PRIVACY POLICY
Hello, and thank you for visiting! Though this is a personal site, there is information that we need to provide to you when you visit us. In general, businesses that operate over the internet collect some information when you visit us online and additional information when you voluntarily provide us with payment information.
We will always do its best to protect your privacy, including working with reputable third-party entities. If you’re not happy with any communication from the Joerg Rieger, please contact us at: j.rieger@vanderbilt.edu.
WHAT DO WE DO WITH YOUR INFORMATION?
When you browse our website, we may also receive your computer’s internet protocol (IP) address in order to provide us with information that helps us learn about your browser and operating system.
When you purchase something from our store (if applicable), as part of the buying and selling process, we collect the personal information you give us such as your name, address and email address.
Email marketing: With your permission, we may send you emails about our store, new products, and other updates.
CONSENT:
How do you get my consent?
If we ask for your personal information for a secondary reason, like marketing, we will either ask you directly for your expressed consent, or provide you with an opportunity to say no or opt out (i.e. an "unsubscribe" button) .
When you provide us with personal information to complete a transaction, verify your credit card, place an order, arrange for a delivery or return a purchase, we imply that you consent to our collecting it and using it for that specific reason.
How do I withdraw my consent?
You may change your mind and decide to withdraw your consent for us to contact you, for the continued collection, use or disclosure of your information, at anytime, by contacting us at j.rieger@vanderbilt.edu or mailing us at: Joerg Rieger, 411 21st Ave S. Nashville, TN 37240.
DISCLOSURE:
We may disclose your personal information, if we are required by law or court order to do so or if you violate our Terms of Service.
SQUARESPACE:
Our store is currently hosted on Squarespace, Inc. They provide us with the online e-commerce platform that allows us to sell our products and services to you. We may also use credit and debit payment processing through Stripe, Inc., a third-party processing service (stripe.com) that allows us to accept your payment online. Your data may be stored through Squarespace's and/or Stripe's data storage, databases, and the general Squarespace or Stripe application.
ANALYTICS:
This website collects personal data to power our site analytics, information about your browser, network, and device; web pages you visited prior to coming to this website; your IP address. This information may also include details about your use of this website, including: clicks, internal links, pages visited, scrolling, searches, timestamps. We share this information with Squarespace, our website analytics provider, to learn about site traffic and activity.
COOKIES
This website uses cookies and similar technologies, which are small files or pieces of text that download to a device when a visitor accesses a website or app. For information about viewing the cookies dropped on your device, visit About the cookies Squarespace uses.
These functional and required cookies are always used, which allow Squarespace, our hosting platform, to securely serve this website to you. These analytics and performance cookies are used on this site, as described below, only when you acknowledge our cookie banner. We use analytics cookies to view site traffic, activity, and other data.
EMAILS
We may send you marketing emails, which you can unsubscribe from by clicking the link at the bottom of the email. We share your contact information with Squarespace, our email marketing provider, so they can send these emails on our behalf.
VISITOR DATA:
This website is hosted by Squarespace. Squarespace collects personal data when you visit this website, including: information about your browser, network and device; web pages you visited prior to coming to this website; and your IP address. Squarespace needs the data to run this website, and to protect and improve its platform and services. Squarespace analyzes the data in a de-personalized form.
THIRD-PARTY SERVICES
In general, the third-party providers used by us will only collect, use, and/or disclose your information to the extent necessary to allow them to perform the services they provide to us.
However, certain third-party service providers, such as payment gateways and other payment transaction processors, have their own privacy policies in respect to the information we are required to provide to them for your purchase-related transactions.
For these providers, we recommend that you read their privacy policies so you can understand the manner in which your personal information will be handled by these providers.
In particular, remember that certain providers may be located in or have facilities that are located a different jurisdiction than either you or us. So if you elect to proceed with a transaction that involves the services of a third-party service provider, then your information may become subject to the laws of the jurisdiction(s) in which that 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 are no longer governed by this Privacy Policy or our website’s Terms of Service.
LINKS
When you click on links on our store, they may direct you away from our site. We are not responsible for the privacy practices of other sites and encourage you to read their privacy statements.
SECURITY
To protect your personal information, we take reasonable precautions to make sure it is not inappropriately lost, misused, accessed, disclosed, altered or, destroyed. If you provide us with your credit and/or debit card information, the information is encrypted and stored with encryption. Although no method of transmission over the Internet or electronic storage is 100% secure, we do our best to follow applicable requirements and implement additional generally accepted industry standards.
CHANGES TO THIS PRIVACY POLICY
Joerg Rieger reserves the right to modify this privacy policy at any time, so please review it frequently. Changes and clarifications will take effect immediately upon their posting on the website.
QUESTIONS AND CONTACT INFORMATION
If you would like to: access, correct, amend or delete any personal information we have about you, register a complaint, or simply want more information email us at: j.rieger@vanderbilt.edu or mail us at 411 21st Ave S. Nashville, TN 37240