our privacy policy

Yes, we have one.

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Our Privacy Standards

  1. This Privacy Policy sets out how the-sykstem (“the-sykstem”, “we”, “our” or “us”) collects, stores, processes, transfers, shares and uses your information, our use of cookies and similar technologies, and your rights and choices with respect to our data practices.

  2. We operate an e-commerce platform, which we make available through our website thesykstem.netlify.app (our “Website”).

  3. This Privacy Policy applies to our Website and to our stores (together, the “Service”) and any other offline or online location that make this Privacy Policy available to you. Please ensure that you have read this Privacy Policy and our Terms of Service and understand how we collect, store, use and disclose your information, both online and offline through the Service. If you do not agree with our data practices, discontinue use of the Service.

TL;DR

  • We care very much about the privacy of your data.
  • Our website is tracker free except for a Sendgrid one in your order receipt (due to our website using Snipcart). Our newsletter emails do not contain trackers.
  • A demo credit card will be shown to you at checkout so your payment details will never be seen by us.
  • Your loved items are stored locally and are never seen by us.

Information We Collect

  1. Credit Card Information (We provide you with one. Do not use yours).
  2. Your email address (Should you provide yours).
  3. Your order(s).

Third-Party Service Providers

  1. We use Snipcart (https://snipcart.com) for all transactions on this website. Read their terms and privacy agreement here: (https://snipcart.com/terms-of-service).

Other Parties

  1. The Service contains links to and from websites, platforms, and services operated or controlled by other parties, retailers and affiliates.

  2. Some examples include:

    • Links. Our Service includes links that hyperlink to websites, platforms, and other services not operated or controlled by us.

  3. If you follow a link or interact with other parties, those parties may independently collect information about you and solicit information from you. The information collected and stored by those parties remains subject to their own privacy policies and practices. We do not accept any responsibility or liability for their policies. Please check the individual policies before you submit any information to those parties.

Storing And Transferring Your Personal Information

  1. Security. We implement appropriate technical and organizational measures designed to protect your information against accidental or unlawful destruction, loss, change or damage. We will never send you unsolicited emails or contact you by phone requesting your account ID, password, credit or debit card information or national identification numbers. Nevertheless, transmission via the internet is not completely secure and we cannot guarantee the security of information about you.

  2. International Transfers. We are based in the U.S. and the information we collect is governed by U.S. law. If you are accessing the Service from outside of the U.S., please be aware that the information we collect may be transferred to, processed, used, and stored in the U.S. and other jurisdictions outside your country of residence. If you are accessing our Website from the European Economic Area (“EEA”), your information will be processed outside of the EEA, including in the United States. For personal data transferred from Europe, we will ensure that: (i) the personal data is transferred to countries recognized as offering an equivalent level of protection; or (ii) the transfer is made pursuant to appropriate safeguards, such as standard data protection clauses adopted by the European Commission.

Our Policy Towards Children

The Service is not directed at persons under 18. We do not knowingly collect or solicit personal information (as defined by the U.S. Children’s Privacy Protection Act, or “COPPA”) from children. If we learn that we have collected personal information, or if you are a parent or guardian and you believe that we have collected personal information, in violation of COPPA, please contact us at legal@thesysktem.com. We do not knowingly “sell,” as that term is defined under the CCPA, the personal information of minors under 16 years old who are California residents.

Changes To This Policy

We may update this Privacy Policy from time to time and so you should review this page periodically. When we change this Privacy Policy in a material way, we will update the “last modified” date at the beginning of this Privacy Policy. Changes to this Privacy Policy are effective when they are posted on this page.

Contacting Us

Please contact us at legal@thesysktem.com if you have any questions, comments and requests regarding this Privacy Policy:

  • By email: legal@thesykstem.com
  • By mail: the sykstem, Attn: Legal, 123 Hollywood Blvd., Fl 1, Los Angeles, CA 12345

Additional Disclosures For Nevada Residents

Nevada law (NRS 603A.340) requires each business to establish a designated request address where Nevada consumers may submit requests directing the business not to sell certain kinds of personal information that the business has collected or will collect about the consumer. A sale under Nevada law is the exchange of personal information for monetary consideration by the business to a third party for the third party to license or sell the personal information to other third parties. If you are a Nevada consumer and wish to submit a request relating to our compliance with Nevada law, please contact us at legal@thesykstem.com.

