Privacy and Cookie Policy

 

At I Love SoCal (accessible from ilovesocal.com), we are deeply committed to protecting the privacy of our visitors and customers. This Privacy Policy outlines the types of information we collect, how we use it, and the steps we take to keep your personal data secure. [2, 3]

When you browse our store, create an account, or make a purchase, we may collect the following data:

• Customer Identification: Your name, shipping/billing address, and phone number.
• Contact Information: Your email address for order updates and newsletters.
• Demographic Insights: Zip codes, personal preferences, and shopping interests.
• Social Media Interaction: Our website utilizes Meta APIs (Instagram Graph API) to display our official social media gallery (@socalsurfshop). [4, 5, 6, 7, 8]

To provide a highly interactive shopping experience, i love socal integrates with Meta developer tools to pull photo and video streams onto our storefront.

• Data Accessed: We only access public media assets, captions, and image layouts that we publish on our official business profiles or that users tag with our authorized brand hashtags. [9]
• Data Storage: We do not collect, harvest, or store any private Instagram user data, passwords, or personal profile details on our servers. [10, 11, 12, 13, 14]
• Data Deletion: If you wish to revoke permissions or have your public user-tagged images removed from our storefront widgets, you can contact us at any time, and we will remove them immediately. [15]

We use your information to understand your needs and provide you with a seamless Southern California shopping experience, specifically for:

• Fulfilling and shipping your orders.
• Improving our product inventory and customer service.
• Sending promotional emails about new clothing lines, gear drops, or special offers.
• Customizing the layout of the website according to your interests. [16]

We are 100% committed to ensuring that your information is secure. To prevent unauthorized access or disclosure, we have put in place standard electronic, physical, and managerial procedures to safeguard and secure all data collected online. We do not sell, distribute, or lease your personal information to third parties. [17, 18]

A cookie is a small file placed on your computer's hard drive that helps analyze web traffic and allows web applications to respond to you as an individual. We use traffic log cookies to identify which pages are being used. This helps us analyze data about web page traffic so we can tailor i love socal to better fit customer needs. [19, 20, 21]

You can choose to accept or decline cookies. Most web browsers automatically accept them, but you can usually modify your browser settings to decline cookies if you prefer. [22, 23]

Our website may contain links to other social platforms or external websites of interest. Once you use these links to leave our site, please note that we do not have any control over that external website. We cannot be responsible for the protection and privacy of any information you provide while visiting such sites. [24]

You may choose to restrict or review the collection of your personal data by emailing us directly through our Contact Us page. If you believe that any information we are holding on you is incorrect, please email us as soon as possible, and we will promptly correct it.

The table below lists the essential Magento framework cookies we collect and the specific information they store to make our storefront function: [25, 26]