Privacy Policy

1. Introduction

Welcome to Shift House Project ("we," "our," or "us"). We are committed to protecting your personal information and your right to privacy. This Privacy Policy explains how we collect, use, disclose, and safeguard your information when you visit our website www.shifthouseproject.com.

If you have any questions or concerns about this privacy policy or our practices with regard to your personal information, please contact us at privacy@shifthouseproject.com.

2. Information We Collect

Personal Information

We may collect personal information that you voluntarily provide to us when you:

• Register on our website
• Express an interest in obtaining information about us or our products and services
• Participate in activities on the website
• Contact us
• Make a purchase

The personal information we collect may include:

• Name and contact details (email address, phone number, etc.)
• Billing and shipping addresses
• Payment information
• Demographic information
• Preferences and interests

Automatically Collected Information

When you visit our website, we automatically collect certain information about your device and usage through cookies and similar technologies. This information may include:

• IP address
• Browser type and version
• Pages you visit on our website
• Time and date of your visit
• Time spent on those pages
• Other diagnostic data

3. How We Use Your Information

We use the information we collect in various ways, including to:

• Provide, operate, and maintain our website
• Improve, personalize, and expand our website
• Understand and analyze how you use our website
• Develop new products, services, features, and functionality
• Communicate with you, either directly or through one of our partners, including for customer service, to provide you with updates and other information relating to the website, and for marketing and promotional purposes
• Process your transactions
• Send you emails
• Find and prevent fraud

4. Legal Basis for Processing

We process your personal information based on the following legal grounds:

• Consent: Where you have given us consent to process your personal information for specific purposes.
• Contract Performance: When processing is necessary to fulfill a contract with you.
• Legal Obligation: When processing is necessary to comply with a legal obligation.
• Legitimate Interests: When processing is necessary for our legitimate interests and does not override your rights and freedoms.

5. Data Sharing and Disclosure

We may share your information with:

• Service Providers: Third-party vendors who perform services on our behalf (e.g., payment processing, data analysis, email delivery).
• Business Partners: Trusted third parties who offer products or services that may be of interest to you.
• Legal Requirements: When required by law, court order, or governmental authority.

We require all third parties to respect the security of your personal data and to treat it in accordance with the law. We do not allow our third-party service providers to use your personal data for their own purposes and only permit them to process your personal data for specified purposes and in accordance with our instructions.

6. Data Retention

We will only retain your personal information for as long as necessary to fulfill the purposes we collected it for, including to satisfy any legal, accounting, 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, the purposes for which we process it, and whether we can achieve those purposes through other means.

7. Your Data Protection Rights

Depending on your location, you may have the following rights regarding your personal information:

• The right to access, update, or delete the information we have on you
• The right of rectification if that information is inaccurate or incomplete
• The right to object to our processing of your personal information
• The right to request restriction of processing your personal information
• The right to data portability
• The right to withdraw consent at any time where we relied on your consent to process your personal information

To exercise any of these rights, please contact us at privacy@shifthouseproject.com.

8. Cookies and Tracking Technologies

We use cookies and similar tracking technologies to track activity on our website and store certain information. The technologies we use may include:

• Cookies: Small files stored on your device
• Web Beacons: Electronic files used to track your navigation through our website
• Log Files: Track actions occurring on the website

You can instruct your browser to refuse all cookies or to indicate when a cookie is being sent. However, if you do not accept cookies, you may not be able to use some portions of our website.

9. Data Security

We implement appropriate technical and organizational measures to protect your personal information against unauthorized or unlawful processing, accidental loss, destruction, or damage. However, no method of transmission over the Internet or electronic storage is 100% secure, and we cannot guarantee absolute security.

10. Children's Privacy

Our website is not intended for children under the age of 18. We do not knowingly collect personal information from children under 18. If you are a parent or guardian and believe that your child has provided us with personal information, please contact us, and we will delete such information from our systems.

11. Changes to This Privacy Policy

We may update our Privacy Policy from time to time. We will notify you of any changes by posting the new Privacy Policy on this page and updating the "Last updated" date. You are advised to review this Privacy Policy periodically for any changes.