Last updated: July 1st 2024
When you purchase something from our store, as part of the buying and selling process, we collect the personal information you give us such as your name, address, phone number, and email address. When you browse our store, we also automatically receive your computer's internet protocol (IP) address in order to provide us with information that helps us learn about your browser and operating system. Email marketing (if applicable): With your permission, we may send you emails about our store, new products and other updates.
This privacy policy (“Privacy Policy”) is intended to provide you with specific details about how Blade's Jerky, LLC., doing business as Blade's Jerky (“Blade's Jerky,” “we,” and “us”) collects and processes your personal and personally identifiable information through your use of the and its associated pages and services (herein, the “Website”). Except for when we process payments, Blade's Jerky is the data processor and data controller of all information collected through the Website. With regard to payment processing, please refer to the respective privacy policies of our payment processor service providers.
You understand and agree that Blade's Jerky may store and process your personal information on computers located outside of the European Union, including, but not limited to, in the United States. By using the Website, you agree to the collection and processing of your personal or personally identifiable information outside of the European Union.
Before using the Website or providing information to us, please carefully review this Privacy Policy. By using or accessing the Website, you agree that we may collect and use your personal and personally identifiable information in accordance with this Privacy Policy, as revised from time to time. Blade's Jerky may modify, amend, replace, or suspend this Privacy Policy at any time. If you have any questions or suggestions regarding our Privacy Policy, or if your personal information is not accurate or complete, please contact us at info@bladesjerky.com.
1. Implied Consent; Personal Information Collected.
When you provide us with personal information to complete a transaction, verify your credit card, place an order, arrange for delivery, or return a purchase, we imply that you consent to our collecting it and using it for that specific reason only. If we ask for your personal information for a secondary reason, like marketing, we will either ask you directly for your expressed consent, or provide you with an opportunity to say no. When you use the Website, we may collect personal or personally identifiable information from you (“PII”). PII may include any information that identifies, relates to, describes, references, is reasonably capable of being associated with, or could reasonably be linked, directly or indirectly, with a particular individual. It does not include anonymized data. We may collect and process the following categories of PII about you:
- Communication Data. Communication data includes any communication that you may send to us through the website, email, SMS or social media. We process this data to communicate with you, to provide you with customer support, to record logs of our communication, and to store information to respond to legal claims. Blade's Jerky lawful ground for processing this communication data is to respond to communications sent by you to us, to keep records of our communication, and to pursue or defend against legal claims.
- User Data. User data includes data about how you use the Website and any data that you post to or authorize through the Website. This includes data stored in persistent cookies when you login to the Website and analytics data that is collected when you use the Website. We collect and process this data to operate the Website, to authenticate you as a user of the Website, to ensure that timely and relevant content is provided to you, to secure the Website, to ensure that the Website operates in a fast and efficient manner, and to maintain backups of the Website. Blade's Jerky lawful ground for processing this user data is its legitimate business interests in administering and offering the Website.
- Technical Data. Technical data includes data about your use of the Website, such as your IP address, your mobile device model, your operating system, your geolocation, and your time zone. Blade's Jerky may collect this data from your use of the Website and from advertising IDs. Blade's Jerky processes this data to analyze your use of the Website, to route Website traffic, to administer and secure the Website, to provide location-relevant content, and to troubleshoot problems with the Website. Blade's Jerky lawful ground for collecting and processing this technical data is its legitimate interests in administering and offering the Website and to grow its business and marketing strategy.
- Marketing Data. Marketing data includes data about your preferences in receiving and interacting with Blade's Jerky advertisements or content on the Website. Blade's Jerky collects this data from your use of the Website and from advertising IDs created through advertising programs, such as Google Advertising IDs, Facebook Advertising IDs, Pinterest Conversion Tracking, and TikTok Conversion Tracking. Blade's Jerky does not connect advertising identifiers to persistent device identifiers, such as MAC addresses or mobile device IDs. Blade's Jerky's lawful ground for collecting and processing this marketing data is its legitimate interests in administering and offering the Website and to grow its business and marketing strategy by providing advertisements, including remarketing advertisements, to you.
