Thank you for using Homeware.Furniture. We wrote this policy to help you understand what information we collect, how we use it, and what choices you have. Because we’re an internet company, some of the concepts below are a little technical, but we’ve tried our best to explain things in a simple and clear way.
What
information do we collect?
We
collect information in two ways:
1.
When you give it to us or give us permission to obtain it.
When you sign up for or use our products, you voluntarily give us certain
information. This can include your name, profile photo, pins, comments, likes,
email address you used to sign up, and any other information you provide us. If
you’re using Homeware.Furniture on your mobile device, you can also choose to
provide us with location data.
You
also may give us permission to access your information in other services. For
example, you may link your Facebook or Twitter account to Homeware.Furniture,
which allows us to obtain information from those accounts (e.g., your friends
or contacts). The information we obtain from those services often depends on
your settings or their privacy policies, so be sure to check what those are.
2.
We also get technical information when you use our products or use websites or
apps that have Homeware.Furniture features.
These days, whenever you use a website, mobile application, or other Internet
service, there’s certain information that almost always gets created and
recorded automatically. The same is true when you use our products. Here are
some of the types of information we collect:
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Log Data. When you use Homeware.Furniture or go to a webpage or use an app that
has Homeware.Furniture features (like our “Pin It” button), our servers
automatically record information (“log data”) including information that your
browser sends whenever you visit a website or your mobile app sends when you’re
using it. This log data may include your Internet Protocol address, the address
of the web pages you visited that had Homeware.Furniture features, browser type
and settings, the date and time of your request, how you used Homeware.Furniture,
and cookie data.
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Cookie data. Depending on how you’re accessing our products, we may use
“cookies” (a small text file sent by your computer each time you visit our
website, unique to your Homeware.Furniture account or your browser), or similar
technologies to record log data. When we use cookies, we may use “session”
cookies (that last until you close your browser) or “persistent” cookies (that
last until you or your browser delete them). For example, we may use cookies to
store your language preferences or other Homeware.Furniture settings so you
don‘t have to set them up every time you visit Homeware.Furniture. Some of the
cookies we use are associated with your Homeware.Furniture account (including
personal information about you, such as the email address you gave us), and
other cookies are not.
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Device Information. In addition to log data, we may also collect information
about the device you’re using Homeware.Furniture on, including what type of
device it is, what operating system you’re using, device settings, unique
device identifiers, and crash data. Whether we collect some or all of this
information often depends on what type of device you’re using and its settings.
For example, different types of information are available depending on whether
you’re using a Mac or a PC, or an iPhone or an Android phone. To learn more
about what information your device makes available to us, please also check the
policies of your device manufacturer or software provider.
How
do we use the information we collect?
We
use the information we collect to provide our products to you and make them
better, develop new products, and protect Homeware.Furniture and our users. For
example, we may log how often people use two different versions of a product,
which can help us understand which version is better.
We
also use the information we collect to offer you customized content, including:
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Suggesting pins or boards you might like. For example, if you’ve indicated that
you’re interested in cooking or visited recipe websites that has Homeware.Furniture
features, we may suggest food-related pins, boards, or people that we think you
might like;
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Send you updates (such as when certain activity, like repins or comments,
happens on Homeware.Furniture), newsletters, marketing materials and other
information that may be of interest to you. For example, depending on your
email notification settings, we may send you weekly updates that include pins
you may like. You can decide to stop getting these updates by updating your
account settings (or through other settings we may provide).
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Help your friends and contacts find you on Homeware.Furniture. For example, if
you sign up using a Facebook account, we may help your Facebook friends find
your account on Homeware.Furniture when they first sign up for Homeware.Furniture.
Or, we may allow people to search for your account on Homeware.Furniture using
your email address.
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Respond to your questions or comments.
The information we collect may be “personally identifiable” (meaning it can be
used to specifically identify you as a unique person) or “non-personally
identifiable” (meaning it can’t be used to specifically identify you). We use
both types of information, and combinations of both types, as described above.
