Privacy Policy

This Privacy Policy describes how The Dharma Store (“The Dharma Store,” “we,” “us,” or “our”) collects, uses, discloses, and protects information when you visit or use www.thedharmastore.com (the “Site”), purchase products from us, or otherwise interact with our services.

By using the Site, you acknowledge the practices described in this Privacy Policy.

SECTION 1 — 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 provide to us, such as your name, billing and shipping address, email address, telephone number, and information necessary to process your order and payment.

When you browse our Site, we may automatically receive certain technical information, including your Internet Protocol (IP) address, browser type, operating system, device information, referring and exit pages, and information about how you interact with our Site.

We may use this information to:

  • Process and fulfill orders;
  • Provide customer service;
  • Communicate with you about orders and our services;
  • Improve and maintain our Site;
  • Understand how visitors use our Site;
  • Measure advertising and website performance;
  • Prevent fraud, abuse, and security incidents;
  • Comply with legal obligations; and
  • Provide advertising and other services where permitted by applicable law and your privacy choices.

Email marketing

If you provide your consent where required, we may send you emails about our store, products, promotions, updates, and other information.

You may unsubscribe from marketing emails at any time by following the unsubscribe instructions included in the email or by contacting us.

SECTION 2 — CONSENT

How do you get my consent?

When you provide personal information to complete a transaction, verify payment information, place an order, arrange delivery, or return a purchase, we collect and use that information as reasonably necessary to provide those services and fulfill the transaction.

If we request personal information for a secondary purpose, such as marketing, we will ask for your consent or provide an opportunity to decline where required by applicable law.

Cookies, advertising, analytics, and consent choices

Our Site uses cookies and similar technologies for purposes including essential Site functionality, shopping-cart functionality, security, analytics, advertising, measurement, and personalization where permitted.

Depending on your location and applicable law, you may be presented with a consent or privacy-choice message through Google's Privacy & Messaging tools.

For visitors in the European Economic Area (EEA), United Kingdom, and Switzerland, we use Google's Consent Management Platform (CMP), which is integrated with the IAB Europe Transparency and Consent Framework (TCF).

The CMP may allow eligible visitors to:

  • Consent to applicable purposes and vendors;
  • Decline consent;
  • Manage individual privacy choices; and
  • Change or withdraw certain choices where applicable.

Google requires publishers using its publisher products to use a Google-certified CMP integrated with the IAB TCF when serving personalized ads to users in the EEA, UK, and Switzerland.

Your consent choices may be communicated to Google and participating advertising technology providers through applicable consent signals and the IAB TCF.

How do I withdraw or change my consent?

Where available, you may change or withdraw your consent through the privacy or consent controls provided on our Site.

You may also contact us at:

hello(at)thedharmastore(dot)com

Withdrawing consent does not affect the lawfulness of processing that occurred before consent was withdrawn.

SECTION 3 — DISCLOSURE OF INFORMATION

We may disclose information to service providers and third parties where reasonably necessary to:

  • Process and fulfill purchases;
  • Process payments;
  • Host and operate our Site;
  • Provide analytics;
  • Provide advertising;
  • Measure advertising and Site performance;
  • Prevent fraud and abuse;
  • Provide customer support;
  • Maintain Site security;
  • Comply with legal obligations; or
  • Protect our rights, property, users, or others.

We may also disclose information when required by law, legal process, court order, governmental request, or when necessary to enforce our Terms of Service.

Some third-party service providers may process information in jurisdictions different from your own.

SECTION 4 — SHOPIFY

Our store is hosted on Shopify Inc. Shopify provides the e-commerce platform that allows us to sell products and services to you.

Your information may be stored and processed through Shopify's databases, data storage, applications, and related services.

Shopify and its service providers use security measures designed to protect information processed through their services.

Payment

When you make a purchase, payment information may be processed by Shopify or the applicable payment provider.

Payment providers use security measures designed to protect payment information and comply with applicable payment-card security requirements.

Transaction information may be retained for as long as reasonably necessary to complete your purchase, provide customer service, comply with legal and accounting obligations, resolve disputes, and enforce agreements.

For more information, please review Shopify's privacy policy and terms:

Shopify Privacy Policy

Shopify Terms of Service

SECTION 5 — THIRD-PARTY SERVICES

Third-party providers used by us may collect, use, and disclose information to the extent reasonably necessary to provide their services.

These providers may include payment processors, hosting providers, analytics providers, advertising providers, security providers, and other technology or service providers.

