Privacy and Policy
Privacy
Policy
Last
Updated: April 21, 2021
ShopCaymanIslands.com
understands you care about how your personal information is used and shared,
and we take your privacy seriously. Please read the following to learn more
about our privacy practices. By using or accessing the Services in any manner,
you acknowledge that you accept the practices and policies outlined in this
Privacy Policy, and you hereby consent that we will collect, use, and share
your information in the following ways.
Remember
that your use of ShopCaymanIslands.com’s Services is subject to the Terms and
Conditions, which incorporates this Privacy Policy. Any terms we use in this
Policy without defining them have the definitions given to them in the Terms of
Service.
What
does this Privacy Policy cover?
This
Privacy Policy applies to ShopCaymanIslands.com, and all other websites,
applications, widgets, products, services, and other offerings (collectively,
the “Services”) owned and operated by Smith-Moore and Somers Ltd.. and our
affiliates and subsidiaries (collectively, “ShopCaymanIslands.com”). This Policy
covers our treatment of the personal information we gather through use of our
Services.
What
Information does ShopCaymanIslands.com Collect?
We
collect information about your use of our Services. We also gather various
types of personal information, as explained in more detail below.
We
use this information internally in connection with our Services, including to:
personalise, provide, and improve our Services; allow you to set up a user
account and profile; contact you and allow other users to contact you; enable
fulfilment of requests for certain products and services; and analyse how you
use the Services. In certain cases, we may also share some personal information
with third parties, but only as described below.
Information
You Provide to Us:
We receive
and store any information you knowingly provide to us. If you create an account
or place an order with us, we may collect personal information such as:
Customers:
When
you register as a Customer with ShopCaymanIslands.com, we will collect your
first and last name, email address, phone number, delivery address or addresses
as provided by the Customer. If you
place an order to purchase goods from Vendors through ShopCaymanIslands.com, we
will also collect information to facilitate that order, such as your delivery
address. in the event of an order by
pickup, we will supply your order information to the Vendor / Vendor’s with
whom which you will collecting your purchases from.
In
some cases, we may request additional information to validate your business,
such as photos of your store or your social media profiles. In some cases, we
may request information such as your Social Security number or financial or
lease records to establish your account limits.
Vendors
:
When
you register as a Vendor with ShopCaymanIslands.com, we will collect your first
and last name, Company name, website, address, phone number, and information
about your company such as the primary category of products you provide. If you are accepted as a Vendor for
ShopCaymanIslands.com, you will be expected to provide additional information
to build out your profile such as your company logo, product categories, item
pricing, item names and descriptions, item variables, item images, inventory
levels and other related requirements in order to establish a presence on
ShopCaymanIslands.com for your store as a Vendor.
When
you receive an order through ShopCaymanIslands.com, we will collect information
to facilitate that order, such as your bank account information so we can pay
you for the Customer orders purchased through ShopCaymanIslands.com.
Using
the Services
When
you browse and use our Services, we collect information about the items you
browse, show interest in, and buy.
Communication
with Us
We
collect personal information from you when you communicate with us, for example
when you request information about our services, contact our Support team,
apply for a job, or register for our newsletter.
Surveys,
Sweepstakes, and Contests
We
may ask you to participate in optional surveys, where you may be asked to
provide personal information.
Additionally,
we may conduct sweepstakes or contests where you may be asked to provide
personal information. This information may be used to contact you about the
sweepstakes or contest, and for other promotional and marketing purposes, as
permitted by law.
Forums
and Social Media
Our
Services may provide forums, blogs, social media pages, or other channels where
individuals may review purchases, talk about their experience using our
Services, or “like” or “share” content to social media. Content provided in
these channels is public and not subject to the privacy protections laid out in
this Privacy Policy.
Information
Collected Automatically
Whenever
you interact with our Services, we automatically receive and record information
on our server logs from your browser or device, which may include your IP
address, geolocation data, device identification, the type of browser and/or
device you’re using to access our Services, and the page or feature you
requested.
Additionally,
we, as well as third parties that provide content, advertising, or other
functionality on our Services, may use cookies, pixel tags, local storage, and
other technologies to collect information automatically through our Services.
These
technologies are small data files that we transfer to your browser or device
that allows us to provide and enhance our Services. You may be able to change
the preferences on your browser or device to prevent or limit your device’s
acceptance of these technologies, but this may prevent you from taking
advantage of some of our features.
