1. INTRODUCTION
Gems Bright (website url address: https://gemsbright.com) appreciates your business and trust. We are a Canadian based online retailer for jewelry and natural gems.
Gems Bright will never willfully sell or rent for consideration any personally identifiable information about you or your business, or any information you provide to Gems Bright through its website Gemsbright.com, to any third party.
Gems Bright has created this privacy policy to demonstrate our commitment to privacy and the protection of your information. The following discloses our information gathering and dissemination practices. In this policy, the terms, “you”, “the user”, “customer” and “visitor” are used interchangeably. Each visitor’s privacy is very important to Gems Bright. If you have any questions about your privacy while browsing Gemsbright.com, please send an email to admin@Gemsbright.com with your questions and/or suggestions.
2. DATA COLLECTED
Currently we do not have a members login area. When Gems Bright develops this area of its website, we will revise this policy to reflect the information we gather.
Our form(s), such as the “Contact Us” form, requires users to give us contact information (such as their name, phone and email address). All information that Gems Bright collects, including the address contact information collected on the shipping and billing forms in the shopping cart, and the best time to reach you in our contact form(s), is used only for internal purposes to communicate with you.
We do not store any credit card information on our server. Gems Bright uses third party payment processors that are responsible for securely processing and/or storing credit card data on their own server(s).
Sometimes, we may use third party software to provide a service. Third party software providers have their own privacy policy for the information stored on their server(s). For example, we use software provided by a company called, MailChimp, to manage Gems Bright’s newsletter signups. MailChimp provides us with newsletter services that enables sign-ups to receive a newsletter by email from Gems Bright, and to subscribe and unsubscribe. MailChimp also offers Gems Bright the technology to create and send out email newsletters to their subscribers. MailChimp stores subscriber’s email addresses on its own server. Please visit MailChimp’s privacy policy for more information on how your data is stored when you sign up for Gems Bright’s email newsletter.
Gemsbright.com website may contain links to other websites. Gems Bright is not responsible for the privacy practices or the content of other Web sites. Please remember that any information that is disclosed in these areas becomes public information and you should exercise caution when deciding to disclose your personal information.
This website makes every best effort, within its resources, to protect the loss, misuse and alteration of the information under our control.
The Use of Cookies
A web browser does not interpret the content of cookies as code. That means your web browser will not use cookies to execute a virus on your computer. Cookies are used to gather information by allowing a website to remember what ‘state’ your browser is in. The use of cookies on Gemsbright.com website is further explained below.
Please note, you can turn off cookies in your web browser. If you choose to turn off your cookies, or block cookies from Gemsbright.com, you can still browse Gemsbright.com website. If you have problems browsing Gemsbright.com website with your cookies turned off, please contact us at admin@Gemsbright.com . Also note that turning off your cookies will prevent you from processing a purchase on the website. Click here for more information, and to learn how to coordinate a purchase with your cookies turned off.
Gems Bright uses cookies for various purposes, which includes gathering statistics. Statistics can provide information to improve the website by answering questions such as, ‘What is the most popular and least popular pages on the website?’ as well as providing information on whether certain pages and products get seen at all. This information helps us improve navigation and content on the website. Knowing the least and most popular pages (or products) also helps to guide buying decisions by better understanding what products or information site visitors are looking for.
Cookies used for statistics also provide the country, state and city of the user by ‘capturing’ the user’s IP. The exact location of a user (precise location or address) can only be determined by the ISP (your Internet Service Provider). Gemsbright.com does not have access to this information. If you are concerned about your ISP divulging your exact location, consult your ISP and check the privacy policy of your ISP. (Also note that internet users can choose to use a VPN. A VPN can mask the user’s location, in which case the statistics will not provide an accurate result for the user’s location.)
Gemsbright.com uses location data to better understand where its visitors are shopping from. Are they shopping from Canada? The US? Europe? Asia? Or elsewhere? By understanding where our visitors are located, we can better tailor the user’s shopping experience by offering such things as multiple languages, shipping options, and different products.
Cookies are also used by third party vendors, such as MailChimp, which collects statistics data regarding subscribers. While Gems Bright cannot control the use of cookies by third party vendors, Gems Bright will make an effort to the best of its knowledge, to provide links to the privacy policies for third party vendors it uses that collect information about site visitors to Gemsbright.com website.
The Use of Cookies for Shopping
Gemsbright.com also uses cookies for scripts such as the “return to shop” button, which allows a user to return to the last page they were browsing before clicking a link to view details. In this example, cookies are placed in the user’s browser to improve the shopping experience.
