Privacy Policy

OUR DEDICATION TO SAFEGUARDING YOUR PRIVACY:

The Textile Journal is dedicated to safeguarding your privacy. This document outlines the Privacy Terms governing our website at https://thetextilejournal.com. Our Privacy Policy outlines the information The Textile Journal may collect from you that can personally identify you, how The Textile Journal may handle this information, ways to limit its use, and your rights to access, modify, or delete any personally identifiable information we’ve gathered from you.

We utilize your Personal Data to enhance and provide our services. By utilizing our service, you consent to the collection and utilization of information as outlined in this Privacy Policy.

For the purposes of this Privacy Policy:

• “Business,” as defined by the CCPA (California Consumer Privacy Act), refers to the legal entity, which, either on its own or jointly with others, collects consumers’ personal information and determines the purposes and methods of processing that information, and operates within the State of California.
• “Company” (referred to herein as “Company,” “We,” “Us,” or “Our”) denotes The Textile Journal.
• “GDPR” stands for the General Data Protection Regulation, a European Union regulation governing data protection and privacy.
• “PIPEDA” stands for the Personal Information Protection and Electronic Documents Act of Canada.
• “Consumer,” under the CCPA, refers to a natural person who is a resident of California. According to the law, a resident includes (1) any individual present in the USA for reasons other than temporary or transitory, and (2) any individual domiciled in the USA who is temporarily outside the country for a specific or temporary purpose.
• “Cookies” are small files placed on your computer, mobile device, or any other device by a website, containing details of your browsing history and serving various purposes.
• “Data Controller,” as per the GDPR, refers to the legal entity that, alone or jointly with others, determines the purposes and methods of processing personal data.
• “Device” encompasses any electronic device capable of accessing the Service, such as a computer, cell phone, or digital tablet.
• “Personal Data” refers to any information related to an identified or identifiable individual. Under GDPR, Personal Data includes information like a name, identification number, location data, online identifier, or factors specific to one’s physical, physiological, genetic, mental, economic, cultural, or social identity. Under the CCPA, Personal Data comprises information that identifies, relates to, describes, or can be associated with you directly or indirectly.
• “Sale,” as defined by the CCPA, includes selling, renting, releasing, disclosing, disseminating, making available, transferring, or otherwise communicating a consumer’s personal information to another business or third party for monetary or other valuable consideration.
• “Service” encompasses the Company’s services accessible via the website under this Agreement and as described on The Textile Journal’s website.
• “Usage Data” refers to data automatically collected, generated either through the use of the Service or from the Service’s infrastructure itself, such as the duration of a page visit.
• “Website” denotes https://thetextilejournal.com.
• “You” signifies the individual using or accessing the Service, or the company or legal entity on behalf of whom such an individual is accessing or using the Service, as applicable. Under GDPR, “You” can be referred to as the Data Subject or User, as you are the individual using the Service.
• “Data Subject” refers to any living individual who is the subject of Personal Data.

INFORMATION WE COLLECT

2.1 Information Provided by You to The Textile Journal

The Textile Journal gathers personal information when you seek details about our products or willingly furnish such data through our website.

• Personal Data

On the account page, we may request specific personally identifiable information from you to facilitate communication and identification. This information may encompass, but is not limited to:

• Email address
• Comments
• Contact Forms
• Usage Data

Usage Data is automatically collected during your interaction with the Service. Usage Data might include details such as your Device’s Internet Protocol address (e.g., IP address), browser type, browser version, the pages of our Service you visit, the date and time of your visit, the duration of your visit to those pages, unique device identifiers, and other diagnostic data.

When you access the Service via a mobile device, we may automatically gather certain information, including, but not confined to, your mobile device type, unique ID, your mobile device’s IP address, your mobile operating system, the type of mobile Internet browser you use, unique device identifiers, and other diagnostic data. We may also collect information sent by your browser whenever you access our Service or use a mobile device to do so.

• Utilization of Your Personal Data

The Textile Journal may employ Personal Data for the following objectives:

1. To uphold and administer our Service, including monitoring its usage.
2. To oversee your registration as a Service user.
3. To fulfill contractual obligations: This includes executing and ensuring compliance with purchase contracts for products, items, or services you’ve acquired, or any other contracts formed with us through the Service.
4. To reach out to you: We may use email or other electronic communication methods to contact you concerning updates or informative communications related to features, products, datasheets, pitch decks, or contracted services, including security updates when deemed necessary or reasonable for their implementation.
5. To furnish you with news, special offers, and general information about additional goods, services, and events akin to those you’ve previously purchased or inquired about, unless you’ve opted out of receiving such information.
6. To manage your requests: This entails attending to and overseeing your inquiries.
7. To deliver targeted advertisements to you: We may utilize your information to create and display tailored content and advertising (and collaborate with third-party vendors for this purpose) based on your interests and/or location, while also gauging its effectiveness.
8. For business transfers: Your information may be used for assessing or conducting mergers, divestitures, restructurings, reorganizations, dissolutions, or other sales or transfers of some or all of our assets, whether as a going concern or as part of bankruptcy, liquidation, or similar proceedings, where Personal Data held by us about our Service users is included among the transferred assets.
9. For other purposes: We may apply your information for different purposes, such as data analysis, identifying usage patterns, assessing the efficiency of our promotional campaigns, and enhancing our Service, products, services, marketing, and your overall experience.

2.2 Cookies

The Textile Journal may use cookies, web beacons, behavioral advertising or similar technology to track your use of its website.

The website places cookies, which are small data files, on your computer or handheld device. Cookies are essential for helping us deliver a high-quality website and online experience for our users, and some collect information about browsing behavior.

Embedded Content from External Websites

Articles on this website may contain embedded content such as videos, images, or articles from other websites. Embedded content functions in the same manner as if you were visiting the external website directly. These external websites might collect data about you, employ cookies, integrate additional third-party tracking mechanisms, and observe your interaction with the embedded content. This includes tracking your interactions if you have an account and are logged in to that external website.

Analytics

Regarding data sharing and data retention duration:

If you leave a comment, the comment and its associated metadata are kept indefinitely. This is to facilitate the automatic approval of any subsequent comments rather than holding them in a moderation queue. For users who register on our website (if applicable), we store the personal information they provide in their user profiles. All users have the ability to view, modify, or delete their personal information at any time (except for the username, which cannot be changed). Website administrators also have access to and can edit this information.

Your Data Rights

If you have an account on this website or have left comments, you have the right to request an exported file containing the personal data we possess about you, including any information you have furnished to us. You can also request the deletion of any personal data we have about you. Please note that this does not encompass any data we are obligated to retain for administrative, legal, or security purposes.

Data Transmission

Visitor comments may be subjected to automated spam detection services.

 Data Security

We uphold the strictest confidentiality of your data and never share it with third parties. All communication you engage in with us is encrypted through a secure channel