Personal Information We Collect
You provide us with your personal information when you communicate with us through the Site, including when you:
- Purchase products on or interact with the Site;
- Create or update an account on the Site;
- Subscribe to e-mail newsletters or updates;
- Communicate with customer service representatives (whether via an online chat, online form, email, or otherwise);
- Subscribe to and interact with our text messaging service (the "Messaging Service");
- Submit product reviews;
- Complete, submit, or otherwise participate in surveys or questionnaires; or
- Participate in contests, sweepstakes, and other promotions.
We collect personal information you choose to provide, which may include your name, email address, gender, date of birth, billing and shipping addresses, telephone number, the contents of your communications with us, website interactions, messaging history and content arising out of interactions with the Messaging Service, geolocation data, and/or credit card information. We may retain your responses to surveys and questionnaires that you may complete from time to time. We may also retain your personal information collected in connection with the Messaging Service as long as you participate in the Messaging Service and as otherwise provided for in this Policy. We may collect other information from you that is not specifically listed here. We may use such information in accordance with this Policy. Please do not submit information that you do not want us to have.
Information Automatically Collected. Our servers and third party service providers may automatically record certain information about how you use the Site, such as your Internet Protocol (IP) address, device and browser type, operating system, DNS, the pages or features of the Site that you browsed and the time spent on those pages or features, the frequency with which you use the Site, the links that you click on or use, and other statistics.
Information We Get From Others. We may obtain additional information about you from third party sources, such as service providers, vendors, social media sites, and advertising agencies to provide you with more relevant information about our services.
How We May Use Your Personal Information
To Improve the Site and Communicate with You. We generally use your personal information to serve you, to improve our products, services, and other offerings, and to improve your consumer experience. For example, we use personal information to provide products and services to you, communicate with you about those products and services, and enhance your experience on the Site. Specifically, your personal information may be used to process transactions, respond to questions, maintain online accounts, send you information about products or services that may be of interest to you, analyze and monitor visitor activity on the Site, provide product recommendations and reviews, publish the results of contests, sweepstakes, or other promotions, comply with our legal obligations, and develop a knowledge base regarding users of the Site, including through data analytics.
In Combination With Other Information. In addition, we may combine your personal information with, or match your personal information to, information that we receive from other sources, including from third party business partners. For example, we may use third party information to confirm contact information or to better understand your interests by associating demographic information with the information you have provided.
To Send You Marketing Communications. We may use the personal information that you provide us to send you communications inviting you to participate in various programs, like surveys or focus groups. We may also send you promotional communications and other offerings to thank you for your feedback or participation in programs, or to share new product launches or sales events.
To Improve our Site and Services. We may use statistical information about visitors to our Site to gain a better understanding of the users of our Site, to improve our Site, and to improve our services. We reserve the right to license or sell aggregate, de-identified information about the visitors to our Site, but this information will not contain your personal information or otherwise be individually identifiable.
For Compliance, Fraud Prevention and Safety. We may use your personal information as we believe appropriate to (a) investigate or prevent violation of the law or your agreements with us; (b) protect our, your or others' rights, privacy, safety or property (including by prosecuting and defending legal claims); (c) protect, investigate and deter against fraudulent, harmful, unauthorized, unethical or illegal activity; (d) comply with applicable laws, lawful requests and legal process, such as to respond to subpoenas or requests from government authorities; and (e) where permitted by law in connection with a legal investigation. For example, we may share information with law enforcement to reduce the risk of fraud or if someone uses or attempts to use our Site for illegal reasons.
How We May Share Your Personal Information
We may share your personal information with others for a number of different reasons. We may share your personal information to fulfill your requests, to provide you with information regarding products and services of ours or those of others, to comply with law, and to enforce our rights. We also may share personal information among our affiliated companies, businesses, licensees, distributors, any of our brands, and with our successors and assigns.
Examples of how we may share your personal information include:
With Service Providers, Business Partners, and Vendors: If you purchase goods through our Site, we will have to provide credit card information to our credit card processor for payment purposes. We will also have to provide your name and address to the company that ships our merchandise. Similarly, we may share personal information with designers, manufacturers, distributors, licensees, marketing and advertising partners, and parties that provide services for the Site in accordance with this Policy. We also may retain other companies and individuals to perform services on our behalf, and we may collaborate with other companies and individuals with respect to particular products or services (collectively, "Providers"). Examples of Providers include data analysis firms, credit card processing companies, customer service and support providers, email and SMS vendors, web hosting and development companies, and fulfillment companies. Providers also include our co-promotion partners for products that we jointly develop and/or market with other companies. Some Providers also may collect information on our behalf from our Site. These third parties may be provided with access to personal information needed to perform their functions.
To Comply with Law or to Protect Our Rights: We may disclose your personal information as required by law, when we believe disclosure is necessary to comply with a regulatory requirement, judicial proceeding, court order, or legal process served on us, or to protect the safety, rights, or property of our customers, the public.
In Connection with Business Transfers: If we license, sell, or transfer a company business unit (such as a product line or one or more affiliated companies) to a third party, or enter into discussions regarding such a transaction, we may share your personal information with that party in accordance with this Policy.
In Connection with the Messaging Service: From time to time, we may share aggregate or de-identified information about use of the Messaging Service and such aggregated or de-identified information may be shared with any third party, including advertisers, promotional partners, and sponsors.
Your Choices
Opting Out of Communications and Updating Your Preferences. To access, update or modify your personal information, choose not to receive marketing or other promotional communications from us, including direct mail or catalogues, or otherwise change your choices about how we use your personal information, please: (1) update your account details online; (2) follow the unsubscribe instructions located at the end of any marketing communication from us; (3) contact us using the contact information provided at the end of this Policy. Please be sure to include in any email or postal mail your full name, email address, postal address, and any message. Please note that such requests may take up to thirty days to become effective.
Messaging Service. You agree to receive telemarketing or advertising text messages and calls from us that are sent using an automatic telephone dialing system. Consent to receive automated marketing text messages is not a condition of any purchase. You can opt-out of receiving further commercial text messages via the Messaging Service by responding to any of our text messages with any of the following replies: STOP, END, CANCEL, UNSUBSCRIBE, or QUIT. Please contact us if you have any questions or concerns about your personal information or require assistance in managing your choices.
Consequences of Not Providing Personal Information. You are not required to provide all personal information identified in this Policy to use our Site or to interact with us offline, but certain functionality will not be available if you do not provide personal information. For example, if you do not provide personal information, we may not be able to respond to your request, perform a transaction with you, or provide you with marketing that we believe you would find valuable.