Privacy
Policy
Last Updated: February 28, 2023
Introduction
We respect your privacy and are committed
to protecting it through this Privacy Policy (the “Policy”). This Policy
describes the types of information we may collect from you or that you may
provide to us when you use the services offered by our Site (“Services”), as
well as our practices for collecting, using, keeping, protecting, and
disclosing that information.
Please read this
Policy carefully to understand our policies and practices regarding your
information and how we will treat it. If you do not agree with our policies and
practices, your choice is not to use the Site. By accessing or using the Site, you agree to this Policy and consent to
our collection, use, disclosure, retention, and protection of your personal
information as described in this Policy.
This Policy applies
to information we collect:
It does not apply to
information collected by:
1. Revisions To This Policy
We
reserve the right to revise, amend, or modify this Policy and our other
policies and agreements at any time and in any manner. You should periodically
check for any modifications to this Policy by re-visiting these terms. You
should note the “Last Updated” date of this Policy, which appears at the top of
this Policy. A changed “Last Updated” date indicates that this Policy has been
updated or edited, and the updated or edited version supersedes any prior
versions immediately upon posting. We will consider your continued use of the
Site after we make changes to this Policy as your acceptance of the changes, so
please check this Policy frequently for updates.
2. Are Minors Welcome?
The
Site is not intended for anyone under eighteen (18) years old. We prohibit
anyone who does not meet the age requirements from accessing the Services.
Minors must not use the Site. We do not knowingly collect or solicit any
information from or about children, minors, or anyone under eighteen (18) years
old, nor do we knowingly market to children, minors, or anyone under eighteen
(18) years old. If you are under eighteen (18) years old, you must not submit
information to us and must immediately leave the Site. If we learn that we have
collected personal information from or about a minor, we will delete that
information as quickly as possible. If you believe that we might have personal
information from or about a minor, please contact us at [email protected].
3. What
Types Of Information Do We Collect About You And How Is It Collected?
We
may collect several types of information from and about users of the Site,
including information:
·
By
which you may be personally identified, including your name, postal address,
email address, telephone number, or any other information that we collect that
is defined as personal or personally identifiable information under law
(“personal information”);
·
Information
obtained during your commercial transactions on the Site including credit and
debit card numbers, billing and shipping information, and order history;
·
That
is about you but individually does not identify you, including your age,
gender, location, and any other optional information you provide about
yourself; and
·
About
your Internet connection, IP address(es), device ID, the equipment you use to
access the Site, and usage details.
We
collect this information:
·
Directly
from you when you provide it on the Site;
·
From
your computer device or mobile phone; and
·
Automatically
as you navigate through the Site through cookies, web beacons, and other
tracking technologies.
Information
You Provide To Us
The
information we collect on or through the Site may include:
·
Information
that you provide by filling in forms associated with the Services, including
information provided at the time of registering to use the Services, signing up
for an account, engaging in commerce transactions, communicating with us,
requesting further services, or reporting a problem with the Services, such as
your social media username, password, and other access information;
·
Records
and copies of your correspondence (including but not limited to email addresses
or usernames), if you contact us;
·
Your
responses to surveys that we might ask you to complete for research purposes;
·
Details
of transactions you carry out through the Site and of the fulfillment of your
requests;
·
Your
search queries on the Site; and
·
Your
social media accounts used in connection with the Services.
Information
The Site Collects Through Automatic Data Collection Technologies
As
you navigate through and interact with the Site, we may use automatic data
collection technologies to collect certain information about your equipment,
browsing actions, and patterns, including details of your activities associated
with the Services or the resources that you access and use on the Services,
such as traffic data, location data, logs, and other communication data.
The
information we collect automatically is statistical data and does not include
personal information, but we may keep it or associate it with personal
information we collect in other ways or receive from third parties. It helps us
to improve the Services, including by allowing the Site to:
·
Estimate
the Services’ audience size and usage patterns;
·
Store
information about your preferences, thus allowing customization of the Services
according to your individual interests;
·
Speed
up your searches; and
·
Recognize
you when you return to the Services.
The
technologies we use for this automatic data collection may include:
·
Browser
Cookies. A cookie is a small file
placed on the hard drive of your browser. Your browser stores cookies in a
manner associated with each website you visit. We use cookies to enable our
servers to recognize your browser and tell us how and when you visit the Site
and use the Services. You may refuse to accept browser cookies by activating
the appropriate setting on your browser. However, if you select this setting
you may be unable to access certain parts of the Site. Unless you have adjusted
your browser setting so that it will refuse cookies, the Site’s system will
issue cookies when you direct your browser to the Site.
·
Web
Beacons. Pages of the Site
and/or our emails may contain small electronic files known as web beacons (also
referred to as clear gifs, pixel tags, and single-pixel gifs) that permit us,
for example, to count users who have visited those pages (or opened an email)
and for other related statistics (for example, recording the popularity of
certain content and verifying system and server integrity).
