Who we are
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Meiqi Toys is committed to providing you with a satisfying shopping experience. We are constantly striving to better understand and present to you the information about our products and services that are most helpful to you. To assist us in this process, we will collect information about you through your online shopping experiences. This Privacy Statement describes the types of information we collect and how we use it. By using our website, https://meiqitoys.shop (“the Site”), you consent to the use of the information you provide to us in accordance with this Privacy Statement. We will update this Privacy Statement from time to time, and we recommend that you review it regularly. If we make significant changes to the Privacy Statement, we will inform you of such changes by posting a notice on the website and/or contacting you at the email address you provided. Your continued use of the Site will be deemed as your agreement to the use of your information in accordance with the new policy. If you do not agree with these changes, you should stop using the Site and notify us that you do not wish your information to be used in accordance with the changed policy.
What Personal Information Do We Collect?
Some of the information we collect from you is considered personally identifiable information (“Personal Information”). Personal Information refers to information that can be used, either alone or in combination with other information, to identify an individual.
In this Privacy Statement, we will list the circumstances under which we collect Personal Information and the types of Personal Information we collect. We will also explain how we use, share, and protect Personal Information. When you engage in any of the following activities, it means that you agree to our collection, use, and sharing of your Personal Information in the manner described in this Privacy Statement.
Where and When Do We Collect Information?
We will collect Personal Information from you when you engage in the following activities:
- When you access our website, https://meiqitoys.shop (“the Site”), through any device, such as a desktop computer, mobile device, or tablet.
- When you make an online purchase through our website.
- When you register and create an account on our website.
- When you contact us by phone, send us an email, submit a product review, or fill out a form on our website.
- When you sign up for our email or SMS service to receive offers, news, and tips.
- When you contact us regarding a return.
- When you contact our help center.
- If we have a rewards or loyalty program and you enroll in it.
- When a user rates or writes a review of a product on our website.
- When you register a product through our website.
- When you upload content such as photos and comments to our website or any of our social media sites (“Social Media”).
- When you participate in any of our programs and promotions, or respond to a survey or questionnaire.
- When you click on or interact with Meiqi Toys content displayed on a third-party website, mobile site, or social networking site.
What Personal Information Do We Collect?
The Personal Information we collect may include:
- Details of your visits to our website and the resources you access, including but not limited to traffic data, location data, weblogs, and other communication data, such as your IP address, the date and time you accessed or left the website, and the pages you viewed. Some parts of our website use cookies and other technologies to collect this information about your general internet usage. For more details, please refer to the section below, “How We Use Cookies”.
- Information you provide directly to us by filling out forms on our website, such as your name, address, date of birth, email address, telephone number, and social media account.
- Details of the products you purchase through our website, as well as your name, address, telephone number, and email address. We do not collect or store your payment card data. Your payments are processed by a third party.
- Photos, comments, opinions, and other information you share with us through our website and social media.
- Information you provide directly to us when you review our products, such as a nickname, location, email address, gender, and age.
- If you create an account with us, we may collect your name, email address, and password.
- If you enroll in our loyalty program, you may provide us with your full name, email address, address, and birthday.
- By submitting a telephone number to Meiqi Toys, you consent to Meiqi Toys’ representatives contacting you at the number you provided, possibly using automated technology (including text/SMS messages) or a pre-recorded message. Your consent is not a prerequisite for receiving any of our products.
How We Use Cookies
We may use cookies to identify your device. A cookie is a small data file saved on your internet browser or device’s hard drive that tracks the websites you have visited. Cookies enable us to retain the contents of your shopping cart during your visits and identify you when you visit our website again. We also use cookies to measure website activities, which helps us determine which areas and features of our website are the most popular. This information helps us improve and update our website, provide customized viewing options and pre-fill forms, and compile statistics on website activities to enhance security or reduce fraud.
If you do not enable cookies, certain parts of the website, such as your shopping account, will not function properly. You can set your browser to reject cookies or receive a reminder when cookies are being sent. If you turn off or reject cookies, you will not be able to make a purchase from the website, and we will not be able to identify you as a registered user, preventing you from accessing your account information. To enable or disable cookies on your browser, please refer to your browser’s documentation or contact your software provider.
We do not track users across time or across different websites.
