Why we collect personal information

We will collect, process, treat and store your Personal Information for the purposes of managing collaboration with other users, improving your user experience, processing purchases, orders and payments, sending newsletters, and contacting you about inquiries for our Services. 

If you do not wish to disclose any or part of your Personal Information to us, you may still be able to use some of the functionalities of our Website, though we will not be able to guarantee that you will be able to enjoy them at their fullest if you elect not to disclose it to us.

Automatic collection of information

When you open the Website, our servers automatically record information that your browser sends. This data may include information such as your device's IP address, browser type and version, operating system type and version, language preferences or the webpage you were visiting before you came to the Website and Services, pages of the Website and Services that you visit, the time spent on those pages, the information you search for on the Website, access times and dates, and other statistics.

Personal Information, or “PI”, as described in various privacy laws and information security standards, is information that can be used on its own or with other information to identify, contact, or locate a single person, or to identify an individual in context.  In addition, the terms “collect”, “process”, “treat”, “use”, “share”, “disclose”, “divulge” and analogous words shall refer to your PI and other data collected from our visitors and end-users.

Information collected automatically is used only to identify potential cases of abuse and establish statistical information regarding the usage and traffic of the Website and Services. This statistical information is not otherwise aggregated in such a way that would identify any particular user of the system.

Collection of personal information

You can access and use the Website and Services without telling us who you are or revealing any information by which someone could identify you as a specific, identifiable individual. If, however, you wish to use some of the features on the Website, you may be asked to provide certain Personal Information (for example, your name and e-mail address). We receive and store any information you knowingly provide to us when you create an account, publish content, make a purchase, or fill out any online forms on the Website.

In this Privacy Policy, we refer to any information that can uniquely identify an individual (including the information below) as “Personal Information”. See the list below for more information about what Personal Information we collect and why.

Device information

Examples of Personal Information collected: version of web browser, IP address, geolocation data, time zone, cookie information, what sites or products you view, search terms, and how you interact with the Website.

Purpose of collection: to load the Website accurately for you, and to perform analytics on Website usage to optimize our Website.

Source of collection: collected automatically when you access our Website using cookies, log files, web beacons, tags, or pixels.

Disclosure for a business purpose: shared with our processor Shopify and marketing and advertising providers.

Order information

Examples of Personal Information collected: name, billing address, shipping address, payment information, email address, and phone number.

Purpose of collection: to provide products or services to you to fulfill our contract, process your payment information, arrange for shipping, and provide you with invoices and/or order confirmations, communicate with you, screen our orders for potential risk or fraud, and when in line with the preferences you have shared with us, provide you with information or advertising relating to our products or services.

Source of collection: collected from you.

Disclosure for a business purpose: shared with our processor Shopify; order details related to the manufacture and delivery of made-to-order items will be shared with third-party suppliers. Third-party providers used by us will only collect, use and disclose your information to the extent necessary to allow them to perform the services they provide to us.

Customer support information

Examples of Personal Information collected: name and email address.

Purpose of collection: to provide customer support.

Source of collection: collected from you.

Disclosure for a business purpose: shared with our processor Shopify.

Payment processing

We use Shopify, Stripe, Amazon Pay, and Klarna to process payments and therefore provide them with the personal data required to charge your credit card and maintain any payment information. We do not store full credit card numbers, only the last 4 digits for customer verification purposes. We store customers’ order history and IDs of all payment transactions.

Technical information

Cookies, which are bits of information that a website sends to your web browser that helps the site remember information about you and your preferences. Our Website and websites use Internet tags, also known as single-pixel GIFs, clear GIFs, invisible GIFs, and 1-by-1 GIFs, they are smaller than cookies and tell the Website’s server information such as the IP address and browser type related to the visitor's computer.

Navigational data from your browser, such as "log files," "server logs", "clickstream" data, and "Internet Tags", which are used for system management, to improve the content of the Website, market research purposes, and to communicate information to visitors.

Other

Account details such as user name, unique user ID, password, etc. if you choose to create an account on our Website. Any other materials you willingly submit to us such as images, feedback, reviews, testimonials, etc.

