Privacy

 

This policy describes the type of information that Matter Collection (“us”, “we”, “Company”, or “our”) collects from you or that you may provide when you visit https://mattercollection.com website (the “Website”) and our practices for collecting, using, maintaining, protecting, and disclosing that information and the choices you have with respect to that information.

This policy applies to information we collect:

· On this Website.

· In email, text, and other electronic messages between you and this Website.

· Through mobile and desktop applications you download from this Website, which provide dedicated non-browser-based interaction between you and this Website.

· When you interact with our advertising and applications on third-party websites and services, if those applications or advertising include links to this policy.

It does not apply to information collected by:

· Us offline or through any other means, including on any other website operated by us or any third party (including our affiliates and subsidiaries); or

· Any third party (including our affiliates and subsidiaries), including through any application or content (including advertising) that may link to or be accessible from or on the Website.

By using the Website, you agree to the collection and use of information in accordance with this policy. If you do not agree with our policies and practices, you may not use the Website.

Information We May Collect And How We Collect It

The information we collect depends on how you interact with the Website. Our collection and processing of your information is based on different contexts: our performance of a contract, our obligations under law, our legitimate interest in conducting our business, protection of a natural person’s vital interests, and/or upon your consent.

We may collect the following types of information when you interact with the Website:

  • Information that can be used to contact or identify you, including, without limitation, email address, first name and last name, phone number, postal address (state, province, ZIP/postal code, city), payment card information, and any other identifier by which you may be identified and/or contacted online or offline (“personal information”);

  • Information about how the Website is accessed and used “”including information such as your computer’s Internet Protocol address (e.g. IP address), browser type, browser version, the pages of our Website that you visit, the time and date of your visit, the time spent on those pages, unique device identifiers and other diagnostic data (“Usage Data”); and/or

  • Information that is about you but individually does not identify you.

We may collect this information:

  • Directly from you when you provide it to us (see below).

  • Automatically as you navigate through the Website (see below)

  • From third parties, for example, our business partners.

Information You Provide to Us

The information we collect on or through our Website may include:

  • Information that you provide by filling in forms on our Website. This includes information provided at the time of registering to use our Website, subscribing to our emails, posting material, or requesting further services. We may also ask you for information when you enter a contest or promotion sponsored by us, and when you report a problem with our Website.

  • Records and copies of your correspondence (including email addresses), if you contact us.

  • Your responses to surveys that we might ask you to complete for research purposes.

  • Details of transactions you carry out through our Website and of the fulfillment of your orders. You may be required to provide financial information before placing an order through our Website, as described below.

  • Your search queries on the Website.

You also may provide information to be published or displayed (hereinafter, “posted“) on public areas of the Website, or transmitted to other users of the Website or third parties (collectively, “User Contributions“). Any User Contributions are posted on and transmitted to others at your own risk. Although you may set certain privacy settings for such information by logging into your account profile, please be aware that no security measures are perfect or impenetrable. Additionally, we cannot control the actions of other users of the Website with whom you may choose to share your User Contributions. Therefore, we cannot and do not guarantee that your User Contributions will not be viewed by unauthorized persons.

Information We Collect Through Automated Data Collection Technologies

As you navigate through and interact with our Website, we may use automatic data collection technologies to collect certain information about your equipment, browsing actions, and patterns, including:

  • Details of your visits to our Website, including traffic data, location data, logs, and other communication data and the resources that you access and use on the Website.

  • Information about your computer and internet connection, including your IP address, operating system, and browser type.

We may maintain information that we may collect automatically or associate it with personal information we collect in other ways or receive from third parties. It helps us to improve our Website and to deliver a better and more personalized service, including by enabling us to:

  • Estimate our audience size and usage patterns.

  • Store information about your preferences, allowing us to customize our Website according to your individual interests.

  • Speed up your searches.

  • Recognize you when you return to our Website.

The technologies we use for automatic data collection may include:

  • Cookies (or browser cookies): We use cookies and similar tracking technologies to track the activity on our Website and hold certain information. Cookies are files with small amount of data which may include an anonymous unique identifier. Cookies are sent to your browser from a website and stored on your device. You can instruct your browser to refuse all cookies or to indicate when a cookie is being sent. However, if you do not accept cookies, you may not be able to use some portions of our Website.

Examples of Cookies we use may include:

Session Cookies. We use Session Cookies to operate our Website.

Preference Cookies. We use Preference Cookies to remember your preferences and various settings.

Security Cookies. We use Security Cookies for security purposes.

