privacy policy

Who are we?

Our website address is: https://shop.trustmyscience.com..

“TMS - The Shop is an online store selling entertainment and useful items on the subject of science and technology.

Cookies

1. Browser cookies

Cookies are pieces of information placed on your device by a website when you visit that site. Cookies may involve the transmission of information, either between you and us, or to a third party on our part or to a third party in accordance with its own privacy policy. We may use cookies to aggregate the information we collect about you. You can set your device so that it informs you each time a cookie is sent to you. You can also choose to disable all cookies. You can do this in your browser settings. If you disable cookies, you will no longer have access to many features that make your experience as a customer easier and some of our services will not function properly. Please see the latter part of these Cookie Terms for more information on how to manage or disable browser cookies.

We use several types of cookies and each of them performs different functions. You can learn more about cookies and their functions in general by visiting an information site such as allaboutcookies.org.

Cookie settings

2. Flash cookies

We may use local shared objects, sometimes known as Flash cookies, to remember your preferences or to display content based on what you are viewing on our site in order to personalize your visit. Our advertisers and third-party service providers may also use Flash cookies to collect and store data. Flash cookies differ from browser cookies because of the amount, type and manner of storing data. The cookie management tools available on your browser will not delete Flash cookies. Please see the last section of these Cookie Terms for information on how to disable Flash cookies.

If you disable Flash cookies, you will no longer have access to many features that make your experience as a customer easier, and some of our services will not function properly.

What are the different types of cookies that can be used?

The cookies that can be used on this website fall into four different categories, described below. These descriptions can help you determine how you would like to interact with our websites and other online services.

3. Strictly necessary cookies

These cookies play an essential role in enabling you to navigate this website and use some of its features. Without these strictly necessary cookies, the online services you request, such as shopping carts, or invoice presentations during the validation of a purchase, cannot be provided to you.

Your consent is not required for strictly necessary cookies as they are required for us to provide you with the services requested.

4. Performance cookies

We or service providers who operate on our behalf may place performance cookies on your device. The information we collect using performance cookies is only used by us or for our benefit.

Our performance cookies collect anonymous information about how you use this website and its features. For example, our performance cookies collect information about which pages of this site you visit most frequently, whether you open or read the communications we send to you, the advertisements you watch or interact with on this website or other websites where our ads appear, and if you receive error messages. The information collected can be used to personalize your online experience by displaying content that we hope you will enjoy. Our performance cookies can also be used to limit the number of times you see the same advertisement. Our performance cookies do not collect information that can identify you personally; however, if you have an account with us, information collected by us through performance cookies may be associated with your account.

We may also allow third party advertisers to place performance cookies on your device through their advertisements on this website. The information collected by third-party performance cookies is used to determine which third-party advertisements to display, how often, and where these advertisements perform best on this website. These third-party performance cookies do not collect information that can identify you personally.

We provide you with a notice and a link to these Cookie Terms at the bottom of each page on this website. By using and continuing to use this website and its features, you agree that we and third party advertisers on this website may place performance cookies on your device.

You can delete or manage performance cookies as described in the last section of these Cookie Terms.

5. Functionality cookies

We or service providers operating on our behalf may place our functionality cookies on your device. We do not share the information collected through our functionality cookies with our advertisers or other third parties.

Our functionality cookies allow us to remember choices you make such as your preferred language, country, or other online settings. They also allow us to provide you with the personalized or enhanced features that you select. Our functionality cookies may be used to provide you with online services, or to prevent certain online services from being offered to you if you have previously indicated that you do not wish to receive them.

Our functionality cookies collect anonymous information; however, if you have an account with us, the information we collect with our functionality cookies may be associated with your account.

In some cases, we may allow an advertiser or other third party to provide you with content and other online experiences, whether on this website or on one of our online services. In this case, the third party may place its functionality cookies on your device and use them in the same way we use ours, to provide you with personalized or enhanced functionality in relation to the third party's content or experience.

By selecting personalized options, personalized settings or enhanced functionality, you consent to our and authorized third parties using functionality cookies to provide you with these personalized experiences.

