Who Are We?
Our website address is: https://www.aeepics.com.
This Privacy Policy describes how your personal information is collected, used, and shared when you visit or make a purchase from aeepics.com (hereinafter referred to as “https://www.aeepics.com”). Thank you for visiting the Aeepics website. Your privacy is important to us. We wish to inform all visitors or members of Aeepics that by agreeing to and accepting the terms, you consent to the collection, use, disclosure, and sharing of your personal data by Aeepics (including its affiliated companies and business divisions) (collectively “the Company”), as well as their respective representatives and/or agents, in order to provide you with a secure and personalized experience on Aeepics.
As a visitor or member of Aeepics (if user registration is available), you affirm that you have read, understood, and agreed to be bound by the Data Protection Policy as amended from time to time concerning the collection, use, and disclosure of your personal data on Aeepics.
What Personal Data Do We Collect and Why?
When you visit our site, we automatically collect certain information about your device, including information about your web browser, IP address, time zone, and some of the cookies installed on your device. Furthermore, we collect information about the individual web pages or products you view, what websites or search terms referred you to the site, and how you interact with the site. We refer to this automatically collected information as “Device Information.” We collect Device Information using the following technologies:
“Cookies” are data files placed on your device or computer that often include an anonymous unique identifier. For more information about cookies and how to disable them, please see below or visit http://www.allaboutcookies.org.
“Log files” track actions occurring on the site and collect data including your IP address, browser type, Internet service provider, referring/exit pages, and date/time stamps.
“Web beacons,” “tags,” and “pixels” are electronic files used to record information about how you browse the site.
“Personal Information” in this Privacy Policy refers to both Device Information and Order Information (if any). The purpose of collecting information is to better understand the needs and preferences of our users and to provide services of greater value or benefit.
Cookies
To enable the proper functioning of this site, small data files called cookies may sometimes be stored on your device. This is also true for most large websites.
What Are Cookies?
A cookie is a small file that asks permission to be placed on your computer’s hard drive or mobile device. Once you agree, the file is added, and the cookie helps analyze web traffic or notifies you when you visit a particular site. Cookies allow web applications to respond to you individually by gathering and remembering information about your preferences.
How Do We Use Cookies?
Cookies utilized on our website fall into the following categories:
- Essential – These cookies are necessary for the regular operation of our website. For example, some cookies allow you to log into your account, add products to your shopping cart, and securely checkout or perform fraud detection and security checks (and other similar things). These are critical for the proper functioning of the site.
- Functionality – With these cookies, you can navigate the site and use features like accessing secure areas (e.g., content for registered users). These cookies also enable us to remember your user preferences, helping to customize your experience on our website. Information obtained via functionality cookies is anonymous and not used for any other purpose.
- Performance Enhancers – These cookies help us understand the effectiveness of content, the interests of our customers, and how we can improve the way our website works. The information is used only for statistical purposes and not to personally identify any user.
- Analytics and Advertising – We use traffic log cookies to identify which pages are being used. This helps us analyze data about webpage traffic and improve our website to tailor it to customer needs. We use this information for statistical analysis purposes, after which the data is removed from the system. These cookies enable us and our advertising partners to serve ads and manage our online advertising when you visit our site and sites upon which we advertise.
Overall, cookies help us provide you with a better website by enabling us to monitor which pages you find useful and which you do not. A cookie does not give us access to your computer or any information about you, other than the data you choose to share with us.
How To Control Cookies
You can control and opt-in or out of cookies for more detailed information at aboutcookies.org. Most web browsers automatically accept cookies, but you can usually modify your browser setting to decline cookies if you prefer. However, this may prevent you from taking full advantage of the website, and some services and functionalities might not work properly.
Comments
When visitors leave comments on the site, we collect the data shown in the comments form, the visitor’s IP address, and the browser user agent string to help spam detection.
An anonymized string created from your email address (also known as a hash) may be provided to the Gravatar service to verify if you are using it. The Gravatar service privacy policy is available here: https://automattic.com/privacy/. After your comment is approved, your profile picture is visible to the public in the context of your comment.
Media
If you upload images to the website, you should avoid uploading images with embedded location data (EXIF GPS) included. Visitors to the website can download and extract any location data from images on the website.
Embedded Content from Other Websites
Articles on this site may include embedded content (e.g., videos, images, articles, etc.). Embedded content from other websites behaves in the exact same way as if the visitor has visited the other website.
These websites may collect data about you, use 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 into that website.
Who Do We Share Your Data With?
We use the Device Information that we collect to help us screen for potential risk and fraud (in particular, your IP address), and more generally to improve and optimize our site (for example, by generating analytics about how our customers browse and interact with the site, and to assess the success of our marketing and advertising campaigns). We use Cloudflare as our CDN provider to prevent DDOS attacks and cache our content. Due to the nature of Cloudflare, any data you submit to our servers will also pass through Cloudflare, although transmitted in encrypted format using end-to-end encryption technology. Click here for information on how Cloudflare collects and processes data.
We also use Google Analytics to help us understand how our users use the Site – you can read more about how Google uses your Personal Information here: https://www.google.com/intl/en/policies/privacy/. You can also opt-out of Google Analytics here: https://tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout.
Finally, we may also share your Personal Information to comply with applicable laws and regulations, to respond to a subpoena, search warrant or other lawful requests for information we receive, or to otherwise protect our rights.
How Long Do We Retain Your Information?
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 without holding them in a moderation queue.
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), and website administrators can also view and edit that information.
Your Rights Over Your Information
If you have an account on this site or have left comments, you can request an exported file of the personal data we hold about you, including any data you have provided to us. You can also request that we erase any personal data we hold about you. This does not include any data we are obliged to keep for administrative, legal, or security purposes.
Where We Send Your Information?
Visitor comments may be checked through an automated spam detection service.
The Legal Basis for Processing Personal Information
If you are located in the European Economic Area (“EEA”), our processing of your personal information will be based on the following: where we have obtained your consent for the processing of your personal information, such processing will be based on Article 6(1) lit. (a) of the General Data Protection Regulation (EU) 2016/679 (“GDPR”). If processing your personal information is necessary for the performance of a contract between you and us or for taking any pre-contractual steps upon your request, such processing will be based on GDPR Article 6(1) lit. (b). To the extent that processing your personal information is necessary for us to comply with legal obligations, we will do so based on GDPR Article 6(1) lit. (c), and to the extent processing is necessary for the purposes of our legitimate interests, we will do so based on GDPR Article 6(1) lit. (f). Please note that where you have consented to the processing of your personal information, you may withdraw your consent at any time by sending an email to Aeepics@hotmail.com, a withdrawal that will not affect the lawfulness of any processing previously carried out based on your consent.
How Do We Protect Your Information?
You are responsible for the security of your username (if applicable) and password on Aeepics (aeepics.com). We recommend choosing a strong password and changing it frequently. Please refrain from using the same login details (email and password) on multiple websites. However, we have implemented a variety of security measures, including the use of secure servers. All supplied sensitive/credit information is transmitted via Secure Socket Layer (SSL) technology and then encrypted into our Payment Gateway Provider’s database, only accessible by those authorized with special access rights to such systems, and they are required to keep the information confidential. After a transaction (if any), your private information (credit cards, social security numbers, financials, etc.) will not be stored on our servers.
Do Not Track
Please note that we do not alter our site’s data collection and use practices when we see a Do Not Track signal from your browser.
Updates
We may update this privacy policy from time to time in order to reflect, for example, changes to our practices or for other operational, legal, or regulatory reasons.
This page was last modified on 04/16/2024.