Privacy Policy & Cookies
The revised Privacy Policy and Cookes are effective from August 20, 2020
This privacy policy ("Privacy Policy") applies to data collected on this website (the "Website") by Taiwanleaftea.com (No.3, Ln. 325, Sec. 2, Xiwan Rd., Xizhi Dist., New Taipei City 221, Taiwan (R.O.C.)). In this Privacy Policy "we", "our" and "us" refers to Taiwanleaftea.com and "you" refers to the user of the Website.
The personal and non-personal data we receive by you visiting the Website is treated as confidential and we strictly observe the applicable national protection acts in that respect. Your use of the Website indicates your acceptance of the Website’s Privacy Policy, which may be amended from time to time.
1. Your Privacy
We may collect, process and use your personal information ("Personal Data") to carry out our obligations arising from any contracts entered into between you and us, to provide you with information that you request from us, to send you the latest product and promotional information and, to send you our Newsletter. We do not collect Personal Data automatically unless you give us your prior consent. For instance by signing up for the Newsletter, we may ask you for your E-mail address or if you purchase an item from the online-shop, we may ask you for your name, postal address and E-mail address. The collected data will be kept confidential and secure from any potential abuse and therefore will only be used for the limited purposes stated above.
In addition, we use Google Analytics as a method of tracking site statistics and user behavior on our website.
You can control over your own information, so Taiwanleaftea.com gives you the choice of providing, editing or removing certain information, as well as choices about how we contact you. You may change or correct your Taiwanleaftea.com account information through your account settings. You can also request providing you all personal information which we have or deletion of the personal information in your account.
2. Third parties
Third parties may receive or collect information through our Website. In some countries, we also use third parties for solvency checks. Please check our payment section in our orders terms and conditions by clicking here for more details. These third parties are contractually bound with us to use the Personal Data only according to this Privacy Policy. We are not in the business of selling personally identifiable information ("Personal Data") about our customers for marketing purposes to third parties. We may, however, share non-personally identifiable information with certain third parties as described herein. There are other limited circumstances in which we share Personal Data, such as from time to time we may engage the services of third parties to help us analyze the use of our Website. These third parties are not authorized to send you any information about goods and services from other companies without your permission. We may share your Personal Data, among our subsidiaries, parent companies and affiliates, for purposes of marketing our products and services, but only if you prior agreed thereto. Certain third parties manage the content of pages on the Website. These third parties share our commitment to the protection of your privacy. We may also release Personal Data in special cases in order to comply with any requests from law enforcement and government agencies, to enforce the terms of use of the Website and other agreements, and to protect customers and others. We may do so when we believe in good faith that disclosing this information is otherwise necessary or advisable, including, for instance, to identify, contact, or bring legal action against someone who may be causing injury to or interfering with the rights or property of our company, another user or anyone else that could be harmed by such activities. We may transfer Personal Data to an affiliate or third party as part of a transfer of business assets.
3. Log files
As with most websites, we automatically gather non-personally identifying information and store it in log files. This information includes internet protocol (IP) addresses, browser type, internet service provider (ISP), referring/exit pages, operating system, catalog/time stamp, and click stream data. We use this information, which does not identify users, to analyze trends, to administer the site and to gather demographic information about our user base as a whole. We do not link this automatically-collected information to personally identifiable information.
4. Cookies
Our websites use "cookies," which are small data files containing small amounts of information that, if you agree, are downloaded to and stored on your computer when you visit a website. Cookies are then sent back to the originating website on each subsequent visit, or to another website that recognizes that cookie. Cookies are useful because they allow a web site to recognize a user's device. Cookies may be used in a variety of ways to enhance or personalize your online experience. For example, we may use cookies to enable you to use certain website features, store your preferences, recognize you when you return to our website, and monitor and maintain information about your use of our websites. Cookies may also be used to collect transaction information needed by a scrip or loyalty program to which you have authorized us to provide your personal information. They may also be used to provide you with personalized advertisement banners while browsing other reputable sites. These advertisements will relate to products which have been viewed while browsing this website on your computer or any other device. We are committed to only providing you with information which is relevant to you and which you want to receive.
We use cookies and similar technologies to give you a better experience, enabling things like:
- basic site functions
- ensuring secure, safe transactions
- secure account login
- remembering account, browser, and regional preferences
- remembering privacy and security settings
- analysing site traffic and usage
Read more about the individual cookies we use and how to recognize them here
You can choose to either agree or not agree to our use of such cookies on our website. If you agree to our use of cookies, you can withdraw your consent at any time by using your browser settings. If you do not agree to our use of cookies, however, certain features of our websites may not then be available to you.
You can configure your desktop or mobile browser's settings to reflect your preference to accept or reject cookies, including how to handle third-party cookies.
5. How we protect personal information
The Website maintains appropriate administrative, technical and physical safeguards to protect the personal information you provide on this Website against accidental, unlawful or unauthorized destruction, loss, alteration, access, disclosure or use and any other unlawful forms of processing.
6. Contact (right to access and correct personal data)
If you have any questions, comments or complaints about us or how we process your Personal Data, or in case you wish not to be contacted by us for direct marketing purposes anymore, please contact us at the address, phone number or email below. Also, upon request, we will provide you with a summary of any personally identifiable information collected and retained by us regarding you. You may modify, correct, or update your personal information or request to have your personal information removed from our database. We will only send copies of personal information to the email address on file for the visitor name associated with it. Our contact details are here
7. Amendments
We may amend this Privacy and Cookie Policy from time to time. Please check this Privacy and Cookie Policy regularly for the latest version of Privacy Policy.