PRIVACY POLICY

 

Who am I

Hi, I’m Paul Waddy - an Australian E-commerce Specialist, Investor, Speaker & Best Selling Author of “Shopify for Dummies” and “Selling Online for Dummies”. I’m also the co-founder of one of Australia’s fastest growing ecommerce marketing agencies, Ecom Nation. In 2021, I placed No.02 in the Top 50 People in E-commerce and won the Industry Recognition Award at Online Retail Industry Awards. As an official Shopify partner and trusted advisor to world-renowned brands such as Who is Elijah, Geedup, Smuggler, Budgy, and more, I'm committed to empowering aspiring entrepreneurs worldwide in establishing their own thriving enterprises and crafting distinctive brand identities.

 

What personal data we collect and why we collect it

When you visit the Site, we automatically collect certain information about your device, including information about your web browser, IP address, time zone, and some of the cookies that are installed on your device. Additionally, as you browse the Site, we collect information about the individual web pages or products that you view, what websites or search terms referred you to the Site, and information about how you interact with the Site. We refer to this automatically-collected information as “Device Information.”

 

We collect Device Information using the following technologies:

“Cookies” are data files that are placed on your device or computer and often include an anonymous unique identifier. For more information about cookies, and how to disable cookies, visit http://www.allaboutcookies.org. “Log files” track actions occurring on the Site, and collect data including your IP address, browser type, Internet service provider, referring/exit pages, and date/time stamps. “Web beacons,” “tags,” and “pixels” are electronic files used to record information about how you browse the Site.

Additionally, when you make a purchase or attempt to make a purchase through the Site, we collect certain information from you, including your name, billing address, shipping address, payment information (including credit card numbers), email address, and phone number. We refer to this information as “Order Information.” Also, when you seek a return or claim for a warranty, you are required to provide us with some information as Order Information.

We collect, if necessary, the same information as Order Information from a representative of retailers or businesses in wholesales transaction.

When we talk about “Personal Information” in this Privacy Policy, we are talking both about Device Information and Order Information.

 

Comments 

When visitors leave comments on the site we collect the data shown in the comments form, and also the visitor’s IP address and browser user agent string to help spam detection.

An anonymized string created from your email address (also called a hash) may be provided to the Gravatar service to see if you are using it. The Gravatar service privacy policy is available here: https://automattic.com/privacy/. After approval of your comment, your profile picture is visible to the public in the context of your comment.

 

Cookies

If you leave a comment on our site you may opt-in to saving your name, email address and website in cookies. These are for your convenience so that you do not have to fill in your details again when you leave another comment. These cookies will last for one year.

If you have an account and you log in to this site, we will set a temporary cookie to determine if your browser accepts cookies. This cookie contains no personal data and is discarded when you close your browser.

When you log in, we will also set up several cookies to save your login information and your screen display choices. Login cookies last for two days, and screen options cookies last for a year. If you select “Remember Me”, your login will persist for two weeks. If you log out of your account, the login cookies will be removed.

If you edit or publish an article, an additional cookie will be saved in your browser. This cookie includes no personal data and simply indicates the post ID of the article you just edited. It expires after 1 day.

 

Embedded content from other websites

Articles on this site may include embedded content (e.g. videos, images, articles, etc.). Embedded content from other websites behaves in the exact same way as if the visitor has visited the other website.

These websites may collect data about you, use cookies, embed additional third-party tracking, and monitor your interaction with that embedded content, including tracking your interaction with the embedded content if you have an account and are logged in to that website.

 

Analytics

As described above, we 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 (“NAI”) educational page at http://www.networkadvertising.org/understanding-o...

You can opt-out of targeted advertising by:

FACEBOOK – https://www.facebook.com/settings/?tab=ads

GOOGLE – https://www.facebook.com/settings/?tab=ads

BING – https://www.facebook.com/settings/?tab=ads

Additionally, you can opt-out of some of these services by visiting the Digital Advertising Alliance’s opt-out portal at: https://www.facebook.com/settings/?tab=ads or Network Advertising Initiative’s opt-out portal at: https://www.facebook.com/settings/?tab=adsPlease note that we do not alter our Site’s data collection and use practices when we see a Do Not Track signal from your browser.

 

Who we share your data with 

We share your Personal Information with third parties to help us use your Personal Information, as described above. For example, we use Shopify to power our online store — you can read more about how Shopify uses your Personal Information here:

https://www.shopify.com/legal/privacy.

We also use Google Analytics to help us understand how our customers use the Site — you can read more about how Google uses your Personal Information here:

https://www.shopify.com/legal/privacy.

You can also opt out of Google Analytics here:

https://www.shopify.com/legal/privacy.

Also, we share your Personal Information with a logistic company to fulfil your order, deliver our products you ordered and provide customer service.

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

 

How long we retain your data

If you leave a comment, the comment and its metadata are retained indefinitely. This is so we can recognize and approve any follow-up comments automatically instead of holding them in a moderation queue.

For users that register on our website (if any), we also store the personal information they provide in their user profile. All users can see, edit, or delete their personal information at any time (except they cannot change their username). Website administrators can also see and edit that information.

 

What rights you have over your data

If you have an account on this site or have left comments, you can request to receive an exported file of the personal data we hold about you, including any data you have provided to us. You can also request that we erase any personal data we hold about you. This does not include any data we are obliged to keep for administrative, legal, or security purposes.

For further information please contact us: [email protected]