Privacy Statement PRIVACY POLICY 2/1/15
Our Commitment to Privacy
Our Privacy Policy was developed as an extension of our commitment to combine quality products and services with integrity in dealing with our users. The Policy is designed to assist you in understanding how we collect, use, and safeguard the personal information you provide to us and to assist you in making informed decisions when using our site and our products and services.
What Information Do We Collect?
When you visit our site you may provide us with two types of information: personal information you actively choose to disclose (“Active Information”) and use information collected, in a way not visible to you, on an aggregate anonymous basis as you and others browse our site (“Passive Information”).
No Use of Our Site by Persons Under 13
No person under 13 should disclose information on this site. You may learn more about protecting children’s privacy online by visiting www.ftc.gov/kidzprivacy.
Active Information You Choose to Provide
In order to gain use of the site (become a “user”), we require you to disclose the following information:
-contact information (name, address, phone number, e-mail address)
-billing and shipping information (credit card, billing, and shipping address)
-We collect information from you when you register on the site, place an order, communication such as e-mail, or participate in another site feature. (registration, purchases, promotions, forms, newsletters, etc.)
-When registering or ordering, we may ask you for your name, mailing address, phone number, e-mail address, credit card information, and/or other information.
-We also collect information about gift recipients, so we are able to fulfill gift orders.
-We may collect information about your personal references (product wish list and/or likes and dislikes relating to our products)
When you place on order or access your personal information all sensitive (credit) information you supply is transmitted via Secure Socket Layer (SSL) encryption to protect the transmission of the information you submit to us when you use our secure online forms. The information you provide to us is stored securely behind secured networks and is accessible by a limited number of persons with special access rights to such systems, and are required to keep the information confidential.
If you choose to post information on our site or maintain email, snail mail or telephone contact with us, we may retain such information also and its transmission via email is not secured.
Passive Information Collected
What is a Cookie?
Cookies are a feature of web browser (Internet Explorer, Netscape Navigator, etc.) software that allows web servers to recognize the computer used to access a site. They are small pieces of data that are stored by a user’s web browser on one site to simplify subsequent interactions with that site by the same user or to use the information to streamline the user’s transaction on related web pages. This makes it easier for a user to move from site to site and to complete transactions over the Internet. Cookies should make your online experience easier and more personalized. Our site utilizes cookies to collect information about how our site is used. Passive Information gathered may include the date and time of visits, the site pages viewed, time spent at our site, the sites visited just before and just after our site. If you do not wish to transmit “cookie” information about yourself, you may turn off the cookie function in your web browser; please consult the “Help” section of your browser to correctly do so.
Our site’s servers also automatically identify your computer by its Internet Protocol address which is a unique string of numbers that is assigned to your computer by your Internet Service Provider. Your IP address may be used to address problems with our server or administer our site or to gather broad demographic information about our user.
How Do We Use the Information Collected?
Broadly speaking, persons we employ directly, or as contractors or agents at our direction use Active Information for purposes of administering our business activities, providing customer services such as support, and making available other products or services we think may be of interest to our users. We may use the Active Information or Passive Information you provide to us to contact you about changes to our site, new services, features or products we offer, or other information we think you shall find valuable. If at any time you do not wish to receive such information, you may “opt-out” of doing so by sending an email to us at info@obbunique.com.
We use Passive Information to gather information about our users and to enhance and design our site to make it easier, faster, and friendlier to use. Additionally, cookies help us know information about how many people visit our site, when they visit and how they use our service. Passive Information may result in your viewing of particular advertising based on your user habits for your viewing on our site and a shopping experience customized to you in content, services, and goods.
Your Information In Relation to Others
We Link To You may be able to access other websites through our site. When you do so you are doing so subject to their policies regarding privacy and data collection and you should read those sites’ privacy policies to make sure you agree to them before using such sites. When you choose to shop at such sites, you should read their privacy policies to make sure you agree to them before making purchases. We have no responsibility or liability for the content and activities of these linked sites. OBB Unique makes no representation or warranty as to any products or services offered on any third party site and has no control over this linked sites, therefore you access those third party sites at your own risk.