- Personally Sensitive Data. Personally sensitive data includes data about your race or ethnicity, religious or philosophical beliefs, sex life, sexual orientation, political opinions, union membership, or information about your health. Blade's Jerky does not collect or use personally sensitive data through the Website.
Blade's Jerky will only use your PII for the purpose for which it was collected. In the event that Blade's Jerky needs to use your PII for an unrelated new purpose, Blade's Jerky will provide you with notice of this new use and will explain the lawful ground for such processing. Blade's Jerky may process your PII without your knowledge or consent where required or permitted by law.
Blade's Jerky does not use your PII to automatically make any decisions or to create an automated profile about you.
2. Collection of Data From Third Parties; Payments.
Blade's Jerky may collect data about you through cookies and other technologies. This helps Blade's Jerky understand how you use the Website and to understand any patterns that may be associated with your use of the Website. This aids Blade's Jerky in developing or improving its Website in response to your needs or wants.
Blade's Jerky may use session or persistent cookies. Session cookies are only stored on your computer or mobile device during your use of the Website and are automatically deleted when you close your web browser. Session cookies may be used to direct internet traffic to a server that is closer to you or to allow us to identify you as you move between pages of the Website. Persistent cookies are stored as a file on your computer or mobile device that remains on your computer or mobile device even after you close your web browser. Persistent cookies can be read by the website that created the cookie when you revisit it again. Blade's Jerky may use persistent cookies to authenticate you when you return to the Website so that you do not have to login again or when it utilizes Google Analytics or other analytics providers, which is intended to track the origin and behavior of traffic to the Website. Blade's Jerky may use the following analytics providers, and you are directed to review their cookie policies, current as of the date of this policy:
- Shopify: https://www.shopify.com/legal/privacy
- Klaviyo: https://www.klaviyo.com/legal/privacy-policy
- Google Tag Manager: https://support.google.com/tagmanager/answer/9323295?hl=en
- Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/business/m/privacy-and-data
- Tiktok: https://www.tiktok.com/legal/page/us/privacy-policy/en
- Judge.me: https://judge.me/privacy
- Seal Subscriptions: https://www.sealsubscriptions.com/legal/privacy-policy
Blade's Jerky may also receive data from third parties including analytics providers or advertising networks such as Google, Facebook, TikTok, or Apple. These third parties may be based outside of the European Union.
Our payments processing is provided by Shopify Inc. They provide us with the online e-commerce platform that allows us to sell our products and services to you. Your data is stored through Shopify's data storage, databases and the general application. They store your data on a secure server behind a firewall.
If you choose a direct payment gateway to complete your purchase, then Shopify Inc. store your credit card data. It is encrypted through the Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard (PCI-DSS). Your purchase transaction data is stored only as long as is necessary to complete your purchase transaction. After that is complete, your purchase transaction information is deleted.
All direct payment gateways adhere to the standards set by PCI-DSS as managed by the PCI Security Standards Council, which is a joint effort of brands like Visa, MasterCard, American Express and Discover. PCI-DSS requirements help ensure the secure handling of credit card information by our store and its service providers.
3. Marketing Communications.
As stated above, Blade's Jerky's lawful ground for sending you marketing communications is either consent or its legitimate business interests, such as to grow its business by advertising products to you. Blade's Jerky may send you marketing communications if you have asked for information concerning its goods or services or if you have agreed to, and have not opted out from, receiving marketing communications. You may ask Blade's Jerky to stop sending you marketing messages at any time by logging into the Website to adjust your marketing preferences within your User Account or by following the opt-out link in any marketing message sent to you. If you opt out of receiving marketing communications, your opt-out does not extend to PII provided for other purposes.
4. Disclosure of Personal Information.
Blade's Jerky may share your PII with the following parties:
- Service providers that provide Blade's Jerky with information technology or other administrative services;
- Blade's Jerky's accountants, auditors, insurers, or attorneys;
- Law enforcement agencies upon the receipt of a subpoena or court order or where necessary to protect Blade's Jerky's personnel or property; and
- Government bodies that require Blade's Jerky to report its processing activities.
