Privacy Policy

Effective Date: January 24th, 2017

Simply Smita (“we”, “us”, or “our”) respects your concerns about privacy and values the relationship we have with you. This Privacy Policy describes the types of personal information we collect about our customers (“you,” or “your”), how we use the information, with whom we share it, and the choices available to our customers regarding our use of the information. We also describe the measures we take to protect the security of the information and how our customers can contact us about our privacy practices.

Information Collected

Simply Smita may collect certain personal information from you when you register to use the Website or its services and features, such as any e-mail newsletter, memberships, blogs, and libraries and or archives, or when you provide personal information in a community area or other public forum. We may collect information, including, but not limited to, your name, e-mail address, and location. We may also collect additional personal information, including your physical address, in order to deliver products. We may also collect certain non-personally identifiable information from users of our site, such as their Internet protocol address, the type of browser and operating system they use, the domain name of your Internet service provider, and the web pages, content and advertisements you may have visited, viewed or clicked on. We collect this information in several ways, including the following:

Cookies: Cookies are text files placed in your computer’s browser to store your preferences. Cookies do not contain personal information, but if you choose to furnish us with personal information, this information may be linked to the data stored in the cookie. We may use “cookies” to maintain a record of your visits and to improve the content and services on our site.

Web Server Logs: Information gathered through cookies and web server logs may include the date and time of visits, the pages viewed, time spent at this site, and the websites visited just before and just after our site. We, our advertisers and ad serving companies may also use small technology or pieces of code to determine which advertisements and promotions users have seen and how users responded to them.

IP Addresses: Our system may also collect your IP address, which is a numerical address that is used to identify a computer connected to the Internet. We may use your IP address to help diagnose problems with our server, to administer our site, to deliver web pages to you upon request, to tailor our site to the interests of our users, and to measure traffic within our site.

Public Posting: If you post in the comments (not just comments) of a blog post on the Website (or anywhere on social media), or any other community area or public forum in connection with SimplySmita.com, you should be aware that any information you share is visible to other users. Personally identifiable information you submit to one of these forums can be read, collected, or used by other individuals to send you unsolicited messages. Simply Smita is not responsible for the personally identifiable information you choose to submit in these forums. For example, if you choose to make information, which was previously non-public, available by enabling certain user features, (such as blog comments) Simply Smita will collect that information from your interaction and the information will become publicly available.

Information from Minors

Simply Smita does not knowingly collect information from children under the age of 13. Nor do we collect information from any individual under the age of 18 without the consent of a parent or guardian. If you believe that your child has registered on our site or that we have collected information from your child, please contact us immediately so that we can remove that information from our database. If we become aware that we have inadvertently received personal information from a visitor under the age of thirteen on the site, we will delete the information from our records.

Simply Smita does recognize that parents, guardians, or other adults may purchase our products for family use, including use by minors. We do not knowingly collect personal information from children under 13 for marketing purposes, but because some information is collected electronically, it can appear to be the personal information of the purchaser of the product, and will be treated as such by this privacy policy.

How Information Is Used

Simply Smita does not sell or rent your contact information to any third parties.

Except as otherwise disclosed to you, we will not sell, rent or disclose your personal information to third parties without notifying you of our intent to share the personal information in advance and giving you an opportunity to prevent your personal information from being shared.

We may use your personal information within SimplySmita.com and associated websites to:

conduct and process transactions with you;

communicate with you, such as to respond to your inquiries, send purchase receipts, newsletters, emails, and/or notify you of any changes to any legal terms applicable to the Website or any changes to this Privacy Policy;

improve the Website and the content and services offered on the Site;

enforce legal terms that govern your use of the laws applicable to the Site;

protect the Website, services, systems, information, employees, business partners, service providers, users, customers or others; and

for any other purposes for which the information is collected and maintained.

We may use your non-personally identifiable information to analyze the usage of our site, improve the design and content of our site, deliver relevant marketing messages, personalize your Internet experience, and offer you products and services. In some cases, we may use your IP address to identify you in order to enforce any legal terms that govern our site or to protect our site, services, systems, information, employees, business partners, service providers, users, customers or others from injury or harm.

How Information is Shared

We will share your personal information with third parties only in the ways that are described in this privacy statement. We do not sell your personal information to third parties.

At times we may disclose your personal information as required by law such as to comply with a subpoena, or similar legal process. We may also be required to disclose information about you if we determine that for security, law enforcement, or other issues of public importance, disclosure is necessary.

