Introduction
At vaswanis.com, we recognize and respect the importance of maintaining the privacy of our customers, registered members, gift recipients, and users. We have established this Privacy Policy to affirm our commitment to your privacy. We do not sell your data. We share your data only when you provide it voluntarily and when there is a valid business purpose, such as processing your order, providing customer service, or enhancing your shopping experience.
This Privacy Policy is part of our Terms of Use and incorporates the U.S. State Privacy Notice for residents requiring additional privacy disclosures. The Terms of Use govern your use of our website located at www.vaswanis.com (the "Website") and the Service.
You must be 18 years or older and the age of majority in your place of residence to use, subscribe, or register as a member. The Website is a general audience site, and we do not knowingly collect, maintain, or disclose personal information from or about children under 18 years of age. For visitors from the UK, European Economic Area, or Switzerland, the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) and similar national privacy laws do not apply, as the sale of goods on this Website and all processing activities are not intended for or directed towards data subjects in these regions. This Privacy Policy does not apply to information you share with our third-party partners when leaving this Website or information you provide to our company-owned or franchised retail stores.
Why Do We Gather Information?
We collect information to communicate with you, operate the Service, process your orders, improve our products and services (such as by responding to your feedback), conduct research (e.g., statistics on favorite products), provide an enhanced and more personalized shopping experience (e.g., event reminders like birthdays), conduct promotions, contests, and sweepstakes you participate in, inform you and your gift recipients of offers and discounts from our company and affiliates, and enable you to receive credits for purchases under loyalty or buying programs you have joined.
We may combine information we receive from you via our Service with information from our affiliates and third parties to enhance and personalize your shopping experience with us and to communicate with you in accordance with this Privacy Policy.
Additionally, as provided below, the company may use or share your data with both affiliates and unrelated third parties for the purposes identified.
What Information Do We Gather?
Depending on how you choose to interact with us and share your information, we may collect some or all of the following types of information:
- Your name, address, telephone number, email address, user ID, and contact information.
- Billing information (credit/debit card number, expiration date, CVV code, alternate or additional billing information, and billing address).
- Interests, gender, and birth date.
- Products purchased and occasion type (e.g., Valentine’s Day).
- Any promotion or gift card code and related information (e.g., if you are claiming frequent flyer miles).
- Message and gift recipients' names, addresses, telephone numbers, and email addresses.
- Device information—information about your mobile device, including platform information, user identification number, and device location.
- Application information—information about which of your applications are used, how they are used, and the duration of use.
- Network information—IP address, network carrier and country code, browsing information (e.g., how you interact with the Services).
- Other information you provide to us, including User Submissions (as defined in the Terms of Use).
Members may also add to their Address Book the name, address, and telephone number of friends or other persons to whom they may wish to send gifts or expressions. Other members do not have the right to view and edit your Address Book entries.
How Do We Collect Information from You?
A. In General
We collect information through our Website, emails, mail, fax, telephone, mobile devices and applications, and social media applications (e.g., our Facebook App), including when you:
- Visit our Website and use our Service;
- Place an order;
- Participate in our forums, surveys, contests, sweepstakes, promotions, content submissions, chats, bulletin boards, discussion groups, requests for suggestions, and membership registrations; and
- Engage in other activities, services, products, and resources we make accessible to our customers, members, or users.
The information may be provided directly to us by you when placing an order or participating in a survey, etc., or, as is true of most websites, we gather certain information automatically. This information may include internet protocol (IP) addresses, browser type, device information, internet service provider (ISP), referring/exit pages, the files viewed on our site (e.g., HTML pages, graphics, etc.), operating system, date/time stamp, and/or clickstream data to analyze trends and administer the Website. This information may be collected by us even if an order, registration, or other process is started but not completed or is otherwise canceled.
B. How We Use "Cookies" and "Action Tags"
A "cookie" is a small data file sent to your browser from a web server and stored on your computer. We use cookies to recognize you as a prior customer, user, or member and to provide certain features to you. Most web browsers allow you to instruct the browser to prevent the use of cookies. However, if you disable this feature, certain aspects of the Services, such as the shopping basket, may not function properly.
We have relationships with third parties who may collect or receive information directly from the cookies placed by our Service on your computer to assist in analyzing our business and customers.
Our Service may also use a common web technology called "action tags" (also called single-pixel gifs or web beacons) to track purchase, usage, and other web activity information. Action tags may be used to provide data to third parties. Additionally, third parties may set their own cookies and tags through our Service (e.g., through interest-based advertising, described below). We do not control such third parties or their privacy practices. If you do not want third parties to be able to use such methods, you should modify your browser settings to limit such access.
C. Interest-Based Advertising
Our Services : We collect data from you for use in interest-based advertising when you use our Service. Other companies may serve interest-based advertisements on our Service. We comply with the Self-Regulatory Principles for Online Behavioral Advertising as administered by the Digital Advertising Alliance (https://www.aboutads.info/). Interest-based advertisements for our products and services may appear on