Additional Disclosures For California Residents

These additional disclosures apply only to California residents. The California Consumer Privacy Act of 2018 (“CCPA”) provides additional rights to know, delete and opt-out, and requires businesses collecting or disclosing personal information to provide notices and means to exercise rights.

Notice of Collection. In the past 12 months, we have collected the following categories of personal information enumerated in the CCPA:

  1. email addresses.

For further details on information we collect, including the sources from which we receive information, review the collection of information sections above. We collect and use these categories of personal information for the business purposes described in the “Use of Information” section above, including to manage our Service.

We do not sell or share information.

Right to Know and Delete

You have the right to know certain details about our data practices in the past 12 months. In particular, you may request the following from us:

  1. The categories of personal information we have collected about you;
  2. The categories of sources from which the personal information was collected;
  3. The categories of personal information about you we disclosed for a business purpose or sold;
  4. The categories of third parties to whom the personal information was disclosed for a business purpose or sold;
  5. The business or commercial purpose for collecting or selling the personal information; and
  6. The specific pieces of personal information we have collected about you

In addition, you have the right to delete the personal information we have collected from you; provided that a CCPA exception does not apply. For example, we may not honor your request to delete if the personal information is necessary to complete a transaction with you, detect security incidents, comply with a legal obligation, or for internal use in a lawful manner compatible with the context in which you provided the personal information.

To exercise any of these rights, please submit a request through our Online Form or call our toll free number at 1(234)-567-8910. In the request, please specify which right you are seeking to exercise and the scope of the request. We will confirm receipt of your request within 10 days. We may require specific information from you to help us verify your identity and process your request. If we are unable to verify your identity, we may deny your requests to know or delete. In the same manner, we will notify you if for any other reason we are unable to comply with your request to know or delete.

Right to Opt-Out

To the extent the Company sells your personal information as the term “sell” is defined under the CCPA, you have the right to opt-out of the sale of your personal information by us to third parties at any time. You may submit a request to opt-out by clicking Do Not Sell My Personal Information or emailing us at legal@universalstandard.net .

Authorized Agent

You can designate an authorized agent to submit requests on your behalf. However, we will require written proof of the agent’s permission to do so and verify your identity directly.

Right to Non-Discrimination

You have the right not to receive discriminatory treatment by us for the exercise of any of your rights.

Additional Disclosures For Data Subjects In Europe

Who is Responsible for the Use of Your Personal Data?

the sykstem is the controller of the personal information we hold about you in connection with your use of the Service. This means that we determine and are responsible for how your personal information is used.

Lawful Basis for Processing

Data protection laws in Europe require a “lawful basis” for processing personal data. Our lawful bases include where: (a) you have given consent to the processing for one or more specific purposes, either to us or to our service providers or partners; (b) processing is necessary for the performance of a contract with you; (c) processing is necessary for compliance with a legal obligation; or (d) processing is necessary for the purposes of the legitimate interests pursued by us or a third party, and your interests and fundamental rights and freedoms do not override those interests. Where applicable, we will transfer your personal data to third countries subject to appropriate or suitable safeguards, such as standard contractual clauses.

How Long Will We Store Your Personal Data?

We will only retain your personal data for as long as necessary to fulfill the purposes we collected it for, including for the purposes of our legitimate business interests and satisfying any legal or reporting requirements.

To determine the appropriate retention period for personal data, we consider the amount, nature, and sensitivity of the personal data, the potential risk of harm from unauthorized use or disclosure of your personal data, the purposes for which we process your personal data and the applicable legal requirements.

You have the following rights in respect of your personal data that we hold:

  1. Right of access. The right to obtain access to your personal data along with certain related information.

  2. Right of portability. You have the right, in certain circumstances, to receive a copy of the personal data you have provided to us in a structured, commonly used, machine-readable format that supports re-use, or to request the transfer of your personal data to another person.

