Privacy Policy
Privacy Policy for Smart Gadgets Point
Last Updated: July 13, 2025
1. Introduction
Welcome to Smart Gadgets Point (“we,” “our,” or “us”). We are committed to protecting your privacy and personal information. This Privacy Policy explains how we collect, use, disclose, and protect your information when you visit or make a purchase from our dropshipping store located at https://smartgadgetspoint.com/ (the “Site”).
By accessing or using the Site, you agree to the terms of this Privacy Policy. If you do not agree, please do not use our Site.
2. Information We Collect
We collect various types of information to process your orders, provide customer support, improve your shopping experience, and for marketing purposes.
A. Information You Provide Directly:
When you interact with our Site, especially during a purchase or account creation, you may provide us with:
- Personal Identifiers: Your name, email address, billing address, shipping address, and phone number.
- Payment Information: Details necessary to process payments (e.g., credit card number, expiration date, security code). Please note that we do not directly store your full payment card details. This information is securely processed by our third-party payment processors.
B. Information Collected Automatically (Device and Usage Data):
When you visit our Site, we automatically collect certain information about your device and your activity, including:
- Device Information: Your IP address, browser type, operating system, unique device identifiers, and mobile network information.
- Usage Data: Details of your interactions with our Site, such as the pages you view, the products you browse, the time spent on pages, referral sources, search terms you used to reach our Site, and clickstream data.
- Cookies and Tracking Technologies: We use cookies, web beacons, and similar technologies to collect this information. These help us remember your preferences, track your shopping cart, and analyze how our Site is used.
3. How We Use Your Information
We use the information we collect for the following purposes:
- Order Processing and Fulfillment: To process your purchases, confirm your order, handle payments, manage returns, and ensure products are shipped directly to you by our suppliers.
- Customer Service: To communicate with you about your orders, respond to your inquiries, and provide support.
- Marketing and Promotions: To send you newsletters, promotional offers, and updates about products and services that may interest you, where you have consented to receive such communications. This includes running targeted advertising campaigns on platforms like Google Ads, Facebook Ads, and TikTok Ads.
- Site Improvement and Personalization: To analyze website usage patterns, optimize our product offerings, personalize your shopping experience, and improve the functionality and content of our Site.
- Security and Fraud Prevention: To protect our Site and customers from unauthorized access, fraudulent transactions, and other security risks.
- Legal Compliance: To comply with applicable laws, regulations, and legal processes.
4. Sharing Your Information with Third Parties
As a dropshipping store, sharing your information with third parties is essential for our operations. We share your personal information with the following categories of service providers and partners:
- Suppliers and Fulfillment Partners: We share your name, shipping address, and order details with our trusted dropshipping suppliers to enable them to ship the products you ordered directly to you. They use this information solely for order fulfillment.
- Payment Processors: We use third-party payment gateways (e.g., Stripe, PayPal) to securely process your financial transactions. We do not store your full credit card details on our servers.
- Analytics Providers: We use services like Google Analytics 4 to understand how users interact with our Site. These services collect and analyze usage data to help us improve our Site and services.
- Advertising Platforms: We share data with advertising platforms such as Google Ads, Facebook Ads, and TikTok Ads to measure the effectiveness of our advertising campaigns and to deliver relevant advertisements to you based on your interests and activity on our Site. This may involve the use of tracking pixels or similar technologies.
- Other Service Providers: We may share information with other third-party service providers that assist us with website hosting, customer support tools, email delivery, and other business operations.
We require all third parties to respect the security of your personal data and to treat it in accordance with the law and their own privacy policies. We do not “sell” your personal information in exchange for monetary compensation in the traditional sense. However, the sharing of data with advertising partners for cross-context behavioral advertising may be considered a “sale” or “sharing” under certain privacy laws, such as the CCPA/CPRA.
5. Cookies and Tracking Technologies
We use cookies, pixels, and other tracking technologies on our Site. These are small data files placed on your device or computer that often include an anonymous unique identifier.
- Essential Cookies: Necessary for the Site to function correctly (e.g., shopping cart functionality, secure login).
