Privacy policy
MUSLIM BAZAAR PRIVACY POLICY
Muslim Bazaar ("Muslim Bazaar," "we," "us," or "our") operates an online marketplace through www.muslimbazaar.us (the "Site"). This Privacy Policy explains how we collect, use, disclose, retain, and protect personal information when you visit the Site, create an account, communicate with us, purchase products, participate in a school or organization program, or otherwise use our services.
By using the Site, you acknowledge the practices described in this Privacy Policy. Where applicable law requires consent, we will request it separately. Consent to marketing communications is not a condition of purchase.
1. INFORMATION WE COLLECT
We may collect the following categories of information:
Information you provide directly
• Name, billing address, shipping address, email address, and telephone number.
• Account credentials and account preferences.
• Order information, including products, sizes, quantities, prices, discounts, delivery or pickup choices, returns, and exchanges.
• Communications with customer support, vendors, schools, organizations, or other program partners.
• Reviews, survey responses, and other content you choose to submit.
• School- or organization-related information, such as the participating school or organization, student name, grade, homeroom, program affiliation, or uniform size, when you choose to provide it or when reasonably necessary to complete an order.
Payment information
Payments may be processed by third-party payment providers. Depending on the payment method, those providers may collect payment-card, bank-account, billing, authentication, and fraud-prevention information. Muslim Bazaar may receive limited payment information, such as payment status, transaction identifiers, card type, and the last four digits of a card. We do not intend to store complete payment-card numbers unless expressly stated and handled in accordance with applicable payment-security requirements.
Information collected automatically
When you use the Site, we and our service providers may automatically collect information such as your IP address, browser type, device type, operating system, referring pages, pages viewed, search activity, approximate location derived from IP address, timestamps, cookie identifiers, and interactions with the Site or our communications.
Information from other sources
We may receive information from marketplace vendors, participating schools or organizations, payment processors, shipping and delivery providers, analytics providers, fraud-prevention providers, social-login providers, and other parties involved in providing our services.
2. HOW WE USE INFORMATION
We may use personal information to:
• Create and manage customer accounts.
• Process payments, transactions, orders, discounts, returns, refunds, and exchanges.
• Manufacture, prepare, verify, fulfill, ship, deliver, or coordinate pickup of products.
• Operate our marketplace and connect customers with the vendor responsible for an ordered product.
• Administer school, organization, uniform, group-purchase, and similar programs.
• Verify school affiliation, grade, program eligibility, approved products, or discount eligibility when necessary.
• Communicate about orders, availability, delivery, pickup, sizing, exchanges, returns, and customer-service matters.
• Personalize and improve the Site, products, services, and customer experience.
• Detect, investigate, and prevent fraud, unauthorized transactions, security incidents, abuse, and violations of our terms.
• Maintain business, tax, accounting, warranty, dispute, and compliance records.
• Comply with law, legal process, and lawful governmental requests.
• Protect the rights, safety, property, and security of customers, vendors, participating organizations, Muslim Bazaar, and others.
• Send marketing communications where permitted by law and consistent with your communication preferences.
3. MARKETPLACE VENDORS AND SERVICE PROVIDERS
Muslim Bazaar is a marketplace. When you order a product offered or fulfilled by a marketplace vendor, we may provide that vendor with the information reasonably necessary to process, prepare, fulfill, deliver, support, return, or refund the order. This may include your name, contact information, shipping or pickup information, order number, products, sizes, quantities, customer instructions, and relevant order status.
We may also disclose information to service providers that perform services on our behalf, including payment processing, website hosting, cloud storage, order management, communications, analytics, fraud prevention, security, shipping, delivery, accounting, and customer support. These parties may use personal information only for the services they provide to us or as otherwise permitted by law.
We do not sell personal information for money. We also do not authorize marketplace vendors to use customer information received through Muslim Bazaar for unrelated marketing unless the customer has separately consented or applicable law otherwise permits it.
4. SCHOOL AND ORGANIZATION ORDERS
Muslim Bazaar works with participating schools and organizations to offer uniforms and related products. When you purchase a product associated with a participating school or organization, we may share limited order information with that school or organization when reasonably necessary to:
• Verify school, grade, or program affiliation.
• Confirm approved uniform products, eligibility, or program requirements.
• Administer program pricing or discounts.
• Manufacture, prepare, verify, or fulfill the order.
• Coordinate pickup, delivery, or distribution.
• Confirm order, fulfillment, or payment status.
• Resolve sizing, shortage, exchange, return, delivery, or other order-related concerns.
• Provide customer support and maintain appropriate program records.
Information shared may include the purchaser's name, email address, telephone number, order number, ordered products, sizes, quantities, student name, grade, homeroom or program affiliation when provided, payment status, and pickup, delivery, exchange, or return status.
Muslim Bazaar does not share complete payment-card numbers, bank-account details, account passwords, or information about unrelated purchases with a participating school or organization.
Participating schools and organizations are expected to use the information for legitimate order and program-administration purposes and to protect it appropriately. A participating school or organization may have its own privacy practices. Questions about its independent handling of information should be directed to that school or organization.
5. CHILDREN'S INFORMATION
The Site and customer accounts are intended for adults, including parents and legal guardians. Children under 13 may not independently create an account, place an order, or submit personal information through the Site.
