Privacy Policy

Your privacy is critically important to us. At finelytableware.com, we have a few fundamental principles: We are thoughtful about the personal information we ask you to provide and the personal information that we collect. We store personal information for only as long as we have a reason to keep it. We aim to make it as simple as possible for you to control what information is shared publicly (or kept private), permanently deleted, and communicated to third parties. We help protect you from overreaching government demands for your personal information. We strive for full transparency in how we gather, use, and share your personal information.

Below is our Privacy Policy, which incorporates and clarifies these principles.

Who We Are and What This Policy Covers

We are the team behind finelytableware.com. This Privacy Policy applies to information that we collect about you when you use our website, finelytableware.com. Throughout this Privacy Policy, we’ll refer to our website as the “Service.”

Below we explain how we collect, use, and share information about you, along with the choices that you have with respect to that information.

Information We Collect

We only collect information about you if we have a reason to do so–for example, to provide our Services, to communicate with you, or to make our Services better.

We collect this information from three primary sources: if and when you provide information to us, automatically through operating our Services, and from outside sources. Let’s go over the information that we collect.

Information You Provide to Us:
It’s probably no surprise that we collect information that you provide to us directly. Here are some examples:

  • Basic Account Information: We ask for basic information to set up your account. For example, we require individuals who register for an account to provide a username and email address.
  • Transaction and Billing Information: If you buy something from us, you will provide additional personal and payment information required to process the transaction and your payment, such as your name, credit card information, and contact information.
  • Content Information: Depending on the Services you use, you may also provide us with information. For instance, if you leave a comment on our site, we collect the information you provide.

Information We Collect Automatically:
We also collect some information automatically:

  • Log Information: Like most online service providers, we collect information that web browsers, mobile devices, and servers typically make available, such as the browser type, IP address, unique device identifiers, language preference, referring site, the date and time of access, operating system, and mobile network information.
  • Usage Information: We collect information about your usage of our Services. For example, we collect information about the actions that users perform on a site. We also collect information about what happens when you use our Services (e.g., page views, searches) along with information about your device (e.g., screen size, name of cellular network).
  • Location Information: We may determine the approximate location of your device from your IP address. We collect and use this information to, for example, calculate how many people visit our Services from certain geographic regions.
  • Information from Cookies & Other Technologies: A cookie is a string of information that a website stores on a visitor’s computer, and that the visitor’s browser provides to the website each time the visitor returns. We use cookies and other technologies to help us identify and track visitors, usage, and access preferences for our Services.

Information We Collect from Other Sources:
We may also get information about you from other sources. For example, if you create an account using a third-party service (like Google), we will receive information from that service (e.g., your username, basic profile information) via the authorization procedures used. The information we receive depends on which services you use and the options available.

How and Why We Use Information

We use information about you for the purposes listed below:

  • To Provide Our Services: For example, to set up and maintain your account, provide customer service, process payments and orders, and verify user information.
  • To Ensure Quality, Improve Safety, and Maintain Security: We use your information to improve our Services, develop new features, and protect finelytableware.com and our users.
  • To Communicate with You: For example, to respond to your comments and questions, provide customer support, and send you informational updates and marketing communications (where you have agreed to receive them).
  • To Market and Promote our Services: We may use your information to market our Services, subject to your consent where required by law.
  • To Protect Our Legal Rights and Prevent Misuse: We use information to detect and prevent fraud, spam, abuse, security incidents, and other harmful activity.
  • To Comply with Legal Obligations: We may use your information to comply with legal obligations, court orders, or requests from governmental authorities.

Legal Bases for Collecting and Using Information

A note here for those in the European Union about our legal grounds for processing information about you under EU data protection laws, which is that our use of your information is based on the grounds that: (1) The use is necessary in order to fulfill our commitments to you under our Terms of Service; or (2) The use is necessary for compliance with a legal obligation; or (3) We have a legitimate interest in using your information—for example, to provide and update our Services, to improve our Services so that we can offer you an even better user experience, to safeguard our Services, to communicate with you, to measure, gauge, and improve the effectiveness of our advertising, and to understand our user retention and attrition; or (4) You have given us your consent.

Sharing Information

We do not sell our users’ private personal information. We share information about you in the limited circumstances set out below and with appropriate safeguards on your privacy:

  • Subsidiaries, Employees, and Independent Contractors: We may disclose information about you to our subsidiaries, our employees, and individuals who are our independent contractors that need to know the information in order to help us provide our Services or to process the information on our behalf.
  • Third-Party Vendors: We may share information with third-party vendors who need to know information about you in order to provide their services to us. This group includes vendors that help us provide our Services (like payment providers that process your credit card payments) and those that help us understand and enhance our Services (like analytics providers).
  • Legal and Regulatory Requirements: We may disclose information about you in response to a subpoena, court order, or other governmental request.
  • To Protect Rights and Property: We may disclose information about you when we believe in good faith that disclosure is reasonably necessary to protect the property or rights of finelytableware.com, third parties, or the public at large.
  • Business Transfers: In connection with any merger, sale of company assets, or acquisition of all or a portion of our business by another company, or in the unlikely event that finelytableware.com goes out of business or enters bankruptcy, user information would likely be one of the assets that is transferred or acquired by a third party.
  • With Your Consent: We may share and disclose information with your consent or at your direction.

How Long We Keep Information

We generally discard information about you when we no longer need the information for the purposes for which we collect and use it–which are described in the section above on How and Why We Use Information–and we are not legally required to continue to keep it. We retain certain information for legitimate business purposes or as required by law.

Security

While no online service is 100% secure, we work very hard to protect information about you against unauthorized access, use, alteration, or destruction, and take reasonable measures to do so. We monitor our Services for potential vulnerabilities and attacks. We use measures like encryption to help protect your information.

Your Rights

You have several rights regarding your information:

  • Access and Portability: You can often access the personal information we hold about you and request a copy in a structured, machine-readable format.
  • Rectification: You have the right to ask us to correct inaccurate or incomplete personal information concerning you.
  • Erasure (“The Right to be Forgotten”): In some cases, you can ask us to erase your personal information.
  • Objection: You can object to our processing of your personal information where we are relying on a legitimate interest and you believe your fundamental rights and freedoms outweigh our legitimate interest.
  • Restrict Processing: You can ask us to suspend the processing of your personal information, for example, if you want us to establish its accuracy.
  • Withdraw Consent: Where we rely on your consent to process your data, you can withdraw that consent at any time.

To exercise these rights, please contact us. We will respond to your request within a reasonable timeframe. We may need to verify your identity before processing your request.

International Data Transfers

We are based in the United States. Your personal information will be processed in the United States, which may have different data protection laws than your country. By using our Services, you consent to the transfer of your information to the United States. We use appropriate safeguards to protect your data during these transfers.

Children’s Privacy

Our Services are not directed to individuals under the age of 16. We do not knowingly collect personal information from children under 16. If you are a parent or guardian and believe your child has provided us with personal information, please contact us. If we become aware that a child under 16 has provided us with personal information, we will take steps to delete such information.

Changes to This Privacy Policy

Although most changes are likely to be minor, we may change our Privacy Policy from time to time. We encourage visitors to frequently check this page for any changes. Your continued use of the Service after any change in this Privacy Policy will constitute your acceptance of such change.

Contact Us

If you have any questions about this Privacy Policy, please contact us through our website.