Privacy Policy

1. Who we are

This Privacy Policy (the “Privacy Policy”) describes how DeborahWirsu.com (the “Site” or “we”) collects, uses, and discloses your personal information when you visit or make a purchase from the Site.

DeborahWirsu.com is owned by Deborah Wirsu. This business is registered as a Sole Trader Business in Australia, under Australian tax registration number: ABN: 82 517 547 878.

DeborahWirsu.com is committed to safeguarding the privacy of visitors using this site. In this policy, we explain how we collect and handle your personal information. Should we ask you to provide certain information by which you can be identified when using this website, you can be assured it will only be used in accordance with this Privacy Policy.

1.1 Purpose

The purpose of this Privacy Policy is to inform users of our Site of the following:

The personal data we will collect
Our contact details: email address and physical address
How we use collected data
The rights of Site users
The Site’s cookie policy

This Privacy Policy applies in addition to the terms and conditions of our Site.

2. Contact Information

We can be contacted at:

Email: hello@deborahwirsu.com

DeborahWirsu.com is the Data Processor and can be contacted using the information supplied above.

3. What personal data we collect and why we collect it

3.1 – Personal data

When you visit and use our Site, we may automatically collect and store certain information about your device, including information about your web browser, IP address, location, time zone, and some of the cookies that are installed on your device.

As you browse this Site, we collect information about:

Clicked links
Visited pages
Abandoned carts
Abandoned checkouts

Additionally, when you make a purchase or attempt to make a purchase through the Site, we collect certain information from you, including:

Your name
Billing address
Shipping address
Payment information
Email address
And in some cases, Phone numbers

Although we generally collect personal information directly from you, on occasion we also collect certain categories of information from other sources.

This website uses third-party providers to better understand how visitors use this site. This information includes:

Your IP address
Geographical location
Length of visit
Page views
Website navigation paths

3.2 – Why we collect this information

Collecting this data helps us to better understand what you are looking for from this company. This helps us improve our products and services, and their delivery to you. We may use this data:

To administer this website and business
To improve the products and services we offer
To contact you in response to an inquiry
To customise the website
To send you promotional emails about services, products, offers and other things we think may be of interest or relevance to you unless you have specifically requested not to receive such promotional material
To contact you via email for market research

We will NEVER supply your personal information to any third party.

3.3 – Data we do NOT collect or store

Racial or ethnic origin
Political opinions
Religious or philosophical beliefs
Union membership information
Genetic data
Data concerning a user’s health

3.4 How we Use Personal Data

Data collected on our Site will only be used for the purposes specified in this Privacy Policy or indicated on the relevant pages of our Site. We will not use your data beyond what we disclose in this Privacy Policy.

We use this information to:

Fulfil any orders placed through the Site
Communicate with you
Screen our orders for potential risk or fraud
Periodically send promotional emails about new products, special offers or other information which we think you may find interesting using the email address which you have provided to us.

3.5 – Your password reset

If you request a password reset, your IP address will be included in the reset email.

3.6 – What rights you have over your data

If you have an account on this site, or have left comments, you can request to receive an exported file of the personal data we hold about you, including any data you have provided to us. You can also request that we erase any personal data we hold about you. This does not include any data we are obliged to keep for administrative, legal, or security purposes.

3.7 – Spam detection

Visitor comments may be checked through an automated spam detection service.

3.8 – Instances where we may be required to disclose your information

Where required to do so by law.
In connection with any ongoing or prospective legal proceedings.
In order to establish, exercise or defend our legal rights.
Where required for the purposes of fraud prevention and reducing credit risk.

We use the providers listed below to service our online stores. You can read more about how they use your Personal Information via the provided links.

Payhip – https://payhip.com/privacy
Teachable – https://page-templates.teachable.com/p/privacy
Amazon – https://www.amazon.com/gp/help/customer/display.html?nodeId=GX7NJQ4ZB8MHFRNJ
Draft2Digital – https://www.draft2digital.com/privacy-policy/
Etsy – https://www.etsy.com/au/legal/privacy/

4. Comments

When visitors leave comments on the site we collect the data shown in the comments form, and also the visitor’s IP address and browser user agent string to help spam detection.

If you leave a comment, the comment and its metadata are retained indefinitely.

For users that register on our website (if any), we also store the personal information they provide in their user profile. All users can see, edit, or delete their personal information at any time (except they cannot change their username). Website administrators can also see and edit that information.

An anonymized string created from your email address (also called a hash) may be provided to the Gravatar service to see if you are using it. The Gravatar service privacy policy is available here: https://automattic.com/privacy/. After approval of your comment, your profile picture is visible to the public in the context of your comment.

5. Public Forums

This site may make chat rooms, forums, message boards, comments, and/or news groups available to its users. Please remember that any information disclosed in these areas becomes public information and you should exercise caution when deciding to disclose any personal information.

6. Cookies

6.1 – Use of cookies

This website uses cookies to improve user experience while visiting the website. This website uses a cookie control system allowing the user on their first visit to consent to the use of cookies on their computer or device. This complies with legislation requiring users to give explicit consent to the use of cookies.

Cookies are small files saved to a user’s computer hard-drive that track, save and store information about the user’s interactions with and use of the website. This allows the website to provide a more tailored and enjoyable experience for users.

We use the following types of Cookies on this Site:

Analytical Cookies: Analytical Cookies allow us to improve the design and functionality of our Site by collecting data on how you access our Site. For example, data on the content you access, how long you stay on our Site, etc.
Third-Party Cookies: Third-Party Cookies are created by a website other than ours.

