Privacy Policy
Last updated: 11th January 2023
Version: V2.0
This privacy policy sets out how we, Cebu Homecraft Consolidated Inc. (we, us, our), use and protect any information that you give us, our policies regarding the collection, use and disclosure of personal data when you use our services, and the choices you have associated with that data. We are committed to ensuring that your privacy is protected. Should we ask you to provide certain information by which you can be identified when using this website or our services, then you can be assured that it will only be used in accordance with this privacy statement. We may change or update this policy. These changes are likely to be very minor. From our perspective, our privacy policy is primarily to protect your data and interests, a matter we take very seriously and we regularly assess any areas we can improve. If you wish to review our privacy policy at any time, you can do so by clicking on the privacy link in the footer of our website. You can check when our policy was last updated by checking the "Last Updated" date provided at the top of our privacy policy (above this paragraph) and the version number.
Who We Are
The Cebu Homecraft website (https://www.cebuhomecraft.com.ph/) is owned and operated by Cebu Homecraft Consolidated Inc, which is registered and situated in The Philippines. The Business Registered office is: Cebu Homecraft Consolidated Inc., Zone Paliya, Pakna-an, Mandaue City, Cebu 6014, Philippines. Our contact e-mail is
Definitions
Definitions of terms used in our privacy policy:
- Personal Data: Personal Data means data about a living individual who can be identified by such data (or from those and other information either in our possession or likely to come into our possession).
- Usage Data: Usage Data is data collected automatically either generated by the use of the service, or from the service infrastructure itself (for example, the date and time a website page was visited, the browser type and/or browser version).
- Cookies: Cookies are small pieces of data stored on the User's device.
- Data Controller: Data Controller means the person who (either alone or jointly or in common with other persons) determines the purposes for which and the manner in which any personal data is, are or are to be, processed. For the purpose of this Privacy Policy, we, "Cebu Homecraft Consolidated inc.", are the Data Controller of your data.
- Data Processor (or Service Providers): Data Processor (or a Service Provider) means any person (other than an employee of the Data Controller) who processes the data on behalf of the Data Controller. We may use the services of various Service Providers in order to process your data more effectively.
- Data Subject: Data Subject is any living individual who is the subject of Personal Data.
- User: The User is the individual using our Service. The User corresponds to the Data Subject, who is the subject of the Personal Data.
What Information We Collect And Use
We collect several different types of information for various purposes to provide and improve our Service to you.
Personal Data
Whilst using our Service, we may ask you to provide us with certain personally identifiable information that can be used to contact or identify you ("Personal Data"). Personally identifiable information we collect may include but is not limited to:
- Name (full)
- Email Address
- Telephone and / or Mobile Number
- Address, County/State, Province/Region, Postal or Zip code, City, Country
We request information to provide you with the service and only ask the essential information for us to provide you with a given service, so for example, if you do not purchase from us but send us a contact form inquiry or email, we retain the contact details you provide so we can get in touch with you to answer any questions, or provide a given service. We will retain a record of your billing and/or delivery address if you place an order with us.
We request your full name so we may address you properly.
Usage Data
We may also collect information on how this service is accessed and used ("Usage Data"). This Usage Data may include information about from where, what time and what type of device accessed our website service, but this does not incorporate personal data. This information includes (but is not limited to):
- IP Address
- Browser type
- Browser Version
- Logs of pages visited (including the time and date and time spent on such pages)
- Unique device identifiers
This data is collected solely for security and trouble-shooting purposes and is deleted pending on there being no security or trouble-shooting required action on our part.
Tracking and Cookie Data
We use cookies which are used for the functionality of our website (essential cookies), and we also use tracking cookies and similar tracking technologies to track the activity on our website and hold certain information about how our website is used. This data is not directly stored with personally identifiable information.
Cookies are files with small amounts of data which may include an anonymous unique identifier. Cookies are sent to your browser from a website and stored on your device. Tracking technologies also used include beacons, tags, and scripts, which collect data which we can use to analyze and understand how our website is used.
Example of the types of cookies we use:
- Session Cookies: We use Session Cookies to operate our Service
- Preference Cookies: We use Preference cookies to remember your preferences and various settings.
- Security Cookies: We use Security Cookies for security purposes.
