COOKIES & PRIVACY POLICY

This Cookies and Privacy Policy describes how your personal information is collected, used and shared when you visit or make a purchase from www.afshanshamas.com (“our” or “we” or “this site”).

This site is hosted by Squarespace.  By default, Squarespace places cookies on visitors’ browsers to help this site run effectively. Cookies are small files or pieces of text that download to a device when a visitor accesses a website or app. For more information about cookies and how to disable them please visit www.allaboutcookies.org.

Certain types of cookies are required for specific functionality of this site, for example the e-commerce checkout process require cookies to function, allowing Squarespace to securely serve this website to you and email you with regards to your purchase on our behalf. For information about viewing the cookies dropped on your device, please visit The cookies Squarespace uses.

Other types of cookies are also used to help Squarespace collect analytics that help them to improve our service by giving us insight into how this site is being used by you. Squarespace collects personal data when you visit this site, including: information about your browser, network and device, web pages you visited prior to coming to this website and your IP address. Squarespace needs the data to run this site, and to protect and improve its platform and services.

Squarespace provide us with the online e-commerce platform that allows us to sell our products and services to you. When you purchase something on this site, we collect personal information from you to fulfil the order, such as your name, email address, phone number, payment details, billing and shipping address. As you go through checkout, this site may auto-complete your shipping and billing address by sharing what you type with the Google Places API and returning suggestions to you to improve your checkout experience. Squarespace uses third party payment processors to assist it in processing your personally identifiable payment information securely. Payments for our products are currently processed and managed using the third party vendor Stripe.  For more information you can read their privacy policy here. We also accept payments through Paypal, you can read their privacy policy here.

If we are requested by the police or any other regulatory or government authority investigating suspected illegal activities, then we are entitled to provide your Personal Information and /or user Information .

The security of Your Personal Data is important to us, but remember that no method of transmission over the Internet, or method of electronic storage is 100% secure. While we strive to use commercially acceptable means to protect Your Personal Data, we cannot guarantee its absolute security. Therefore we cannot fully eliminate security risks associated with the transmission of personal information through online transactions, and you do so at your own risk. By using this site, you agree to the collection and use of information in accordance with this Privacy Policy.

We may change this Privacy and Cookie Policy from time to time (eg, if the law changes). Any changes will be immediately posted on our site and you will be deemed to have accepted the terms of the Privacy and Cookie Policy on your first use of our site following the alterations. We recommend that you check this page regularly to keep up-to-date.