Privacy Policy

Last Updated: Sep 18, 2017

This Privacy Policy ("Privacy Policy") is designed to help you understand how … collects and processes the information that you share when you use this and any of our websites (together, the "Site")

Information we collect

 

We collect information from various sources: from you, through your transactions during visits to websites; from your computer and mobile devices; from third-party sources; and from public sources.

 

When you interact with …, we collect information, including personal information, from you. Personal information is information that can be used or combined to identify you. For example, we may collect your:

 

·         name;

·         address(es) (for shipping and billing);

·         email address(es);

·         telephone/mobile phone number;

·         credit/debit card number;

·         checking account information;

·         driver’s license number;

·         precise location information

How We Use Your Information

We use your contact information for the following purposes only:

 

  • Register you as a user on our website;
  • Manage and/or maintain your user account and wish list on our website;
  • Process and deliver purchases, returns, back orders etc;
  • Communicate with you and provide customer support;
  • Let you know about products, promotions, and events that might be of special interest to you;
  • Customize our services and product offerings to suit your needs and interests;
  • Record purchases that you have made on our website;
  • Let you communicate with us through social networks and other media;
  • Allow you to post comments on our website, on social networks and other media;
  • Protect you against fraud and unauthorized transactions, including identifying potential unauthorized users and/or hackers;
  • Enforce our Terms of Use;
  • Comply with applicable legal requirements, industry standards, and our policies.

HOW SECURE IS MY CUSTOMER INFORMATION?

We have physical, technical and procedural safeguards in place to protect the personal information we collect. Also, we use Secure Socket Layering (SSL) technology to encrypt your credit or debit card information, including the account number, while it is transmitted over the Internet from your computer.  SSL is an industry standard technology for secure online transactions. We also require service providers to have safeguards in place to protect the personal information that they collect, use, share, and store on our behalf.

 

Our use of cookies and other technologies

cookies-  A cookie is a small data file stored by your web browser on your computer or device. When you arrive at our website, cookies allow us or our services providers to recognize you by an identification number in the cookie. We and our service providers use "cookies" to collect and analyze information about your browsing and buying activity on our site, whether through the Internet or mobile applications. You may use the privacy settings on your web browser to disable cookies. If so, you can still browse our websites, but you may not have as exceptional a shopping experience as one that is specifically tailored to your needs. However, if you block cookies you will not be able to make a purchase on our websites.

 

web beacons- A “web beacon” (also called a pixel tag or a clear gif) is a tiny graphic image placed on website pages and in emails, advertising, and other marketing communications that allow us and our service providers to determine whether you have performed specific actions. When you access those pages or open email messages or click on advertising, the web beacons generate a notice of that action to us or our service providers.  That information is used to analyze what our visitors like to do on our site or mobile applications, and the effectiveness of our features and advertising, as well as interactions with our e-mail and advertising.

 

wireless beacons - A wireless beacon is a small device that we may use as part of our in-store experience. Wireless beacons broadcast a signal that can be received by compatible devices, such as a mobile phone or tablet, when those devices are within the proximity of the beacon. When you choose to download the … mobile application, we and our service providers may use wireless beacons in conjunction with the … mobile application to personalize and enhance your in-store shopping experience and to understand your interests so that we can provide relevant notifications, offers, and promotions.

 

flash cookies– A flash cookie (also known as a Local Shared Object) is a persistent data file stored on your computer by the websites you visit using Adobe Flash technology. We or our service providers may use Flash cookies to enable or control Flash-based content and for other uses similar to those provided by the cookies discussed earlier in this section. You can manage the use of Flash cookies via the Settings Manager on Adobe’s website

 

analytics services - … uses third party analytics companies to collect and analyze information about how people use our websites and mobile applications, including information about browsing and buying activities. They may collect and use information from first- and third-party cookies. In addition, analytics companies also provide services that analyze information regarding visits to certain portions of … that are operated for … by third parties. They use cookies and web beacons to collect this information.

 

technology used to serve advertising: We use third-party advertising companies to serve ads (e.g. banners or links) tailored to your individual interests based on how you browse and shop on … and other sites over time, and to perform tracking and reporting functions with respect to our ads. We also allow third-party companies to collect certain information when you visit our site and to use that information to serve ads for … products or services, or the products or services of other companies when you visit our site or other sites. For instance, we and third-party vendors, such as Google, use first- and third-party cookies, pixel tags and other technologies to inform, optimize and serve ads based upon a user’s past visits to our website and to report how our ad impressions and other ad services are related to ….  We may combine and associate the information we collect through these technologies with other information we have collected from and about you. This collective information may be used, among other things, for interest-based advertising to personalize your online experience, improve our website, evaluate the effectiveness of our advertising, and to tailor our marketing to you.

 

ARE CHILDREN ALLOWED TO USE …?

… does not direct its services to persons under the age of 18. If you are under 18, you may use … only with the involvement of a parent or guardian. In accordance with the Children’s Online Privacy Protection Act of 1998, we do not solicit or knowingly collect any online information from children under the age of 13 without prior verified parental consent. If you become aware that a child has provided … with personal information without parental or guardian consent.

 

WHAT ELSE SHOULD I KNOW ABOUT MY PRIVACY?

 

You should be careful to maintain the secrecy of your passwords and/or account information and be responsible for protecting your personal information and identity whenever you are online.