Privacy Statement

PRIVACY POLICY

Effective date: October 01, 2020

The UP Law Complex Employees Consumers Cooperative (UPLCECC) operates and maintains the https://www.pahinungoduplawshop.com/ website (the “Website”).

We respect and value data privacy rights and ensure that appropriate measures are in place to protect all personal data collected from the Website, and that all personal data are processed in accordance with the principles of transparency, proportionality, and legitimacy of purpose.

This privacy policy (“Privacy Policy”) explains how we handle personal data that we collect through the Website, third-party sites or applications or libraries that we connect to that may collect personal data as well, and other means (for example, from telephone calls, emails and other communications with us).

By using the Website and submitting your personal information (“Personal Information”) through the Website, you expressly consent to the collection and use of the Personal Information in accordance with this Privacy Policy.  

What Personal Information Do We Collect?

We receive and collect any of the following Personal Information from you when you register to create and provide information in an account, when you search or shop for any merchandise or product in our Website, when you communicate with us through our “Contact Us” page, via email, text message, or over the phone, when you respond to a survey form or provide a review, when you complete a contest entry form or questionnaire, when you participate in our Website’s discussion or community board,  or when you subscribe to a newsletter:

  • Full name
  • Company name (optional)
  • Address
  • Email address
  • Phone number
  • Year of graduation from UP College of Law (optional)
  • Gender (optional)
  • Occupation (optional)
  • Payment or financial information
  • Such other personal information as may be necessary for your inquiry or transaction with us

We may also collect and analyze the following automatic information:

  • Log-in, e-mail address, and password
  • Device or computer location
  • Phone numbers used to call our contact details
  • Internet Protocol (IP) address used to connect your computer to the Internet
  • Full Uniform Resource Locator (URL) to, through, and from our Website and merchandise and products you viewed or searched

We might also receive information from other sources such as credit history information from credit agencies to help prevent and detect fraud and updated delivery and address information from third parties to correct our records and make faster and easier purchases and delivery

How Do We Use Your Personal Information?

We collect, use, store and transfer your Personal Information to purchase and deliver our merchandise and products; to efficiently respond to your customer service requests; to communicate with you about new merchandise and promotions; to respond to your inquiries; to fulfill your requests including requests for newsletters and notifications; to give you information on schedules, product details, announcements or news relating to any of our merchandise; to perform analysis regarding how you use the Website or any part thereof; to personalize website user experience; to improve the Website; and to establish, exercise, or defend legal claims.

To enhance user experience, the Website may use “cookies” and other tracking technology which collect certain kinds of information when you interact with the Website. Cookies are small files which are used for tracking users’ information and stored in computers’ hard drive for record-keeping purposes.  They are widely used in order to make websites work, or work more efficiently, as well as to provide information to the owners of the website. You may choose to set your web browser on refusing cookies, or to alert you when cookies are being sent. If you do this, note that some parts of the Website may not function properly.  

How Do We Share and Protect Your Personal Information?

We share your information internally with a limited number of authorized staff to facilitate and manage the purposes listed above. Your information may be shared with third party entities that provide services to us, including companies that provide payment processing, delivery and courier services, app analytics, web hosting, IT support services, and other services. In addition, some of the content and services on the Website are served by third-party service providers, content providers, and technology and application providers; these third-party providers may collect your information as necessary so that they may provide the services for which they have been engaged.

We may also share the collected information for the following cases or scenarios:

  • When we are required to do so by law or if such legal disclosure is reasonably necessary to comply with legal processes or regulatory requirements applicable to us, enforce our terms of use or other policies, or respond to any claims.
  • For maintaining the safety and security of the information collected as well as that of the data subject.

We will take all steps reasonably necessary to ensure that your data is treated securely and in accordance with this Privacy Policy and no transfer of your Personal Information will take place to an organization unless there are adequate controls in place including the security of your Personal Information. We will not sell any Personal Information to third parties for their use in direct marketing, advertising, or promotion of their products or services.

Website Analytics

The Website uses Google Analytics, a third-party service to analyze the web traffic data for us. This service uses cookies. The following identifiable web traffic data are analyzed:

  • Your IP address
  • The search terms you used
  • The pages and internal links accessed on our site
  • The date and time you visited the site
  • Geolocation
  • The referring site or platform (if any) through which you clicked through to this site
  • Your operating system
  • Web browser type

Links to Third-Party Websites

We may provide hyperlinks to third-party websites as a convenience to our users. We do not control third-party websites and are not responsible for the content of any linked-to third-party websites or any hyperlink in a linked-to website. We are not responsible for the privacy practices or the content of third-party websites.

Payments

We provide paid products and/or services within the Website and use third-party services for payment processing (e.g. payment processors). We will not store or collect your payment card details. That information is provided directly to our third-party payment processors whose use of your personal information is governed by their own privacy policy. These payment processors 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, etc. PCI-DSS requirements help ensure the secure handling of payment information.

Electronic Communications

Consistent with the purposes listed above, we may communicate with you via electronic messages, including email, text message, or mobile push notification to, for example: send you information relating to our shop including product reservation and waitlist confirmations and updates, receipts, technical notices, updates, security alerts, and support and administrative messages; and/or, subject to your choice under Marketing section below or any applicable law or regulation, communicate with you about events, offers, promotions, upcoming events, and other news about products and services offered by us.

Security of Collected Information

To ensure the confidentiality, integrity, and availability of collected Personal Information, organizational, administrative, and technical processes and procedures are put in place to safeguard the data from loss, misuse, unauthorized access, disclosure, alteration or destruction. For example, we secure the Personal Information you provide in a controlled, secure environment, protected from unauthorized access, use or disclosure.  When Personal Information (such as a credit card number) is transmitted to other websites such as payment processors, it is protected through the use of encryption, such as the Secure Socket Layer (SSL) protocol.

The security of your data is important to us, but note that no method of transmission over the Internet, or method of electronic storage is 100% secure. While we strive to use commercially acceptable means to protect your Personal Information, we cannot guarantee its absolute security.

Retention of Collected Information

The information we collect shall be retained for as long as is necessary for the purposes set out in this Privacy Policy, and to fulfill the purpose for which it was collected. It will also be retained if legally required, to resolve disputes, to enforce our legal agreements and policies, or to fulfill a legitimate interest. It will be disposed of when no longer relevant or necessary for the operation of the Website in compliance with applicable laws and regulations. Usage data will also be retained for internal analysis purposes.

Marketing

Personal information you submit through the Website, such as your name, address and other contact information, may be collected for internal marketing and development purposes as well as to respond to your inquiry, complete a transaction for you, or fulfill other forms of customer service. You can choose not to receive marketing from us by “unsubscribing” using the instructions in any marketing email you receive from us.

Changes to This Privacy Policy

We may update our Privacy Policy from time to time in accordance with existing and new relevant laws and regulations issued by the government. We will notify you of any changes by posting the new Privacy Policy on this page. You are advised to review this Privacy Policy periodically for any changes. Changes to this Privacy Policy are effective when they are posted on this page. Your continued use of the Website after any change in this Privacy Policy will constitute your acceptance of such change.

How Can You Access and Correct Your Personal Information and Contact Us?

 

You have the right to ask for a copy of any Personal Information we hold about you, as well as to ask for it to be corrected if you think it is wrong. If you have any complaints, concerns, or questions regarding the processing of your Personal Information, please contact us: