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Dear Reader,
Perhaps you’re a member of The List and visit this site often (if so, thank you!), or maybe you’re new here and curious about everything that the Slow Luxe Society (SLS) has to offer (in which case – welcome ?).
Either way, whenever you view content on this site there’s a chance you’ll come across products, and links to products, that are tagged with affiliate link tracking (affiliate links).
In short, these links allow the SLS to receive compensation (at the cost of the retailer) for recommending products to you.
The links track clicks and purchases from visitors and members such as yourself, and associate the purchase (and subsequent compensation) with the SLS. None of your personal information is tracked, only what you buy and the fact that you came via this website.
You will never be charged extra for following an affiliate link; in fact, retailers often provide discount codes for their affiliates to distribute, so it may be that you save money by doing so. That said, you have absolutely no obligation to buy anything recommended on this site, nor to buy via any affiliate link you see here.
Products and services are only recommended if they meet the high standards of our community, not just on quality, but also ethics and sustainability. We do our best to try them before providing a link to them. In some instances this isn’t possible and you’ll be made aware of that.
Neither I, Erin, nor the SLS generally, have any direct affiliation with any product or service on this site. If this changes it will be stated clearly.
If you’re still unsure about affiliate links and you have a question, please don’t hesitate to email me at erin@slowluxesociety.com.
Your new go-to website address for advice and inspiration on slow, luxury living and business is: https://www.slowluxesociety.com.
The legal basis for collecting and processing your data will be because either it’s necessary for the performance of a contract to which you are party, and/or for the purposes of the legitimate interests pursued by the controller or by a third party. More specifically, we collect your personal data and information to:
When visitors leave comments on the site we collect the data shown in the comments form, and also the visitor’s IP address and browser user agent string to help spam detection.
Visitor comments are checked through an automated spam detection service, Akismet. Akismet collects information about visitors who comment on the site, including the commenter’s IP address, user agent, referrer, and Site URL (along with other information directly provided by the commenter such as their name, username, email address, and the comment itself).
An anonymised string created from your email address (also called a hash) may be provided to the Gravatar service to see if you are using it. The Gravatar service privacy policy is available here. After approval of your comment, your profile picture is visible to the public in the context of your comment.
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.
Your name and email address is collected via the contact form in order for us to be able to reply to your message or query. Your email address is only used to reply to your contact and not used to send promotional material, unless explicitly requested by you. Your information is kept until you request it be deleted, or before that time at our discretion.
We’ll only use your email to contact you if you request said contact. In various places on this site you’ll see opt-in forms asking for your name and email address. If you choose to provide this information, you’ll receive any special offers associated with opting in, as well as information to help you create the slow, luxurious life you deserve. We never share your email address with anyone and you can unsubscribe from all emails at any time.
If you leave a comment on this site you may opt-in to saving your name, email address and website in cookies. These are for your convenience so that you don’t have to fill in your details again when you leave another comment. These cookies will last for one year.
If you have an account and you log in to this site, we will set a temporary cookie to determine if your browser accepts cookies. This cookie contains no personal data and is discarded when you close your browser.
When you log in, we will also set up several cookies to save your login information and your screen display choices. Login cookies last for two days, and screen options cookies last for a year. If you select “Remember Me”, your login will persist for two weeks. If you log out of your account, the login cookies will be removed.
In addition, Google (a third party) uses cookies to serve advertisements based on your prior visits to this site or other websites. Google’s use of advertising cookies enables it and its partners to serve advertising to you based on your website visits. You can easily opt out of personalised advertising here. You can view Google’s Privacy Policy here.
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 tracing your interaction with the embedded content if you have an account and are logged in to that website.
We use Google Analytics by MonsterInsights on this site to enable aggregated statistical evaluations for the purposes of optimising content and making decisions about the future of this website. Our legitimate interest in the information lies in the analysis of the usage and functionality of the website.
When a visitor enters the website their browser establishes a direct connection with MonsterInsights. The data transmitted to MonsterInsights includes IP address (anonymised); device-related data like device type, model, operating system, browser type, and version; and usage-related info such as time of use, dwell time, and point of origin. According to MonsterInsights, no additional personal data is collected.
MonsterInsights doesn’t disclose their information storage period. Data is transferred to the USA. If you object to the transfer of data, send an email to erin@slowluxesociety.com.
The privacy policy for MonsterInsights can be found here.
Depending on how you use this website, your data may be shared with the following third parties:
Information on what data of yours is shared with these third parties, and why, can be found in the relevant sections of this page, along with links to their privacy policies.
While you visit our site, we’ll track:
We’ll also use cookies to keep track of cart contents while you’re browsing our site.
When you purchase from us we’ll ask you to provide information including your name, billing address, shipping address, email address, phone number, credit card/payment details and optional account information like username and password. We’ll use this information for purposes such as to:
If you create an account, we will store your name, address, email and phone number, which will be used to populate the checkout for future orders.
We generally store information about you for as long as we need the information for the purposes for which we collect and use it, and we are not legally required to continue to keep it. For example, we will store order information for 7 years for tax and accounting purposes. This includes your name, email address and billing and shipping addresses.
We will also store comments or reviews, if you choose to leave them.
When shopping, we keep a record of your email and the cart contents for up to 30 days on our server. This record is kept to repopulate the contents of your cart if you switch devices or needed to come back another day. Read our privacy policy here.
Currently I, Erin, am the only person with access to the information you provide. In the event that I am joined by a staff member, they will be able to access:
I, and future team members, have access to this information to help fulfil orders, process refunds and support you.
We share information with third parties who help us provide our orders and store services to you; specifically, for payments.
We accept payments through PayPal and Stripe. When processing payments, some of your data will be passed to these third parties, including information required to process or support the payment, such as the purchase total and billing information.
Please see the PayPal Privacy Policy and the Stripe Privacy Policy for more details.
If you leave a comment, the comment and its metadata are retained indefinitely. This is so we can recognise and approve any follow-up comments automatically instead of holding them in a moderation queue.
For users that register on our website (if any), we also store the personal information they provide in their user profile. All users can see, edit, or delete their personal information at any time (except they cannot change their username). Website administrators can also see and edit that information.
If you have provided your email address to obtain a product or subscribe to newsletters and updates, then we’ll keep that information until you unsubscribe. Information from closed accounts is deleted within three months of the date of closure.
Backups are kept for three months.
Billing information is kept for 7 years in accordance with Australian accounting and taxation laws.
Your data is protected via a number of means. Akismet anti-spam is used to detect and prevent spam attacks.
Any sensitive information that you provide to the website is protected by encryption via the use of an SSL Certificate.
Security and other plugins are kept up to date.
Organisational practices are employed to protect your data as well, such as password policies and data protection training.
You have a number of rights when it comes to your information. You can access, rectify, and delete it, and you have the right to object to, restrict, and withdraw your consent.
You also have the right to download the information you have shared through this website – you can request to receive an exported file of the personal data we hold about you, including any data you have provided to us.
Your right to erasure of personal information does not include any data we are obliged to keep for administrative, legal, or security purposes.
If you’re visiting from outside Australia, you should be aware that you’re sending information to Australia. This information may be transferred within Australia or to countries other than Australia and that of your residence, depending on the type of information.
These other countries may not have data protection laws to the same standard as your own country’s. However, our collection, storage and use of your personal data will always continue to be governed by this privacy policy.
If you have any questions or worries pertaining to your privacy on this site, please feel free to email me at erin@slowluxesociety.com.
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