Privacy Policy

Privacy Policy

This Privacy Policy describes how mldq.store (the “Site” or “we”) collects, uses, and discloses your Personal Information when you visit, make a purchase from or take part in the auction on the Site.

Contact

After reviewing this policy, if you have additional questions, want more information about our privacy practices, or would like to make a complaint, please contact us by e-mail at support@maltdaq.com or by mail using the details provided below:

MLDQ / Maltdaq Ltd, Empress Business Centre, 380 Chester Road, Manchester M16 9EB

Collecting Personal Information

When you visit the Site, we collect certain information about your device, your interaction with the Site, and information necessary to process your purchases. We may also collect additional information if you contact us for customer support. In this Privacy Policy, we refer to any information about an identifiable individual (including the information below) as “Personal Information”. See the list below for more information about what Personal Information we collect and why.

  • Device information
    • Purpose of collection: to load the Site accurately for you, and to perform analytics on Site usage to optimize our Site.
    • Source of collection: Collected automatically when you access our Site using cookies, log files, web beacons, tags, or pixels
    • Disclosure for a business purpose: shared with our processor Shopify and Auction Pro
    • Personal Information collected: version of web browser, IP address, time zone, cookie information, what products you view, search terms, and how you interact with the Site
  • Order information
    • Purpose of collection: to provide products or services to you to fulfill our contract, to process your payment information, arrange for shipping, and provide you with invoices and/or order confirmations, communicate with you, screen our orders for potential risk or fraud, and when in line with the preferences you have shared with us, provide you with information or advertising relating to our products or services.
    • Source of collection: collected from you.
    • Disclosure for a business purpose: shared with our processor Shopify, our shipper UPS (name, shipping address and telephone number) and with TrustPilot (email and order number) for the purpose of inviting reviews of our service
    • Personal Information collected: name, billing address, shipping address, payment information (including credit card numbers, Shop Pay, PayPal or GPay details) email address, and phone number.
  • Customer support information
    • Purpose of collection: to provide customer support.
    • Source of collection: collected from you
    • Disclosure for a business purpose: shared with our customer support processor Intercom
    • Personal Information collected: name and email address

Minors

The Site is only intended for individuals who are at least 18 years of age and above the minimum legal age to purchase alcohol. We do not intentionally collect Personal Information from children. If you are the parent or guardian and believe your child has provided us with Personal Information, please contact us at the address above to request deletion.

Sharing Personal Information

We share your Personal Information with service providers to help us provide our services and fulfil our contracts with you, as described above. For example:

  • We use Shopify to power our online store. You can read more about how Shopify uses your Personal Information here: https://www.shopify.com/legal/privacy.
  • We may share your Personal Information to comply with applicable laws and regulations, to respond to a subpoena, search warrant or other lawful request for information we receive, or to otherwise protect our rights.

Behavioural Advertising

As described above, we may use your Personal Information to provide you with targeted advertisements or marketing communications we believe may be of interest to you. For example:

For more information about how targeted advertising works, you can visit the Network Advertising Initiative’s (“NAI”) educational page at https://www.networkadvertising.org/understanding-online-advertising/how-does-it-work.

You can opt out of targeted advertising by:

Additionally, you can opt out of some of these services by visiting the Digital Advertising Alliance’s opt-out portal at: https://optout.aboutads.info/.

Using Personal Information

We use your personal Information to provide our services to you, which includes: offering products for sale, processing payments, shipping and fulfilment of your order, and keeping you up to date on new products, services, and offers.

Lawful basis

Pursuant to the General Data Protection Regulation (“GDPR”), if you are a resident of the European Economic Area (“EEA”), we process your personal information under the following lawful bases:

  • Your consent;
  • The performance of the contract between you and the Site;
  • Compliance with our legal obligations;
  • To protect your vital interests;
  • To perform a task carried out in the public interest;
  • For our legitimate interests, which do not override your fundamental rights and freedoms.