Sharing Information with Advertisers or Other Third Parties
OBB Unique does not sell or rent your personal information to third parties. We may need to share your personal information with certain third parties such as but not limited to website hosting partners and other parties who assist us in operating our website, conducting our business, and perform services on our behalf:
- fulfilling customer order
- delivering packages
- processing credit card/ or other payments
We may disclose anonymous information about user habits, characteristics, and user patterns, based on aggregate user statistics to advertisers on our site. The parties who perform services for us (credit card processors, merchant bank, our Internet Service Provider) may also have access to your information in performing such services. Should we buy or sell assets of our company, another company may need to review our company’s assets, including your information, to make business decisions as to whether to acquire such assets.
Sharing Information with the Government or As Otherwise Required by Law
We may be required by subpoena, law, or government agency to disclose both Active and Passive Information you have provided to us.
We (OBB Unique) also reserve the right to report to law enforcement agencies any activities that in good faith, believe to be unlawful. We may share certain personal information when we believe such release is necessary to protect the rights, property, and safety of ourselves and others. We may transfer personal information in the event of a merger, acquisition, dissolution, or similar event.
How Do We Secure Active Information and Passive Information?
We secure your personal information submitted by you by using reasonable efforts to prevent unauthorized access or disclosure, or accidental loss or destruction of Active Information and Passive Information. Your postings on this site and other communications you may have with us via email or snail mail may not be secure unless we advise you that security measures are in place prior to your sending information. Therefore, if you choose to communicate with us through these means, you are assuming the risk of doing so and we request that you do not send or post sensitive information through these means.
How Can You Choose Not to Receive Information about Products or Services by Us or to Correct, Delete or Access Your Information
If you desire not to receive information about products or services we think may be of interest to you or if you wish to access, delete or correct you information, please send us an email to info@obbunique.com. Please do not send or post sensitive information via e-mail.
BY USING THE OBB UNIQUE WEB SITE YOU AGREE TO BE BOUND BY ITS TERMS AND CONDITION OF USE, LEGAL AND PRIVACY POLICY. THAT YOU ARE ACCEPTING THE PRACTICES SET FORTH IN THIS POLICY. WE RESERVE THE RIGHT TO MAKE CHANGES TO THE POLICY BY POSTING THE NEW VERSION WITH A NEW EFFECTIVE DATE. YOUR CONTINUED USE INDICATES YOUR AGREEMENT TO THE CHANGES.
Our Commitment to Privacy
Our Privacy Policy was developed as an extension of our commitment to combine quality products and services with integrity in dealing with our users. The Policy is designed to assist you in understanding how we collect, use, and safeguard the personal information you provide to us and to assist you in making informed decisions when using our site and our products and services.
What Information Do We Collect?
When you visit our site you may provide us with two types of information: personal information you actively choose to disclose (“Active Information”) and use information collected, in a way not visible to you, on an aggregate anonymous basis as you and others browse our site (“Passive Information”).
No Use of Our Site by Persons Under 13
No person under 13 should disclose information on this site. You may learn more about protecting children’s privacy online by visiting www.ftc.gov/kidzprivacy.
Active Information You Choose to Provide
In order to gain use of the site (become a “user”), we require you to disclose the following information:
-contact information (name, address, phone number, e-mail address)
-billing and shipping information (credit card, billing, and shipping address)
-We collect information from you when you register on the site, place an order, communication such as e-mail, or participate in another site feature. (registration, purchases, promotions, forms, newsletters, etc.)
-When registering or ordering, we may ask you for your name, mailing address, phone number, e-mail address, credit card information, and/or other information.
-We also collect information about gift recipients, so we are able to fulfill gift orders.
-We may collect information about your personal references (product wish list and/or likes and dislikes relating to our products)
When you place on order or access your personal information all sensitive (credit) information you supply is transmitted via Secure Socket Layer (SSL) encryption to protect the transmission of the information you submit to us when you use our secure online forms. The information you provide to us is stored securely behind secured networks and is accessible by a limited number of persons with special access rights to such systems, and are required to keep the information confidential.
If you choose to post information on our site or maintain email, snail mail or telephone contact with us, we may retain such information also and its transmission via email is not secured.
Passive Information Collected
What is a Cookie?
