Privacy Policy 🛡️ for KSEthnic.com

Welcome to KSEthnic.com! Your privacy is of utmost importance to us. This Privacy Policy outlines how we collect, use, protect, and handle your personal information on our website. By using our site, you agree to the collection and use of information in accordance with this policy.

Information Collection and Use 📊

• Personal Information: When you visit KSEthnic.com, we may ask for your name, email address, mailing address, phone number, or other details to help you with your experience or to complete your purchase.
• Cookies: We use cookies 🍪 to enhance your browsing experience, analyze site traffic, and understand where our audience is coming from. You can choose to have your computer warn you each time a cookie is being sent, or you can choose to turn off all cookies through your browser settings.
• Social Media Integration: When you interact with our Pinterest integration, we may collect information about which products you save or share, to improve our product offerings and marketing strategies.
• Pinterest Data: We may receive limited information from Pinterest about how our products perform on their platform, including engagement metrics and pin performance data.

How We Use Your Information 💡

We use the information we collect from you in the following ways:

• To personalize your experience and deliver the type of content and product offerings in which you are most interested.
• To improve our website in order to better serve you.
• To quickly process your transactions.
• To send periodic emails regarding your order or other products and services.
• To share product information on social media platforms (Pinterest) for marketing purposes.
• To enable you to save and share our products on your social media accounts.
• To analyze which products are most popular on social media platforms to improve our inventory and marketing.

Social Media Integration 📌

Pinterest Integration:

• We integrate with Pinterest to allow you to save products to your Pinterest boards and to showcase our products on our Pinterest profile (@sm_bridalworks).
• When you use the “Save to Pinterest” feature on our website, Pinterest will receive information about the product you’re saving, including product images, descriptions, and pricing.
• We may automatically create Pinterest pins for our products to share with the Pinterest community.
• Your interaction with Pinterest is governed by Pinterest’s Privacy Policy and Terms of Service.
• We do not access your personal Pinterest account information beyond what is necessary for the pin creation functionality.

Data Shared with Pinterest:

• Product information (name, description, price, images)
• Your public Pinterest username (only when you save products)
• Website URL where the product originates
• Product availability and pricing updates

Important: We do not share your personal contact information, purchase history, or other private data with Pinterest.

Protection of Your Information 🔐

We implement a variety of security measures to maintain the safety of your personal information:

• Your personal information is contained behind secured networks and is only accessible by a limited number of persons who have special access rights to such systems, and are required to keep the information confidential.
• All sensitive/credit information you supply is encrypted via Secure Socket Layer (SSL) technology.
• We do not use vulnerability scanning and/or scanning to PCI standards.
• Pinterest integration data is transmitted securely using industry-standard encryption protocols.

Third-party Disclosure 🚫

We do not sell, trade, or otherwise transfer to outside parties your Personally Identifiable Information unless we provide users with advance notice. This does not include:

• Website hosting partners and other parties who assist us in operating our website, conducting our business, or serving our users, so long as those parties agree to keep this information confidential.
• Pinterest integration for product sharing and social media marketing purposes (limited to product information only).
• Service providers who help us analyze website traffic and customer behavior to improve our services.

Pinterest Integration: When you choose to save products to Pinterest or interact with our Pinterest integration, you are agreeing to share product information with Pinterest according to their privacy policy.

Third-party Links 🔗

Occasionally, at our discretion, we may include or offer third-party products or services on our website. These third-party sites have separate and independent privacy policies. We, therefore, have no responsibility or liability for the content and activities of these linked sites.

Data Retention 📅

• Pinterest Integration Data: Product information shared with Pinterest remains on their platform according to Pinterest’s data retention policies.
• Social Media Analytics: We retain social media engagement data for up to 2 years for business analysis purposes.
• User Control: You can request removal of your Pinterest pins by contacting us directly.
• Account Data: Your personal account information is retained as long as your account is active or as needed to provide services.

User Rights and Control ⚙️

You have the following rights regarding your data:

• Access: Request access to your personal data we hold
• Correction: Request correction of inaccurate personal data
• Deletion: Request deletion of your personal data
• Pinterest Control: Manage your Pinterest pins and boards directly through your Pinterest account
• Opt-out: Choose not to use Pinterest integration features

Children’s Privacy 👶

Our service is not directed to children under 13. We do not knowingly collect personally identifiable information from children under 13. If we discover that a child under 13 has provided us with personal information, we will delete such information from our systems immediately.

Your Consent 📌

By using our site, you consent to our website’s privacy policy. By using Pinterest integration features, you also consent to the sharing of product information with Pinterest as described in this policy.

Changes to Our Privacy Policy 🔄

We reserve the right to update or change our Privacy Policy at any time. Any changes will be posted on this page, and we will update the Privacy Policy modification date below. We encourage you to review this Privacy Policy periodically for any changes.

This policy was last modified on December 2024.

Contact Us 📬

Thank you for choosing KSEthnic.com, where we cherish your trust and are committed to protecting your privacy.

SM Designs | Ethnic & Bridal Wear | ksethnic.com | @sm_bridalworks