We (Survival Gear Shoppe) take your "Rights to Privacy "very seriously and want you to feel comfortable using our website. This Privacy Policy deals with personally identifiable pieces of information (referred to as "data" below) that may be collected by us on our website. This Policy does not apply to other entities that we do not own or control or persons that are not our employees, agents, or within our control. Please take time to read our "terms of Use".

Survival Gear Shoppe is committed to safeguarding your privacy. Contact us using our "Contact Form Page" if you have any questions or problems regarding the use of your Personal Data and we will gladly assist you.

By using this site and/or our services, you consent to the processing of your Personal Data as described in this Privacy Policy.

1. Definitions used in this Policy.

2. Data Protection principles we follow.

3. What rights do you have regarding your Personal Data?

4. What Personal Data do we gather about you?

5. How do we use your collected Data?

6. Who Else has access to your Personal Data?

7. How we secure your Data.

8. Information about “cookies”.

9. Contact Information.

Personal Data – any information relating to an identified or identifiable natural person.

Processing – any operation or set of operations that is performed on Personal Data or on sets of Data.

Data Subject – a natural person whose Personal Data is being processed.

Child - any natural person under 16 years of age.

We/Us – Designation for authorized entities, only as related to this website, company, agents, or representatives.

We promise to adhere to the following data protection principles:

• Processing is lawful, fair, and transparent. Our Processing activities have lawful grounds. We always consider your rights before Processing Personal Data. We will provide you information regarding Processing upon request.

• Processing is limited to the purpose of the intended action and fits the purpose for which the Personal Data was collected.

• Processing is done with minimal data. We only gather and Process the minimal amount of Personal Data required for any purpose.

• Processing is limited to a period. We will not store your “Personal Data for longer than needed.

• We will do our best to ensure the accuracy of Personal Data.

• We will do our best to ensure the integrity and confidentiality of Personal Data.

The Data Subject has the following rights:

• Right to Information – meaning, You have the right to know whether your Personal Data is being processed, what Data is gathered, from where it is obtained, why it was provided, and by whom it is being processed.

• Rights to Access – meaning, You have the right o access the Data collected from/about you. This includes the right to request and obtain a copy of your Personal Data gathered.

• Right to Re-certification – meaning, You have the right o request recertification or erasure of your Personal Data that is inaccurate or incomplete.

• Right to Erasure – meaning, under certain and/or specific circumstances, that do not interfere with legal requirements, you can request your Personal Data to be erased from our records.

• Right to Restriction – meaning, in certain circumstances you have the right to object to the processing of Personal Data.

• Right to Portability -meaning, You have the right to obtain a copy of your collected Personal Data in readable format upon request.

• Right of Complaint – If an issue arises due to the Rights of Access, or you are not satisfied with Personal Data collection, you may Contact Us to address any related issues.

• Right to Withdraw Consent - Personal Data is collected on a “Consensual Basis” as provided by you, the User, and as such you have the right to withdraw any given or implied consent to the processing.

Information about how advertising may be served on this site (if at all) is set forth below,

Information you have provided us with:

• The may consist of your e-mail address, name, billing address, home address, etc. – mainly information that is necessary for the processing and/or delivery of products(s)/service(s) or to enhance your customer experience with us. We save the information you provide us with for you to comment on or perform other activities on this website.

Information that may automatically be collected:

• This includes information that is automatically stored by “Internet Browsers” and other session tools, known as “Cookies”. For example, any shopping cart information, your IP Address, website page visiting history, etc... This information is used to improve your customer experience. When you use our service or view the contents of our website, your activities may be logged.

Information from our partners:

• We gather information from our trusted partners with confirmation that they have legal grounds to share that information with us. This is either information you have provided to them directly or that they have gathered about you on other legal grounds. See a list of our partners here.

Publicly Available Information:

• We may or may not gather publicly available information.

Personal Data is used on this site in order to:

• provide our service/content to you. This includes, for example, registering an account, providing you with other products and services that you have requested, providing you with promotional items at your request, communicating with you in relation to those products and services, and general interaction and communications with you (the user), and notifying you of changes to this site, products and/or services.;

• enhance your customer experience;

• fulfill an obligation under law or contract;

Personal Data is used on legitimate grounds and/or with your Consent:

On the grounds of entering into a contract or fulfilling contractual obligations, Personal Data will be processed for the following purposes:

• to identify you;

• to provide you a service or to send/offer you a product;

• to communicate either for sales, invoicing, or technical support;
  

On the grounds of legitimate interest, Personal Data will be processed for the following reasons:

• to send you personalized offers* (from us and/or our carefully selected partners);

• to administer and canalize our client base (purchasing behavior and history) in order to improve the quality, variety, and availability of products/services being offered/provided;

• to conduct questionnaires concerning client satisfaction;

As long as you have not informed us otherwise or to the contrary, we consider offering you products and services that are similar to or the same as your purchasing/browsing history behavior to be our legitimate interest.

