Privacy Policy

ABOUT GEM GEORGES

Our company name is Gem Georges, LLC and our official website address is: https://gemgeorges.com. Gem Georges, LLC is a registered business in the state of Florida founded by Gemima Georges on April 22nd, 2020. This fashion company is dedicated to encouraging modest clothing and faithful lifestyles among women.

 

PERSONAL DATA COLLECTION

Comment and Form Submissions

From WordPress: 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.

Our company, Gem Georges, does not collect or share any private data from users without permission. All information retrieved is provided by users and used for the sole purpose for which those users have intended it. When users submit a contact form, we collect their full names, email address, and comments or questions submitted in order to contact them and respond to their questions or comments.

As of June 2020, the relevant Plugins in use are: Shopisle, WordPress, Bluehost, Elementor, Google Analytics, Jetpack, OptinMonster API, Post Type Switcher, Woohoo Commerce, Woohoo Commerce Services, and WP Forms Lite. To our knowledge, these plugins are safe and do not acquire user information for personal gain or jeopardize user privacy.

Media

If you upload images to this website, you are fully responsible for its use as this data will be considered public information. you should avoid uploading images with embedded location data (EXIF GPS) included. Visitors to the website can download and extract any location data from images on this website.

Cookies

From WordPress: 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 visit our login page, 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 behave 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.

 

DATA SHARING AND RETENTION

Third Party Providers

All information retrieved by Gem Georges, LLC remain in the safety of company online files and are not shared with anyone else for any reason other than customer convenience. Gem Georges, LLC uses third party Plugins to a provide a shopping friendly website for users. For information on the privacy and analytics information collected by these third-party providers, visit: 

https://elementor.com/about/privacy/   https://www.monsterinsights.com/privacy-policy/  https://automattic.com/privacy/   https://wordpress.org/about/privacy/  https://wpforms.com/privacy-policy/   https://optinmonster.com/privacy/


Length of Data Retention

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.

User Data Rights

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 obligated to keep for administrative, legal, or security purposes.

Where we send your data

We do not transfer any personal user information to other national or international parties although visitor comments may be checked through an automated spam detection service to ensure safety.

 

DATA COLLECTION FROM STORE

Data Protection

We assure your information is safe by allowing a personal account on the website in which users may create their own usernames and strong passwords to protect sensitive check out information. This website is secured from iThemes Secutiy, a leading website protection software that offers the following: 

  • Prevents brute force attacks by banning hosts and users with too many invalid login attempts
  • Scans your site to instantly report where vulnerabilities exist and fixes them in seconds
  • Bans troublesome user agents, bots and other hosts
  • Strengthens server security
  • Enforces strong passwords for all accounts of a configurable minimum role
  • Forces SSL for admin pages (on supporting servers)
  • Forces SSL for any page or post (on supporting servers)
  • Turns off file editing from within WordPress admin area
  • Detects and blocks numerous attacks to your filesystem and database

Data Breach

If you believe your information or account has been breached, contact us immediately so that we may proceed with data breach procedures.

WooCommerce

We collect information about you during the checkout process on our store to make shopping easier.

What we collect and store

While you visit our site, we track:

  • Products you have viewed: we use this to show you products you’ve recently viewed
  • Location, IP address and browser type: we use this for purposes like estimating
    taxes and shipping
  • Shipping address: we ask you to enter this so we can estimate shipping before you
    place an order and send you the order!

We also use cookies to keep track of cart contents while you’re browsing our site. When you purchase from us, we ask you to provide information including your name, billing address, shipping address, email address, phone number, credit card/payment details and optional account information like username and password. We use this information for purposes, such as, to:

  • Send you information about your account and order
  • Respond to your requests, including refunds and complaints
  • Process payments and prevent fraud
  • Set up your account for our store
  • Comply with any legal obligations we have, such as calculating taxes
  • Improve our store offerings
  • Send you marketing messages if you choose to receive them

If you create an account, we will store your name, address, email and phone number, which will be used to populate the checkout for future orders. We generally store information about you for as long as we need the information for the purposes for which we collect and use it, and we are not legally required to continue to keep it. However, you may opt out of this option.

Team Access

Selected members of our team have access to the information you provide us. As of June 2020, only the website Administrator has access to your personal information, this includes:

  • Order information like what was purchased, when it was purchased and where it
    should be sent
  • Customer information like your name, email address, and billing and shipping
    information.

What we share with others

Your information from the store will only remain within the team and this information (ex: payment, shipping address, etc.) is kept secure to help fulfill orders, process refunds, and support you!

Payments

We accept payments through PayPal. When processing payments, some of your data will be passed to PayPal, including information required to process or support the payment, such as the purchase total and billing information.

Source: WooCommerce Services

Data Used

For payments with PayPal or Stripe: purchase total, currency, billing information. For taxes: the value of goods in the cart, value of shipping, destination address. For checkout rates: destination address, purchased product IDs, dimensions,
weight, and quantities. For shipping labels: customer’s name, address as well as the dimensions, weight, and quantities of purchased products.

Data Synced

For payments, we send the purchase total, currency and customer’s billing information to the respective payment processor. Please see the respective third party’s privacy policy (Stripe’s Privacy Policy and PayPal’s Privacy
Policy
) for more details. For automated taxes we send the value of goods in the cart, the value of shipping, and the destination address to TaxJar. Please see TaxJar’s Privacy Policy for details about how they handle this information. For checkout rates we send the destination ZIP/postal code and purchased product dimensions, weight and quantities to USPS or Canada Post, depending on the service used. For shipping labels we send the customer’s name, address as well as the dimensions, weight, and quantities of purchased products to EasyPost. We also store the purchased shipping labels on our server to make it easy to reprint them and handle support requests.