Privacy Policy

READING CHINA & GLASS PRIVACY POLICY

Last Updated: 5/19/2026

Thank you for using  (“Reading China & Glass,” “we”, “us” or “our”). We are committed to respecting your privacy and to protecting contact information you share with us. For that reason, we have adopted this Privacy Policy to explain our data collection, use, and disclosure practices for the Reading China & Glass services, including the https://readingchina.com/ website (the “Website”), and mobile and web-based applications, and any other tools, products, or services provided by Reading China & Glass that link to or reference this Privacy Policy) (collectively, the “Services”).

This Privacy Policy applies to information Reading China & Glass collects through the Services, as well as other information provided to us online or offline by third parties, when we associate that information with customers or users of the Services; however, it does not apply to information collected from our employees, contractors, or vendors. It also does not apply to information that you ask us to share with third parties or that is collected by certain other third parties whose software or services are featured or included in the Services (as further described below).

The following Privacy Policy describes, among other things:
• Personal and other information we collect about you;
• How we use your information;
•  How we may share your information with third parties; and
• Your choices regarding the personal information we collect about you.

1. Consent 

By accessing or using the Services, you consent to this Privacy Policy.  If you do not agree with this Privacy Policy, please do not access or use the Services. Information gathered through the Services may be transferred, used, and stored in the United States or in other countries where our service providers or we are located.  If you use the Services, you agree to the transfer, use, and storage of your Personal Information (as defined below) in those countries. The data protection and other laws of the United States and other countries might not be as comprehensive as those in your country. You understand that all transactions relating to the Services or Reading China & Glass are deemed to occur in the United States, where our servers are located.

2. Collection of Your Personal and Other Information

When you register for or use our Services, we collect Personal Information (“Personal Information”). By “Personal Information” we mean information that can identify or reasonably be linked to an individual, such as: 

• Names; 
• Personal or business addresses; 
• Email addresses;
• Phone numbers; 
• Credit card information (which you submit for payment purposes, and which is collected by our payment provider, Shopify; and
• Information contained in any image, photograph or profile you submit to us.

Our Services may link with social media platforms, including  Facebook, Instagram and Pinterest.  When you link a social media account to our Services, then we may collect information about that social media account and share information with that social media account as described in the connection process. This collected information may include, but is not limited to, your name, email address, demographic information from your profile, friend lists, postings or other content, and your profile picture.  You acknowledge and agree that Reading China & Glass is not responsible for the data collection or use practices of any such linked social media platform.  You should read each social media platform’s privacy policy before linking that social media account.

You may choose not to provide Personal Information, (subject to the controls offered by your mobile device’s operating system), but this may prevent you from receiving certain features of the Services.
We also collect non-Personal Information relating to the Services, that is, information that does not personally identify an individual (“Non-Personal Information”). The non-Personal Information we collect includes how you interact with the Services, information generally collected or “logged” by Internet websites or Internet services when accessed or used by users, and information about your web browser or device accessing or using the Services.  
Examples of the non-Personal Information we collect are:
• The pages of our Website that you viewed during a visit;
• What information, content or advertisements you view or interact with using the Services; 
• Language preferences;
• The city and state in which you are located (but not your precise geographic location); and 
• Unique identifiers that are not connected and cannot reasonably be connected to your identity.  
We will not use non-Personal Information to try to identify you, and if we associate any non-Personal Information with information that personally identifies you, then we will treat it as Personal Information. As discussed in more detail below, we sometimes use cookies and other automatic information gathering technologies to gather Personal Information and non-Personal Information. 
Information collected by the Services may be collected by us or one of the third parties we utilize in providing the Services (as further described below).

3. Use of Your Information

We may use the information we collect to:
• Assist us in providing, maintaining, and protecting the Services;
• Set up, maintain, and protect accounts to use the Services;
• Improve our online operations;
• Process transactions;
• Provide you with notifications of sales and discounts on our products; 
• Communicate with you, such as provide you with account- or transaction-related communications, or other newsletters, RSS feeds, and/or other communications relating to the Services;
• Send or display offers and other content that is customized to your interests or preferences;
• Provide you with relevant search results when you enter search queries into the search bar feature on our Website.
• Prevent fraud and other misuse;
• Perform research and analysis aimed at improving our products and services and developing new products or services;
• Provide customer service;
• Manage and maintain the systems that provide the Services; and
• Comply with our legal obligations and exercise our legal rights.
4. Disclosure of Your Information

We may disclose your Personal Information to third parties as described below.   

