Kult of Athena respects your privacy and wants you to understand how we collect, use, and share your data, and how you can control it. Your Personal Information KultofAthena.com allows users to access enhanced features by registering on the site. Our registration forms require you to give us contact information like
- your email address
- a password
- your first and last name
Customer contact information is maintained to provide a more customized experience to our users. We do not ask for your delivery address and payment information until you order something. For your order, we need your correct name, address and payment credentials. We need your email address for transactional emails – those that confirm that we received your order, alert you when we shipped it, and to communicate with you if there are any issues. We may send you non-transactional newsletters, product catalog, promotion offerings or email that provides you with information we think you will find valuable. You may unsubscribe from non-transactional emails by contacting us at orders@kultofathena.com or by using the “unsubscribe” link on the email’s footer. In order to access some features, like adding the products in your cart and buying them, you will be asked to, but not required, to sign in with your login credentials i.e., your e-mail address and password. Apart from this, we use third-party browser and analytics services like Google Analytics to collect information about your visits to our website. For instance, we may use analytics tools such as Google to retrieve information from your browser, including the search engine(s) you used to find us, the site you came from, the keywords you used to find our site, the pages you view within our site, and some of your browser details like the add-ons and its width and height. We may also use technologies, such as cookies, to collect information about the actions you take on the Platform like the pages you view, and the links you click. Additionally, we collect certain standard information that your browser sends to every website you visit, such as your browser type and language, IP address, access times and referring website addresses. We use this data to improve the performance of our website, better understand how the products and services perform on different devices, and provide information that may be of interest to you. None of this information is attached to your personal identity, name, address, or email and is retrieved and used in the aggregate. When you receive a promotional email or newsletters from us, we may use analytical tools or similar technologies to determine whether the email has been opened or not and which all links you clicked in the email. This helps us to provide you more focused e-mail communications or other information that is relevant to your interest. We may collect information obtained from other companiesm such as information that enables us to derive a general geographic area based on your IP address in order to customize certain services to your geographic area.
Use of Your Personal Information
Kult of Athena collects and uses your personal information to operate and improve its site and offerings. Your personal data is collected for one or more of the following purposes :
- manage your orders on the site,
- perform customer management operations,
- develop business statistics, conduct market, and behavior studies,
- build and manage sales leads or promotions,
- send promotional information from Kult of Athena. You can unsubscribe at any time to these offers by clicking on the link provided at the bottom of the email sent to you
- comply with our legal and regulatory obligations
We may also use your personal information to communicate with you regarding certain mandatory service communications such as welcome letters, billing reminders, information on technical service issues, and security announcements. Personal information collected on our site may be stored and processed in our office in the United States of America or any other country in which Kult of Athena or its affiliates, subsidiaries or service providers maintain facilities.
Collecting Your IP Address
Your Internet Protocol (IP) address and other site usage data is used to only gather a broad demographic information. The data helps us serve you better by allowing us to understand how visitors use our services.
Cookies
Our site uses a technology called “cookies,” small files stored by your browser to help keep track of the user profile. We use temporary cookies to remember your personal profile for your convenience, to deliver content specific to your needs and interests, and to ensure you don’t see the same ad repeatedly. We also use cookies to track user trends and improve areas of our sites that our users find valuable. When you sign in to a site using your credentials, we store your unique ID number, and the time you signed in, in an encrypted cookie on your hard disk. This cookie allows you to move from page to page at the site without having to sign in again on each page. When you sign out, these cookies are deleted from your computer. We also use cookies to improve the sign in experience. For example, your email address may be stored in a cookie that will remain on your computer after you sign out. This cookie allows your email address to be pre-populated so that you will only need to type your password the next time you sign in. These cookies cannot be used to run programs or deliver viruses to your computer. Also, we do not share cookie information with anyone without your permission. In turn, you can delete the ” cookies” by visiting the user information of your browser (firefox, chrome, explorer, safari, etc.)
Manage your cookie settings
Email Services
We at Kult of Athena have a strict Anti-Spam Policy. We will not sell, lease or rent our e-mail subscriber lists to third parties. If you take advantage of any email features on our sites, you and/or the person you email to may receive email updates as described in the service. Please note that all emails contain the link to help you opt-out of receiving communications from us and our partners.
Order Forms
Our sites use forms for you to request information, products and services and more information from us. Some contact information and unique identifiers are required to process your request. We may also request additional information that we use to improve areas of our site.
