Privacy Policy

Last updated: September 18, 2019

Information You Provide.

The Seashell Company, also known as SeashellCo.com, receives stores and uses the information you provide us, including your name, address, phone number, email address, credit card information and other information when you do such things as place and order, enter a contest or giveaway, sign up for promotional emails, request a catalog or make use of other aspects of our website. That information is used to communicate with you, process your order, administer contests or giveaways, provide catalogs or provide other information that you request, collect payment for products and services you purchase, respond to your questions, customize your shopping experience, and otherwise with your consent or as permitted and required by law. We may also use this information to send you information about other products and services that might in. Like most websites, we use "cookies" to enhance your experience and gather information about visitors and visits to our websites. Please refer to the "Do you use 'cookies'?" FAQ for information about cookies and how we use them.

Your consent
By using our site, you consent to our privacy policy.

How we Protect Your Information

• We use vulnerability scanning and/or scanning to PCI standards.
• We use an SSL certificate.

 We implement security measures when a user:

• Places an order.
• Enters, submits, or accesses their information.
• We use a payment gateway provider for authorization and security.

How You Can Protect or Change Your Information

Users are able to change their personal information:

• By emailing us.
• By logging in to your account.

How does our site handle ‘Do Not Track’ signals?

We honor them and do not track, plant cookies, or use advertising when a Do Not Track (DNT) browser mechanism is in place.

Email addresses

We do not rent, share, or exchange our customers' email addresses, but we do use these addresses for our marketing. You can opt-out of receiving promotional emails anytime. Instructions on how to opt out are included in every promotional email or you may opt out on the website.

Mailing Addresses

Your mailing address may be added to our mailing list. In that event, you may receive literature from The Seashell Company or from others affiliated with us. Our mailing list may be shared, rented or exchanged with other businesses. If you do not want your name shared with other businesses, please email customerservice@seashellco.com. Please allow 2-4 weeks to process your request.

Sharing Information

Except as noted above, we may share information about our customers with affiliated business or with merchants whose websites link with ours.  We may also employ other businesses or consultants to perform functions such as sending mail or email, analyzing data and customer lists, processing accounts receivable, marketing or other functions. In those situations, third parties will have access to customer information for the purpose of performing their functions. We may sell, transfer or assign customer information in connection with a merger, sale of assets or similar business transaction. We may disclose your information to a third-party advertising partner and its service providers. The information we disclose may include transactional information with us.

Access to Customer Information

Customers can update their billing information in the My Account section at SeashellCo.com. There is also an email address update link in every promotional email you receive from us.

Request for the removal of personal information provided

To modify your email subscriptions, please let us know by modifying your preferences in the "My Account" section.

To delete all of your online account information from our database, sign into the "My Account" section of our site and remove your shipping addresses, billing addresses & payment information. Please note that we may maintain information about an individual sales transaction in order to service that transaction and for record keeping. 

If there are any questions removing or changing your personal information, please email us at customerservice@seashellco.com.

Third Party Disclosure

To the extent permitted by law, we may also receive information about you from other sources and add it to our account information. For example, we sometimes receive updated delivery and address information from our shippers or other sources so that we can correct our records and deliver your next purchase or communication more efficiently.

Third party links
In an attempt to provide you with increased value, we may include third party links on our site. These linked sites have separate and independent privacy policies. We therefore have no responsibility or liability for the content and activities of these linked sites. Nonetheless, we seek to protect the integrity of our site and welcome any feedback about these linked sites (including if a specific link does not work).

Third Party Tracking

This site uses a tracking technology called Google Analytics to obtain site usage information such as users’ Internet Protocol (IP) addresses, internet domain and host names, browser software, and the date and time that the site is visited. Data obtained through Google Analytics does not include and is not linked to any personal information. Data from Google Analytics allows us to monitor the use of this site, understand how users find our site, and improve the site’s functionality and content.  Our use of Google Analytics is in compliance with Google’s Terms of Service.

Google provides more information about Google’s privacy practices and information on how to opt - out of Google Analytics tracking of your web browsing.

This website may use the Google AdWords remarketing service to advertise on third party websites (including Google) to previous visitors to our site. It could mean that we advertise to previous visitors who haven’t completed a task on our site, for example using the contact form to make an inquiry. This could be in the form of an advertisement on the Google search results page, or a site in the Google Display Network. Third-party vendors, including Google, use cookies to serve ads based on someone’s past visits to our website. Of course, any data collected will be used in accordance with our own privacy policy and Google’s privacy policy.

You can set preferences for how Google advertises to you by using the Google Ad Preferences page, or you can opt out of interest-based advertising entirely by cookie settings, or by permanently using a browser plugin.

Fair Information Practices

In order to be compliant with Fair Information Practices, we will take the following responsive action, should a data breach occur:

• We will notify the users via email.
• We will notify the users via on site notification.
• We comply with the Individual Redress principle, which provides individuals the right to pursue legal action against data collectors and processors who fail to adhere to the law. Additionally, this principle allows for individuals to seek recourse against data collectors through means of government agencies.

CAN-SPAM Act

We collect your email address:

• - To send information, respond to inquiries, and/or other requests or questions.
• - To process orders and to send information and updates pertaining to orders.
• - We may also send you additional information related to your product and/or service.
• - For marketing purposes and customer follow-up regarding completed transactions.

To be accordance with CAN-SPAM we agree to the following:

• - We will not use false or misleading subjects or email addresses.
• - We will include the physical address of our business or site headquarters.
• - We will monitor third party email marketing services for compliance, if one is used.
• - We will provide an 'opt-out' or 'unsubscribe' option.
• - We will provide an 'opt-out' or 'unsubscribe' option (instructions appear on the bottom of each email).
• - We will honor opt-out/unsubscribe requests in a timely manner.

California Online Privacy Protection Act

According to CalOPPA we agree to the following:

• Users can visit our site anonymously

 

Changes to our Privacy Policy

We reserve the right to amend the Privacy Policy at any time, for any reason, without notice to you, other than the posting of the amended Privacy Policy on this website. You should check our website frequently to see the current Privacy Policy that is in effect and any changes that may have been made to it. The provisions contained herein supersede all previous notices or policies regarding our privacy practices that govern the use of this Website.

Online Policy Only
This online privacy policy applies only to information collected through our website and not to information collected offline.