Personal Data is processed with your consent for the following purposes:

• to send you the newsletter and campaign offers (from us and/or our carefully selected partners);

• for any/other purposes which you have expressly given consent for;
  

Personal Data is processed in order to fulfill obligations rising from the law and/or for options provided by the law. We reserve the right to anonymize Personal Data gathered and to use any such data. We will use data outside the scope of this Policy only when it is anonymized. We save your billing information (where applicable to direct purchase with our site), and other information gathered about you for as long as needed for accounting purposes of other obligations deriving from law.

We might process your Personal Data for additional purposes that are not mentioned here but are compatible with the original purpose for which the data was gathered. To do this, we will ensure that:

• the link between purposes, content, and nature of Personal Data is suitable for further processing;

• the further Processing would not harm your interests;

• there would be appropriate safeguards for processing;
  

We will inform you of any further processing and purposes, which may be added to this Policy in the future.

We do not share or sell your Data with strangers, Personal Data about you may in some cases, be provided to our trusted partners to either make providing our services to you possible or to enhance your customer experience.

In many cases, your Personal Data is not shared directly by us or our system and will be required for you to interact with websites outside of our control or purview, in which you will be responsible for interactions on those websites.

We may share data with the following partners: See Disclaimer Page for List of Partners

We only work with Processing partners who can ensure an adequate level of protection for your Personal Data. We disclose your Personal Data to third parties or public officials (law enforcement) when/if we are legally obliged to do so. We might disclose Personal Data to third parties if you have consented to it or if there are other legal grounds for it.

We do our best to keep your Personal Data safe. We use safe protocols for communication and transferring data(such as HTTPS). We use anonymizing and pseudonymizing where suitable. We monitor our systems for possible vulnerabilities and attacks.

Even though we try our best, we can not guarantee the security of all information. However, we promise to notify suitable authorities in the event of a data breach. We will also notify you in the event a threat to your rights, interests or data become applicable. We will do everything we reasonably can to prevent security breaches and to assist authorities should any breaches occur.

If you have an account with us, make notes that you must also work to keep your account information, such as user-name and passwords, secret and safe.

Safe Children Practices:

We do not allow persons who are ages fifteen (15) or under to become members of this site. We do not intend to collect or knowingly collect information from children. While the information on this site applies to people and persons of all ages, sexes, races, and nationalities, it is not specifically targeted at any specific group, other than those who share an interest in the specific content.

For more information, please contact our webmaster or support department.

Like many websites, we set and use cookies to enhance your user experience, such as retaining your settings. Advertisements may appear on our website and if so, may set and access cookies on your computer and are subject to the privacy policy of those parties providing the advertisement. However, the companies serving the advertisement do not have access to our cookies. These companies usually use non-personally identifiable (or anonymous) codes to obtain information about your visits to our site.

Cookies and Other Technologies We Use:

We use cookies and/or similar technologies to analyze customer behavior, administer the website, track user movement, and collect information about users' interactions. This is done to personalize and enhance your experience with us.

A cookie is a tiny text file stored on your computer. Cookies store information that is used to help make sites work. Only we can access the cookies created by our website. You can control your cookies at the browser level from your computer. Choosing to disable cookies may hinder your use of certain functions on this site.

We use cookies for the following purposes:

• Necessary Cookies – These cookies are required for you to be able to use some important features on our website, such as logging in. These cookies don't collect any personal information.

• Functionality Cookies – These cookies provide functionality that makes using our service more convenient and makes providing more personalized features possible. For example, they might remember your name and e-mail address in comment forms so you don't have to re-enter this information for future commenting.

• Analytic Cookies – These cookies are used to track the use and performance of our website and services.

• Advertising Cookies – these cookies are used to deliver advertisements that are relevant to you and your interests. In addition, they are used to limit the number of times you see certain advertisements. They are usually placed on websites by advertising networks with the website operator's permission. These cookies remember that you have visited a website and this information is shared with other organizations such as advertisers. Often targeting or advertising cookies will be linked to the site functionality provided by the other organizations.

You can remove cookies stored on your computer via your web browser settings. Alternatively, you can control some 3^rd party cookies by using a privacy enhancement platform such as Optout.AboutAds.Info or YourOnlineChoices.com. For more information about cookies, visit AllAboutCookies.org.

We use Google Analytics to measure traffic on our website. Google has its Privacy Policy which you can review here. If you would like to opt-out of tracking by Google Analytics, visit the Googe Analytics opt-out page.

If you have any questions about this Policy or our website, please feel free to contact us using our Contact Us Page.