Retention

When you place an order through the Site, we will retain your Personal Information for our records unless and until you ask us to erase this information. For more information on your right of erasure, please see the ‘Your rights’ section below.

Automatic decision-making

If you are a resident of the EEA, you have the right to object to processing based solely on automated decision-making (which includes profiling), when that decision-making has a legal effect on you or otherwise significantly affects you.

We do not engage in fully automated decision-making that has a legal or otherwise significant effect using customer data.

Our processor Shopify uses limited automated decision-making to prevent fraud that does not have a legal or otherwise significant effect on you.

Services that include elements of automated decision-making include:

  • Temporary blacklist of IP addresses associated with repeated failed transactions. This blacklist persists for a small number of hours.
  • Temporary blacklist of credit cards associated with blacklisted IP addresses. This blacklist persists for a small number of days.

Your rights

GDPR

If you are a resident of the EEA, you have the right to access the Personal Information we hold about you, to port it to a new service, and to ask that your Personal Information be corrected, updated, or erased. If you would like to exercise these rights, please contact us through the contact information above.

Your Personal Information will be initially processed in Ireland and then will be transferred outside of Europe for storage and further processing, including to Canada and the United States. For more information on how data transfers comply with the GDPR, see Shopify’s GDPR Whitepaper: https://help.shopify.com/en/manual/your-account/privacy/GDPR.

Cookies

A cookie is a small amount of information that’s downloaded to your computer or device when you visit our Site. We use a number of different cookies, including functional, performance, advertising, and social media or content cookies. Cookies make your browsing experience better by allowing the website to remember your actions and preferences (such as login and region selection). This means you don’t have to re-enter this information each time you return to the site or browse from one page to another. Cookies also provide information on how people use the website, for instance whether it’s their first time visiting or if they are a frequent visitor.

We use the following cookies to optimize your experience on our Site and to provide our services.

Cookies Necessary for the Functioning of the Store

Name

Function

Duration

_ab

Used in connection with access to admin.

2y

_secure_account_session_id

Used to track a user's session for new customer accounts

30d

_secure_session_id

Used in connection with navigation through a storefront.

24h

_shopify_country

For shops where pricing currency/country set from GeoIP, that cookie stores the country we've detected. This cookie helps avoid doing GeoIP lookups after the first request.

session

_shopify_m

Used for managing customer privacy settings.

1y

_shopify_tm

Used for managing customer privacy settings.

30min

_shopify_tw

Used for managing customer privacy settings.

2w

_storefront_u

Used to facilitate updating customer account information.

1min

_tracking_consent

Tracking preferences.

1y

c

Used in connection with checkout.

1y

cart

Used in connection with shopping cart.

2w

cart_currency

Set after a checkout is completed to ensure that new carts are in the same currency as the last checkout.

2w

cart_sig

A hash of the contents of a cart. This is used to verify the integrity of the cart and to ensure performance of some cart operations.

2w

cart_ts

Used in connection with checkout.

2w

cart_ver

Used in connection with shopping cart.

2w

checkout

Used in connection with checkout.

4w

checkout_token

Used in connection with checkout.

1y

customer_account_locale

Used in connection with new customer accounts

1y

dynamic_checkout_shown_on_cart

Used in connection with checkout.

30min

hide_shopify_pay_for_checkout

Used in connection with checkout.

session

keep_alive

Used in connection with buyer localization.

2w

master_device_id

Used in connection with merchant login.

2y

previous_step

Used in connection with checkout.

1y

discount_code

Used in connection with checkout.

session

remember_me

Used in connection with checkout.

1y

secure_customer_sig

Used to identify a user after they sign into a shop as a customer so they do not need to log in again.

1y

shopify_pay

Used in connection with checkout.

1y

shopify_pay_redirect

Used in connection with checkout.

30 minutes, 3w or 1y depending on value

storefront_digest

Stores a digest of the storefront password, allowing merchants to preview their storefront while it's password protected.

2y

tracked_start_checkout

Used in connection with checkout.

1y

checkout_session_lookup

Used in connection with checkout.