Analytics
We
may use analytics service providers, including Google Analytics, to collect
information regarding visitors to our Services, such as their behaviour on our
Services or information about their demographic. For more information about
Google Analytics, see https://www.google.com/policies/privacy/partners/.
To opt out of Google Analytics, visit https://tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout.
Do-Not-Track
Your
browser may offer you a “Do Not Track” option, which allows you to signal to
operators of websites and web applications and services (including behavioural
advertising services) that you do not wish such operators to track certain of
your online activities over time and across different websites. At this time,
we do not respond to nor honour Do-Not-Track signals from web browsers.
Information
Collected from Third Parties
If
you access our Services through a third party or social networking site, we may
collect information about you from that third-party application if that
information has been made public via your privacy settings with that third
party. For example, if you register for ShopCaymanIslands.com with Facebook, we
may collect your name, profile ID, location, gender, profile picture, and list
of your friends.
We
may offer third-party integrations. If you choose to integrate third-party
applications with ShopCaymanIslands.com, we will collect personal information
as part of that integration. Because each third-party service you may choose to
integrate collects different personal information, the detail in which
information will be collected will be explained during the integration setup
process. For more information on integrations, please contact us as described
below.
How
Does ShopCaymanislands.com Use the Personal Information It Collects?
We
use the information we collect about you for various business purposes as
described below.
Provide,
- Personalise, and Improve our Services
- Allow you to set up a user account and profile
- Fulfil your requests for products and services
- Provide customised content, offers, or Services, including marketing content via email, postal mail, social media, SMS, or other channels
- Allow you to create content
- Allow you to share content with others
- Communicate with you about your account and updates to our Services
- Determine your order or account limits and eligibility for extended payment terms
- Process payments
- Provide advertising, analytics, and marketing
- Process applications and transactions
- Allow you to register for events
- Facilitate communications between you and other users
- Analyse how you use the Services
- Understand interest and engagement on the Services
- Engage in marketing or sales outreach
- Research and develop Services
- Improve and streamline our Services
- Other purposes you consent to or are notified of at the time you provide personal information
- Protect you and our Services and comply with the law
- Detect security incidents; protect against malicious, deceptive, fraudulent, or illegal activity
- Ensure quality control
- Verify your identity and prevent fraud
- Debug to identify and repair errors
- Enforce our Terms and policies
- Audit or other compliance activities
- Comply with our legal obligations, protect your vital interest, or as may be required for the public good
De-Identified
and Aggregated Information
We
may use personal information to create de-identified, aggregated information
such as: information about demographics, de-identified location information,
information about devices used to access our Services, and de-identified,
aggregate information on transactions on our Services that help our users
understand and optimise sales.
Automatic
Collection Technologies
Our use of automatic collection technologies such as cookies, pixel tags, and local storage objects fall into the following general categories:
Strictly
Necessary: Technologies that allow you to access our Services and use our
features, and tools that help us identify irregular site behaviour and prevent
fraudulent activity or improve security.
Personalisation:
Technologies that help us personalise advertising and content for you, such as
by making inferences about your interests based on the content you interact
with on our Services, which informs future selections of content or
advertising.
Measurement:
Technologies that collect information about your use of our Services, including
measuring, understanding, and reporting on your usage of the Services.
Information
Storage and Access: Technologies that store information or provide access to
information that is already stored on your device, such as your shopping cart.
Content
Selection, Delivery, and Reporting: Technologies that select and deliver
content for you, and measure the effectiveness of that content, including
information about what content was shown, how often or how long it was shown,
when and where it was shown, and what actions, if any, you took on the content.
Ad
Selection, Delivery, and Reporting: Technologies that select and deliver
advertisements for you, and measure the effectiveness of those advertisements,
including information about what advertisements were shown, how often or how
long they were shown, when and where they were shown, and what actions, if any,
you took on the advertisements.
Third-Party
Websites
We
may offer links to third-party websites or Services, which are not controlled
by us and not subject to the protections laid out in this Privacy Policy. We do
not endorse nor approve any third-party website and we encourage our users to
read the Privacy Policy of each service they interact with.
Cross-Device
Tracking
Your
browsing activity may be tracked across different devices or
ShopCaymanIslands.com Services. For instance, we may match your activity on our
website using your mobile device with your browsing activity on your laptop. To
do this, we may match information such as your browsing patterns, geolocation,
and device identifiers where it appears to be related to the same user.