A parent or legal guardian may provide limited information about a child, such as the student's name, school, grade, homeroom, program affiliation, or uniform size, when reasonably necessary to purchase or receive school-related products. We use and disclose that information only for order processing, fulfillment, delivery or pickup, school-program administration, customer support, safety, fraud prevention, legal compliance, and related operational purposes.
If you believe a child submitted personal information without appropriate parental authorization, or if you are a parent or legal guardian seeking access to, correction of, or deletion of a child's information, contact us at support@muslimbazaar.us. We will review the request subject to identity verification and any legal, security, transaction-record, or record-retention requirements.
6. OTHER WAYS WE MAY DISCLOSE INFORMATION
In addition to the disclosures described above, we may disclose information:
• To professional advisers, auditors, insurers, and financial institutions where reasonably necessary.
• To comply with applicable law, subpoenas, court orders, legal process, or lawful governmental requests.
• To investigate or prevent fraud, security threats, illegal activity, or violations of our policies.
• To protect the rights, safety, property, and security of Muslim Bazaar, our customers, vendors, participating organizations, or others.
• In connection with a merger, financing, acquisition, reorganization, sale of assets, bankruptcy, or similar business transaction, subject to appropriate safeguards.
• At your direction or with your consent.
We may use and disclose aggregated or de-identified information that does not reasonably identify an individual, subject to applicable law.
7. COOKIES AND SIMILAR TECHNOLOGIES
We and our service providers may use cookies, pixels, tags, web beacons, local storage, scripts, and similar technologies to:
• Keep the Site and shopping cart functioning.
• Remember account, language, and preference settings.
• Authenticate users and help prevent fraud.
• Understand Site traffic, performance, and usage.
• Measure communications and advertising.
• Personalize content or offers where permitted.
You may control certain cookies through your browser or device settings and, when available, through our cookie controls. Blocking some cookies may prevent portions of the Site from functioning correctly.
8. COMMUNICATIONS
Transactional communications
We may use your email address or telephone number to send information about your account, orders, payments, delivery, pickup, returns, exchanges, security, or customer-support requests. These communications are necessary to provide requested services and are not promotional messages.
Email marketing
Where permitted, we may send news, product information, or promotional offers. You may unsubscribe through the link provided in a marketing email. Unsubscribing from marketing does not stop necessary transactional communications.
SMS communications
If you separately opt in, you agree to receive automated informational or marketing text messages from Muslim Bazaar at the telephone number provided. Consent is not a condition of purchase. Message frequency varies. Message and data rates may apply. Reply STOP to cancel and HELP for assistance. We may send one final message confirming an opt-out. Mobile information collected for an SMS program will not be sold or shared with third parties for their own marketing or promotional purposes. We may share it with providers that help us deliver and support the messaging program.
9. DATA SECURITY
We use reasonable administrative, technical, and physical safeguards designed to protect personal information. These may include encrypted transmission, access controls, account-security measures, monitoring, and restrictions on access to information.
No system or method of transmission is completely secure. You are responsible for maintaining the confidentiality of your password and for notifying us if you believe your account or information has been compromised.
10. DATA RETENTION
We retain personal information for as long as reasonably necessary for the purposes described in this Privacy Policy, including to provide services, maintain transaction and tax records, process returns and warranties, resolve disputes, enforce agreements, prevent fraud, and comply with legal obligations. Retention periods vary depending on the type of information, the relationship involved, and applicable requirements. When information is no longer reasonably required, we may delete, de-identify, or securely dispose of it.
11. YOUR PRIVACY CHOICES AND REQUESTS
Depending on where you live and subject to applicable exceptions, you may have the right to request access to, correction of, or deletion of certain personal information, or to receive information about how it has been used or disclosed.
You may update certain account information by signing into your account. You may also submit a privacy request to support@muslimbazaar.us. We may need to verify your identity and authority before completing a request. We may retain information when required or permitted for transactions, taxes, security, fraud prevention, disputes, or legal compliance.
12. THIRD-PARTY LINKS AND SERVICES
The Site may link to websites, applications, payment services, social platforms, or services operated by third parties. Their privacy practices are governed by their own policies. Muslim Bazaar is not responsible for the privacy or security practices of services we do not control.
13. INTERNATIONAL USERS
Muslim Bazaar is based in the United States. If you access the Site from another country, your information may be transferred to, stored in, and processed in the United States or other locations where our service providers operate, subject to applicable law.
14. CHANGES TO THIS PRIVACY POLICY
We may update this Privacy Policy periodically. We will post the revised version on this page and update the "Last Updated" date. If required by law, we will provide additional notice or request consent before a material change takes effect.
15. CONTACT US
Questions, concerns, and privacy requests may be directed to:
Muslim Bazaar
1045 W. Golf Road
Hoffman Estates, Illinois 60169
United States
Email: support@muslimbazaar.us
Website: https://www.muslimbazaar.us/
IMPORTANT IMPLEMENTATION NOTE FOR MUSLIM BAZAAR
This note is for the site administrator and should not be published as part of the Privacy Policy:
For school-uniform products, display a concise privacy notice on the product page and immediately above the Place Order button. Require an unchecked acknowledgment at checkout stating that limited order information may be shared with the participating school for verification, fulfillment, distribution, support, and program administration. Link that notice to Section 4 of this Privacy Policy.
This draft is practical business guidance and should be reviewed by qualified privacy counsel to confirm that it accurately reflects Muslim Bazaar's technology, vendors, data flows, retention practices, advertising tools, applicable state laws, and school agreements.
