Privacy Policy

Last updated: 27th October 2023

A Pin In Time Designs (“Company,” “we,” or “us”) respects your privacy and is committed to protecting it through this Privacy Policy. This privacy notice discloses the privacy practices of www.apinintimedesigns.com, owned by A Pin In Time Designs, a sole proprietor in Nigeria.

This Privacy Policy describes how your personal information is collected, used, shared, and protected when you access our website, and/or purchase our goods or services.

This Statement of Privacy applies to apinintimedesigns.com and A Pin In Time Designs and governs data collection and usage. For the purposes of this Privacy Policy, unless otherwise noted, all references to A Pin In Time Designs include apinintimedesigns.com. This website represents a service-based company.

Please read the Privacy Policy carefully before you start to use the Website. By using the Website or by clicking to accept or agree to the Terms of Use when this option is made available to you, you accept and agree to be bound and abide by the Privacy Policy. If you do not want to agree to the Privacy Policy, you must not access or use the Website.

Collection of Your Personal Information

In order to better provide you with products and services offered on our Site, A Pin In Time may collect personally identifiable information, such as your First Name and Email Address.

If you purchase A Pin In Time Designs services and/or products, we collect billing addresses and other billing and credit card information. This information is used to complete the purchase transaction.

We do not collect any personal information about you unless you voluntarily provide it to us. However, you may be required to provide certain personal information to us when you elect to use certain products or services on our Site. These may include: (a) entering a contest or giveaway sponsored by us or one of our partners; (b) signing up for special offers from selected third parties; (c ) sending us an email message; (d) submitting your credit card or other payment information when ordering and purchasing products and services on our Site. To wit, we will use your information for, but not limited to, communicating with you in relation to services and/or products you have requested from us. We also may gather additional personal or non-personal information in the future.

Use of Your Personal Information

A Pin In Time Designs does not sell, rent or lease its customer lists to third parties.

A Pin In Time Designs may share data with trusted partners to help perform statistical analysis, send you emails, or provide customer support. All such third parties are prohibited from using your personal information except to provide these services to A Pin In Time Designs and they are required to maintain the confidentiality of your information.

We use Google Analytics to help us understand how our customers use this site — you can read more about how Google uses your Personal Information here: https://www.google.com/intl/en/policies/privacy/. You can also opt out of Google Analytics here: https://tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout.

We also use Hotjar in order to better understand our users’ needs and to optimize this service and experience. Hotjar is a technology service that helps us better understand our users’ experience (e.g. how much time they spend on which pages, which links they choose to click, what users do and don’t like, etc.) and this enables us to build and maintain our service with user feedback.

Hotjar uses cookies and other technologies to collect data on our users’ behavior and their devices. This includes a device’s IP address (processed during your session and stored in a de-identified form), device screen size, device type (unique device identifiers), browser information, geographic location (country only), and the preferred language used to display our website. Hotjar stores this information on our behalf in a pseudonymized user profile. Hotjar is contractually forbidden to sell any of the data collected on our behalf. For further details, please see the ‘About Hotjar’ section of Hotjar’s support site.

We also share billing information with our payment processors (Selar, Flutterwave, Stripe or Lemon Squeezy) and you can read more about how they use your personal information on their respective websites. We also send newsletters through Flodesk.

A Pin In Time Designs may disclose your personal information, without notice, if required by law or in the good faith belief that such action is necessary to: (a) conform to the edicts of the law or comply with legal process served on A Pin In Time Designs or the site; (b) protect and defend the rights or property of A Pin In Time Designs; and/or (c ) act under exigent circumstances to protect the personal safety of users of A Pin In Time Designs or the public.

Tracking User Behavior

A Pin In Time Designs may keep track of the websites and pages our users visit within A Pin In Time Designs, in order to analyze visitors’ use of our website and determine the popularity of the content, and better understand online activity. For this, we use third-party companies like Google Analytics and Hotjar.