Third-party providers may have their own privacy policies governing their collection and processing of information. We encourage you to review those policies.

If you click a link to a third-party website or application, that third party's privacy policy and terms may apply once you leave our Site.

Links

Our Site may contain links to third-party websites.

We are not responsible for the privacy practices, content, or security of third-party websites and encourage you to review their privacy policies before providing information to them.

SECTION 6 — GOOGLE ADSENSE AND ADVERTISING

We use Google AdSense to display advertisements on our Site.

Google and participating advertising technology providers may use cookies, device identifiers, IP addresses, and similar technologies to collect or receive information from visitors for purposes including:

  • Delivering advertisements;
  • Measuring advertising performance;
  • Preventing fraud and abuse;
  • Limiting advertising frequency;
  • Personalizing advertisements where permitted; and
  • Other advertising-related purposes permitted by applicable law and user consent choices.

The advertisements displayed to you may be personalized or non-personalized depending on factors including your location, applicable privacy choices, consent status, and the configuration of our advertising services.

For visitors in the EEA, UK, and Switzerland, applicable advertising consent choices are collected through Google's Privacy & Messaging CMP and communicated through applicable consent signals and the IAB TCF.

Google provides additional information about how it uses information from websites and apps that use its services:

How Google uses information from sites or apps that use our services

You can review Google's Privacy Policy here:

Google Privacy Policy

SECTION 7 — GOOGLE ANALYTICS

We use Google Analytics to help us understand how visitors use our Site and to improve our content, services, and user experience.

Google Analytics may collect information such as:

  • IP address;
  • Device and browser information;
  • Pages visited;
  • Referring information;
  • Interactions with the Site;
  • Approximate location information; and
  • Other technical and usage information.

Google Analytics may use cookies and similar technologies to provide analytics services.

The availability and use of Google Analytics technologies may depend on applicable privacy requirements and user consent choices.

For visitors in the EEA, UK, and Switzerland, applicable consent choices may be communicated through Google's Privacy & Messaging CMP and applicable consent frameworks.

Additional information about Google's privacy practices is available here:

Google Privacy Policy

SECTION 8 — COOKIES AND SIMILAR TECHNOLOGIES

We use cookies and similar technologies to operate and improve our Site.

These technologies may be used for:

  • Essential Site functionality;
  • Security;
  • Shopping-cart functionality;
  • Remembering preferences;
  • Analytics;
  • Advertising;
  • Advertising measurement;
  • Fraud prevention; and
  • Personalization where permitted.

The specific cookies and technologies used may change over time depending on the services and features active on the Site.

Shopify cookies

Examples of Shopify cookies that may be used include:

  • _session_id — Used to maintain information about a visitor's session, such as referral and landing-page information.
  • _shopify_visit — Used to help measure visits to the store.
  • _shopify_uniq — Used to help count visits by a single customer.
  • cart — Used to store information about the contents of a shopping cart.
  • _secure_session_id — Used for session and security-related functionality.
  • storefront_digest — Used for password-protected store functionality.

Google Analytics technologies

Google Analytics may use cookies and similar technologies to understand how visitors interact with the Site and to provide analytics and measurement services.

Google advertising technologies

Google AdSense and participating advertising partners may use cookies and similar technologies for advertising, measurement, fraud prevention, frequency management, and personalization where permitted.

Consent-management technologies

Our Site may use technologies necessary to remember or communicate privacy and consent choices made through Google's Privacy & Messaging CMP.

This cookie list is not necessarily exhaustive. Cookies and similar technologies may be added, removed, or changed as our Site and third-party services change.

Where required by applicable law, we request consent before using non-essential cookies and similar technologies.

You can also control certain cookies through your browser settings. Disabling certain cookies may affect Site functionality.

SECTION 9 — U.S. STATE PRIVACY RIGHTS

Depending on where you live, you may have rights under applicable U.S. state privacy laws.

These rights may include, depending on the applicable law:

  • The right to know or access certain personal information;
  • The right to correct certain personal information;
  • The right to delete certain personal information;
  • The right to opt out of certain sales or sharing of personal information;
  • The right to opt out of certain targeted or interest-based advertising;
  • The right to limit certain uses of sensitive personal information where applicable;
  • The right to obtain information about certain disclosures; and
  • The right to appeal certain privacy decisions, where applicable.

The specific rights available to you depend on your state of residence and the requirements of applicable law.

