Privacy Policy

Dear Visitor
At beganclay, we are committed to respecting the privacy and security of your personal information. Information provided through this website will be stored on the server. If you do not wish your information to be stored on our servers. If you choose to purchase product(s) from our website, personal information is required to complete transaction and is provided to us voluntarily and knowingly. Like all information collected by beganclay Canada Inc., information collected through this website is protected in accordance with our Privacy Policy.Accountability
beganclay is accountable for all personal information under its control. This includes information under the direct control of beganclay, as well as personal information that beganclay may transfer to its affiliates or to third party service providers for servicing, processing, storage or other purposes that facilitate beganclay’s business operations. beganclay will use contractual or other measures to require third parties that process information or provide services on our behalf, such as credit account verification and similar confirmations, to maintain a level of privacy protection comparable to our own practices.Operating Consent
The cornerstone to protecting your privacy is consent. beganclay will only collect, use, and disclose your Personal Information with your consent, except where otherwise permitted by law. beganclay does not, as a condition of the supply of a product or service to you, require you to consent to the collection, use, or disclosure of your Personal Information beyond that information which is required to complete the transaction.
You may choose not to provide us with any of your Personal Information. However, if you make this choice beganclay may not be able to provide you with the product, service or information that you requested or that could be offered to you online.
Security
We use Thawte 128 bit SSL when transferring and receiving customer data exchanged within our website server and no credit card information is stored on the server.

Limits to Collecting Personal Information
We limit the type of mandatory information collected by us to only the personal information that is required to accomplish the identified purpose of managing our relationship with our customers and other individuals, to administer accounts, to provide services and to otherwise carry on beganclay’s business operations.

How does beganclay use my personal Information?
We may use your personal information in the following ways:

To process and fulfill your order, including to send you emails to confirm your order status and shipment
To communicate with you and to send you information by email, postal mail, telephone, text message, or other means about our products, services, contests, and beganclay, unless you have directed us not to contact you with beganclay communications
To administer and fulfill our contests and other beganclay
To help us learn more about your shopping preferences
To help us address problems with and improve our site design, products and services
To enhance your shopping experience
To analyze trends and statistics
To protect the security or integrity of our websites and our business
To contact you if necessary
You always have the choice not to receive marketing information or calls. For instructions on opting out, please see the section entitled, “How do I make choices about receiving beganclay communications?” below.

Automatic Collection
Our Web server automatically recognizes only the visitor’s domain name (not the e mail address) and records the visitor’s browser and platform type (e.g., Internet Explorer on a Microsoft platform).

Safeguards
Protecting your personal information is important to us. beganclay uses Secure Sockets Layer (SSL) technology to protect your online information as it is transmitted over the Internet. When accessing a secure server, the first characters of the site address will change from “http” to “https.”.

Cookies
This Site uses “cookies,” which are small data files that are stored on your computer when you visit a website. Cookies enable you to shop on this Site and may be used in a variety of ways to enhance or personalize your online browsing and shopping experience. For example, we may use cookies to enable you to use certain features of this Site, remember the items in your shopping cart, store your preferences, recognize you when you return to this Site, track your orders, and beganclay and maintain information about your use of this Site. Cookies also may be used to collect transaction information needed by beganclay conducted on this Site.

Cookies do not cause damage to your computer system or files, and only the website that transferred a particular cookie to you can read, modify or delete such cookie. You can set your browser not to accept cookies or to notify you when you are sent a cookie, giving you the opportunity to decide whether or not to accept it. If you do not accept cookies, however, you will not be able to access your account information or make purchases on this Site.

Pixel Tags
We use “pixel tags” (also called “web beacons” or “clear gifs”), which are tiny graphic images, on this Site and in our emails. Pixel tags help us analyze our customers’ online behavior and measure the effectiveness of this Site and our advertising. We work with service providers that help us track, collect, and analyze this information.

Pixel tags on this Site may be used to collect information about your visit, including the pages you view, the features you use, the links you click, and other actions you take in connection with this Site. This information may include your computer’s Internet protocol (IP) address, your browser type, your operating system, date and time information, and other technical information about your computer. We may also track certain information about the identity of the website you visited immediately before coming to this Site. We do not otherwise track any information about your use of other websites.

Pixel tags and cookies in our emails may be used to track your interactions with those messages, such as when you receive, open, or click a link in an email message from us.

We also work with third-party companies that use tracking technologies to serve advertisements on our behalf across the Internet. These companies may collect information about your visits to this Site and your interaction with our advertising and other communications.

Email Addresses
When visitors send us email or give us their email address when placing an order, we retain their email address. However, we do not share our email lists. We use your email address to communicate with you about your order. We also use it to send you information about beganclay products or services which may be of interest to you, only if you have asked to receive such beganclay messages. Each time you receive an email from us, you will be given the opportunity to “opt-out” or stop receiving them. If you wish to decline receiving such emails in the future, click here.

What is “phishing”?
“Phishing” is a scam designed to steal your personal information. If you receive an email that looks like it is from us asking you for your personal information, do not respond. We will never request your password, user name, credit card information or other personal information through email.

Visitor-Keyed Information
We retain information provided by our visitor, such as registration information, transaction information (e.g., dates on which customers made purchases, amounts and types of purchases) and contact information (e.g., name, address, phone number). Our visitor also has the ability to correct inaccuracies in contact information and unique identifiers.

How do I make choices about receiving beganclay communications?
If you no longer wish to receive product alerts, mailings, e-newsletters, emails or phone calls from beganclay, please contact beganclay Customer Service as described below in ‘How do I contact you?’ section. Please provide your exact name, postal address, and email address so that your request can be effectively processed. It may take up to 90 days in order for your information to be completely removed from our list.