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Privacy Policy

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Girls Love STEAM is proud to be in the process of signing the Student Data Privacy Pledge.

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Welcome to Girls Love STEAM website.  We respect and protect the privacy of our users and intend our website to be a safe place for everyone who visits and corresponds with us.  Our information practices are designed to comply with the United States Federal Trade Commission's Children's Online Privacy Protection Act (COPPA) and the European Union General Data Protection Regulation EU 2016/679 (GDPR) for users from the European Union and the United Kingdom.

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Girls Love STEAM understands that Internet privacy is important to you, so we are providing this Privacy Policy to explain how we collect, use, and disclose personal information and personal data in clear, easy-to-understand language. This Privacy Policy applies to all of our website, mobile experiences, our application programming interface (“API”) and digital content that link to this Privacy Policy and outlines how Girls Love STEAM as a data controller collects, processes, uses and discloses the information you provide by using our website.  We will use your personal data only for the purposes and in the manner set forth below, which describes the steps we take to ensure our processing of your personal data is in compliance with the GDPR.

What type of information do we collect?


We receive, collect and store any information you enter on our website or provide us in any other way.  We may use software tools to measure and collect session information, including page response times, length of visits to certain pages, page interaction information, and methods used to browse away from the page. We also collect personally identifiable information (including name, email, password to our site, & communications if provided), comments, feedback, product reviews, recommendations, and personal profile.

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What can we use your book review submissions for?


When we receive, collect and store your book reviews, we will use them on title pages of the corresponding book.  In addition, we reserve the right to use all or portions of your reviews on social media advertisements and other parts of our website as we see its.  If you wish to delete your book review, please contact us at GirlsLoveSTEAM@aol.com.

How do we collect information?


When you conduct a transaction on our website, as part of the process, we collect personal information you give us such as your name, address and email address. Your personal information will be used for the specific reasons stated above only.

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Why do we collect such personal information?


We collect such Non-personal and Personal Information for the following purposes:

  1. To provide and operate the Services;

  2. To provide our Users with ongoing customer assistance and technical support;

  3. To be able to contact our Visitors and Users with general or personalized service-related notices and promotional messages as requested;

  4. To create aggregated statistical data and other aggregated and/or inferred Non-personal Information, which we or our business partners may use to provide and improve our respective services; 

  5. To comply with any applicable laws and regulations.

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How do you store, use, share and disclose your site visitors' personal information?


Our company is hosted on the Wix.com platform. Wix.com provides us with the online platform that allows us to sell our products and services to you. Your data may be stored through Wix.com’s data storage, databases and the general Wix.com applications. They store your data on secure servers behind a firewall. 

All direct payment gateways offered by Wix.com and used by our company 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.

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How do you communicate with your site visitors?


We may contact you to notify you regarding your account, to troubleshoot problems with your account, to resolve a dispute, to collect fees or monies owed, to poll your opinions through surveys or questionnaires, to send updates about our company, or as otherwise necessary to contact you to enforce our User Agreement, applicable national laws, and any agreement we may have with you. For these purposes we may contact you via email, telephone, text messages, and postal mail as approved.

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How do you use cookies and other tracking tools?


We utilize the following third-party services to help with marketing, sales, and trading technologies to enhance our services: 

Google Analytics

Ebay

 

These applications are offered through the Wix App Market, and place cookies or utilize other tracking technologies through Wix´s services, may have their own policies regarding how they collect and store information. As these are external services, such practices are not covered by the Wix Privacy Policy.  Please refer to their websites for more information on their cookies and tracking technologies.

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How can your site visitors' withdraw their consent?


If you don’t want us to process your data anymore, please contact us at GirlsLoveSTEAM@icloud.com.

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Privacy policy updates


We reserve the right to modify this privacy policy at any time, so please review it frequently. Changes and clarifications will take effect immediately upon their posting on the website. If we make material changes to this policy, we will notify you here that it has been updated, so that you are aware of what information we collect, how we use it, and under what circumstances, if any, we use and/or disclose it. 

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Questions and your contact information


If you would like to: access, correct, amend or delete any personal information we have about you, you are invited to contact us at GirlsLoveSTEAM@icloud.com.

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