U.S. state privacy messages

We use Google's Privacy & Messaging tools to provide applicable U.S. state privacy messages to visitors who may be subject to applicable state privacy laws.

Google's current U.S. state regulations messages support applicable privacy requirements in states including California, Colorado, Connecticut, Delaware, Florida, Indiana, Iowa, Kentucky, Maryland, Minnesota, Montana, Nebraska, New Hampshire, New Jersey, Oregon, Rhode Island, Tennessee, Texas, Utah, and Virginia.

The applicable privacy message may provide users with options such as “Do Not Sell or Share My Personal Information” and other privacy choices depending on their location and applicable law.

Where applicable, privacy choices may be communicated through the IAB Global Privacy Platform (GPP).

Google states that its U.S. state regulations messages support GPP for communicating applicable privacy choices to participating advertising partners.

Exercising your rights

If you wish to exercise a privacy right that applies to you, you may use the privacy controls presented on our Site or contact us at:

hello(at)thedharmastore(dot)com

We may need to verify your identity before completing certain requests, as permitted or required by applicable law.

SECTION 10 — AMAZON ASSOCIATES AND AFFILIATE LINKS

The Dharma Store participates in the Amazon Services LLC Associates Program, an affiliate advertising program designed to provide a means for sites to earn advertising fees by advertising and linking to Amazon.com and affiliated sites.

As an Amazon Associate I earn from qualifying purchases.

We may recommend products and include links to Amazon or other third-party websites through affiliate programs.

If you click an affiliate link and make a qualifying purchase, we may receive a commission at no additional cost to you.

Our participation in affiliate programs does not increase the price you pay for products.

Amazon requires Associates to clearly and prominently disclose their participation in the Associates Program.

SECTION 11 — SECURITY

To protect your personal information, we take reasonable precautions and follow generally accepted security practices appropriate to the nature of the information we process.

These measures are intended to help prevent personal information from being inappropriately lost, misused, accessed, disclosed, altered, or destroyed.

Payment information processed by payment providers is protected using security measures designed to protect payment information and comply with applicable payment-card security standards.

However, no method of transmission over the Internet or electronic storage is completely secure, and we cannot guarantee absolute security.

SECTION 12 — DATA RETENTION

We retain personal information for as long as reasonably necessary for the purposes described in this Privacy Policy, including to:

  • Provide products and services;
  • Maintain business and transaction records;
  • Provide customer service;
  • Comply with legal, tax, accounting, and regulatory obligations;
  • Resolve disputes;
  • Prevent fraud and abuse; and
  • Enforce our agreements.

Retention periods may vary depending on the type of information and the purpose for which it was collected.

SECTION 13 — CHILDREN'S PRIVACY

By using this Site, you represent that you are at least the age of majority in your state or province of residence, or that you are the age of majority in your state or province of residence and have given us permission to allow your minor dependents to use the Site.

We do not knowingly collect personal information from children in violation of applicable law.

If you believe that a child has provided us with personal information in violation of applicable law, please contact us so that we can take appropriate action.

SECTION 14 — YOUR PRIVACY RIGHTS AND REQUESTS

Depending on your location and applicable law, you may have rights to access, correct, delete, or otherwise manage certain personal information.

You may also have rights to withdraw consent or opt out of certain forms of processing, including certain targeted advertising, sale, or sharing of personal information where applicable.

To make a privacy request or ask a question about our privacy practices, contact:

Email: hello(at)thedharmastore(dot)com

We may take reasonable steps to verify your identity before responding to certain requests.

We will handle applicable privacy requests in accordance with the laws that apply to you.

SECTION 15 — CHANGES TO THIS PRIVACY POLICY

We reserve the right to modify this Privacy Policy from time to time.

Changes and clarifications will take effect when posted on the Site unless otherwise required by applicable law.

If we make material changes to this Privacy Policy, we may provide additional notice where appropriate.

If our store is acquired, sold, or merged with another company, information we hold may be transferred to the new owners or successor entity so that the business and Site may continue operating.

SECTION 16 — QUESTIONS AND CONTACT INFORMATION

If you would like to:

  • Access, correct, amend, or delete personal information we have about you;
  • Exercise an applicable privacy right;
  • Withdraw or change a privacy choice;
  • Register a complaint; or
  • Obtain more information about our privacy practices,

please contact our Privacy Compliance Officer:

Email: hello(at)thedharmastore(dot)com

Website: www.thedharmastore.com

The Dharma Store

We will respond to applicable requests in accordance with the laws that apply to you.