Ads
We may use third-party advertising companies to serve ads when you visit our site. This allows us to display relevant ads based on what pages on the our website you have viewed. Though such advertising will be displayed using cookies, these cookies doesn’t record any personal information or identify you personally. These advertising companies include Google and Facebook. If you do not wish to receive this type of advertising from us, you may opt-out of Google’s use of cookies visiting the Ads Preferences Manager, DoubleClick opt-out page and Network Advertising Initiative opt-out page respectively. The ultimate control of the dissemination of information gathered through Facebook Advertising, Facebook Pixel Re-Marketing, and communications resides entirely with Facebook. You can opt-out of Facebook’s use of cookies and Facebook Pixel Re-Marketing through settings on your Facebook Account.
Third Party Service Providers
Some of the services available are provided by third party service providers – such as google and facebook – who have their own privacy policies that may be different from ours. You should review the privacy policy of third parties before providing your personal information to them.
Outside Links
While on KultofAthena.com, you may be led to other websites. Be aware that other sites may collect data and personal information and operate as per their own privacy practices. Please remember that, once outside of our family of sites, any information you submit is outside of our control. You may also visit our site by clicking links on other websites, including our affiliates. These visits are tracked in order to renumerate our affiliates that assist us in making a sale through that visit. Any personal information about those visits is shared with the affiliates.
Sharing of Your Personal Information
Except as described in this Privacy Policy or in our communications to you, we will not disclose your personal information outside of Kult of Athena without your consent. To provide you the best products and services, we occasionally team with business partners. When you indicate that you want to receive a product or service, or contact a person or organization, we share the data needed for you to receive what you have indicated. Occasionally, we hire consultants that may need access to our member database to perform their services for us. These business partners may or may not be outside of the European Union. However, we take great care to require that these business partners agree by contract not to use any member information that they may receive access to. Kult of Athena may contract with outside companies to administer our mailing lists or provide retail services. Your personal information may be shared with an outside company for the sole purpose of administering the products, services and programs you have selected. Kult of Athena may disclose your personally identifiable information if required to do so by law or in the good-faith belief that such action is necessary to (1) conform to the requirements of the law or comply with governmental orders, court orders, or legal process served on Kult of Athena or its affiliates; (2) protect and defend the property or rights of Kult of Athena, and its affiliates or users.
Your Security
Kult of Athena is committed to protecting the security of your personal information. We have taken the following important measures to protect against loss, misuse or alteration of your personal information.
- We do not store your financial information or similar sensitive information on our site.
- The personal data we do store on our system is protected by firewall and password.
- Our network firewall is a combination of hardware and software designed to keep unauthorised users from accessing our network.
- When we transmit highly confidential information (such as a credit card number) over the Internet, we protect it through the use of encryption, such as the Secure Socket Layer (SSL) protocol.
- The password you select, along with your unique email address, prevents others from accessing your information. Do not share your password with anyone. If you use a public or share a computer, make sure you logout after every visit to the site. You may also clear your history and cookies on your web browser.
Remove Yourself
Kult of Athena provides you the opportunity to opt out of receiving communications from us as well as our partners. To remove your personal information, users can send a request to orders@kultofathena.com and typing “unsubscribe”. You may also unsubscribe via the ‘unsubscribe”’ link that is included at the bottom of every KultofAthena.com email you receive.
Correct or Update Your Information
If desired, you may access your personal information by contacting usYou can update or change your personal information by going to “Your Account” section of the site and following instructions or you can contact us for the same.
How long do we keep your personal information?
We will retain your information for as long as is necessary to provide you with the services that you have requested from us. In case you want to deactivate your user account, you can contact us on orders@KultofAthena.com. However, we may continue to store archived copies of your personal information for legitimate business purposes and to comply with the law. If you don’t have an existing user account on our site, you will still be required to provide the necessary information like your name, email, postal address and phone number to order a catalog from us. We store this information for a minimum of 60 days from the date of ordering. We also collect personal information when you contact us, send us feedback, post material to our website or on our social media accounts. Such information is also stored for a minimum of 60 days from the date of posting. Please note that in order to handle your return request (if any), we need to store your financial details at least for 60 days from the item reaching you. Without this data, processing the return requests could be a hassle as you would need to provide your payment details all over again to proceed with the request.
Contacting Us
If you have questions or concerns about our privacy policy or if at any time you feel that Kult of Athena has not adhered to this policy, send a message through the “Contact Us” feature of KultofAthena.com.
Changes to This Privacy Statement
We will occasionally update this privacy statement to reflect changes in our services and customer feedback. When we post changes to this Statement, we will revise the “last updated” date of this statement. If there are material changes to this statement or in how Kult of Athena will use your personal information, we will notify you either by prominently posting a notice of such changes prior to implementing the change or by directly sending you a notification. We encourage you to periodically review this statement to be informed of how we are protecting your information. This privacy policy does not extend to any information that is inherent in the operation of the Internet, and therefore beyond the control of Kult of Athena, and is not to be applied in any manner contrary to applicable law or governmental regulation. We reserve the right at our discretion to make changes to this policy at any time.
