Privacy Policy

as of September 10, 2021

Introduction

This Privacy Policy describes how your personal information is collected, used, and shared when you visit or make a purchase from bluemala.com, our sub-domains, affiliated sites and accounts on Facebook®, Instagram®, Twitter®, Facebook®, and YouTube® (the “Site”). By using this Site, you are agreeing to our Privacy Policy.

Information We Collect

This website collects personal data to power our site analytics, including Information about your browser, network, and device; Web pages you visited prior to coming to this website; Your IP address.

This information may also include details about your use of this website, including Clicks, Internal links, Pages visited, Scrolling, Searches, Timestamps.

We may also collect certain non-personal information including the type of browser you are using (e.g. Google Chrome, Internet Explorer), the type of operating system you are using (e.g. Windows 7, Mac OSX), and the domain name of your Internet service provider (e.g. Time Warner Cable, Earthlink). We share this information with Squarespace, our website analytics provider, to learn about site traffic and activity.

If you create a customer account on this website, we collect personal information to improve our checkout experience and customer service. This information may include your: Billing and shipping address(es), details about your orders, email address, name, phone number, payment information, and your interest in specific types of products or services. We share this information with Squarespace, our website hosting provider, so they can provide website services to us. As you go through checkout, this site may auto-complete your shipping and billing address by sharing what you type with the Google Places API and returning suggestions to you to improve your checkout experience.

This website uses font files from Google Fonts and Adobe Fonts. To properly display this site to you, servers, where the font files are stored, may receive personal information about you, including Information about your browser, network, or device; Your IP address.

This website is hosted by Squarespace. Squarespace collects personal data when you visit this website, including Information about your browser, network and device; Web pages you visited prior to coming to this website; Your IP address. Squarespace needs the data to run this website, and to protect and improve its platform and services. Squarespace analyzes the data in a de-personalized form.

Please keep in mind that whenever you voluntarily make your personal information available for viewing online (e.g., comments on articles, live or recorded classes) that information can be seen, collected, and used by others besides us. We cannot monitor all information disclosed on the site and we cannot be held responsible for any unauthorized third-party use of such information.

How We Use the Information

We use the information you provide about yourself to fulfill your order for our goods and/or services, to respond to your inquiries about your order, and to notify you about the status of your order. The non-personal information gathered may be used to improve the design and content of our site, in the aggregate to analyze site usage, and to assess the success of our marketing and advertising campaigns. We also use the information that we collect to help us screen for potential risk and fraud (in particular, your IP address).

We may also share your Personal Information to comply with applicable laws and regulations, to respond to a subpoena, search warrant, or another lawful request for information we receive, or to otherwise protect our rights.

Finally, we may disclose personal information in response to a charge-back inquiry from our merchant bank about your payment for goods and/or services.

We will not sell or transfer personally identifiable information provided to us to parties outside of our company except as described above.

Cookies

This website uses cookies and similar technologies, which are small files or pieces of text that download to a device when a visitor accesses a website or app. Functional and required cookies are always used, which allow Squarespace, our hosting platform, to securely serve this website to you. Analytics and performance cookies are used on this site, as described below, only when you acknowledge our cookie banner. We use analytics cookies to view site traffic, activity, and other data. By showing how and when visitors use the Site, cookies help us deliver advertisements, identify how many unique users visit us, and track user trends and patterns. They also prevent you from having to re-enter your preferences on certain areas of the Site where you may have entered preference information before.

Marketing

We may send you emails, which you can unsubscribe from by clicking the link at the bottom of the email.

We may email you with messages about your order or account activity. For example, we may email you to tell you that: you’ve created a customer account; your customer account password has been reset or updated; you’ve made a purchase; your order has shipped. It’s not possible to unsubscribe from these messages.

We share your contact information with Squarespace, our website hosting provider, so they can send these emails to you on our behalf.

We may use your Personal Information to provide you with targeted advertisements or marketing communications we believe may be of interest to you. For more information about how targeted advertising works, you can visit the Network Advertising Initiative’s educational page at http://www.networkadvertising.org/understanding-online-advertising/how-does-it-work.

You can also opt-out of targeted advertising through these common providers:

  • Facebook - https://www.facebook.com/settings/?tab=ads

  • Google - https://www.google.com/settings/ads/anonymous

  • Bing - https://advertise.bingads.microsoft.com/en-us/resources/policies/personalized-ads

Additionally, you can opt-out of some of these services by visiting the Digital Advertising Alliance’s opt-out portal at: http://optout.aboutads.info/.

Collection of Information by Third-Party Sites

Our site may contain links to other sites whose information practices may be different than ours. Visitors should consult the other sites’ privacy notices as we have no control over information that is submitted to, or collected by, these third parties.

General Data Privacy Regulation (GDPR)

If you are a European resident, you have the right to access personal information we hold about you and to ask that your personal information be corrected, updated, or deleted. If you would like to exercise this right, please contact us through the contact information below. Additionally, if you are a European resident, we note that we are processing your information in order to fulfill contracts we might have with you (for example if you make an order through the Site), or otherwise to pursue our legitimate business interests listed above. Additionally, please note that your information will be transferred outside of Europe, including to Canada and the United States.

California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA)

The CCPA took effect on January 1, 2020, and is intended to protect the personal information of California residents. The CCPA has certain threshold requirements which a company must meet in order to be required to comply with its provisions. Our company does not meet those thresholds.

Children's Privacy Statement

This Site is not directed to children under the age of thirteen and we do NOT knowingly collect personally identifiable information from children under the age of thirteen as part of the Site. If you are under 13, you may only use the Site under the supervision of a parent or guardian. If we become aware that we have inadvertently received personally identifiable information from a user under the age of thirteen as part of the Site, we will delete such information from our records.

Data Retention

When you place an order through the Site, we will maintain your Order Information for our records unless and until you ask us to delete this information. We will only retain your personal data for as long as necessary to fulfill the purposes we collected it for, including for the purposes of satisfying any legal, accounting, or reporting requirements.

Policy Changes

We may modify this privacy policy at any time to reflect, for example, changes to our practices or for other operational, legal, or regulatory reasons. Any modifications will be effective when we post them. When we update the policy, we will note the date of the revisions at the top of the Policy. Your continued use of the Site following any changes means you accept and agree to those changes.

Contact Us

BlueMala.com is owned and operated by 108 Crows, LLC. For more information about our privacy practices, if you have questions, or if you would like to make a complaint, please contact us by e-mail at: info@BlueMala.com or by mail at: 513 E. Main Street #493, Charlottesville, VA, 22902, United States.