- 3rd Party tracking cookies: We use Google Analytics, Google Ads and Facebook Pixel to collect data such as demographics of where our website is accessed from (country, county or city) and from what type of devices (phone, tab, PC or TV or by operating system Windows, Android or OS). Google and Facebook additionally use data to provide you (the end user) with more relevant targeted advertisements, and may also use the data to show ads about our website to persons of similar interests. These cookie types are optional and we provide information in this privacy policy on how to opt out of the 3rd party tracking cookies which we use.
You can instruct your browser to refuse all cookies or to indicate when a cookie is being sent from a website to your browser, however, if you do not accept any cookies, you may not be able to use some of the services provided on our website.
Google Analytics tracking data which we collect is anonymized, meaning we (and our 3rd party analytics service Google Analytics) remove all trace of IP addresses which could uniquely possibly identify an individual if combined with usage data from our website. Our collected tracking data is analyzed as a whole (usage by all website visitors is summarized), to provide us with information on what areas of our website may need improvement.
Google Ads and Facebook Pixel marketing services retain your usage data to show you relevant ads across their network which may be advertisements for our website or websites that may be of interest to you.
Use of Data
Cebu Homecraft uses the collected data for various purposes:
- To provide and maintain our Service
- To allow you to participate in interactive features of our Services when you choose to do so
- To provide customer support
- To gather analysis or valuable information so that we can improve our service
- To detect, prevent and address technical issues
- To detect, prevent and address fraud
Retention of Data
Retention of Personal Data
Cebu Homecraft will retain your Personal Data only for as long as is necessary for the purposes set out in this privacy policy. We will retain and use your Personal Data to the extent necessary to comply with our legal obligations (for example, if we are required to retain your data to comply with applicable laws or business accounting purposes), resolve disputes, and enforce our legal agreements and polices.
Retention of Usage Data
Cebu Homecraft retains Usage Data for internal analysis and security purposes. Usage Data is generally retained for a shorter period of time (2-3 months) except where we require the data to strengthen or improve the security of our website, troubleshoot functionality issues or we are obliged to retain the data for legal purposes. If we retain data beyond normal requirements, this data is immediately deleted once it has served its purpose.
Retention of Tracking Data
Tracking data is anonymized (personal information identifiers are removed including IP Addresses) and we retain this data for 14 months, after which, the data is permanently deleted.
Transfer of Data
Your information, including Personal Data, may be transferred to - and maintained on - computers or servers located outside of your country, province or state, or other government jurisdiction where the data protection laws may differ from those from your jurisdiction.
If you are located outside the Philippines, and choose to provide information to us, please note that we transfer the data, including Personal Data, to the Philippines and process it there.
Your consent to this Privacy Policy followed by your submission of such information represents your agreement to that transfer.
Cebu Homecraft will take all steps reasonably necessary to ensure that your data is treated securely and in accordance with this Privacy Policy and no transfer of your Personal Data will take place to an organization or a country unless there are adequate controls in place including the security of your data and other personal information.
All the information we collect is confidential between us (Cebu Homecraft) and you, and our Service Providers where applicable (more information under Service Providers later in our policy). This Information is not passed or sold on to third parties without your knowledge or prior consent unless we are required to do so by law.
Disclosure of Data
Disclosure of Law Enforcement
Under certain circumstances, Cebu Homecraft may be required to disclose your personal data if required to do so by law or in response to valid requests by public authorities (for example, a court or government agency).
Legal Requirements
Cebu Homecraft may disclose your personal data in good faith that such action is necessary to:
- comply with a legal obligation
- protect and defend the rights or property of Cebu Homecraft Consolidated Inc.
- prevent or investigate possible wrongdoing in connection with the services and products of Cebu Homecraft
- protect the personal safety of users of the service, products or the public.
- To protect against legal liability
Security of Data
We are committed to ensuring that your information is secure. In order to prevent unauthorized access or disclosure, we have put in place suitable physical, electronic and managerial procedures to safeguard and secure the information we collect. No payment information is stored on this website or in our offices. All payments are by bank transfer or individual secure paypal links sent to customers which place a confirmed order. Despite our website not holding financially sensitive information, we still fully encrypt our website with SSL which is an extra assurance that your communications and interactions with our website are private and secure. We ask that you maintain your own good security practices which include but are not limited to:
- Good passwords (not "123456" or "password"!)
