Last updated: June 22, 2022
Bella Russo® Purse, Handbags, Backpack, Bags (“Bella Russo,” “we,” “us,” or “our“) cares about your privacy. This Privacy Policy explains how we collect, use, and share information about you when you visit our website bellarusso.shop (the “Site“) or when you otherwise interact with us.
We may change this Privacy Policy from time to time. If we make changes, we will notify you by revising the date at the top of this policy and, in some cases, we may provide you with additional notice (such as by adding a statement to our homepage or by sending you an email notification). We encourage you to review this Privacy Policy whenever you access the Site to stay informed about our information practices and the ways you can help protect your privacy.
Collection of Information
Information You Provide to Us
We collect information you provide directly to us when you use our Site. For example, we collect information when you:
- Create an account or register on our Site
- Make a purchase or other transaction through our Site
- Interact with products or services on our Site
- Subscribe to our newsletter or other mailing list
- Submit a form or request information from us
- Communicate with us via third-party social media sites
- Participate in contests, surveys, promotions, or sweepstakes
- Request customer support
The types of information we collect may include your name, email address, postal address, phone number, birthday, credit card number, username, password, and other contact, demographic, or account information you choose to provide.
Automatic Information Collection
When you visit our Site, we automatically collect certain information about your device and your use of the Site through cookies, web beacons, and other technologies, including:
- Your browser type, operating system, webpages you view, links you click, your IP address, access times, and your device identifier.
- Information about your approximate location as determined through your IP address.
- Data collected through our use of cookies, pixel tags/web beacons, local storage objects (LSOs such as Flash cookies), and other technologies. Please see our Cookie Policy below for more information.
- The site you visited before browsing to our website.
- Pages or screens you view on our Site.
- Searches you perform on our Site.
- Details about how you interact with and navigate through our Site, such as the links you click and your activity on our Site.
- Information collected through Google Analytics: We use Google Analytics, a web analytics service provided by Google, Inc. to collect certain information relating to your use of our Site. Google Analytics uses cookies and similar technologies to analyze how users use our Site, compile statistical reports on Site activity, and provide other related services. You can learn about Google’s practices by going to www.google.com/policies/privacy/partners/. You can opt out of Google’s collection and processing of data generated by your use of the Services by going to http://tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout.
Social Media Features
The Site includes certain social media features and widgets, such as Facebook and Instagram buttons/plugins and “share this” buttons. These features collect your IP address, which page you are visiting on our Site, and may set a cookie to enable the feature to function properly. Social media features are either hosted by a third party or hosted directly on our Site. Your interactions with these features apart from your visit to our Site are governed by the privacy policy of the company providing the relevant social media platform.
Information from Other Sources
We may collect information about you from other sources, including through third-party services and organizations to supplement information provided by you. For example, if you access our website or services through a third-party connection or log-in, for example, through Facebook Connect, by “following,” “liking,” adding the Bella Russo application, linking your account to Bella Russo, etc., that third party may pass certain information about your use of its service to Bella Russo. This information could include, but is not limited to, the user ID associated with your account (for example, your Facebook UID), an access token necessary to access that service, any information that you have permitted the third party to share with us, and any information you have made public in connection with that service. If you allow us access to your friends list, your friends’ user IDs, and your connection to those friends, may be used and stored to create Custom Audiences for our ads and content.
Use of Information
We may use the information we collect for a variety of purposes, including:
- To provide, operate, optimize, and maintain our Site.
- To send you confirmations, updates, security alerts, support and administrative messages, reminders, technical notices, updates, and requested information.
- To respond to your emails, submissions, comments, questions, and requests, and provide customer service.
- To monitor and analyze Site usage and activity trends.
- To personalize and improve the Site and our users’ experiences, such as by providing customized content, recommendations, features, ads and offers.
- To process transactions and send order confirmations.
- For internal research and development purposes.
- To process your job or internship application.
- To create de-identified data, such as to report trends and statistics about users.
- To protect the safety, rights, property, or security of the Site, our services, users, customers and employees, and the public.
- To comply with applicable legal obligations and legal process.
- In connection with a sale, merger, transfer, or other reorganization of all or parts of our business.
- With your consent or at your request or direction.
- For other purposes disclosed at the time you provide information or otherwise with your consent.
Sharing of Information
We may share the information we collect:
- With our third party service providers: We use third party service providers to perform certain services on our behalf, such as to process transactions, host our Site, provide analytics services, send communications, and provide customer support. These service providers may access or otherwise process your personal data as part of providing their services. We limit the personal information sent to these service providers to that which is reasonably necessary for them to perform their services for us. Our contracts with them prohibit them from using or sharing your personal data for any purpose other than providing services for us.
- For business transfers: In connection with any merger, sale of company assets, reorganization or acquisition of all or a portion of our business by another company, or transition of service to another provider, we may transfer your information to the succeeding entity.
- In response to legal process: We may disclose your information to comply with a lawful subpoena, legal proceedings, court order or other legal process or government request, or as otherwise required or allowed by law.
- To protect rights and safety: We may disclose information to protect the security and safety of the Site, our services, you and others, to investigate fraud, address spam or other security or technical issues, respond to an emergency, or otherwise to protect our rights and the rights of third parties, as determined in our sole judgment.
