Privacy Policy
This Privacy Policy describes how tahirmahmood.ca (the “Site” or “we”) collects, uses, and discloses your Personal Information when you visit or make a purchase from the Site. Contact After reviewing this policy, if you have additional questions, want more information about our privacy practices, or would like to make a complaint, please contact us by e-mail at info@tahirmahmood.ca or by mail using the details provided below: Canada Collecting Personal Information When you visit the Site, we collect certain information about your device, your interaction with the Site, and information necessary to process your purchases. We may also collect additional information if you contact us for customer support. In this Privacy Policy, we refer to any information about an identifiable individual (including the information below) as “Personal Information”. See the list below for more information about what Personal Information we collect and why. Device information Purpose of collection: to load the Site accurately for you, and to perform analytics on Site usage to optimize our Site. Source of collection: Collected automatically when you access our Site using cookies, log files, web beacons, tags, or pixels. Disclosure for a business purpose: shared with our processor Shopify. Personal Information collected: version of web browser, IP address, time zone, cookie information, what sites or products you view, search terms, and how you interact with the Site Purpose of collection: to provide products or services to you to fulfill our contract, to process your payment information, arrange for shipping, and provide you with invoices and/or order confirmations, communicate with you, screen our orders for potential risk or fraud, and when in line with the preferences you have shared with us, provide you with information or advertising relating to our products or services. Source of collection: collected from you. Disclosure for a business purpose: shared with our processor Shopify. Personal Information collected: name, billing address, shipping address, payment information (including credit card numbers, debit, etc.), email address, and phone number. Customer support information Purpose of collection: Source of collection: Disclosure for a business purpose: Personal Information collected: Purpose of collection: to provide customer support. Source of collection: collected from you Disclosure for a business purpose: Personal Information collected: 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. ] Behavioural Advertising As described above, we use your Personal Information to provide you with targeted advertisements or marketing communications we believe may be of interest to you. For example: We use Google Analytics to help us understand how our customers use the Site. You can read more about how Google uses your Personal Information here: https://www.google.com/intl/en/policies/privacy/. You can also opt-out of Google Analytics here: https://tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout. We share information about your use of the Site, your purchases, and your interaction with our ads on other websites with our advertising partners. We collect and share some of this information directly with our advertising partners, and in some cases through the use of cookies or other similar technologies (which you may consent to, depending on your location). We use Shopify Audiences to help us show ads on other websites with our advertising partners to buyers who made purchases with other Shopify merchants and who may also be interested in what we have to offer. We also share information about your use of the Site, your purchases, and the email address associated with your purchases with Shopify Audiences, through which other Shopify merchants may make offers you may be interested in. For more information about how targeted advertising works, you can visit the Network Advertising Initiative’s (“NAI”) educational page at https://www.networkadvertising.org/understanding-online-advertising/how-does-it-work. You can opt out of targeted advertising by: [INCLUDE OPT-OUT LINKS FROM WHICHEVER SERVICES BEING USED. COMMON LINKS INCLUDE: FACEBOOK - https://www.facebook.com/settings/?tab=ads GOOGLE - https://www.google.com/settings/ads/anonymous BING - https://advertise.bingads.microsoft.com/en-us/resources/policies/personalized-ads] Additionally, you can opt out of some of these services by visiting the Digital Advertising Alliance’s opt-out portal at: https://optout.aboutads.info/. 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. 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 Name Function Duration _ab Used in connection with access to admin. 2y _secure_session_id Used in connection with navigation through a storefront. 24h _shopify_country Used in connection with checkout. session _shopify_m Used for managing customer privacy settings. 1y _shopify_tm Used for managing customer privacy settings. 30min _shopify_tw Used for managing customer privacy settings. 2w _storefront_u Used to facilitate updating customer account information. 1min _tracking_consent Tracking preferences. 1y c Used in connection with checkout. 1y cart Used in connection with shopping cart. 2w cart_currency Used in connection with shopping cart. 2w cart_sig Used in connection with checkout. 2w cart_ts Used in connection with checkout. 2w cart_ver Used in connection with shopping cart. 2w checkout Used in connection with checkout. 4w checkout_token Used in connection with checkout. 1y dynamic_checkout_shown_on_cart Used in connection with checkout. 30min hide_shopify_pay_for_checkout Used in connection with checkout. session keep_alive Used in connection with buyer localization. 2w master_device_id Used in connection with merchant login. 2y previous_step Used in connection with checkout. 1y remember_me Used in connection with checkout. 1y secure_customer_sig Used in connection with customer login. 20y shopify_pay Used in connection with checkout. 1y shopify_pay_redirect Used in connection with checkout. 30 minutes, 3w or 1y depending on value storefront_digest Used in connection with customer login. 2y tracked_start_checkout Used in connection with checkout. 1y checkout_one_experiment Used in connection with checkout. session checkout_session_lookup Used in connection with checkout. 3w checkout_session_token_<