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Effective
Date & Last Modified March, 22, 2012.
PLEASE
READ THIS PRIVACY POLICY CAREFULLY BEFORE USING OUR WEBSITES OR
SERVICES. BY ACCESSING OR USING OUR WEBSITE OR OUR SERVICES (OTHER
THAN TO READ THIS PRIVACY POLICY FOR THE FIRST TIME), YOU AGREE TO
THIS PRIVACY POLICY.
INTRODUCTION
This
Privacy Policy tells you
the types of information we collect when you use our Sites or
Services, how we use that information, and the instances in which we
share your information.
GoodGlasses
Privacy Policy
SUMMARY
OF KEY PRINCIPLES
We
thought it would be helpful to set out briefly the key ways in which
we use your information and how we seek to protect privacy. Of
course, you should read the terms of our full Privacy Policy.
We
typically collect two kinds of information about you: (a)
information that you provide that personally identifies you (e.g.,
full name or phone number); and (b) information that does not
personally identify you (e.g., your IP address or type of browser);
This
information is transmitted to, held and processed by us in the
United States of America;
We
typically use this information to provide you with our website and
related services, and to produce reports and data about online
shopping;
We
may disclose this information to authorized third parties including
our merchants, advertising and promotional partners and third party
service providers for these purposes;
Through
the use of “cookies,” we work with and permit advertising
networks to collect anonymous information about you to send you
their ads and use the same information to send you our ads (see
section III below);
You
may at any time opt-out of certain activities as set out below (see
section VI);
We
encrypt any information you input using Secure Sockets Layer (SSL)
software and take reasonable security measures to safeguard
information;
If
you register with us, you have the ability to update or correct the
information you previously provided via the account section;
If
you have any questions or concerns about privacy at GoodGlasses
please contact us at mail@goodglasses.com
Our
websites and our services are not designed or intended for use by
children under 13; and
This
Privacy Policy may change from time to time so please check this
policy regularly. Any
material changes will be notified to you by email as appropriate.
I. WHAT
INFORMATION DO WE COLLECT?
We
collect two kinds of information related to you: (a) Personally
Identifiable Information (“PII”); and (b) Non-Personally
Identifiable Information (“Non-PII”).
(a)
Personally Identifiable Information: PII
includes any information that identifies you as person. We
collect your PII when you choose to register with us or when you
choose to participate in an interactive feature of our Sites such as
a review, survey or promotion. You
may: (a) provide your name, mail/shipping address, email address,
credit card number and phone number when registering with our Sites
or in connection with a contest entry; (b) provide certain
demographic information about you (e.g., age, gender, shopping
interests and preferences, etc.) when participating in a survey or
poll; or (c) post a general comment and/or recommendation on our
Sites.
(b) Non-Personally
Identifiable Information: Non-PII
is any information that does not identify you as a person including
PII which has been rendered anonymous. We
obtain non-PII either separately or together with your PII as
described above. We collect certain non-PII from you when you access
our Sites including IP addresses and information relating to your
browser, operating system, ISP, the third party website from which
your visit originated and how you use our Sites such as the web pages
you visit, and the duration of your visits.
II. HOW
WE USE & SHARE THE INFORMATION COLLECTED
PII
and Non-PII is used to provide, or improve, our Sites and Services to
you and to carry out your requests, respond to your inquiries, better
serve you and understand your needs, or is used in other ways
naturally associated with the circumstances in which you provided the
information.
We may
disclose PII and Non-PII to:
(1)
our third party service providers who perform functions on our behalf
in connection with the operation of the Sites or Services e.g.,
providers who host and manage data, process credit card orders,
deliver our merchandise, etc;
(2)
participating sponsors to a program or promotion you enter through
our Sites or Services;
(3)our
parent company, subsidiaries or other affiliated companies
(“ affiliated
companies”) for operational, marketing and promotional purposes;
(4)
co-promotional partners and others with whom we have marketing or
other relationships ;
(5)
participating merchants where you consent at the time you submit PII
to us when using the interactive features of our Sites such as
surveys and reviews concerning our participating merchants; and
(6)
our other users where you choose to publicly post reviews, comments
or other information relating to products or services, communicate
with other users via public forums (e.g., forums, message boards,
bulletin boards, etc.).
In
addition, we use non-PII to help analyze site traffic, understand
customer needs and trends, carry out targeted promotional activities
(see “Preference Based Advertising” below). We
may use your non-PII by itself or aggregate it with information we
have obtained from others to produce
research reports and other information and data about online shopping
for participating merchants and other customers, as well as media and
other interested parties.
III. COOKIES
AND PREFERENCE BASED ADVERTISING
(a) Cookies
and Web Beacons: We
and the third parties we authorize automatically receive and store
certain types of non-PII whenever you interact with us by using
"cookies" and analogous technology. "Cookies" are
small files that are placed on your computer or your internet browser
memory to enable the owner of the cookie to recognize your browser
and to provide convenience and other features to you. So, for
example, our cookies may allow us to show you the past products you
have searched for on our Sites. It
is important to note that the cookies that we use, or permit others
to use, do not contain and are not tied to PII about you.
