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Privacy Policy

Effective Date: December 30, 2019
Welcome to Brown Sparrow’s Privacy Policy. Brown Sparrow respects your privacy and is committed to protecting your personal data.

1. Introduction.


This privacy policy tells you how the Brown Sparrow  use your personal data when you visit our website, interact with us, and buy our goods and services.

It also tells you about your privacy rights and how the law protects you.


It is important that you read this privacy policy, together with any other privacy policies we may provide, so that you are fully aware of how and why we are using your data.


This privacy policy was last updated on 22th of May 2018 .

2. Our website.


Our website at brownsparrow.org sells digital and design service, along with print goods  which are aimed at business users – from start-ups and small businesses to larger organizations. This website is not intended for children and we do not knowingly collect data relating to children.
  • Brown Sparrow is made up of one legal entities:
  • Brown Sparrow LLC  located at 3rd Floor, 14 DeKalb ave, Brooklyn, New York United United States
  • Brown Sparrow LLC  is the data controller responsible for this website and any handling of personal data.

3. Personal data which we collect about you.


Personal data, or personal information, means any information about an individual from which that person can be identified. It does not include data where the identity has been removed (anonymous data).


 We collect a variety of information about our wonderful customers (you!) and visitors to the Brown Sparrow website. This personal data falls into these categories:


 Identity Data includes title, first name, last name, username or similar identifier and an encrypted version of your login/password. If you interact with us through social media, this may include your social media user name.


Contact Data includes billing address, delivery address, email address and telephone numbers.


 Financial Data includes payment card details.
 

Transaction Data includes details about payments to and from you and other details of products and services you have purchased from us.
 

Profile Data includes purchases or orders made by you, preferences, feedback and survey responses, as well as any profile data which we have added (for example, using analytics and profiling).


Technical Data includes internet protocol (IP) address, your login data, browser type and version, time zone setting and location, browser plug-in types and versions, operating system and platform and other technology on the devices you use to access this website.


Usage Data includes information about how you use our website, products and services.

Marketing and Communications Data includes your preferences in receiving direct marketing from us and our third parties and your communication preferences.

 4. How is your personal data collected?


We use different methods to collect data from and about you including through:

Direct interactions. You may give us your Identity, Contact and Financial Data by filling in forms or by corresponding with us by post, phone, email or through chat or social media.


This includes personal data you provide when you:

  •  Sign up to receive the Brown Sparrow Newsletter
  • Make inquiries or request information be sent to you
  • Order our products or services;
  • Ask for marketing to be sent to you;
  • Engage with us on social media;
  • Enter a competition, promotion or survey;
  • Contact customer services; or
  • Leave comments or reviews on our products or services (please be kind!).

5.  Payment information.


Brown Sparrow uses a third party payment processors PayPal to process payments made for products and services via the Website. All Online payments will be conducted in accordance with Payment Card Industry (PCI) data security standards (which are high!) and your billing information (which is only used by these payment processors for the purpose of performing fraud protection) is encrypted before being communicated to them. Subject to the below exceptions, your credit card details are communicated directly from your browser to these payment processors - Brown Sparrow never (ever!) sees your full Permanent Account Number (PAN). This means that the payment form is either off-site or displayed in a frame on the payment page.

 
For PayPal we only store the tokens required to identify the transaction with PayPal, issue refunds and identify transactions made using PayPal.

6. Data security.


We have put in place appropriate security measures to prevent your personal data from being accidentally lost, used or accessed in an unauthorised way, altered or disclosed. In addition, we limit access to your personal data to those employees, agents, contractors and other third parties who have a business need to know. They will only process your personal data on our instructions and they are subject to a duty of confidentiality.


We have put in place procedures to deal with any suspected personal data breach and will notify you and any applicable regulator of a breach where we are legally required to do so.

7. Data retention.


We will only keep your personal data for as long as necessary to fulfil the purposes we collected it for, 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 unauthorised use or disclosure of your personal data, the purposes for which we process your personal data and whether we can achieve those purposes through other means, and the applicable legal requirements.
 

By law we have to keep basic information about our customers (including Contact, Identity, Financial and Transaction Data) for six years after they stop being customers for tax purposes.
 

We also make a promise to you that you can come back at any time in the future and re-print products you have ordered from us in the past. So, unless you actively delete this information, we keep it, so we can keep our promise to you.


In some circumstances you can ask us to delete your data; see Your legal rights below for further information.

 
In some circumstances we may anonymise your personal data (so that it can no longer be associated with you) for research or statistical purposes in which case we may use this information indefinitely without further notice to you.
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