Privacy Policy

Privacy and Cookie Policy

This privacy policy sets out how SriLankanSpiceCart.com (SLSP) uses and protects any information that you give SLSP when you use this website (the “Site”). At SLSP, we want you to have an enjoyable shopping experience. And while it is necessary for us to collect certain personal information, we respect and committed to ensuring that your right to privacy is protected as set forth in this Privacy Policy. This Privacy Policy applies to the Site. This Privacy Policy does not apply to other web sites to which we link.

Note:

SLSP may change this policy from time to time by updating this page. You should check this page from time to time to ensure that you are happy with any changes.

By visiting this Website you agree to be bound by the terms and conditions of this Privacy Policy.

By mere use of the Website, you expressly consent to our use and disclosure of your personal information in accordance with this Privacy Policy. This Privacy Policy is incorporated into and subject to the Terms of Use.

We do not store credit card details nor do we share customer financial details with any 3rd parties.

WHAT WE COLLECT 

We collect personal information during the registration process, once you complete and submit your registration, you have opted in to receive email communication from us. We also collect personal information when you choose to use certain other features of the Site, such as making purchases or electing to receive mail messages about upcoming boutiques, promotions. When you choose to use these additional features, we require you to provide additional personal informations.

We may collect the following information:

Name

Contact information including billing and shipping addresses, email address and phone number

Demographic information such as postcode, preferences and interests

Other information relevant to customer preferences and/or offers

In addition, through the Site, we automatically gather certain information about the use of the Site, such as how frequently certain areas of the Site are visited, including through the use of cookies, web beacons and other technologies. Most browsers can be set to prevent cookies or to notify you when one is being placed. However, some cookies are necessary to access the Site.

For the exhaustive list of cookies we collect see the List of cookies we collect section.

WHAT WE DO WITH THE INFORMATION WE GATHER

Information about our customers is an important part of our business, and we are not in the business of selling it to others. We share customer information only as described below and with subsidiaries we control that either are subject to this or follow practices at least as protective as those described.

We use personally identifiable information in order to give you a more enjoyable, convenient shopping experience and to help us identify and/or provide information, products or services that may be of interest to you. We use your personally identifiable information to support and enhance your use of the Site and its features, including without limitation: fulfilling your order; providing customer service; tracking email invitations you send; and otherwise supporting your use of the Site and its features. We may also track your past purchases to provide you with a personalized profile of your shopping history. In addition, we may notify you about new services or special promotional programs, or send you offers or information.

We may permit certain trusted third parties to access your information in connection with their performance of services to maintain and operate the Site and certain features on the Site. For example, include fulfilling orders, delivering packages, sending postal mail and e-mail, removing repetitive information from customer lists, analyzing data, providing marketing assistance, providing search results and links (including paid listings and links), processing credit card payments, and providing customer service. They have access to personal information needed to perform their functions, but may not use it for other purposes.

As we continue to develop our business, we might sell or buy stores, subsidiaries, or business units. In such transactions, customer information generally is one of the transferred business assets but remains subject to the promises made in any pre-existing Privacy Notice (unless, of course, the customer consents otherwise).

We reserve the right to disclose information in order to comply with a subpoena, court order, administrative or governmental order, or any other requirement of law, or when we, in our sole discretion, believe it is necessary in order to protect our rights or the rights of others, to prevent harm to persons or property, to fight fraud and credit risk reduction.

Other than as set out above, to match EU General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) based on your consent, you will have an opportunity to choose to share or not to share some of the information.

SECURITY 

We are committed to ensuring that your information is secure. In order to prevent unauthorized access or disclosure, we follow reasonable physical, electronic technical and management practices to help protect the confidentiality, security and integrity of data stored on our system. While no computer system is completely secure, we believe the measures we have implemented reduce the likelihood of security problems to a level appropriate to the type of data involved.

The Site encrypts your personal informations using secure socket layer (SSL) technology to provide for the secure transmission of the information from your PC to our servers. Bank / Payment details are directly typed on respective secured servers of the relevant banks/ payment gateway providers and details are not kept with us. In addition, only those employees and third parties who need access to your information in order to perform their duties are allowed such access.

It is important for you to protect against unauthorized access to your password and to your computer. Be sure to sign off when finished using a shared computer.