3w

checkout_prefill

Used in connection with checkout.

5m

 

 

 

 

 

 

checkout_queue_token

Used in connection with checkout.

1y

 

 

 

checkout_queue_checkout_token

Used in connection with checkout.

1y

 

 

 

checkout_worker_session

Used in connection with checkout.

3d

 

 

 

checkout_session_token

Used in connection with checkout.

3w

checkout_session_token_<<token>>

 Used in connection with checkout.

3w

cookietest

Used to ensure our systems are working correctly

1m

 

 

 

order

Used in connection with order status page.

3w

identity-state

Used in connection with customer authentication

24h

identity-state-<<token>>

Used in connection with customer authentication

24h

identity_customer_account_number

Used in connection with customer authentication

12w

card_update_verification_id

Used in connection with checkout.

20m

customer_account_new_login

Used in connection with customer authentication

20m

customer_account_preview

Used in connection with customer authentication

7d

customer_payment_method

Used in connection with checkout.

1h

customer_shop_pay_agreement

Used in connection with checkout.

20m

pay_update_intent_id

Used in connection with checkout.

20m

localization

Used in connection with checkout.

2w

profile_preview_token

Used in connection with checkout.

5m

login_with_shop_finalize

Used in connection with customer authentication

5m

preview_theme

Used in connection with the theme editor

session

shopify-editor-unconfirmed-settings

Used in connection with the theme editor

16h

wpm-test-cookie

Used to ensure our systems are working correctly.

session

Reporting and Analytics

 

Name

Function

Duration

 

Name

Function

Duration

_landing_page

Track landing pages.

2w

_orig_referrer

Track landing pages.

2w

_s

Shopify analytics.

30min

_shopify_d

Shopify analytics.

session

_shopify_fs

Shopify analytics.

30min

_shopify_s

Shopify analytics.

30min

_shopify_sa_p

Shopify analytics relating to marketing & referrals.

30min

_shopify_sa_t

Shopify analytics relating to marketing & referrals.

30min

_shopify_y

Shopify analytics.

1y

_y

Shopify analytics.

1y

_shopify_ga

Shopify and Google Analytics.

session

customer_auth_provider

Shopify analytics.

session

customer_auth_session_created_at

Shopify analytics.

session

shop_analytics

Shopify analytics.

1y

unique_interaction_id

Shopify analytics.

10min

The length of time that a cookie remains on your computer or mobile device depends on whether it is a “persistent” or “session” cookie. Session cookies last until you stop browsing and persistent cookies last until they expire or are deleted. Most of the cookies we use are persistent and will expire between 30 minutes and two years from the date they are downloaded to your device.

You can control and manage cookies in various ways. Please keep in mind that removing or blocking cookies can negatively impact your user experience and parts of our website may no longer be fully accessible.

Most browsers automatically accept cookies, but you can choose whether or not to accept cookies through your browser controls, often found in your browser’s “Tools” or “Preferences” menu. For more information on how to modify your browser settings or how to block, manage or filter cookies can be found in your browser’s help file or through such sites as: www.allaboutcookies.org.

Additionally, please note that blocking cookies may not completely prevent how we share information with third parties such as our advertising partners. To exercise your rights or opt-out of certain uses of your information by these parties, please follow the instructions in the “Behavioural Advertising” section above.

Do Not Track

Please note that because there is no consistent industry understanding of how to respond to “Do Not Track” signals, we do not alter our data collection and usage practices when we detect such a signal from your browser.

Changes

We may update this Privacy Policy from time to time in order to reflect, for example, changes to our practices or for other operational, legal, or regulatory reasons.

Complaints

As noted above, if you would like to make a complaint, please contact us by e-mail or by mail using the details provided under “Contact” above.

If you are not satisfied with our response to your complaint, you have the right to lodge your complaint with the relevant data protection authority. You can contact your local data protection authority, or our supervisory authority here: https://ico.org.uk/make-a-complaint/

Last updated: 11th April 2024