Effective and Last Modified on July 15, 2014.
Your privacy is important to us. This privacy policy discloses how we collect, protect, use, and share information gathered about you on this site. We urge you to read this policy carefully. We hope that this disclosure will give you a clear understanding of how we handle your personal information and will help increase your confidence in our site. By using this site, you agree to the terms of this privacy policy. This privacy policy is in addition to our Terms of Use, which we urge you to read. This policy does not extend to anything that is inherent in the operation of the Internet, and therefore beyond our control, and is not to be applied in any manner contrary to applicable law or governmental regulation.
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INFORMATION WE COLLECT
HOW WE USE YOUR INFORMATION
DISCLOSURE OF YOUR PERSONALLY IDENTIFIABLE INFORMATION
LINKS TO THIRD PARTY SITES
THIRD PARTY CONTENT
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QUESTIONS & CONTACT INFORMATION
This Privacy Policy may be revised periodically, and we will post any new or revised policies on this Site. We recommend that you carefully read our Privacy Policy whenever you visit our Site. Brides Across America, Inc. (501c3) will use your personally identifiable information in a manner that is consistent with the Privacy Policy in effect at the time you submitted the information, unless you consent to the new or revised policy.
Other than simply browsing our website, there are a variety of other ways information may be collected from you as you use our website:
Personally identifiable information is information that can be used to identify you personally, and it may include your name, e-mail address, and street address. We may collect this information in one or a variety of ways, including: when you purchase products; when you use various interactive tools and services; when you participate in surveys, sweepstakes or contests or respond to questionnaires and the like; when you make submissions to us, such as a testimonial; when you participate in any special offers or coupons being offered; when you request information from us, including general or product inquiries; when you contact us. Please note that in this situation the e-mail addresses you supply to us will not be used to send you other e-mail communications unless disclosed at the time you provide the information. You can always choose not to provide certain information, but then you may not be able to take advantage of some of the Site's features, such the interactive content provided on this Site. If you provide us with your personally identifiable information you are consenting to our use and disclosure of such information consistent with this Privacy Policy and the Terms of Use. We may also receive information about you from other sources. For example, we may collect information about you in connection with a promotion offered on a third-party website. We may combine the information we receive from those other sources with information that we collect through this Site. In those cases, we will apply this Privacy Policy to any personally identifiable information that we receive. You are responsible for the accuracy of your personally identifiable information. You submit the information; Brides Across America, Inc. retains it as received. When you update or correct your personally identifiable information, such updated and corrected information is also retained by Brides Across America, Inc. as received.
We also collect non-personally identifiable information from you through the use of technology, which may include "cookies" and pixel tags (or clear "gifs"). Because of the nature of such technology, it may not be apparent to you that such non-personally identifiable information is being collected. For example, our web server will typically collect the number and frequency of visitors to each web page and the lengths of their stays, browser type, referrer data that identifies the web page visited prior and subsequent to visiting the Site, and IP addresses.
An IP address is a number that is automatically assigned to you whenever you access the Internet and is often associated with the place where you enter the Internet like your ISP (Internet Service Provider), your company, or your university. This IP address may be the same each time you access the Internet or it may change. We may associate your IP address with the personally identifiable information you provide. In addition, we may use your IP address to identify you in cooperation with internet service providers or law enforcement at their request or when we feel necessary to protect the site or the public.
"Cookies" are pieces of information that a web site sends to your computer and puts on your computer's hard drive while you are viewing the web site. "Cookies" tell us how often someone visits our Site and the activities they conduct while on our Site (such as the places you visited, etc.). "Cookies" can also be used to store personal preferences for your convenience and to track user trends and patterns. The information collected by "cookies" can help us better understand and improve areas of this Site and our products that our users find valuable. Cookies alone do not tell us your e-mail address or other personally identifiable information. Nevertheless, once you choose to provide us with personally identifiable information, we may combine it with information collected by the cookie. Your browser software can be set to reject all "cookies" or to warn you each time a cookie is being sent. You do this through your browser (e.g., Internet Explorer, Safari, Firefox) settings. Each browser is a little different, so look at your browser's Help menu to learn the correct way to reject "cookies" or receive warnings about "cookies." If you reject our "cookies," some of our Site's functionality may not work properly.
The Site or our e-mail messages may also use pixel tags, which are also called clear "gifs" (or similar technologies as they become available), which are small graphic images that allow the party that set the pixel tag to monitor and collect certain information about the viewer of a web page, web-based document or e-mail message, such as the type of browser requesting the pixel tag, the IP address of the computer that the pixel tag is sent to and the time the pixel tag was viewed. We use the information collected by pixel tags for a variety of internal purposes, such as targeting future advertising campaigns, upgrading visitor information used in reporting statistics, and to count how many e-mail messages that we sent were actually read. We may combine the information we collect in this way with your personally identifiable information. Third-party advertisers or content providers on this Site may also set their own "cookies" or pixel tags. Brides Across America, Inc. does not control these third parties' use of these technologies or how they manage the information they gather through them.
We use Google Analytics, which tracks IP addresses and codes embedded in our Site and gathers non-personally identifiable information about Site usage and movement. This data is then analyzed and used for improving user experience and promoting our products. You should refer to their Privacy Policy to learn how they collect and use information. You can find Google’s privacy policy at: http://www.google.com/analytics.
