SECTION 1 - WHY DO WE HOLD INFORMATION ?
• To provide appropriate goods and services to you, both electronically and through the mail.
• To provide the best possible service to you.
• To verify your identity.
• To protect against fraudulent transactions.
• With your agreement to contact you about offers, products and services that may interest you.
SECTION 2 - WHAT INFORMATION MAY WE HOLD?
• Name, contact details incl. postal address, telephone number email address.
• Purchases made by you.
SECTION 3 - WHAT DO WE DO WITH YOUR INFORMATION?
• When you purchase something from our store, as part of the buying and selling process, we collect the personal information you give us such as your name, address and email address.
• When you browse our store, we also automatically receive your computer’s internet protocol (IP) address in order to help you access our website.
• Email marketing (if applicable): With your permission, we may send you emails about our store, new products and other updates.
SECTION 4 - CONSENT
How do you get my consent?
• When you provide us with personal information to complete a transaction, verify your credit card, place an order, arrange for a delivery or return a purchase, we imply that you consent to us collecting it and using it for that specific reason only.
• If we ask for your personal information for a secondary reason, like marketing, we will either ask you directly for your expressed consent, or provide you with an opportunity to say no.
How do I withdraw my consent?
• If after you opt-in, you change your mind, you may withdraw your consent for us to contact you, for the continued collection, use or disclosure of your information, at anytime, by emailing us, writing to us, or telephoning us.
SECTION 5 - YOUR RIGHTS
You have the following rights:
• the right to ask for a copy of any personal data we hold about you.
• the right to delete any such data we may hold about you
• the right to correct any such data.
• the right to opt out of specific marketing.
SECTION 6 - DISCLOSURE
We may have to disclose your personal information if we are required to by law.
We will never sell or rent your data to a third party.
SECTION 7 - IONOS
Our store is hosted on IONOS. They provide us with the online e-commerce platform that allows us to sell our products and services to you. Your data is stored through IONOS data storage, databases and the general IONOS application.
SECTION 8 - PAYMENT:
• When you complete your purchase, then the payment provider will process your payment card data.
• Magellan Stamps never sees and does not have access to your card data. It is protected in line with the requirements of the Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard (PCI-DSS) by the chosen payment provider.
• Your purchase transaction data is stored only as long as is necessary to complete your purchase transaction. After that is complete, your purchase transaction information is deleted.
• All direct payment gateways 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 credit card information by our store and its service providers.
SECTION 9 - THIRD-PARTY SERVICES
• In general, the third-party providers used by us will only collect, use and disclose your information to the extent necessary to allow them to perform the services they provide to us.
• Payment gateways and other payment transaction processors, have their own privacy policies in respect to the information we are required to provide to them for your purchase-related transactions.
• You may wish to read their privacy policies so you can understand the manner in which your personal information will be handled by these providers.
• Certain providers may be located in or have facilities that are located in a different jurisdiction than either you or us. So if you elect to proceed with a transaction that involves the services of a third-party service provider, then your information may become subject to the laws of the jurisdiction(s) in which that service provider or its facilities are located.
• As an example, if you are located in Canada and your transaction is processed by a payment gateway located in the United States, then your personal information used in completing that transaction may be subject to disclosure under United States legislation.
• Once you leave our website or are redirected to a third-party website or application, you are no longer governed by this Privacy Policy or our website’s Terms of Service.
SECTION 10 - LINKS
• When you click on links on our store, they may direct you away from our site. We are not responsible for the privacy practices of other sites and encourage you to read their privacy statements.
SECTION 11 - GOOGLE ANALYTICS
• Our store uses Google Analytics to help us learn about the visits our site and what pages are being looked at. No personal information is gathered as part of this service.
SECTION 12 - SECURITY
• To protect your personal information, we take reasonable precautions and follow industry best practices to make sure it is not inappropriately lost, misused, accessed, disclosed, altered or destroyed.
SECTION 13 - COOKIES
• This site uses essential and non essential cookies.
• The site will not operate or function as expected without the essential cookies. However when you first connect to our site you have the options to disable any non essential cookies.
• Non-essential cookies are used by Google analytics.
SECTION 14 - CHANGES TO THIS PRIVACY POLICY
• We reserve the right to modify this privacy policy at any time, so please review it frequently.
• Changes and clarifications will take effect immediately upon their posting on the website.
• If we make material changes to this policy, we will notify you here that it has been updated, so that you are aware of what information we collect, how we use it, and under what circumstances, if any, we use and/or disclose it.
QUESTIONS AND CONTACT INFORMATION
If you would like to access, correct, amend or delete any personal information we have about you, register a complaint, or simply want more information, please use our contact us page, or email us at info@magellanstamps.com, telephone us, or write to us directly using the address published on this website.
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