If you provide your email address to us, we may send you emails about products, promotions, or other information relevant to the Website that may be of interest.
Technical information that cannot be used to personally identify an individual person, such as anonymous usage data, and general demographic information that we may collect, such as the number of clicks, platform types, preferences you submit, and preferences that are generated based on the data you submit.
We use your IP address to diagnose problems with our server, report aggregate information, determine the fastest route for your computer to use in connecting to our Website, and administer and improve services to our consumers.

Use and processing of collected information

In order to make the Website and Services available to you, or to meet a legal obligation, we may need to collect and use certain Personal Information. If you do not provide the information that we request, we may not be able to provide you with the requested products or services. Any of the information we collect from you may be used for the following purposes:

• Create and manage user accounts
• Fulfill and manage orders
• Deliver products or services
• Improve products and services
• Send administrative information
• Send marketing and promotional communications
• Respond to inquiries and offer support
• Request user feedback
• Improve user experience
• Post customer testimonials
• Deliver targeted advertising
• Administer prize draws and competitions
• Enforce terms and conditions and policies
• Protect from abuse and malicious users
• Respond to legal requests and prevent harm
• Run and operate the Website and Services

Processing your Personal Information depends on how you interact with the Website and Services, where you are located in the world, and if one of the following applies: (i) you have given your consent for one or more specific purposes; this, however, does not apply whenever the processing of Personal Information is subject to California Consumer Privacy Act or European data protection law; (ii) provision of information is necessary for the performance of an agreement with you and/or for any pre-contractual obligations thereof; (iii) processing is necessary for compliance with a legal obligation to which you are subject; (iv) processing is related to a task that is carried out in the public interest or in the exercise of official authority vested in us; (v) processing is necessary for the purposes of the legitimate interests pursued by us or by a third party.

Note that under some legislations we may be allowed to process information until you object to such processing (by opting out), without having to rely on consent or any other of the following legal bases below. In any case, we will be happy to clarify the specific legal basis that applies to the processing, and in particular whether the provision of Personal Information is a statutory or contractual requirement, or a requirement necessary to enter into a contract.

Lawful basis

Pursuant to the General Data Protection Regulation (“GDPR”), if you are a resident of the European Economic Area (“EEA”), we process your personal information under the following lawful bases:

• Your consent;
• The performance of the contract between you and the Website;
• Compliance with our legal obligations;
• To protect your vital interests;
• To perform a task carried out in the public interest;
• For our legitimate interests, which do not override your fundamental rights and freedoms.

Retention

When you provide other Personal Information such as an email address, we will retain your Personal Information for our records unless and until you ask us to erase this information. For more information on your right of erasure, please see the ‘Your rights’ section below.

Automatic decision-making

If you are a resident of the EEA, you have the right to object to processing based solely on automated decision-making (which includes profiling), when that decision-making has a legal effect on you or otherwise significantly affects you.

Our processor Shopify uses limited automated decision-making to prevent fraud that does not have a legal or otherwise significant effect on you.

Services that include elements of automated decision-making include:

• Temporary deny a list of IP addresses associated with repeated failed transactions. This deny list persists for a small number of hours.
• Temporary deny a list of credit cards associated with listed IP addresses. This deny list persists for a small number of days.

We share your Personal Information with service providers to help us provide our services and fulfill our contracts with you, as described above. Here are some of the most prominent examples of how your Personal Information may be shared:

Shopify

We use Shopify to power our online store. You can read more about how Shopify uses your Personal Information here.

Behavioral advertising

As described above, we use your Personal Information to provide you with targeted advertisements or marketing communications we believe may be of interest to you. We may permit certain third-party companies to help us tailor advertising that we think may be of interest to users and to collect and use other data about user activities on the Website. For example:

We use Google Analytics to help us understand how our customers use the Website. You can read more about how Google uses your Personal Information here. You can also opt out of Google Analytics here.

We share information about your use of the Website, your purchases, and your interaction with our ads on other websites with our advertising partners. We collect and share some of this information directly with our advertising partners, and in some cases through the use of cookies or other similar technologies (which you may consent to, depending on your location).

For more information about how targeted advertising works, you can visit the Network Advertising Initiative’s (“NAI”) educational page here.