LINKS TO OTHER WEBSITES 

Our website may contain links to other websites of interest. However, once you have used these links to leave our site, you should note that we do not have any control over that other website. Therefore, we cannot be responsible for the protection and privacy of any information which you provide whilst visiting such sites and such sites are not governed by this privacy statement. You should exercise caution and look at the privacy statement applicable to the website in question.

Site visitation tracking 

Like most websites, this site uses Google Analytics (GA) to track user interaction. We use this data to determine the number of people using our site, to better understand how they find and use our web pages and to see their journey through the website.

 

Although GA records data such as your geographical location, device, internet browser and operating system, none of this information personally identifies you to us. GA also records your computer’s IP address which could be used to personally identify you but Google do not grant us access to this. This site has the “anonymizeIp” option implemented, meaning your full IP address is never written to disk as explained further in Google Analytics documentation [https://support.google.com/analytics/answer/2763052?hl=en].

 

Disabling cookies on your internet browser will stop GA from tracking any part of your visit to pages within this website.

OPT-OUT:

In order to provide website visitors with more choice on how data is collected by Google Analytics, Google has developed the Google Analytics Opt-out Browser Add-on. The add-on communicates with the Google Analytics JavaScript (ga.js) to stop data being sent to Google Analytics. The Google Analytics Opt-out Browser Add-on does not affect usage of the website in any other way. A link to further information on the Google Analytics Opt-out Browser Add-on is provided below for your convenience.

Google Analytics opt-out

For more information on the usage of cookies by Google Analytics please see the Google website. A link to the privacy advice for this product is provided below for your convenience.

Google Analytics Privacy Policy

Re-Targeting

Our websites make use of so-called re-targeting technologies. We use these technologies to make the Internet offer more interesting for you. This technique allows Internet users who have already shown an interest in our shop and our products to also be provided with suitable advertising on the websites of our partners. We are convinced that the use of personalized, interest-oriented advertising is generally more interesting for the Internet users than advertising that has no such personal content. The use of this advertising approach by our partners is undertaken on the basis of a cookie technology and an analysis of previous utilization behavior and this technology we use does not save any personal data. The use of retargeting technology is carried out in compliance with the applicable legal provisions on data protection.

These cookies may be set through our site by our advertising partners. They may be used by those companies to build a profile of your interests and show you relevant adverts on other sites.

They do not store directly personal information, but are based on uniquely identifying your browser and internet device. If you do not allow these cookies, you will experience less targeted advertising.

Cookies used

Domain

Cookie

bat.bing.com

MUIDB

bing.com

MUID

doubleclick.net

IDE

twitter.com

personalization_id

If you oppose the targeted advertising display, you can disable this feature.

Since different retargeting systems are used on this website, please use the following link to this effect:

Google Dynamic Remarketing

This website uses Google Remarketing. Google Remarketing is an ad service from Google Inc. that targets specific ads at previous visitors of the website.

Third-party vendors, including Google, place ads on websites on the internet. They make use of cookies to place ads based on the user’s previous visits to this website. Users are identified through cookies that are saved in the web browser. With the help of text files the usage of the website is analyzed and then used for specific product recommendations and interest-based advertising.

If you do not want to receive interest-based advertising, you can use the Ads Preferences Manager to deactivate cookies from Google and adjust ads in the Google network by opening the Opt Out page in Google’s ad settings(https://adssettings.google.com/).

HotJar

This website uses HotJar, a website analytics tool that provides session replay, heatmaps, funnels, form analytics, feedback campaigns, and similar features/functionality. HotJar may record your clicks, mouse movements, scrolling, form fills (keystrokes) in non-excluded fields, pages visited and content, time on site, browser, operating system, device type (desktop/tablet/phone), screen resolution, visitor type (first time/returning), referrer, anonymized IP address and similar meta data. HotJar does not collect any information on pages where it is not installed, nor does it track or collect information outside your web browser. If you’d like to opt-out, you can do so at https://www.hotjar.com/legal/compliance/opt-out

Bing

Bing Ads— powered by Microsoft is an advertising platform used to show ads on the Bing and Yahoo search engines – also referred to as the Yahoo Bing Network. In order to opt-out from interest-based targeted advertising: https:/advertise.bingads.microsoft.com/en-in/resources/policies/personalized-ads

Twitter

The Platform may use Twitter advertising. Twitter advertising cookie allows to present relevant advertising for Rhode Code products on Twitter.