Cookies are a feature of web browser (Internet Explorer, Netscape Navigator, etc.) software that allows web servers to recognize the computer used to access a site. They are small pieces of data that are stored by a user’s web browser on one site to simplify subsequent interactions with that site by the same user or to use the information to streamline the user’s transaction on related web pages. This makes it easier for a user to move from site to site and to complete transactions over the Internet. Cookies should make your online experience easier and more personalized. Our site utilizes cookies to collect information about how our site is used. Passive Information gathered may include the date and time of visits, the site pages viewed, time spent at our site, the sites visited just before and just after our site. If you do not wish to transmit “cookie” information about yourself, you may turn off the cookie function in your web browser; please consult the “Help” section of your browser to correctly do so.
Our site’s servers also automatically identify your computer by its Internet Protocol address which is a unique string of numbers that is assigned to your computer by your Internet Service Provider. Your IP address may be used to address problems with our server or administer our site or to gather broad demographic information about our user.
How Do We Use the Information Collected?
Broadly speaking, persons we employ directly, or as contractors or agents at our direction use Active Information for purposes of administering our business activities, providing customer services such as support, and making available other products or services we think may be of interest to our users. We may use the Active Information or Passive Information you provide to us to contact you about changes to our site, new services, features or products we offer, or other information we think you shall find valuable. If at any time you do not wish to receive such information, you may “opt-out” of doing so by sending an email to us at info@obbunique.com.
We use Passive Information to gather information about our users and to enhance and design our site to make it easier, faster, and friendlier to use. Additionally, cookies help us know information about how many people visit our site, when they visit and how they use our service. Passive Information may result in your viewing of particular advertising based on your user habits for your viewing on our site and a shopping experience customized to you in content, services, and goods.
Your Information In Relation to Others
We Link To You may be able to access other websites through our site. When you do so you are doing so subject to their policies regarding privacy and data collection and you should read those sites’ privacy policies to make sure you agree to them before using such sites. When you choose to shop at such sites, you should read their privacy policies to make sure you agree to them before making purchases. We have no responsibility or liability for the content and activities of these linked sites. OBB Unique makes no representation or warranty as to any products or services offered on any third party site and has no control over this linked sites, therefore you access those third party sites at your own risk.
Sharing Information with Advertisers or Other Third Parties
OBB Unique does not sell or rent your personal information to third parties. We may need to share your personal information with certain third parties such as but not limited to website hosting partners and other parties who assist us in operating our website, conducting our business, and perform services on our behalf:
- fulfilling customer order
- delivering packages
- processing credit card/ or other payments
We may disclose anonymous information about user habits, characteristics, and user patterns, based on aggregate user statistics to advertisers on our site. The parties who perform services for us (credit card processors, merchant bank, our Internet Service Provider) may also have access to your information in performing such services. Should we buy or sell assets of our company, another company may need to review our company’s assets, including your information, to make business decisions as to whether to acquire such assets.
Sharing Information with the Government or As Otherwise Required by Law
We may be required by subpoena, law, or government agency to disclose both Active and Passive Information you have provided to us.
We (OBB Unique) also reserve the right to report to law enforcement agencies any activities that in good faith, believe to be unlawful. We may share certain personal information when we believe such release is necessary to protect the rights, property, and safety of ourselves and others. We may transfer personal information in the event of a merger, acquisition, dissolution, or similar event.
How Do We Secure Active Information and Passive Information?
We secure your personal information submitted by you by using reasonable efforts to prevent unauthorized access or disclosure, or accidental loss or destruction of Active Information and Passive Information. Your postings on this site and other communications you may have with us via email or snail mail may not be secure unless we advise you that security measures are in place prior to your sending information. Therefore, if you choose to communicate with us through these means, you are assuming the risk of doing so and we request that you do not send or post sensitive information through these means.
How Can You Choose Not to Receive Information about Products or Services by Us or to Correct, Delete or Access Your Information
If you desire not to receive information about products or services we think may be of interest to you or if you wish to access, delete or correct you information, please send us an email to info@obbunique.com. Please do not send or post sensitive information via e-mail.
BY USING THE OBB UNIQUE WEB SITE YOU AGREE TO BE BOUND BY ITS TERMS AND CONDITION OF USE, LEGAL AND PRIVACY POLICY. THAT YOU ARE ACCEPTING THE PRACTICES SET FORTH IN THIS POLICY. WE RESERVE THE RIGHT TO MAKE CHANGES TO THE POLICY BY POSTING THE NEW VERSION WITH A NEW EFFECTIVE DATE. YOUR CONTINUED USE INDICATES YOUR AGREEMENT TO THE CHANGES.