You can opt out of targeted advertising with these partners:

• Facebook
• Google

Additionally, you can opt out of some of these services by visiting the Digital Advertising Alliance’s opt-out portal here. You can also revisit your cookie preferences for our Website by clicking on the ‘Cookie Preferences’ button at the bottom of this page.

Billing and payments

We use third-party payment processors to assist us in processing your payment information securely. Such third-party processors' use of your Personal Information is governed by their respective privacy policies which may or may not contain privacy protections as protective as this Policy. We suggest that you review their respective privacy policies.

Third-party services

In general, the third-party providers used by us will only collect and use your information where necessary to allow them to perform the services they provide to us.

Social media

We enjoy social media like many of our customers, and we include links to social media platforms on our Website. If you engage with these social media tools through our Website, we suggest you read the privacy policies of these platforms as your experience will be governed by their policies. We’d encourage you to review the privacy settings you’ve selected on your social media accounts as that will determine the degree to which your information is made public.

Disclosure of information

Depending on the requested Services, or as necessary to complete any transaction or provide any service you have requested, we may contract with other companies and share your information with our trusted third parties that work with us, or any other affiliates and subsidiaries we rely upon to assist in the operation of the Website and Services available to you. We do not share Personal Information with unaffiliated third parties. These service providers are not authorized to use or disclose your information except as necessary to perform services on our behalf or comply with legal requirements. We may share your Personal Information for these purposes only with third parties whose privacy policies are consistent with ours or who agree to abide by our policies with respect to Personal Information. These third parties are given Personal Information they need only in order to perform their designated functions, and we do not authorize them to use or disclose Personal Information for their own marketing or other purposes.

We will disclose any Personal Information we collect, use or receive if required or permitted by law, such as to comply with a subpoena or similar legal process, and when we believe in good faith that disclosure is necessary to protect our rights, protect your safety or the safety of others, investigate fraud, or respond to a government request.

In the event we go through a business transition, such as a merger or acquisition by another company, or sale of all or a portion of its assets, your user account and Personal Information will likely be among the assets transferred.

If you are visiting our Website from outside the United States or Canada, you are transferring information about yourself to a country and jurisdiction that may have different data protection laws than the country in which you reside. By continuing to use or browse our Website, you consent to the transfer, use, and disclosure of information about you (as described in this Privacy Policy) to the United States and Canada.

Data protection rights under GDPR

If you are a resident of the European Economic Area (EEA), you have certain data protection rights and Alpha Fauna aims to take reasonable steps to allow you to correct, amend, delete, or limit the use of your Personal Information. For the purposes of the GDPR, in the European Union, Alpha Fauna is a “data controller”; and Shopify is a “data processor” of the PI you provide to us for the primary purposes of providing you with our services.

For our European Union customers and users, by clicking the "I Accept" button or otherwise accepting the terms and conditions of our services through a clickable action or similar action, you hereby acknowledge, agree, and unequivocally consent to the collection, process, management, treatment, transfer and authorized of your PI by Alpha Fauna, its affiliates and authorized third parties. We reserve the right to charge a reasonable fee, as permitted by applicable laws and regulations, in order to comply with complex requests or repetitive requests from individual users.

If you are resident in Switzerland, the contact details for the data protection authorities are available here.

If you wish to be informed of what Personal Information we hold about you, or you want it to be removed from our systems, please visit this page.

The sections below cover the certain situations that you, as a data subject, and we as a data controller, are most likely to see, but you should also carefully review the full list of data subject rights here. You retain the right to access, amend, correct or delete your PI where it is inaccurate at any time:

• Right to be Forgotten: You can request us to be “forgotten”; that is, to have your entire PI removed from our service. If we are asked to do this, in accordance with Article 17 GDPR we will remove any PI that we have collected from you as requested. We will also need to contact any third parties that process your PI on our behalf, such as our cloud service providers. To ensure that any personal data in our possession can be removed in a timely manner, you can relay any request to be “forgotten” to us by submitting a request here.
• Right to Data Portability: Under the GDPR, in accordance with Article 20 GDPR, our users located in the EU may request us to send them any PI in our possession. In this case, we will provide you with any PI that you have in a commonly used, machine-readable format.
• Right to Data Access: As a data subject, in accordance with Article 15 GDPR, you can ask us to confirm how and where your PI is being stored and processed. You also have the right to know how such data is shared with third parties by us.
• Right to Data Rectification: As a data subject, in accordance with Article 16 GDPR, you have the right to obtain from us, without undue delay, the rectification of inaccurate PI concerning you.
• Right to be Informed: You have the right to be informed about the PI we collect from you, and how we process it.
• Right to Withdraw Consent: In accordance with Article 7 (3) GDPR, you have the right to withdraw your consent given to us at any time.
• Right to Object: In accordance with Article 18 GDPR, you have the right to object to us processing your PI for the following reasons:
• Automated Individual Decision-Making and Profiling: You have the right not to be subject to a decision based solely on automated processing, including profiling, which produces legal effects concerning you or similarly significantly affects you.
• Right to Complain: You have the right to file a complaint with supervisory authorities if your information has not been processed in compliance with the GDPR. In accordance with Article 77 GDPR, if the supervisory authorities fail to address your complaint properly, you may have the right to a judicial remedy.

Your privacy request must include, at the least, the following information: (i) your complete name, address, and/or e-mail address in order for us to notify you of the response to your request; (ii) attached documents establishing your identity; and (iii) a clear and concise description of the PI with regard to which you seek to enforce any of your privacy rights. If you request rectification, please indicate amendments to be made and attach documentation to back up your request.

Upon receipt of your privacy request, and after due review, we may then edit, deactivate and/or delete your PI from our services for the maximum term allowed by the GDPR on each applicable case. In case of secure databases under our control where deletion is impossible, we will make such information permanently inaccessible.

Your Personal Information will be initially processed in Ireland and then will be transferred outside of Europe for storage and further processing, including to Canada and the United States. Read more about Shopify's privacy policy here.

You have the right to complain to a Data Protection Authority about our collection and use of your Personal Information. For more information, please contact your local data protection authority in the European Economic Area (EEA).

California privacy rights (CCPA)

Pursuant to the California Consumer Privacy Act of 2018 (the “CCPA”), Alpha Fauna and its affiliates hereto provide the following Policy for residents of California, notice regarding the categories of PI that we have collected or disclosed within the preceding twelve (12) months about California residents who are not employees, independent contractors, owners, directors, officers, or job applicants of Alpha Fauna, or emergency contacts or benefits beneficiaries of the foregoing.

In addition to the rights as explained in this Policy, California residents who provide Personal Information (as defined in the statute) to obtain products or services for personal, family, or household use are entitled to request and obtain from us, once a calendar year, information about the Personal Information we shared, if any, with other businesses for marketing uses. If applicable, this information would include the categories of Personal Information and the names and addresses of those businesses with which we shared such personal information for the immediately prior calendar year (e.g., requests made in the current year will receive information about the prior year).

Henceforth, the CCPA provides Californians with the following rights:

• Requests for Information: you (or your authorized agent) can request a copy of your PI, including how we have collected, used, and shared your PI over the past 12 months (if any), including the categories of PI we collected and our purposes for doing so; the categories of sources for that information; the categories of third parties with whom we shared it for a business purpose and our purposes for doing so.
• Your Right to Notification: under the CCPA, we cannot collect new categories of PI or use them for materially different purposes without first notifying you.
• Nondiscrimination for exercising your CCPA Rights: the CCPA prohibits us from discriminating against you for exercising your rights under the law. Such discrimination may include denying services, charging different prices or rates for services, providing a different level or quality of services, or suggesting that you will receive a different level or quality of goods or services as a result of exercising your rights.
• Your Right to Delete PI: you can request that we delete your PI by contacting us. You also can request that we delete specific information, and we will honor such requests, unless a due exception applies, such as when the information is necessary to complete a transaction, verify a fraud, review a chargeback or contract for which it was collected, or when it is being used to detect, prevent, or investigate security incidents, comply with laws, identify and repair bugs or ensure another consumer’s ability to exercise their free speech rights or other rights provided by law.

