Privacy Policy I GrandTies

Updated: Sep 02, 2020

We are part of GRANDTIES. GrandTies is committed to respecting your privacy. This Privacy Policy is to inform you what information we collect from you and how we use them. This Privacy Policy applies to information we collect through our websites and mobile applications, and anywhere else we interact with you. By using any of our websites, mobile applications, or sharing your information with us, you are accepting and consenting to the practices described in this Privacy Policy. 

GrandTies supports and adheres to the guidelines and practices adopted by the Direct Marketing Association's Privacy Promise to American Consumers. We have agreed to (1) provide customers with notice of their ability to opt out of information rental, sale, or exchange with other marketers; (2) honor customers' requests not to share their contact information with other marketers; and (3) honor customers' requests not to receive mail, telephone, or other solicitations from GrandTies. 

Collecting Information About You
We collect the following categories and types of personal information:

• Contact Information: your first and last name, postal address, email address, and phone number;
• Other identifying information: IP address, passwords and other security information for authentication and access, social media user names, and cookie identifiers;
• Financial Information: credit card, debit card and bank account information you've used in a transaction with us;
• Demographic information: gender, age, employment information salary range, categorical purchase behavior outside of GrandTies;
• Geolocation data;
• Internet or other electronic activity: your browsing and click history, including information about how you navigate within our services and which elements of our services you use the most;
• Commercial information: products purchased or viewed on our website;
• Audio and visual information: your videos and photos that you've uploaded to our sites;
• Inferences drawn from the categories described above in order to create a profile about you to reflect your preferences, characteristics, behavior and attitude.

We may use your personal information for the following purposes:

Transactional Purposes: We use your contact information, financial information, and commercial information to:

• Receive, process, confirm, send and track your order, subscription or registration;
• Communicate with you about your order, subscription or registration;
• Process any subscription or registration you make to one of our services; and

Analytical Purposes: We use your other identifying information, internet activity and browsing history, commercial information, demographic information, and geolocation data to analyze preferences, trends and statistics.

Marketing and Promotional Purposes: We use your contact information, commercial information, demographic information, internet or other electronic activity, geolocation data, and inferences to:

• Inform you of our new products, services and offers;
• Provide you with and measure and optimize targeted advertising;
• Run contests, promotions and sweepstakes,
• Provide you with our loyalty program including earning credits and awarding and redeeming certificates; and
• Provide you with other information from and about GRANDTIES, including personalized marketing communications.

Maintenance and Improvement of Services and Website: We use your contact information, commercial information, and internet activity and browsing history to:

• Provide and maintain functionality on our website, including customer review features;
• Handle your customer services requests; and
• Help us diagnose technical and service problems and administer our website and apps.

Review and Content Creation Purposes: We use your contact information, commercial information, and audio and visual information to enable reviews of our products and to display content that you have created and allowed us to display on our website and services and on social media and other advertising.

Security and Fraud Prevention: We use your contact information, other identifying information, commercial information, financial information, geolocation data, internet activity and browsing history, and inferences to protect this website, our company, and others and to prevent fraud, theft and misconduct.

Sources of Personal Information
We collect information from the following sources:
We collect information regarding contact and demographic information directly from you. We also collect payment information from you.

We collect information about you from third parties. We collect your personal information from third parties, such as social media sites and data co-ops. We use the Google Maps service on our web sites and may use the Google Maps service, and other services, to collect geolocation data. We use this information to create greater ease of use in our checkout, including to suggest your shipping and billing address, or to help you find the closest store location. The Google Maps service is governed by Google's privacy policy located at www.google.com/policies/privacy. We may collect your identifying information from Facebook, in accordance with their terms of use and privacy policy. We purchase from and trade contact information, demographic information, commercial information, and internet and electronic activity with data co-ops and other third party data aggregators.

We collect information from you passively. We collect Internet or other electronic activity passively using tools like browser cookies. This activity is further described in the Advertising and Online Tracking section below.

Combining Information
We may combine information you give us online and may also combine that information with publicly available information and information we receive from or cross-reference with third parties. We use that combined information to enhance and personalize your shopping experience with us, to communicate with you directly about our products and events that may be of interest to you, and for other promotional and commercial purposes.

When We Share Information with Third Parties

Our Service Providers
We may contract with companies or persons to provide certain services including credit card processing, shipping, data analysis and management, promotional services, etc. We call them our Service Providers. We provide our Service Providers with the information needed for them to perform these services. We also ask our Service Providers to confirm that their privacy practices are consistent with ours.

