Miacontessa Privacy Policy: 

Your Data Security & Rights

At Miacontessa, we are deeply committed to protecting the privacy and security of your personal information. This Miacontessa Privacy Policy meticulously describes how we collect, use, store, share, and protect information when you visit or use our website, make a purchase, or interact with our services. By accessing or using our website, you explicitly agree to the collection and use of information in accordance with this policy.

Our Website Address: Our website address is: https://miacontessa.com.

1. Information We Collect

We collect various types of information to provide and improve our services to you:

1.1. Personal Information (Directly Provided by You):

When you create an account (My Account), make a purchase, subscribe to our newsletter, or contact us (Contact Us), we may collect personal data including, but not limited to:

• Your full name
• Email address
• Billing and shipping addresses
• Payment information (processed securely by third-party payment gateways; we do not store full credit card details)
• Telephone number (if provided for shipping or contact)
• Account credentials (username and password)

1.2. Usage Data (Automatically Collected):

As you navigate and interact with our website, we automatically collect data about your equipment, browser actions, and patterns. This Usage Data may include:

• Your Internet Protocol (IP) address
• Browser type and version
• Pages of our website that you visit
• The time and date of your visit
• The time spent on those pages
• Unique device identifiers and other diagnostic data

1.3. Comments:

If you leave comments on our site (e.g., on blog posts, if enabled), we collect the data shown in the comments form, and also the visitor’s IP address and browser user agent string to aid in spam detection. An anonymized string created from your email address (also called a hash) may be provided to the Gravatar service to see if you are using it. The Gravatar service privacy policy is available here: https://automattic.com/privacy/. After approval of your comment, your profile picture may be visible to the public in the context of your comment.

1.4. Media:

If you, as a user, upload images to the website (e.g., for user profiles or reviews, if such functionality is enabled), you should avoid uploading images with embedded location data (EXIF GPS). Visitors to the website may be able to download and extract any location data from images on the website. Please note: Generally, Miacontessa does not provide public user image upload functionality for privacy protection.

1.5. Cookies and Tracking Technologies:

We use cookies and similar tracking technologies to track activity on our website and hold certain information. Cookies are files with a small amount of data that are stored on your device.

• Necessary Cookies: These are essential for the website to function properly.
• Preference Cookies: If you leave a comment on our site, you may opt-in to saving your name, email address, and website in cookies. These are for your convenience so that you do not have to fill in your details again when you leave another comment. These cookies will last for one year.
• Authentication Cookies: If you visit our login page, we will set a temporary cookie to determine if your browser accepts cookies. This cookie contains no personal data and is discarded when you close your browser. When you log in, we will also set up several cookies to save your login information and your screen display choices. Login cookies last for two days, and screen options cookies last for a year. If you select “Remember Me,” your login will persist for two weeks. If you log out of your account, the login cookies will be removed.
• Editor Cookies: If you edit or publish an article (applicable to administrators/content creators), an additional cookie will be saved in your browser. This cookie includes no personal data and simply indicates the post ID of the article you just edited. It expires after 1 day.
• Analytics Cookies: We use analytics cookies to collect information about how users interact with our website (e.g., Google Analytics) to understand usage patterns and improve user experience.

1.6. Embedded Content from Other Websites:

Articles, product pages, or other content on this site may include embedded content (e.g., videos from YouTube, images, articles from other sites). Embedded content from other websites behaves in the exact same way as if the visitor has directly visited the other website. These external websites may collect data about you, use their own cookies, embed additional third-party tracking, and monitor your interaction with that embedded content, including tracking your interaction with the embedded content if you have an account and are logged in to that external website. Miacontessa is not responsible for the privacy practices of these external sites.

