Privacy Policy and Cookies

This website uses an encrypted connection, which means that your data is not transmitted “visibly” from your computer to the network. It is encrypted beforehand to ensure an optimal level of security.

Hosting is provided by the French company OVH, on servers located in Europe. You can consult the commitments of OVH by consulting their page dedicated to the protection of personal data.

Collected Data

This website collects different types of data when browsing: form data and data related to applications provided by third parties.

Form Data

When you subscribe to the newsletter, your email address is sent to MailChimp, a company specialized in emailing.

This email address will be used to send news and informations about the website « Mei Line », on a regular basis. Your email address will not be transferred or sold to any other third party company, or used for any other purpose than sending you a newsletter.

For more information on how MailChimp assures the privacy of your data, please read their page about security.

Data related to applications provided by third parties

This website uses Google Fonts (provided by Google Inc.) to enhance its content. This service may create cookies and automatically collect usage data. This data is processed on the servers of Google Inc. in the United States.

For more information on how Google Inc. assures the privacy of your data, please read their privacy policy.

This website also uses a protection software created by Defiant Inc. to protect the site and the data it contains from possible attack. In order to analyze visitor behavior and block suspicious behavior, this software automatically collects usage data and creates cookies for registered users who log on to the site with a username and password. The data is stored temporarily in the database of the website. It is automatically erased after a few days.

For more information on how Defiant Inc. maintains data privacy, please refer to their RGPD page.

What we collect and 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 shipping costs
• 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
• Send you marketing messages, if you choose to receive them

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 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.

Cookie Policy

What are cookies?

This Cookie Policy explains what cookies are and how we use them, the types of cookies we use i.e, the information we collect using cookies and how that information is used, and how to manage the cookie settings.
Cookies are small text files that are used to store small pieces of information. They are stored on your device when the website is loaded on your browser. These cookies help us make the website function properly, make it more secure, provide better user experience, and understand how the website performs and to analyze what works and where it needs improvement.

How do we use cookies?

As most of the online services, our website uses first-party and third-party cookies for several purposes. First-party cookies are mostly necessary for the website to function the right way, and they do not collect any of your personally identifiable data.
The third-party cookies used on our website are mainly for understanding how the website performs, how you interact with our website, keeping our services secure, providing advertisements that are relevant to you, and all in all providing you with a better and improved user experience and help speed up your future interactions with our website.

Types of Cookies we use

Manage cookie preferences

Cookie Settings

You can change your cookie preferences any time by clicking the above link. This will let you revisit the cookie consent banner and change your preferences or withdraw your consent right away.

In addition to this, different browsers provide different methods to block and delete cookies used by websites. You can change the settings of your browser to block/delete the cookies. Listed below are the links to the support documents on how to manage and delete cookies from the major web browsers.

Chrome: https://support.google.com/accounts/answer/32050

Safari: https://support.apple.com/en-in/guide/safari/sfri11471/mac

Firefox: https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/clear-cookies-and-site-data-firefox?redirectslug=delete-cookies-remove-info-websites-stored&redirectlocale=en-US

Internet Explorer: https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/topic/how-to-delete-cookie-files-in-internet-explorer-bca9446f-d873-78de-77ba-d42645fa52fc

If you are using any other web browser, please visit your browser’s official support documents.

Payments

We accept payments through PayPlug. When processing payments, some of your data will be passed to PayPlug, including information required to process or support the payment, such as the purchase total and billing information.

Please check PayPlugs’s privacy policy here

Comments and Registered Users

When you leave a comment on this website, the data entered in the comment form, but also your IP address and the user agent of your browser are collected to help us detect unwanted comments.

An anonymized channel created from your email address can be sent to the Gravatar service to see if you are using the Gravatar service. After validation of your comment, your profile picture will be visible publicly next to your comment.

The privacy clauses of the Gravatar service are available here.

When you leave a comment on this website, you will be asked to save your name, email address and website in cookies. It’s only for your comfort so you do not have to enter this information if you post another comment later. These cookies expire after one year.

If you have an account and log on to this site, a temporary cookie will be created to determine if your browser accepts cookies. It does not contain any personal data and will be deleted automatically when you close your browser.

When you sign in, we’ll set up a number of cookies to save your login information and screen preferences. The lifetime of a login cookie is two days, that of a screen option cookie is one year. If you check “remember me”, your cookie will be kept for two weeks. If you log out of your account, the login cookie will be deleted.

By modifying or posting an article, an additional cookie will be saved in your browser. This cookie does not include any personal data. It simply indicates the identifier of the article you have just modified. It expires after one day.

WooCommerce Multilingual

WooCommerce Multilingual will use cookies to understand the basket info when using languages in domains and to transfer data between the domains.

WooCommerce Multilingual will also use cookies to identify the language and currency of each customer’s order as well as the currency of the reports created by WooCommerce. WooCommerce Multilingual extends these reports by adding the currency’s information.

Users’ Rights

You have a legal right to consult, modify and erase all or part of your personal data. To exercise this right, you can contact us at contact@meiline.fr, specifying the exact nature of your request (consultation, modification or deletion). This does not take into account data stored for administrative, legal or security purposes.

Modifications of this Privacy Policy

We reserve the right to change this Privacy Policy at any time. If a user objects to any changes to this policy, they must stop using this website and may request to delete their personal data. Unless otherwise stated, the privacy policy then in force applies to all personal data held.

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Last update: November 24th, 2021