Our Select Partners
From time to time we might establish a business relationship with other persons or entities whom we believe trustworthy and whom we have asked to confirm that their privacy policies are consistent with ours. These are known as our Select Partners. In such cases we might rent, exchange, share and/or cross-reference information, including contact information about you that will enable such persons or entities to contact you regarding products and services that may be of interest to you.

Our Affiliates
We may share personal information with businesses controlling, controlled by, or under common control with any GrandTies.

Law Enforcement and Courts
In certain instances we may disclose your contact information when we have reason to believe that it is necessary to identify, contact or bring legal action against persons or entities who may be causing injury to you, to GrandTies or to others. We may also disclose your contact information when we believe the law or legal process requires it.

Tracking Technologies
When you visit our web sites, we send one or more cookies to your computer or other device. We may also use cookies and other similar technologies in emails that you receive from us. A cookie is a small data file that is placed on the hard drive of your computer when you visit a web site. A session cookie expires immediately when you end your session (i.e., close your browser). A persistent cookie stores information on the hard drive so when you end your session and return to the same web site at a later date the cookie information is still available. We use cookies to improve the quality of our service when you visit our web site and other web sites of interest to you. We also use cookies to identify us of who you are, tailor measure and optimize our products, services and advertising to suit the personal interests of you and others, estimate our audience size, assist our online merchants to track visits to and sales at our web sites and to process your order, track your status in our promotions, contests and sweepstakes, and/or analyze your visiting and email interaction patterns.

If you would like to opt out of accepting cookies altogether, you can set your browser to not accept cookies or to notify you when you are sent a cookie, giving you the chance to decide whether or not to accept it. However, certain features of our web sites or other services may not work if you delete or disable cookies.

We use Google Analytics on our web sites to collect usage data, to analyze how users use the web sites and to provide advertisements to you on other websites. For more information about how to opt out of having your information used by Google Analytics, visit https://tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout/.

Advertising and Online Tracking

We allow third-party companies to serve ads and/or collect certain information when you visit our web sites. These companies may use information (e.g., click stream information, browser type, time and date, subject of advertisements clicked or scrolled over) collected during your visits to this and other web sites in order to provide advertisements about goods and services likely to be of interest to you. These companies may also tie identifiers associated with a particular browser or device to identifiers associated with other browsers or devices used by the same user or household (e.g., a device identifier associated with a user's computer may be tied to the device identifiers of that user's tablet and phone) in order to measure and target advertisements tailored to user interests across their devices and to send personalized marketing communications. These companies typically use a cookie or third party web beacon to collect this information. Our systems do not recognize "Do Not Track" signals, but several of these third party companies who utilize these cookies or beacons on our web sites enable you to opt out of this behavioral advertising. You can learn about this in the "Opting Out of Marketing and Transfers" section of this Privacy Policy.

Opting Out Of Marketing and Transfers; Updating Information about You
We want to communicate with you only if you want to hear from us. If you prefer not to receive direct marketing from us or from our Select Partners, or if you would like to opt out of our rental or exchange of your information with other marketers, please let us know via email specifically what information you do not want to receive. If you would like to update or correct your email address, mailing address or other contact information with us please contact us the same way.

Please note that any requests to remove or update your contact information may take up to 7 working days for your email request to be processed.

We may need to contact you via phone, email or mail to address questions or issues specific to your order, entry, etc., even if you have opted to not receive marketing communications from us. We contact you only in ways compatible with your communications choices. To the extent necessary for such purposes, we take reasonable steps to make sure that your contact information is accurate, complete, current, and otherwise reliable.

NOTICE TO CALIFORNIA RESIDENTS
California Code Section 1798.83 permits individual California residents to opt-out of our disclosure of Personal Information to third parties for their direct marketing purposes. You may choose to opt-out of the sharing of your Personal Information with third parties for marketing purposes at any time by submitting a request in writing to our contact address below or by sending us an email or via the Message Form. Please note that this opt-out does not prohibit disclosure made for non-marketing purposes. California law also permits residents of California to request and obtain from us once per year, free of charge, a list of the third parties (if any) to whom we have disclosed personal information for their direct marketing purposes in the prior calendar year, as well as the type of Personal Information disclosed to those third parties. If you are a California resident and would like to request this information, please submit your request by email. The email’s subject line or the mailing envelope must include the phrase “California Privacy Rights.” The body of the email or letter also must include “California Privacy Rights,” as well as your email address (if you wish to receive a response via email) or street address, city, state, zip code (if you wish to receive a response via mail).

If you are a California resident under age 18 and are a registered user of any of the site, then you may request that we remove any content that you publicly posted on the Site. To request removal of your content, please send an email with a detailed description of the specific content. We reserve the right to request that you provide information that will enable us to confirm that the content that you want removed was created and posted by you.