Blade's Jerky may also transfer PII to third parties when it sells, transfers, or merges any part of its business or assets.
Blade's Jerky requires all third parties that receive a transfer of PII from Blade's Jerky to maintain the same level of respect for the protection of PII as Blade's Jerky and Blade's Jerky only allows third parties to process your personal data for the specific purposes listed in this Privacy Policy. Under no circumstances will Blade's Jerky ever sell your information to third parties.
5. Data Security.
Blade's Jerky has put into place data security measures to protect your PII. Blade's Jerky allows access to your PII only by employees and service providers who have a need to know or on Blade's Jerky's instructions. However, no security measures are impenetrable and there are always security risks. Blade's Jerky will notify you and any regulatory body of any breach of your PII or Blade's Jerky's security measures if it is legally required to do so.
6. Retention of Data.
Blade's Jerky will only retain your PII for so long as necessary to fulfill the purposes for which it is collected under this Privacy Policy or for the purposes of satisfying any legal, accounting, or reporting requirements. We will also retain and use your PII to the extent necessary to comply with our legal obligations (for example, if we are required to retain your data to comply with applicable laws, such as the California Consumer Privacy Act), resolve disputes, and enforce our legal agreements and policies.
7. Right to Access, Rectification, Correction, Erasure, Transfer, and Withdrawal.
Under the law, you may have a right to request access to your PII for rectification, correction, erasure, transfer, or restriction, or to object to its processing or withdraw your consent. If you wish to exercise any of these rights, please contact Blade's Jerky's Data Protection Officer as disclosed in this Privacy Policy. The Data Protection Officer can be reached at info@bladesjerky.com.
You do not need to pay a fee to access your PII or to exercise your rights. However, Blade's Jerky may charge a reasonable fee if your request is unreasonable or excessive.
To confirm your request, Blade's Jerky may need to request specific information from you as a security measure to ensure that PII is not disclosed to an unauthorized third party. Blade's Jerky will attempt to respond to all legitimate requests within thirty (30) days.
8. Third Party Links.
Blade's Jerky's Website may include links to third-party websites and applications. By clicking on third-party links, you may allow third parties to collect or share data about you. Blade's Jerky does not control these third-party links and you are advised to review their respective privacy policies.
9. Responding to Do Not Track Signals.
You can generally opt-out of receiving personalized ads from third party advertisers and ad networks who are members of the Network Advertising Initiative (NAI) or who follow the Digital Advertising Alliance's Self-Regulatory Principles for Online Behavioral Advertising by visiting the opt-out pages on the NAI website and DAA website. Our website is not currently set up to respond to browser do-not-track signals because there is no consensus within the advertising industry as to what “do not track” means in this context, but you can configure your browser settings to reject all cookies or prompt you before a cookie is set.
10. Children's Privacy.
We do not direct the Website to anyone under the age of 13 and we do not knowingly collect PII from anyone under the age of 13. If you are a parent or guardian of an individual under the age of 13 and believe that we may have collected PII from your child, please contact us at info@bladesjerky.com.
11. Notification of Changes.
Whenever Blade's Jerky changes its Privacy Policy, we will post those changes to this Privacy Policy on the Website and other places that we deem appropriate. Your use of the Blade's Jerky Website following these changes indicates your consent to the practices described in the revised Privacy Policy.
12. Text Marketing & Notifications.
We value your privacy and the information you consent to share in relation to our SMS marketing service. We use this information to send you text notifications (for your order, including abandoned checkout reminders), text marketing offers, and transactional texts, including requests for reviews from us.
Our website uses cookies to keep track of items you put into your shopping cart, including when you have abandoned your checkout. This information is used to determine when to send cart reminder messages via SMS.
13. Contact Us.
If you have any questions about this Privacy Policy or the manner by which we collect or use Personal Information about you, email us at info@bladesjerky.com.