- With your consent: We may share your information for any other purposes disclosed to you at the time we collect the information or pursuant to your consent or direction.
- Aggregate or de-identified information: We may share aggregate, anonymous or de-identified information about users with third parties for marketing, research, analytics and other purposes, provided such information does not identify a particular individual.
Cookie Policy
What Are Cookies?
Cookies are small data files that are placed on your computer or mobile device when you visit a website. Cookies serve different purposes, like helping us understand how a site is being used, letting you navigate between pages efficiently, remembering your preferences, and generally improving your browsing experience.
Our Site uses cookies to distinguish you from other users of our Site. This helps us provide you with a good experience when you browse our Site and allows us to improve our Site.
There are different types of cookies, however, our Site mainly uses the following categories of cookies:
- Strictly Necessary Cookies – These cookies are essential in order to enable you to move around the Site and use its features. Without these cookies, services you have asked for cannot be provided. They are deleted when you close the browser.
- Performance Cookies – These cookies collect information in an anonymous form about how visitors use the Site. They allow us to recognize and count the number of visitors and to see how visitors move around our Site when they are using it. This helps us to improve the way our Site works, for example, by ensuring that users are finding what they are looking for easily.
- Functionality Cookies – These cookies allow the Site to remember choices you make (such as your user name, language or the region you are in) and provide enhanced, more personal features. These cookies can also be used to remember changes you have made to text size, fonts and other parts of web pages that you can customize.
- Advertising Cookies – These cookies are used to deliver adverts more relevant to you and your interests. They are also used to limit the number of times you see an advertisement as well as help measure the effectiveness of the advertising campaign. They remember that you have visited a website and this information is shared with other organizations such as advertisers.
Managing Cookies
You can disable or delete cookies through your browser settings but some parts of our Site may not work properly if you do so. More information about cookies and instructions for managing or deleting them are available on the following sites:
- AllAboutCookies.org
- Google Chrome
- Mozilla Firefox
- Microsoft Edge
- Apple Safari
Security
We have implemented reasonable precautions and follow industry best practices in order to protect your information and ensure it remains confidential and secure. However, no data storage or transmission over the Internet is 100% secure. We cannot guarantee that information about you will not be accessed, disclosed, altered, or destroyed. You are also responsible for taking reasonable steps to protect your information, for example by protecting your account credentials, using unique and complex passwords, and limiting unauthorized access to your devices.
Your Data Protection Rights
If you are located in certain jurisdictions, you may have the following rights related to your personal information:
- To request access to your personal data.
- To rectify or erase inaccurate or incomplete personal data.
- To restrict or object to the processing of your personal data.
- To request portability of your personal data to another party.
- To opt-out of our “sale” of your personal information.
- Not to be subject to a decision based solely on automated processing, including profiling, if it produces legal effects on you or similarly significantly affects you.
- To lodge a complaint with your local data protection authority or the UK Information Commissioner’s Office.
To submit a request to exercise any of these rights, please contact us as indicated in the “Contact Us” section below. We will consider all requests in accordance with applicable laws. Please note that certain personal information may be exempt from such requests in some circumstances, which may include if we need to keep processing your information for our legitimate interests or to comply with a legal obligation. We will inform you in response to your request if we are unable to comply and the reasons why.
Retention
We will retain your personal information for the period necessary to fulfill the purposes outlined in this Privacy Policy unless a longer retention period is required by law.
The criteria used to determine our retention periods include:
- The length of time we have an ongoing relationship with you;
- Whether there is a legal obligation to which we are subject; and
- Whether retention is advisable in light of our legal position (such as in regard to applicable statutes of limitations, litigation or regulatory investigations).
International Data Transfers
We are based in the United States and the information we collect is governed by U.S. law. By accessing the Site and providing information to us, you are consenting to the transfer and processing of information in the United States and other countries.
Children’s Privacy
Our services are not directed to children who are under the age of 13. We do not knowingly collect personal information from children under 13 without parental consent. If you are a parent or guardian and believe your child has provided us with personal information without your consent, please contact us as indicated in the “Contact Us” section below. If we become aware that a child under 13 has provided us with personal information without parental consent, we will take steps to remove such information.
External Sites
The Site may contain links to third-party websites. Any access to and use of such linked websites is not governed by this Privacy Policy but instead is governed by the privacy policies of those third party websites. We are not responsible for the information practices of such third party websites.
California Privacy Rights
If you are a California resident, you have the right to request certain information about our disclosure of personal information to third parties for their direct marketing purposes. To make such a request, please send an email to the address provided in the “Contact Us” section below.
Changes to this Privacy Policy
We reserve the right to amend this Privacy Policy at any time. Any changes will be posted on this page so that you are always aware of what information we collect, how we use it, and under what circumstances we disclose it. The most current version of the policy will govern our processing of your personal information. If we make material changes to this policy that increase our rights to use or share your personal information, we will notify you either by prominently posting a notice of such changes on our Site, or by directly sending you a notification. We encourage you to review this Privacy Policy frequently to remain informed about how we are protecting your information. The date on which this Privacy Policy was last updated is at the top of this Policy.
Contact Us
If you have any questions about our practices or this Privacy Policy, please contact us at:
Bella Russo® Purse, Handbags, Backpack, Bags
123 Handbag Lane
Los Angeles, CA 90001
Email: [email protected]