We may disclose Personal Information to provide the Services, or when you authorize or instruct us to do so, for example, when you use the Services to submit content or profile information. We may also disclose Personal Information and non-Personal Information to Service Providers.  By “Service Providers” we mean companies, agents, contractors, service providers, or others engaged to perform functions on our behalf (such as processing of payments, provision of data storage, hosting of our Website, marketing of our products and services, and conducting audits).   When we use a Service Provider, we require that the Service Provider use and disclose the Personal Information received from us only to provide their services to us or as required by applicable law.

We may also disclose Personal Information and Non-Personal Information to Online Tool Providers.  By “Online Tool Provider” we mean a licensor of software that we include in, or use with, the Services, including an API or SDK, which provides a specialized function or service to us and that requires the transmission of Personal Information and/or Non-Personal Information to the Online Tool Provider.  

Additionally, we may disclose Personal Information to our Payment Providers. A “Payment Provider” is a third party payment gateway provider or provider of other payment services.  Payment Providers may be regulated as financial services companies and/or subject the rules of the payment card networks. Therefore, Personal Information received by a Payment Provider may be used for its own purposes, including compliance with legal and audit obligations. You can learn more by reviewing their privacy policies: Shopify.

We may also disclose your Personal Information to third parties when we believe, in good faith and in our sole discretion, that such disclosure is reasonably necessary to (a) enforce or apply the terms and conditions of the Services, including investigation of potential violations thereof, (b) comply with legal or regulatory requirements or an enforceable governmental request, (c) protect the rights, property or safety of us, our users or other third parties, (d) submit insurance claims, cooperate with insurance investigations, and fulfil insurance subrogation activities, (e) prevent a crime or protect national security, or (f) detect, prevent or otherwise address fraud, security or technical issues.  

Finally, we reserve the right to transfer information (including your Personal Information) to a third party in the event of a sale, merger, or transfer of all or substantially all of the assets of our company relating to the Services, or in the unlikely event of a bankruptcy, liquidation, or receivership of our business. We will use commercially reasonable efforts to notify you of such transfer, for example, via email or by posting notice on our Website.

5. Cookies and Automatic Information Gathering Technologies

Every time you use the Website (e.g., access a Service webpage), we collect Personal Information and non-Personal Information (discussed above in Section 2) regarding that use.  For example, to improve our Website, we collect how, when, and which parts of the Website or its features you use, and which social media platforms you connect to the Website.  Also, we may use your device’s unique identifier or other unique identifiers to assist us in collecting and analyzing this data.

To assist us in collecting and storing this non-Personal Information, we may employ a variety of technologies, including through the use of “Cookies,” local browser storage, and “web beacons,” “pixels,” or “tags.”  A “Cookie” is a small amount of data a website operator, or a third party whose content is embedded in that website, may store in your web browser and that the website operator or, as applicable, the third party, can access when you visit the Website.  A web beacon, pixel or tag is a small, usually-transparent image placed on a web page that allows the operator of that image, which may be the operator of the website you visit or a third party, to read or write a Cookie.

Your operating system and web browser may allow you to erase information stored in Cookies and local browser storage. But if you do so, you may be forced to login to the Website again, and you may lose some preferences or settings.  You may also be able to set your browser to refuse all website storage or to indicate when it is permitted, but some features of our Website may not function properly without it. We may use Cookies to keep you logged in, save your preferences for the Website, and to collect information about how you use our Website.  

More information about managing Cookies is available here. To learn how to manage privacy and storage settings for your local browser storage, please refer to the end user documentation for your browser.

Online Tool Providers, Cookies, web beacons, pixels, tags, and similar third party technologies are collectively referred to herein as “Tracking Technologies.” Reading China & Glass uses Tracking Technologies to help Reading China & Glass identify and track visitors, their usage of our Website, and their Website access preferences. The information collected through Tracking Technologies helps us determine what areas of our Website are important to our users and to provide you with a more personalized shopping experience. The use and disclosure of Personal Information and Non-Personal Information by third-party Tracking Technologies are described in their respective privacy policies. Tracking Technologies may collect information automatically, in which case Personal Information and Non-Personal Information it receives are subject to the Tracking Technology’s privacy policy.  Some Tracking Technologies may allow you to opt out of certain collection and/or uses of your information.  For more information about the privacy practices of the Tracking Technologies that Reading China & Glass currently uses (and/or that we reserve the right to use), please see here:

• Shopify: https://www.shopify.com/legal/privacy/consumers 
• Google: https://policies.google.com/privacy (you can opt out of Google Analytics here: https://tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout).

