PRIVACY POLICY

This Privacy Policy describes how your personal information is collected, used, and shared through www.thebowlcut.com (the “Site”).

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 terms, your choice is not to use our services. By accessing or using this Website, you agree to this Privacy Policy. This Policy may change from time to time (see Changes to Our Privacy Policy). Your continued access of our Website or use of our services after we make changes is deemed to be acceptance of those changes.

WHAT PERSONAL INFORMATION DO WE COLLECT?

“Personal Information” generally means any information that identifies you as an individual, and any other information we associate with it. We collect a few categories of information, from a few different sources:

Personal Information you voluntarily provide to us, which may include:

• Contact Information: We collect your e-mail address if you sign up for our newsletter or otherwise contact us.
• Order Information: When you make a purchase, we collect your name, shipping address, email address, phone number, and Payment Information. We use this information to contact you about your transaction and provide you with an account on our Site.
• Payment Information: When you make a purchase, we collect your billing address and payment information to the transaction.
• We do not retain Payment Information. Rather, we use third-party payment processors to process payments made to us. By submitting your Payment Information, you consent to our providing your Payment Information to such third-party payment processors. Your Payment Information is governed by their privacy policies.
• Business Information: We collect your name, business address, phone number, resale certificate and business information if you register as a reseller on the Site.
• Candidate Information: We collect your name, email address, phone number and professional information if you apply to join our team. You may also voluntarily provide information related to your gender, race, and veteran status on the applicable form.
• User Contributions: You may have the ability to interact with parts of our Website, such as the ability to post public comments on our blog or send us messages. Your feedback may be published or displayed on public areas of the Website, or transmitted to other users of the Website or third parties (collectively, "User Contributions"). Your User Contributions are posted on and transmitted to others at your own risk. Additionally, we cannot control the actions of other users of the Website with whom you may choose to share your User Contributions. Therefore, we cannot and do not guarantee that your User Contributions will not be viewed or accessed by unauthorized persons. Use precaution when posting any personal information online. Please review our Terms of Service for more information about our user guidelines.

Personal Information automatically collected, which may include:

• Device Information: When you visit the Site, we automatically collect certain information about your device, including information about your web browser, IP address, time zone, and some of the cookies that are installed on your device. Additionally, as you browse the Site, we collect information about the individual web pages or products that you view, what websites or search terms referred you to the Site, and information about how you interact with the Site. We refer to this automatically-collected information as “Device Information”.
• We collect Device Information using the following technologies:
• “Cookies” are data files that are placed on your device or computer and often include an anonymous unique identifier. For more information about cookies, and how to disable cookies, visit http://www.allaboutcookies.org.
• “Log files” track actions occurring on the Site, and collect data including your IP address, browser type, Internet service provider, referring/exit pages, and date/time stamps.
• “Web beacons”, “tags”, and “pixels” are electronic files used to record information about how you browse the Site.

Information Received from Third-Parties

When you connect with us through a third-party platform (e.g., Twitter, Facebook, Pinterest) we may, depending on your privacy settings, receive some information from your third-party account, and what we collect depends on your privacy settings with that third-party platform.

HOW DO WE USE YOUR PERSONAL INFORMATION?

•   We use the Payment and Order Information that we collect generally to fulfill any orders placed through the Site (including processing your payment information, arranging for shipping, and providing you with invoices and/or order confirmations). Additionally, we use this Order Information to:
•   Communicate with you;
•   Screen our orders for potential risk or fraud; and
•   When in line with the preferences you have shared with us, provide you with information or advertising relating to our products or services.
•   We use Business Information to evaluate potential business opportunities and partnerships.
•   We use Candidate Information to evaluate potential candidates for our team.
•   We use the Device Information that we collect to help us screen for potential risk and fraud (in particular, your IP address), and more generally to improve and optimize our Site (for example, by generating analytics about how our customers browse and interact with the Site, and to assess the success of our marketing and advertising campaigns).
•   We work with third-party vendors to advertise Site products to you on sites across the Internet. Third-party vendors, including Google, use cookies and/or device identifiers to serve ads based on your past visit to our website. You can find information about how you can opt out of Google's use of cookies or device identifiers by reading below.
•   We may also use Personal Information as we believe to be necessary or appropriate for certain essential purposes, including:
•   to comply with applicable law and legal process
•   to enforce our terms of service
•   to protect our rights, privacy, safety or property, security and/or that of our affiliates, you or others.

HOW DO WE SHARE YOUR PERSONAL INFORMATION?

•   With our service providers
•   We share your Personal Information with third parties to help us provide, operate, analyze and maintain our services. For example, we use Shopify to power our online store--you can read more about how Shopify uses your Personal Information here: https://www.shopify.com/legal/privacy. We also use Google Analytics to help us understand how our customers use the Site -- you can read more about how Google uses your Personal Information here: https://www.google.com/intl/en/policies/privacy/. You can also opt-out of Google Analytics here: https://tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout.

•   With “targeted advertising” service providers
•   We permit third party advertising networks and providers to collect Web-Behavior Information regarding the use of our Services to help us to deliver targeted online advertisements ("ads") to you. They use cookies and similar technologies, to gather information about your browser's or device's visits and usage patterns on our Services and on other websites over time, which helps to better personalize ads to match your interests, and to measure the effectiveness of ad campaigns. To learn more about how to opt-out of such advertising, please see the section below on How You May Manage Your Personal Information.

•   When required by law
•   Finally, we may also share your Personal Information to comply with applicable laws and regulations, to respond to a subpoena, search warrant or other lawful request for information we receive, or to otherwise protect our rights.

