Privacy policy

Last updated: 1 July 2024

This Privacy Policy describes how the Manifesto Website (our "Site", "we", "us", or "our") collects, uses, and discloses your personal information when you visit our Site, use our services, make an online purchase, participate in any marketing material, campaigns or surveys or otherwise communicate with us (collectively, the "Services"). For purposes of this Privacy Policy, "you" and "your" means you as the user of the Services, whether you are a customer, website visitor, or another individual whose information we have collected pursuant to this Privacy Policy.

Please read this Privacy Policy carefully. By using and accessing any of the Services, you agree to the collection, use and disclosure of your information as described in this Privacy Policy. If you do not agree to this Privacy Policy, please do not use or access any of the Services.

 

Changes to this Policy

We may update this Privacy Policy from time to time, including to reflect changes to our practices or for other operational, legal, or regulatory reasons. We will post the revised Privacy Policy on our Site, update the "Last updated" date and take any other steps required by applicable law.

 

Personal Information

We collect and store certain Personal Information about you through the use of the Services.  The types of information we obtain depends on the type of Services used. "Personal Information"  refers to information that identifies, relate to, describes or is associated with you including, without limitation: 

  • Basic contact details including your name, address, phone number, email
  • Order information including your name, billing address, shipping address, payment information, email address, phone number, order history 
  • Financial information including credit and debit card details and bank accounts 
  • Shopping information including the items you view, put in your cart or add to your wishlist
  • Customer support information including the information you choose to include in communications with us including information about your circumstances or sensitive information. 


Information collected from Third Parties 

We may obtain information about you from third parties, including from vendors and service providers who may collect information on our behalf, such as:

  • Companies or affiliates who support our Site and Services, such as Shopify
  • Our payment processors who collect payment information (e.g., bank account, credit or debit card information, billing address) to process your payment in order to fulfill your orders and provide you with products or services. 

Any information we obtain from third parties will be treated in accordance with this Privacy Policy and we are not responsible for any third party's policies or practices. 


Use of Personal Information 

We may use your Personal information for any of the following reasons: 

  • Providing Products and Services - for all matters relating to the provision of our products and the Services to you, including to process your payments, fulfill your orders, to send notifications related to your purchases, returns, exchanges or other transactions
  • Marketing and Advertising - for marketing and promotional purposes related to our business, products or services including sending marketing, advertising and promotional communications via email, text message or postal mail
  • Security and Fraud Prevention - to detect, investigate or take action regarding possible fraudulent, illegal or malicious activity
  • Communicating with you - to communiate with you, provide you with customer support and improve our Services, including responding to queries or complaints and maintaining our business relationship with you
  • Legal requirements - to comply with our obligations under any applicable law or requirements from any authoritative or regulatory body
  • Business development - for any business development purpose (e.g. training of staff, develop business platforms, market research or faciliate any business venture) 
  • Subcontractors or vendors - to vendors or other third parties who perform services for us or on our behalf (e.g., IT management, payment processing, data analytics, customer support, cloud storage, fulfillment and shipping) 
  • Consent - for any purpose to which you have explicitly or implicitly consented to or is incidental to the above.

Any use of your Personal Information by third parties will be governed by the Privacy Policy of such third party. 


Cookies

Like many websites, we use Cookies on our Site. For specific information about the Cookies that we use related to powering our store with Shopify, see https://www.shopify.com/legal/cookies. We use Cookies to power and improve our Site and our Services (including to remember your actions and preferences), to run analytics and better understand user interaction with the Services (in our legitimate interests to administer, improve and optimize the Services). We may also permit third parties and services providers to use Cookies on our Site to better tailor the services, products and advertising on our Site and other websites.

Most browsers automatically accept Cookies by default, but you can choose to set your browser to remove or reject Cookies through your browser controls. Please keep in mind that removing or blocking Cookies can negatively impact your user experience and may cause some of the Services, including certain features and general functionality, to work incorrectly or no longer be available. Additionally, blocking Cookies may not completely prevent how we share information with third parties such as our advertising partners.


User Generated Content 

The Services may enable you to post product reviews and other user-generated content. If you choose to submit user generated content to any public area of our Services, this content will be public and accessible by anyone.

We do not control who will have access to the information that you choose to make available to others, and cannot ensure that parties who have access to such information will respect your privacy or keep it secure. We are not responsible for the privacy or security of any information that you make publicly available, or for the accuracy, use or misuse of any information that you disclose or receive from third parties.


Third Party Websites and Links

Our Site may provide links to websites or other online platforms operated by third parties. If you follow links to sites not affiliated or controlled by us, you should review their privacy and security policies and other terms and conditions.

We do not guarantee and are not responsible for the privacy or security of such sites, including the accuracy, completeness, or reliability of information found on these sites. Information you provide on public or semi-public venues, including information you share on third-party social networking platforms may also be viewable by other users of the Services and/or users of those third-party platforms without limitation as to its use by us or by a third party. Our inclusion of such links does not, by itself, imply any endorsement of the content on such platforms or of their owners or operators, except as disclosed on the Services.


Security and Retention of Your Information

Please be aware that no security measures are perfect or impenetrable, and we cannot guarantee “perfect security.” In addition, any information you send to us may not be secure while in transit. We recommend that you do not use unsecure channels to communicate sensitive or confidential information to us.

How long we retain your personal information depends on different factors, such as whether we need the information to maintain your account, to provide the Services, comply with legal obligations, resolve disputes or enforce other applicable contracts and policies.