Privacy policy & Data protection

Information We Collect and the Uses For It

When you place an order with tieforyou.com we will need to know your full name, mailing address, e-mail address, phone number, credit card number, and credit card expiration date. This information is used to fulfil your order, including payment and shipping, and to notify you of your order status.

To ship your order, it will be necessary for us to share your name, address, and telephone number with the shipping company of our choice. Shipping companies require this information to deliver your products.

Upon completion of your order, your credit card information is deleted from our database to ensure your protection.

We offer a free newsletter through tieforyou.com used to keep you informed of specials, deliver information of interest, and more. To sign up for the newsletter we will ask for your e-mail address. We will deliver the newsletter to your e-mail address, and you will have the option to stop your receipt of the publication at any time. We only require your e-mail address for the purpose of the newsletter, and you will only receive our newsletter if you so choose.

We occasionally offer contests and special promotions on our site. In order to take part in these opportunities, we will need to gather your name, e-mail address, and mailing address. This information is used to notify winners and administer the specific contest or promotion.

We may request your participation in online or offline surveys via e-mail, telephone, postal mail, or web pages. Surveys are strictly voluntary and your participation and/or answers do not prohibit or influence your use of our website. Furthermore, if you do participate in a survey, you may decline to answer any question, and all answers are held in strict confidence according to our privacy standards. Individually identifiable survey information is for the use of tieforyou.com only. General, aggregate survey results may be shared with third parties. Information you may be asked may include, but is not limited to, your name, address, e-mail address, phone number, income, age, gender, marital status, type of business, product usage, schooling, and hobbies. Survey data is used to enhance tieforyou.com to provide a better customer experience.

When you make purchases at our site, we monitor the information enabling us to better serve you. We use the general purchasing information to help us determine what products and services you are most interested in. We also keep track of site traffic using log files to help us better determine what areas of our site are providing our customers with the greatest value. We use this information to fine tune our site and tailor it to you and other visitors to our site.

From time to time we may use information we collect from you to notify you of important or exciting changes to our website, new or changing services we offer, and other special offers we think may be useful to you. If you decide you would rather not receive this information, send us an e-mail message and We’ll take you off our mailing lists until you inform us otherwise.

Privacy Protection – How It’s Done

The online shopping process at tieforyou.com is safe and secure. Whenever you are in the process of placing an order, accessing personal information, or providing personal information we use a secure server. Powerful, industry-standard SSL secure server software provides encryption for all information sent between your computer and ours. Additionally, we protect our server and all customer data against unauthorised use physically or electronically.

Cookies

The so-called cookie is a small piece of information that is stored on your computer’s hard drive by your web browser and which may be accessed by our server. The cookies we provide to your browser do not contain any personal information, but they do allow us to provide special services to you while you visit our website. Cookies simplify the ordering process by remembering information about you, allow the use of the shopping cart function, and enable online ordering.

If you do not wish to accept cookies, most browsers allow you to prevent them from being accepted and saved to your hard drive. If you choose not to use cookies, you will be unable to place online orders at our website.

Disclosure of Information to Third Parties

tieforyou.com does not currently sell, trade, or rent your personal information to any third parties.

We may merge customer data stored in our database with data from third parties for the purposes of enhancing and marketing products and/or services to customers.

We may provide aggregate statistics of our users to third parties in reference to traffic patterns, numbers of users, sales, and other site and customer information. This information will never provide any personally identifiable information on individual users.

Non-Personally Identifiable Information

This refers to information that does not, by itself, identify you as a specific individual. We gather certain information about you based on where you have shopped for on our web site in several ways. This information is then compiled and analysed on both an individual and an aggregate basis. Such non-personally identifiable information may include demographics and interest data. We use data from Google’s Interest-based advertising or 3rd-party audience data (such as age, gender and interests) with Google Analytics. We use Google Analytics’ Demographic and Interest Reporting Tools to figure out the general types of people who visit our store. Additional non-personally identifiable information may also include the Web site’s Uniform Resource Locator (“URL”) information as well as your Internet Protocol (“IP”) address. A URL is the global address of documents and resources on the World Wide Web. An IP address is an identifier for computer or device on a Transmission Control Protocol/Internet Protocol (“TCP/IP”) network, such as the World Wide Web. Networks use the TCP/IP protocol to route or reroute information based on the IP address of the destination. In other words, an IP address is a number that is automatically assigned to your computer whenever you are surfing the web, which allows web servers to locate and to identify your computer. Computers require an IP addresses in order for users to communicate over the Internet.

Notifying You of Changes to the Use of Your Information

If at some point in the future there is a change to our information usage practices that affects your personal information, we will post the relevant changes on our website. You should check this posted privacy statement periodically for changes.

Contacting You

We will send you e-mail messages during the processing of your order to verify your order placement and to notify you of its status. If there is a problem with your order, we may also contact you via e-mail or phone to notify you of the problem and solution. We may also contact you via e-mail or phone regarding questions or comments you have regarding our website or our business. Surveys and post-sale satisfaction questions may also be administered via e-mail or phone to help us better serve our customers.

We also use your Personal Information (like your e-mail or postal address) to contact you with marketing and promotional materials and other information that may be of interest to you (some of which may be sent by a third party service provider). If you decide at any time that you no longer wish to receive such communications from us, please follow the unsubscribe instructions provided in any of the communications or if you do not want us to share your Personal Information with these third party service providers, contact us at info@tieforyou.com with “Privacy” as the subject line of the e-mail.

Contacting Us

You may contact us with any questions you may have at via e-mail at info@tieforyou.com

Tie for You Data Policy

This Privacy Policy describes how your personal information is collected, used, and shared when you visit or make a purchase from www.tieforyou.com (the “Site”).

Personal information we collect

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, paypal address), email address, and phone number. We refer to this information as “Order Information.”

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

How do we use your personal information

We use the Order Information that we collect generally to fulfill any orders placed through the Site (including processing your payment information, arranging for shipping, and providing you with invoices and/or order confirmations). Additionally, we use this Order Information to:
Communicate with you;
Screen our orders for potential risk or fraud; and
When in line with the preferences you have shared with us, provide you with information or advertising relating to our products or services.

We use the Device Information that we collect to help us screen for potential risk and fraud (in particular, your IP address), and more generally to improve and optimize our Site (for example, by generating analytics about how our customers browse and interact with the Site, and to assess the success of our marketing and advertising campaigns).

Sharing your personal information

We share your Personal Information with third parties to help us use your Personal Information, as described above. 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.google.com/intl/en/policies/privacy/. You can also opt-out of Google Analytics here: https://tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout.

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 request for information we receive, or to otherwise protect our rights.

Behavioural advertising

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-online-advertising/how-does-it-work.

You can opt out of targeted advertising by:

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

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/.

Do not track

Please 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.

Your rights

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.

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.

Changes

We may update this privacy policy from time to time in order to reflect, for example, changes to our practices or for other operational, legal or regulatory reasons.

Contact us

For more information about our privacy practices, or if you have any questions, please contact us here or by e-mail at info@tieforyou.com.