Analytics

This website uses Google Analytics, a web analytics service provided by Google, Inc. (“Google”). The information generated by the cookie about your use of our website (including your IP address) will be transmitted to and stored by Google on servers in the United States. Google will use this information for the purpose of evaluating your use of this website, compiling reports on website activity for website operators and providing other services relating to website activity and internet usage. Google may also 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. Google will not associate your IP address with any other data held by Google. Further information about Google’s privacy policy may be obtained here.

Automatically Collected Information

Information about your computer hardware and software may be automatically collected by A Pin In Time Designs. This information can include: your IP address, browser type, domain names, access times and referring website addresses. This information is used for the operation of the service, to maintain quality of the service, and to provide general statistics regarding use of the A Pin In Time Designs website.

Use of Cookies

The A Pin In Time Designs website may use “cookies” to help you personalize your online experience. A cookie is a text file that is placed on your hard disk by a web page server. Cookies cannot be used to run programs or deliver viruses to your computer. Cookies are uniquely assigned to you, and can only be read by a web server in the domain that issued the cookie to you.

One of the primary purposes of cookies is to provide a convenience feature to save you time. The purpose of a cookie is to tell the Web server that you have returned to a specific page. For example, if you personalize A Pin In Time Designs pages, a cookie helps A Pin In Time Designs to recall your specific information on subsequent visits. This simplifies the process of recording your personal information, such as billing addresses, shipping addresses, and so on. When you return to the same A Pin In Time Designs website, the information you previously provided can be retrieved, so you can easily use the A Pin In Time Designs features that you customized.

You have the ability to accept or decline cookies. Most Web browsers automatically accept cookies, but you may not be able to fully experience the interactive features of the A Pin In Time Designs services or websites you visit.

Links

This website contains links to other sites. Please be aware that we are not responsible for the content or privacy practices of such other sites. We encourage our users to be aware when they leave our site and to read the privacy statements of any other site that collects personally identifiable information. Some of these links include affiliate links from Amazon and other affiliate programs this site is registered for. Any page or post with affiliate links will have it properly mentioned that the links are on them with a disclaimer.

Minors

This Site is not intended for individuals under the age of thirteen. A Pin In Time Designs does not knowingly collect personally identifiable information from children under the age of thirteen. If you are under the age of thirteen, you must ask your parent or guardian for permission to use this website.

E-mail Communications

If you choose to correspond with us through email, we may retain the content of your email messages together with your email address and our responses. A Pin In Time Designs provides the same protections for these electronic communications that we employ in the maintenance of information received online, mail, and telephone. This also applies when you register for our website, sign up for our newsletter through any of our forms using your email address or make a purchase on this site.

A Pin In Time Designs is committed to keeping your e-mail address confidential. We do not sell, rent, or lease our subscription lists to third parties, and will not disclose your email address to any third parties except as allowed in the section titled Use of Your Information. In order to improve our services, we may receive a notification when you open an email from A Pin In Time Designs or click on a link therein.

If you would like to stop receiving promotional marketing or communications from A Pin In Time Designs, you may opt-out of such communications by clicking the “UNSUBSCRIBE” link in any email from us.

External Data Storage Sites

We may store your data on servers provided by third party hosting vendors with whom we have contracted.

Changes to this Statement

A Pin In Time Designs reserves the right to change this Privacy Policy from time to time. We will notify you about significant changes in the way we treat personal information by sending a notice to the primary email address specified in your account, by placing a prominent notice on our site, and/or by updating any privacy information on this page. Your continued use of the Site and/or Services available through this Site after such modifications will constitute your: (a) acknowledgment of the modified Privacy Policy; and (b) agreement to abide and be bound by the policy.

By using this site, you hereby consent to my privacy policies and agree to all the terms mentioned.

For more information about our privacy practices, if you have questions, requests, or complaints, please contact us by e‑mail at apinintime@gmail.com.