- Do not use the same password as other accounts you may have access credentials for such as financially sensitive accounts (online banking/finance or your personal email)
- Maintain good security on your device (such as anti-malware or anti-virus)
- Maintain good security on your e-mail (if an unauthorized person gains access to your e-mail in the modern world, this not only endangers your security for the contents of your e-mail but may also allow the unauthorized person to gain access to many if not all of your accounts held on websites across the web).
Please remember that no method of transmission over the internet or electronic storage is 100% secure. While we strive to use commercially acceptable means to protect your Personal Data, we cannot guarantee its absolute security.
Providing us with Accurate Data
It is your responsibility to provide us with the correct information for us to provide the service. We cannot accept responsibility if you provide us with inaccurate information which results in incorrect delivery or service problems. If you provide us inaccurate information, we ask that you update any incorrect information you may have provided us by contacting our offices via our contact page, or email us directly,
Your Rights
Cebu Homecraft aims to take reasonable steps to allow you to correct, amend, delete or limit the use of your Personal Data.
Our website holds no customer account details or customer accounts. To update any details we may hold about you, please get in touch via our contact page, or email us directly,
If you wish to be informed what Personal Data we hold about you and/or you wish to be removed from our systems, you can do so by using our contact page or emailing us directly,
You have the right to data portability for the information you provide to Cebu Homecraft. You can request to obtain a copy of your Personal Data in a commonly used electronic format so that you can manage and move it. In exceptional circumstances we may be able to provide the information we hold about you in writing.
Please note, we may ask you to verify your identity before responding to such requests by confirming selected information with you by telephone. When emailing us to request information, changes or deletion of your data, please provide a contact number we can contact you on.
Note Concerning deletion of personal data: If you request us to delete your personal information held by us, but you have purchased from us in the past, we will retain your receipt transaction which we are required to do so for accounting and legal purposes. This includes your name, address and email as stated on your receipt. Payment information is retained by our payment processors and for our accounts purposes which is legally required. This data will never be used for any other purpose than the legal and accounting requirements we must comply with.
Denial of Data Deletion
If you have an order in progress, we will not be able to process your request until your order is completed, or cancelled.
Time-scale Data Deletion
So we can thoroughly ensure your contact details are completely removed from our systems and they are not present in any form other than on receipts we are required to keep for lawful and accounting purposes, please allow up to 7 working days for us to process your request.
Service Providers
We may employ third party companies and individuals to facilitate our Service ("Service Providers"), to provide the Service on our behalf, to perform Service-related services or to assist us in analyzing how our Service is used.
These third parties have access to the Personal Data we hold about you only to perform these tasks, and we provide them no further information than that which is required for the service they perform. These third parties are obligated to not disclose or use the data for any other purpose.
Payments
We accept payment by cash, check, bank transfer, credit/debit card, or Paypal. For Cash, check or Bank transfer payments, we provide you with the payment details at the time of purchase. For debit/credit card payments, these are processed by Paypal, we will issue you a secure online invoice which can be paid with or without a Paypal account. Paypal adheres to the standards set by PCI-DSS as managed by the PCI Security Standards Council, which is a joint effort of brands such as Visa, Mastercard, American Express and Discover. PCI-DSS requirements help ensure the secure handling of payment information.
The payment processors we work with are:
- Paypal: You can read the Paypal privacy policy at https://www.paypal.com/webapps/mpp/ua/privacy-full
Analytics
We use Google Analytics services to analyze the use of our service.
Google Analytics
Google Analytics is a web analytics service offered by Google that tracks and reports website traffic. Google uses the data collected to track and monitor our service. This data is not shared with other google services and no personal data is transferred to or from Google for this purpose. IP Addresses are anonymized too.
You have the option to opt out of Google Analytics for all websites that you visit by visiting https://tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout. This browser add-on is compatible with modern browsers.
For more information on the privacy practices of Google, please visit the Google Privacy & Terms web page:
http://www.google.com/intl/en/policies/privacy/
Marketing
Cebu Homecraft uses marketing services to advertise on third party websites. Our use of these services does not involve personal information being passed to or from such services.
