Privacy Policy for Mintt Studio
Last Updated: February 12th, 2024
Welcome to Mintt Studio for Shopify! We are committed to protecting your personal information and your right to privacy. If you have any questions or concerns about this privacy policy or our practices regarding your personal information, please contact us at legal@minttstudio.com.
When you visit our apps, use our services, or interact with our Shopify applications, you trust us with your personal information. We take your privacy very seriously. In this privacy policy, we seek to explain to you in the clearest way possible what information we collect, how we use it, and what rights you have regarding it. We hope you take some time to read through it carefully. If there are any terms in this privacy policy that you do not agree with, please discontinue the use of our Apps and our services.
This privacy policy applies to all information collected through our applications (referred to collectively in this privacy policy as the "Services").
1. What information do we collect?
Personal Information You Disclose to Us
We collect personal information that you voluntarily provide to us when registering at the Apps, expressing an interest in obtaining information about us or our products and services, participating in activities on the Apps, or otherwise contacting us.
The personal information that we collect depends on the context of your interactions with us and the Services, the choices you make, and the products and features you use. The personal information we collect can include the following:
Names
Email addresses
Any other information you choose to provide
Information Automatically Collected
In Short: Some information—such as your Internet Protocol (IP) address and/or browser and device characteristics—is collected automatically when you visit our Apps.
We automatically collect certain information when you visit, use, or navigate the Services. This information does not reveal your specific identity (like your name or contact information) but may include device and usage information, such as your IP address, browser and device characteristics, operating system, language preferences, referring URLs, device name, country, location, information about how and when you use our Services, and other technical information. This information is primarily needed to maintain the security and operation of our Apps and for our internal analytics and reporting purposes.
We do not collect information from your customers. It is important to clarify that our Apps do not collect any personal information from your customers. Our interaction is strictly limited to our merchants, and we respect the privacy and data protection rights of all individuals, including our merchants' customers. Merchants are responsible for managing the personal information of their own customers, and we encourage the adoption of privacy practices that fully comply with all applicable laws and regulations.
2. How do we use your information?
We use personal information collected via our Apps for a variety of business purposes described below. We process your personal information for these purposes in reliance on our legitimate business interests, to enter into or perform a contract with you, with your consent, and/or for compliance with our legal obligations. We indicate the specific processing grounds we rely on next to each purpose listed below.
We use the information we collect or receive to:
Facilitate account creation and the login process.
Request feedback and contact you about your use of our Services.
Enforce our terms, conditions, and policies for business purposes, legal reasons, and contractual obligations.
Respond to legal requests and prevent harm as legally required.
Pursue other business purposes, such as data analysis, identifying usage trends, determining the effectiveness of our promotional campaigns, and evaluating and improving our Apps, products, marketing, and your experience.
3. Will your Information be shared with anyone?
In Short: We only share information with your consent, to comply with laws, to provide you with services, to protect your rights, or to fulfill business obligations.
We may process or share the data that we hold based on the following legal basis:
Consent: We may process your data if you have given us specific consent to use your personal information for a specific purpose.
Legitimate Interests: We may process your data when it is reasonably necessary to achieve our legitimate business interests.
Performance of a Contract: Where we have entered into a contract with you, we may process your personal information to fulfill the terms of our contract.
Legal Obligations: We may disclose your information where we are legally required to do so in order to comply with applicable law, governmental requests, a judicial proceeding, court order, or legal process, such as in response to a court order or a subpoena (including in response to public authorities to meet national security or law enforcement requirements).
Vital Interests: We may disclose your information where we believe it is necessary to investigate, prevent, or take action regarding potential violations of our policies, suspected fraud, situations involving potential threats to the safety of any person and illegal activities, or as evidence in litigation in which we are involved.
4. How do we handle your social logins?
In Short: If you choose to register or log in to our services using a social media account, we may have access to certain information about you.
Our Apps offer you the ability to connect using your third-party social media account details (like your Facebook or Instagram logins). Where you choose to do this, we will receive certain profile information about you from your social media provider. The profile information we receive may vary depending on the social media provider concerned, but will often include your name, email address, profile picture as well and other information you choose to make public on such social media platforms.
We will use the information we receive only for the purposes that are described in this privacy policy or that are otherwise made clear to you on the relevant Apps. Please note that we do not control, and are not responsible for, other uses of your personal information by your third-party social media provider. We recommend that you review their privacy policy to understand how they collect, use and share your personal information, and how you can set your privacy preferences on their sites and apps.
5. What is our stance on Third-Party websites?
In Short: We do not engage with third-party websites or services that require sharing your personal information.
Our Apps are designed to function without the need to redirect our users to third-party websites or services. Consequently, we do not share, sell, or transfer your personal information with third-party websites or services for their marketing or advertising purposes. All features and functionalities are hosted within our Apps, ensuring that your data remains under our control and is processed solely for the purposes outlined in this privacy policy.
