Privacy policy
FOOT CARDIGAN’S PRIVACY POLICY
Foot Cardigan, LLC dba Foot Cardigan (“FC” or “Foot Cardigan”) is committed to taking reasonable steps to protect your privacy. This Privacy Policy applies to our website (“Website”) and governs our data collection, processing and usage practices. By using our Website, you consent to the data practices described in this Privacy Policy. If you do not with the data practices described in this Privacy Policy, you should not use our Website. By accessing the Website, you are accepting and agreeing to the practices described in this Privacy Policy.
COLLECTION AND USE OF PERSONAL INFORMATION
We may collect information that identifies an individual (“Personal Information”), including your first name, last name, email address, shipping address(es), and billing address, for several purposes and at several places on the Website, including without limitation:
In connection with your purchase of one of our products;
When you provide us with your Personal Information such as by sending an email to us or signing up to receive a newsletter or our events listing;
When you register to establish a user account on our Website;
When you provide Personal Information in connection with your participation in any of the forums we make available to our customer community; and
When you interact with third party social media websites (such as Twitter, Facebook, Instagram, Pinterest, Google Plus).
Purchases. If you transact business with us, for example by purchasing our products, we collect information about the transactions. The information we collect includes your Personal Information, such as your name, email address, billing information, shipping information, and other related information. Although we use third party payment processors to process any purchases made on our website, we or our vendors may retain limited information in order to respond to fulfillment questions or inquiries, communicate with you about your account, and for other business purposes.
Personal Account and Profile. When you register to obtain a user account on our Website (any such person, a “Registered User”), including but not limited to the Foot Cardigan Website (located at https://www.footcardigan.com), you may be asked to agree to our Privacy Policy and the Terms and Conditions of our Website. You also may be asked to provide Personal information, including your first and last name and email address to create your account and establish a password and profile. If you do provide your email address, it will allow us to send you your password if you should forget it. We will also use that Personal Information to establish and maintain your membership and provide you with the features we provide for Registered Users and for the purpose of contacting you about upcoming news and events relevant to Foot Cardigan.
Emails and Newsletters. We use the Personal Information you provide when you send us emails or sign up to receive our newsletter to respond to your request. For example, we will use your email address to reply to an email you sent us or to send you communications about news and events related to Foot Cardigan. Personal information submitted as part of our email newsletter is used for the purpose of managing the newsletter.
FC Discussion Boards/User Posts. Our Website may permit you to submit ideas, photographs, user profiles, pictures, videos, data, questions, comments, suggestions, or other content, including Personal Information, such as on profiles, blogs, videos, and message boards or to our Support pageWe or others may store, display, reproduce, publish, distribute, or otherwise use this information online or offline in any media or format (currently existing or hereafter developed) and may or may not attribute it to you. We also may use that Personal Information to establish and maintain your membership and provide you with the features we provide for Registered Users, and for the purpose of contacting you about upcoming news and events relevant to Foot Cardigan. Foot Cardigan may use the personal and non-personal browsing information you provide on your public page to promote the mission of Foot Cardigan. Others may have access to and/or the ability to share this content with third parties. Foot Cardigan does not control who will have access to the information that you choose to make public, and cannot ensure that parties who have access to such publicly available information will respect your privacy or keep it secure. This Privacy Policy does not apply to any information that you disclose publicly, share with others, or otherwise upload onto the publicly available portions of our Website.
Third Party Analytics Services. We may work with third party analytics services to help us understand how the Website is being used, such as tracking the frequency and duration of use of the Website. We may use Google Analytics, a web analytics service provided by Google, Inc. (“Google”), to collect information about your use of the Website. Google and these analytics services may use cookies to collect information about the content you view, what websites you visit immediately prior to and after visiting the Website, and your system information and geographic information. The information generated by these cookies about your use of the Website will be transmitted to and stored by the applicable analytics services. The information collected by these analytics services allows us to analyze your use of the Website.
Automated Collection of Information. We and our third party vendors may collect information about users’ IP addresses when they submit a form on our Website. We may use information about your IP address to administer our Website, analyze trends, change the content of our Website based on your needs, gather information about visitor movements and purchases, provide you with more relevant content and advertisements, provide you with a better user experience, and improve the effectiveness of our Website. We also may use your IP address to enhance our security, test our Website, and help diagnose potential problems with our server.