2. How We Use Your Information

Miacontessa utilizes the collected data for various purposes, including:

• To process and fulfill your orders, manage payments, and facilitate shipping (Shipping Information).
• To provide, operate, and maintain our website.
• To improve our website, products, services, and customer support.
• To communicate with you regarding your orders, inquiries, product updates, and promotional offers (where you have opted in).
• To conduct internal analytics and research to understand and improve user experience.
• To detect, prevent, and address technical issues, fraud, or security breaches.
• To comply with legal obligations.

3. Sharing and Disclosure of Your Information

We may share your personal information with third parties only as necessary for the purposes outlined in this Miacontessa Privacy Policy:

Service Providers:

We may engage third-party companies and individuals to facilitate our services (e.g., payment processors, shipping companies, website hosting providers, email marketing services). These third parties have access to your personal data only to perform these tasks on our behalf and are obligated not to disclose or use it for any other purpose.

Legal Requirements:

We may disclose your personal data if required to do so by law or in response to valid requests by public authorities (e.g., a court or government agency). This includes situations where we believe such action is necessary to comply with a legal obligation, protect the rights or property of Miacontessa, prevent or investigate possible wrongdoing in connection with the service, or protect the personal safety of users of the service or the public.

Business Transfer:

In the event of a merger, acquisition, or asset sale, your personal data may be transferred. We will provide notice before your personal data is transferred and becomes subject to a different Privacy Policy.

Password Reset:

If you request a password reset, your IP address will be included in the reset email.

Spam Detection:

Visitor comments and form submissions may be checked through an automated spam detection service (e.g., Akismet). This involves sending the submitted data to the service provider.

4. Data Security

The security of your data is paramount to Miacontessa. We implement robust technical and organizational measures designed to protect your personal information from unauthorized access, use, alteration, and disclosure. However, please remember 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 data, we cannot guarantee its absolute security.

5. Data Retention

We retain personal data for as long as necessary to fulfill the purposes for which it was collected, including for the purposes of satisfying any legal, accounting, or reporting requirements.

Comments:

If you leave a comment, the comment and its metadata are retained indefinitely. This is so we can recognize and approve any follow-up comments automatically instead of holding them in a moderation queue.

Registered Users:

For users that register on our website (if any), we also store the personal information they provide in their user profile. All users can see, edit, or delete their personal information at any time (except they cannot change their username). Website administrators can also see and edit that information.

Transactional Data:

We retain transactional data related to purchases for the period required by tax and accounting laws.

6. Your Data Protection Rights

Depending on your location, you may have certain rights regarding your personal data:

• Right to Access: You have the right to request access to your personal data that we hold.
• Right to Rectification: You have the right to request that we correct any information you believe is inaccurate or complete information you believe is incomplete.
• Right to Erasure (Right to Be Forgotten): You have the right to request that we erase your personal data, under certain conditions. This does not include any data we are obliged to keep for administrative, legal, or security purposes.
• Right to Restrict Processing: You have the right to request that we restrict the processing of your personal data, under certain conditions.
• Right to Object to Processing: You have the right to object to our processing of your personal data, under certain conditions.
• Right to Data Portability: You have the right to request that we transfer the data that we have collected to another organization, or directly to you, under certain conditions.

To exercise any of these rights, please contact us at info@miacontessa.com or visit our Contact Us page. We will respond to your request within a reasonable timeframe.

7. International Data Transfers

Your information, including personal data, may be transferred to — and maintained on — computers located outside of your state, province, country, or other governmental jurisdiction where the data protection laws may differ from those from your jurisdiction. Your consent to this Miacontessa Privacy Policy followed by your submission of such information represents your agreement to that transfer. We will take all steps reasonably necessary to ensure that your data is treated securely and in accordance with this Privacy Policy.

8. Changes to This Privacy Policy

Miacontessa reserves the right to update or change our Privacy Policy at any time. We will notify you of any changes by posting the new Privacy Policy on this page. We will also update the “effective date” at the top of this Miacontessa Privacy Policy. You are advised to review this Privacy Policy periodically for any changes. Your continued use of our website after any modifications constitutes your acknowledgment and acceptance of the revised policy.