Privacy Policy

Last updated: October 7, 2024

This Privacy Policy describes how Sewfil (the "Site", "we", "us", or "our") collects, uses, and discloses your personal information when you visit, use our services, make a purchase at www.sewfil.com (the "Site"), or otherwise communicate with us regarding the Site (collectively, the "Services"). For the purposes of this Privacy Policy, "you" and "your" refer to you as the user of the Services, whether you are a customer, website visitor, or any other individual whose information we have collected pursuant to this Privacy Policy.

Please read this Privacy Policy carefully.

Changes to This Privacy Policy

We may update this Privacy Policy from time to time to reflect changes to our practices or for other operational, legal, or regulatory reasons. We will post the revised Privacy Policy on the Site, update the "Last updated" date, and take any other steps required by applicable law.

Collection and Use of Your Personal Information

To provide the Services, we collect personal information about you from a variety of sources, as set out below. The information we collect and use varies depending on how you interact with us.

In addition to the specific uses set out below, we may use information we collect to communicate with you, provide or improve the Services, comply with any applicable legal obligations, enforce any applicable terms of service, and protect or defend the Services, our rights, and the rights of our users or others.

Personal Information We Collect

The types of personal information we obtain about you depend on how you interact with our Site and use our Services. "Personal information" refers to information that identifies, relates to, describes, or can be associated with you. The following sections describe the specific categories and types of personal information we collect.

Information We Collect Directly From You

Information that you submit directly to us through our Services may include the following:

  • Contact details include your name, address, phone number, and email.
  • Order information includes your name, billing address, shipping address, payment confirmation, email address, and phone number.
  • Account information includes your username, password, security questions, and other information used for account security purposes.
  • Customer support information includes the information you choose to include in communications with us, such as when sending a message through the Services.

Some features of the Services may require you to provide certain information about yourself directly. You may choose not to provide this data; however, doing so may prevent you from using or accessing these features.

Information We Collect About Your Use

We may also automatically collect certain information about your interaction with the Services ("Usage Data"). For this, we may use cookies, pixels, and similar technologies ("Cookies"). Usage Data may include information about how you access and use our Site and your account, including device information, browser information, information about your network connection, your IP address, and other information regarding your interaction with the Services.

Information We Obtain From Third Parties

Finally, we may obtain information about you from third parties, including vendors and service providers who may collect information on our behalf, such as:

  • Companies that support our Site and Services, such as Shopify.
  • Our payment processors, which collect payment information (e.g., bank account, credit or debit card information, billing address) to process your payment in order to fulfill your orders and provide the products or services you have requested, in order to perform our contract with you.
  • When you visit our Site, open or click on emails we send you, or interact with our Services or advertisements, we, or third parties we work with, may automatically collect certain information using online tracking technologies such as pixels, web beacons, software developer kits, third-party libraries, and cookies.

Any information we obtain from third parties will be treated in accordance with this Privacy Policy. Please also see the section below, Third-Party Websites and Links.

How We Use Your Personal Information

  • Providing Products and Services. We use your personal information to provide you with the Services in order to perform our contract with you, including processing your payments, fulfilling your orders, sending notifications related to your account, purchases, returns, exchanges, or other transactions, creating, maintaining, and managing your account, arranging for shipping, facilitating returns or exchanges, and other features and functionalities related to your account. We may also improve your shopping experience by allowing Shopify to link your account to other Shopify services you choose to use. In this case, Shopify will process your information as set forth in its Privacy Policy and Consumer Privacy Policy.
  • Marketing and Advertising. We may use your personal information for marketing and promotional purposes, such as sending promotional, advertising, and marketing communications by email, text message, or postal mail, as well as showing you advertisements for products or services. This may include using your personal information to better tailor the Services and advertising on our Site and other websites. If you are a resident of the EEA, the legal basis for these data processing activities is our legitimate interest in selling our products, in accordance with Art. 6(1)(f) of the GDPR.
  • Security and Fraud Prevention. We use your personal information to detect, investigate, or take action regarding possible fraudulent, illegal, or malicious activity. If you choose to use the Services and register an account, you are responsible for keeping your account credentials secure. We highly recommend that you do not share your username, password, or other access details with anyone. If you believe your account has been compromised, please contact us immediately. If you are a resident of the EEA, the legal basis for these data processing activities is our legitimate interest in maintaining the security of our website for you and other customers, in accordance with Art. 6(1)(f) of the GDPR.
  • Communicating and Improving the Service. We use your personal information to provide customer support and improve our Services. This is in our legitimate interest to be responsive to you, to provide effective services, and to maintain our business relationship with you in accordance with Art. 6(1)(f) of the GDPR.

Cookies

Like many other websites, our Site uses Cookies. For specific information about the cookies we use related to powering our store with Shopify, see https://www.shopify.com/legal/cookies. We use Cookies to power and improve our Site and our Services (including to remember your actions and preferences), as well as to perform analytics and better understand user interaction with the Services (in our legitimate interest to administer, improve, and optimize the Services). We may also permit third parties and service providers to use Cookies on our Site to better tailor the services, products, and advertising on our Site and other websites.

Most browsers automatically accept Cookies by default, but you can choose to set your browser to remove or reject cookies through your browser controls. Please note that removing or blocking Cookies can negatively impact your user experience and may cause some of the Services, including certain general features and functionality, to work incorrectly or no longer be available. Additionally, blocking Cookies may not completely prevent how we share information with third parties such as our advertising partners.

Disclosing Your Personal Information

In certain circumstances, we may disclose your personal information to third parties for contract fulfillment, legitimate purposes, and other reasons under this Privacy Policy. Such circumstances may include:

  • With vendors or other third parties who provide services on our behalf (e.g., IT management, payment processing, data analytics, customer support, cloud storage, fulfillment, and shipping).
  • With business and marketing partners to provide services and advertise to you. Our business and marketing partners will use your information in accordance with their own privacy notices.
  • When you direct, request, or otherwise consent to our disclosure of certain information to third parties, such as to ship products to you or through your use of social media widgets or login integrations, with your consent.
  • With our affiliates or otherwise within our corporate group, in our legitimate interest to run a successful business.
  • In connection with business transactions, such as mergers or bankruptcies, to comply with applicable legal obligations (including responding to subpoenas, search warrants, and similar requests), enforce applicable terms of service, and protect or defend the Services, our rights, and the rights of our users or others.