Welcome to althstore.com, where your privacy matters greatly to us. Our utmost commitment is to safeguard your personal information. This SMS Privacy Policy is designed to elucidate how we collect, utilize, and secure the data you provide when subscribing to receive SMS notifications, updates, or promotional messages from althstore.com. We encourage you to thoroughly read this policy to comprehend our practices concerning your personal information and how we will handle it.
Should you have any further inquiries or need additional details about our Privacy Policy, feel free to reach out to us. We are here to assist you promptly.
Our Privacy Policy pertains solely to our online activities and governs the information shared and/or collected from visitors to our website, Althstore. Please note that this policy does not apply to any data collected offline or through channels other than this website.
Consent
By using our website, you hereby consent to our Privacy Policy and agree to its terms.
Information we collect
We will always make it clear to you why we request specific personal information when we ask you to provide it. If you choose to contact us directly, we may collect additional information about you, such as your name, email address, phone number, the contents of your message, any attachments you send us, and any other details you decide to share with us.
When you register for an Account, we may ask for your contact information, including items such as name, company name, address, email address, and telephone number.
How we use your information
We use the information we collect in various ways, including to:
- Provide, operate, and maintain our website
- Improve, personalize, and expand our website
- Understand and analyze how you use our website
- Develop new products, services, features, and functionality
- Communicate with you, either directly or through one of our partners, including for customer service, to provide you with updates and other information relating to the website, and for marketing and promotional purposes
- Send you emails
- Find and prevent fraud
Information we collect for SMS
1.1. Personal Information: Upon subscribing to our SMS notifications or promotional messages, we may gather personal information like your name, phone number, and any other details you willingly provide.
1.2. Message Information: We may also collect information related to the messages we send you, including message content, delivery status, and any responses or interactions you have with our SMS notifications.
Use of Information
2.1. Service Delivery: We use the information we collect to deliver SMS notifications, updates, and promotional messages that you have subscribed to receive from althstore.com.
2.2. Personalization and Improvement: The data collected may be analyzed to personalize the content of our SMS messages, enhancing our services according to your preferences and feedback.
2.3. Legal Compliance: We may use your information to comply with applicable laws, regulations, legal processes, or enforceable governmental requests.
2.4. Communication: Your information may be utilized to communicate with you concerning service updates, changes to our terms or policies, or for customer support purposes.
Disclosure of Information
3.1. Third-Party Service Providers: We may engage trusted third-party service providers to assist us in delivering SMS messages and managing our SMS communication platform. These service providers are bound by confidentiality agreements and are only permitted to use your information as necessary to provide the requested services.
3.2. Legal Requirements: In certain circumstances, we may disclose your information if it is required by law, a court order, or government regulation, or if we believe such disclosure is essential to safeguard our rights, property, or safety, as well as the rights, property, or safety of others.
3.3. Business Transfers: In the event of a merger, acquisition, or sale of all or a portion of our assets, your information may be transferred as part of the transaction. We will notify you via SMS or email and provide you with choices regarding your information.
Data Security
We employ reasonable measures to ensure the security of your personal information during transmission and storage. However, it's important to recognize that no method of transmission over the internet or electronic storage is entirely foolproof. As a result, we cannot guarantee the absolute security of your information.
Your Choices
5.1. Opt-Out: If you no longer wish to receive SMS notifications, updates, or promotional messages from althstore.com, you can opt-out by replying with "STOP" or following the instructions provided in the SMS message.
5.2. Updating Information: You can update your personal information by contacting us through the contact details provided at the end of this policy.
Log Files
Althstore adheres to a standard procedure that involves the use of log files. These files record visitors' activity when they access websites. It's important to note that this practice is common among hosting companies and is part of hosting services' analytics. The information collected in these log files includes internet protocol (IP) addresses, browser type, Internet Service Provider (ISP), date and time stamp, referring/exit pages, and possibly the number of clicks. Importantly, this data is not linked to any personally identifiable information. The primary purpose of gathering this information is to analyze trends, administer the site, track users' movements on the website, and gather demographic data.
Advertising Partners Privacy Policies
You may consult this list to find the Privacy Policy for each of the advertising partners of Althstore.
Third-party ad servers or ad networks utilize technologies such as cookies, JavaScript, or Web Beacons in their respective advertisements and links displayed on Althstore. These technologies are directly sent to users' browsers, automatically obtaining their IP address. The purpose behind employing these technologies is to measure the effectiveness of their advertising campaigns and/or personalize the advertising content that appears on the websites you visit.
Note that Althstore has no access to or control over these cookies that are used by third-party advertisers.
Third Party Privacy Policies
Althstore's Privacy Policy does not apply to other advertisers or websites. Thus, we are advising you to consult the respective Privacy Policies of these third-party ad servers for more detailed information. It may include their practices and instructions about how to opt-out of certain options.
You can choose to disable cookies through your individual browser options. To know more detailed information about cookie management with specific web browsers, it can be found at the browsers' respective websites.
CCPA Privacy Rights (Do Not Sell My Personal Information)
Under the CCPA, among other rights, California consumers have the right to:
Ask the business that collects your personal data to disclose the categories and specific pieces of personal data they have collected about you as a consumer.
Request that a business delete any personal data about the consumer that a business has collected.
Request that a business that sells a consumer's personal data, not sell the consumer's personal data.
If you make a request, we have one month to respond to you. If you would like to exercise any of these rights, please contact us.
GDPR Data Protection Rights
We would like to make sure you are fully aware of all of your data protection rights. Every user is entitled to the following:
The right to access – You have the right to request copies of your personal data. We may charge you a small fee for this service.
The right to rectification – You have the right to request that we correct any information you believe is inaccurate. You also have the right to request that we complete the information you believe is incomplete.
The right to erasure – You have the right to request that we erase your personal data, under certain conditions.
The right to restrict processing – You have the right to request that we restrict the processing of your personal data, under certain conditions.
The right to object to processing – You have the right to object to our processing of your personal data, under certain conditions.
The right to data portability – You have the right to request that we transfer the data that we have collected to another organization, or directly to you, under certain conditions.
If you make a request, we have one month to respond to you. If you would like to exercise any of these rights, please contact us.
Children's Information
Another part of our priority is adding protection for children while using the internet. We encourage parents and guardians to observe, participate in, and/or monitor and guide their online activity.
Althstore does not knowingly collect any Personal Identifiable Information from children under the age of 13. If you think that your child provided this kind of information on our website, we strongly encourage you to contact us immediately and we will do our best efforts to promptly remove such information from our records.
Changes to This Privacy Policy
Our Privacy Policy may undergo updates periodically. Therefore, we recommend that you check this page regularly for any changes. We will inform you of any modifications by posting the updated Privacy Policy on this page. These changes will take effect immediately after being posted on this page.
We may also update this SMS Privacy Policy from time to time to reflect changes in our practices or legal obligations. We will provide notice of any material changes by sending an SMS message or updating the effective date at the beginning of this policy.
Contact Us
If you have any questions or suggestions about our Privacy Policy, do not hesitate to contact us.