Privacy policy

This Privacy Policy describes how www.sollmar.com (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@sollmar.com or by mail using the details provided below:

Tofterøyvegen 402, 5379 Steinsland, Norway

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 and other marketing and behavioural advertising service providers who help us market our business.
    • 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 

  • Order information
    • 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, Vipps, Stripe, Klarna, PayPal, Bring and DHL.
    • Personal Information collected: name, billing address, shipping address, payment information (including credit card numbers, email address, and phone number.

  • Customer support information
    • Purpose of collection: to provide customer support.
    • Source of collection: collected from you via mail or online form on website. 
    • Disclosure for a business purpose:
    • Personal Information collected: information in the e-mails you send us.
    • Purpose of collection: to provide customer support.
    • Source of collection: collected from you.

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.
  • [INSERT INFORMATION ABOUT OTHER SERVICE PROVIDERS]

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.

     

    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.

    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

    Reporting and Analytics

    Name Function Duration
    _landing_page Track landing pages. 2w
    _orig_referrer Track landing pages. 2w
    _s Shopify analytics. 30min
    _shopify_d Shopify analytics. session
    _shopify_s Shopify analytics. 30min
    _shopify_sa_p Shopify analytics relating to marketing & referrals. 30min
    _shopify_sa_t Shopify analytics relating to marketing & referrals. 30min
    _shopify_y Shopify analytics. 1y
    _y Shopify analytics. 1y
    _shopify_evids Shopify analytics. session
    _shopify_ga Shopify and Google Analytics. session


    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.

     

    Behavioral Remarketing

    The Company uses remarketing services to advertise to You after You accessed or visited our Service. We and Our third-party vendors use cookies and non-cookie technologies to help Us recognize Your Device and understand how You use our Service so that We can improve our Service to reflect Your interests and serve You advertisements that are likely to be of more interest to You.

    These third-party vendors collect, store, use, process and transfer information about Your activity on Our Service in accordance with their Privacy Policies and to enable Us to:

    • Measure and analyze traffic and browsing activity on Our Service
    • Show advertisements for our products and/or services to You on third-party websites or apps
    • Measure and analyze the performance of Our advertising campaigns

    Some of these third-party vendors may use non-cookie technologies that may not be impacted by browser settings that block cookies. Your browser may not permit You to block such technologies. You can use the following third-party tools to decline the collection and use of information for the purpose of serving You interest-based advertising:

    You may opt-out of all personalized advertising by enabling privacy features on Your mobile device such as Limit Ad Tracking (iOS) and Opt Out of Ads Personalization (Android). See Your mobile device Help system for more information.

    We may share information, such as hashed email addresses (if available) or other online identifiers collected on Our Service with these third-party vendors. This allows Our third-party vendors to recognize and deliver You ads across devices and browsers. To read more about the technologies used by these third-party vendors and their cross-device capabilities please refer to the Privacy Policyof each vendor listed below.

    The third-party vendors We use are:

    Detailed Information on the Processing of Your Personal Data

    The Service Providers We use may have access to Your Personal Data. Thesethird-party vendors collect, store, use, process and transfer information about Your activity on Our Service in accordance with their Privacy Policies.

    Analytics

    We may use third-party Service providers to monitor and analyze the use of our Service.

    • Google Analytics

      Google Analytics is a web analytics service offered by Google that tracks andreports website traffic. Google uses the data collected to track and monitor the use of our Service. This data is shared with other Google services. Google may use the collected data to contextualize and personalize the ads of its own advertising network.

      You can opt-out of having made your activity on the Service available to Google Analytics by installing the Google Analytics opt-out browser add-on. The add-on prevents the Google Analytics JavaScript (ga.js, analytics.js and dc.js) from sharing information with Google Analytics about visits activity.

      For more information on the privacy practices of Google, please visit the Google Privacy & Terms web page: https://policies.google.com/privacy

    Advertising

    We may use Service Providers to show advertisements to You to help support and maintain Our Service.

    Email Marketing

    We may use Your Personal Data to contact You with newsletters, marketing or promotional materials and other information that may be of interest to You. You may opt-out of receiving any, or all, of these communications from Us by following the unsubscribe link or instructions provided in any email We send or bycontacting Us.

    We may use Email Marketing Service Providers to manage and send emails to You.

     

    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.

    Payments

    We may provide paid products and/or services within the Service. In that case, we may use third-party services for payment processing (e.g. payment processors).

    We will not store or collect Your payment card details. That information is provided directly to Our third-party payment processors whose use of Your personal information is governed by their Privacy Policy. 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 requirements help ensure the secure handling of payment information.

    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.

    Complaints

    As noted above, if you would like to make a complaint, please contact us by e-mail or by mail using the details provided under “Contact” above.

    If you are not satisfied with our response to your complaint, you have the right to lodge your complaint with the relevant data protection authority. You can contact your local data protection authority, or our supervisory authority here: [Add contact information or website for the data protection authority in your jurisdiction. For example: https://ico.org.uk/make-a-complaint/]

     

    Last updated: 08.02.23