We will ask you to consent to our use of cookies in accordance with the terms of this policy when you first visit the website. By agreeing to this policy you consent to our use of cookies.

You can choose to accept Cookies, or disable Cookies entirely in your internet browser, but this may decrease the quality of your user experience.

7. Embedded content from other websites

Articles on this site may include embedded content (e.g. videos, images, articles, etc.). Embedded content from other websites behaves in the exact same way as if the visitor has visited the other website.

These websites may collect data about you, use cookies, embed additional third-party tracking, and monitor your interaction with that embedded content, including tracking your interaction with the embedded content if you have an account and are logged in to that website.

7.1 – External links

Our website may contain links to other websites of interest. However, once you have used these links to leave our site, you should note that we do not have any control over that other website. We cannot guarantee or verify the content of external links. Therefore, we cannot be responsible for the protection and privacy of any information which you provide whilst visiting such sites and such sites are not governed by this Privacy Policy. You should exercise caution and look at the privacy statement applicable to the website in question.

7.2 – Affiliate Links Disclosure

Please expect that some [not all] of the links on this website are affiliate links with various organisations, which means I may receive a small payment as commission if you click through and purchase the product. As an Amazon Associate, I earn from qualifying purchases. This does not affect the price you pay for the product. This is one of the ways I support myself and continue to bring you content and information. The decision about whether to buy a product or not is completely up to you. My reviews and recommendations give my honest opinion on the products or services mentioned. If you don’t want to use my links, you can search for the product yourself using your preferred search engine.

8. Security

DeborahWirsu.com is protected by Secure Socket Layer for your security

This website holds your information securely and is protected by Positive SSL or Secure Sockets Layer.

SSL creates an encrypted connection between the server hosting this website and your web browser, allowing for private information to be transmitted without the risk of anyone eavesdropping, tampering with data, or forging messages.

Users contacting this website and/or its owners do so at their own discretion and provide any personal details requested at their own risk. We NEVER share your email address or any personal details with any other party. Your personal information will never be leased, distributed or sold to third parties unless we have your permission or the law requires us to.

9. Contact and Communication with You

This website and its owners use any information submitted to provide you with further information about our products and services, or to assist you in answering any questions or queries you may have submitted.

We will not sell, distribute or lease your personal information to third parties unless we have your permission or are required to by law to do so. If you believe that any information we are holding on you is incorrect or incomplete, please email us as soon as possible at the above address. We will promptly correct any information found to be incorrect.

This website operates an email newsletter program, used to relay general news of interest to our demographic, and inform subscribers about products and services offered by this website.

Users can subscribe to the email newsletter through our online automated process, should they wish to, but do so at their own risk.

Subscription to our email Newsletter and other downloads require ‘double opt-in’ when you subscribe. By confirming your subscription you are giving ‘explicit consent’ and agreeing to be added to our mailing list unless you specifically request not to.

You may Unsubscribe at any time using the ‘Unsubscribe’ link at the bottom of all our broadcast emails.

11. Updating your Information

Please let us know if the personal information we hold about you needs to be corrected or updated.

Our contact details can be found at the top of this Privacy Policy.

12. Unsubscribing and the ‘Right to be forgotten’

Any subscriber has the right to ‘Unsubscribe’ from receiving emails and promotions.

In addition, you also have the ‘right to be forgotten’, by requesting the erasure of all your personal data. It is the responsibility of the user to contact the website and data protection officer with this request, upon receipt of which this erasure will be expedited in a timely manner.

This website has links to various external social media platforms that the owners participate on. The owners have no control over how any information you place on these social media sites is used. This website will never ask for personal or sensitive information through social media platforms.

This website may use social media sharing buttons which help share web content. Users are advised that using such social media is done at their own discretion and that these social media platforms may track and save your information. This website and owners have no control over the behaviour and actions of social media platforms.

14. Users under 16 years of age

All information contained on this site is of a General nature, however, services are not directed to, and we do not knowingly collect personal data from children under the age of 16. If we become aware that a child under the age of 16 has provided us with personal data without parental consent, we will take steps to remove such data. If you become aware that your child has provided us with personal data without your consent please contact us. By using this website and our services you are representing to us that you are over the age of 16.

Policies outlined in this Privacy Policy are designed to comply with the European Data Protection Regulation (EU Law), the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), and the California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA).

DeborahWirsu.com does not act in the capacity of data controller in terms of the European Union’s directive on data privacy, the European Data Protection Regulation (EU Law) or the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) and does not have the associated responsibilities under EU law.

DeborahWirsu.com should be considered only as a processor on behalf of its clients and users as to any personal data that is subject to the requirements of EU law.

Except in certain circumstances outlined in this Privacy Policy, DeborahWirsu.com does not allow any client data to be transferred or otherwise made available to third parties. Third party data controllers may process data on behalf of DeborahWirsu.com to facilitate the provision of services to clients.

To contact the Data Processor at DeborahWirsu.com please use the contact information supplied at the top of this Policy.

15.1 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’), and to ask that your Personal Data be corrected, updated, or erased. If you would like to exercise these rights, please contact us through the contact information above.

By using this website, you consent to our Privacy Policy.

17. Changes to our Privacy Policy

This Privacy Policy may be modified at any time, in order to remain compliant with existing laws. Any changes made to this Policy are posted to this page, and the Privacy Policy modification date below is updated.

This policy was last updated on 28 September 2024.

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