Effective Date: January 1, 2025
Belttalks.com (“we,” “us,” or “our”) is committed to protecting your privacy. This Privacy Policy outlines how we collect, use, disclose, and safeguard your information when you visit our website https://belttalks.com (the “Site”). Please read this policy carefully to understand our views and practices regarding your personal data and how we will treat it.
1. Information We Collect
a. Personal Information
When you interact with our Site, we may collect personal information that you voluntarily provide to us, including but not limited to:
- Identity Data: Full name, username or similar identifier.
- Contact Data: Billing address, shipping address, email address, and telephone numbers.
- Financial Data: Payment card details (processed securely via third-party payment processors).
- Transaction Data: Details about payments to and from you and other details of products you have purchased from us.
- Profile Data: Your username and password, purchases or orders made by you, your interests, preferences, feedback, and survey responses.
- Marketing and Communications Data: Your preferences in receiving marketing from us and your communication preferences.
b. Technical Information
As you navigate through our Site, we may automatically collect technical information about your equipment, browsing actions, and patterns. This may include:
- Device Information: IP address, browser type and version, time zone setting, browser plug-in types and versions, operating system and platform.
- Usage Data: Information about how you use our website, products, and services.
2. How We Use Your Information
We use the information we collect in the following ways:
- To Fulfill Orders: Process and deliver your orders, including managing payments, fees, and charges.
- Customer Support: Manage our relationship with you, including notifying you about changes to our terms or privacy policy.
- Account Management: Enable you to partake in a prize draw, competition, or complete a survey.
- Marketing: Deliver relevant website content and advertisements to you and measure or understand the effectiveness of the advertising we serve to you.
- Analytics: Use data analytics to improve our website, products/services, marketing, customer relationships, and experiences.
- Security: Protect our business and your account from fraud and other illegal activities.
3. Sharing Your Information
We may share your personal data with the parties set out below for the purposes outlined in Section 2:
- Service Providers: Third-party vendors who provide services such as website hosting, data analysis, payment processing, order fulfillment, information technology, and related infrastructure provision, customer service, email delivery, auditing, and other services.
- Compliance with Laws: If required to do so by law or in response to valid requests by public authorities (e.g., a court or a government agency).
- Business Transfers: In connection with, or during negotiations of, any merger, sale of company assets, financing, or acquisition of all or a portion of our business to another company.
4. Cookies and Tracking Technologies
We use cookies and similar tracking technologies to track activity on our Site and hold certain information. Cookies are files with a small amount of data which may include an anonymous unique identifier. You can instruct your browser to refuse all cookies or to indicate when a cookie is being sent. However, if you do not accept cookies, some parts of our Site may become inaccessible or not function properly.
5. Data Retention
We will retain your personal information only for as long as necessary to fulfill the purposes we collected it for, including satisfying any legal, accounting, or reporting requirements.
6. Your Data Protection Rights
Depending on your location, you may have the following rights regarding your personal data:
- Access: The right to request copies of your personal data.
- Rectification: The right to request that we correct any information you believe is inaccurate or complete information you believe is incomplete.
- Erasure: The right to request that we erase your personal data, under certain conditions.
- Restrict Processing: The right to request that we restrict the processing of your personal data