- Performance and Analytics Cookies: Help us understand how visitors interact with our Site by collecting information anonymously. (e.g., Google Analytics 4).
- Advertising/Targeting Cookies: Used to deliver advertisements more relevant to you and your interests, limit the number of times you see an advertisement, and measure the effectiveness of advertising campaigns. (e.g., Google Ads, Facebook Ads, TikTok Ads).
You can control and manage cookies through your browser settings. Most browsers allow you to block or delete cookies. However, if you disable cookies, some features of our Site may not function properly.
6. Data Security and Retention
We implement reasonable technical and organizational security measures to protect your personal information from unauthorized access, use, alteration, or disclosure. However, no method of transmission over the internet or electronic storage is 100% secure.
We retain your personal information only for as long as necessary to fulfill the purposes for which it was collected, including for the purposes of satisfying any legal, accounting, or reporting requirements.
7. Your Privacy Rights
Depending on your geographic location, you may have specific rights regarding your personal data. We are committed to facilitating the exercise of these rights.
A. For Users in the European Union (EU) and United Kingdom (UK) – GDPR Compliance:
If you are a resident of the European Economic Area (EEA) or the UK, you have the following rights under the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) and UK GDPR:
- Right to be Informed: You have the right to be informed about the collection and use of your personal data.
- Right to Access: You can request a copy of your personal data that we hold.
- Right to Rectification: You can request that we correct any inaccurate or incomplete personal data.
- Right to Erasure (“Right to be Forgotten”): You can request the deletion of your personal data in certain circumstances.
- Right to Restrict Processing: You can request that we limit the way we use your personal data in certain circumstances.
- Right to Data Portability: You can request to receive your personal data in a structured, commonly used, and machine-readable format and transmit it to another controller.
- Right to Object: You can object to the processing of your personal data for certain purposes, including direct marketing.
- Right to Withdraw Consent: Where we rely on your consent to process your personal data, you have the right to withdraw that consent at any time. This will not affect the lawfulness of processing based on consent before its withdrawal.
- Right to Lodge a Complaint: You have the right to lodge a complaint with a supervisory authority, particularly in the Member State of your habitual residence, place of work, or where an alleged infringement of the GDPR occurred.
B. For Users in California (USA) – CCPA/CPRA Compliance:
If you are a California resident, you have the following rights under the California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA), as amended by the California Privacy Rights Act (CPRA):
- Right to Know: You can request information about the categories and specific pieces of personal information we have collected about you, the sources from which it was collected, the purposes for collecting or “selling” it, and the categories of third parties with whom we “share” or “sell” it.
- Right to Delete: You can request the deletion of your personal information, subject to certain exceptions.
- Right to Opt-Out of Sale or Sharing: You have the right to opt out of the “sale” or “sharing” of your personal information for cross-context behavioral advertising.
- Right to Limit Use and Disclosure of Sensitive Personal Information: You have the right to limit the use and disclosure of sensitive personal information (though Smart Gadgets Point does not typically collect sensitive personal information).
- Right to Non-Discrimination: We will not discriminate against you for exercising any of your CCPA/CPRA rights.
To exercise any of these rights, please contact us using the “Contact Us” details provided below. We may need to verify your identity before fulfilling your request.
8. Children’s Privacy
Our Site is not intended for individuals under the age of 16. We do not knowingly collect personal information from children. If we become aware that we have inadvertently collected personal information from a child without parental consent, we will take steps to remove that information from our records promptly.
9. Changes to This Privacy Policy
We may update this Privacy Policy from time to time to reflect changes in our practices or for other operational, legal, or regulatory reasons. We will notify you of any significant changes by posting the new Privacy Policy on this page and updating the “Last Updated” date. Your continued use of the Site after any changes indicates your acceptance of the updated policy.
10. Contact Us
If you have any questions about this Privacy Policy, our data practices, or wish to exercise your privacy rights, please contact us:
Smart Gadgets Point Website: https://smartgadgetspoint.com/
Email: info@smartgadgetspoint.com
Phone Number: 01785779562