  • Web Beacons: Pages of the Website and our e-mails may contain small electronic files known as web beacons (also referred to as clear gifs, pixel tags, and single-pixel gifs) that permit the us, for example, to count users who have visited those pages or opened an email and for other related website statistics (for example, recording the popularity of certain website content and verifying system and server integrity).

  • Other Tracking Technologies: Tracking technologies we may also use include tags, and scripts to collect and track information and to improve and analyze our Website.

How We Use Your Information

We may use information that we collect about you or that you provide to us, including any personal information:

  • To provide and maintain the Website

  • To notify you about changes to our Website

  • To allow you to participate in interactive features of our Website when you choose to do so

  • To provide customer care and support

  • To provide analysis or valuable information so that we can improve the Website

  • To monitor the usage of the Website

  • To detect, prevent, and address technical issues

  • In any other way we may describe when you provide the information

  • For any other purpose with your consent

  • To carry out our obligations and enforce our rights arising from any contracts entered into between you and us, including for billing and collection

  • To fulfill any other purpose for which you provide it

We may also use your information to contact you about our own and third-parties’ goods and services that may be of interest to you. If we have sent you a promotional email, you may opt out of future promotional emails by following the instructions found in the body of the email. For more information, see Choices About How We Use and Disclose Your Information.

We may use the information we have collected from you to enable us to display advertisements to our advertisers’ target audiences. Even though we do not disclose your personal information for these purposes without your consent, if you click on or otherwise interact with an advertisement, the advertiser may assume that you meet its target criteria.

Although the sections above describe our primary purposes in collecting your information, in many situations we have more than one purpose. For example, if you complete an online purchase or other transaction we may collect your information to perform our contract with you, but we also have a legitimate interest in maintaining your information after your transaction is complete so that we can quickly and easily respond to any questions about your order. As a result, our collection and processing of your information is based on different contexts upon your consent, our need to perform a contract, our obligations under law, and/or our legitimate interest in conducting our business.

Disclosure Of Your Information

We may disclose aggregated information about our users, and information that does not identify any individual, without restriction.

We may disclose personal information that we collect or you provide as described in this privacy policy:

  • To our subsidiaries and affiliates.

  • To contractors, service providers, and other third parties we use to support our business and, where required by applicable law, who are bound by contractual obligations with respect to disclosure and use of personal information.

  • To a buyer or other successor in the event of a merger, divestiture, restructuring, reorganization, dissolution, or other sale or transfer of some or all of the Company’s assets, whether as a going concern or as part of bankruptcy, liquidation, or similar proceeding, in which personal information held by the Company about our Website users is among the assets transferred.

  • To fulfill the purpose for which you provide it. (For example, if you give us an email address to use an “email a friend” feature of our Website, we will transmit the contents of that email and your email address to the recipients.)

  • For any other purpose disclosed by us when you provide the information.

  • With your consent.

We may also disclose your personal information:

  • To comply with any court order, law, regulation, or legal process, including to respond to any government or regulatory request.

  • To enforce or apply our Terms of Use https://www.mattercollection.com/terms-of-use or service terms and other agreements, including for billing and collection purposes.

  • If we believe disclosure is necessary or appropriate to protect the rights, property, or safety of the Company, our customers, or others. This includes exchanging information with other companies and organizations for the purposes of fraud protection and credit risk reduction.

  • To prevent or investigate possible wrongdoing in connection with the Website.

  • To protect the personal safety of users of the Website or the public.

Choices About How We Use and Disclose Your Information

We strive to provide you with choices regarding the personal information you provide to us. We have created mechanisms to provide you with the following control over your information:

  • Tracking Technologies and Advertising. You can set your browser to refuse all or some browser cookies, or to alert you when cookies are being sent. To learn how you can manage your Flash cookie settings, visit the Flash player settings page on Adobe’s website. If you disable or refuse cookies, please note that some parts of this site may then be inaccessible or not function properly.

  • Promotional Offers from the Company. If we have sent you a promotional email, you may opt out of future promotional emails by following the instructions in the body of the email. This opt out does not apply to information provided to the Company as a result of a product purchase, warranty registration, product service experience or other transactions.

California residents may have additional personal information rights and choices. Please see Your California Privacy Rights, below, for more information.

Retaining, Deleting, Accesing, and Correcting Your Personal Information

Typically, we retain your personal information for the period necessary to provide you with access to the Website and to otherwise fulfill the purposes outlined in this policy, unless a longer retention period is required or permitted by law.  In addition, we may keep your personal information as needed to comply with our legal obligations, resolve disputes, and/or enforce our agreements. The precise periods for which we keep your personal information vary depending on the nature of the information and why we need it.

