PRIVACY POLICY
This Privacy Policy is effective January 6, 2021.
George Hats, Inc. and its affiliates, successors and assigns (collectively, “we,” “our” or “us”) understand the importance of your personal privacy. We have created this Privacy Policy so you know how we use and disclose your information when you make it available to us. This Privacy Policy discloses our practices regarding information collection and usage on our websites and the service provided thereon (collectively, the “Service”). By using or accessing our Service, you signify your agreement to be bound by this Privacy Policy.
IF YOU DO NOT AGREE TO THIS PRIVACY POLICY YOU MAY NOT ACCESS, PARTICIPATE OR OTHERWISE USE OUR SERVICE.
1. What Personal Information We Collect. George Hats may collect information that identifies, relates to, describes, or could reasonably be linked, directly or indirectly, with you (referred to herein as “personal information”). The personal information we may collect from you include without limitation:
• Identifiers – For example, your real name, alias, account name, online identifier, Internet Protocol Address, unique identifiers, email address, birthdate, postal address, phone number, or other similar identifiers. Our web servers automatically collect unique identifiers that can be used to recognize you or your device, including without limitation your domain name, Internet Protocol address, beacons, pixel tags or other device and mobile identifiers or similar technology.
• Payment Data – For example, your credit card information, billing address or any financial information you provide in connection to your purchase of our products.
• Commercial Information - For example, our products you purchased, obtained or considered and other purchasing or consuming histories or tendencies.
• Internet or Other Electronic Network Activity Information – For example, your browsing history, search history, and any other information regarding your interaction with our websites, advertisements, or third party applications.
• Audio and Visual Information – For example, photos or video recordings that you voluntarily provide us or voice recordings when you call customer service.
• Other Categories of Personal Data that Relates to or is Reasonably Capable of Being Associated With You - For example, the messages you send us via social media websites, networks or other services that host user-generated content (e.g., your comments to our Instagram or Facebook posts or when you tag or otherwise link us in your social media posts) and information regarding your pet, including without limitation your pet’s name, age, breed and other characteristics.
• Data About Others – For example, personal information of individuals for whom you purchase an item or gift, such as their real name, email address, phone number, and postal address. Please do not share personal information of other individuals with us unless you have their permission to do so.
2. How We Collect Your Personal Information. George Hats collects your personal information from information you voluntarily provide to us, information we collect automatically from you through your electronic device, and information from third parties. Some ways we collect personal information include, without limitation, when you:
• Create an account on our websites.
• Sign up for our newsletters and/or SMS.
• Purchase or return our products.
• Use our Services (i.e., through our browser cookies, web beacons, third party software, and other similar technology).
• Voluntarily complete a survey or send us messages or other content regarding feedback and inquiries relating to our Services, products, marketing material, and other advertisement and collaboration proposals.
• Voluntarily disclose personal information to us or our service providers.
• Voluntarily comment or provide any type of content on our Services or social media posts hosted by third-party platforms or when you tag or otherwise link us on your social media posts.
• Interact with other third parties (e.g., our service providers) and provide your consent for them to share your personal information with us.
3. How We Use Your Personal Information. George Hats collects and uses your personal information for various business and commercial purposes, including without limitation:
• Sending you alerts regarding our Services and products that we think may interest you.
• Operating, managing, and improving our Services, products, customer outreach, advertisements, events, and promotions.
• Performing services requested by you, such as responding to your comments and product requests, processing, servicing or enforcing transactions, and sending related communications.
• Maintaining the security and integrity of our Services, systems, operations, and products.
• Preventing and addressing fraud, unlawful access, and breach of our policies and terms.
• Sending you technical notices, updates, security alerts, information about our policy changes, and other administrative messages.
• Helping to establish and verify the identity of users and complying with all applicable laws and regulations.
• Pursuing legal matters.
• Analyzing trends and usage, such as the efficiency of deliveries and operations, and troubleshooting problems with our Services, software, or other technology resources.
• Facilitating our accounting, auditing, and reporting requirements.