Please take into consideration that we may deny your deletion request if retaining the PI is necessary for us, our affiliates, or our service providers in order to:

• Complete the transaction for which we collected the PI information, provide a good or service that you requested, take actions reasonably anticipated within the context of our ongoing business relationship with you, or otherwise perform our contract with you;
• Detect security incidents, protect against malicious, deceptive, fraudulent, or illegal activity, or prosecute those responsible for such activities;
• Debug our products to identify and repair errors that impair existing intended functionality;
• Exercise free speech, ensure the right of another consumer to exercise their free speech rights, or exercise another right provided for by law;
• Comply with the California Electronic Communications Privacy Act (Cal. Penal Code § 1546 seq.);
• Enable solely internal uses that are reasonably aligned with consumer expectations based on your relationship with us;
• Comply with a legal obligation that has substantive grounds;
• Make other internal and lawful uses of that information that are compatible with the context in which you provided it.

Overall, we have, may, or will collect the following categories of PI from our users, customers, and individuals, as necessary to fulfill our legal obligations and operational business purposes:

• Personal information, as defined in the California customer records law, such as contact information and financial information;
• Identifiers, such as online identifier, IP address, and name;
• Financial information, such as transaction information and history and securities trading information and history;
• Internet or network activity information, such as browsing history and interactions with our and other websites and systems;
• Geo-location data, such as device location and IP location;
• Audio, electronic, visual, and similar information, such as video recordings and multimedia content created in connection with our business activities; and
• Inferences drawn from any of the PI listed above to create a profile or summary about, for example, an individual’s preferences and characteristics.

As a California resident, you also have the right to access the Personal Information we hold about you (also known as the ‘Right to Know’), to port it to a new service, and to ask that your Personal Information be corrected, updated, or erased. If you would like to exercise these rights, please visit this page.

If you would like to designate an authorized agent to submit these requests on your behalf, please contact us.

How to exercise these rights

Any requests to exercise your rights can be directed to Alpha Fauna through the contact details provided in this document. Please note that we may ask you to verify your identity before responding to such requests. Your request must provide sufficient information that allows us to verify that you are the person you are claiming to be or that you are the authorized representative of such person. You must include sufficient details to allow us to properly understand the request and respond to it. We cannot respond to your request or provide you with Personal Information unless we first verify your identity or authority to make such a request and confirm that the Personal Information relates to you.

Cookies

The Website and Services use "cookies" to help personalize your online experience. A cookie is a text file that is placed on your hard disk by a web page server. Cookies cannot be used to run programs or deliver viruses to your computer. Cookies are uniquely assigned to you, and can only be read by a web server in the domain that issued the cookie to you.

We may use cookies to collect, store, and track information for statistical purposes, or to operate the Website and Services. You have the ability to accept or decline cookies. Most web browsers automatically accept cookies, but you can usually modify your browser setting to decline cookies if you prefer. If you choose to decline cookies, you may not be able to fully experience the features of the Website and Services. You can review your cookie preferences for this Website here.

We use a number of different cookies, including functional, performance, advertising, and social media or content cookies. Cookies make your browsing experience better by allowing the website to remember your actions and preferences (such as login and region selection). This means you don’t have to re-enter this information each time you return to the site or browse from one page to another. Cookies also provide information on how people use the website, for instance, whether it’s their first time visiting or if they are a frequent visitor.

We may also collect and use the data contained in log files, which may include your IP address, your ISP, the browser you used to visit our Website, the time you visited our Website, and which pages you visited.

When you access our Website via a mobile device, we may use your mobile device ID (i.e. the unique identifier assigned to a mobile device by the manufacturer) and/or Advertising ID (for Apple iOS) instead of cookies in order to recognize you and track displayed web pages, along with their performance. For the latest versions of Apple iOS, your device would request you one or more times for your express consent for advertising tracking.

The length of time that a cookie remains on your computer or mobile device depends on whether it is a “persistent” or “session” cookie. Session cookies last until you stop browsing and persistent cookies last until they expire or are deleted. Most of the cookies we use are persistent and will expire between 30 minutes and two years from the date they are downloaded to your device.

You can control and manage cookies in various ways. Please keep in mind that removing or blocking cookies can negatively impact your user experience and parts of our Website may no longer be fully accessible. Most browsers automatically accept cookies, but you can choose whether or not to accept cookies through your browser controls, often found in your browser’s “Tools” or “Preferences” menu.

Additionally, please note that blocking cookies may not completely prevent how we share information with third parties such as our advertising partners. To exercise your rights or opt out of certain uses of your information by these parties, please follow the instructions in the “Behavioural Advertising” section above.