  3. Right to rectification. You have the right to obtain rectification of any inaccurate or incomplete personal data we hold about you without undue delay.

  4. Right to erasure. You have the right, in some circumstances, to require us to erase your personal data without undue delay if the continued processing of that personal data is not justified.

  5. Right to restriction. You have the right, in some circumstances, to require us to limit the purposes for which we process your personal data if the continued processing of the personal data in this way is not justified, such as where the accuracy of the personal data is contested by you.

  6. Right to withdraw consent. If you have provided consent for the processing of your personal data, you have the right to withdraw your consent. If you withdraw your consent, this will not affect the lawfulness of our use of your personal data before your withdrawal.

Other Rights

You also have the right to object to any processing based on our legitimate interests where there are grounds relating to your particular situation. There may be compelling reasons for continuing to process your personal data, and we will assess and inform you if that is the case.

If you wish to exercise one of these rights, please contact us using the contact details at the “Contacting Us” section of this Privacy Policy.

You also have the right to lodge a complaint to your local data protection authority. If you are based in the European Union, information about how to contact your local data protection authority is available here.

Privacy Shield

the sykstem complies with the EU–U.S. Privacy Shield Framework and the Swiss–U.S. Privacy Shield Framework as set forth by the U.S. Department of Commerce regarding the collection, use, and retention of personal data transferred from the European Union, United Kingdom and Switzerland to the United States, respectively. We have certified to the Department of Commerce that we adhere to the Privacy Shield Principles. If there is any conflict between the terms in this Privacy Policy and the Privacy Shield Principles, the Privacy Shield Principles shall govern. To learn more about the Privacy Shield program, and to view our certification, please visit https://www.privacyshield.gov/. the sykstem recognizes that the Court of Justice of the European Union invalidated Privacy Shield, and the sykstem will continue to use appropriate safeguards to protect personal data from the European Union, United Kingdom, and Switzerland.

With respect to personal data received or transferred pursuant to the Privacy Shield Framework, the sykstem is subject to the investigatory and enforcement powers of the U.S. Federal Trade Commission. In certain situations, the sykstem may be required to disclose personal data in response to lawful requests by public authorities, including to meet national security or law enforcement requirements.

In compliance with the Privacy Shield Principles, the sykstem commits to resolve complaints about your privacy and our collection or use of your personal data where transferred to the United States pursuant to Privacy Shield. If you have any questions about this Statement or the personal data that we collect from you in reliance on Privacy Shield, please contact us at the information provided in Section 16 of the Privacy Policy .

We may transfer personal data to certain third parties (as described in our Privacy Policy ) in reliance on Privacy Shield. Where we transfer personal data to a third party in reliance on Privacy Shield, we will take reasonable and appropriate steps to ensure the third party processes personal data for limited and specified purposes and in a manner consistent with our Privacy Shield obligations. Where the transfer is to a third-party agent acting on our behalf, we may be liable if such third parties fail to meet those obligations, and we are responsible for the event giving rise to the damage.

In the event that you are concerned about how personal data you have provided to the sykstem has been transferred in reliance on Privacy Shield, please address your inquiry or complaint first to us at the address listed in Section 16 of the Privacy Policy. the sykstem shall endeavor to reply within 45 days of receiving a complaint regarding personal data transferred in reliance on Privacy Shield. If we fail to respond within that time, or if our response does not adequately address your concerns, you may submit your complaint free of charge to JAMS, our designated Privacy Shield dispute resolution provider, using this link: https://www.jamsadr.com/.

If your Privacy Shield complaint cannot be resolved through the above channels, under certain conditions, you may invoke binding arbitration for some residual claims not resolved by other redress mechanisms. See Privacy Shield Annex 1 at https://www.privacyshield.gov/article?id=ANNEX-I-introduction.

To learn more about the Privacy Shield Framework, and to view the sykstem’s certification, please visit https://www.privacyshield.gov/ .

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