Privacy Policy

At Gems Jewellers, we respect our customers’ privacy. This privacy policy (“Policy”) applies to all Gems Jewellers activities, including, but not limited to our retail locations, websites, mobile sites and services where this Policy appears or is linked (collectively, our “Website”).  This Policy is to inform you about how we collect, use, share, and protect personal information. 

By providing information to us (by any means, whether in a store, in correspondence, via our Website or otherwise) you consent to our use of the information you provide in accordance with this Policy and the General Data Protection Regulations (effective from 25 May 2019).

Any reference to our Website includes its e-mail and other electronic messages.  If you do not agree with this Policy or our practices, you may not use our Website. 

This Policy may change from time to time. Your continued use of our Website constitutes your acceptance of those changes.  We encourage you to review this Policy periodically.

 

WHAT INFORMATION DO WE COLLECT?

We collect personal information about you in various ways, such as when you provide it at our store, on our Website and social media channels or on the telephone.

The types of personal information we may collect include:

  • contact information (such as name, postal address, email address, and mobile or other telephone number);
  • username and password if you have registered an account with us;
  • payment information (such as your payment card number, expiration date, authorisation number or security code, delivery address, and billing address);
  • purchase, return, wish list and transaction information;
  • customer service information (such as customer service inquiries, comments and history);
  • device information;
  • photographs, comments and other content you provide;
  • social media information;
  • information we may obtain from our third-party service providers.

In addition, when you visit our Website, open our emails, interact with our related tools, widgets or plug-ins, we may collect certain information by automated means, such as cookies, web beacons and web server logs. The information we collect in this manner may include your IP address, unique device identifier, browser characteristics, domain and other system settings, search queries, device characteristics, operating system type, language preferences, referring URLs, actions taken on our site, dates and times of website visits, metadata and other information associated with other files stored on your device.

Through these automated collection methods, we obtain “clickstream data,” which is a log of the links and other content on which a visitor clicks while browsing a website. We may link certain data elements we have collected through automated means, such as your browser information, with other information we have obtained about you for the purposes described below, and to let us know, for example, whether you have opened an email we sent to you. While you can change your cookies settings in your browser, please note, however, that without cookies you may not be able to use all of the features of our Website.

We may use local shared objects to collect and store information about your preferences and how you interact with our Website.  These technologies help us recognise you, customise or personalise your shopping experience, store items in your online shopping cart between visits, and analyse the use of our services and solutions to make them more useful to you. These technologies also allow us to aggregate demographic and statistical data and compilations of information, which may include personal information.

We also may collect information about the location of the mobile device or tablet used to access the Website (“Location Data”). Location Data includes: (a) the location of the mobile device or tablet derived from GPS or WiFi use; (b) the IP address of the mobile device or tablet or internet service used to access the Website; and (c) other information made available by a user or others that indicates the current or prior location of the user, such as geotag information in photographs. We will inform you if a specific Website or service collects precise Location Data.

When you connect with social media though the Website, you may link with social media platforms and social media plug-ins (e.g., the Facebook “Like” button). When accessing services through a Facebook or other Social Media account, we may (depending on the applicable user privacy settings) automatically have access to information provided to or through the Social Media platform. We may collect and use this information for the purposes described in this Policy or at the time the information is collected.

Information collected directly by the third party providers of the features is subject to the privacy policies or notices of these providers. We are not responsible for these providers’ information and privacy practices.

Information we collect will only be used as described in this Policy. If you choose not to provide certain information, we may not be able to provide you with requested products, services or information.

 

HOW WE USE THE INFORMATION WE COLLECT

We may use the information described above in one or more of the following ways, and we may seek specific consent prior to such use, depending on your jurisdiction:

  • to provide our Website and its contents to you;
  • to provide requested products and services including, as applicable, order confirmation, billing, and delivering products or services;
  • to process and track orders;
  • to respond to comments, questions, or concerns;
  • to prevent and detect fraud and other unlawful activity, claims and other liabilities;
  • to improve or develop new services and product offerings;
  • to identify, offer, and contact you with personalised content and advertising, including newsletters, articles, product or service alerts, new product or service announcements, savings awards, event invitations, and other information;
  • to alert you about a product announcement or recall or correction of an offer, promotion, or advertisement;
  • to keep a record of our interactions with you if you place an order or otherwise deal with our representatives over the telephone or online;
  • to notify you of changes to our Website or any products or services we offer;
  • for marketing and promotional purposes;
  • to verify and validate your identity to reduce credit risk and manage collections;
  • to ensure that your shopping experience is as easy and pleasant as possible;
  • to carry out our obligations and enforce our rights; and
  • to comply with and enforce applicable legal requirements, relevant industry standards, contractual obligations and our policies.

We may also use the information in other ways for which we describe at the time of collection.

In addition, we may use information collected through cookies, web beacons, pixels, web server logs and other automated means for purposes such as (a) customising our users’ visits to our Website, (b) delivering content tailored to our users’ interests and the manner in which our users browse our Website, and (c) managing our Website and other aspects of our business. To the extent required by applicable law, we will obtain your consent before collecting information using cookies or similar automated means.

We may use third-party analytics services on our websites, such as those of google analytics.