We
may tie this information to personal information about you that we collect from
other sources or that you provide to the Site.
Third-Party
Use Of Cookies And Other Tracking Technologies
Some
content or applications, including advertisements, on the Site may be served by
third parties, including advertisers, ad networks and servers, content providers,
and application providers. These third parties may use cookies alone or in
conjunction with web beacons or other tracking technologies to collect
information about you when you use the Site. The information they collect may
be associated with your personal information or they may collect information,
including personal information, about your online activities over time and
across different websites and other online services. They may use this
information to provide you with interest-based (behavioral) advertising or
other targeted content.
We
do not control third-party tracking technologies or how third parties use them.
If you have any questions about an advertisement or other targeted content, you
should contact the responsible provider directly.
Social
Networks And Third-Party Plug-Ins
The
Services may include plugins from social networks and other third parties. An
example of a plugin is the Facebook® “Like” button. Where legally permitted,
these plugins may communicate with and send information to the party that
provided the plugin, even if you do not click on the plugin. This information
may include your IP address, information about your browser and device, and the
address of the webpage you are visiting on the Services. Loading, using, or
clicking the plugins may also place, read, and transmit cookies. These cookies
may contain a unique identifier the social network or other third party assigns
you. The loading, functionality, and your use of the plugins are governed by
the privacy policy and terms of the party that provided the plugin.
4. How
We Use Your Information
We
may use information that we collect about you or that you provide to us,
including any personal information:
·
To
present the Site and its contents to you;
·
To
provide you with information, products, or services that you request from the
Site;
·
To
provide you with notices about your account;
·
To
carry out our obligations and enforce our rights arising from any contracts,
including but not limited to enforcement of the Terms of Service;
·
To
notify you about changes to the Services;
·
To
allow you to participate in any interactive features on the Services;
·
To
monitor and analyze trends, usage, and activities in connection with the
Services and for marketing or advertising purposes;
·
To
analyze traffic on the Site and the Sites of third parties;
·
To
investigate and prevent unauthorized access to the Services, and other illegal
activities;
·
To
personalize the Services’ content, features, or advertisements;
·
To
contact you about our own and third parties’ goods and services that may be of
interest to you;
·
To
allow the Site to display advertisements to its advertisers’ target audiences;
·
In
any other way we may describe when you provide the information;
·
To
fulfill any other purpose for which you provide it; and
·
For
any other purpose with your consent.
5. With
Whom Do We Share Your Information?
We
may disclose aggregated information about our users, and information that does
not identify any individual, without restriction.
We
may disclose personal information that we collect or that you provide as
described in this Policy:
·
To
our subsidiaries and affiliates;
·
To
contractors, service providers, and other third parties we use to support our business
and who are bound by contractual obligations to keep personal information
confidential and use it only for the purposes for which we disclose it to them;
·
To
a buyer or other successor in the event of a merger, joint venture, assignment,
divestiture, restructuring, reorganization, dissolution, or other sale or
transfer of some or all of our assets, whether as a going concern or as part of
bankruptcy, liquidation, or similar proceeding, in which personal information
held by us about our users is among the assets transferred; and
·
To
any other party with your consent.
We
may disclose your personal information when we believe the third parties listed
above need such information:
·
To
provide products or services to you;
·
To
administer the Site or other aspects of our business and Services;
·
To
provide customer service;
·
To
update account information;
·
To
forward updates, announcements, newsletters, and other communications;
·
To
respond to your communications and to communicate with you about the Site and
activities related to the Services; or
·
As
otherwise authorized by you.
6. Special
Cases
It
is our policy not to use or share the personal information about users in ways
unrelated to those described in this Policy without also providing you an opportunity
to opt out or otherwise prohibit such unrelated uses. However, we may disclose
personal information, or information regarding your use of the Services for any
reason if, in our sole discretion, we believe that it is reasonable to do so,
including:
i. To
cooperate with law enforcement authorities, government agencies, and
private-party litigants seeking information about our users to the extent
required by applicable law, or if we are legally advised to do so; examples of
such cooperation may include but are not limited to: lawful criminal, civil, or
administrative process or discovery requests, subpoenas, court orders, writs,
or reasonable request of authorities or persons with the reasonable power to
obtain such process;
ii. To
disclose information that is necessary to identify, contact, or bring legal
action against someone who may be violating our Terms of Service or other
policies;
iii.
To operate our Services properly;
or
iv. To
protect the rights, property, or safety of us, our users, or the general
public, including but not limited to disclosures for the purposes of fraud
protection and credit risk reduction.
7. What Choices Do You Have About How
We Use And Disclose Your Information?
We
strive to provide you with choices about the personal information you provide
to us. We have created mechanisms to provide you with the following control
over your information:
·
Tracking
Technologies And Advertising. You can set your browser to refuse
all or some browser cookies, or to alert you when cookies are being sent. To
learn how you can manage your other cookies, visit www.allaboutcookies.org/manage-cookies/. If you disable or refuse cookies,
please note that some parts of the Site may then be inaccessible or not
function properly.
