EFFECTIVE DATE: September 16, 2014
INFORMATION WE COLLECT AND HOW WE USE IT
Personal Information We Collect About You
You may choose to provide personal information (such as your name, address, telephone number and email address) online via our websites. Listed below are the ways in which you may provide the information and the types of information that you may give to us, as well as the ways in which we may use the information.
Information Requests
If you request information about our products, we may ask you to provide details such as your name, email address, telephone number, as well as the intended use of the product in question, why you are interested in the product, etc. You may choose to provide additional comments with your request, and we will use your details to send you the information you requested and to communicate with you in the future about our products and services.
Other Communications and Promotions
From time to time, we may offer online or offline communications about our products, services and promotions. If you wish to sign up for such communications, we will ask you for information such as your name, postal address and email address. We will use the information to send you the communications you requested and to communicate with you about our products and services.
Contact Us
If choose to contact us, for example via the support link on our web site, we will receive your e-mail address and any other information you choose to include in your e-mail, which we will use to respond to your inquiry. We may also ask you for information such as your name, email address and telephone number so we can properly respond to your questions and comments. We may also use the information that you provide to evaluate the quality of our products and to communicate with you about our products and services.
Feedback, Surveys, and Contests
From time to time, we may ask you to provide feedback, participate in online surveys, solicitations, or contests. Additional information requested may include contact information (such as your e-mail address) and demographic information (such as number of family members, income ranges, etc.) Providing feedback and participation in surveys, solicitations, or contests is completely voluntary, meaning that you have a choice as to whether to disclose any information. We will use any information provided to notify contest winners and award prizes, to monitor or improve the use our sites or advertising, and to provide aggregated information for marketing analyses. This information will be used to analyze your present and future needs related to our products, to communicate with you about our products and services, and to send you further notices, promotions, solicitations, or brochures, and other marketing materials regarding our site, our products, and the services of our businesses, unless we have been notified that you do not wish to be contacted for marketing concerns. Solicitations may take the form of mailings via U.S. mail or other couriers, or e-mail (if provided).
Online Sales
Our branded merchandise may be offered for sale by an authorized merchandise partner through a website they own and control, which is linked to our site. Your purchase will be conducted on our authorized merchandise partner’s website and you should review the privacy notice and terms of use that apply to that website.
Other Features
We may offer consumers and customers various features on our websites for their information and enjoyment. These features may change from time to time. We may ask you to submit certain personal information so that we are able to use this information to provide you with these features or to communicate with you in the future about our products and services.
Other Uses of Information
We may use the personal information you provide for internal purposes, including but not limited to, administration, data analytics, and compliance with our legal obligations, policies and procedures.
INFORMATION COLLECTED BY AUTOMATED MEANS
We may collect certain information by automated means when you visit our websites, such as how many users visited our sites and the pages accessed. By collecting this information, we learn how to best tailor our websites to our visitors. We may collect this information through various means such as “cookies” and “web beacons.” We may collect IP addresses, as explained below.
Cookies
Like many companies, we may use “cookies” on our websites. Cookies are bits of text that are placed on your computer’s hard drive when you visit certain websites. We may use cookies to tell us, for example, whether you have visited us before or if you are a new visitor and to help us identify site features in which you may have the greatest interest. Cookies may enhance your online experience by saving your preferences while you are visiting a particular site.
Most browsers will tell you how to stop accepting new cookies, how to be notified when you receive a new cookie, and how to disable existing cookies. Please note, however, that without cookies you may not be able to take full advantage of all our website features.
Web Beacons
Certain pages on our websites contain “web beacons” (also know as Internet tags, pixel tags and clear GIFs). These web beacons allow third parties to obtain information such as the IP address of the computer that downloaded the page on which the beacon appears, the URL of the page on which the beacon appears, the time the page containing the beacon was viewed, the type of browser used to view the page, and the information in cookies set by the third party.
Cookies of Third Party Providers and Tracking
We use the services of other companies to optimize our websites and our services. You will receive an overview of the services we use in the following section.
