Privacy Policy

1. WHAT DO WE DO WITH YOUR INFORMATION?

When you purchase Shoes, Accessories or supply-chain management services, from our portal or subscribe to any of our value-added services, as part of the buying and selling process we collect and store the personal information you give us such as your full name, mobile number, email address, shipping details and billing info.

When you browse our online store, we also automatically receive your computer’s basic device info in order to provide us with information that helps us learn about your screen-dimensions, browser configuration, operating system and time of login.

Email marketing (if applicable): With your permission, we may send you emails about our newsletter, new products, offers and other updates.

All information provided by Customer are preserved on BUWCH Lifestyles database in an encrypted way. We take pride in our responsibility to safeguard this information, ensure its protection within our database and enable secure authentication by valid Users.

BUWCH Lifestyles is dedicated to enhancing your experience by collecting, analysing, and leveraging your personal and transaction data that you explicitly permit us to use and is permitted under law. This strategic approach allows us to design and develop products that align with your preferences and cater to the needs of our discerning end-users.

No data is shared with any third party or harnessed by the Company, its employees/agents/partners without explicit consent of the User on this portal. User transactional and financial data is treated as an exclusive property of the Users themselves and BUWCH Lifestyles database is merely its temporary repository.

To manage substantial datasets, we may engage with reputable data analysis firms but only after undergoing a meticulous masking and/or redaction process to safeguard sensitive and identifiable information.

BUWCH Lifestyles may employ the collected User information to suggest accessory products and services, ensuring a personalized and seamless experience.

2. GOOGLE PERSONAL INFO

The data collected from Google during Sign-in/Registration through Google APIs are only in the nature of your primary Google account email address and personal info that you have made publicly available, including but not limited to your verified mobile number, full name and date of birth.

No sensitive or restricted API scopes provided by Google are used on BUWCH Lifestyles portal and no related data is shared by Google or collected on behalf of the User. Any changes to this privacy policy or the scope of sensitive data collection will be enforced after explicit permission by the User and on a case-by-case basis only.

User data collected from Google APIs is not shared or sold to any third-party for any purposes whatsoever other than User authentication or enhancing User experience on this website.

User data collected from Google APIs are retained only as long as User's financial relationship exists with BUWCH Lifestyles or User's subscription to our services remain active, or until data usage consent is explicitly revoked by the User.

Users financial, personal or transactional data might also be retained after withdrawal of User's consent only if mandated to do so as per India's financial regulators for the purpose of Know-Your- Customer/Anti-Money-Laundering.

Personal and sensitive User data collected from Google, such as full Name, Mobile Number and primary Email address of Google account are used only for User Authentication purposes, and for sending OTPs or Alerts/notifications related to User-initiated transactions performed on our website or Meta-business platforms.

3. CONSENT

How do you get my consent?

When you provide us with personal information to register/login or verification of KYC (for switching to Business User), verify your business compliance information, obtain logistics quotes, place a buy/sell order for shoes & accessories, create & customize products by uploading your brand/logo or product designs or authenticate your GSTIN for billing purposes, we automatically imply that you consent to our collecting, storing and using it for that specific reason only.

All consents provided by the User will be via explicit opt-in, whereby the default option of the consent form will be set to unselected/not consenting. Furthermore, the entire legal text of the terms and conditions will be clearly visible without any redactions or truncations.

If we ask for your personal information for a secondary reason, like marketing, we will either ask you directly for your expressed consent or provide you with an opportunity to say no.

How do I withdraw my consent?

If after you opt-in, you change your mind, you may withdraw your consent for us to contact you, use your personal and transactional data for authentication and analysis purposes, or for the continued collection of further identifiable information at any time, by contacting us atrohit.kashyap@buwch.com or+919289993350.

4. DISCLOSURE

We may disclose your personal information if we are required by law to do so or if you violate our Terms of Service.

5. THIRD-PARTY SERVICES

In general, the third-party providers used by us will only collect, disclose, and use your information to the extent necessary to allow them to perform the services they provide to us.

However, certain third-party service providers, such as cloud communication platforms, databases, data repositories and API providers, banks and payment processors, have their own privacy policies in respect to the information we are required to provide to them for the User-initiated transactions on our portal.

For these providers, we recommend that you read their privacy policies so you can understand the manner in which your personal information will be handled by these providers.

In particular, please note that certain providers may be located in or have facilities that are located in a different jurisdiction than either you or us. So, if you elect to proceed with a transaction that involves the services of a third-party service provider, then your information may become subject to the laws of the jurisdiction(s) in which that service provider or its facilities are located.

Once you leave our store’s website or are redirected to a third-party website or application, you are no longer governed by this Privacy Policy or our website’s Terms of Service.

6. SECURITY

To protect your personal information, we take reasonable precautions, employ state-of-the-art encryption mechanisms and follow industry best practices on data-security to make sure it is not inappropriately lost, misused, accessed, disclosed, altered, or destroyed.

7. COOKIES

We use encrypted cookies and tokens to authenticate and maintain the session of your device. It is not used to personally identify you on other websites and not shared with any third party websites whatsoever.

8. AGE OF CONSENT

By using this site, you represent that you are the age of majority in your state or province of residence and you have given us your consent to allow any of your minor dependents to use this site.

9. CHANGES TO THIS PRIVACY POLICY

We reserve the right to modify this privacy policy at any time, so please review it frequently. Changes and clarifications will take effect immediately upon their posting on the website. If we make material changes to this policy, we will notify you here that it has been updated, so that you are aware of what information we collect, how we use it, and under what circumstances, if any, we use and/or disclose it.

If our Company is acquired or merged with another company, your information may be transferred to the new owners so that we may continue to sell our products and services to you.