and information by choosing your password carefully and by keeping your password and computer secure, such as signing out after using the Services. If you have any question about the security of your personal information, you can contact us at privacy@strawtopia.com 

9. Cookies and other tracking technologies we use

In connection with Strawtopia.com, we and our service providers use cookies, beacons, embedded scripts and local shared objects. 

• Cookies or functional cookies are small text files that are stored on your computer or device when you visit the Site. Cookies allow our Site to recognize a particular device or browser. The use of cookies is a standard practice among websites to collect information about visitors’ activities and to make using and browsing on websites easier for you. 

• Beacons are small graphical images, also known as “pixel tags” or “clear GIFs”, may be included on our Site which generally work together with cookies to identify our users and user behavior.

• Embedded scripts is a programming code designed to collect information about your interactions on the Site, such as the links you click on. The code works by being temporarily downloaded onto your computer or device from our web server or a third-party service provider. The code is active only when you are connected to the Site and when you disconnect from the Site, the code becomes deactivated or deleted thereafter. 

• Local shared objects, or popularly known as ‘’Flash cookies’’, are little bits of data that use Adobe Flash that may store on a user’s computer or device during website session. Through our own server or that of our third-party partners, using local shared objects, the Site may display advertising or particular features to you based upon your web browsing activity. These local shared objects may still reside on your device even after you have disconnected from the Site. To remove local shared objects, different browsers and versions of browsers may offer their own management tools. Aside from using browser management tools, you can also manage Flash cookies on your browser by clicking here. 

The technologies aforementioned are adopted for analyzing trends, tracking users’ movements around the Site, administering the Site (such as services and products), and altogether to collect demographic information about the Site user base. As part of the process, our service providers, based on the mentioned technologies, may provide reports on an individual basis and/ or collective whole basis. 

Another kind of cookies, known as preference cookies serve to remember users’ settings, such as location(s) and preferred language, market products and services to users, and for authentication purposes. You can manage the cookies that are placed on your computer by configuring your internet browser to refuse, accept or delete cookies from our Site at any time. Some persistent cookies may not be deleted when other cookies are deleted as the cookies used may be more persistent in nature. Please check your browser (please note settings differ from browser to browser) to determine where these types of cookies are stored and whether and how they can be deleted. On most browsers, the help menu from the toolbar will explain how to prevent your browser from accepting new cookies, how to have the browser notify you when receiving a new cookie, or how to disable most cookies altogether. Please note that if cookies are disabled or removed from your browser while on our Site, not all features will operate as fully intended and will limit your user experience.

We partner with third-party providers to bring relevant advertising to you based on your browsing interests and activities that may use technologies such as cookies and local stored objects, mentioned above, to gather information about your activities on this Site and elsewhere on the internet. These types of cookies do not utilize or collect personally-identifiable information about you during use on Strawtopia. This type of advertising is also known as interest-based advertising.

If you wish not to have cookies that are used for interest-based advertising, there are ways to opt-out. For providers that participate in the TRUSTe opt-out tool, you may do so by clicking here, and if you are located in the European Union, please click here. For opting out from Advertising companies that participate in the Network Advertising Initiative, please click here. From advertising companies that participate in the Digital Advertising Alliance (“DAA”), please click here. Please note opting-out from above does not opt you out from being served ads, and, you will continue to receive generic ads. Strawtopia adheres to the DAA’s Self-Regulatory Principles. Further information about cookies can be found at ICO here. 

We may also utilize other service providers, such as Google Analytics, that may use cookies or other technologies to gather information about your online activities, over-time, on this Site and other sites for non-advertising purposes such as those mentioned above. You can better control how your activities are collected by learning about how Google Analytics collects and processes data and the choices Google may offer to control these activities by visiting http://www.google.com/intl/en/policies/privacy/partners/. 

To deliver relevant content to you, we facilitate this by using Google Analytics and carry out using the following Google Advertising Features: Impression Reporting, Audience Reporting, Demographics Reporting, Google Signals Reporting, Interest Reporting, Visits Reporting, Device Reporting, and Remarketing Reporting. We use Google Analytics cookies and other Google advertising cookies. You have option to opt out of the Google Analytics Advertising Features we use by using the interest-based advertising opt-out link and choosing your preferences here. Google also provides a complete privacy policy, and instructions on how to opt out of Google Analytics here. Note that by using Google’s opt-out tool, it is specific only to Google activities and does not associate with nor affect the activities of other analytics providers and ad networks that we may implement and use. 

Contact

We, Strawtopia.com, are the data controller of your personal information. If you have any questions or concerns, you may contact us via email privacy@strawtopia.com