Who we are
Our website address is: https://magicianscottage.com.
What personal data we collect and why we collect it
Thanks for choosing Magician’s Cottage for your magic needs. Our Privacy Policy is important to us and we know it’s important to you. Therefore, we are committed to protect your personal information when you visit our Site to view our products or to make a purchase transaction. We strive to make our Site functional, secure, and convenient to use by showing you relevant and interesting content. We do this by using cookies. Cookies can be categorized by their function. We are only noting the ones applicable to our Site and commenting on a few that we choose not to use.
How we use cookies
We use cookies to provide you with a better experience across our digital platforms. We do this by making our Site functional, secure and convenient for you to use, and by showing you relevant and interesting content and advertising in magic publications.
We use cookies to deliver the following services:
• To provide a smooth and secure experience when purchasing a magic product
• To select and deliver content that is interesting and relevant
• To record what magicians like and don’t like on the website and the popularity of different product categories in the Site so that we can ensure it works properly at points of high usage
• To collect, measure and analyze statistical information about website traffic and use (for further information see “Analytics”)
• To detect and track fraudulent or illegal activity
(We also need to drop a cookie to record your permission for us to use cookies on our digital platforms.)
We use cookies to remember information such as items added in a shopping cart or to record a user’s browsing activity (such as clicking particular buttons, logging in, or recording which pages were visited in the past.
We also use them to remember pieces of information that you previously entered into a contact form such as name, address, password, etc. Cookies record your online identity and remember your online behavior and preferences. They can also capture:
• Browser information: browser type, language, and history;
• Device information: IP address, device make, device model, device operating system/version, and data connection type
• Internet service provider information
• Interaction information: domain name, date/time of website visit, page view data, search keywords, referring/exit pages, platform type, date/time stamp, geolocation data, and click data.
Site 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.
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.
Visitor comments may be checked through an automated spam detection service.
Cookies That we do not use
We do not use third party tracking cookies that belong to another domain. This type of cookie typically appears when web pages feature content from external websites, such as banner advertisements.
The Magician’s Cottage does not exploit in any way an individual’s personal web habits by using tracking cookies to collect information about personal buying habits.
Analytics
While visiting our Site, we use cookies to collect data about your activity and may use services hosted by Google Analytics to organize the data. The information is used by us, in a non-personally-identifiable form, for internal purposes such as analyzing how our customers shop and what types of merchandise they find most interesting. This helps us build great products that give you a great experience.
How we share your data
We do not share, sell, or divulge any personal or account information that you or PayPal supply to us. That includes your name, phone number, and email address.
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.
Where your data is sent during a purchase transaction
When you check out any after making your product selection, we ask for your name, shipping address, and email account. You will then be redirected away from our Site to PayPal where you will enter your account information. Their advanced encryption technology helps keep your online transactions and personal information guarded from start to finish. After PayPal processes your payment, they will send us payment notification, your shipping address, phone number, and email address. We do not share, sell, or divulge any personal or account information that you or PayPal supply to us.
To summarize, Magician’s Cottage will only use your information for the purpose for which you give it to us. For example:
• to complete an online purchase
• ; to respond to an email product inquiry
• to send Coupon Codes and product information (via email) when you Subscribe to the Magician’s Cottage
Please do not hesitate to contact us by email or by phone if you have any questions regarding our Privacy Policy. We thank you for giving us an opportunity to serve you with integrity and with quality products.