APIs
and SDKs
We
may use third-party APIs and software development kits (“SDKs”), which may
allow third parties to collect personal information about you for various
purposes, such as to conduct analytics, verify your business when you register
with ShopCaymanIslands.com as a Vendor or Customer, provide customised content,
or otherwise streamline the Services. For more information about our use of
APIs and SDKs, contact us as described below.
Will
ShopCaymanIslands.com Share Any of the Personal Information It Receives?
We
do not rent nor sell your personal information in personally identifiable form
to anyone, except as expressly provided below.
When
You Request That We Share Your Information: We may offer Services, features, or
promotions that involve sharing your information with a third party or with
other ShopCaymanIslands.com users. If you request or agree to have your
information shared with a third party as part of a feature or Service, we will
share that information at your request.
De-Identified
Information: We may provide de-identified or aggregate information to our
partners, including usage information to help our partners understand how often
and in what ways people use our Services, so that they, too, can provide you
with an optimal online experience. Before we share this information, we take
reasonable efforts aligned with industry best practices to ensure that this
information cannot identify you.
Advertising
on the ShopCaymanIslands.com Platform: We may allow advertisers and/or Vendors
(“Advertisers”) to choose the demographic information of users who will see
their advertisements and/or promotional offers. You agree that we may provide
any of the information we have collected from you in non-personally
identifiable form to an Advertiser, in order for that Advertiser to select the
appropriate audience for those advertisements and/or offers.
Advertising
outside the ShopCaymanIslands.com Platform: We may use personal information to
help us deliver targeted advertising and to measure the effectiveness of
advertising.
Affiliates:
We may share your information with our affiliated companies.
Service
Providers: We employ service providers to perform tasks on our behalf, and we
need to share your information with them in order to provide products or
services to you; for example, we may use a payment processing company to
receive and process any credit card transactions for us. Unless we tell you
differently (or unless stated otherwise in a third-party Privacy Policy
referred to below), our service providers do not have any right to use the
personal information we share with them beyond what is necessary to assist us.
We
currently use the following third-party services, and by using our Services,
you agree to be bound by the applicable privacy policies for such third-party
services:
User Profiles and Submissions: Certain user profile information,
including your name, location, and any video or image content that such user
has uploaded to the Services, may be
displayed to other users to facilitate user interaction within
the Services or address your request for our services. Your account privacy
settings may allow you to limit the other users who can see the personal
information in your user profile and/or what information in your user profile
is visible to others. Please remember that any content you upload to your
public user profile, along with any personal information or content that you
voluntarily disclose online in a manner other users can view (on discussion
boards, in messages and chat areas, etc.) becomes publicly available, and can
be collected and used by anyone. Your user name may also be displayed to other
users if you send messages or comments or upload images or videos through the
Services and other users can contact you through messages and comments.
Business
Transfers: We may choose to buy or sell assets, and may share and/or transfer
customer information in connection with the evaluation of and entry into such
transactions. Also, if we (or our assets) are acquired, or if we go out of
business, enter bankruptcy, or go through some other change of control,
personal information could be one of the assets transferred to or acquired by a
third party.
Protection
of Company and Others: We reserve the right to access, read, preserve, and
disclose any information that we reasonably believe is necessary to comply with
law or court order; enforce or apply our Terms of Use and other agreements; or
protect the rights, property, or safety of Company, our employees, our users,
or others.
International
Data Transfers: You agree that all information processed by us may be
transferred, processed and stored anywhere in the world, including but not
limited to the Cayman Islands or other countries which may have data protection
laws that are different from the laws where you reside or do business. We have
taken reasonable safeguards to require that your personal information will
remain protected, and we require our third-party service providers to provide
appropriate safeguards as well.
Children’s
Information
As
noted in the Terms of Service, we do not knowingly collect nor solicit personal
information from anyone under the age of 18. If you are under 18, please do not
attempt to register for the Services or send any personal information about
yourself to us. If we learn that we have collected personal information from a
child under age 18, we will delete that information as quickly as possible. If
you believe that a child under 18 may have provided us with personal
information, please contact us as described below.
Is
Personal Information About Me Secure?
You
must prevent unauthorised access to your account and personal information by
selecting and protecting your password appropriately and limiting access to
your computer or device and browser by signing off after you have finished
accessing your account.