Go to the Twitter FAQ (https://support.twitter.com/articles/20170407-faqs-about-tailored-ads-and-your-privacy-controls) to adjust your advertising settings and explore the details of how their advertising program works.

HOW WE USE COOKIES 

A cookie is a small file which asks permission to be placed on your computer’s hard drive. Once you agree, the file is added and the cookie helps analyze web traffic or lets you know when you visit a particular site. Cookies allow web applications to respond to you as an individual. The web application can tailor its operations to your needs, likes and dislikes by gathering and remembering information about your preferences.

We use traffic log cookies to identify which pages are being used. This helps us analyze data about web page traffic and improve our website in order to tailor it to customer needs. We only use this information for statistical analysis purposes and then the data is removed from the system.

Overall, cookies help us provide you with a better website, by enabling us to monitor which pages you find useful and which you do not. A cookie in no way gives us access to your computer or any information about you, other than the data you choose to share with us. You can choose to accept or decline cookies. Most web browsers automatically accept cookies, but you can usually modify your browser setting to decline cookies if you prefer. This may prevent you from taking full advantage of the website.

LIST OF COOKIES WE COLLECT 

The table below lists the cookies we collect and what information they store.

COOKIE NAME

COOKIE DESCRIPTION

COMPARE

The items that you have in the Compare Products list.

CURRENCY

Your preferred currency

CUSTOMER

An encrypted version of your customer id with the store.

CUSTOMER_SEGMENT_IDS

Stores the Customer Segment ID

LAST_CATEGORY

The last category you visited.

NEWMESSAGE

Indicates whether a new message has been received.

NO_CACHE

Indicates whether it is allowed to use cache.

PERSISTENT_SHOPPING_CART

A link to information about your cart and viewing history if you have asked the site.

STORE

The store view or language you have selected.

USER_ALLOWED_SAVE_COOKIE

Indicates whether a customer allowed to use cookies.

VIEWED_PRODUCT_IDS

The products that you have recently viewed.

FORM_KEY

Indicates whether a customer allowed to use cookies.

PHPSESSID

Your session ID on the server.

PERSISTENT_SHOPPING_CART

A link to information about your cart and viewing history, if you have asked for this.

USER_ALLOWED_SAVE_COOKIE

Indicates whether a customer allowed to use cookies.

MAGE-CACHE-SESSID

Facilitates caching of content on the browser to make pages load faster.

MAGE-CACHE-STORAGE

Facilitates caching of content on the browser to make pages load faster.

MAGE-CACHE-STORAGE-SECTION-INVALIDATION

Facilitates caching of content on the browser to make pages load faster.

MAGE-CACHE-TIMEOUT

Facilitates caching of content on the browser to make pages load faster.

SECTION-DATA-IDS

Facilitates caching of content on the browser to make pages load faster.

PRIVATE_CONTENT_VERSION

Facilitates caching of content on the browser to make pages load faster.

X-MAGENTO-VARY

Facilitates caching of content on the browser to make pages load faster.

MAGE-TRANSLATION-FILE-VERSION

Facilitates translation of content to other languages.

MAGE-TRANSLATION-STORAGE

Facilitates translation of content to other languages.

CART

The association with the customer’s shopping cart.

CATEGORY_INFO

Stores the category info on the page to load pages faster.

CUSTOMER_AUTH

Indicates if the customer are currently logged in to the store.

CUSTOMER_INFO

An encrypted version of the shopper’s customer group.

EXTERNAL_NO_CACHE

Indicates if caching is disabled or enabled.

FRONTEND

The customer’s session ID.

GUEST-VIEW

Determines if guests can edit their orders.

LAST_PRODUCT

The most recent product viewed by the shopper.

NEW MESSAGE

Indicates whether a new message has been received.

NO_CACHE

Indicates if the cache can be used to store information.

VIEWED_PRODUCT_IDS

The products recently viewed by the shopper.

WISHLIST

An encrypted list of products added to the shopper’s wish list.

WISHLIST_CNT

The number of items in the shopper’s wish list.