We collect information from Site users in several different ways, with the goal of providing an efficient, meaningful, and customized shopping experience. For example, we can use your personal information to:
- Register you with our Site and provide you with our Services
- Record and quickly bring up information you have given previously
- Help you quickly find information about our products, and Services
- Diagnose and improve Site content to provide you with customer service
- Provide you with new information about our products and Services
- We use your personal information to prevent and detect fraud and abuse in order to protect the security of our customers. We may also use scoring methods to assess and manage credit risks.
- We use your information as otherwise disclosed or permitted by law.
We collect personal information in the following ways:
We collect information directly from you:
Registration and Ordering: To use certain parts of this Site or order products, all customers must fill out an online registration form with personal information, including but not limited to, your name, gender, shipping and billing address(es), phone number, email address, and financial information, like your credit card number. In addition, we may ask for your country of residence and/or your organization’s country of operation, so that we can comply with applicable laws and regulations. This information is used for billing, order processing and internal marketing as well as to communicate with you about your order and our Site.
Email Addresses: Several locations on the Site allow you to enter your email address for purposes including but not limited to: registering for free promotional notices, requesting notification when new brands or product styles arrive, or signing up for our email newsletter. In addition, any participation in promotional contests organized by BOJ Middle East is completely voluntary and requires disclosure of contact information needed to notify winners and award prizes. We may post the names and cities of contest winners on our Site.
Phone Number: Several locations on the Site allow you to enter your phone number for purposes including but not limited to: SMS verification, registering for free promotional notices, requesting notification when new brands or product styles arrive, or signing up for our SMS newsletter. We store your e-mail address and telephone number until you request that we delete it.
Product Reviews: We ask for an email address and location along with the submission of all product reviews. Your email address will be kept private, but your location will be visible to other users. All other personal information that you choose to submit as part of the review will be available to other visitors to the Site.
We use cookies and other tracking technologies to automatically collect information from you:
Log Files:
- IP address (internet protocol address) of the end device accessing our website;
- Internet address of the website referring to our website (referrer URL);
- Information on the provider through which access to our website takes place;
- Name of accessed files and information;
- Date, time and duration of access;
- Quantity of transferred data;
- Operating system and information on the browser being used;
- Status of the page view (e.g. “Query successful”).
The data is stored in log files order to identify malfunctions and for security reasons (e.g. to investigate attempted attacks) and then deleted. Log files, the further storage of which is necessary for evidence purposes, are excluded from deletion until final clarification of the respective incident and may be passed on to investigating authorities in individual cases.