For information about and to opt out of interest-based ads from many ad networks, you can visit:

• USA: Digital Advertising Alliance’s Consumer Choice webpage and the Network Advertising Initiative Consumer Opt-Out webpage.
• Canada: Digital Advertising Alliance of Canada’s Opt-Out Tool webpage.
• European Union: European Interactive Digital Advertising Alliance webpage.

Do Not Track signals

Some browsers incorporate a Do Not Track feature that signals to websites you visit that you do not want to have your online activity tracked. Tracking is not the same as using or collecting information in connection with a website. For these purposes, tracking refers to collecting personally identifiable information from consumers who use or visit a website or online service as they move across different websites over time. How browsers communicate the Do Not Track signal is not yet uniform. As a result, the Website and Services are not yet set up to interpret or respond to Do Not Track signals communicated by your browser. Even so, as described in more detail throughout this Policy, we limit our use and collection of your personal information.

Information security

We secure information you provide on computer servers in a controlled, secure environment, protected from unauthorized access, use, or disclosure. We maintain reasonable administrative, technical, and physical safeguards in an effort to protect against unauthorized access, use, modification, and disclosure of Personal Information in its control and custody. However, no data transmission over the Internet or wireless network can be guaranteed. Therefore, while we strive to protect your Personal Information, you acknowledge that (i) there are security and privacy limitations of the Internet which are beyond our control; (ii) the security, integrity, and privacy of any and all information and data exchanged between you and the Website and Services cannot be guaranteed; and (iii) any such information and data may be viewed or tampered with in transit by a third party, despite best efforts.

Our third-party payment processors execute, manage and process payments encrypted through the Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard (PCI-DSS). Your purchase transaction data is stored only as long as is necessary to complete your purchase transaction. PCI-DSS requirements help ensure the secure handling of credit card information by our Website and its service providers.

All direct payment gateways adhere to the standards set by PCI-DSS as managed by the PCI Security Standards Council, which is a joint effort of brands like Visa, MasterCard, American Express, and Discover.

Data breach

In the event we become aware that the security of the Website and Services has been compromised or users' Personal Information has been disclosed to unrelated third parties as a result of external activity, including, but not limited to, security attacks or fraud, we reserve the right to take reasonably appropriate measures, including, but not limited to, investigation and reporting, as well as notification to and cooperation with law enforcement authorities. In the event of a data breach, we will make reasonable efforts to notify affected individuals if we believe that there is a reasonable risk of harm to the user as a result of the breach or if notice is otherwise required by law. When we do, we will send you an email.

Managing information

You are able to delete certain Personal Information we have about you. The Personal Information you can delete may change as the Website and Services change. When you delete Personal Information, however, we may maintain a copy of the unrevised Personal Information in our records for the duration necessary to comply with our obligations to our affiliates and partners, and for the purposes described below. If you would like to delete your Personal Information or permanently delete your account, you can do so by contacting us.

Retention of information

We will retain and use your Personal Information for the period necessary to comply with our legal obligations, resolve disputes, and enforce our agreements unless a longer retention period is required or permitted by law. We may use any aggregated data derived from or incorporating your Personal Information after you update or delete it, but not in a manner that would identify you personally. Once the retention period expires, Personal Information shall be deleted. Therefore, the right to access, the right to erasure, the right to rectification, and the right to data portability cannot be enforced after the expiration of the retention period.

Transfer of information

Depending on your location, data transfers may involve transferring and storing your information in a country other than your own. You are entitled to learn about the legal basis of information transfers to a country outside the European Union or to any international organization governed by public international law or set up by two or more countries, such as the UN, and about the security measures taken by us to safeguard your information. If any such transfer takes place, you can find out more by checking the relevant sections of this Policy or inquire with us using the information provided in the contact section.