By clicking “Accept” in the consent banner on our Website, you consent to our use of Tracking Technologies. You can also adjust your privacy settings by clicking on the “Manage preferences” button in the consent banner on our Website. If you do not consent to our use of non-essential Tracking Technologies, click “Decline” in the consent banner on our Website, or do not browse or use our Website.
6. Relationship with Shopify 

The Services are hosted by our Service Provider, Shopify, which collects and processes Personal Information about your access to and use of the Services in order to provide and improve the Services for you. Information you submit to the Services will be transmitted to and shared with Shopify as well as third parties that may be located in countries other than where you reside, in order to provide and improve the Services for you. In addition, to help protect, grow, and improve our business, we use certain Shopify enhanced features that incorporate data and information obtained from your interactions with our Store, along with other merchants and with Shopify. To provide these enhanced features, Shopify may make use of Personal Information collected about your interactions with our store, along with other merchants, and with Shopify. In these circumstances, Shopify is responsible for the processing of your Personal Information, including for responding to your requests to exercise your rights over use of your Personal Information for these purposes. To learn more about how Shopify uses your Personal Information and any rights you may have, you can visit the Shopify Consumer Privacy Policy. Depending on where you live, you may exercise certain rights with respect to your Personal Information here Shopify Privacy Portal Link.

7. Transparency and Choice; Do Not Track Signals

You may request access to your Personal Information by sending an email to  privacy@readingchina.com. We will try to locate and provide you with your Personal Information and give you the opportunity to correct this data, if it is inaccurate, or to delete it, at your request.   But, in either case, we may need to retain it for legal reasons or for legitimate business purposes. You may also remove any content that you post to the Services using the deletion or removal options within the Services.  However, we (and you) are not able to control information that you have already shared with other users or made available to third parties through the Services.   

If you need further assistance with removing any content you posted through the Services, you can email us at guestservice@readingchina.com. Removal of your posted content may not ensure complete or comprehensive removal from our computer systems. 

We ask individual users to identify themselves and the information requested to be accessed, corrected, or removed before processing such requests, and we may decline to process requests that are unreasonably repetitive or systematic, require disproportionate technical effort, jeopardize the privacy of others, would be extremely impractical (for instance, requests concerning information residing on backups), or relate to information that is not associated with your Personal Information.  In any case, where we provide information access and correction, we perform this service free of charge, except if doing so would require a disproportionate effort. We may also require you to verify your identity to our satisfaction before providing you with access to Personal Information.  

Please be aware that if you request us to delete your Personal Information, you may not be able to continue to use the Services.  Also, even if you request that we delete your Personal Information, we may need to retain certain information for a limited period of time to satisfy our legal, audit and/or dispute resolution requirements.

You can opt out of receiving marketing e-mails from us by clicking on the “unsubscribe” link in the e-mails.  Please note that it may take up to ten (10) business days for your opt-out request to be processed.  Also, even if you opt out of marketing e-mails, we may continue to send you certain account-related e-mails, such as notices about your account and confirmations of transactions you have requested.

8. Information Security

We utilize reasonable information security measures to safeguard your Personal Information against unauthorized access, modification, or destruction.  For example, we utilize Transport Layer Security (TLS), or similar encryption technology, when sensitive data is transmitted over the Internet, and use firewalls to help prevent external access into our network.  However, no data transmission over the Internet and no method of data storage can be guaranteed to be 100% secure.  Therefore, while we strive to use commercially acceptable means to protect your Personal Information, we cannot guarantee its security.

We restrict access to Personal Information in our possession to our employees, Service Providers, and Online Tool Providers who need to know that information in order to operate, develop, improve or support our Services.

9. Third Party Websites

Please note that the Services may link or integrate with third-party sites, services or apps.   We are not responsible for the privacy or security policies or practices or the content of such third parties.  Accordingly, we encourage you to review the privacy and security policies and terms of service of those third parties so that you understand how they collect, use, share and protect your information.

10. Changes to this Policy

We may modify or update this Privacy Policy periodically with or without prior notice by posting the updated policy on this page. You can always check the “Last Updated” date at the top of this document to see when the Privacy Policy was last changed.  If we make any material changes to this Privacy Policy, we will notify you by reasonable means, which may be by e-mail or posting a notice of the changes on our Website prior to the changes becoming effective.  We encourage you to check this Privacy Policy from time to time.  IF YOU DO NOT AGREE TO CHANGES TO THIS PRIVACY POLICY, YOU MUST STOP USING THE SERVICES AFTER THE EFFECTIVE DATE OF SUCH CHANGES (WHICH IS THE “LAST UPDATED” DATE OF THIS PRIVACY POLICY).

11. Questions

To ask questions about our Privacy Policy, you may contact us at:

 Reading China & Glass
100 W Rockland Road
P.O. Box 302
Montchanin, DE 19710
Email: privacy@readingchina.com
Phone: 717-393-9747