We also may disclose user information when we have reason to believe that someone is causing injury to or interference with our rights or property. We may also share information if it becomes necessary in order to investigate, prevent, or take action regarding illegal activities, suspected fraud, situations involving potential threats to the physical safety of any person, violations of our Terms of Use, or as otherwise required by law.

How Information is Protected

Simply Smita takes reasonable security measures to protect the security and confidentiality of your personal information that we collect and maintain against loss, theft, and misuse, as well as unauthorized access, disclosure, alteration, and destruction. However, we cannot guarantee the security of your personal information or that any communication or transmission of such information over the Internet will be entirely secure.

Simply Smita websites use secure encryption, provided by a third party, on some web pages where credit card information is required. To make purchases from any of the Simply Smita websites you must use a modern SSL-enabled browser such as Safari, Firefox or Chrome. Doing so helps protect the confidentiality of your personal and credit card information while it’s transmitted over the internet.

You can help us by also taking precautions to protect your personal data when you are on the internet. Change your passwords often using a combination of letters and numbers, and make sure you use a secure web browser. Email is not recognized as a secure medium of communication. For this reason, we request that you do not send private information to us via email.

Third-Party Websites and Links

SimplySmita.com may link to websites, products and services operated by third parties. Simply Smita is not responsible for and does not endorse or accept any responsibility for the availability, contents, products, services or use of any Third Party Website, any website accessed from a Third Party Site, or any changes or updates to such sites.

These linked websites are only for your convenience and therefore you access them at your own risk. You acknowledge that you bear all risks associated with access to and use of content provided on a Third Party Site and agree that Simply Smita and associated companies are not responsible for any loss or damage of any sort you may incur from dealing with a third party. You should contact the website administrator for the applicable Third Party Site if you have any concerns regarding such links or the content located on any such Third Party Site.

Your Consent

By using this site you consent to our collection and use of your personal information as described in this Privacy Policy. If we change our privacy policies and procedures, we will post those changes on this site to keep you aware of what information we collect, how we use it, and under what circumstances we may disclose it.

Your Rights/Termination/Opt Out

You may have the right to “opt in” and “opt out” of certain uses of your personal information. You may opt out of any email communications with SimplySmita.com by clicking the opt-out link in our messages, or by sending us a message stating that you would like to be removed from a specific email list, or all communications entirely. Please note that you cannot unsubscribe or opt-out from certain correspondence from us, including messages relating to your account transactions.

You may “opt out” altogether from providing personally identifying information to us by not registering with SimplySmita.com and thereby not providing personal information, or by not visiting the SimplySmita.com Sites. You can delete your SimplySmita.com account by sending us a message with your user name and password. If you choose not to register or provide mandatory information in the registration form, SimplySmita.com will not be fully accessible to you. You can edit your Account Information at any time. Commercial email communications from SimplySmita.com comes with an unsubscribe link at the bottom for you to opt-out of future such marketing communications.

You may be contacted by a SimplySmita.com representative in connection with your relationship to us after purchasing a product or service in order to deliver this product or ensure customer service.

Changes to this Privacy Policy

This Privacy Policy may be updated periodically and without prior notice to you to reflect changes in our personal information practices. We will post a prominent notice on our website to notify you of any significant changes to our Privacy Policy and indicate at the top of the Policy when it was most recently updated. We encourage you to periodically review this website for the latest information on our privacy practices.

If you do not accept the terms of this Privacy Policy, we ask that you do not register with us and that you do not use the Simply Smita Web Sites.

Please exit the Simply Smita.com immediately if you do not agree to the terms of this Privacy Policy.

California Do Not Track Notice

Under California law, website and online service operators are required to disclose how they respond to web browser “do not track” signals or other similar mechanisms that provide consumers the ability to exercise choice regarding the collection of personal information about a consumer’s online activities over time and across third party websites, to the extent the operator engages in that collection. At this time, we do not track our customers’ personal information over time and across third-party websites and therefore this requirement does not apply to us.

Additional Policies

Before using any page on this site, please review this Privacy Policy in its entirety, and the Terms of Use and any other agreements, disclaimers, or policies provided.

Accessing and your use of SimplySmita.com indicates acceptance of these policies and agreements.

How To Contact Us

If you have any questions or comments about this Privacy Policy, or if you would like us to update information we have about you or your preferences, please contact us by email at smita@simplysmita.com.