Google Adwords
Google AdWords - provided by Google Inc.
We use google Adwords to advertise on Google and Google partner websites. These adverts display primarily through google search, for example, you may have searched for "Driftwood Furniture" and followed an advert linked to our website, or, you may have browsed our website and searched for a service elsewhere and google suggests our website since it was of previous interest to you.
You can also opt out of Google Analytics for Display Advertising and customize the Google Display Network ads by visiting the Google Ads Settings page:
http://www.google.com/settings/ads
For more information on the privacy practices of Google, please visit the Google Privacy and Terms website page: http://www.google.com/intl/en/policies/privacy/
Facebook Pixel
Facebook Pixel - provided by Facebook Inc.
Facebook pixel allows user behavior to be tracked by their use of this website, or after they have clicked on a Facebook advertisement. This enables us to measure the effectiveness of our service and ads which we run on Facebook. Facebook Pixel also collects data for Facebook about how the user has interacted on our website such as how long the visitor spent engaged on our site (scrolling or visiting different pages). This data is completely anonymous to us and we do not retain this data or combine it with our own, but Facebook may use this data to provide the end user with more relevant targeted ads. This usage data, linked to your Facebook account if you have one, is processed by Facebook. Facebook may use this data for its own promotional purposes in accordance with Facebook's privacy policy.
You can opt out of Facebook Pixel by visiting https://www.facebook.com/settings?tab=ads if you are logged in to Facebook on your browser or device.
You can review Facebook's privacy policy at https://www.facebook.com/about/privacy/.
ReCAPTCHA
Google ReCAPTCHA
We use the reCAPTCHA service provided by Google Inc. (Google) to protect your submissions via internet submission forms on this site. This plugin checks if you are a person in order to prevent certain website functions from being abused (or used) by spam bots. This plugin query includes the sending of the IP address and possibly other data required by Google for the Google reCAPTCHA service. For this purpose your input will be communicated to and used by Google. However, your IP address is previously truncated by Google within member states of the European Union or in other states which are party to the agreement on the European Economic Area and is, as such, anonymized. Only in exceptional cases is a full IP address transmitted to a Google server in the United States and truncated there. On behalf of the operator of this website (Cebu Homecraft), Google will use this information to evaluate your use of this service. The IP address provided by reCaptcha from your browser is not merged with any other data from Google or Cebu Homecraft.
This data collection is subject to the data protection regulations of Google (Google Inc.). For more information about Google's privacy policy, please visit:
https://www.google.com/intl/en/policies/privacy/
By using the reCAPTCHA service, you consent to the processing of data about you by Google in the manner and for the purposes set out above.
Social Networks
We use social networks such as Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, Pinterest and Google Business to promote our website and products. You will find the links to our social network pages at the bottom of our website. We do not exchange any individual/personal data with such services.
We may provide simple social network "share" buttons on this site on our product pages (Facebook, Google+, Pinterest and Twitter). By sharing the product data from our website, product images and information about the product is passed to the social network service. No personal data is transferred from our website. For any of your privacy concerns with sharing pages on social networks, please refer to the privacy policy of the social network concerned.
Children's Privacy
This Website and the Services are not directed to children or persons under the age of 18. We do not knowingly collect information, including Personal Data, from children or other individuals who are not legally able to use our Sites and Services. If we obtain actual knowledge that we have collected Personal Data from a child or person under the age of 18, we will promptly delete it, unless we are legally obligated to retain such data. Contact us if you believe that we have mistakenly or unintentionally collected information from a child or person under the age of 18.
Links to other websites
Our website may contain links to other websites of interest. However, once you have used these links to leave our site, you should note that we do not have any control over that other website. Therefore, we cannot be responsible for the protection and privacy whilst visiting such sites as such sites are not governed by this privacy statement. You should exercise caution and look at the privacy statement applicable to the website in question.
Changes to this Privacy Policy
We may update our Privacy Policy from time to time. Changes are effective from the time we update our privacy policy on this website. We recommend you check our privacy policy (from the link in the footer of our website) on return visits, and you can review the date our privacy policy was last updated by checking the version and date at the top of this page.
Contact Us
If you have any questions concerning our Privacy Policy, please contact us by emailing