Another example for the use of cookies on the Gemsbright.com website is the functionality of the shopping cart (also referred to on the website as the “shopping bag”). When a user adds an item to the shopping cart, a script is added to a cookie in the user’s browser that keeps track of the items that the user is adding. Subsequently, if the user turns cookies “off” in the browser, or blocks cookies on Gemsbright.com, the user may not be able to shop and process a credit card on the website.
The payment processor that is used to process your credit card on Gemsbright.com website may also use a cookie to determine your location, and then match it to the location registered to your credit card. Payment processors may use your IP as a precaution to protect the shopper, and ensure your credit card has not been stolen and is not being used by someone in a different country.
While Gemsbright.com uses SSL technology on its website to encrypt the transfer of your data, if you prefer to purchase an item from Gemsbright.com website, without using the online shopping cart, or entering your data online, please contact us at admin@Gemsbright.com to arrange an alternate payment method.
Google Analytics
We use Google Analytics on our site for anonymous reporting of site usage. So, no personalized data is stored. If you would like to opt-out of Google Analytics monitoring your behaviour on our website please use this link: Google Analytics Opt-out.
Gemsbright.com uses “Google Analytics” to collect information about the use of this site. Google Analytics is one of the few statistics applications available to online boutiques and websites. Gems Bright is committed to exploring alternative analytics options that may be less intrusive for its site visitors. We welcome suggestions for online applications that offer comparable analytics reports that are less intrusive. If you wish to suggest an alternate online analytics application, please contact us at admin@Gemsbright.com.
Google Analytics collects information such as how often users visit this site, what pages they visit, when they do so, and what other sites they used prior to coming to this site. We use the information we get from Google Analytics only to improve this site. Google Analytics collects the IP address assigned to you on the date you visit this site. Although Google Analytics plants a permanent cookie on your web browser to identify you as a unique user the next time you visit this site, the cookie cannot be used by anyone but Google.
Google’s ability to use and share information collected by Google Analytics about your visits to this site is restricted by the Google Analytics Terms of Use and the Google Privacy Policy. You can prevent Google Analytics from recognizing you on return visits to this site by disabling cookies on your browser.
Google Analytics employs cookies to define user sessions, which allows for the collection of data about how visitors are using the websites. Google Analytics uses only first-party cookies for data analysis. This means that the cookies are linked to a specific website domain, and Google Analytics will only use that cookie data for statistical analysis related to your browsing behaviour on that specific website. According to Google, the data collected cannot be altered or retrieved by services from other domains.
You can set preferences for how Google advertises to you using the Google Ad Preferences page, and if you want to you can opt out of interest-based advertising entirely by cookie settings or permanently using a browser plugin.
Social Share Buttons
We embed a Facebook widget to allow you to “like/share/recommend” our webpages. If you are logged in to Facebook, this widget may collect your IP address, your web browser User Agent, store and retrieve cookies on your browser, embed additional tracking, and monitor your interaction with the widget, including correlating your Facebook account with whatever action you take within the widget (such as “liking/sharing/recommending” our webpage). We do not collect or store any of this information on our web server. However, the Facebook widget, or share icon, is connected through code to Facebook, in order to enable you to share the page on Facebook. The data collected through the Facebook share icon is then stored and used by Facebook according to Facebook’s privacy policy. For more information about how this data may be used, please see Facebook’s data privacy policy: https://www.facebook.com/about/privacy/update
Your privacy is important to us. If you have any questions, complaints or suggestions regarding the privacy policy for Gemsbright.com, please contact us by email at admin@Gemsbright.com or through our online contact form.
3. EMBEDDED CONTENT
Pages on this site may include embedded content, like Vimeo and YouTube videos, for example. Embedded content from other websites behaves in the exact same way as if you visited the other website.
These websites may collect data about you, use cookies, embed additional third-party tracking, and monitor your interaction with that embedded content, including tracking your interaction with the embedded content if you have an account and are logged-in to that website. Below you can find a list of some of the services we may use:
FACEBOOK
The Facebook page plugin is used to display our Facebook timeline on our site. Facebook has its own cookie and privacy policies over which we have no control. There is no installation of cookies from Facebook and your IP is not sent to a Facebook server until you consent to it. See their privacy policy here: Facebook Privacy Policy .
TWITTER
We use the Twitter API to display our tweets timeline on our site. Twitter has its own cookie and privacy policies over which we have no control. Your IP is not sent to a Twitter server until you consent to it. See their privacy policy here: Twitter Privacy Policy .
YOUTUBE
We may use YouTube videos embedded on our site. YouTube has its own cookie and privacy policies over which we have no control. There is no installation of cookies from YouTube and your IP is not sent to a YouTube server until you consent to it. See their privacy policy here: YouTube Privacy Policy.