We may use or store information wherever Homeware.Furniture does business,
including countries outside your own.
What
choices do you have about your information?
Our goal is to give you simple and meaningful choices over your information. If
you have a Homeware.Furniture account, many of the choices you have on Homeware.Furniture
are built directly in to the product or your account settings. For example, you
can:
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Access and change information in your profile page at any time, choose whether
your profile page is available to search engines, or choose whether others can
find your Homeware.Furniture account using your email address;
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Link or unlink your Homeware.Furniture account from an account on another
service (e.g., Facebook or Twitter). For some services (like Facebook), you can
also choose whether or not to publish your activity on Homeware.Furniture to
that service.
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Create or be added to a secret board. Secret boards are visible to you and
other participants in the board, and any participant may choose to make the
contents of the board available to anyone else. For example, another
participant may invite someone else to the board, make the board available to
an app they use to view Homeware.Furniture, or even just take an image from the
board and email it to their friends.
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Choose whether Homeware.Furniture will be customized for you using information
from off-Homeware.Furniture websites or apps. If you have a Homeware.Furniture
account and don’t want your off-Homeware.Furniture data to be used to tailor
your experience, you can visit your account settings and update your
“Personalization” preferences. If you don’t have a Homeware.Furniture account,
or don’t want us to customize Homeware.Furniture for you when you’re signed
out, you can opt out.
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Also, we support the Do Not Track browser setting, and you can learn more about
how it affects our collection and use of off-Homeware.Furniture data.
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Close your account at any time. When you close your account, we’ll deactivate
it and remove your pins and boards from Homeware.Furniture. We may retain
archived copies of your information as required by law or for legitimate
business purposes (including to help address fraud and spam).
You may have choices available to you through the device or software you use to
access Homeware.Furniture.
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The browser you use may provide you with the ability to control cookies or
other types of local data storage;
•
Your mobile device may provide you with choices around how and whether location
or other data is shared with us.
To learn more about these choices, please see the information provided by the
device or software provider.
How
do we share the information we collect?
Homeware.Furniture is a tool people use to find their inspirations, make them a
reality, and inspire others in the process. When you create public boards and
pins, anyone can view them. You may also provide us with profile page
information that that anyone can view. The other limited instances where we may
share your personal information include:
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When we have your consent. This includes sharing information with other
services (like Facebook or Twitter) when you’ve chosen to link to your Homeware.Furniture
account to those services or publish your activity on Homeware.Furniture to
them. For example, you can choose to publish your pins to Facebook or Twitter.
•
We may employ third party companies or individuals to process personal
information on our behalf based on our instructions and in compliance with this
Privacy Policy. For example, we may share data with a security consultant to
help us get better at identifying spam or with our accountants to make sure
we’re keeping the books right. In addition, some of the information we request
may be collected by third party providers on our behalf.
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If we believe that disclosure is reasonably necessary to comply with a law,
regulation or legal request; to protect the safety, rights, or property of the
public, any person, or Homeware.Furniture; or to detect, prevent, or otherwise
address fraud, security or technical issues.
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We may engage in a merger, acquisition, bankruptcy, dissolution,
reorganization, or similar transaction or proceeding that involves the transfer
of the information described in this Policy.
We
may also share aggregated or non-personally identifiable information with our
partners or others. For example, we may tell a business using Homeware.Furniture
how many people repinned something they shared, or the percentage of people who
click on a pin after viewing it.
Our
Policy on Children’s Information
Homeware.Furniture is not directed to children under 13. If you learn that your
minor child has provided us with personal information without your consent,
please contact us.
How
do we make changes to this policy?
We may change this policy from time to time, and if we do we’ll post any
changes on this page. If you continue to use Homeware.Furniture after those
changes are in effect, you agree to the revised policy. If the changes are
significant, we may provide more prominent notice or obtain your consent as
required by law.