Privacy Policy

PRIVACY POLICY

Welcome to www.blockshades.com (the "Website"). This Privacy Policy (the "Privacy Policy") sets forth blockshades practices regarding the collection, use, disclosure, and maintenance of information that you may provide when you interact with us via this Website and certain related services, e-mails, and other communications that link to or reference this Privacy Policy. This Privacy Policy applies to all users of our Website, including visitors. Please be sure to read this entire Privacy Policy before using or submitting information to this Website.

Policy
The policy of blockshadesl is to respect and protect the privacy of our Website users (“Users”). To fulfill this policy, we agree to exercise the precautions set forth in this Privacy Policy to maintain the confidentiality of information provided by you in connection with accessing and using the Website and in any e-mail, text, and other electronic messages between you and the Website. This Privacy Policy does not apply to information collected (i) offline or through any other means, including on any other website operated by blockshades or any third party, or (ii) by any third party, including through any application, affiliates or content (blogs, articles, etc. ) that may link to or be accessible from or on the Website.

Your Consent
Please read this Privacy Policy carefully to understand our current policies and practices with respect to your information and how we will treat it. By accessing or using the Website, including by submitting your information to the Website, you agree to the terms of this Privacy Policy. If you do not agree with the terms of this Privacy Policy, your choice is not to use the Website.  

Changes to the Privacy Policy

This Privacy Policy may change from time to time. Your continued use of the Website after we make such changes shall constitute your acceptance of those changes. It is recommended that you check this page periodically for updates. Changes will not apply retroactively to personal information that was collected before the changes to the Privacy Policy were made, except as may be required by law.

Our Commitment to Children's Privacy
Protecting the privacy of children is especially important. This Website was not developed and is not intended for people under the age of 16. We never knowingly collect information from persons we know to be under the age of 16, and no part of our Website is designed to attract anyone under the age of 16. If you are under 16, do not use or provide any information on this Website, or make any purchases through the Website, or provide any information about yourself to us, including your name, address, telephone number, e-mail address, or any screen name or user name you may use. If we learn we have collected or received personal information from a person under 16 without verification of parental consent, we will delete that information. If you believe we might have any information from a child under 16, please contact us at support@blockshades.com We encourage parents to talk to their children about their use of the Internet and the information they disclose to websites.

Information We Collect About You and How We Collect It
Like many websites, we actively collect information from you in order to provide our goods and services and to confirm that the Website is functioning properly. We may collect personally identifiable information about you (that is, information that can be uniquely identified as belonging to you, such as your full name, email address, mailing address, phone number, and  billing information (including credit card numbers, email address, and phone number. We refer to this information as “Order Information.” This information is collected using our accepted payment methods) We collect this information directly from you when you provide it to us. 

Some areas of this Website may require you to submit information in order for you to benefit from the specified features (such as newsletter subscriptions, tips/pointers, and order processing) or to participate in a particular activity (such as sweepstakes or other promotions). You will be informed at each information collection point what information is required and what information is optional along with a link to this Privacy Policy.

We may also collect information that is about you but individually may not identify you, and information about your Internet connection, the equipment you use to access our Website, and usage details. We collect this information automatically as you navigate through the Website, such as IP addresses and information collected through cookies or other similar technologies.  For more information, see the "Information We Collect Through Automatic Data Collection Technologies" section below.


Use of the information Collected

We may use the information we collect to: 

• Communicate with you
• Screen our orders for potential risk or fraud
• When in line with the preferences you have shared with us, provide you with information or advertising relating to our products or services.

We use the Device Information that we collect to help us screen for potential risk and fraud (in particular, your IP address), and more generally to improve and optimize our Website (for example, by generating analytics about how our customers browse and interact with the Website, and to assess the success of our marketing and advertising campaigns).

We do not sell or rent your personal information to any third parties.

Security of Information

You can be assured that personal information collected through the Website is secure and is maintained in a manner consistent with current industry standards. The importance of security for all personal information associated with our Users is of utmost concern to us. Your personal information is protected in several ways. Your personal information resides on a secure server that only select blockshades lemployees and contractors have access to via password. In order to most efficiently serve you, credit card transactions and order fulfillment are handled by established third-party vendors, processing agents, and distribution institutions. They receive the information needed to verify and authorize your credit card or other payment information and to process and ship your order. blockshades does not independently store any payment information of its Users on its servers.