We may assign your device one or more cookies to facilitate access to our Website, personalize your online experience, and provide you with relevant advertisements. A cookie is a small text file that is stored on a user's computer for record keeping purposes. Cookies can be either session cookies or persistent cookies. A session cookie expires when you close your browser and is used to make it easier for you to navigate our Website. A persistent cookie remains on your hard drive for an extended period of time. These cookies may be delivered by us or third parties. We may use cookies to allow you to use the website without having to re-enter your user name and password; enhance or personalize your website usage and shopping experience; and improve the functionality of the Website. You can set your browser to reject cookies or to notify you when you are sent a cookie. However, if you disable cookies you may not be able to log in to the Website or to use certain features of the Website. To find out more about cookies, including how to see what cookies have been set on your device and how to manage and delete them, visit www.allaboutcookies.org.
We may use third party companies, such as AdRoll, to track your actions online over time and across different web sites or platforms to measure statistics relating to marketing efforts, and to deliver electronic advertisements that may be more relevant to you and that will improve your consumer experience. These companies may collect anonymous information about your visits to our Website and your interaction with our advertising and other communications. We do not have access to or control over cookies or other features that they may use. This Privacy Policy does not cover the information practices of these third party advertising companies and other websites. You can visit the page http://www.adroll.com/about/privacy to opt out of AdRoll and their partners' targeted advertising. For information about how tracking works for online advertising purposes, and what happens when you elect a do-not-track option, visit http://www.aboutads.info/choices. In addition, some third party businesses may provide a mechanism to opt-out of their technology. For more information about the opt-out process, you may visit the Network Advertising Initiative website, available at: http://www.networkadvertising.org/managing/opt_out.asp.
Any other personal information that we may collect which is not described specifically in this Privacy Policy will only be collected and used in accordance with the Principles.
DISCLOSURES OF PERSONAL INFORMATION
We employ other companies and individuals to perform functions on our behalf. Examples include, but are not limited to, fulfilling orders, delivering packages, obtaining user feedback, sending postal mail and e-mail, providing marketing assistance, providing search results and links, maintaining, enhancing or adding to the functionality of the website, and providing customer service. They have access to Personal Information needed to perform their functions, but may not use it for other purposes
In addition, we may disclose information collected from and about you as follows: (1) you expressly request or authorize us to do so; (2) we believe the information is needed to comply with the law (for example, to comply with a search warrant, subpoena or court order), respond to a government request, enforce an agreement we have with you, or to protect our rights, property or safety, or the rights, property or safety of our employees or others; (3) the information is provided to our agents, third parties or service providers who perform functions on our behalf; (4) to address emergencies or acts of God; (5) in anticipation of and in the course of an actual or potential sale, reorganization, consolidation, merger, or amalgamation of all or part of our business or operations in which case your information may be provided to the purchaser or resulting entity; or (6) to address disputes, claims, or to persons holding a legal or beneficial interest. We may share aggregate, non-personally identifiable information about website users with third parties.
SOCIAL MEDIA
Our Website interfaces with social media networks such as Facebook, Instagram, Pinterest, Google Plus, and Twitter. You may have the opportunity to connect to FootCardigan.com through Google+ or Facebook’s application program interfaces (“API”) when you register for FootCardigan.com, or after you have registered for FootCardigan.com. If you connect to FootCardigan.com through Google+ or Facebook, either when you register or after you have registered, we will collect, store, and use in accordance with this Privacy Policy any and all information you agreed that Google+ or Facebook could provide to FootCardigan.com through their APIs. Your agreement (and our access to your information) takes place when you instruct, accept, or allow Google+ or Facebook to register you for a FootCardigan.com account or otherwise connect to FootCardigan.com through Google+ or Facebook. The information FootCardigan.com may access, collect, and store may include the following, among other information, as allowed by you, Google+ or Facebook’s API, and your privacy settings: your name, profile picture, email address, gender, birthday, location, friends’ names and pictures, and any other information you make publicly available via either social media network.
