Privacy policy
This Privacy Policy describes how louizajewellery.com (the “Site” or “we”) collects, uses, and discloses your Personal Information when you visit or make a purchase from the Site.
We take your privacy very seriously and we are committed to protecting it. We believe that you should easily know what personal data we collect and use, as well as to understand your rights in respect of your personal data.
This privacy policy (“Privacy Policy”) explains our policies and practices regarding how we collect, use, and disclose the personal data that we collect through our Digital Platforms, our stores or during our events.
We recommend that you read this Privacy Policy carefully as it provides important information about your personal data. This Privacy Policy is designed so that you can easily reach the section you are interested in.
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 contact@louizajewellery.com or by mail using the details provided below:
Louiza Jewellery, 1 Rue Denis Poisson , 75017 Paris, France
1. 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 optimise 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, payment gateway Stripe, DHL shipping service
- Personal Information collected: name, billing address, shipping address, payment information (including credit card numbers), email address, and phone number.
- If you choose to interact with LOUIZA via a social media platform (Instagram or Telegram), we will collect the information you have provided to us through that platform;
- Other information you may provide by filling forms or by contacting us (including your feedbacks, or other communications with us ).
We will inform you when your information is required in order to process your request, to respond to your queries or to provide you with our products and services. If you do not provide this information, then it may delay or prevent us from processing your request, responding to your query or providing products or services to you.
We hope to ensure that the personal data we possess are accurate at all times and therefore we encourage you to update your information in case any changes have occurred. We also may ask you to update your information from time to time.
We recommend that you only provide the data requested or necessary for your query, with the exception of any sensitive information related to racial or ethnic origin, political opinions, religious or philosophical beliefs, data concerning health, sex life or sexual orientation.
2. 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.
- We use payment gateway Stripe. You can read more about how Stripe uses your Personal Information here: https://stripe.com/en-lt/privacy
3. 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).
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:
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/.
4. 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.
4.1. 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.
4.2. 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.
4.3. 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.
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.
5. How do we protect personal information?
We maintain administrative, technical and physical safeguards designed to protect the personal information you provide against accidental, unlawful or unauthorised destruction, loss, alteration, access, disclosure or use.
6. Your rights
6.1. 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.
6.2. What rights do you have on your personal data?
In accordance with the applicable data protection laws, you can, at any time, request access, rectification, erasure and portability of your personal data or restrict and object to the processing of your personal data. A summary of these rights is provided below:
- Your right of access: the right to be provided with a copy of your personal data.
- Your right to rectification: the right to require us to correct any mistakes in your data or to complete your information.
- Your right to be forgotten: the right to require us to delete your personal data — in certain situations.
- Your right to restriction of processing: the right to require us to restrict processing of your personal data — in certain circumstances, for example if you contest the accuracy of the data.
- Your right to data portability: the right to receive the personal information you provided to us, in a structured, commonly used and machine-readable format and/or transmit that data to a third party — in certain situations.
- Your right to object to processing: the right to object:
- at any time to your personal data being processed for direct marketing;
- in certain other situations to our continued processing of your personal information, eg processing carried out for the purpose of our legitimate interests.
When the processing of your personal data is based on your consent, you may at any time decide to withdraw it. If your consent is withdrawn, it won’t affect the processing of your personal data based on other legal bases, such as fulfilling your orders and storing your order data as required by applicable law.
If you no longer wish to receive our marketing/promotional information, we remind you that you may withdraw your consent to direct marketing at any time directly from the unsubscribe link included in each electronic promotional message we send to you. If you do so, we will promptly update our databases, and will take all reasonable steps to meet your request at the earliest possible opportunity, but we may continue to contact you to the extent necessary for the purposes of any products or services you have requested.
You also have the right to lodge a complaint with your local data protection authority in case of alleged infringement of the data protection rules applicable to you.
To exercise any of those rights, please contact us using the contact information below (see “How to contact us”).
Please note that upon exercising any of the rights listed above, you will be requested to let us know what right you want to exercise and provide information (copy of an identity card, passport or other legally recognized identity) for identification purposes in order to process your request and protect you against fraudulent requests from third parties.
7. 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.
[Be sure to check this list against Shopify’s current list of cookies on the merchant storefront: https://www.shopify.com/legal/cookies ]
7.1. 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 |
7.2. 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_evids | Shopify analytics. | session |
| _shopify_ga | Shopify and Google 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.
7.3. 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.
7.4. Managing your cookie preferences
You can easily disable and/or delete cookies from your computer, tablet or mobile phone by managing your browser settings.
We recommend that you do not disable cookies strictly necessary for the website to function (cookie described as "essential" in the "What cookies do we use?" table) because this would prevent you from ordering online and enjoying the services of the Louizajewellery.com website.
In order to manage cookies to best suit your needs, please bear in mind the purpose of cookies when setting your browser. Please find below instructions about managing and disabling cookies, depending on your browser:
- Internet Explorer
- Go to Tools menu, then Internet Options.
- Click on Confidentiality, then click on Advanced.
- In the Cookies window, select your preferences.
- Google Chrome
- Click the Chrome menu, the upper right button.
- Select Settings then click on Show advanced settings.
- In the Privacy section, click the Content settings button.
- Select your preferred option(s) in the Cookies section.
- Firefox
- Go to Tools then Options menu.
- Click on the Privacy settings.
- Select Use custom settings for history.
- Select your preferred option(s) on the Accept cookies from sites section.
- Safari
- Click on Safari, then Preferences.
- Click on the Privacy tab.
- Go to Block cookies and select your preferred option(s).
8. 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.
9. How to contact us?
In issues relating to your account, to withdraw your consent, to ask general questions or to lodge a complaint, please contact our Customer Service:
- By email: contact@louizajewellery.com
- By phone: +33672787292 If you have any questions or comments about this Privacy Notice, please email us at contact@louizajewellery.com
Last updated: June 18, 2022