Privacy Policy

Who we are

Our website address is: https://barkiopt.com

At Barkiopt, we are dedicated to safeguarding your privacy. This policy outlines how we collect, use, and protect your information. We encourage you to read this policy thoroughly to understand our practices regarding your personal data and how we will treat it.

Comments

When visitors leave comments on our site, we collect the data displayed in the comments form, the visitor’s IP address, and browser user agent string to facilitate spam detection.

An anonymized string created from your email address (also known as a hash) may be sent to the Gravatar service to verify if you are using it. The Gravatar service privacy policy is available here: https://automattic.com/privacy/. Once your comment is approved, your profile picture is visible to the public alongside your comment.

Media

If you upload images to the website, you should avoid uploading images with embedded location data (EXIF GPS) included. Visitors to the website can download and extract any location data from images on the website.

Contact Forms

Our site uses contact forms to collect names, email addresses, and other personal information for customer service purposes. We retain contact form submissions for a certain period for customer service purposes, but we do not use the information submitted through them for marketing purposes unless explicitly stated.

Cookies

What Are Cookies

Cookies are small text files that are placed on your device to help the site provide a better user experience. In general, cookies are used to retain user preferences, store information for things like shopping carts, and provide anonymized tracking data to third party applications like Google Analytics.

How Barkiopt Uses Cookies

At Barkiopt, we use cookies to:

• Understand and save user’s preferences for future visits.
• Keep track of advertisements.
• Compile aggregate data about site traffic and site interactions in order to offer better site experiences and tools in the future. We may also use trusted third-party services that track this information on our behalf.
• Assist in your navigation, provide feedback to us, analyze your use of our products and services, assist with our promotional and marketing efforts (including behavioral advertising), and provide content from third parties.

Types of Cookies We Use

1. Essential Cookies: These cookies are strictly necessary for the website to function. They enable you to navigate around the site and use its features, such as accessing secure areas. Without these cookies, services like shopping carts or e-billing cannot be provided.
2. Performance Cookies: These cookies collect information about how visitors use the website, for instance, which pages visitors go to most often, and if they get error messages from web pages. These cookies don’t collect information that identifies a visitor. All information these cookies collect is aggregated and therefore anonymous. It is only used to improve how the website works.
3. Functionality Cookies: These are used to recognize you when you return to the website. They enable the personalization of content, the greeting of users by name, and the remembering of your preferences (for example, your choice of language or region).
4. Analytical or Tracking Cookies: These cookies track and gather data about what a user does on the website. They are used to collect data such as the number of visitors, the pages they visit, and how long they stay on the site. This information helps to analyze the performance of the website and where it can be improved.
5. Targeting or 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 campaigns. They are usually placed by advertising networks with the website operator’s permission.
6. Social Media Cookies: These cookies are used when you share information using a social media sharing button or “like” button on our site, or you link your account or engage with our content on or through a social networking website such as Facebook, Twitter, or Google+. The social network will record that you have done this. These cookies may also include certain tracking and analytics features.
7. Third-Party Cookies: These cookies are set by someone other than the owner of the website you’re visiting. They might be set by third-party analytics companies who set their own cookies to perform services like website analytics, ad targeting, or providing specific online adverts based on your browsing activities.

Managing Cookies

You have the ability to accept or decline cookies. Most web browsers automatically accept cookies, but you can usually modify your browser setting to decline cookies if you prefer. This may prevent you from taking full advantage of the website. Information on controlling cookies is typically found in the ‘Help’ section of the web browser.

Please note that third-party services used on our website, such as payment processors or social media platforms, also use cookies. We recommend reviewing their policies for more information on their cookie usage.

Analytics

We use Google Analytics to track website usage and provide better content based on our analysis. You can opt out of Google Analytics tracking by visiting Google’s privacy policy.

Who We Share Your Data With

We share information with third parties who assist us in operating our website, conducting our business, or servicing you, so long as those parties agree to keep this information confidential. This includes payment processors like PayPal, Stripe, and Amazon Pay, and services like WooCommerce for our online store.

Embedded content from other websites

Articles on this site may include embedded content (e.g. videos, images, articles, etc.). Embedded content from other websites behaves in the exact same way as if the visitor has visited the other website.

These websites may collect data about you, use cookies, embed additional third-party tracking, and monitor your interaction with that embedded content, including tracking your interaction with the embedded content if you have an account and are logged in to that website.

Who we share your data with

We do not sell, trade, or otherwise transfer to outside parties your personally identifiable information. This does not include trusted third parties who assist us in operating our website, conducting our business, or servicing you, as long as those parties agree to keep this information confidential.

How Long We Retain Your Data

We retain personal data for as long as necessary for the purposes we collected it, including for the satisfaction of any legal, accounting, or reporting requirements. For specific retention periods for various types of data, please refer to the relevant sections of this policy.

What Rights You Have Over Your Data

If you have an account on this site, have left comments, or have made purchases, you can request to receive an exported file of the personal data we hold about you. You can also request that we erase any personal data we hold about you.

Where Your Data Is Sent

Visitor comments and data may be checked through an automated spam detection service. Additionally, as an e-commerce platform, we may use various fraud prevention tools to assess the risk associated with transactions.

Your Contact Information

Additional information we may collect includes your contact information, such as your address and phone number, for order processing and shipping purposes.

How We Protect Your Data

We implement a variety of security measures to maintain the safety of your personal information when you place an order or enter, submit, or access your personal information. These measures include password protected directories and databases to safeguard your information, SSL (Secure Sockets Layered) technology to ensure that your information is fully encrypted and sent across the Internet securely, and PCI Scanning to actively protect our servers from hackers and other vulnerabilities.

What Data Breach Procedures We Have in Place

In the event of a data breach, we have procedures in place to assess the risks to your personal data and will notify you and any applicable regulators where we are legally required to do so.

What Third Parties We Receive Data From

We may receive data about you from third parties, such as analytics providers and payment processing services. This data is processed in accordance with this privacy policy.

What Automated Decision Making and/or Profiling We Do With User Data

We do not engage in automated decision making or profiling with user data.

Payments

We accept payments through various payment processing partners. When processing payments, some of your data will be passed to these partners, including information required to process or support the payment, such as the purchase total and billing information.

Industry Regulatory Disclosure Requirements

As a member of the ecommerce industry, we adhere to the required regulatory standards and disclose necessary information in compliance with privacy laws.

Contact Us

If there are any questions regarding this privacy policy, you may contact us using the information below: [email protected]