The rights of users

You may exercise certain rights regarding your information processed by us. In particular, you have the right to do the following: (i) you have the right to withdraw consent where you have previously given your consent to the processing of your information; (ii) you have the right to object to the processing of your information if the processing is carried out on a legal basis other than consent; (iii) you have the right to learn if information is being processed by us, obtain disclosure regarding certain aspects of the processing and obtain a copy of the information undergoing processing; (iv) you have the right to verify the accuracy of your information and ask for it to be updated or corrected; (v) you have the right, under certain circumstances, to restrict the processing of your information, in which case we will not process your information for any purpose other than storing it; (vi) you have the right, under certain circumstances, to obtain the erasure of your Personal Information from us; (vii) you have the right to receive your information in a structured, commonly used and machine readable format and, if technically feasible, to have it transmitted to another controller without any hindrance. This provision is applicable provided that your information is processed by automated means and that the processing is based on your consent, on a contract of which you are part of, or on pre-contractual obligations thereof.

The right to object to processing

Where Personal Information is processed for the public interest, in the exercise of an official authority vested in us, or for the purposes of the legitimate interests pursued by us, you may object to such processing by providing a ground related to your particular situation to justify the objection. You must know that, however, should your Personal Information be processed for direct marketing purposes, you can object to that processing at any time without providing any justification. To learn whether we are processing Personal Information for direct marketing purposes, you may refer to the relevant sections of this document.

Privacy of children

We do not knowingly collect any Personal Information from children under the age of 18. If you are under the age of 18, please do not submit any Personal Information through the Website and Services. We encourage parents and legal guardians to monitor their children's Internet usage and to help enforce this Policy by instructing their children never to provide Personal Information through the Website and Services without their permission.

If you have reason to believe that a child under the age of 18 has provided Personal Information to us through the Website and Services, please contact us. You must also be at least 18 years of age to consent to the processing of your Personal Information in your country. We reserve the right to request any and all applicable proof of identification and consent proof from our users, at any moment, without prior notice, and at our sole and final discretion. Upon the failure to provide such proof of age, we reserve the right to immediately freeze, block or cancel the account, with no liability.

In compliance with the Children's Online Privacy Protection Act of 1998, 15 U.S.C. 6501–6505 ("COPPA"), if we learn or have reason to suspect that any user or that any client, project, or customer data regarding persons under the age of thirteen (13), we will freeze and/or delete any PI under that user’s account, without prior notice, and without responsibility.

Email marketing

We offer electronic newsletters to which you may voluntarily subscribe at any time. We are committed to keeping your e-mail address confidential and will not disclose your email address to any third parties except as allowed in the information use and processing section or for the purposes of utilizing a third-party provider to send such emails. We will maintain the information sent via e-mail in accordance with applicable laws and regulations.

In compliance with the CAN-SPAM Act, all e-mails sent from us will clearly state who the e-mail is from and provide clear information on how to contact the sender. You may choose to stop receiving our newsletter or marketing emails by following the unsubscribe instructions included in these emails or by contacting us. However, you will continue to receive essential transactional emails.

Links to other resources

The Website and Services contain links to other resources that are not owned or controlled by us. Please be aware that we are not responsible for the privacy practices of such resources or third parties. We encourage you to be aware when you leave the Website and Services, and read the privacy statements of each resource that may collect Personal Information.

We reserve the right to modify this Policy or its terms relating to the Website and Services from time to time at our discretion and will notify you of any material changes to how we treat Personal Information. When we do, we will revise the updated date at the bottom of this page. We may also notify you in other ways at our discretion, such as through the contact information you have provided. Any updated version of this Policy will be effective immediately upon the posting of the revised Policy unless otherwise specified. Your continued use of the Website and Services after the revised Policy's effective date (or such other act specified at that time) will constitute your consent to those changes. However, we will not, without your consent, use your Personal Information in a manner materially different than what was stated at the time your Personal Information was collected.

As a user of our Website, you will be asked to agree to this Policy by clicking on the “I Agree” checkbox on the home page, pop-up box, tab, or other analogous means. Through that action, you hereby acknowledge and agree to the terms of this Policy, which is and constitutes a legal, binding agreement between you and Alpha Fauna. You acknowledge that you have read this Policy and agree to all its terms and conditions. By accessing and using the Website and Services you agree to be bound by this Policy. If you do not agree to abide by the terms of this Policy, you are not authorized to access or use the Website and Services.

If you would like to contact us to understand more about this Policy or wish to contact us concerning any matter relating to individual rights and your Personal Information, you may do so via the contact form.

This document was last updated May, 2023