Who we are
We are a family business selling crystals and mineral specimens personally sourced by us from Southern Africa. You can read more about us here. Our website address is: https://gemron.com.
How payment is processed
We do not process payment on our website. All payments are taken and processed by PayPal. When you purchase a crystal, and proceed to the checkout page, we will only ask for your billing and shipping address information and email address, which PayPal require, but nothing more than that is required by us. We do not ask for any credit card details or payment information, as we do not process any part of the payment process, which is all done by PayPal alone. When you proceed to make payment, you will be passed directly to the secure PayPal site where your purchase will be processed. None of this information is visible to us and none of it is recorded, stored or processed on our site.
What personal data we collect and why we collect it
We do not allow comments on our site, so no data is collected from comments.
We do not allow 3rd parties to upload media to our site, so no media data is collected.
Contact forms
If you contact us using our contact form, the only data we will have collected will be your email address, which we will not divulge to any 3rd parties. Your address will only be used to reply to you, should you request a reply or should a reply be necessary.
Cookies and how they benefit You
Our website uses cookies, as almost all websites do, to help provide you with the best experience we can. Cookies are small text files that are placed on your computer or mobile phone when you browse websites
Our cookies help us:
- Make our website work as you’d expect
- Make our shopping basket and checkout work
- Remember your settings during and between visits
- Improve the speed/security of the site
- Continuously improve our website for you
- We do not use cookies to collect any personally identifiable information (without your express permission)
- We do not use cookies to collect any sensitive information (without your express permission)
- We do not use cookies to pass data to advertising networks
- We do not use cookies to pass personally identifiable data to third parties
If the settings on your software that you are using to view this website (your browser) are adjusted to accept cookies we take this, and your continued use of our website, to mean that you are fine with this.
Visitor statistics cookies
We use cookies to compile visitor statistics such as how many people have visited our website, what type of technology they are using (e.g. Mac or Windows which helps to identify when our site isn’t working as it should for particular technologies), how long they spend on the site, what page they look at etc. This helps us to continuously improve our website. These so called “analytics” programs also tell us if how people reached this site (e.g. from a search engine) and whether they have been here before helping us to put more money into developing our services for you instead of marketing spend.
Turning cookies off
You can usually switch cookies off by adjusting your browser settings to stop it from accepting cookies Doing so however will likely limit the functionality of our’s and a large proportion of the world’s websites as cookies are a standard part of most modern websites
It may be that you concerns around cookies relate to so called “spyware”. Rather than switching off cookies in your browser you may find that anti-spyware software achieves the same objective by automatically deleting cookies considered to be invasive.