Privacy Policy
This is www.simbashoppingmea.com’s (“www.simbashoppingmea.com”) online privacy policy (“Policy”). This policy applies only to activities www.simbashoppingmea.com engages in on its website and does not apply to www.simbashoppingmea.com activities that are “offline” or unrelated to the website.
Information gathered
When you purchase something from our store, as part of the buying and selling process, we collect the personal information you give us such as your name, address, billing address, phone number and e-mail address (“Order Information”).
When you browse our store, we also automatically receive information, in anonymized way, about your web browser, IP address, time zone, locations, and some of the cookies that are installed on your device, in order to provide us with information that helps us learn about your browser and operating system. Additionally, as you browse SimbashoppingMEA, we collect information about the individual web pages or products that you view, search terms referred you to SimbashoppingMEA, and information about how you interact with SimbashoppingMEA (“Browsing Information”)
We collect such information using:
– “Log files” track actions occurring on SimbashoppingMEA, and collect data including your IP address, browser type, Internet service provider and referring/exit pages.
– “tags,” and “pixels”, provided and analysed through “Facebook Inc” and “Google Analytics” to record information about how you browse our website.
Consent
When you provide us with personal information to complete a transaction, verify your credit card, place an order, arrange for a delivery or return a purchase, we imply that you consent to our collecting it and using it for that specific reason only. If we ask for your personal information for a secondary reason, like marketing, we will either ask you directly for your expressed consent, or provide you with an opportunity to say no.
Consent withdrawal
If after you opt-in, you change your mind, you may withdraw your consent for us to contact you, for the continued collection, use or disclosure of your information, at any time, by contacting us at simbashoppingmea@gmail.com.
Payments: credit/debit card information
All credit/debit cards’ details and personally identifiable information will NOT be stored, sold, shared, rented or leased to any third parties
Use of personal information
We use the Order Information collected generally to fulfil any orders placed through SimbashoppingMEA (including processing your payment information, arrangements for shipping, and providing you with invoices and/or order confirmations). Additionally, we use this Order Information to:
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.
We use the Browsing Information we collect to help us screen for potential risks and frauds (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 SimbashoppingMEA, and to assess the success of our marketing and advertising campaigns).
Third-party services
www.simbashoppingmea.com is not responsible for the privacy policies of websites to which it links. If you provide any information to such third parties different rules regarding the collection and use of your personal information may apply. You should contact these entities directly if you have any questions about their use of the information that they collect.
We share your Personal Information with third parties to help us use your personal information, as described above. We also use Google Analytics to help us understand how our customers use SimbashoppingMEA (you can read more about how Google uses your Personal Information here: https://policies.google.com/privacy). You can also opt-out of Google Analytics here: https://tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout.
We use web chat service, “Zendesk” (here their Privacy Policy), to provide a direct platform to interact with our customer service, with push notifications and messages.
We may provide Information to advertising platform’s Facebook and Google, in order to help them reach the kind of audience we want to target and to enable us to comply with our commitments to cater better user experience to our target category of audience (e.g. by displaying our advertisements to a target audience).
Finally, we may also share your personal information to comply with applicable laws and regulations, to respond to a subpoena, search warrant or other lawful requests for information we receive, or to otherwise protect our rights.
We may also use your Information to provide you with details about products and services which you may be already interested in and recommended products or services of similar category. We use remarketing platforms of Google and Facebook to enable this feature.
You can opt out of targeted advertising by:
FACEBOOK – https://www.facebook.com/ads/preferences/?entry_product=ad_settings_screen
GOOGLE – https://adssettings.google.com
GOOGLE ANALYTICS – https://tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout
Cookie
Here is a list of cookies that we use. We’ve listed them here so you that you can choose to opt-out:
Technical cookies
Technical cookies can be divided into browsing or session cookies, which guarantee the normal navigation and use of the Site (allowing, for example, to coordinate the modules that make up the pages of the Site or to correlate the pages visited to the same work session) and analytics cookies, similar to technical cookies only if used for the purpose of optimizing the Site directly by the site manager (so-called first-party analytical cookies) that can collect aggregate information on the number of users and how they visit the Site ( for example, to create statistics of the most visited pages, to collect the aggregated data of visits by operating system, by browser, etc.).
The use of session cookies is strictly limited to the transmission of session identifiers (consisting of random numbers generated by the server) and of software usage data necessary to allow a safe and efficient exploration of the site: the variables (so-called cookies) of session may avoid the use of IT techniques potentially prejudicial to the privacy of users’ browsing and do not allow the acquisition of personal identification data of the user. Session cookies are not stored permanently on the user’s device, but are recorded locally for periods of time based on session variables (the values of which can be deleted on the device’s hard disk; it is also possible to disable them). cookies following the instructions provided by the main browsers).
Third-party cookies
Third-party cookies are set by a website other than the one the user is visiting and reside on servers other than the one of the site visited (eg: Google, Google ads, Facebook).
Therefore, the use of data collected by these external operators through cookies is subject to the respective privacy policies.
On the site there are cookies for:
Remarketing and behavioral targeting
- AdWords Remarketing (Google Inc.)
- Remarketing with Google Analytics for display advertising (Google Inc.)
- Facebook Remarketing (Facebook, Inc.)
Statistics
- Google Analytics (Google Inc.)
- Google Analytics with anonymized IP (Google Inc.)
Tag management
- Google Tag Manager (Google LLC)
Live chat platforms
- Zendesk Chat widget
Interaction with external social networks and platforms
- Like button and Facebook social widgets (Facebook, Inc.)
- Tweet button and Twitter social widgets (Twitter, Inc.)
- +1 button and Google+ social widgets (Google Inc.)
- “Pin it” button and Pinterest social widgets (Pinterest)
Security of data
To protect your personal information, we take reasonable precautions and follow industry best practices to make sure it is not inappropriately lost, misused, accessed, disclosed, altered or destroyed. If you provide us with your credit card information, the information is encrypted using secure socket layer technology (SSL).
Although no method of transmission over the Internet or electronic storage is 100% secure, we implement additional generally accepted industry standards:
- All credit/debit cards’ details and personally identifiable information will NOT be stored, sold, shared, rented or leased to any third parties’’
- www.simbashoppingmea.com will not pass any debit/credit card details to third parties
Data retention
When you place an order through SimbashoppingMEA, we will maintain your Order Information for our records unless and until you ask us to delete this information.
Disclosure
We may disclose your personal information if we are required by law to do so or if you violate our Terms and Conditions.
Age of consent
SimbashoppingMEA is not intended for individuals under the age of majority (18, eighteen).
Changes
We reserve the right to modify this Privacy Policy at any time in order to reflect, for example, changes to our practices or for other operational, legal or regulatory reasons, so please review it frequently. Changes and clarifications will take effect immediately upon their posting on the website.
Contacts
For more information about our privacy practices, if you have questions, or if you would like to access, correct, amend or delete any personal information we have about you or make a complaint, please contact us by e-mail at simbashoppingmea@gmail.com.
Last updated: June, 2020