PLEASE READ THESE PRIVACY POLICY AND OUR TERMS OF SERVICE CAREFULLY BEFORE USING THE SITE. YOUR USE OF ANY PART OF THE SITE CONSTITUTES YOUR ACCEPTANCE OF AND AGREEMENT TO THESE TERMS OF SERVICE AND THE COLLECTION AND USE OF YOUR USER INFORMATION AND OTHER INFORMATION IN ACCORDANCE WITH OUR PRIVACY POLICY.

At Matriarqè (matriarqe.com) we respect your privacy and are committed to protecting it.

This policy covers information we collect from or about you when you give it to us, visit our website, use one of our apps, visit any of our locations, or interact with our advertisements. It also covers information that we may receive from other persons or companies who have received your information and can share it with us.

By using our website, you (the visitor) agree to allow third parties to process your IP address, in order to determine your location for the purpose of currency conversion. You also agree to have that currency stored in a session cookie in your browser (a temporary cookie which gets automatically removed when you close your browser). We do this in order for the selected currency to remain selected and consistent when browsing our website so that the prices can convert to your (the visitor) local currency.

If in any case our privacy practices differ from those explained in this policy, we will let you know you at the time we ask for or collect your information.

1. PERSONAL INFORMATION WE COLLECT

We may collect the following types of information about you, which we have grouped together as follows:

- Identity Information. Examples include first name, last name, marital status, title, date of birth and gender.

- Contact Information. Examples include billing address, shipping address, email address and telephone numbers.

- Financial Information. Examples include payment card details.

- Transaction Information. Examples include details about payments to and from you and other details of products and services you have purchased from us.

- Technical Information. Examples include internet protocol (IP) address, your login information, browser type and version, time zone setting and location, browser plug-in types and versions, operating system and platform, some of the cookies that are installed on your device, and other technology on the devices you use to access our website.

- Profile Information. Examples include your username and password, purchases or orders made by you, your interests, preferences, feedback and survey responses.

- Marketing and Communications Information. Examples include your preferences in receiving marketing from us and our third parties and your communication preferences.

- Demographic Information and Preferences. Examples include personal characteristics and preferences, such as your age, marital and family status, number of children, shopping preferences, income level, languages spoken, loyalty and rewards program information, household demographic data, data from social media platforms, education and professional information, hobbies and interests and propensity scores from third parties (likelihood of purchase, experiencing a life event, etc.)

- User Content. Examples include photos, reviews, and other feedback that you provide to us on or through our social media pages or websites about our products, locations, and services. If you choose to provide User Content, it may be made available on public areas of our website or on or through our social media channels.

Some of the information we collect about you may be personal information, or personal data, that can be used to identify you including, for example, your name, email address, mailing address or delivery address. In some jurisdictions, certain unique identifiers like IP addresses and other usage or technical information may be considered personal information. Personal information does not include data where your identity has been removed so that we can no longer identify you (anonymous data), which we may use for any purpose.

1. CHILDREN’S ONLINE PRIVACY

Our Website is not intended for children under 18 years of age. No one under age 18 may provide any information to or on the Website. We do not knowingly collect personal information from children under 18. If you are under 18, do not use or provide any information on the Website, register on the Website, make any purchases through the Website, use any interactive or public comment features that may be available on the Website, or provide any information about yourself to us, including your name, address, telephone number, email address, or any screen name or user name you may use. If we learn we have collected or received personal information from a child under 18 without verification of parental consent, we will delete that information.

If you believe we might have any information from or about a child under 18, please contact us at info@matriarqe.com.

1. HOW WE COLLECT YOUR INFORMATION

We collect information from and about you in the following ways:

- When you provide it to us. You may give us information about you by filling in forms or by communicating with us by email or otherwise. This includes information you provide when you register for an account, subscribe to one of our newsletters or other communications, enroll our loyalty program, place an order, participate in one of our events, write a review, or when you otherwise contact us about our website, products, or services. We may also collection information from you if you sign up for a tour at one of our locations or complete a visitor comment card.

