Privacy Policy

Privacy Policy

This policy became effective as of 9th October, 2024.

Thank you for your interest in Nouraa. At Nouraa, safeguarding your privacy and ensuring data security are our top priorities.

This Privacy Policy describes how Nouraa (the "Site", "we", "us", or "our") collects, uses, and discloses your personal information when you visit, use our services, or make a purchase from mynouraa.com (the "Site") or otherwise communicate with us (collectively, the "Services"). For purposes of this Privacy Policy, "you" and "your" means you as the user of the Services, whether you are a customer, website visitor, or another individual whose information we have collected pursuant to this Privacy Policy.

Please read this Privacy Policy carefully. By using and accessing any of the Services, you agree to the collection, use, and disclosure of your information as described in this Privacy Policy. If you do not agree to this Privacy Policy, please do not use or access any of the Services.

Changes to This Privacy Policy

We may update this Privacy Policy from time to time, including to reflect changes to our practices or for other operational, legal, or regulatory reasons. We will post the revised Privacy Policy on the Site, update the "Last updated" date and take any other steps required by applicable law.

How We Collect and Use Your Personal Information

To provide the Services, we collect and have collected over the past 12 months personal information about you from a variety of sources as set out below. The information that we collect and use varies depending on how you interact with us.

In addition to the specific uses set out below, we may use information we collect about you to communicate with you, provide the Services, comply with any applicable legal obligations, enforce any applicable terms of service, and to protect or defend the Services, our rights, and the rights of our users or others.

What Personal Information We Collect

The types of personal information we obtain about you depend on how you interact with our Site and use our Services. The following sections describe the categories and specific types of personal information we collect.

Information We Collect Directly from You

Information that you directly submit to us through our Services may include:

  • Basic contact details including your name, address, phone number, and email.
  • Order information including your name, billing address, shipping address, payment confirmation, email address, and phone number.
  • Account information including your username, password, and security questions.
  • Shopping information including the items you view, put in your cart, or add to your wishlist.
  • Customer support information including the information you choose to include in communications with us.

Some features of the Services may require you to directly provide us with certain information. You may elect not to provide this information, but doing so may prevent you from using or accessing these features.

Information We Collect through Cookies

We also automatically collect certain information about your interaction with the Services ("Usage Data") using cookies, pixels, and similar technologies ("Cookies"). Usage Data may include information about how you access and use our Site and your account, including device information, browser information, network connection details, your IP address, and other information regarding your interaction with the Services.

Information We Obtain from Third Parties

We may obtain information about you from third parties, including:

  • Companies who support our Site and Services, such as Shopify.
  • Our payment processors, who collect payment information (e.g., bank account, credit or debit card information, billing address) to process your payment and fulfill your orders.
  • Third-party tracking technologies such as pixels, web beacons, software developer kits, and cookies when you visit our Site, open emails we send you, or interact with our Services or advertisements.

Any information we obtain from third parties will be treated in accordance with this Privacy Policy. We are not responsible for the accuracy of information provided to us by third parties or for any third party's policies or practices.

How We Use Your Personal Information

  • Providing Products and Services. We use your personal information to process your payments, fulfill your orders, send notifications related to your account, purchases, returns, and exchanges, manage your account, arrange for shipping, facilitate returns and exchanges, and enable you to post reviews.
  • Marketing and Advertising. We use your personal information for marketing and promotional purposes, such as to send communications by email, text message or postal mail, and to show you advertisements for products or services.
  • Security and Fraud Prevention. We use your personal information to detect, investigate or take action regarding possible fraudulent, illegal or malicious activity. If you believe your account has been compromised, please contact us immediately.
  • Communicating with You. We use your personal information to provide you with customer support and improve our Services.

Cookies

Like many websites, we use Cookies on our Site. For specific information about the Cookies that we use related to powering our store with Shopify, see Shopify's Cookie Policy. We use Cookies to power and improve our Site and Services, to run analytics and better understand user interaction with the Services, and to tailor the services, products and advertising on our Site and other websites.

Most browsers automatically accept Cookies by default, but you can choose to set your browser to remove or reject Cookies through your browser controls. Please keep in mind that removing or blocking Cookies can negatively impact your user experience and may cause some of the Services to work incorrectly or no longer be available.

How We Disclose Personal Information

In certain circumstances, we may disclose your personal information to third parties for legitimate purposes, including:

  • Vendors or other third parties who perform services on our behalf (e.g., IT management, payment processing, data analytics, customer support, cloud storage, fulfillment and shipping).
  • Business and marketing partners, including Shopify, to provide services and advertise to you.
  • When you direct, request, or otherwise consent to our disclosure of certain information to third parties, such as to ship you products or through your use of social media widgets or login integrations.
  • With our affiliates or otherwise within our corporate group.
  • In connection with a business transaction such as a merger or bankruptcy, to comply with any applicable legal obligations, enforce any applicable terms of service, or to protect or defend the Services, our rights, and the rights of our users or others.

