Privacy Policy

This Data Privacy Policy (“Policy”) sets forth how My Country, Inc., d/b/a “MyCountryUs.com” (“We” or “Us”), collects and uses the information you provide to us and certain other information that we automatically collect through your access and use of www.mycountryus.com (“Website”) or through any communications with us generally and applies to both end-user customers visiting this Website and to our sellers. Both are generally referred to throughout this Policy as “you” or “your.”

HOW TO CONTACT US

If you have any general questions or concerns about this Policy, you can also email us at info@mycountryus.com.

MODIFICATIONS TO THIS POLICY

If we decide at any time to change this Policy, we will revise the effective revision date posted at the top of this Policy and we may also notify you by posting a notice of the change prominently on our home page (we may also elect to notify you upon the next time you log-in to access this Website after the effective date of the change(s)). Failure to opt-out after receiving notice and following the opt-out instructions contained in the notice shall be deemed to be your assent to any such changes.

HOW WE COLLECT PERSONAL INFORMATION

Check-out 

We collect and store the email address, first and last name and physical address of each customer-user who purchases any products from any of our sellers (collectively “PII”) that you provide during the check-out process when you purchase any products sold through this Website. We collect and store the applicable business information in connection with our sellers including the business name (which may include the name of any sole proprietor business), physical address, phone number and other business contact information (collectively “BI”)

We use this information as set forth in the remainder of this Policy. All credit card or other billing information you submit is only used for payment processing or fraud prevention and we do not share or disclose your credit card or other billing information with third parties except with our third party payment processor. Any specific credit card or billing information will not be kept on our server logs longer than necessary in order to complete any single transaction, unless you elect that we retain your credit card information for future purchases, or pursuant to any recurring fees required to be paid pursuant to any product(s) we sell, if any. 

We may bundle certain items constituting your PII with your past purchase history on this Website. Such bundled information is referred to hereinafter as “Purchase Data.”

Website Forms

When you provide any PII or other personally identifiable data through any form contained on this Website in order to contact us, we collect and store this information. We may use your email as expressly set forth in this Policy.

Personal Information from Children Under 13

Children under the age of 13 are expressly prohibited from submitting or posting any PII on this Website. If it does come to our attention that any child under the age of 13 has submitted any personal information to this Website, we will delete all such information that we have collected immediately. If you are a parent or guardian and you discover that your child under the age of 13 has submitted any of his or her PII without your permission or consent, we will remove the information immediately upon your request. All requests should be made by email and sent info@mycountryus.com. Please include your child’s name and a description of the type of information you think he or she may have submitted to this Website.

HOW WE AUTOMATICALLY COLLECT DATA

When you access our Website, we may collect and store through our host provider certain data sent automatically by your browser using standard web server logs and automatic data collection tools such as cookies and web beacons. This information may include your IP address, which may tell us your general location information such as your country and sometimes your city, state and/or zip code, the domain name from which you access our Website, your browser type and language, the pages you access, the date and time you access pages on our Website and your operating system version. We also may determine what technology is available through your browser in order to provide you with the most appropriate version of any of our web pages. 

Cookies & Similar Tracking Technologies

We use cookies, web beacons and other automatic data collection tools in the operation of this Website. Cookies and similar collection tools are files with a small amount of data, which includes a unique identifier. Cookies are sent to your browser from a website and transferred to your device when you log in. Visiting the login page while not authenticated, or visiting pages that don’t require login, like shared reports, does not set cookies. We reserve the right to monitor your use of this Website and track you as described in this Cookies policy by the use of any automatic data collection tools at all times and you consent to the use of these tools when you use and access our Website. 

This Website uses “first-party cookies”. (Third-party cookies are cookies that are set by a third-party source other than our Website.) We also use both “persistent cookies” that remain on your device for the period of time specified in the cookie (these cookies are activated each time you visit our Website), and “session cookies,” which allows us to track your actions on this Website during a browser session. 

The cookies and tracking technologies that may be used on this Website can be broadly divided into the following categories:

-Necessary cookies help make our Website usable by enabling basic functions like page navigation and access to secure areas of the Website. Our website cannot function properly without these cookies.

-Statistic cookies help us understand how visitors interact with this website by collecting and reporting information anonymously.

-Marketing cookies are used on this Website by Google and other third-parties to track visitors across different websites. The intention is to display ads that are relevant and engaging for the individual Google user.

I. First-Party Cookies/Tracking Technologies

A. Website Session Management: enables users to log-in and authenticates a user or in order to store specific user preferences and settings.