- From our websites and emails. As you interact with our website, use our apps, websites using our cookies, or our emails, we may automatically collect Technical Information about your equipment, browsing actions and patterns. We collect this information by using cookies, server logs, web beacons, and other similar technologies. Our Cookies and automatic data collection technologies section contains more information and options to control or opt-out of certain data collection or uses.

- From others. We may receive information about you from third parties including, for example, our affiliated companies, third party marketing partner, subcontractors, analytics providers, and service providers. We may also receive information about you from commercially available sources such as data aggregators and public databases.

1. COOKIES AND AUTOMATIC DATA COLLECTION TECHNOLOGIES

Our websites use automatic data collection technologies to distinguish you from other website users. This helps us deliver a better and more personalized service when you browse our website. It also allows us to improve our websites by enabling us to:

- Estimate our audience size and usage patterns.

- Store your preferences so we may customize our websites according to your individual interests.

- Speed up your searches.

- Recognize you when you return to our website.

We also may use these technologies to collect information about your online activities over time and across third-party websites or other online services (behavioral tracking). For more information, see the Interest-based advertising section of this privacy policy.

We collect Device Information using the following technologies:

- “Cookies” are data files that are placed on your device or computer and often include an anonymous unique identifier. For more information about cookies, and how to disable cookies, visit http://www.allaboutcookies.org.

-“Log files” track actions occurring on the Site, and collect data including your IP address, browser type, Internet service provider, referring/exit pages, and date/time stamps.

- “Web beacons,” “tags,” and “pixels”: our website pages, advertisements, and e-mails may contain small transparent embedded images or objects known as web beacons (also referred to as clear gifs, pixel tags, and single-pixel gifs) that permit us, for example, to count website page visitors or email readers, or to compile other similar statistics such as recording website content popularity or verifying system and server integrity.

We may use Google Analytics to provide certain analytics services for us. More information about Google Analytics can be found in the Google Analytics Terms of Use and the Google Analytics Privacy Policy.

Additionally when you make a purchase or attempt to make a purchase through the Site, we collect certain information from you, including your name, billing address, shipping address, payment information (including credit card numbers), email address, and phone number. We refer to this information as “Order Information.”When we talk about “Personal Information” in this Privacy Policy, we are talking both about Device Information and Order Information.

1. HOW WE USE YOUR INFORMATION

We may use your information to conduct our business operations including for the following purposes:

- To create and manage your account.

- To provide you with products and services you request or purchase from us.

- To allow you to enter a sweepstake, contest, promotion, other program that we may offer.

- To conduct market research.

- To develop and provide advertising tailored to your interest and to determine the effectiveness of our advertising.

- To provide you with the information or support that you request from us, including to send you newsletters.

- To improve our website, products or services, marketing, customer relationships, and experiences.

- To develop new products and services.

- To notify you of special offers, discounts, stock availability and other updates, and products and services that we think may be of interest to you.

- To manage our relationship with you which may include notifying you about changes to our terms or privacy policy, providing you notices about your account, asking you to leave a review or take a survey, addressing any concerns you may have about our products or services.

- To provide you with the information, products, services or support that you request form us or to fulfill any other purpose for which you provide it.

- To deliver relevant content, advertisements, and messaging to you and to measure or understand the effectiveness of such content, advertisements, and messaging.

- To make suggestions and recommendations to you about our own and third-parties products or services that may be of interest to you.

- To carry out our obligations and enforce our rights and to protect our websites, customers, and other individuals including to protect against or identify possible fraudulent transactions.

- For any other purpose as may be permitted by law or that we describe when you provide the information.

We may use information that is not personal information for any purpose. For example, we may aggregate usage data from many people in a way that does not identify any individuals to calculate the percentage of users accessing a feature on the website.

