Privacy policy

 

Last updated: 05/09/2026

AFROTERIORS (“AFROTERIORS,” “we,” “us,” or “our”) operates this online store and website. This Privacy Policy explains how we collect, use, disclose, and protect personal information when you visit our website, create an account, contact us, subscribe to marketing, or purchase from us.


Information we collect

We may collect information that you provide directly, including your name, billing address, delivery address, email address, telephone number, account details, order information, customer-service messages, and any information you choose to provide when you contact us.

When you browse the website, we may automatically collect technical and usage information such as your IP address, browser type, device type, language, time zone, pages viewed, products viewed, referring website, and interactions with the site. This information may be collected through cookies, pixels, tags, logs, and similar technologies.

How we use information

We may use personal information to:

  • process, confirm, and deliver orders;
  • provide customer service and respond to enquiries;
  • manage accounts and payment-related processes;
  • detect, investigate, and prevent fraud, misuse, or security incidents;
  • improve the website, products, merchandising, and customer experience;
  • send transactional messages such as order confirmations and delivery updates;
  • send marketing communications where permitted and according to your preferences;
  • comply with legal obligations and protect our rights.


Service providers

We use Shopify to operate the online store. Shopify’s privacy information is available at Shopify’s Privacy Policy.
We may also use service providers for payment processing, delivery, fulfilment, analytics, email marketing, customer support, fraud prevention, advertising, reviews, and website functionality.

PAYMENT PROVIDERS - Shopify Payments and PayPal
CARRIERS/FULFILMENT PROVIDERS - UPS, FedEx and USPS
ANALYTICS PROVIDERS - Shopify Analytics
EMAIL/SMS PROVIDERS - Messaging
ADVERTISING PROVIDERS - Meta (Facebook & Instagram) and TikTok
REVIEW PROVIDER - None currently
CUSTOMER-SUPPORT PROVIDERS - Directly through Afroteriors/customer email


Cookies and similar technologies
We use cookies and similar technologies that are necessary for the website to function, remember preferences, maintain security, understand usage, and support marketing where enabled. Your browser may allow you to control or block cookies. Some site functions may not work correctly if necessary cookies are disabled.
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      Minors

      The Site is not intended for individuals under the age of 18. 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 below to request deletion.

      Sharing Personal Information

      We share your Personal Information with service providers to help us provide our services and fulfill 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 use your Personal Information to provide you with targeted advertisements or marketing communications we believe may be of interest to you. For example:

      • We use Shopify Analytics to help us understand how our customers use the Site. You can read more about how Shopify uses your Personal Information here: https://www.shopify.com/legal/privacy.You can also opt-out of Shopify Analytics here: https://www.shopify.com/legal/privacy#section-10.
      • We share information about your use of the Site, your purchases, and your interaction with our ads on other websites with our advertising partners. We collect and share some of this information directly with our advertising partners, and in some cases through the use of cookies or other similar technologies (which you may consent to, depending on your location).

      For more information about how targeted advertising works, you can visit the Network Advertising Initiative’s (“NAI”) educational page at http://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: http://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 - for marketing emails, SMS communications, and non-essential cookies.
      • The performance of the contract between you and the Site - for processing orders, payments, and delivery.
      • Compliance with our legal obligations - for tax records, fraud prevention, and regulatory requirements.
      • For our legitimate interests, which do not override your fundamental rights and freedoms - for analytics, improving the website and customer experience, and security, where these 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/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 denylist of IP addresses associated with repeated failed transactions. This denylist persists for a small number of hours.
      • Temporary denylist of credit cards associated with denylisted IP addresses. This denylist persists for a small number of days.

      Selling Personal Information

      Our Site sells Personal Information, as defined by the California Consumer Privacy Act of 2018 (“CCPA”).

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      Your rights

      If you are a resident of the European Economic Area (EEA), the United Kingdom, or Switzerland, you have the following rights in relation to your personal information:

      • Right of access — You have the right to request a copy of the personal information we hold about you.
      • Right to rectification — You have the right to request that we correct any inaccurate or incomplete personal information we hold about you.
      • Right to erasure — You have the right to request that we delete your personal information, subject to certain exceptions.
      • Right to restrict processing — You have the right to request that we limit the way we use your personal information.
      • Right to data portability — You have the right to receive your personal information in a structured, commonly used, and machine-readable format, and to transfer it to another controller.
      • Right to object — You have the right to object to our processing of your personal information where we rely on legitimate interests as our lawful basis.

         

      • Right to withdraw consent — Where we process your personal information based on your consent, you have the right to withdraw that consent at any time without affecting the lawfulness of processing before withdrawal.

       

       

       

       

      To exercise any of these rights, please contact us at info@afroteriors.com. We will respond to your request within 30 days.

      If you are not satisfied with our response, you have the right to lodge a complaint with your local data protection authority:

      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 below: info@afroteriors.com

      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.

      CCPA

      If you are a resident of California, you have the right to access the Personal Information we hold about you (also known as the ‘Right to Know’), 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 below 

      If you would like to designate an authorized agent to submit these requests on your behalf, please contact us at the address below: info@afroteriors.com

      Cookies

      A cookie is a small amount of information that’s downloaded to your computer or device when you visit our Site. We use several 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 optimise your experience on our Site and to provide our services.

      Cookies Necessary for the Functioning of the Store

      Name Function
      _ab Used in connection with admin access.
      _secure_session_id Used in connection with navigation through a storefront.
      cart Used in connection with shopping cart.
      cart_sig Used in connection with checkout.
      cart_ts Used in connection with checkout.
      checkout_token Used in connection with checkout.
      secret Used in connection with checkout.
      secure_customer_sig Used in connection with customer login.
      storefront_digest Used in connection with customer login.
      _shopify_u Used to facilitate updating customer account information.


      Reporting and Analytics

      Name Function
      _tracking_consent Tracking preferences.
      _landing_page Track landing pages
      _orig_referrer Track landing pages
      _s Shopify analytics.
      _shopify_fs Shopify analytics.
      _shopify_s Shopify analytics.
      _shopify_sa_p Shopify analytics relating to marketing & referrals.
      _shopify_sa_t Shopify analytics relating to marketing & referrals.
      _shopify_y Shopify analytics.
      _y Shopify analytics.

       

      Third-party cookies

      Name Provider Function
      _ttp TikTok Used for tracking ad conversions and user behaviour
      _tt_enable_cookie TikTok Used to check if the user has consented to TikTok cookie tracking
      mc_cid / mc_eid Mailchimp  Used to track email campaign clicks and attribution


      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 to reflect, for example, changes to our practices or for other operational, legal, or regulatory reasons.

      Contact

      For more information about our privacy practices, if you have questions, or if you would like to make a complaint, please contact us by e-mail at info@afroteriors.com or by mail using the details provided below:

      AFROTERIORS, 570 Garden Oaks Boulevard, Houston, Texas 77018, United States.

      Last updated: 05/09/2026

      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:

      UK: https://ico.org.uk/make-a-complaint/

      EEA: https://edpb.europa.eu/about-edpb/about-edpb/members_en

      Switzerland: https://www.edoeb.admin.ch/edoeb/en/home.html