Privacy policy
Your privacy is important to us. It is Vintage Quality Cameras' policy to respect your privacy regarding any information we may collect from you across our website, www.vqcameras.com, and other sites we own and operate.
Vintage Quality Cameras (“The Company”, “we”, “us”, “www.vqcameras.com”) is committed to protecting your privacy when you visit our website, www.vqcameras.com. You can access vqcameras.com and browse our site without disclosing any of your personal data. vqcameras.com does not collect personal information about individuals, such as names and mailing or e-mail addresses unless it is knowingly provided by the individual and he or she has agreed to the terms under which vqcameras.com will use it.
Please read this Privacy Policy carefully before you start to use the Website. By using the Website, you accept and agree to be bound and abide by the Privacy Policy. If you do not want to agree to the Privacy Policy, you must not access or use the Website.
You are free to refuse our request for your personal information, with the understanding that we may be unable to provide you with some of your desired services.
If you have any questions about how we handle user data and personal information, feel free to contact us.
We only ask for personal information when we truly need it to provide a service to you. We collect it by fair and lawful means, with your knowledge and consent.
We only retain collected information for as long as necessary to provide you with your requested service. We share this information with Shopify, our website hosting provider, so they can provide website services to us. What data we store, we’ll protect within commercially acceptable means to prevent loss and theft, as well as unauthorised access, disclosure, copying, use or modification.
Disclosure of Information
Vintage Quality Cameras will not sell, trade, or rent your personal information to others. We do not automatically log personal data nor do we link information automatically logged by other means with personal data about specific individuals. We may use IP addresses to compile and provide aggregate statistics about our visitors, traffic patterns, and administer the site. IP addresses are not linked to personally identifiable information. We collect only the personal data that you may volunteer while using our services. We do not collect information about our visitors from other sources, such as public records or bodies, or private organizations.
We don’t share any personally identifying information publicly or with third-parties, except when required to by law.
Analytics
This website collects personal data to power our site analytics, including:
- Information about your browser, network, and device
- Web pages you visited prior to coming to this website
- Your IP address
This information may also include details about your use of this website, including:
- Clicks
- Internal links
- Pages visited
- Scrolling
- Searches
- Timestamps
We share this information with Shopify, our website analytics provider, to learn about site traffic and activity.
Cookies
Similar to other websites, our website utilizes a standard technology called “cookies” and server logs to collect information about how our site is used. Information gathered through cookies and server logs may include the date and time of visits, the pages viewed, time spent at our site, and the websites visited just before and just after our own, as well as your IP address.
The Company reserves the right to use technological equivalents of cookies, including social media pixels. These pixels allow social media sites to track visitors to outside websites so as to tailor advertising messages users see while visiting that social media website. The Company reserves the right to use these pixels in compliance with the policies of the various social media sites.
Third Party Use of Cookies
Some content or applications, including advertisements, on the Website, are served by third-parties, including advertisers, ad networks and servers, content providers, and application providers. These third parties may use cookies alone or in conjunction with web beacons or other tracking technologies to collect information about you when you use our website. The information they collect may be associated with your personal information or they may collect information, including personal information, about your online activities over time and across different websites and other online services. They may use this information to provide you with interest-based (behavioral) advertising or other targeted content.
We do not control these third parties’ tracking technologies or how they may be used. If you have any questions about an advertisement or other targeted content, you should contact the responsible provider directly.
Emails
Abandoned cart emails: you’ll receive an automated email within 24 hours after you abandon your shopping cart, if all of the following occur:
- You enter your email address at checkout, or are logged into your Customer Account.
- You add a product which is in stock to your shopping cart.
- You close your browser or leave this website without completing your purchase.
You can unsubscribe from these messages at the bottom of the email.
The email will link back to this website, where you can pick up where you left off and complete your purchase.
Marketing emails: We may send you marketing emails, which you can unsubscribe from by clicking the link at the bottom of the email. We share your contact information with Shopify, our email marketing provider, so they can send these emails on our behalf.