We may use other automatic collection technologies, such as web beacons, matching scripts, and pixel tags. These technologies allow us to collect information such as whether you have visited a specific web page, whether you have opened an email we sent you, or whether you have clicked on a link we provided.
We do not use Flash cookies on our website.
How Do We Use and Share Personal Information?
We use Personal Information to improve and enhance your shopping experience in the following ways:
- To respond to your inquiries and improve our customer service.
- To communicate with you about our products, services, offers, promotions, news, and events that may be of interest to you.
- To provide you with the opportunity to complete a survey or questionnaire about our company or products.
- To assist us in developing and improving our website and social media.
- To customize and display advertisements and offers for you based on your search history, the information you provide, your activities on our website or social media, or your activities on third-party websites and social media.
- To manage rewards and/or loyalty programs and promotions.
- To support and improve our internal business processes and functions, such as product fulfillment, marketing, authentication, customer service, security, fraud prevention, safety, and legal matters.
- To conduct data analysis and research, develop new products, identify trends, and evaluate the effectiveness of promotional activities.
We may share Personal Information with third-party service providers in the following ways:
- When it is necessary to authorize credit card transactions through our payment processors (such as [specific payment processor name]) to process your payments, fulfill your orders, and create personalized items that you purchase from us.
- To assist in operating our business, such as website hosting, fraud screening, data analysis, information technology, customer service, email sending, and auditing.
- To manage rewards and/or loyalty programs, promotions, incentives, payment plans, offers, and/or any other benefits for our customers.
- To collect user ratings or reviews of products on our website.
- To protect our rights and the rights of our users and to comply with legal obligations, such as responding to subpoenas or other requests from government entities.
- To investigate, prevent, or take action against potential or suspected illegal activities, fraud, threats to personal safety, or violations of our terms and conditions.
- To conduct marketing activities or targeted advertising.
- When we are contractually obligated to disclose it.
- In the manner to which you have given your consent.
- To evaluate or conduct a merger, divestiture, restructuring, reorganization, dissolution, or other sale or transfer of some or all of our assets, either as a going concern or as part of bankruptcy, liquidation, or similar proceedings, where the Personal Information we hold about our website users is among the assets being transferred.
If we disclose Personal Information for a purpose specified herein, we will enter into a contract with the third party that describes the purpose and requires the third-party recipient to keep the Personal Information confidential and not use it for any purpose other than fulfilling the contract.
We will not use the Personal Information we have collected for purposes that are materially different, unrelated, or incompatible without notifying you and/or updating this Privacy Statement.
Any information you share with us by posting it on public areas of our website and social media may be seen by others.
We may share Personal Information with reputable third-party organizations for the purpose of contacting consumers for marketing and promotional activities. Third-party contacts with our customers will only be initiated by postal mail. We may also cooperate with third parties to display targeted internet-based advertisements to you. For more details, please refer to the following.
Special Notice Regarding Interest-Based Advertising
Some websites may belong to interest-based advertising networks that collect and use your browsing history across different websites to determine which advertisements to display to you on their websites. Meiqi Toys may participate in interest-based advertising to enhance your customer experience. We may also use the information collected through interest-based advertising to improve our customer service and provide you with communications and promotions from us or others.
You can opt out of receiving interest-based advertising by following these links:
- [Specific Link 1]
- [Specific Link 2]
We may also use your information for targeted advertising. This means that when you interact with our website, content, or services and/or products, we may use the information you provide to us to display interest-based advertisements. Interest-based advertisements, sometimes also referred to as personalized or targeted advertisements, are displayed to you based on information from activities such as purchases made on our website or visits to specific pages of our website. Advertisers or advertising companies working on our behalf may sometimes use technology to directly send the advertisements displayed on our website to your browser. When this happens, these third parties will automatically receive your IP address. They may also use cookies to measure the effectiveness of their advertisements and personalize the advertisement content. We do not have access to or control over the cookies or other features that advertisers and third-party websites may use, and the information handling practices of these advertisers and third-party websites are not covered by our Privacy Statement.
We will not use your information to target, segment, or profile individuals based on health conditions (including pregnancy), negative financial status, political affiliation or beliefs, race or ethnicity, religious or philosophical beliefs, sexual life or sexual orientation, union membership, data related to alleged or actual commission of a crime, or for any illegal or discriminatory purposes, or in a manner that is inconsistent with your reasonable expectations of privacy.
