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This Privacy Policy describes how www.groundfloor24.shop (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@groundfloor24.shop or by mail using the details provided below.

Groundfloor24 RE Valuation Ltd., Utrechtseweg 341, 3818 EL Amersfoort, The Netherlands

 

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.
• 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.
• 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:
• 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:

Minors

The Site is not intended for individuals under the age of 18. We do not intentionally collect Personal Information from children. If you are the parent or guardian and believe your child has provided us with Personal Information, please contact us at the address above to request deletion.

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:

 

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 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.

Selling Personal Information

Our Site sells Personal Information, as defined by the California Consumer Privacy Act of 2018 (“CCPA”).

• categories of information sold;
• IF USING SHOPIFY AUDIENCES: information about your use of the Site, your purchases, and the email address associated with your purchase
• instructions on how to opt-out of sale;
• whether your business sells information of minors (under 16) and whether you obtain affirmative authorization;
• if you provide a financial incentive to sell information, provide information about what that incentive is.]

 

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.

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_<<token>>	Used in connection with checkout.	3w
identity-state	Used in connection with customer authentication.	24h
identity-state-<<token>>	Used in connection with customer authentication.	24h
identity_customer_account_number	Used in connection with customer authentication.	12w

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_ga	Shopify and Google Analytics.	session
customer_auth_provider	Shopify analytics.	session
customer_auth_session_created_at	Shopify 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.

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.

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.

 

With regard to data protection, reference is made to the data protection declaration on www.groundfloor24.shop (see data protection).

A newsletter is operated via www.groundfloor24.shop. This will inform commercial customers and consumers about news and changes. Periodically, Groundfloor24 RE Valuation Ltd. send the provider about information by e-mail. Commercial customers and consumers can unsubscribe from the newsletter distribution list at any time. An email to newsletter@groundfllor24.shop is sufficient. All stored information is treated confidentially.

Use of data for e-mail advertising without newsletter registration and your right to object: If we receive your e-mail address in connection with the sale of goods or services and you have not objected to this, we reserve the right to send you regular offers similar products or services to those already purchased from our range by e-mail. You can object to this use of your e-mail address at any time by sending a message to the contact option described above or via a link provided for this purpose in the advertising e-mail, without incurring any costs other than the transmission costs according to the basic tariffs.

Groundfloor24 RE Valuation Ltd. will delete the personal data stored for the purpose of processing the contract after the period relevant to commercial and tax law (10 years) has expired.

 

Groundfloor24 RE Valuation Ltd. Privacy Statement:

This privacy statement describes how your personal information is collected, used and shared when you use or make a purchase from www.groundfloor24.shop (the "Site").

PERSONAL INFORMATION WE COLLECT

When you visit the Website, we automatically collect certain information about your device, including web browser information, IP address, time zone information and some of the cookies installed on your device. As you navigate the site, we also collect information about the individual web pages or products you view, the websites or search terms that brought you to the site, and information about how you interact with the site. We refer to this automatically collected information as "Device Information".

We collect device information using the following technologies:

 - "Cookies" are data files stored on a device or computer, often containing an anonymous unique identifier. More information about cookies and how to disable cookies can be found at http://www.allaboutcookies.org. - "Log files" log actions on the website and collect data such as IP address, browser type, internet service provider, referring/exit pages and date/time stamp. - "Web beacons", "tags" and "pixels" are electronic files used to collect information about how you navigate the website. We also collect certain information about you when you buy or attempt to buy something on the Site. This includes name, billing address, shipping address, payment information (including credit card numbers), email address, and phone number. We refer to this information as "Order Information".

When we use "Personal Information" in this Privacy Policy, we mean both device information and order information. HOW DO WE USE YOUR PERSONAL DATA? We typically use the Order Information we collect to fulfill orders we receive through the Site (including, but not limited to, processing your payment information, arranging for shipment, and sending you invoices and/or order confirmations).

We also use this ordering information to: communication with you; Screening our orders for potential risk or fraud and Provide you with information or advertising related to our products or services, provided this is consistent with your privacy preferences. We use the device information we collect to check for potential risks and fraud (in particular your IP address) and generally to improve and optimize our website (e.g. by analyzing how our customers navigate and interact with the website and to measure success our marketing and advertising campaigns).

DISCLOSURE OF YOUR PERSONAL INFORMATION

We share your personal information with third parties who assist us in using your personal information as described above. For example, we use Shopify to power our online store. For more information about how Shopify uses your personal information, visit: https://www.shopify.com/legal/privacy. We also use Google Analytics to understand how our customers use the website. Further information on the use of your personal data by Google can be found here: https://policies.google.com/privacy?hl=de. You can disable Google Analytics here: https://tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout. Finally, we may also 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.

BEHAVIOR-BASED ADVERTISING

As described above, we use your personal information to provide you with targeted advertising or marketing communications that we think may be of interest to you. For more information about how targeted advertising works, visit the Network Advertising Initiative ("NAI") educational page at http://www.networkadvertising.org/understanding-online-advertising/how-does-it-work. You can opt out of targeted ads here. 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 may opt out of some of these services through the Digital Advertising Alliance's opt-out portal: http://optout.aboutads.info/.

DO NOT TRACK

Please note that we do not change our website's data collection and use practices when we receive a "Do Not Track" signal from your browser.

 

YOUR RIGHTS

If you are a European resident, you have the right to access the personal information we hold about you and to request that it be corrected, updated or deleted. If you wish to exercise this right, please contact us using the details below. In addition, if you are a European resident, please note that we process your information in order to fulfill contracts with you (e.g. when you place an order through the Website) or to pursue our legitimate business interests set out above. Additionally, please note that your information will be transferred outside of Europe, including Canada and the United States.

DATA RETENTION

If you place an order through the Site, we will retain your order information for our records unless you ask us to erase that information.

MINORS

The website is not intended for persons under the age of 18.

CHANGES

We may change this Privacy Policy from time to time to reflect changes in our practices or for other operational, legal or regulatory reasons.

CONTACT

If you need more information about our privacy practices, have questions or want to make a complaint, please contact us by email at info@groundfloor24.shop or by post at the address below:

Groundfloor24 RE Valuation Ltd., Utrechtseweg 341, 3818 EL Amersfoort, The Netherlands