Privacy Policy

Welcome to the privacy policy of www.giftsandcollectibles.ca. This policy will help you understand what data we collect, why we collect it, and what your rights are in relation to it.

Effective: July 10, 2025

Analytics

This website collects personal data to power our site analytics, including:

  • Information about your browser, network, and device

  • Web pages you visited prior to coming to this website

  • Your IP address

This information may also include details about your use of this website, including:

  • Clicks

  • Internal links

  • Pages visited

  • Scrolling

  • Searches

  • Timestamps

We share this information with Squarespace, our website analytics provider, to learn about site traffic and activity.

Cookies

This website uses cookies and similar technologies, which are small files or pieces of text that download to a device when a visitor accesses a website or app. For information about viewing the cookies dropped on your device, visit this page.

These necessary and required cookies are always used, which allow Squarespace, our hosting platform, to securely serve this website to you.

These analytics and performance cookies are used on this website, as described below, only when you acknowledge our cookie banner. This website uses analytics and performance cookies to view site traffic, activity, and other data.

Visitor Data

When you buy something on this website, we collect personal information from you to fulfill the order. We may collect information like your:

  • Billing and shipping address

  • Details relating to your purchase (for example, your shirt size)

  • Email address

  • Name

  • Phone number

We share this information with Squarespace, our online store hosting provider, so that they can provide website services to us.

Our payment processor(s) [Stripe] will also collect payment information from you. You can read their privacy policy at https://stripe.com/privacy.

As you go through checkout, this site may auto-complete your shipping and billing address by sharing what you type with the Google Places API and returning suggestions to you to improve your checkout experience.

When you submit information to this website via webform, we collect the data requested in the webform in order to track and respond to your submissions. We share this information with Squarespace, our online store hosting provider, so that they can provide website services to us. We also share this information with [] for storage and [with Zapier for data porting].

This website is hosted by Squarespace. Squarespace collects personal data when you visit this website, including:

  • Information about your browser, network and device

  • Web pages you visited prior to coming to this website

  • Web pages you view while on this website

  • Your IP address

Squarespace needs the data to run this website, and to protect and improve its platform and services. Squarespace analyzes the data in a de-personalized form. To learn more what Squarespace does with visitor data please click here: https://www.squarespace.com/privacy/?_ga=2.169277345.1850291704.1595856880-1394148174.1493059048

Users’ interaction with the embedded map is governed by the Google Maps End User Terms of Service and the Google Privacy Policy.

You can find more information at:

https://policies.google.com/terms

https://www.google.com/help/terms_maps/

https://policies.google.com/privacy?hl=en-US

Google Analytics

We use Google Analytics, a web analytics service provided by Google LLC (“Google”), to help understand how our website is being used and to improve user experience.

Data Collected

Google Analytics collects standard internet log information and visitor behaviour patterns through cookies. This includes:

  • IP addresses

  • Browser type, version, and language

  • Operating system and device type

  • Date and time of visit

  • Pages visited and time spent on each page

  • Referring websites or sources

  • Geographic location (at country/city level)

  • Purpose of processing

We use this information to:

  • Analyze how visitors use our website

  • Track and measure the performance of our content

  • Improve our website’s usability and effectiveness

  • Generate reports on website activity

  • Data processing

The information generated by Google Analytics cookies about your use of our website is transmitted to and stored by Google on servers that may be located in the United States or other countries. Google processes this information on our behalf as a data processor. Google may transfer this information to third parties where required to do so by law, or where such third parties process the information on Google’s behalf.

Your Rights and Choices

You can prevent Google Analytics from collecting data about your visit by:

  • Installing the Google Analytics Opt-out browser add-on

  • Disabling cookies in your browser settings

  • Using our cookie consent tool to opt out of analytics cookies

For more information about how Google processes data, please review Google’s privacy policy. For more information about how Google uses information from sites or apps that use their services please click here.

Emails

We may send you marketing emails, which you can unsubscribe from by clicking the link at the bottom of the email. We share your contact information with Squarespace, our email marketing provider, so they can send these emails on our behalf.

We may email you with messages about your order or account activity. For example, we may email you to tell you that:

  • You’ve created a customer account

  • Your customer account password has been reset or updated

  • You’ve made a purchase

  • Your order has shipped

It’s not possible to unsubscribe from these messages.

We share your contact information with Squarespace, our website hosting provider, so they can send these emails to you on our behalf.

Fonts

This website serves font files from and renders fonts using Google Fonts and Adobe Fonts. To properly display this site to you, these third parties may receive personal information about you, including:

  • Information about your browser, network, or device

  • Information about this site and the page you’re viewing on it

  • Your IP address

Squarespace Payments

When you make a purchase from us on this website, we use Squarespace Payments as our payment solution. Squarespace Payments is a fully integrated, native payment solution provided to us by our online store service provider Squarespace. Squarespace Payments makes use of the following third party service providers which will also receive your personal information and process it in accordance with their privacy policies:

Stripe - payment processing services. You can read Stripe’s privacy policy at https://stripe.com/privacy.

Sift - fraud monitoring and detection services. You can read Sift’s privacy policy at https://sift.com/service-privacy.

If you have any questions please contact us at gandcwebstore@gmail.com