If you opt out, you may still see our advertisements or receive communications from us, but they will no longer be based on your interests. You may also not be able to participate in certain activities or receive promotions customized for you.
If you are a resident of California, please refer to the following for more detailed information about your choices regarding the use of your personal information.
Special Notice Regarding Our Toy Showcase Gallery
Our Toy Showcase Gallery provides you with the opportunity to share images that inspire play. When you voluntarily share an image in our gallery, we and our gallery service provider will collect the image, your social media account, and the caption you add to the image. We may post this information on our Toy Showcase Gallery, other pages of our website, and our social media. We may also publish this information in our product catalogs, email marketing materials, point-of-sale store materials, and other promotional and marketing materials. By choosing to share this information, you agree to the terms of this Privacy Statement, our Terms of Use, and the terms and conditions related to the Toy Showcase.
If you do not want others to see such information, please do not upload the information to our gallery.
If you change your mind and do not want us to use the information you have already shared with us, you can contact us here.
How Do We Protect Personal Information?
We use industry-standard security technologies on our website to help protect the Personal Information we collect. The Personal Information we collect is stored on servers that are protected using Secure Socket Layer (SSL) encryption software.
Certain versions of browsers and some firewalls do not allow communication through secure servers. In such cases, you will not be able to connect to our server, and thus will not be able to place an order through a secure connection.
It is not possible to guarantee that data transmitted over the internet or via mobile devices is completely secure. Third parties beyond our control may intercept or access the transmitted content or private communications unlawfully. Although we strive to protect your Personal Information, neither Meiqi Toys nor any of our service providers can ensure or warrant the security of any information you transmit to us over the internet. Any such transmission is at your own risk.
Meiqi Toys will not request you to provide Personal Information by sending email requests. Therefore, if you receive an email that appears to be from Meiqi Toys and asks for your Personal Information (such as your name, address, or credit card number), do not reply. The email may be a phishing attempt to steal your Personal Information.
What Are Your Choices?
You may receive emails, SMS messages (with prior express written opt-in), or other communications from us or our marketing partners containing information about our products, services, offers, promotions, news, and tips. You can opt out of receiving these messages in the following ways:
- By clicking on the “unsubscribe” link contained in the emails you receive.
- By replying “STOP” to any SMS message you receive, or by sending an SMS with the word “STOP” to [specific number].
- By sending an email to [email protected] or calling 1 – [specific telephone number] to contact us.
If you opt out of receiving emails or SMS messages from us, we may still retain your Personal Information for record-keeping and internal research and analysis, but we will not contact you with marketing communications.
For most browsers, you can disable cookies on your web browser by referring to the “Help” menu option on the toolbar. If you reject or disable cookies, you may still see advertisements or receive communications from us, but they will no longer be based on your interests.
Third Parties and Linked Services
Meiqi Toys products are available for sale in many retailers, specialty stores, and department stores, which have their own websites, mobile applications, and social media websites. Our website and social media may contain links to these retailers, or to the websites and social media pages of other third parties (such as advertisers or co-branding partners). We may cooperate with professional third-party services to process your payment information for online orders. The information collected by these third parties will not be provided to Meiqi Toys, and we are not responsible for the collection, use, and disclosure of such information. If you have any questions about the privacy policy of a third party, please contact them directly. By accessing these third-party websites through our website, you consent to the terms and privacy policies of these websites. Meiqi Toys does not assume any responsibility or liability for their policies, as we have no control over them.
Retention of Personal Information
We will retain Personal Information for the period necessary to fulfill the purposes described in this statement, unless a longer retention period is required or permitted by applicable laws or regulations.
Personal Information of Children
Our website and social media are targeted at parents and individuals who are 18 years of age or older and who purchase our products. By using our website, you affirm that you are at least 18 years old. We are not liable for any damages that may result from a user’s misrepresentation of their age.
We do not knowingly solicit or collect Personal Information from children under the age of 13 without verifiable parental consent. If we discover that a child under the age of 13 has shared Personal Information with us, we will not use that information except as necessary to protect the safety of the child and others as permitted or required by law. We will also take all reasonable measures to delete that information. If you become aware that we have collected Personal Information from a child under the age of 13, please contact us immediately using the email address or telephone number provided below.
Parents or legal guardians of children under the age of 13 cannot consent to these terms on their behalf.