• Re-posting content voluntarily provided by you on our websites or social media networks, platforms, or other user-generated content providers not operated by George Hats for our marketing purposes.
• Creating promotional videos or other marketing materials from pictures, images, drawings, audio, videos or other content you may submit or share with us.
• Fulfilling any other business or commercial purposes at your direction or with your consent.
4. Who We Share Your Personal Information With. We may disclose information we collect about you with other third parties, including without limitation:
• Service Providers - George Hats shares information with third parties that help us with maintaining and operating our Services, data analytics, advertisements, outreach, and general business. These third parties may only use such information to perform specific services that we have contracted them for and may not use it for any other purpose, although we may permit them to use aggregate information which does not identify you or de-identified data for any purpose except as prohibited by applicable law.
• Vendors - We may share information with vendors and other third parties in connection with tailoring advertisements, measuring and improving our Services, products and advertisements, processing your orders, and helping us execute our other business objectives. These third parties may act as our service providers, or in certain contexts, independently decide how to process your information.
• Affiliates - We may share information with our related entities including without limitation our parent, subsidiaries and sister companies, or to their employees, agents, contractors, representatives, legal counsel and/or accountants, for: operational, management and administrative purposes; internal audit, legal, regulatory, security, insurance, financial, processing and other similar purposes; or as otherwise permitted or required by law.
• Promotional Partners - If you voluntarily subscribe to our newsletters, we share information to help us provide and operate our newsletter offerings. This includes without limitation sharing your information with our service providers that maintain our newsletters, our third-party partners (if applicable) participating in our promotions or other third parties for administrative purposes.
• Third Parties in Connection with a Merger, Acquisition or other Business Transaction - We may share information if George Hats is involved in a merger, acquisition, sale of all or a portion of its assets, financings, joint ventures, reorganizations, dissolution, liquidations, or other event where we sell or transfer all or a portion of our business assets or equity. We will not provide you with notice before disclosure in such cases.
• Third Parties for Security and Compelling Disclosure Purposes - George Hats must disclose information about you in response to lawful requests by public authorities, including but not limited to meet national security or law enforcement requirements. We may share information about you in connection with legal requirements, such as in response to an authorized subpoena or when we believe in good faith that disclosure is necessary to protect our rights, protect your safety or the safety of others, or investigate fraud. Such disclosures may be carried out without notice to you.
• Third Parties that You Direct Us to Share With - We share information at your request or direction, such as when you purchase a gift for an individual and direct us to send it to a certain recipient. We may also share your information with those that you have consented or directed us to share your information with.
5. Privacy Policies of Third Parties and External Links. Our websites contain links to several third party websites, software, or applications not owned or controlled by George Hats, and this Privacy Policy does not apply to such websites, software, or applications or the use of any data by such websites, software, or applications. Should you decide to navigate to any websites, software, or application or webpages external to our websites, you do so entirely at your own risk. We are not responsible for the actions, privacy, security, or content of such third-party websites, software and applications. If you are asked to provide information on one of these websites, software, and applications, we encourage you to carefully review their privacy policy before sharing your information.
6. Cookies and other Similar Technology. Cookies are text files placed on your computer to collect standard Internet log information and visitor behavior information. When you visit our websites, we may collect information from you automatically through cookies, web beacons, third party software development kits, and other similar technology. You can set your browser not to accept cookies, however, in a few cases, some of our websites features may not function as a result. For further information, visit allaboutcookies.org.
George Hats uses cookies in a range of ways to improve your experience on our websites, including without limitation to:
• Report, in aggregate, how our visitors find and use our websites;
• Understand overall visitor behavior;
• Update and improve our websites and application; and
• Process your orders and other requests.
7. Security and Storage. We believe our websites incorporate safeguards to protect the security, integrity, completeness, accuracy, and privacy of the personal information we have collected. We have put in place reasonable precautions to protect information from loss, misuse, and alteration. However, despite our efforts, please be aware that no security measures are perfect or impenetrable and we cannot guarantee that the information you transmit or provide to us will be completely secure.
