Privacy Policy
PERSONAL INFORMATION COLLECTED
As part of our purchasing and selling process, The Montessori Shop gathers personal information from you when you make a transaction, including your name, address, phone number, and email address.
We also automatically get your computer's Internet Protocol (IP) address when you explore The Montessori Shop. This gives us further information about the operating system and browser you are using.
With your consent, we might send you emails about The Montessori Shop, including new goods, updates, and your pending orders, for marketing purposes.
Section 2: Consent
How can we get your permission?
We presume that you give us permission to gather your personal information when you give it to us in order to complete a transaction, validate your credit card, place an order, arrange for a delivery, or return an item.
We will either ask for your express consent directly or give you the option to refuse if we ask for your personal information for any other reason, including marketing.
How can you change your mind?
You can notify us by sending an email to contact@the-montessori-shop.com if, after providing your consent, you decide you no longer want us to contact you and collect your information.
PART 3: DISCLOSURE
Only in the event of a legal requirement or a violation of our terms and conditions may we divulge your personal information.
Part 4: Shopify
Shopify Inc. hosts The Montessori Shop. They give us the platform for online sales so we may offer you The Montessori Shop services and goods.
Shopify's databases and storage system house your data. The basic Shopify program stores your data on a firewall-protected server.
If you use a direct payment channel to complete your purchase, Shopify will save your credit card details. The Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard (PCI-DSS) guides the encryption of this data. We save the details of your purchase transaction for as long as it takes to finish your order. Your purchase transaction data is erased after your order is completed. As a result, the information you needed to complete your order is not directly accessible to us. Shopify and the payment processors process this data.
Actually, every direct payment gateway complies with PCI-DSS. The five main card networks—Visa, MasterCard, American Express, Discover Card, and JCB—have created the Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard (PCI-DSS). When you make purchases on The Montessori Shop and its service providers, these standards guarantee the safe processing of your credit card information.
Services Offered by Third Parties (Section 5)
Generally speaking, the third-party vendors we work with will only gather, use, and disclose your information as much as is required to carry out the services they offer us, such processing payments.
Regarding the data we must give them for your The Montessori Shop purchases, some of these providers—such as payment gateways and other payment transaction processors—have their own privacy rules.
We advise you to carefully review the privacy policies of these third-party companies in order to comprehend how they will treat your personal data. Visas, American Expresses, MasterCards, JCBs, and Stripes are all available here.
Remember that some of these third-party providers might be situated in a different jurisdiction than you or us, or they might have facilities there. Therefore, your information might be subject to the laws of the jurisdiction where the third-party provider is located or where its facilities are located, for example, if you choose to move forward with a transaction that calls for their services.
For instance, your information used to complete the transaction may be revealed in accordance with U.S. legislation, such as the Patriot Act, if you are in Canada and your transaction is handled by a payment gateway in the United States.
You are no longer subject to the The Montessori Shop Terms and Conditions or this Privacy Policy when you leave the The Montessori Shop website or are taken to a third-party website or application to complete your payment.
Links
By clicking on specific links on our website, you may exit The Montessori Shop. We advise you to carefully review the privacy policies of these other websites since we have no control over their activities.
SECURITY SECTION 6
We take reasonable measures and adhere to industry best practices to protect your personal information, making sure it is not lost, stolen, accessed, disclosed, changed, or destroyed in an unauthorized way.
If you give us your credit card information, it will be SSL-encrypted and stored using AES-256 encryption. This implies that the entire card number will not be accessible to any person. We adhere to all PCI-DSS regulations and use other widely recognized industry standards, even though there is no completely safe way to transmit data over the Internet or store electronic data.
SECTION 7: CONSENT AGE
By using The Montessori Shop, you attest that you are at least the legal majority age in your nation, state, or province of residence and that you have granted us permission to use The Montessori Shop on behalf of any minor dependents you may have.
CHANGES TO THIS PRIVACY POLICY SECTION 8
Please revisit this privacy statement frequently as we retain the right to make changes at any time. Clarifications and changes will take effect as soon as they are posted on the website. In order to let you know what information we gather, how we use it, and under what circumstances, if any, we release it, we will update this policy and let you know here if there are any changes.
In order for us to continue selling you items, your information might be given to the new owners if The Montessori Shop gets bought out or merges with another business.
