Last Updated: April 15, 2024

1. Introduction

At ShieldCase ("we", "our", or "us"), we respect your privacy and are committed to protecting your personal data. This privacy policy explains how we collect, use, disclose, and safeguard your information when you visit our website www.shieldcase.com (the "Website") and use our services, including purchasing our premium phone cases and screen protectors.

Please read this privacy policy carefully. If you do not agree with the terms of this privacy policy, please do not access the Website or use our services.

2. Information We Collect

We collect personal information that you voluntarily provide to us when you register on the Website, express interest in obtaining information about us or our products and services, participate in activities on the Website, or otherwise when you contact us.

2.1. Personal Information

The personal information we may collect includes but is not limited to:

  • Name
  • Email address
  • Postal address
  • Phone number
  • Payment information (credit card details, billing address)
  • Account login credentials
  • Information provided in forms, surveys, or through correspondence

2.2. Automatically Collected Information

When you visit our Website, we may automatically collect certain information about your device, including:

  • IP address
  • Browser type and version
  • Operating system
  • Time and date of your visit
  • Pages you visit
  • Time spent on those pages
  • Referring website addresses
  • Other diagnostic data

2.3. Cookies and Tracking Technologies

We use cookies and similar tracking technologies to track activity on our Website and store certain information. Cookies are files with a small amount of data that may include an anonymous unique identifier. You can instruct your browser to refuse all cookies or to indicate when a cookie is being sent. However, if you do not accept cookies, you may not be able to use some portions of our Website.

The types of cookies we use include:

  • Essential cookies: Necessary for the operation of our Website.
  • Analytical/performance cookies: Allow us to recognize and count visitors and see how visitors move around our Website.
  • Functionality cookies: Enable us to personalize content for you.
  • Targeting cookies: Record your visit to our Website, pages visited, and links followed.

3. How We Use Your Information

We may use the information we collect for various purposes, including to:

  • Process and fulfill your orders for our products
  • Create and manage your account with us
  • Send you order confirmations, shipping updates, and support messages
  • Respond to your inquiries, comments, or concerns
  • Provide customer support and address technical issues
  • Send you marketing and promotional communications (if you have opted in to receive them)
  • Improve our Website, products, and customer experience
  • Analyze usage patterns and trends
  • Protect against fraudulent transactions and potential threats
  • Comply with legal obligations

4. Legal Basis for Processing

We process your personal information based on one or more of the following legal bases:

  • Performance of a contract: Processing is necessary for the performance of a contract to which you are a party or to take steps at your request before entering into a contract.
  • Legitimate interests: Processing is necessary for our legitimate interests or those of a third party, except where such interests are overridden by your fundamental rights and freedoms.
  • Consent: You have given your consent for processing your personal information for one or more specific purposes.
  • Legal obligation: Processing is necessary for compliance with a legal obligation to which we are subject.

5. Sharing Your Information

We may share your personal information with third parties in the following situations:

5.1. Service Providers

We may share your information with third-party service providers who perform services on our behalf, such as payment processing, data analysis, email delivery, hosting services, customer service, and marketing assistance.

5.2. Business Transfers

If we are involved in a merger, acquisition, financing due diligence, reorganization, bankruptcy, receivership, sale of company assets, or transition of service to another provider, your information may be sold or transferred as part of such a transaction.

5.3. Legal Requirements

We may disclose your information where we are legally required to do so in order to comply with applicable law, governmental requests, a judicial proceeding, court order, or legal process.

5.4. Protection of Rights

We may disclose information where we believe it is necessary to investigate, prevent, or take action regarding potential violations of our policies, suspected fraud, situations involving potential threats to the safety of any person, or illegal activities.

6. International Data Transfers

Your information may be transferred to, and maintained on, computers located outside of your state, province, country, or other governmental jurisdiction where the data protection laws may differ from those in your jurisdiction.

If you are located outside the United Kingdom and choose to provide information to us, please note that we transfer the data, including personal data, to the United Kingdom and process it there.

When transferring personal data from the European Economic Area (EEA) to countries outside the EEA, we use standard contractual clauses approved by the European Commission or other appropriate safeguards to ensure an adequate level of protection for your personal data.

7. Data Security

We have implemented appropriate technical and organizational security measures designed to protect the security of any personal information we process. However, despite our safeguards and efforts to secure your information, no electronic transmission over the Internet or information storage technology can be guaranteed to be 100% secure.

We use payment processors that comply with the Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard (PCI DSS) for all credit card transactions to ensure secure handling of your payment information.

8. Data Retention

We will only retain your personal information for as long as necessary to fulfill the purposes for which we collected it, including for the purposes of satisfying any legal, accounting, or reporting requirements.

To determine the appropriate retention period for personal data, we consider:

  • The amount, nature, and sensitivity of the personal data
  • The potential risk of harm from unauthorized use or disclosure
  • The purposes for which we process your personal data
  • Whether we can achieve those purposes through other means
  • Legal, regulatory, tax, accounting, or other requirements

For customers who have purchased our products, we typically keep personal data for a period of 7 years after your last interaction with us to comply with tax and legal obligations.

9. Your Data Protection Rights

Depending on your location and subject to applicable law, you may have the following rights regarding your personal information:

9.1. Right to Access

You have the right to request copies of your personal data. We may charge a small fee for this service.

9.2. Right to Rectification

You have the right to request that we correct any information you believe is inaccurate or complete information you believe is incomplete.

9.3. Right to Erasure

You have the right to request that we erase your personal data, under certain conditions.

9.4. Right to Restrict Processing

You have the right to request that we restrict the processing of your personal data, under certain conditions.

9.5. Right to Object to Processing

You have the right to object to our processing of your personal data, under certain conditions.

9.6. Right to Data Portability

You have the right to request that we transfer the data we have collected to another organization, or directly to you, under certain conditions.

9.7. Right to Withdraw Consent

If we rely on your consent to process your personal data, you have the right to withdraw that consent at any time.

To exercise any of these rights, please contact us using the contact information provided in section 12 of this policy.

10. Marketing Communications

You can opt out of receiving marketing communications from us by:

  • Following the unsubscribe instructions included in marketing emails we send
  • Contacting us using the contact details provided in section 12
  • Adjusting your preferences in your account settings (if applicable)

Please note that even if you opt out of receiving marketing communications, we may still send you service-related communications, such as order confirmations and updates about your account.

11. Children's Privacy

Our Website and services are not intended for individuals under the age of 16. We do not knowingly collect personal information from children under 16. If you are a parent or guardian and believe that your child has provided us with personal information, please contact us so that we can delete the information.

12. Contact Us

If you have any questions about this privacy policy or our privacy practices, please contact us:

  • By email: privacy@shieldcase.com
  • By phone: +441606916467
  • By mail: Data Protection Officer, ShieldCase, Studio 46y, Sophie Points South, Chloemouth, NN5 7AR, United Kingdom

13. Changes to This Privacy Policy

We may update our privacy policy from time to time. We will notify you of any changes by posting the new privacy policy on this page and updating the "Last Updated" date at the top of this policy.

You are advised to review this privacy policy periodically for any changes. Changes to this privacy policy are effective when they are posted on this page.