Privacy policy
This Privacy Policy describes how www.hi-network.com (the “Site” or “we”) collects, uses, and discloses your Personal Information when you visit or
make a purchase from the Site.
Collecting Personal Information
When you visit the Site, we collect certain information about your device, your interaction with the Site, and information necessary to process your purcha
ses. We may also collect additional information if you contact us for customer support. In this Privacy Policy, we refer to any information that can uniquely
identify an individual (including the information below) as “Personal Information”. See the list below for more information about what Personal Informa
tion we collect and why.
Device information
Examples of Personal Information collected: version of web browser, IP address, time zone, cookie information, what sites or products you view, search
terms, and how you interact with the Site.
Purpose of collection: to load the Site accurately for you, and to perform analytics on Site usage to optimize our Site.
Source of collection: Collected automatically when you access our Site using cookies, log files, web beacons, tags, or pixels
Disclosure for a business purpose: shared with our processor Server
Order information
Examples of Personal Information collected: name, billing address, shipping address, payment information (including credit card numbers, email address
, and phone number.
Purpose of collection: to provide products or services to you to fulfill our contract, to process your payment information, arrange for shipping, and provi
de you with invoices and/or order confirmations, communicate with you, screen our orders for potential risk or fraud, and when in line with the preference
s you have shared with us, provide you with information or advertising relating to our products or services.
Source of collection: collected from you.
Disclosure for a business purpose: shared with our processor Shopify
Customer support information
Purpose of collection: to provide customer support.
Source of collection: collected from you.
Disclosure for a business purpose
Minors
We do not intentionally collect Personal Information from children. If you are the parent or guardian and believe your child has provided us with Personal
Information, please contact us at the address below to request deletion.
Sharing Personal Information
We share your Personal Information with service providers to help us provide our services and fulfill our contracts with you, as described above. For example:
We use tawk.com to collect our online store vistors and open online chat. You can read more about how Tawk.com uses your Personal Information here:
We may share your Personal Information to comply with applicable laws and regulations, to respond to a subpoena, search warrant or other lawful requ
est for information we receive, or to otherwise protect our rights.
Behavioural Advertising
As described above, we use your Personal Information to provide you with targeted advertisements or marketing communications we believe may be of in
terest to you. For example:
We use Google Analytics to help us understand how our customers use the Site. You can read more about how Google uses your Personal Information h
ere: https://policies.google.com/privacy?hl=en.You can also opt-out of Google Analytics here: https://tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout.
We share information about your use of the Site, your purchases, and your interaction with our ads on other websites with our advertising partners. We
collect and share some of this information directly with our advertising partners, and in some cases through the use of cookies or other similar technolo
gies (which you may consent to, depending on your location).
For more information about how targeted advertising works, you can visit the Network Advertising Initiative’s (“NAI”) educational page at
http://www.networkadvertising.org/understanding-online-advertising/how-does-it-work.
You can opt out of targeted advertising by:
FACEBOOK - https://www.facebook.com/settings/?tab=ads
GOOGLE - https://www.google.com/settings/ads/anonymous
BING - https://advertise.bingads.microsoft.com/en-us/resources/policies/personalized-ads]
Additionally, you can opt out of some of these services by visiting the Digital Advertising Alliance’s opt-out portal at: http://optout.aboutads.info/.
Using Personal Information
We use your personal Information to provide our services to you, which includes: offering products for sale, processing payments, shipping and fulfillment
of your order, and keeping you up to date on new products, services, and offers.
Lawful basis
Pursuant to the General Data Protection Regulation (“GDPR”), if you are a resident of the European Economic Area (“EEA”), we process your personal
information under the following lawful bases:
Your consent;
The performance of the contract between you and the Site;
Compliance with our legal obligations;
To protect your vital interests;
To perform a task carried out in the public interest;
For our legitimate interests, which do not override your fundamental rights and freedoms.
