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Privacy policy

Last Updated: June __, 2023

This Privacy Policy describes how the company identified on the website that references this privacy policy (“Company”, “we”, “us”, “our”) collects, uses and shares personal information in connection with your use of our website and our services (the “Services”).

Please read this Privacy 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 Services. By accessing or using the Services, you agree to this Privacy Policy.

This Privacy Policy may change from time to time (see Changes to this Privacy Policy). Your continued use of the Services after we make changes is deemed to be acceptance of those changes, so please check this Privacy Policy periodically for updates.

If you have any questions about our privacy practices, please contact us as set forth in the [Let’s Talk include hyperlink (and update anchor text as needed) to whatever section of the reseller’s website is going to include their contact information] section of the Site.

Personal information we collect

We collect the following types of information from users of the Services.


1. Information you provide to us:

  • Contact information, such as your first and last name, email and mailing addresses, and phone number.
  • Profile information, such as your username and password that you may set to establish an online account with us.
  • Communications that we exchange with you, including when you contact us with questions, feedback, or otherwise.
  • Payment and transactional data needed to complete your orders on or through the Services (including your payment card information, bank account number, and billing information), and your purchase history.
  • Marketing data, such as your preferences for receiving our marketing communications, and details about your engagement with such communications.

2. Third party sources. We may combine personal information we receive from you with personal information we obtain from other sources, including:

  • Public sources, such as social media platforms.
  • Marketing partners, such as companies that have entered into joint marketing relationships with us.

3. Automatic data collection. We, our advertising partners, and our service providers may automatically log information about you, your computer or mobile device, and your interaction over time with the Services, our communications and other online services, such as:

  • Device data, such as your computer’s or mobile device’s operating system type and version, manufacturer and model, browser type, screen resolution, RAM and disk size, CPU usage, device type (e.g., phone, tablet), IP address, unique identifiers (including identifiers used for advertising purposes), language settings, mobile device carrier, radio/network information (e.g., WiFi, LTE, 3G), and general location information such as city, state or geographic area.
  • Online activity data, such as pages or screens you viewed, how long you spent on a page or screen, the website you visited before browsing to the website, navigation paths between pages or screens, information about your activity on a page or screen, access times, duration of access, and whether you have opened our marketing emails or clicked links within them.

We use the following tools for automatic data collection:

  • Cookies, which are text files that websites store on a visitor‘s device to uniquely identify the visitor’s browser or to store information or settings in the browser for the purpose of helping you navigate between pages efficiently, remembering your preferences, enabling functionality, helping us understand user activity and patterns, and facilitating online advertising.
  • Local storage technologies, such as HTML5, that provide cookie-equivalent functionality but can store larger amounts of data, including on your device outside of your browser in connection with specific applications.
  • Web beacons, also known as pixel tags or clear GIFs, which are used to demonstrate that a webpage or email was accessed or opened, or that certain content was viewed or clicked.

How we use personal information

We use personal information for the following purposes:

1. Services delivery. These uses include the following:

  • Provide, operate and improve the Services;
  • Administer our loyalty or rewards program;
  • Process your payments and complete our transactions with you;
  • Communicate with you about the Services, including by sending announcements, updates, security alerts, and support and administrative messages;
  • Understand your needs and interests, and personalize your experience with the Services and our communications;
  • Provide support for the Services, and respond to your requests, questions and feedback.

2. Research and development. We may create aggregated, de-identified or other anonymous data from personal information we collect. We may use this anonymous data and share it with third parties for our lawful business purposes.

3. Marketing and advertising. We and our advertising partners may use personal information for our marketing and advertising purposes, including:

  • Direct marketing. We and our advertising partners may send you direct marketing communications as permitted by law. You may opt out of our marketing communications as described in the Opt out of marketing communications section below.
  • Interest-based advertising. We engage our advertising partners, including third party advertising companies and social media companies, to display ads on the Services and other online services. These companies may use cookies and similar technologies to collect information about your interaction (including the data described in the Automatic data collection section above) over time and across the Services, our communications and other online services, and use that information to serve online ads that they think will interest you. This is called interest-based advertising. We may also share information about our users with these companies to facilitate interest-based advertising to those or similar users on other online platforms. You can learn more about your choices for limiting interest-based advertising in the “Online tracking opt-out” section below.

4. Compliance and protection. We may use your personal information to:

  • Comply with applicable laws, lawful requests, and legal process, such as to respond to subpoenas or requests from government authorities;
  • Protect our, your or others’ rights, privacy, safety or property (including by making and defending legal claims);
  • Audit our internal processes for compliance with legal and contractual requirements and internal policies;
  • Enforce the terms and conditions that govern the Services;
  • Prevent, identify, investigate and deter fraudulent, harmful, unauthorized, unethical or illegal activity, including cyberattacks and identity theft.

How we share personal information

We may share your personal information with:

  • Affiliates. Our corporate parent, subsidiaries, and affiliates, for purposes consistent with this Privacy Policy.
  • Service providers. Companies and individuals that provide services on our behalf or help us operate the Services (such as hosting, information technology, customer support, payment processors, email delivery, and website analytics services).
  • Advertising partners. Third party advertising companies, including for the interest-based advertising purposes described above.
  • Professional advisors. Professional advisors, such as lawyers, auditors, bankers and insurers, where necessary in the course of the professional services that they render to us.
  • Authorities and others. Law enforcement, government authorities, and private parties, as we believe in good faith to be necessary for the compliance and protection purposes described above.
  • Business transferees. Acquirers and other relevant participants in business transactions (or negotiations for such transactions) involving a corporate divestiture, merger, consolidation, acquisition, reorganization, sale or other disposition of all or any portion of the business or assets of, or equity interests in, our business (including, in connection with a bankruptcy or similar proceedings).

