Your privacy is critically important to us. At boxesstore.com, we have adapted our privacy policy in a way that provides ease of access and required security to our valuable customers. Our policy follows a few fundamental principles like:
- Your personal information we ask you to provide is important to us. We are thinking about your information we collect via the operations of our services.
- Your personal information is available with us for as long as we have some reason to keep it.
- We aim for full transparency while taking your information. Also, we aim for transparency while using and sharing your personal information.
Who We Are & What Our Privacy Policy Covers
We are the folks behind Boxes Store, a popular online store that provides an all-in-one solution to your moving and shipping needs.
Our privacy policy applies to information we collect about you while using our site. We only collect your information if we have a reason to do so. Like when you use our services or communicate with us regarding our services, etc.
Here is how we collect, use, and share your information together with those choices you have with respect to that information.
Information You Provide to Us
Of-course we collect information that you provide to us. However, the collection of information depends on its context and importance to us.
Here are some examples:
Email Address:
Because signing up on our website is required for purchasing items on our store, so we collect your email address. We do not require any other additional information. All data sent from your browser to our server is via SSL protocol using modern cryptography, and the data is stored securely.
Payment Information:
Boxes Store (https://boxesstore.com) is the trusted seller of items required for your shipping and moving needs. Your payment information is securely transmitted directly to our system and is stored securely. We do not use any of your information apart from your Email Address which we will be using for promotional offerings via email.
Communications with Us:
We may also need your information when you respond to our surveys or communicate with us about a technical issue for support purposes, or post a comment on our site.
What Personal Data We Collect & Why We Collect It
Comments
When visitors leave comments on the site we collect the data shown in the comments form, and also the visitor’s IP address and browser user agent string to help spam detection.
An anonymized string created from your email address (also called a hash) may be provided to the Gravatar service to see if you are using it. The Gravatar service privacy policy is available here: https://automattic.com/privacy/. After approval of your comment, 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.
Contact Forms
When you fill a contact form on our website, we will collect your information like email address, first name, last name, address, and phone number. We will be using this information for auto-fill contact forms for saving your time while filling the same information on another site or on our site for re-contacting our support team or shopping as a returning buyer on our site.
Cookies
If you leave a comment on our site you may opt-in to saving your name, email address and website in cookies. These are for your convenience so that you do not have to fill in your details again when you leave another comment. These cookies will last for one year.
If you visit our login page, we will set a temporary cookie to determine if your browser accepts cookies. This cookie contains no personal data and is discarded when you close your browser.
When you log in, we will also set up several cookies to save your login information and your screen display choices. Login cookies last for two days, and screen options cookies last for a year. If you select “Remember Me”, your login will persist for two weeks. Upon logging out of your account, the login cookies will be removed.
An additional cookie will be saved in your browser when you will edit or publish an article. This cookie includes no personal data and simply indicates the post ID of the article you just edited. It expires after 1 day.
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 by using cookies or embed additional third-party tracking. They will monitor your interaction with the help of that embedded content. This will include tracking your interaction with the embedded content if you have an account and are logged in to that website.
Analytics
Who We Share Your Data With?
Your comments and its metadata are retained indefinitely. This is so we can recognize and approve any follow-up comments automatically instead of 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). Website administrators can also see and edit that information.
How Long We Retain Your Data?
We generally discard your information when no more need them for the purpose we collected them for. This is already described in the section above on |How And Why We Use Your Information”. Additionally, we disclose your information when we are not legally required to continue to keep them.
For example, we keep the web server logs to track information related to a visitor to our boxesstore.com site, including the visitor’s IP address, browser type, and operating system, for approximately 30 days. We retain similar logs for this period of time in order to analyze traffic to our site boxesstore.com and also investigate issues if something goes wrong on one of our websites.
What Rights You Have Over Your Data?
If you have an account on this site or have left comments, you can request to receive 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.
How And Why We Share Your Information?
We do not sell your private and personal information.
We share information related to you in some limited circumstances which are spelled out below and with appropriate safeguards on your privacy:
Subsidiaries And Independent Contractors/Employees:
We may disclose information related to you to our employees or subsidiaries. We can also disclose them to individuals who are our independent contractors who need to know the information against helping us provide the services or process information on our behalf. Additionally, we also require our employees, subsidiaries and other independent contractors to follow our privacy policy for your personal information we share with them.
Business Transfers:
In fitting together with any merger, sale of company assets, or acquirement of all or a portion of our business by other company, or in the unwelcomed situation that boxesstore.com goes out of business or enters economic failure, your information would likely be one of the valuable possession that is moved or acquired by a third party. If any of these events were to happen, our Privacy Policy would continue to apply to the information you provided to us and the party receiving your information may continue to use your information, but only consistent with this Privacy Policy.
With Your Consent:
We may share and reveal your information with your consent. In other words, we may share your personal data in your direction.
Accumulated or De-Identified Information:
Your information might be shared by us that has been aggregated or reasonably de-identified. This is for the purpose not to reasonably use your information to identify you. For instance, we may publish aggregate statistics related to the use of our services and we may share a hashed version of the email address you provided to us for facilitating customized ad campaigns on third-party platforms.
Published Support Requests:
We reserve the rights for publishing your request (the request you send us via our support email or any other feedback mechanism on our site). We publish your request for the purpose to help us clarify your request or support other users with similar requests.