1. DISCLOSURE OF YOUR INFORMATION

We may share non-personal information without restriction. We may share your personal information with:

- Any member of our corporate group, which means our subsidiaries, affiliates, our ultimate holding company and its subsidiaries, and affiliates.

- To contractors, service providers, and other third parties we use to support our business and who are bound by contractual obligations to keep personal information confidential and use it only for the purposes for which we disclose it to them.

- To our third party marketing partner who provides services on our behalf but who may also use the information we provide for their own commercial purposes. For example, some of our advertising partners may use information to market other parties’ products and services to you. For more information see Interest-based advertising. For example, we use Shopify to power our online store--you can read more about how Shopify uses your Personal Information here: https://www.shopify.com/legal/privacy. We also use Google Analytics to help us understand how our customers use the Site--you can read more about how Google uses your Personal Information here: https://www.google.com/intl/en/policies/privacy/. You can also opt-out of Google Analytics here: https://tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout.

- To public or government (including enforcement) authorities.

- To an actual or prospective buyer or other successor in the event of merger, divestiture, restructuring, reorganization, dissolution or other sale or transfer of some or all of our assets, where one of the transferred assets is the personal information we hold.

- If we offer a co-branded promotion, to our co-sponsor.

- To fulfill the purpose for which you provide it.

- For any other purpose as may be permitted by law or that we describe when you provide the information.

We may also disclose your personal information:

- To comply with any court order, law, or legal process, including responding to any government or regulatory request.

- To enforce our Terms of Service and other agreements with you.

- To protect the rights, property, or safety of our business, our employees, our customers, or others. This includes exchanging information with other companies and organizations for the purposes of cybersecurity, fraud protection and credit risk reduction.

- To investigate suspected violations of any law, rule or regulation, or the terms or policies for our website.

We may also use your information to contact you about our own and third-parties' products and services that may be of interest to you. If you do not want us to use your information in this way, please adjust your user preferences in your account profile or opt-out as directed when you receive such an email from us.

1. BEHAVIOURAL ADVERTISING

Some content or applications on our websites, including advertisements, are served by third parties, including advertisers, ad networks, and servers, content partners, or 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. Our partners may use non-cookie technologies on which browser settings that block cookies might have no effect. Your browser may not permit you to block such technologies.

For this reason, keep in mind, you can block the collection and use of information related to you by advertising companies for the purpose of serving interest based advertising by visiting the following platforms of self-regulatory programs of which those companies are members:

- Network Advertising Initiative’s (“NAI”) educational page at http://www.networkadvertising.org/understanding-online advertising/how-does-it-work.

You can opt out of targeted advertising here:

FACEBOOK- https://www.facebook.com/settings/?tab=ads

GOOGLE - https://www.google.com/settings/ads/anonymous

BING - https://advertise.bingads.microsoft.com/en-us/resources/policies/personalized-ads

Additionally, you can opt out of some of these services by visiting the Digital Advertising Alliance’s opt-out portal at: http://optout.aboutads.info/.

DO NOT TRACK

Please note that we do not alter our Site’s data collection and use practices when we see a Do Not Track signal from your browser.

1. THIRD PARTY CONTENT, APPS AND LINKS

Some content or applications on our websites may be served by third parties, content providers and application providers including the following:

- Plugins. Our websites make available the option for you to use “plugins” that are operated by social media companies. If you choose to use one of these plugins, then it may collect information about you and send it back to the social media company that owns it. This may happen even if you do not click on the plugin, if you are logged into the social media website that owns the plugin when you visit our website. Information collected by a plugin is subject to the privacy policy and terms of the social media company that makes it. If you do not want the social media company who owns a plugin to collect information about you when you visit our websites, sign out of the social media network before visiting. By interacting with a plugin when you are on our websites (for example, clicking the Facebook “Like” button), you are intentionally transferring information to that social media company. Further, if you are logged into a social media website when you visit our websites, then you are directing us to share your data with the social media company that owns the plugin.

