Privacy Policy

We respect and protect your online privacy while interacting with our site as though it were our own.

Our website address is: https://shop.archaicarcane.com.

When you leave comments on the site we collect the data shown in the comments form, and also your IP address and browser user agent string to help spam detection.   If you leave a comment on our site you may opt-in to saving your name, email address and website in cookies. These are for your convenience so that you do not have to fill in your details again when you leave another comment. These cookies will last for one year. This is so we can recognize and approve any follow-up comments automatically instead of holding them in a moderation queue. If you leave a comment, the comment and its metadata are retained indefinitely. Visitor comments are checked through Akismet, an automated spam detection service. We collect information about visitors who comment on Sites that use our Akismet anti-spam service.See Akismet’s Privacy Policy here

An anonymized string created from your email address (also called a hash) may be provided to the Gravatar service to see if you are using it. The Gravatar service privacy policy is available here: https://automattic.com/privacy/. After approval of your comment, your profile picture is visible to the public in the context of your comment.

If you upload images to the website, you should avoid uploading images with embedded location data (EXIF GPS) included. Visitors to the website can download and extract any location data from images on the website.

Contact forms collect your name as entered, email address and the text of your contact request. The output from these forms is kept for a period of one year for customer service purposes only. Use of the contact form does not automatically subscribe you to any mailing list or newsletter ever.

If you visit our login page, we will set a temporary cookie to determine if your browser accepts cookies. This cookie contains no personal data and is discarded when you close your browser.   When you log in, we will also set up several cookies to save your login information and your screen display choices. Login cookies last for two days, and screen options cookies last for a year. If you select “Remember Me”, your login will persist for two weeks. If you log out of your account, the login cookies will be removed.

Articles on this site may include embedded content (e.g. videos, images, articles, etc.). Embedded content from other websites behaves in the exact same way as if you had 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. To date (2020-05-09) this list includes YouTube only. YouTube’s Privacy policy can be found here: https://automattic.com/privacy/?utm_source=akismet&utm_medium=automattic_referred&utm_campaign=privacy_page

For users that register on our website, we also store the personal information you provide in your user profile. You can see, edit, or delete your personal information at any time (except you cannot change your username). Website administrators can also see and edit that information.
If you have an account on this site, or have left comments, you can request to receive an exported file of the personal data we hold about you, including any data you have provided to us. You can also request that we erase any personal data we hold about you. At that point, the software that runs the shop will request your confirmation of this request via email.  Upon receipt of your confirmation, your personal data will be removed permanently. This does not include any data we are obliged to keep for administrative, legal, or security purposes.

We collect information about you during the checkout process on our store.
While you visit our site, we’ll track:

  • Products you’ve viewed: we’ll use this to, for example, show you products you’ve recently viewed
  • Location, IP address and browser type: we’ll use this for purposes like estimating taxes and shipping
  • Shipping address: we’ll ask you to enter this so we can, for instance, estimate shipping before you place an order, and send you the order!

We’ll also use cookies to keep track of cart contents while you’re browsing our site.
When you purchase from us, we’ll ask you to provide information including your name, billing address, shipping address, email address, phone number, credit card/payment details and optional account information like username and password. We’ll use this information for purposes, such as, to:

  • Send you information about your account and order
  • Respond to your requests, including refunds and complaints
  • Process payments and prevent fraud
  • Set up your account for our store
  • Comply with any legal obligations we have, such as calculating taxes
  • Improve our store offerings

If you create an account, we will store your name, address, email and phone number, which will be used to populate the checkout for future orders.
We generally store information about you for as long as we need the information for the purposes for which we collect and use it, and we are not legally required to continue to keep it. For example, we will store order information for 7 years for tax and accounting purposes. This includes your name, email address and billing and shipping addresses.

We will also store comments or reviews, if you choose to leave them.

At no time will your personal information ever be given to or shared with any other businesses or organizations except as required by law.

Members of our team have access to the information you provide us. For example, both Administrators and Shop Managers can access:

    Order information like what was purchased, when it was purchased and where it should be sent, and Customer information like your name, email address, and billing and shipping information.

Our team members have access to this information to help fulfill orders, process refunds and support you.

We accept payments through PayPal. When processing payments, some of your data will be passed to PayPal, including information required to process or support the payment, such as the purchase total and billing information.  Personal information such as a confirmed shipping address is passed from PayPal back to Archaic Arcane and that information will populate your account on shop.archaicarcane.com Your financial information is processed by PayPal and it is never supplied to Archaic Arcane.
Please see PayPal’s Privacy Policy for more details.

Archaic Arcane has taken measures to protect your data. All communications with shop.archaicarcane.com are protected with SHA256 encryption. On our part, we use strong passwords for administrative logins and regular password changes with strong complex 128bit passwords. Regular monitoring of security and error messages from the shop and security software lets us keep track of successful and unsuccessful logins that will quickly identify security issues like breach attempts and react. Up to date software to prevent exploitable vulnerabilities and a strong firewall software protects the site in general. All staff at Archaic Arcane are well trained with regards to web security and safe handling of personal data. We respect your data as if it were our own. Additionally, no financial information is held on this site – this further protects you from any unforeseen issues that could ever arise with this site from ever impacting you financially.

In the event that a breach were discovered, we would notify you immediately to inform you (using information supplied when you created your account) of what information was lost, how it may impact you and best practices for dealing with such an event.