We will make a good faith effort to delete or remove your content from public view as soon as reasonably practicable. Please note, however, that your request that we delete your content does not ensure complete or comprehensive removal of your content. Your content may remain on backup media, cached or otherwise retained by us for administrative or legal purposes or your content may remain publicly available if you or someone else has forwarded or re-posted your content on another website or service prior to its deletion. We also may be required by law to not remove or allow removal of your content.

Please note that if we delete your personal information, many of our services will not work the same. Some examples include, but are not limited to:

Returns: We will not have the ability to look up your receipt or order in our system. In order to process a return or refund, we will require proof of purchase from the customer and if the customer is unable to provide proof of purchase, the transaction will be treated as an unreceipted return in accordance with our return policy.

Customer Service: Our ability to handle customer service requests may be limited. We will not have the ability to look up prior orders or account information and may request proof of purchase in order to service your needs.

Online Account & Shopping: Your online account will no longer exist. Your shopping cart items, order history, saved addresses, saved recipes and any other saved preferences in your online account will no longer be available.

Loyalty Program: You will lose your loyalty account, existing reward certificates, and any points earned as part of your participation in Key Rewards. You will not be able to accrue loyalty points moving forward. You will also no longer be eligible for loyalty specific benefits such as exclusive events and early access offers.

Recalls: We will no longer be able to contact you via email, regular mail, or phone about product recalls related to products you purchased, unless you provided your information to us by returning a product registration card attached to a durable infant product.

Marketing Communications: We will no longer be able to provide you with any marketing communications directly from our family of brands, including personalized marketing communication such as information about new products, services and offers tailored to your interests.

Opt Outs: Previous opt-out requests will not be saved.

Do Not Sell My Personal Information
Personal Information that We Sell
We may "sell" (as sell is defined in CCPA) the following categories of personal information:
Identifiers
Characteristics of protected classifications under California and federal law;
Internet/electronic activity;
Commercial information; and
Inferences drawn from the categories described above in order to create a profile about you to reflect your preferences, characteristics, preferences, behavior and attitudes.
We "sell" your personal information to Select Partners and to digital advertising networks. We do not knowingly sell the personal information of minors under the age of 16.

Right to Opt Out of Sale
Residents of California have the right to opt out of the sale of your personal information to third parties, as "sale" is defined under CCPA.

We participate in digital advertising networks to deliver advertising that is tailored to your interests. The participation in certain ad networks can constitute a "sale" of personal information under CCPA. In order to opt out of this activity, please visit optout.aboutads.info and optout.networkadvertising.org.

Non-Discrimination
We will not discriminate against you for exercising any of your CCPA Rights and we will not deny you goods or services, charge you a different price, or provide you with a lesser quality of goods or services if you exercise any of your CCPA Rights.

Financial Incentives
We offer various financial incentives. The terms of the financial incentive will be presented to you at the time you sign up. You may withdraw from any of the financial incentives by contacting us at 800.541.1262, email or by unsubscribing to our email marketing by vising our website. The value of your data is the value of the offer presented to you. We have calculated the value of the incentive by using the expense related to the offer.

Security
We maintain physical, electronic, and procedural safeguards to protect the confidentiality and security of information transmitted to us. Unfortunately, however, no data transmission over the Internet can be guaranteed to be 100% secure. As a result, while we strive to protect your contact information, to the extent permitted by law, we do not guarantee or warrant the security of any information you transmit to or from our web sites, and you do so at your own risk.

We urge you to keep any password that you establish with us in a safe place and not to divulge it to anyone. We also encourage you to use a unique or different password for our websites. Also remember to log off your account and close your browser window when you have finished your visit. This is to ensure that others cannot access your account, especially if you are sharing a computer with someone else or are using a computer in a public place.

Protecting Children
We do not knowingly collect personal information from children under 13. If you are a parent or guardian and you are aware that any of your children has provided us with personal information without your consent, please contact us and we will take steps to remove that information from our servers.

Links to Third Party Web Sites
Our web sites may contain links to websites operated and maintained by third parties, over which we have no control. Privacy policies on such linked websites may be different from our privacy policy. You access such linked websites at your own risk. You should always read the privacy policy of a linked website before disclosing any of your information on such website.

Policy Changes
If we decide to change our privacy policy in whole or in part, we will inform you by posting a notice on our web sites, as applicable. Those changes will go into effect on the effective date posted in the notice and at the end of the revised Privacy Policy. The new policy will apply to all current and past users of our web sites and will replace any prior policies that are inconsistent. Your continued use of our web sites or other services constitutes your acceptance of the practices described in the revised Privacy Policy.