You may send us an email at hello@mattercollection.com to request access to, correct or delete, or object to processing of any personal information that you have provided to us. Deleting your personal information may also require deletion of your user account. We will respond to your request as required by applicable law.

Pursuant to California Civil Code Section 1798.83(c)(2), we do not share your personal information with third parties for their direct marketing use. If you are a California resident under the age of 18, and a registered user of any site where this policy is posted, California Business and Professions Code Section 22581 permits you to request and obtain removal of content or information you have publicly posted. To make such a request, please send an email with a detailed description of the specific content or information to hello@mattercollection.com. Please be aware that such a request does not ensure complete or comprehensive removal of the content or information you have posted and that there may be circumstances in which the law does not require or allow removal even if requested.

If you delete your User Contributions from the Website, copies of your User Contributions may remain viewable in cached and archived pages, or might have been copied or stored by other Website users. Proper access and use of information provided on the Website, including User Contributions, is governed by our Terms of Use.

Security Of Data

We have implemented measures designed to secure your personal information from accidental loss and from unauthorized access, use, alteration, and disclosure. [We do not collect or store your payment information. Payment transactions will be processed using Stripe/PayPal, subject to their terms of service, available at: https://stripe.com/privacy and https://www.paypal.com/ga/webapps/mpp/ua/useragreement-full.

The safety and security of your information also depends on you. Where we have given you (or where you have chosen) a password for access to certain parts of our Website, you are responsible for keeping this password confidential. We ask you not to share your password with anyone. We urge you to be careful about giving out information in public areas of the Website like message boards. The information you share in public areas may be viewed by any user of the Website.

Unfortunately, the transmission of information via the internet is not completely secure. We cannot guarantee the security of your personal information transmitted to our Website. Any transmission of personal information is at your own risk. We are not responsible for circumvention of any privacy settings or security measures contained on the Website.

Transfer of Data

Personal information that you submit through the Website may be transferred to countries other than where you live, such as, for example, to servers in the U.S. Your personal information may be transferred to countries that do not have the same data protection laws as the country in which you initially provided the information.

We rely upon a number of means to transfer personal information which is subject to the European General Data Protection Regulation (“GDPR”), including transfer of personal information to recipients that have entered into the European Commission approved contract for the transfer of personal data outside the European Economic Area.

Analytics

We may use third-party Website Providers to monitor and analyze the use of our Website.

  • Google Analytics

Google Analytics is a web analytics Website offered by Google that tracks and reports website traffic. Google uses the data collected to track and monitor the use of our Website. This data is shared with other Google Websites. Google may use the collected data to contextualize and personalize the ads of its own advertising network.

You can opt-out of having made your activity on the Website available to Google Analytics by installing the Google Analytics opt-out browser add-on. The add-on prevents the Google Analytics JavaScript (ga.js, analytics.js, and dc.js) from sharing information with Google Analytics about visits activity.

For more information on the privacy practices of Google, please visit the Google Privacy & Terms web page: https://policies.google.com/privacy?hl=en.

Links To Other Sites

Our Website may contain links to other sites that are not operated by us. If you click on a third party link, you will be directed to that third party’s site. We strongly advise you to review the Privacy Policy of every site you visit.

We have no control over and assume no responsibility for the content, privacy policies or practices of any third party sites or Websites.

Children Under the Age of 13 and Other Minors

Our Website is not intended for and we do not knowingly collect personal information of children under 13 years of age. No one under age 13 may provide any information to or on the Website. If you are under 13, do not use or provide any information on this Website or through any of its features, register on the Website, make any purchases through the Website, use any of the interactive or public comment features of this Website, or provide any information about yourself to us. “”If we become aware that we have collected or received personal information from a child without verification of parental consent, we take steps to remove that information from our servers. If you believe we might have any information from or about a child under 13, please contact us at hello@mattercollection.com.

California residents under 16 years of age may have additional rights regarding the collection and sale of their personal information. Please see Your California Privacy Rights, below, for more information about this.

Changes To This Privacy Policy

We may update our Privacy Policy from time to time. We will notify you of any changes by posting the new Privacy Policy on this page.

We will let you know via notice on our Website, prior to the change becoming effective and update the “effective date” at the top of this Privacy Policy. If we have the ability to contact you, will use reasonable efforts to contact you about material changes to this Privacy Policy.

You are advised to review this Privacy Policy periodically for any changes. Changes to this Privacy Policy are effective when they are posted on this page.

Contact Us

If you have any questions about this Privacy Policy, please contact us:

  • By email: contact@mattercollection.com