Our Website also may use social media plugins (such as the Facebook "Like" button) to facilitate social media functions. When you visit our Website, the operator of a social media plugin may set cookies or other tracking technology on your browser, enabling that social media operator to recognize individuals who visit our Website. If you are logged into a social media website while browsing on our Website, the social media plugins may allow the social media website to receive information about your visit-including the pages that you viewed-and connect the visit to your Personal Information. The social media plugins also grant us permission to access and use the information that you post or store on the applicable social media service, in accordance with the privacy policy of that service and the privacy settings that are applicable to your account, and to store the user name and password you use to log-in to the applicable social media service. This allows us to share information about your activities on our Website with other users of their social media website. For example, Facebook social media plugins allow Facebook to show your Likes and comments on our Website to your Facebook friends. Your use of social media plugins is subject to each social media website's privacy policy, so we encourage you to use care and thoughtfully read the privacy policy of each social media website that you use. We have no control over the information that social media websites or plugins collect, store, or use. Before connecting to our Website from a social media website or using a social media plugin on our Website, please be certain that you understand the social media website's privacy policy and how it may gather information about what your access to our website, and what you view on our Website.
DO NOT TRACK
Some browsers have a “Do Not Track” feature that lets you tell websites that you do not want to have your online activities tracked. These features are not yet uniform, and our Website currently is not capable of honoring or responding to those signals.
SECURITY OF PERSONAL INFORMATION COLLECTED VIA THE WEBSITE
Foot Cardigan has implemented reasonable measures to secure the information that you choose to provide to us. However, no website can fully eliminate security risks. We restrict access to Personal Information to certain individuals and organizations that need to know the information in order to operate, develop, or improve our services. We are committed to taking appropriate disciplinary measures to enforce our employees’ privacy responsibilities.
CALIFORNIA PRIVACY RIGHTS
California law permits our customers who are California residents to request certain information about our disclosure of Personal Information to third parties for their direct marketing purposes during the preceding calendar year. This request is free and may be made once a year. To make such a request, please write to us at the following address: Foot Cardigan, 11664 National Blvd 440 Los Angeles CA 90064 United States.
CHILDREN
The Website is not directed at children under the age of 13. Consistent with the federal Children’s Online Privacy Protection Act of 1998 (COPPA), we do not knowingly request Personal Information from anyone under the age of 13 without requiring parental consent. Persons under 13 years of age are specifically prohibited from submitting any personally identifiable information about themselves or other persons under 13 years of age. Any person who provides their Personal Information to Foot Cardigan through the Website represents that they are 13 years of age or older.
THIRD-PARTY SITES
The Website may include links to other websites. You should consult the respective privacy policies of these third-party sites. This Privacy Policy does not apply to, and we cannot control the activities of, such other websites.
CHANGES AND UPDATES TO THIS PRIVACY POLICY
We may occasionally update this Privacy Policy. When we do, we will also revise the Effective Date below. We encourage you to periodically review this Privacy Policy to stay informed about how we are protecting the personal information we collect. Your continued use of the Website constitutes your agreement to this Privacy Policy and any updates.
HOW TO ACCESS, CHANGE, OR DELETE YOUR PERSONAL INFORMATION
You can update, correct, or delete your Personal Information, or remove it from our system by making a request to us at the contact information provided below, or by logging into your account to update, correct, or delete your Personal Information. Requests typically receive a response within thirty (30) days. If the request cannot be resolved provided within that time frame, we will provide the requesting party with an estimated date by which the information will be provided. If for some reason access is denied, we will provide an explanation of why access has been denied.
CHANGES AND UPDATES TO THIS PRIVACY POLICY
As Foot Cardigan, its products, and its services change from time to time, may this Privacy Policy is expected to change as well. We will notify you of changes to this Privacy Policy by posting the amended Privacy Policy on the website at least thirty (30) days before the effective date of the changes. If you have provided us with your e-mail address, we will also notify you of any material changes to the Privacy Policy that affect your rights by sending an e-mail at least thirty (30) days before the effective date of the changes to the e-mail address you most recently provided to us. We encourage you to keep the e-mail address you provide to us current, and to promptly notify us of any changes to your e-mail address, so that you may receive any notices we send to you regarding material changes to this Privacy Policy. If you do not agree to the new Privacy Policy, you should stop using the affected website(s), and if you are a registered user, you may cancel your account with us within the thirty (30) day period by contacting us at [insert] and you will not be bound by the new Privacy Policy. Otherwise, the new Privacy Policy will take effect after thirty (30) days. Our employees do not have the right to modify this Privacy Policy orally or otherwise.
QUESTIONS?
If you have questions about this Privacy Policy, please contact us by email at info@footcardigan.com.
Effective Date: June 6, 2017