If you delete these functionality cookies, any preferences or settings you have chosen will not be retained for subsequent visits.

6. Targeted advertising cookies

6.a Targeted advertising by third parties

Third party advertisers, advertising networks, data exchange companies, market analysis companies and other service providers may place targeted advertising cookies on your device.

Third-party targeted advertising cookies collect information about your browsing activities across multiple websites and online services in order to deliver relevant advertising to you on our and third-party websites and online services. Advertising networks can share this information with advertisers who use their network. The information collected through these targeted third-party advertising cookies does not identify you personally.

6.b Our targeted advertising

Our targeted advertising cookies are placed on your device by us or by service providers who operate on our behalf.

We may use these cookies on our websites and in connection with our content and the advertisements that appear on third party websites and online services to record whether you have viewed or interacted with our content or advertisements and in order to show you advertisements for products that we think will interest you. Our targeted advertising cookies collect anonymous information; however, if you have an account with us, information collected by us through our targeted advertising cookies may be associated with your account.

The organization that places the cookie whether it is a third party or ourselves is responsible for obtaining consent. When you see this icon on a third-party ad or our ad, you can click it to learn more about behavioral-targeted advertising, including how to take advantage of your control options through your browser settings. You can find more information at www.youronlinechoices.eu.ices.eu.

Registered customers, newsletters, comments

1. Registered customers

We may analyze the online activities of customers registered on our websites and online services by using cookies and other tracking technologies. Where you have opted out of receiving communications from us, we may use cookies and other tracking technologies to personalize future communications to reflect your interests.

We may also use cookies or other tracking technologies within our communications to you, for example to know if they have been read or opened or to know what content you are interacting with and what links you are following so that we can do better. match future communications to your interests.

You can opt out of receiving targeted communications from us by logging into your account and opting out of receiving marketing communications. To opt out of targeted advertising based on your online behavior on this and other websites, please follow the instructions provided above for targeted advertising.

We will not share your contact details with our third party advertisers unless you give us permission.

2. Comments

When you leave a comment on our website, the data entered in the comment form, but also your IP address and the user agent of your browser are collected to help us detect unwanted comments.

An anonymized string created from your email address also called a hash can be sent to the Gravatar service to check if you are using the latter. The Gravatar service confidentiality clauses are available here: https://automattic.com/privacy/. After validation of your comment, your profile picture will be publicly visible next to your comment.

3. Newsletter

When you sign up for our Newsletter through one of our forms, you agree to the collection of basic information such as your email address, your geographic location if provided in a third party service such as g-mail and your IP address. Among this information, only your e-mail address will be used to send you newsletters. The additional information mentioned above will only be used occasionally for improvement analysis purposes and according to a system guaranteeing your anonymity and the preservation of your data.données.

Use and transmission of your personal data

1. How long is your data stored?

If you leave a comment, the comment and its metadata are retained indefinitely. This allows subsequent comments to be recognized and approved automatically instead of leaving them in the moderation queue.

For users who register on our site if possible, we also store the personal data indicated in their profile. All users can see, edit, or delete their personal information at any time except their username. Site managers can also view and edit this information.

2. The rights you have over your data

If you have an account or if you have left comments on the site, you can request to receive a file containing all the personal data that we hold about you, including those that you have provided to us. You can also request the deletion of personal data concerning you. This does not take into account data stored for administrative, legal or security reasons.

Transmission of your personal data

Visitor comments can be checked using an automated spam detection service.

Disabling / enabling cookies through your browser

There are a number of ways you can manage cookies and other tracking technologies. You can accept or decline cookies by changing your browser settings, or have your browser ask you for confirmation before accepting a cookie from the websites you visit. Please be aware that if you choose to completely disable cookies, you may not be able to use all of our interactive features.

If you are using multiple computers in different locations, you will need to make sure that each of the browsers is set to suit your preferences.

If you are not using any of the browsers mentioned above, you will need to select the cookies option in the Help function to obtain information regarding the location of your cookie folder.

Delete Flash cookies

Click here to change your settings related to Flash cookies.