Retention
When you place an order through the Site, we will retain your Personal Information for our records unless and until you ask us to erase this information.
For more information on your right of erasure, please see the ‘Your rights’ section below.
Automatic decision-making
If you are a resident of the EEA, you have the right to object to processing based solely on automated decision-making (which includes profiling), when
that decision-making has a legal effect on you or otherwise significantly affects you.
We DO NOT engage in fully automated decision-making that has a legal or otherwise significant effect using customer data.
Services that include elements of automated decision-making include:
Temporary denylist of IP addresses associated with repeated failed transactions. This denylist persists for a small number of hours.
Temporary denylist of credit cards associated with denylisted IP addresses. This denylist persists for a small number of days.
Selling Personal Information
Our Site promise will not sell your personal information under any conditions.
Cookies
A cookie is a small amount of information that’s downloaded to your computer or device when you visit our Site. We use a number of different cookies,
including functional, performance, advertising, and social media or content cookies. Cookies make your browsing experience better by allowing the websi
te to remember your actions and preferences (such as login and region selection). This means you don’t have to re-enter this information each time you
return to the site or browse from one page to another. Cookies also provide information on how people use the website, for instance whether it’s their
first time visiting or if they are a frequent visitor.
We use the following cookies to optimize your experience on our Site and to provide our services.
Cookies Necessary for the Functioning of the Store
Name Function
_ab Used in connection with access to admin.
_secure_session_id Used in connection with navigation through a storefront.
cart Used in connection with shopping cart.
cart_sig Used in connection with checkout.
cart_ts Used in connection with checkout.
checkout_token Used in connection with checkout.
secret Used in connection with checkout.
secure_customer_sig Used in connection with customer login.
storefront_digest Used in connection with customer login.
Reporting and Analytics
Name Function
_tracking_consent Tracking preferences.
_landing_page Track landing pages
_orig_referrer Track landing pages
The length of time that a cookie remains on your computer or mobile device depends on whether it is a “persistent” or “session” cookie. Session
cookies last until you stop browsing and persistent cookies last until they expire or are deleted. Most of the cookies we use are persistent and will expire
between 30 minutes and two years from the date they are downloaded to your device.
You can control and manage cookies in various ways. Please keep in mind that removing or blocking cookies can negatively impact your user experience
and parts of our website may no longer be fully accessible.
Most browsers automatically accept cookies, but you can choose whether or not to accept cookies through your browser controls, often found in your br
owser’s “Tools” or “Preferences” menu. For more information on how to modify your browser settings or how to block, manage or filter cookies can
be found in your browser’s help file or through such sites as www.allaboutcookies.org.
Additionally, please note that blocking cookies may not completely prevent how we share information with third parties such as our advertising partners.
To exercise your rights or opt-out of certain uses of your information by these parties, please follow the instructions in the “Behavioural Advertising”
section above.
Do Not Track
Please note that because there is no consistent industry understanding of how to respond to “Do Not Track” signals, we do not alter our data collection
and usage practices when we detect such a signal from your browser.
Changes
We may update this Privacy Policy from time to time in order to reflect, for example, changes to our practices or for other operational, legal, or regulatory
reasons.
Contact
For more information about our privacy practices, if you have questions, or if you would like to make a complaint, please contact us by e-mail at
[[email protected]] or by Telephone: +86 18057156223
If you are not satisfied with our response to your complaint, you have the right to lodge your complaint with the relevant data protection authority.
You can contact your local data protection authority, or our supervisory authority here: https://ico.org.uk/make-a-complaint/]
Currency display
By using our website, you (the visitor) agree to allow third parties to process your IP address, in order to determine your location for the purpose of
currency conversion. You also agree to have that currency stored in a session cookie in your browser (a temporary cookie which gets automatically
removed when you close your browser). We do this in order for the selected currency to remain selected and consistent when browsing our website
so that the prices can convert to your (the visitor) local currency.