Please keep in mind that whenever you voluntarily make your personal information available for viewing by third parties or the public on or through our Services, that information can be seen, collected and used by others. We are not responsible for any use of such information by others.

Your choices

Access to information. You may update or correct your information by accessing the account you have established with us on the Services.

Opt out of marketing communications. You may opt out of marketing-related communications by following the opt out or unsubscribe instructions contained in the marketing communication we send you.
Online tracking opt-out. There are a number of ways to limit online tracking, which we have summarized below:

  • Blocking cookies in your browser. Most browsers let you remove or reject cookies, including cookies used for interest-based advertising. To do this, follow the instructions in your browser settings. Many browsers accept cookies by default until you change your settings. For more information about cookies, including how to see what cookies have been set on your device and how to manage and delete them, visit www.allaboutcookies.org.
  • Blocking advertising ID use in your mobile settings. Your mobile device settings may provide functionality to limit use of the advertising ID associated with your mobile device for interest-based advertising purposes.
  • Using privacy plug-ins or browsers. You can block our websites from setting cookies used for interest-based ads by using a browser with privacy features, like Brave, or installing browser plugins such as Privacy Badger, Ghostery, or uBlock Origin, and configuring them to block third party cookies/trackers. You can opt out of Google Analytics by downloading and installing the browser plug-in available at: https://tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout.
  • Platform opt-outs. The following advertising partners offer opt out features that let you opt out of use of your information for interest-based advertising:
  • Advertising industry opt-out tools. You can also use these opt out options to limit use of your information for interest-based advertising by participating companies:

Note that because these opt-out mechanisms are specific to the device or browser on which they are exercised, you will need to opt out on every browser and device that you use.

Do Not Track. Some Internet browsers may be configured to send “Do Not Track” signals to the online services that you visit. We currently do not respond to “Do Not Track” or similar signals. To find out more about “Do Not Track,” please visit http://www.allaboutdnt.com.

Other sites and services

The Services may contain links to websites and other online services operated by third parties. In addition, our content may be integrated into web pages or other online services that are not associated with us. These links and integrations are not an endorsement of, or representation that we are affiliated with, any third party. We do not control websites or online services operated by third parties, and we are not responsible for their actions.

Processing of personal information in the U.S.

We are headquartered in and/or have affiliates and services providers that operate in the United States. Your personal information may therefore be processed in the United States or transferred to other locations.

Security

We employ a number of technical, organizational and physical safeguards designed to protect the personal information we collect. However, no security measures are failsafe and we cannot guarantee the security of your personal information.

Children

The Services are not intended for use by children under 13 years of age. If we learn that we have collected personal information through the Services from a child under 13 without the consent of the child’s parent or guardian as required by law, we will delete it.

Your state privacy rights

State consumer privacy laws may provide their residents with additional rights regarding use of their personal information. California`s “Shine the Light” law (Civil Code Section § 1798.83) permits users of the Services that are California residents to request certain information regarding our disclosure of personal information to third parties for their direct marketing purposes. To make such a request, please contact us as described at the top of this page.

Your european privacy rights

If you are a resident of the European Union or the United Kingdom, you are entitled to certain information and have certain rights under, respectively, the General Data Protection Regulation (Regulation (EU) 2016/679) (the “EU GDPR”) and the Data Protection, Privacy and Electronic Communications (Amendments etc.) (EU Exit) Regulations 2019 (the “UK GDPR”) (collectively, the “GDPR”). Those rights include:

  • The right of access to your information.
  • The right to rectify your information if it is incorrect or incomplete.
  • The right to have your information erased (“right to be forgotten”) if certain grounds are met.
  • The right to withdraw your consent to our processing of your information at any time (if our processing is based on consent).
  • The right to object to our processing of your information (if processing is based on legitimate interests).
  • The right to object to our processing of your information for direct marketing purposes.
  • The right to receive your information from us in a structured, commonly used and machine-readable format, and the right to transmit your information to another controller without hindrance from us (data portability).

If you are located in the European Union or the United Kingdom and you are or have been a user of the Services, we may send you marketing communications based on our legitimate interests, subject always to your right to opt out of such communications. Further, if you are located in the European Union or the United Kingdom, we will never share your information with a third party for such third party’s marketing purposes, unless you have specifically consented to us doing so.

You may contact us as described at the top of this page to exercise any of the above rights. We may request specific information from you to confirm your identity, and in some circumstances, we may charge a reasonable fee for access to your information.

Furthermore, if you believe that our processing information is inconsistent with your data protection rights under the GDPR and we have not adequately addressed your concerns, you have the right to lodge a complaint with the data protection supervisory authority of your country.

Visitors outside the United States

Company is either a U.S.-based company and/or has affiliates and services providers that operate in the United State. If you are a non-U.S. resident and provide us with your personal information, you acknowledge and agree that your personal information may be transferred to and processed in the United States, where the laws regarding processing of personal information may be less stringent than the laws in your country. By providing your information, you consent to such transfer and processing.

Changes to this privacy policy

We reserve the right to modify this Privacy Policy at any time. If we make material changes to this Privacy Policy, we will notify you by updating the date of this Privacy Policy and posting it on the website.