- User Content. Our websites may allow you to upload your own content to public areas of the website. Any information you submit becomes public information, and we do not control how others may use the content you submit. We are not responsible for uses that may violate our privacy policy, the law, or your intellectual property rights.

- Third-party links. Our websites may contain links to other sites, which we do not control. Those websites have their own privacy policies and terms.

1. YOUR RIGHTS AND CHOICES

Your rights may vary depending on where you are located. We have created mechanisms to provide you with the following control over your information.

- Marketing. If you do not want us to use your email address or other contact information to promote or recommend our own products and services, or third parties’ products or services, you can opt-out by checking the relevant box located on the form where we collect your contact information or, if presented with the option to opt-in, do not opt-in. If you have an account with our website, you may be able to log in and check or uncheck relevant boxes. If you do not have an account, you can adjust your preferences by contacting us as set forth below in the Contact Us section. You may also opt-out of further marketing communications by replying to any promotional email we have sent you or following the opt-out links on that message. This opt-out may not apply to information provided to us as a result of a product purchase, warranty registration, product service experience or other transactions.

- Accessing, Updating and Deleting Your Information. If you have an account with us, you may have the ability to access your information and make updates to or delete your data. If not, you can contact us as set forth in the Contact Us section below to request access to, correction of, or deletion of personal information that you have provided to us. We may not accommodate a request to change information if we believe the change would violate any law or legal requirement or negatively affect the information’s accuracy.

- Cookies and Automatic Data Collection Technologies. You can set your browser to refuse all or some browser cookies, or to alert you when websites set or access cookies. Flash cookies are not managed by the same browser settings as are used for browser cookies. To learn how you can manage your Flash cookie settings, visit the Flash player settings page on Adobe’s website. However, if you disable or refuse cookies, please note that some parts of this website may become inaccessible or not function properly. If you do not want Google Analytics to be used in your browser, Google Analytics provides an opt-out tool which can be found here. In some cases, you may be able to set your browser or email program to not download web beacons.

- Interest Based Advertising. Please see Interest-based advertising above for information on how to opt-out of interest-based advertising.

1. DATA SECURITY

We have implemented measures designed to secure your personal information from accidental loss and from unauthorized access, use, alteration, and disclosure. All information you provide to us is stored on our secure servers behind firewalls. Our store is hosted on the Shopify e-commerce platform but your payment transactions are not processed by Shopify.

We use Iyzico as our payment infrastructure. Purchases made with Pay with iyzico and the ones where you select the “iyzico Buyer Protection” box in the payment page are under iyzico Buyer Protection. All other purchases are not covered by iyzico Buyer Protection. Your credit card information is secured with iyzico’s PCI-DSS Level 1 certificate.

The safety and security of your information also depends on you. Where we have given you (or where you have chosen) a password for access to certain parts of our Website, you are responsible for keeping this password confidential. We ask you not to share your password with anyone. We urge you to be careful about giving out information in any public areas of the Website like message boards. The information you share in public areas may be viewed by any user of the Website.

Unfortunately, the transmission of information via the internet is not completely secure. Although we do our best to protect your personal information, we cannot guarantee the security of your personal information transmitted to our Website. Any transmission of personal information is at your own risk. We are not responsible for circumvention of any privacy settings or security measures contained on the Website.

1. DATA RETENTION

When you place an order through the Site, we will maintain your Order Information for our records unless and until you ask us to delete this information.

1. CHANGES IN OUR PRIVACY POLICY

We will post any changes we may make to our privacy policy on this page. If the changes materially alter how we use or treat your information we will notify you by email to the primary email address specified in your account (if you have an account with us) and/or through a notice on the website home page. You are responsible for ensuring that we have an up-to-date email address for you and for periodically visiting our website and this page to check for any changes.

1. CONTACT US

If you have any comments or questions about our privacy policy, please use our Contact Us page to reach out to us. You may also email us at info@matriarqe.com