HOW YOU MAY MANAGE YOUR PERSONAL INFORMATION

Your choices regarding our use and disclosure of your Personal Information

•   You can opt out of receiving promotional emails and mailing by informing us of your preferences when you sign up for an account or modifying your promotional preferences online in your profile account management section. In addition, you may let us know as directed below in the “Contacting Us” section. Please specify which types of communications you no longer wish to receive, and the relevant telephone number, address, and/or e-mail address. If you do opt-out of receiving marketing-related messages from us, we may still send you important administrative messages, such as emails about your accounts or purchases.
•   Behavioral Advertising
•   As described above, we use your Personal Information to provide you with targeted advertisements or marketing communications we believe may be of interest to you. For more information about how targeted advertising works, you can visit the Network Advertising Initiative’s (“NAI”) educational page at http://www.networkadvertising.org/understanding-online-advertising/how-does-it-work.
•   You can opt out of targeted advertising by using the links below:
•   Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/settings/?tab=ads
•   Google: https://www.google.com/settings/ads/anonymous
•   Bing: https://advertise.bingads.microsoft.com/en-us/resources/policies/personalized-ads
•   Additionally, you can opt out of some of these services by visiting the Digital Advertising Alliance’s opt-out portal at: http://optout.aboutads.info/.

California Residents

Under the California Consumer Privacy Act (‘CCPA’), California residents have certain rights regarding the personal information that businesses have about them. This includes the rights to request access or deletion of your personal information, as well as the right to direct a business to stop selling your personal information.

•   Personal Information We Collect
•   We collect identifiers (such as name, address, email, phone number, and transactional information), commercial information (such as a record of the products purchased, and Internet or other electronic network activity information (such as usage information, IP address, cookie information, and customer feedback).
•   Why We Collect Your Personal Information
•   We use identifiers to provide the services requested, such as to fulfill a orderor provide you with information about our services.
•   We use identifiers and commercial information for general website administration, which includes record keeping, troubleshooting, data analysis, testing, and survey purposes.
•   We use identifiers, commercial information, and Internet or other electronic network activity for trend monitoring, marketing, and advertising, as well as to ensure website security.
•   We use professional, education, or employment-related information to establish a business relationship with you and/or for employment purposes.
•   How We Collect Your Personal Information
•   We collect identifiers and commercial information directly from you.
•   We collect Internet or other electronic network activity from your usage of Site and its services.
•   With Whom We Share and Sell Your Personal Information
•   We share personal information as necessary for certain “business purposes,” as defined by the CCPA (Cal. Civ. Code 1798.140(d)). This includes sharing identifiers, commercial information and internet or other electronic network activity with providers of payment processing, customer relationship management, consulting, email, product feedback and helpdesk services.
•   The Right to Opt-Out of the Sale of Your Personal Information
•   For more information on managing your personal information, please see the section above, titled YOU MAY MANAGE YOUR PERSONAL INFORMATION

•   The Right of Access
•   You have the right to request from us:
•   The Right to Deletion
•   You have the right to request that we delete the Personal Information we have collected from you. However, in certain situations we are not required to delete your Personal Information, such as when the information is necessary in order to complete the transaction for which the Personal Information was collected, to provide a good or service requested by you, to comply with a legal obligation, to engage in research, to secure our websites or other online services, or to otherwise use your personal information internally in a lawful manner that is compatible with the context in which you provided the information.
•   Email us to make a privacy request regarding your CCPA rights at hello@thebowlcut.com Should you exercise any of your privacy rights as a California resident, we will not discriminate against you by offering you different pricing or products, or by providing you with a different level or quality of services, based solely upon your request. Upon submission of your request, you will receive an email to verify the request, and we will match the information you submit to the information in our systems to verify your identity. We aim to complete requests as soon as reasonably practicable and consistent with any applicable laws. Please note that it may take additional time to verify and fulfill agent-submitted requests.

If you wish to exercise any of these rights, or if you have any concerns about our processing of your personal data, please contact us at hello@thebowlcut.com

DATA RETENTION

When you place an order through the Site, we will maintain your Order Information for our records unless and until you ask us to delete this information.

DO NOT TRACK

Please note that we do not alter our Site’s data collection and use practices when we see a Do Not Track signal from your browser.

LINKS TO OTHER SITES

Our Website may include links to third-party websites and services that are not operated by us. When you click these links, you will be directed away from our Site. A link to a third-party website or service does not mean that we endorse it or the quality or accuracy of information presented on it. If you decide to visit a third-party website or service, you are subject to its privacy practices and policies, not ours. This Privacy Policy does not apply to any personal information that you provide to these other websites and services.

INTERNATIONAL JURISDICTIONS

Our Services are hosted and offered in the United States of America (US), and are subject to US federal, state, and local law. If you are accessing the Services from another country, please be advised that you may be transferring your personal information to us in the US, and you consent to that transfer, processing and storage of your personal information in accordance with this Privacy Notice. You also agree to abide by the applicable laws of applicable US federal, state, and local laws concerning your use of the Services and your agreements with us. Any persons accessing our Services from any jurisdiction with laws or regulations governing the use of the Internet, including the collection, use, or disclosure of personal information, different from those of the jurisdictions mentioned above may only use the Services in a manner lawful in their jurisdiction. If your use of the Services would be unlawful in your jurisdiction, you may not use our Services.

CHANGES

We may update this privacy policy from time to time in order to reflect, for example, changes to our practices or for other operational, legal or regulatory reasons.

CONTACT US

For more information about our privacy practices, if you have questions, or if you would like to make a complaint, please contact us by e‑mail at hello@thebowlcut.com.