Privacy Policy

Privacy Statement

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Part One - How do We Handle Your Information?

When you purchase goods from our store, as part of the transaction process, we will collect the personal information you provide, such as your name, address and email address.

When you browse our store, we will also automatically receive the Internet Protocol (IP) address of your device so that we can understand your browser and operating system.

Email marketing (if applicable) : With your permission, we may send you emails about our store, new products and other updates.

Part Two - Agree

How can we obtain your consent?

When you provide us with your personal information to complete a transaction, verify payment, place an order, arrange delivery or handle returns, it indicates that you agree that we may collect and use your information only for that specific purpose.

If we need your personal information for other purposes (such as marketing), we will directly seek your explicit consent or provide you with the opportunity to refuse.

How can I withdraw my consent?

If you change your mind after choosing to join, you can withdraw your consent at any time for us to contact you, continue to collect, use or disclose your information. You can contact us by E-mail to ritta@bear-1.com or by mail to the following address:

bear1teapot

Hongwei · Dongfang Jiayuan - North District

Yixing City, Wuxi 214200

Jiangsu Province, China

Part Three - Information Disclosure

If required by law or you violate our terms of service, we may disclose your personal information.

Part Four - Shopify

Our store is hosted on the platform of Shopify Inc. They provide us with an online e-commerce platform, enabling us to sell products and services to you.

Your data is stored through Shopify's data storage, database, and the Shopify app. They store your data on a secure server behind the firewall.

Payment

If you choose to complete your purchase through the direct payment gateway, Shopify will store your credit card data. This data has been encrypted through the Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard (PCI-DSS). Your purchase transaction data will only be stored for the period necessary to complete the purchase transaction. After the transaction is completed, your purchase transaction information will be deleted.

All direct payment gateways comply with the PCI-DSS standard established by the PCI Security Standards Council, which was jointly founded by brands such as Visa, MasterCard, American Express and Discover. The PCI-DSS requirements help ensure that our stores and their service providers handle credit card information securely.

If you need more information, you can also read Shopify terms of service (https://www.shopify.com/legal/terms) or privacy statement (https://www.shopify.com/legal/privacy).

Part Five - Third-party Services

Under normal circumstances, the third-party service providers we use will only collect, use and disclose your information, and only to the extent necessary for them to provide services to us.

However, certain third-party service providers, such as payment gateways and other payment transaction processors, have their own privacy policies regarding the information we must provide to them for your purchase transactions.

For these service providers, we recommend that you read their privacy policies to understand how they will handle your personal information.

It is particularly important to note that some service providers may be located in jurisdictions different from yours or ours, or their facilities may be located in different jurisdictions. Therefore, if you choose to continue with transactions involving the services of a third-party service provider, your information may be governed by the laws of the jurisdiction in which the service provider or its facilities are located.

Once you leave our store's website or are redirected to a third-party website or application, you will no longer be bound by this Privacy Policy or our website's terms of service.

Link

When you click on the link of our store, you may be directed to other websites. We are not responsible for the privacy protection measures of other websites. We suggest you read their privacy statements.

Section 6 - Safety

To protect your personal information, we take reasonable precautions and follow industry best practices to ensure that your information is not improperly lost, misused, accessed, disclosed, altered or destroyed.

If you provide us with credit card information, it will be encrypted using Secure Sockets Layer (SSL) technology and stored in AES-256 encryption. Although no Internet transmission or electronic storage method can guarantee 100% security, we adhere to all PCI-DSS requirements and implement other generally recognized industry standards.

Part Seven - Cookies

The following is the list of cookies we use. We list these cookies here so that you can choose whether to disable them or not.

_session_id, the unique token, session Cookie, enables Shopify to store information about your session (referral sources, landing pages, etc.).

_shopify_visit does not store data and lasts for 30 minutes from the last visit. It is used by the internal statistics tracker of our website provider to record the number of visits.

_shopify_uniq, which does not store data and expires at midnight the next day (relative to the time zone of the visitor), is used to count the number of visits to the store by a single customer.

cart, a unique token, lasts for 2 weeks and stores information about the contents of your shopping cart.

_secure_session_id, unique token, session Cookie.

storefront_digest, unique token, indefinite. If the store has set a password, this Cookie is used to determine whether the current visitor has access permission.

Article 8 - Agreed Age

By using this website, you indicate that you have reached the legal age of majority in your country or region, or you have reached the legal age of majority in your country or region, and you have agreed that we may allow any of your minor dependents to use this website.

Section 9 - Changes to This Privacy Policy

We reserve the right to modify this Privacy Policy at any time. Please check it regularly. Changes and clarifications will take effect immediately upon Posting on the website. If we make significant changes to this policy, we will notify you on this page that the policy has been updated, so that you can understand what information we collect, how we use this information and under what circumstances (if any) we will use and/or disclose this information.

If our store is acquired or merged with another company, your information may be transferred to the new owner so that we can continue to sell products to you.

Questions and contact information

If you wish to access, correct, modify or delete any personal information we hold about you, file a complaint, or simply want to learn more, please contact our privacy compliance officer by email at ritta@bear-1.com or by mail to the following address:

bear1teapot

[Recipient: Privacy Compliance Officer]

Hongwei · Dongfang Jiayuan - North District

Yixing City, Wuxi 214200

Jiangsu Province, China

You can also visit our website for more information: https://bear1teapot.com/