We
do not control third parties’ collection or use of your information to serve
interest-based advertising. However, these third parties may provide you with
ways to choose not to have your information collected or used in this way.
8. Data Collection, Retention, Access,
Correction, And Removal
Where you have provided your consent to the collection,
use, and transfer of your personal data, you may have the legal right to
withdraw your consent under certain circumstances. To withdraw your consent, if
applicable, contact us at [email protected]. Please note that if you withdraw your consent, we may
not be able to provide you with a particular product or service. We will
explain the impact to you at the time to help you with your decision.
Except as otherwise permitted or required by applicable
law or regulation, we will only retain your personal data for as long as
necessary to fulfill the purposes we collected it for, including for the
purposes of satisfying any legal, accounting, or reporting requirements. Under
some circumstances, we may anonymize your personal data so that it can no longer
be associated with you. We reserve the right to use that anonymous and
de-identified data for any legitimate business purpose without further notice
to you or your consent.
In
some cases, you may access, correct, or remove your personal information by viewing,
changing, or deleting the personal information in your profile or by contacting
us at [email protected]. We may not accommodate a request to
provide, change, or remove information if we believe providing, changing, or
removing the information would violate any law or legal requirement or cause
the information to be incorrect. In the event such access, correction, or
removal request is granted, we will use our best efforts to provide, correct,
or remove any personal information under our control, subject to our discretion
and/or applicable law.
9. Our
Commitment To Data Security
We have implemented measures designed
to secure your personal information from accidental loss and from unauthorized
access, use, change, and disclosure. All information you provide to us is
stored on our secure servers behind firewalls.
Warning: The transmission of information over
the Internet is not completely secure. Although we do our best to protect your
personal information, we cannot guarantee the security of your personal
information transmitted through the Site. Any transmission of personal
information is at your own risk. We are not responsible for circumvention of
any privacy settings or security measures used by the Site.
10.
Links To Other Sites
The
Site may contain links to other websites. Please be aware that we do not
operate, control, or endorse third-party sites that may be linked on the Site,
nor are we responsible for the content or privacy practices of those other
websites. We disclaim any responsibility for the information on other websites,
and we do not make any warranties or representations that any linked sites (or
even this Site) will function without error or interruption, that defects will
be corrected, or that the linked sites and their servers are free of viruses or
other problems that may harm your computer. We encourage our users to be aware
when they leave the Site and to read the privacy statements of any other
website that collects personally identifiable information.
11. Do
Not Track Policy
Do
Not Track (“DNT”) is a privacy preference that you can set in your browser. DNT
is a way for you to inform websites and services that you do not want certain
information about your webpage visits collected over time and across websites
or online services. We are committed to providing you with meaningful choices
about the information we collect and that is why we provide you the ability to
opt out. However, we do not recognize or respond to any DNT signals as the
Internet industry works toward defining exactly what DNT means, what it means
to comply with DNT, and a common approach to responding to DNT. For more
information, visit www.allaboutdnt.com.
12. Your
California Privacy Rights
California Civil Code § 1798.83 permits
users of the Site that are California residents to request certain information
about our disclosure of personal information to third parties for their direct
marketing purposes. To make this request, please contact us at [email protected].
Further, if you are a California
resident and would like to opt out from the disclosure of your personal
information to any third party for marketing purposes, please contact us at [email protected]. Please be advised that if you opt out
from permitting your personal information to be shared, you may still receive
selected offers directly from us in accordance with California law.
The California Consumer Privacy Act of
2018 provides additional privacy rights and protections to California users;
however, these additional rights and protections do not apply to us or your use
of our Services, because we do not sell your data and/or because we do not meet
the triggers set forth in the law.
13. Your
Nevada Privacy Rights
Nevada Revised Statute Chapter 603A
provides Nevada residents who provide personal information to websites that
meet certain thresholds with certain opt-out rights. However, we currently do
not sell data triggering the opt-out right requirements in Nevada. Although we
do not currently sell data, you may submit a Nevada opt-out request by
contacting us at [email protected] which we will honor if we sell data at
a future date.
14. International
Users
This Policy is intended to cover
collection of information on or through our Site within our home jurisdiction.
Some countries may require stricter privacy policies than those described in
this document. If you are visiting our Site from such a country, please be
aware that your information may be transferred to, stored, and processed in the
country where our servers are located and our central databases are operated.
The data protection and other laws of our home jurisdiction might not be as
comprehensive as those in your country. By using our Services, you understand
that your information may be transferred to our facilities and those third
parties with whom we share it as described in this Policy. When you provide
personal information to us through the Services, you consent to the processing
of your data in, and the transfer of your data to, our home jurisdiction or any
other country in which we or our affiliates, subsidiaries, or service providers
host these Services.
15. No Third-Party Rights
This
Policy does not create rights enforceable by third parties or require
disclosure of any personal information relating to users of the Services.
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