The analytics providers that administer these services use technologies such as cookies, web server logs and web beacons to help us analyse your use of our Website. The information collected through these means (including IP address) may be used by these analytics providers and other relevant third parties who use the information, for example, to evaluate the use of the Website. To learn more about these analytics services and how to opt out, please visit the google analytics website.

Cookies are small text files used by websites to log information and enable functionality, they are completely harmless and anonymous, so they will never hold any personal or confidential information about you.

Our website uses cookies which are essential to make the website work properly and enable you to shop online, so without them, your use of our website would be very restricted and limited!

 

INFORMATION WE SHARE

We do not disclose personal information we collect about you, except as described in this Policy. We may share personal information with service providers who perform services on our behalf. These service providers are permitted to use or disclose the information only as necessary to perform services on our behalf or comply with legal requirements. Examples of these service providers include entities that process credit card payments, manage and reduce our credit risk, verify information, fulfil orders, and provide web hosting, analytics and marketing services.

We may release your personal information if we are required to do so by law or court order, to enforce or apply our Terms and Conditions or if we believe in good faith that such release is necessary or appropriate to protect the rights, property, or safety of our company, customers, affiliates, or others. We may also share or transfer information, including your personal information, in connection with the sale, transfer, acquisition, merger, acquisition, divestiture, restructuring, reorganisation, dissolution, bankruptcy or other change or ownership or control by Gems Jewellers or any affiliated company (in each case, whether in whole or in part). When one of these events occurs, we will use reasonable efforts to notify users before information is transferred or becomes subject to different privacy practices.

We may also share information or data in a form that cannot be used to uniquely identify or contact an individual person (“non-personal information”). We may collect, use, transfer, and disclose this non-personal information for any purpose. Non-personal information that we collect may include information regarding your activities on the Website, which may be aggregated and used to help us provide more useful information to our customers and to understand which parts of the Website are of most interest.

 

HOW WE PROTECT PERSONAL INFORMATION

We enforce commercially reasonable security measures online and in our physical facilities to protect against the loss, misuse, disclosure, or alteration of personal information provided to us. While we strive to safeguard your personal information, we cannot guarantee the security of any information you disclose or transmit to us.

If you receive an e-mail that looks like it is from us asking you for your personal information, do not respond. We will never request your password, username, credit card information, or other personal information through e-mail.

 

YOUR CHOICES

We offer you certain choices in connection with the personal information we collect about you, such as how we use the information and how we communicate with you. To update your preferences, ask us to remove you from our mailing lists, exercise your rights regarding your personal information, or submit a request, please contact us. You can also unsubscribe from receiving our emails by following the “Unsubscribe” link provided in our emails. We will honour your request to remove you from our mailing list(s), but there may be a delay between submission of such request and actual removal from our mailing lists, as these lists are generated well in advance of our actual mailings. Opting out of communications does not affect our communication with you via telephone or email regarding your orders or other sales or service transactions.

You may request access to the personal information we maintain about you or request that we correct, amend, delete or block the information by contacting us. You may withdraw any consent you previously provided to us or object at any time on legitimate grounds to the processing of your personal information, and we will apply your preferences going forward.

 

CHILDREN'S PRIVACY

We are committed to protecting the privacy of children. The Website is not directed to children and we do not knowingly collect any personal information from children.  If a child under the age of 13 has provided us with personal information online, we ask that a parent or guardian please contact us. Please visit the child net website at http://www.childnet.com/ for tips on protecting children’s privacy online.

 

YOUR CONSENT

By providing information on or through a Website you are consenting to the collection, use and disclosure of such personal information as described in this Policy. You may withdraw your consent at any time by following the procedure described in the “Your Choices” section above. In addition, your use of the Website constitutes consent (a) to be contacted about your account through any contact information you provide, including mobile phone numbers, even if the number is on a Do Not Call list, and even if you are charged under your phone plan and (b) to the use of any automatic telephone dialling system and/or a prerecorded message when contacted.

 

LINKS TO THIRD PARTY SITES AND SERVICES

This Website may contain links to third party websites operated by individuals or companies unrelated to us. Please be aware that we are not responsible for the privacy practices of such third party websites. We provide links to these websites for your convenience only and you access them at your own risk. We recommend that you review the privacy policies and terms of use posted on and applicable to such third party websites prior to utilising them.

 

ACCESSING AND UPDATING YOUR PERSONAL INFORMATION

If you have a Website account, you can log in to view and update your account information. Please contact us with questions or concerns, to request edits to your personal information, or to have it removed from our database. We keep your personal information for as long as we think is necessary or advisable, and we reserve the right to retain it to the full extent not prohibited by law.

 

TRANSFERRING YOUR PERSONAL INFORMATION 

When we obtain information about you, we may transfer, process, and store such information in other countries, both within and outside of the European Economic Area. By providing us with your information, you consent to the transfer to, and to the processing and storage of your information in, countries outside of your country of residence, which may have different data protection laws than those in the country in which you reside.

 

MODIFICATIONS TO THIS POLICY

We will modify this Policy if our privacy practices change. We will notify you of such changes by posting the modified version on our Website and, if the changes are significant, we will provide a more prominent notice (including by email in certain instances). Please periodically review this Policy so that you are familiar with the current Policy and aware of any changes.