Order and account emails: We may email you with messages about your order or account activity. For example, we may email you to tell you that:
- You’ve created a Customer Account
- Your Customer Account password has been reset or updated
- You’ve made a purchase
- Your order has shipped
It’s not possible to unsubscribe from these messages.
We share your contact information with Shopify, our website hosting provider, so they can send these emails to you on our behalf.
Fonts
This website uses font files from Google Fonts and Adobe Fonts. To properly display this site to you, servers where the font files are stored may receive personal information about you, including:
- Information about your browser, network, or device
- Your IP address
Visitor data
For customers: When you buy something on this website, we collect personal information from you to fulfill the order. We may collect information like your:
- Billing and shipping address
- Details relating to your purchase
- Email address
- Name
- Phone number
We share this information with Shopify, our online store hosting provider, so that they can provide website services to us.
As you go through checkout, this site may auto-complete your shipping and billing address by sharing what you type with the Google Places API and returning suggestions to you to improve your checkout experience.
For website visitors: This website is hosted by Shopify. Shopify collects personal data when you visit this website, including:
- Information about your browser, network and device
- Web pages you visited prior to coming to this website
- Your IP address
Shopify needs the data to run this website, and to protect and improve its platform and services. Shopify analyzes the data in a de-personalized form.
Data Protection
Some of the information you may enter on our website may be transmitted securely via a secure medium known as Secure Sockets Layer, or SSL.
The Company may use software programs to create summary statistics, which are used for such purposes as assessing the number of visitors to the different sections of our site, what information is of most and least interest, determining technical design specifications, and identifying system performance or problem areas.
For site security purposes and to ensure that this service remains available to all users, the Company uses software programs to monitor network traffic to identify unauthorized attempts to upload or change information, or otherwise cause damage.
Visitors’ GDPR Rights
If you are within the European Union, you are entitled to certain information and have certain rights under the General Data Protection Regulation. Those rights include:
We will retain the any information you choose to provide to us until the earlier of (a) you ask us to delete the information, (b) our decision to cease using our existing data providers, or (c) the Company decides that the value in retaining the data is outweighed by the costs of retaining it.
You have the right to request access to your data that the Company stores and the rights to either rectify or erase your personal data.
You have the right to seek restrictions on the processing of your data.
You have the right to object to the processing of your data and the right to the portability of your data.
To the extent that you provided consent to the Company’s processing of your personal data, you have the right to withdraw that consent at any time, without affecting the lawfulness of processing based upon consent that occurred prior to your withdrawal of consent.
You have the right to lodge a complaint with a supervisory authority that has jurisdiction over issues related to the General Data Protection Regulation.
We require only the information that is reasonably required to enter into a contract with you. We will not require you to provide consent for any unnecessary processing as a condition of entering into a contract with us.
Should you wish to have your information deleted, please email us at info@vqcameras.com and submit a request.
External Web Sites
Our website may link to external sites that are not operated by us. Please be aware that we have no control over the content and practices of these sites, and cannot accept responsibility or liability for their respective privacy policies.
We encourage our users to be aware that when they leave our site that you read the privacy statements of each web site that might collect personally identifying information.
Affiliate Disclaimer
Vintage Quality Cameras may have financial relationships with a number of companies mentioned on this website, and vqcameras.com may be compensated if you click through via the links on this website.
Transactional Information
If you purchase products or services from us, please bear in mind that payments are processed by third-party payment processors (e.g., PayPal, Shopify payments, banks, etc.), so please refer to the applicable processor’s terms and privacy policy for more information about how payment information is processed and stored.
Changes
We may change this Privacy Policy from time to time. If we do, we will let you know by revising the date at the top of the policy. If we make a change to this policy that, in our sole discretion, is material, we will provide you with additional notice. We encourage you to review the Privacy Policy whenever you access or use our Services or otherwise interact with us to stay informed about our information practices and the ways you can help protect your privacy. If you continue to use our Services after Privacy Policy changes go into effect, you consent to the revised policy.
Contact us
This privacy statement applies solely to information collected by vqcameras.com. If you have any questions or concerns about our privacy policy, please contact: info@vqcameras.com