B. Shopping Cart: Cookies and similar tools are used to facilitate shopping cart and e-commerce functionality with the storage and retrieval of items customer-users place in his/her shopping cart and to facilitate the operation of convenient shopping cart and check-out features. 

C. Google Analytics Services: We may use web analytics services, such as Google Analytics, in order to collect information. This information is collected in the aggregate and may include the number of page visits, duration, sources of traffic, visited pages, preferred sections, keywords used to find our Website, technical details of visitors’ devices, our visitors’ age, gender, interests, and location. We use Dokan to provide our store dashboard for our vendors, which integrates Google Analytics. Google Analytics only shows us a unique user ID and does not share your personal information, Google user name or IP address, which means you can’t really see and analyze how specific users behave on our Website. We pass a “first party cookie” onto your browser directly from our Website when we use Google Analytics. You may opt-out of Google Analytics by using Google’s Browser Add-on at https://tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout.  

D. Email Retargeting: We may also use tools that help us understand whether users read email messages or newsletters and/or click on links contained within those messages or newsletters so that we can deliver relevant content or product offers. Through the use of unique identifiers contained in the URL of tools such as web beacons, we are able to record the exact time that you read our emails, as well as your IP address. Requests to the server to send the additional content typically includes the IP address of the requesting computer, the time the content was requested, the type of web browser that made the request and the existence of cookies previously set by that server, which may be linked to a unique tracking “token”. When you open a promotional email from us which contains a tracking pixel, this action is also tracked to trigger the display targeted interest-based ads to you on third party “Ad partner” sites that you visit.

II. Third-Party Cookies

We do not use third-party cookies on our Website. 

III. How To Manage Cookies

You can block our cookies or third-party cookies by activating the setting on your browser that allows you to refuse the setting of all or some cookies. However, if you use your browser settings to block all cookies (including essential cookies), you will not be able to use our Website in any meaningful manner as intended. Your Internet browser allows you to change your cookie settings in the ‘options’ or ‘preferences’ menu of your browser.

Social Media and Plugins

We may also provide access to services or features on our Website that enables you to share information with certain social networks and interact with us on our social media fan pages or other social media platforms that we may utilize. This may include the Facebook “Like” or share buttons or the Facebook “Comments” feature, social media “follow-us” buttons, etc., all of which are administered via third party applications or scripts that run on our Website. Your use of these features may result in the collection or sharing of information about you by these third party social media websites. Your interactions with these social media features are governed by the privacy policy of the party that provides the specific feature or application. You should carefully review the privacy policies and settings on those specific social media sites. We shall, under no circumstances, have any liability to you whatsoever for the information collection and use/disclosure practices of any such third party that has provided or made available any social media feature or application that you use on our Website.

HOW WE USE/SHARE YOUR DATA

Promotional & Informational Use of PII

We use the e-mail address provided by You to send periodic promotional emails about any products sold on this Website or about any new or upcoming products or services We may offer directly.

Email Marketing Opt-Out

It is our intention to fully comply with the CAN-SPAM Act of 2003. If you no longer wish to have any emails sent to you, please click on the ’unsubscribe’ button at the bottom of any and all emails to opt-out. This does not apply to any transactional based emails sent by us that we are required to send to you including proof of purchases and fulfillment of any contractual obligations to deliver any purchased products to you. 

Do We Share Your PII or Any Purchase Data?

We do not directly share or sell any PII or any aggregated or non-aggregated Purchase Data with any advertising agencies, direct marketers, lead generation companies or ad networks. We make every effort to respect your privacy and purchase history data and we will never sell, license or disclose any PII or any Purchase “Data, by itself, or bundled with any Website use information, or other information you provide directly, or that we collect automatically, to any third parties, for any purpose not expressly set forth in this Policy without your prior express written consent.

Required Disclosures

We may disclose certain PII if i) requested via a subpoena, court order, or local, state, federal or international law enforcement request to release any such information; or ii) in order to investigate and help prevent security threats, fraud or other malicious activity; or iii) to protect our rights or protect our property, or any of the rights of our customers or other third parties.

Communications

When you visit this Website, submit posts on our forums or send emails to us, you are communicating with us electronically. You consent to receive communications from us electronically. You agree that all agreements, notices and other communications that we provide to you electronically satisfy any legal requirement that such communications be in writing. All posts submitted by you on the forums of this Website shall not be treated as confidential and shall be deemed to be accessible to the general public. You should not transmit any information in your posts that you intend only the intended recipient(s) to read. Notice is hereby given that all messages or electronic data transmitted onto this Website can and may be read by us, regardless of whether we are the intended recipient of any such message(s).

