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Privacy Policy & Security Statement – American German Rollshutters & Shade Products

At American German Rollshutters & Shade Products, your privacy and security are of utmost importance to us. We understand your concerns about how your information is used and shared, and we want to assure you that we handle your data carefully and sensibly. This Privacy Policy outlines how we collect, use, and safeguard your personal information when you visit our website, www.shade4u.com.

What Personal Information Do We Collect?

When you interact with our website, we may collect various types of information to enhance your shopping experience and better serve your needs:

  • Information you provide: This includes data you enter on our website or provide to us through other channels, such as your name, mailing address, email address, phone number, and financial details like credit card numbers when making a purchase. We use this information to respond to your requests, personalize your shopping interactions, and communicate with you effectively.
  • Automatic information: Like many websites, we use cookies to gather certain data when you interact with our site. This information includes your IP address, browser type, operating system, the URLs you visit, and product-related interactions. Cookies enable features like personalization and ease of data storage between visits, improving your overall experience.
  • Information from other sources: To enhance personalization, we may receive additional information about you from other sources and add it to our database. This could include updated delivery or contact information from our shipping partners or other reliable sources.

About Cookies

Cookies are alphanumeric identifiers that are stored on your computer’s hard drive through your web browser. They enable our systems to recognize your browser, provide personalized features, and retain information from previous visits. While you can modify your browser settings to reject cookies, we recommend leaving them enabled to fully utilize American German Rollshutters & Shade Products’ ordering features.

How Do We Ensure Information Security?

We take the utmost care to safeguard your information during transmission using Secure Sockets Layer (SSL) encryption technology. Encryption scrambles your data, making it challenging to intercept and decrypt. For added security, we only reveal the last four digits of your credit card numbers when confirming an order.

How Do We Use or Share Collected Information?

We prioritize your privacy and do not sell your information to third parties. The information we gather is solely used to serve you better. Here’s how we use it:

  • Postal Mail Communications: We may use your name and address to send you information about special discounts or product updates via postal mail, working with reputable mailing houses that adhere to strict data usage guidelines.
  • Email Communications: To provide quick and efficient updates on discounts, new products, order confirmations, or responses to your inquiries, we may use your email address to send you relevant information through trusted email service providers.
  • Phone Communications: In compliance with the Telephone Consumer Protection Act, we may contact you by phone regarding special discounts, incomplete orders, or responses to your questions, provided you have previously requested such information or assistance.
  • Business Transfers: As we continue to grow, we might acquire or sell assets. In such cases, consumer information may be transferred as part of the business transaction.
  • Protection of American German Rollshutters & Shade Products and Others: We may release personal information if required by law or to protect our rights, property, or safety, including sharing information with other companies and organizations for fraud protection and credit risk reduction.

Tracking Activity on Our Website

To enhance our website’s functionality and improve visitor experience, we partner with third-party web analytics providers. The data collected is non-personally identifiable and allows us to understand consumer interactions on our website better.

Your Choices

You have the option not to provide certain information, although doing so might limit your ability to make purchases or receive special offers and product updates. You can also opt-out of email, postal mail, or phone communications by contacting us via email, postal mail, or phone.

Notice and Revisions

By visiting American German Rollshutters & Shade, you agree to the terms outlined in this Privacy Policy. Our business is continually evolving, so we encourage you to review this Notice periodically for any changes. Any data we collect is subject to the Privacy Policy in effect at the time of use.

For any privacy concerns or inquiries, please contact us at info@shade4u.coim We are committed to resolving your concerns promptly and efficiently.

At American German Rollshutters & Shade Products, your privacy is our priority. Thank you for trusting us with your information.

Comments

Suggested text: 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.

Media

Suggested text: If you upload images to the website, 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 the website.

Cookies

Suggested text: 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

Suggested text: 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.

Who we share your data with

Suggested text: If you request a password reset, your IP address will be included in the reset email.

How long we retain your data

Suggested text: 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

Suggested text: 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.

Where we send your data

Suggested text: Visitor comments may be checked through an automated spam detection service.