Brides Across America, Inc. uses personally identifiable information to complete transactions, respond to requests about our products, programs and services, respond to your inquiries, notify you if you've won one any contests, contact you in connection with your account, provide you with relevant content and information, or for other purposes disclosed at the time you provide your personally identifiable information.
If you do not opt-out of receiving information from the Site, we use the information collected to communicate with you and to promote Brides Across America’s products. For example, we may use such information to send you e-mail updates and newsletters about our products, to offer you other products, programs or services that we believe may be of interest to you, including e-mails, or to send you e-mail promotions and special offers from us, our advertisers, third-party business partners, or other third parties.
If you choose to submit content for publication (e.g., success stories with our products, testimonials regarding our product, and/or photographs), we may publish such submissions. If we chose to publish such information (including your photograph and/or likeness and any related information in your submission), we will protect your privacy by including only your first name, first initial of your last name, city, and state (e.g. John J., Tulsa, OK) on our Site; you should review our Terms of Use as to the rights that you are giving us by making any such submission.
We use non-personally identifiable information that we collect or that is collected by Google Analytics for internal purposes, such as to analyze Site usage and movement, to improve the design, content and offerings of our Site and to personalize your Internet experience. We may share non-personally identifiable information about our users, such as aggregate statistics, with advertisers, third party business partners and other third parties.
Brides Across America, Inc. may disclose your personally identifiable information and any other information you have provided, ("User Information") to entities wholly-owned by us. Any information provided to such entities will be treated by those entities in accordance with the terms of this Privacy Policy.
Brides Across America, Inc. does not share your personally identifiable information with third parties for those third parties' marketing purposes. Brides Across America, Inc. discloses personally identifiable information to third parties in the limited circumstances set forth below or as otherwise disclosed in this Privacy Policy or at the time you provide your information:
Disclosure to Service Providers, Operations and Maintenance Contractors We may contract with third-party service providers that perform services on our behalf including, without limitation, facilitating some aspects of the services necessary to operate and maintain this Site, sending e-mail, promotions, and advertising. These third party vendors may be supplied with or granted access to personally identifiable information for the purpose of providing these services to us or on our behalf.
On occasion, we offer promotions --or contests--by ourselves or in conjunction with a third party sponsor. If you choose to enter a contest, or other promotion, your personally identifiable information may be disclosed to third parties in connection with the administration of such promotion, including, without limitation, in connection with winner selection, prize fulfillment, and as required by law, such as on a winners list. Winners' information, such as name, city and state may be posted on the Site. Also, by entering a contest, you are agreeing to the official rules that govern such promotions. These rules may dictate specific obligations such as allowing the sponsor(s) of the promotion to use your name, voice, or likeness in advertising or marketing associated with a contest. Any personally identifiable information collected solely in connection with participation in a sweepstakes will not be used in connection with surveys or polls.
User Information may be transferred in connection with the sale, merger, transfer, exchange, or other disposition (whether of assets, stock, or otherwise) of all or a portion of a business of Brides Across America, Inc. or its subsidiaries, or as the result of other fundamental corporate change.
We will disclose personally identifiable information to comply with legal requirements such as cooperating with law enforcement, regulations, search warrants, subpoenas, court orders, or at the request of governmental authorities conducting an investigation, to verify or enforce compliance with our Terms of Use and applicable laws, or to protect the legal rights, interests, or safety and security of our Site, our users, or others.
For your convenience, Brides Across America, Inc. may also at times have links to websites operated by companies other than Brides Across America. These links may be placed beside the name or logos of sponsors referenced in content or found in advertisements. You should be aware that any information you disclose once you access these other sites is not subject to this Privacy Policy. Brides Across America is not responsible for the privacy policies of these third parties. We recommend that you review the Privacy Policy posted on the third party's site to understand what that third party collects and how it uses your personal information.
Third parties may supply content or offer goods, services and other materials to you on this Site. In the course of doing so, those third parties may set cookies or use pixel tags. Your correspondence and business dealings with advertisers or other third parties found on or through the Web Sites including, but not limited to, the payment and delivery of goods and services, and any terms, conditions, warranties and representations associated with such dealings, are solely between you and the third party. You agree that we will not be responsible or liable for any loss or damage of any sort incurred as the result of any such dealings or the offering of such goods, services, and other materials on this Site. Descriptions of, or references to, products or publications within this Site do not imply endorsement of that product or publication.
To protect your personal information, we take reasonable precautions and follow industry best practices to make sure it is not inappropriately lost, misused, accessed, disclosed, altered or destroyed. If you provide us with your credit card information, the information is encrypted using secure socket layer technology (SSL) and stored with a 256 encryption. Although no method of transmission over the Internet or electronic storage is 100% secure, we follow all PCI-DSS requirements and implement additional generally accepted industry standards.
This Site is operated in the United States. If you are located in the European Union, Canada or elsewhere outside of the United States please be aware that any information you provide to us will be collected in and transferred to the United States. By using this Site or providing us with your information, you consent to this transfer.
If you would like to: access, correct, amend or delete any personal information we have about you, register a complaint, or simply want more information contact us at info@bridesacrossamerica.com.