We
endeavour to protect the privacy of your account and other personal information
we hold in our records, but unfortunately, we cannot guarantee complete
security. Unauthorised entry or use, hardware or software failure, and other
factors, may compromise the security of user information at any time.
What
Are My Privacy Rights and Choices?
You
can always opt not to disclose information to us, but keep in mind some
information may be needed to register with us or to take advantage of some of
our features.
Opting
Out of Communications: If you no longer wish to receive electronic
communications from us, click the unsubscribe link at the bottom of the email
or follow opt-out instructions provided in other communication channels. Note
you may still receive transactional emails from us. We process requests to be
placed on do-not-mail and do-not-call lists as required by applicable law.
Opting
Out of Cookies and Advertising: You may stop or restrict the placement of
cookies on your device or remove them as your browser or device permits. Visit www.networkadvertising.org/managing/opt_out.asp,
www.youronlinechoices.eu,
www.youradchoices.ca/choices,
and www.aboutads.info/choices/
to learn more about the choices available to opt out of cookies and
advertising.
Updating
Your Account Information: Through your account settings, you may access, and,
in some cases, edit or delete the following information you’ve provided to us:
•
name
•
email address
•
location
•
payment information
The
information you can view, update, and delete may change as the Services change.
If
you have any questions about viewing or updating information we have on file
about you, please contact us as described below.
You
may also have privacy rights including:
•
Access Data: You may have the right to receive a copy of data we
have about you.
•
Request Correction of Data: You may request that we update
information we have about you.
•
Request Deletion of Data: You may request that we delete
information we have about you.
•
Request Restriction of or Object to Processing: You may have the
right to opt in or opt out of certain uses of your data or to object to all
processing of your data.
If
you would like to exercise any of these rights, please contact us as described
below. We will process your request in the time and manner required by law. To
protect your privacy, we may take steps to verify your identity before
fulfilling your request, such as by asking you to log in to your
ShopCaymanIslands.com account or confirm your email address. You have the right
not to receive discriminatory treatment for the exercise of your privacy
rights. If you wish to designate an authorised agent to make a privacy request
for you, please email us from the email address associated with your
ShopCaymanIslands.com account and inform
us of this designation, along with the designated agent’s name and email
address.
Financial
Incentives
We
may offer referral programs that include financial incentives. To participate
in these referral programs, you may be asked to provide information regarding
customers, colleagues, leads, or other third parties, such as their name, store
name, and email address. They and/or you will receive rewards such as reduced
commissions and/or fees, cash, or promotional credit to spend on the
ShopCaymanIslands.com marketplace if they sign up to use our Services. These
referral programs are entirely voluntary. The value of data received in
referral programs depends on whether, how, and how often the referred party uses
the Services. If you wish to withdraw from an incentive program, please contact
us as described below.
Automated
Decision Making
We
may engage in automated decision making, including profiling. We will not make
decisions that significantly affect you based solely on automated processing
unless doing so is required by a contract we have with you or we have your
express consent.
Data
Retention
We
store personal information for as long as you use our Services or as may be
necessary to fulfil the purposes for which the information was collected,
provide our Services, resolve disputes or establish legal defences, enforce our
Terms or other agreements, engage in audits, protect our Services, prevent
fraud, comply with the law, or for legitimate business purposes.
Security
We
take steps to treat your information securely and make sure it is treated in
accordance with this Privacy Policy. No system is 100% secure, and we cannot
ensure nor warrant the security of any information you provide us.
Accessibility
This
Privacy Policy webpage uses industry-standard technologies and was developed
inline with the World Wide Web Consortium’s Web Content Accessibility
Guidelines (v. 2.1). If you wish to print this Policy, you may do so from your
web browser or by saving the page as a PDF.
Will
ShopCaymanislands.com Change this Privacy Policy?
We’re
constantly trying to improve our Services, so we may need to change this
Privacy Policy from time to time as well, but we will alert you to material
changes by placing a notice on the ShopCaymanIslands.com website, by sending
you an email, and/or by some other means.
By
using the Services after any changes to the Privacy Policy have been posted,
you agree to the new Privacy Policy.
What
if I have questions about this policy?
If
you have any questions or concerns regarding our privacy policies, please
contact us at:
My
Marketing
Box
30881
Grand
Cayman, Cayman Islands
KY1-1204
support@shopcaymanislands.com