We will retain your personal information for as long as needed to provide you with our Services and products (e.g., as long as you have an online account with us) or as needed to fulfill our own obligations, such as preventing fraud, meeting regulatory requirements, resolving disputes, improving our services or maintaining security, and in each case, as consistent with applicable law. We may retain non-personal information that has been sufficiently aggregated or anonymized for a longer period.
8. Policy Changes. George Hats may at any time amend the provisions in this Privacy Policy. Changes to this Privacy Policy will be reflected by the “Effective Date” as displayed this Privacy Policy. If the changes are significant, we may provide a more prominent notice.
9. Children. Our websites are intended for general audiences and are not directed to children under 18. We do not knowingly collect personal information from children under 18. If you become aware that a child has provided us with personal information without parental consent, please contact us at [email protected]. If we become aware that a child under 18 has provided us with personal information without parental consent, we will take reasonable steps to remove such information and terminate the child’s account (if applicable).
10. Your Choices You Have Over How Your Information is Used. In this section, we describe the rights and choices available to all users.
• Review and Update Your Account Information - If you registered for an account with us, you may review, update, or delete certain personal information in your account by logging into your account and editing your profile information.
• Out of Marketing Communications - You may opt out of our newsletters and marketing-related emails by following the opt-out or unsubscribe instructions located at the bottom of our emails. You may continue to receive service-related and other non-marketing emails (e.g., confirmation emails regarding your online orders).
• Cookies - Most browsers let you remove and/or stop accepting cookies from the websites you visit. To do this, follow the instructions in your browser’s settings. Note that disabling cookies and/or other tracking tools may prevent George Hats or its service providers from providing you certain features of our websites.
• Advertising Choices - Your device settings may provide functionality to limit use of advertising ID associated with your device for interest-based advertising purposes. Additionally, you can manage third-party advertising preferences for some of the third parties we work with that serve advertising across the internet by using the choices available at http://www.networkadvertising.org/managing/opt_out.asp and www.aboutads.info/choices. We do not guarantee that all of the third parties we work with will honor the elections you make using those options, but we strive to work with third parties that do.
• Choosing Not to Share Your Personal Information - If you do not provide information that we need to provide you with our Services and products, we may not be able to provide you with certain Services and products or provide you access to certain features of our Services. For example, if you do not provide us with your payment information then we will not be able to process your orders for products.
• Third Party Platforms or Social Media Networks - We encourage you to review your privacy options and settings of third party platforms that you use in connection with our Services, including without limitation social media platforms and networks. We recommend you understand what choices you have about sharing information from those platforms and networks with us.
11. Geographic Restrictions. We may limit the availability of our Services to any person or geographic area at any time. If you access our Services from outside the United States, you do so at your own risk.
IF YOU ARE A USER ACCESSING OUR SERVICES FROM ANY OTHER COUNTRY WITH LAWS OR REGULATIONS GOVERNING PERSONAL DATA COLLECTION, USE AND DISCLOSURE THAT DIFFER FROM THE LAWS OF THE UNITED STATES, PLEASE BE ADVISED THAT THROUGH YOUR CONTINUED USE OF OUR SERVICES, YOU ARE TRANSMITTING YOUR PERSONAL DATA TO THE UNITED STATES AND YOU CONSENT TO THAT TRANSMISSION. ADDITIONALLY, YOU UNDERSTAND THAT YOUR PERSONALLY IDENTIFIABLE INFORMATION MAY BE TRANSMITTED TO AND PROCESSED IN COUNTRIES (INCLUDING THE UNITED STATES) WHERE LAWS REGARDING PROCESSING PERSONALLY IDENTIFIABLE INFORMATION MAY BE LESS STRINGENT THAN IN YOUR COUNTRY.
12. How to Contact Us. If you have questions or concerns regarding our Privacy Policy or need to obtain a copy of this Privacy Policy in alternate format due to a disability, please contact us by email at [email protected].