THIRD-PARTY PRIVACY PRACTICES 

You may be given the opportunity to click on third-party links contained on our Website. We may also rely on third-party service providers to operate this Website that may have limited access to PII. WE HAVE NO CONTROL OVER AND WE SHALL NOT BE LIABLE TO YOU IN ANY MANNER WHATSOEVER FOR THE DATA COLLECTION AND USE PRACTICES OF SUCH THIRD PARTIES. You should carefully read any third-party privacy policy made available to you to understand how any PII may be used.

—CALIFORNIA CONSUMER PRIVACY NOTICE

-Effective Date: October 1st, 2022

-Last Reviewed on: October 1st, 2022

California residents that we may collect PII from have certain rights. The following Privacy Notice is intended for California Residents to inform them specifically about the data we collect and share as contained in our general Privacy Policy above and applies solely to all visitors, users, and others who reside in the state of California (”consumers” or “you”). We adopt this notice to comply with the California Consumer Privacy Act of 2018, as amended, (“CCPA”). Any terms defined in the CCPA have the same meaning when used in this notice. The defined term PII as used throughout our general privacy policy may also be used in this California Privacy Notice.

Further, California Civil Code Section 1798.83 permits California residents to request certain information regarding our disclosure of their personal information to third parties for their direct marketing purposes. California law also allows California residents to opt-out of having this information disclosed. 

Under California Law SB 27, California residents have the right to receive, up to twice a year, information about third parties with whom we have shared information about you or your family for their marketing purposes during the previous calendar year, and a description of the categories of personal information shared. If You are a California resident and desire to make such a request, please info@mycountryus.com. Please include the words “California Privacy Disclosure Request” in the subject line. 

To learn more about your California privacy rights, visit https://oag.ca.gov/privacy/ccpa.

Information We Collect From California Residents

Our Website has collected the following categories of personal information from visitors including California residents within the last twelve (12) months:

A. Identifiers. A real first and last name, Internet Protocol address, email address, or other similar identifiers.

B. Internet or other similar network activity. Browsing history, search history, information on a visitor’s interaction with a website, application, or advertisement.

We obtain the categories of PII listed above from the following sources:

• Directly from you when you opt-in to sign up to receive more information, or register as a vendor to offer products for sale.
• Indirectly from you through our use of cookies to automatically track your website use.

PII does not include:

• Publicly available information obtained from government records.
• Anonymous or aggregated consumer information.
• Information excluded from the CCPA’s scope including health or medical information covered by the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act of 1996 (HIPAA) and the California Confidentiality of Medical Information Act (CMIA) or clinical trial data, or personal information covered by certain sector-specific privacy laws, including the Fair Credit Reporting Act (FRCA), the Gramm-Leach-Bliley Act (GLBA) or California Financial Information Privacy Act (FIPA), and the Driver’s Privacy Protection Act of 1994.

How We Use Your PII

We may use, or disclose the personal information we collect for one or more of the following business purposes:

• To fulfill or meet the reason you provided the information. 
• To provide you with support and to respond to your inquiries, including to investigate and address your concerns and monitor and improve our responses.
• To respond to law enforcement requests and as required by applicable law, court order, or governmental regulations.
• As described to you when collecting your personal information or as otherwise set forth in the CCPA.
• To customize, tailor and present our Website and its contents to you.
• To provide you with information, products, or services that you request from us..
• To facilitate a transaction with our affiliated entities.
• To offer similar products and/or services to you in the future.

We may share your personal information with the following categories of third parties:

• Vendors who provide email marketing and general promotions technology;
• Vendors who provide to us metrics, trends data and analytics reports;
• Vendors who provide sales conversion and user experience technology;
• Vendors who provide technology that helps customize your user experience;
• Vendors who provide fraud protection technology;
• Vendors who provide technology to help us process, track and fulfill orders; and

Business Purpose Disclosure

In the preceding twelve (12) months, we have disclosed personal information for the following business purposes:

• Performing services on behalf of our business, including facilitating any transactions between you and of our affiliated entities, verifying your information, providing advertising or marketing services, providing analytic services, or providing similar services on behalf of the business.

Sales of Personal Information

In the preceding twelve (12) months, we have not directly sold any personal information.

California Consumer Rights 

The CCPA provides consumers (California residents) with specific rights regarding their personal information. This section describes your CCPA rights and explains how to exercise those rights as set forth below.