It's important for users to be aware that while we strive to provide a self-contained ecosystem, users' interactions outside of our Apps via other means or platforms are not covered by this privacy policy. We encourage our users to review the privacy policies of any external platforms they may interact with to ensure they are informed about how their personal information may be used.
6. How long do we keep your information?
In Short: We keep your information for as long as necessary to fulfill the purposes outlined in this privacy policy unless otherwise required by law.
We will only keep your personal information for as long as it is necessary for the purposes set out in this privacy policy unless a longer retention period is required or permitted by law (such as tax, accounting, or other legal requirements). No purpose in this policy will require us to keep your personal information for longer than the period of time in which users have an account with us.
When we have no ongoing legitimate business need to process your personal information, we will either delete or anonymize such information, or, if this is not possible (for example, because your personal information has been stored in backup archives), then we will securely store your personal information and isolate it from any further processing until deletion is possible.
7. How do we keep your information safe?
In Short: We aim to protect your personal information through a system of organizational and technical security measures.
We have implemented appropriate technical and organizational security measures designed to protect the security of any personal information we process. However, despite our safeguards and efforts to secure your information, no electronic transmission over the Internet or information storage technology can be guaranteed to be 100% secure, so we cannot promise or guarantee that hackers, cybercriminals, or other unauthorized third parties will not be able to defeat our security, and improperly collect, access, steal, or modify your information. Although we will do our best to protect your personal information, transmission of personal information to and from our Apps is at your own risk. You should only access the services within a secure environment.
8. Do we collect information from minors?
In Short: We do not knowingly collect data from or market to children under the age of 18.
We do not knowingly solicit data from or market to children under 18 years of age. By using the Apps, you represent that you are at least 18 or that you are the parent or guardian of such a minor and consent to such minor dependent’s use of the Apps. If we learn that personal information from users less than 18 years of age has been collected, we will deactivate the account and take reasonable measures to promptly delete such data from our records. If you become aware of any data we may have collected from children under the age of 18, please contact us at legal@minttstudio.com.
9. What are your privacy rights?
Your Data Protection Rights Under the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR)
If you are a resident of the European Economic Area (EEA), you have certain data protection rights aimed at ensuring you have control over your personal data. Mintt Studio aims to take reasonable steps to allow you to correct, amend, delete, or limit the use of your Personal Data. If you wish to be informed about what Personal Data we hold about you and if you want it to be removed from our systems, please contact us at legal@minttstudio.com.
In certain circumstances, you have the following data protection rights:
The right to access, update, or delete the information we have on you.
The right of rectification.
The right to object.
The right of restriction.
The right to data portability
The right to withdraw consent.
Your Rights Under the California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA)
If you are a resident of California, you have certain rights under the California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA). These include the right to request access to the personal information we collect, use, and disclose about you, to request that we delete your personal information, and the right to opt out of the sale of your personal information by us. Furthermore, we will not discriminate against you for exercising any of your CCPA rights.
To exercise your rights under the CCPA, please contact us at the details provided below.
How to Exercise Your Rights
To exercise the rights outlined in this Privacy Policy, please submit a request to us by either:
Emailing us at legal@minttstudio.com
Sending a letter to Mintt Studio, Rua Parque da Republica, 116, Vila Nova de Gaia - 4430-163, Portugal.
Please include your full name, the email address associated with your account, and a detailed description of your data request. We may ask you to verify your identity before fulfilling your request.
10. Controls for Do-Not-Track features
Most web browsers and some mobile operating systems and mobile applications include a Do-Not-Track (“DNT”) feature or setting you can activate to signal your privacy preference not to have data about your online browsing activities monitored and collected. No uniform technology standard for recognizing and implementing DNT signals has been finalized. As such, we do not currently respond to DNT browser signals or any other mechanism that automatically communicates your choice not to be tracked online. If a standard for online tracking is adopted that we must follow in the future, we will inform you about that practice in a revised version of this Privacy Policy.
11. Do we make updates to this policy?
In Short: Yes, we will update this policy as necessary to stay compliant with relevant laws.
We may update this privacy policy from time to time. The updated version will be indicated by an updated “Revised” date and the updated version will be effective as soon as it is accessible. If we make material changes to this privacy policy, we may notify you either by prominently posting a notice of such changes or by directly sending you a notification. We encourage you to review this privacy policy frequently to be informed of how we are protecting your information.
12. International data transfer
Your information, including personal data, may be transferred to — and maintained on — computers located outside of your state, province, country, or other governmental jurisdiction where the data protection laws may differ from those of your jurisdiction.
Your consent to this Privacy Policy followed by your submission of such information represents your agreement to that transfer. Mintt Studio will take all the steps reasonably necessary to ensure that your data is treated securely and in accordance with this Privacy Policy and no transfer of your personal data will take place to an organization or a country unless there are adequate controls in place including the security of your data and other personal information.
13. How can you contact us about this policy?
If you have questions or comments about this policy, you may email us at legal@minttstudio.com or by post to:
Mintt Studio
Rua Parque da República, 116
Vila Nova de Gaia - 4430-163
Portugal