You
may be able to direct your internet browser not to allow cookies and
you can typically delete existing cookies from your computer at any
time. Please note, however, some elements of our Sites will not
function properly or be available to you.
(b) Preference
Based Advertising: We
also work with and permit certain third parties, including
advertising networks and website analysis firms, to place cookies on
your computer/browser when you visit our Sites. These
third party cookies are used to gather non-PII about your activities
on our Sites and third party sites to serve you with advertisements
while you are on third party sites (“Third-Party Ads”). If
you do not wish to participate in this activity, please email us at
mail@goodglasses.com to
opt-out .
Some
important notes: (1) the opt-out tools for Third-Party Ads include
all the advertising networks that GoodGlasses
works with, but also many that GoodGlasses
does not work with; (2) opting out of Our Ads does not automatically
serve as an opt-out from Third-Party Ads – the same is true the
other way around. To
opt-out of Our Ads and Third-Party Ads, you must use each respective
opt-out tool above; (3) the opt-out tools for both Our Ads and
Third-Party Ads rely on cookies to ensure that your non-PII is not
used for online advertising purposes (“Opt-out
Cookies”). Therefore,
i f
you buy a new computer, change web browsers or delete these Opt-out
Cookies from your computer, you will need to perform the relevant
opt-out tasks again; and (4) the features of your internet browser
and/or certain add-on software may allow you to block or limit the
use of cookies for preference based advertising and other
purposes. We
cannot, however, promise that our Sites will work well or be
compatible with these alternative methods of blocking or limiting the
use of cookies.
IV. SALE
OF BUSINESS AND DISCLOSURE BY LAW
(a)
Business Transactions: We
may disclose PII and Non-PII held by us :
(a) to a prospective seller or actual seller of any business or
assets we acquire; (b)
if all or any of our assets are acquired by
a third party, in which case, PII and Non-PII may be one of the
transferred assets.
(b) Required
disclosures : We may
disclose and use any PII or non-PII if we are required to do so by
law, with respect to copyright and other intellectual property
infringement claims, or if we believe that such action is necessary
to: (a) fulfill a government request; (b) conform with the
requirements of the law or legal process; (c) protect or defend our
legal rights or property, our Sites, or other users; or (d) in an
emergency to protect the health and safety of our Sites' s
users or the general public.
V. SECURITY
OF INFORMATION
We
work to protect the security of your information during transmission
by using Secure Sockets Layer (SSL) software, which encrypts
information you input. We also use a secure server hosting location
in the US, firewall protection, controlled access and encryption
technology to protect your data. Please
be advised, however, that while we strive to protect your PII, we
cannot guarantee or warrant the security of any information you
disclose or transmit to us online and are not responsible for the
theft, destruction, or inadvertent disclosure of your PII. In
the unfortunate event that your personally identifiable information
is compromised, we will notify you by e-mail to the last e-mail
address you have provided us as soon as feasible under the
circumstances (delays in notification may occur while we take
necessary measures to determine the scope of the breach and restore
reasonable integrity to the system, as well as for the legitimate
needs of law enforcement if notification would impede a criminal
investigation.)
VI. YOUR
OPTIONS & OPT-OUTS
(a) W hat
Information Can I Access? If
you register as a GoodGlasses
customer, you will typically have access to an account section that
includes the registration information you previously provided which
you can update or correct at any time. If
there is any inaccurate information that you are not able to correct,
just let us know. Also,
if you wish, you can delete your membership account entirely
although we
may retain certain information in limited circumstances – e.g., to
resolve disputes, troubleshoot problems and enforce our Terms of
Use. Furthermore,
some information is never completely removed from our databases due
to technical (e.g., information that is stored in our “back-up”
systems) and certain legal constraints.
(b)
What Choices Do I Have (Opt-Out)? You
have many choices regarding how we use information about you,
including: (1) To stop our emails, email us at mail@goodglasses.com;
(2) To opt-out of preference-based ads, email us at
mail@goodglasses.com;
(3) To
stop the sharing of PII with our participating merchants, email us at
mail@goodglasses.com; and (4) as discussed above, the choices we
offer you anytime you submit information through our Sites or
Services.
(c)
You May Contact Us With Questions: If
you have any questions or concerns about privacy at GoodGlasses,
please contact us by email at mail@goodglasses.com.
VII. CHILDREN
As
neither our
Sites nor our Services are intended for use by children under 13,
children under 13 may not submit any PII to us. Also,
i f
you are under 18, you should use GoodGlasses
and submit information only with involvement of a parent or guardian.
VIII. REVISIONS
This
Privacy Policy may change from time to time to reflect our changing
business practices. We will provide you notice of any such changes by
posting the new policy on our Sites or by email if the changes are
material.
VII. SOLE
STATEMENT
This
Privacy Policy and our Terms of Use, both as posted on our Websites
and through our Services, contain all of the material terms of
regarding your use of our Websites and Services. No
summary, modification, restatement or other version thereof, or other
privacy statement or policy, in any form, is valid unless we post it
to our Websites and Services.
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