WHO WE ARE

We are U. S. Zodiac, an esoteric analytics resource, blog, publisher and ecommerce business. Our website address is: https://.www.uszodiac.com

The purpose of this page is to inform you (the user) of what personal information we collect and store when you visit our website, and how we use that information. This page will be periodically updated.

THE INFORMATION WE COLLECT AND HOW IT IS USED

We collect and store information about you during your visit to the U. S. Zodiac website, as well as your interactions with the website.

Comments

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.

An anonymized 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: https://automattic.com/privacy/ . After approval of your comment, your profile picture is visible to the public in the context of your comment.

Purchases

We collect and store information about you during your visit to the U. S. Zodiac website, and the checkout process on our store.

While you visit our site, we’ll track:

  • Products you’ve viewed: we’ll use this to, for example, show you products you’ve recently viewed.
  • Location, IP address and browser type: we’ll use this for purposes like estimating taxes and shipping
  • Shipping address: we’ll ask you to enter this so we can, for instance, estimate shipping before you place an order, and send you the order!
  • We’ll also use cookies to keep track of cart contents while you’re browsing our site. For more information on cookies, see our Cookies Policy below.

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. We’ll use this information for purposes, such as, to:

  • Send you information about your account and order
  • Respond to your requests, including refunds and complaints
  • Process payments and prevent fraud
  • Comply with any legal obligations we have, such as calculating taxes
  • Improve our store offerings
  • Send you marketing messages, if you choose to receive them

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 10 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.

WHAT WE SHARE WITH OTHERS

We share information with third parties who help us provide our orders and store services to you; for example —

Payments

We process payments through WooCommerces’s payment gateway, “WooPayments” which uses the off-site payment processor “Stripe.” Your credit card information is never stored on our website. When processing payments, your data will be passed to Stripe, including information required to process or support the payment, such as credit card/payment details, the purchase total and billing information.

What data is collected when you use a payment provider

  • Name
  • Email
  • Address
  • Phone
  • City/State/Zip code
  • Credit card/payment details
  • Purchase total

When you visit our WooCommerce store, this plugin/extension sets the following Stripe cookies:

  • wp_woocommerce_session_HASH
  • _stripe_mid
  • _stripe_sid

Please see the Stripe Privacy Policy for more details: https://stripe.com/privacy

WooCommerce Shipping and Tax

Data Used: For payments with Stripe: purchase total, currency, billing information. For taxes: the value of goods in the cart, value of shipping, destination address. For checkout rates: destination address, purchased product IDs, dimensions, weight, and quantities. For shipping labels: customer’s name, address as well as the dimensions, weight, and quantities of purchased products.

Data Synced: For payments, we send the purchase total, currency and customer’s billing information to the respective payment processor. Please see the respective third party’s privacy policy ( Stripe’s Privacy Policy: https://stripe.com/privacy ) for more details. For automated taxes we send the value of goods in the cart, the value of shipping, and the destination address to TaxJar. Please see TaxJar’s Privacy Policy for details about how they handle this information: https://www.taxjar.com/privacy . For checkout rates we send the destination ZIP/postal code and purchased product dimensions, weight and quantities to the carrier directly or via EasyPost, depending on the service used. For shipping labels we send the customer’s name, address as well as the dimensions, weight, and quantities of purchased products to EasyPost. Please see EasyPost’s privacy policy to see how they handle this information: https://www.easypost.com/privacy . We also store the purchased shipping labels on our server to make it easy to reprint them and handle support requests.

Jetpack Brute Force Attack Protection

Data Used: In order to check login activity and potentially block fraudulent attempts, the following information is used: attempting user’s IP address, attempting user’s email address/username (i.e. according to the value they were attempting to use during the login process), and all IP-related HTTP headers attached to the attempting user.

Activity Tracked: Failed login attempts (these include IP address and user agent). We also set a cookie (jpp_math_pass) for 1 day to remember if/when a user has successfully completed a math captcha to prove that they’re a real human. Learn more about this cookie: https://automattic.com/cookies/ .

Data Synced: Failed login attempts, which contain the user’s IP address, attempted username or email address, and user agent information.

Jetpack Stats

Data Used: IP address, WordPress.com user ID (if logged in), WordPress.com username (if logged in), user agent, visiting URL, referring URL, timestamp of event, browser language, country code. Important: The site owner does not have access to any of this information via this feature. For example, a site owner can see that a specific post has 285 views, but he/she cannot see which specific users/accounts viewed that post. Stats logs — containing visitor IP addresses and WordPress.com usernames (if available) — are retained by Automattic for 28 days and are used for the sole purpose of powering this feature.

Activity Tracked: Post and page views, video plays (if videos are hosted by WordPress.com), outbound link clicks, referring URLs and search engine terms, and country. When this feature is enabled, Jetpack also tracks performance on each page load that includes the JavaScript file used for tracking stats. This is exclusively for aggregate performance tracking across Jetpack sites in order to make sure that our plugin and code is not causing performance issues. This includes the tracking of page load times and resource loading duration (image files, JavaScript files, CSS files, etc.). The site owner has the ability to force this feature to honor DNT settings of visitors. By default, DNT is currently not honored.

COOKIES POLICY

If you leave a comment on our site you may opt-in to saving your name, email address and website in cookies. These are for your convenience so that you do not have to fill in your details again when you leave another comment. These cookies will last for one year.

If you visit our login page, 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.

When you visit our WooCommerce store, this plugin/extension sets the following Stripe cookies:

  • wp_woocommerce_session_HASH
  • _stripe_mid
  • _stripe_sid

CONTACT FORM

When you send us an email through the Contact Form, the data submitted is stored in the U. S. Zodiac database and is emailed to the Administrator of the Contact Form on the U. S. Zodiac website. This email will include the your IP address, a timestamp, your name, your email address, the name of this website, and your message.

EMBEDDED CONTENT FROM OTHER WEBSITES

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 tracking your interaction with the embedded content if you have an account and are logged in to that website.

WHO AT U. S. ZODIAC HAS ACCESS

Every reasonable effort is made to handle your personal information responsibly. Only the Administrator has access to the information you provide us. In this regard, the Administrator can access:

  • Order information like what was purchased, when it was purchased and where it should be sent, and
  • Customer information like your name, email address, and billing and shipping information.
  • The Administrator has access to this information to help fulfill orders, process refunds and support you.

PASSWORD RESET

If you request a password reset, your IP address will be included in the reset email.

HOW LONG WE RETAIN YOUR DATA

If you leave a comment, the comment and its metadata are retained indefinitely. This is so we can recognize 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.

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 10 years for tax and accounting purposes. This includes your name, email address and billing and shipping addresses.

WHAT RIGHTS YOU HAVE OVER YOUR DATA

If you have an account on this site, or have left comments, you can request to receive an exported file of the personal data we hold about you, including any data you have provided to us. You can also request that we erase any personal data we hold about you. This does not include any data we are obliged to keep for administrative, legal, or security purposes.

THE PRIVACY OF CHILDREN’S PERSONAL INFORMATION

Use of the U. S. Zodiac website and the information herein is not intended for minors. If it comes to our attention that a minor (a child of less than 18 years of age) has provided personal information to us, that information will be immediately deleted.

COMPLIANCE WITH FEDERAL, STATE AND LOCAL LAWS

Whenever required to do so by law enforcement request or court subpoena, we will disclose information we have collected from you.

CONTACT US

You can reach us with your privacy inquiries through the contact form on the U. S. Zodiac website: www.uszodiac.com/contact/