A. Information Disclosure and Data Portability Rights

You have the right to request that we disclose certain information to you about our collection and use of your personal information over the past 12 months. Once we receive and confirm your verifiable consumer request, we will disclose to you:

• The categories of personal information we collected about you.
• The categories of sources for the personal information we collected about you.
• Our business or commercial purpose for collecting or selling that personal information.
• The categories of third parties with whom we share that personal information.
• The specific pieces of personal information we collected about you (also called a data portability request).

B. Deletion Request Rights

You have the right to request that we delete any of your personal information that we collected from you and retained, subject to certain exceptions. Once we receive and confirm your verifiable consumer request, we will delete (and direct our service providers to delete) your personal information from our records, unless an exception applies.

We may deny your deletion request if retaining the information is necessary for us or our service provider(s) to:

• Complete the transaction for which we collected the personal information, provide a good or service that you requested, take actions reasonably anticipated within the context of our ongoing business relationship with you, or otherwise perform our contract with you.
• Detect security incidents, protect against malicious, deceptive, fraudulent, or illegal activity, or prosecute those responsible for such activities.
• Debug products to identify and repair errors that impair existing intended functionality.
• Exercise free speech, ensure the right of another consumer to exercise their free speech rights, or exercise another right provided for by law.
• Comply with the California Electronic Communications Privacy Act (Cal. Penal Code §1546 et. seq.).
• Engage in public or peer-reviewed scientific, historical, or statistical research in the public interest that adheres to all other applicable ethics and privacy laws, when the information’s deletion may likely render impossible or seriously impair the research’s achievement, if you previously provided informed consent.
• Enable solely internal uses that are reasonably aligned with consumer expectations based on your relationship with us.
• Comply with a legal obligation.
• Make other internal and lawful uses of that information that are compatible with the context in which you provided it.

C. Exercising Your California Consumer Rights

To exercise the access, data portability, and deletion rights described above, please submit a verifiable consumer request to us by sending a message to info@mycountryus.com. Only you, or a person registered with the California Secretary of State that you authorize to act on your behalf, may make a verifiable consumer request related to your personal information. You may also make a verifiable consumer request on behalf of your minor child.

You may only make a verifiable consumer request for access or data portability twice within a 12-month period. The verifiable consumer request must:

• Provide sufficient information that allows us to reasonably verify you are the person about whom we collected personal information or an authorized representative.
• Describe your request with sufficient detail that allows us to properly understand, evaluate, and respond to it.

Please note that we cannot respond to any request or provide you with personal information if we cannot verify your identity or authority to make the request and confirm the personal information relates to you. We will only use personal information provided in a verifiable consumer request to verify the requestor’s identity or authority to make the request.

Verifiable Request Response Time

We shall respond to a verifiable consumer request within forty-five (45) days of its receipt. If we need more time, we will inform you of the reason and extension period in writing. We will deliver our written response by mail or electronically, at your option. Any disclosures we provide will only cover the 12-month period preceding the verifiable consumer request’s receipt. The response we provide will also explain the reasons we cannot comply with a request, if applicable. For data portability requests, we will select a format to provide your personal information that is readily usable and should allow you to transmit the information from one entity to another without hindrance, specifically by electronic mail communication. We do not charge a fee to process or respond to your verifiable consumer request unless it is excessive, repetitive, or manifestly unfounded. If we determine that the request warrants a fee, we will tell you why we made that decision and provide you with a cost estimate before completing your request.

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HOW WE PROTECT YOUR DATA

We take the security of your data very seriously. All traffic between your browser and our servers is encrypted during transmission using Secure Sockets Layer (SSL) encryption. However, we make no guarantee, warranty or representation that any information provided through this Website will remain secure at all times from any illegal or unauthorized access of any data including any PII by third parties. We will report any unauthorized access to your information promptly upon discovery, and we will use our best efforts to remedy any security vulnerability that contributed to unauthorized access.

GENERAL INFORMATION

Information Storage And International Transfer

Any PII and all other information that we collect on this Website will be stored and processed in our servers located in the United States. If you reside outside the United States, you consent to the collection, transfer, storage, and processing of any information from your country to the United States.

How to View Your PII

You can request to view any of your collected PII at any time by emailing us at info@mycountryus.com.

Successors

Upon any acquisition, merger, sale or other change of control of our business/organization, we reserve the right to transfer any PII you have submitted to this Website as part of the property owned by us to our successor resulting from such merger, acquisition, sale, etc. In the event of our bankruptcy, insolvency, reorganization, receivership, or assignment for the benefit of creditors, or the application of laws or equitable principles affecting creditors’ rights generally, We reserve the right to transfer your PII to protect any of our rights or as required by law.