1. Introduction

Welcome to The Women’s Marketplace. We appreciate your decision to become a vendor on our platform. As a company, we are committed to ensuring the privacy and security of all our vendors’ information. This Vendor Privacy Policy details how we collect, use, and safeguard your information as a vendor on our platform.

By becoming a vendor on our platform, you agree to the collection and use of your personal information in accordance with this policy.

2. Collecting Vendor Information

In order to set up your vendor account and enable you to sell products on our platform, we collect certain information about you. This can include your name, business name, address, email address, phone number, tax identification number, bank account details, and other necessary details.

We also collect information related to your transactions, such as sales data, product listings, customer reviews, and ratings.

3. Use of Vendor Information

We use the information collected to enable your use of our marketplace as a vendor, which includes facilitating the listing, selling, and delivery of your products. We also use this information to communicate with you, provide you with updates and information related to your vendor account, improve our platform and services, and comply with legal obligations.

4. Sharing Vendor Information

The Women’s Marketplace does not sell or share your personal information with third parties for their promotional purposes. We may share your personal information with third parties who perform services on our behalf. These third parties are prohibited from using your personal information for purposes other than to perform these services, and they are required to maintain the confidentiality of your information.

We may also disclose 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.

5. Data Security

We place a high priority on protecting and managing data in accordance with accepted standards. We maintain a variety of appropriate technical and organisational measures to ensure a level of security appropriate to the risk, including regular audits and system updates.

6. Payment and Financial Information

All payment transactions are processed through secure payment gateways. Your bank details are only used to process the transactions related to your sales, and your financial information is not stored on our servers.

7. Access to and Control Over Vendor Information

As a vendor on our platform, you have rights regarding the personal data we hold about you. You can access, correct, and delete your personal data at any time by logging into your account or contacting us directly.

You can also ask about:

• The details of your personal data that we hold.
• The purposes of the processing of your personal data.
• The categories of personal data concerned.
• The recipients to whom the personal data has been/will be disclosed.
• How long we intend to store your personal data.

8. Data Retention

We will only retain your personal data for as long as necessary to fulfil the purposes we collected it for, including for the purposes of satisfying any legal, accounting, or reporting requirements. To determine the appropriate retention period for personal data, we consider the amount, nature, and sensitivity of the personal data, the potential risk of harm from unauthorised use or disclosure of your personal data, the purposes for which we process your personal data and whether we can achieve those purposes through other means, and the applicable legal requirements.

9. Cross-border Data Transfers

Your information, including Personal Data, may be transferred to — and maintained on — computers located outside of your state, province, country, or other governmental jurisdiction where the data protection laws may differ from those in your jurisdiction. We will take all steps reasonably necessary to ensure that your data is treated securely and in accordance with this Privacy Policy.

10. Changes to this Vendor Privacy Policy

We may update our Vendor Privacy Policy from time to time. We will notify you of any changes by posting the new Vendor Privacy Policy on this page. Changes are effective when they are posted on this page. Thus, we advise you to review this page periodically for any changes.

11. Contact Us

If you have any questions about this Vendor Privacy Policy, please contact us at dpo@thewomensmarketplace.com.

12. Data Protection Officer

For any questions related to your data protection, please contact our Data Protection Officer (DPO) at [dpo@thewomensmarketplace.com].