We have, in the past 12 months, disclosed the following categories of personal information about users:

Category Categories of Recipients
Identifiers such as basic contact details and certain order and account information Vendors and third parties who perform services on our behalf; Business and marketing partners; Affiliates
Commercial information such as order information, shopping information and customer support information Vendors and third parties who perform services on our behalf; Business and marketing partners; Affiliates
Internet or other similar network activity, such as Usage Data Vendors and third parties who perform services on our behalf; Business and marketing partners; Affiliates

We do not use or disclose sensitive personal information for the purposes of inferring characteristics about you.

User Generated Content

The Services may enable you to post product reviews and other user-generated content. If you choose to submit user generated content to any public area of the Services, this content will be public and accessible by anyone. We are not responsible for the privacy or security of any information that you make publicly available, or for the accuracy, use or misuse of any information that you disclose or receive from third parties.

Third Party Websites and Links

Our Site may provide links to websites or other online platforms operated by third parties. If you follow links to sites not affiliated or controlled by us, you should review their privacy and security policies and other terms and conditions. We do not guarantee and are not responsible for the privacy or security of such sites. Our inclusion of such links does not imply any endorsement of the content on such platforms or of their owners or operators.

Children's Data

The Services are not intended to be used by children, and we do not knowingly collect any personal information about children. If you are the parent or guardian of a child who has provided us with their personal information, you may contact us using the contact details set out below to request that it be deleted.

As of the effective date of this Privacy Policy, we do not have actual knowledge that we "share" or "sell" personal information of individuals under 16 years of age.

Security and Retention of Your Information

Please be aware that no security measures are perfect or impenetrable, and we cannot guarantee "perfect security." In addition, any information you send to us may not be secure while in transit. We recommend that you do not use unsecure channels to communicate sensitive or confidential information to us.

How long we retain your personal information depends on different factors, such as whether we need the information to maintain your account, to provide the Services, comply with legal obligations, resolve disputes, or enforce other applicable contracts and policies.

Your Rights and Choices

Depending on where you live, you may have some or all of the rights listed below in relation to your personal information. These rights are not absolute, may apply only in certain circumstances and, in certain cases, we may decline your request as permitted by law.

  • Right to Access / Know. You may request access to personal information that we hold about you, including details relating to the ways in which we use and share your information.
  • Right to Delete. You may request that we delete personal information we maintain about you.
  • Right to Correct. You may request that we correct inaccurate personal information we maintain about you.
  • Right of Portability. You may request to receive a copy of the personal information we hold about you and to request that we transfer it to a third party, in certain circumstances and with certain exceptions.
  • Right to Opt Out of Sale or Sharing or Targeted Advertising. You may direct us not to "sell" or "share" your personal information or to opt out of the processing of your personal information for purposes considered to be "targeted advertising." If you visit our Site with the Global Privacy Control opt-out preference signal enabled, we will automatically treat this as a request to opt-out.
  • Right to Limit Use of Sensitive Personal Information. You may direct us to limit our use and/or disclosure of sensitive personal information to only what is necessary to perform the Services.
  • Restriction of Processing. You may ask us to stop or restrict our processing of personal information.
  • Withdrawal of Consent. Where we rely on consent to process your personal information, you may have the right to withdraw this consent.
  • Appeal. You may have a right to appeal our decision if we decline to process your request by replying directly to our denial.
  • Managing Communication Preferences. You may opt out of receiving promotional emails at any time by using the unsubscribe option displayed in our emails. If you opt out, we may still send you non-promotional emails, such as those about your account or orders.

You may exercise any of these rights where indicated on our Site or by contacting us using the contact details provided below. We will not discriminate against you for exercising any of these rights. We may need to verify your identity before providing a substantive response to the request.

We use Shopify's ad services such as Shopify Audiences to help personalize the advertising you see on third-party websites. To restrict Shopify merchants from using your personal information for such services, visit privacy.shopify.com.

Complaints

If you have complaints about how we process your personal information, please contact us using the contact details provided below. If you are not satisfied with our response, you may have the right to appeal our decision or lodge your complaint with your local data protection authority.

International Users

Please note that we may transfer, store and process your personal information outside the country you live in, including the United States. Your personal information is also processed by staff and third-party service providers and partners in these countries.

If we transfer your personal information out of Europe, we will rely on recognized transfer mechanisms like the European Commission's Standard Contractual Clauses, or any equivalent contracts issued by the relevant competent authority of the UK, as relevant, unless the data transfer is to a country that has been determined to provide an adequate level of protection.

Related Policies

Contact Us Should you have any questions about our privacy practices or this Privacy Policy, or if you would like to exercise any of the rights available to you, please reach out to us.

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