Facebook Conversion Tracking Pixel
With your permission, our website utilizes the Conversion Tracking Pixel service of Facebook Inc., 1601 S. California Ave., Palo Alto, CA 94304, USA (“Facebook”). This tool allows us to follow the actions of users after they are redirected to a provider’s website by clicking on a Facebook advertisement. We are thus able to record the efficacy of Facebook advertisements for statistical and market research purposes. The collected data remain anonymous. This means that we cannot see the personal data of any individual user. However, the collected data are saved and processed by Facebook. We are informing you on this matter according to our information at this time. Facebook is able to connect the data with your Facebook account and use the data for their own advertising purposes, in accordance with Facebook’s Data Use Policy found under: https://www.facebook.com/about/privacy/. Facebook Conversion Tracking also allows Facebook and its partners to show you advertisements on and outside Facebook. In addition, a cookie will be saved onto your computer for these purposes.
Only users over 13 years of age may give their permission. If you are younger than this age, please consult your legal guardians.
Please click here if you would like to revoke your permission:
https://www.facebook.com/ads/website_custom_audiences/.
IP Addresses
An IP address is a unique identifier that certain electronic devices use to identify and communicate with each other on the Internet. When you visit our websites, we may view and record the IP address of the device you use to connect to the Internet. We use this information to determine the general physical location of the device and understand from what regions of the world our website visitors come. We also may use this information to enhance our websites.
INFORMATION WE SHARE
We do not sell or otherwise disclose information about our website visitors, except as described here. We may share the information you provide among our subsidiaries and affiliates, and with our business partners (e.g. our joint marketing partners, or dealers and distributors of our products.) These service providers are not authorized by us to use or disclose the information except as necessary to perform services on our behalf or comply with legal requirements. In addition, we may disclose information about you (i) if we are required to do so by law or legal process, (ii) to law enforcement authorities or other government officials, (iii) when we believe disclosure is necessary or appropriate to prevent physical harm or financial loss or in connection with an investigation of suspected or actual illegal activity or (iv) if this is necessary to protect the vital interests of a person.
You may ask us to refrain from sharing your information with third parties and among our affiliates for their marketing purposes, if the affiliates are separate legal entities. Please tell us your preference by contacting us as indicated in the “How to Contact Us” section of this Notice.
We reserve the right to transfer any information we have about you in the event we sell or transfer all or a portion of our business or assets. Should such a sale or transfer occur, we will use reasonable efforts to direct the transferee to use information you have provided through our websites in a manner that is consistent with this Privacy Notice.
LINKS TO OTHER SITES
Our websites may provide links to other websites for your convenience and information. These websites may operate independently from this site. Linked sites may have their own privacy notices or policies, which we strongly suggest you review if you visit any linked websites. To the extent any linked websites you visit are not part of this site, we are not responsible for their content, any use of the sites, or the privacy practices of the sites.
HOW WE PROTECT PERSONAL INFORMATION
We maintain administrative, technical and physical safeguards to protect against loss, misuse or unauthorized access, disclosure, alteration or destruction of the information you provide on our websites.
INFORMATION WE TRANSFER
Websites to which this Privacy Notice applies are United States-based websites and are subject to United States law. We do not currently do business outside the United States, however if we choose to do so at a later date, we may transfer the personal information we collect on this site to other countries where we choose to do business, which may not have the same data protection laws as the country in which you reside. When we transfer your information to other countries, we will protect that information as described here, even though a given country may not have the same privacy and data protection laws as the country in which you reside. If we choose to do business outside the United States, this privacy page will be updated accordingly.
UPDATES TO OUR PRIVACY NOTICE
This Privacy Notice may be updated periodically and without prior notice to you to reflect changes in our online information practices. We will post a prominent notice on this site to notify you of any significant changes to our Privacy Notice and indicate at the top of the notice when it was most recently updated.
YOUR CHOICES – HOW TO CONTACT US
If you would like to update your contact information or preferences, have your information removed from our mailing lists, or no longer receive marketing e-mails resulting from information collected via product registration cards or other sources, please e-mail:
