Last updated November 8, 2020
Welcome to the SALA Apparel Website, www.SALAApparel.com (hereinafter “Website” or “Platform”). The Platform is operated by SALA APPAREL, LLC., (“we,” “us,” or “our”). We believe that the privacy and security of your information and data (hereinafter “Information”) is very important. This Privacy Policy (hereinafter “Policy”) explains the type of Information we collect from users of the Platform, how that Information is used, how the Information may be shared with other parties, and what rights our users have regarding their Information. We encourage you to read this Policy carefully.
Our Platform is operated in the United States and can be access by all states within.
California residents should consult the section titled “Your California Privacy Rights” for rights that apply to them.
By continuing to use our website and services, you confirm your agreement to the Policy.
This Policy went into effect on the date that it was last updated on November 8, 2020.
THE TYPE OF INFORMATION WE COLLECT FROM THE USERS OF OUR PLATFORM
Below are the types of Information we may collect through our Platform:
I. “Personal Data”
Personal Data includes Information such as your name, e-mail address, phone number, account or mailing address, company name (if applicable) and other information that can be used to directly identify and contact you (which, in some cases, may include certain Device Information or information from the signature block of your e-mail).
We collect most of your personal Information directly from you- in person, by telephone, text or e-mail and/or via our sites. Collection of this Personal Data is necessary to provide products to you. If you do not provide this personal Information, it may delay or prevent us from providing products to you.
II. “Device Information”
Device Information includes information relating to the computer or device you are using when you access our Platform. This may include your computer’s IP address, your mobile device identifiers (including Apple IDFA or an Android Advertising ID), the type of browser and operating system you are using, the identity of your internet service provider, and your device and browser settings.
III. “Usage Data”
Usage Data is the data related to your use of the Platform such as the pages you visit, the sites you use before or after visiting ours, your actions within the Platform, the type of content or advertisements you have accessed, seen, forwarded and/or clicked on, Wi-Fi connections, date and time stamps, log files, and diagnostic, crash , website, and performance logs and reports.
We collect Personal Data only when you provide it to us, but may collect other types of Information in the process of your use of our Platform through automated means such as software developer kits, cookies, and web beacons.
HOW WE USE THE COLLECTED INFORMATION FROM OUR PLATFORM
We use your Information for administrative and business purposes – particularly to contact you and process orders you place on our website. We also use such Information to improve our business and website, to fulfill our contractual obligations, to advertise our goods and services, to analyze your use of our website, and in connection with our legal rights and obligations. In further detail:
I. Personal Data
You may enter the Website and browse its content without submitting any Personal Data. However, we will need to collect relevant Personal Data to provide you with certain services offered by the Platform, including if you choose to create an account on our website, contact us or otherwise communicate with us in any way, subscribe or opt in to our newsletter, alerts, or other communications, subscribe or opt into SMS messages, sign up for product waitlists, participate in a contest or promotion, order our products, submit product reviews, questions, feedback or user comments, complete an optional survey, contact customer service or otherwise interact with the Platform.
We use the Personal Data that we collect to respond to your requests, communicate with you regarding the Platform and our content, send you promotional or marketing communications, guard against potential fraud, provide product information, service your requests and orders, and provide you with the applicable services, features or functionality associated with your submission. When you submit Personal Data through the Platform, whether by directly providing it to us upon request or voluntarily disclosing it through comments, you are giving your consent to the collection, use and disclosure of your Personal Data as set forth in this Privacy Policy.
II. Device Information & Usage Data
Whether or not you submit Personal Data, any time you visit our Platform, we or our service providers may collect, store or accumulate certain Device Information and Usage Data. This Information may be used in furtherance of the purposes described above with respect to Personal Data and in aggregate form for internal business purposes, such as optimizing the Platform, evaluating the popularity of content, generating statistics and developing marketing plans, and otherwise for general administrative, analytical, research, optimization, and security purposes.
III. Information to and from Social Networks
We may provide functionality that will allow you to connect to our Platform through a third-party social network system such as Facebook, Twitter or Instagram (each, hereinafter “Social Network”). If you connect through a Social Network, we may collect Personal Data from your profile, such as your name, username, and e-mail address, and we will use that Personal Data for the purposes set forth herein. In addition, our Platform may offer social sharing features which will allow you to “Share” or “Like” on a Social Network. If you decide to use such features, it may allow the sharing and collection of Information both to and from such Social Network, so you should check the privacy policy of each Social Network before using such features.
IV. Automated Data Collection / Cookies
We may use certain automatic analytics and tracking technologies to assist us in performing a variety of functions, including storing your Information, collecting Device Information and Usage Data, understanding your use of the Platform and customizing the content offered to you on the Platform. We may use platforms like Google Analytics to provide aggregated or anonymized information relating to demographics, geography, interests or affinities. Other technologies we may use include:
a. Cookies
Cookies are text files placed in your computer’s browse to store your preferences. We use cookies or other tracking technologies to understand site and Internet usage and to improve or customize the Platform and the content, offerings, or advertisements you see on the Platform.
b. Web Beacons.
Web Beacons, also knows as clear GIFs, or similar technologies, are small pieces of code placed on a web page or in an e-mail, to monitor the behavior and collect data about the visitors viewing a web page or e-mail. For example, web beacons may be used to count the users who visit a web page or to deliver a cookie to the browser of a visitor viewing that page. Web beacons may also be used to provide information on the effectiveness of our e-mail campaigns.
c. Mobile Device Identifiers and SDKs.
We also sometimes use, or partner with publishers or app developer platforms that use, mobile Software Development Kits (hereinafter “SDKs”) that are incorporated into the Platform to collect Information, such as mobile identifiers (e.g., IDFAs and Android Advertising IDs), geolocation information, and other information about your device or use of the Platform. A mobile SDK may act as the mobile version of a web beacon.
By visiting the Platform, whether as a registered user or otherwise, you acknowledge, and agree that you are giving us your consent to track your activities and your use of the Platform through the technologies described above, as well as similar technologies developed in the future, and that we may use such tracking technologies in the email we send to you. Please note that no such tracking technologies will collect any Personal Data from you unless you choose to submit it to us and that data relating to you individually is not shared with any third parties.
HOW THE INFORMATION COLLECTED FROM THE PLATFORM MAY BE SHARED WITH OTHER PARTIES
In no event will we disclose, rent, sell, or share any of your Personal Data to third parties for direct marketing purposes.
We only share your Information with third parties for the following purposes: When contracting with companies or individuals to provide certain services related to the functionality and features of the Platform, including content streaming, e-mail and hosting services, software development, data management, orders, payment processing, management of forms, quizzes and pols, customer service, returns, live chat, marketing, fraud prevention, product review and questions, and administration of contests and other promotions. We call them our “Service Providers.” We may share your Information with such Service Providers as appropriate in order for them to perform the required services for company. Be assured that our Service Providers are permitted to use you Information only for such purposes.
We use Bluehost to host our website and to process our orders. We urge you to look into Bluehosts’s policies as well.
In certain instances, as with Paypal and Afterpay, which process payments, you may also be directed to a third-party website which is governed by its own privacy policy. We urge you to look into both third-party websites for their own privacy policies.
We may also share or transfer Device Information and Usage Data in aggregated, anonymized form with or to our affiliates, licensees, partners and Service Providers for administrative, analytical, research, optimization, and security purposes, but no such Information will be linked with your Personal Data or be used to identify or contact you.
Finally, we may share your Information: (i) In response to subpoenas, court orders, or other legal process; to establish or exercise our legal rights; to defend against legal claims; or as otherwise required by law. In such cases we reserve the right to raise or waive any legal objection or right available to us; (ii) When we believe it is appropriate to investigate, prevent, or take action regarding illegal or suspected illegal activities; to protect and defend the rights, property, or safety of our company, our users, or others; and in connection with the enforcement of our Terms of Use and other agreements; or (iii) In connection with a corporate transaction, such as a divestiture, merger, consolidation, or asset sale, or in the unlikely event of bankruptcy.
Notwithstanding any of the above, we will not share your Personal Data if such sharing is prohibited by applicable privacy and data protection law, including, without limitation, the California Consumer Protection Act (“CCPA”) which will come into effect on January 1, 2020.
WHAT RIGHTS OUR USERS HAVE REGARDING THEIR INFORMATION
I. Opting out of Communications
As described above, we may use the Personal Data we collect from you to send you newsletters or other communications from us, including those promotional or marketing in nature. If you do not want to receive such communications, you can opt out by clicking here.
You may also, at any time, opt out of receiving communications from us by sending an e-mail to [email protected] with the subject line “Privacy Policy.”
II. Disallowing Cookies and Data Collection
You can opt out of the collection and use of certain information, which we collect about you by automated means, by changing the settings in the device you use to access the Platform. In addition, your browser may tell you how to be notified and opt out of receiving certain types of cookies. Please note, however, that without cookies you may not be able to use all of the features of the Platform.
III. Your Right to Access, Review, and Delete Personal Data
The California Consumer Privacy Act (hereinafter “CCPA”) gives residents in California (hereinafter “California Consumers”) more control over the personal information that businesses collect about them. This privacy law secures new privacy rights for such California Consumers, including:
- a. The right to request access to the personal information a business collects about them and how it is used and shared. This may include the categories of personal information collected, the specific pieces of personal information collected, the categories of sources from which the business collected personal information, the purposes for which the business uses the personal information, the categories of third parties with whom the business shares the personal information, the categories of information that the business sells or discloses to third parties.
- b. To request deletion of personal information collected from them. We will honor this request subject to the range of exclusions permitted by law. For example, we are not required to delete personal information if it is necessary to complete a transaction or reasonably used for an ongoing business relationship or if it is used internally in a lawful manner that is compatible with the context in which the consumer provided the information.
- c. To request to opt out of the sale of their personal information; and
- d. The right to non-discrimination for exercising their CCPA rights
When we receive a request to know or delete from a California consumer, we will confirm receipt of the request within 10 days and provide information about how we will process the request, including our verification process. We will respond to such requests within 45 days.
Submitting Requests:
If you are a California Consumer and would like to make any requests under the CCPA, please email us at [email protected] with the subject line “Privacy Policy.”
Verifying Requests:
In submitting a request, a California consumer must provide sufficient information to identify the consumer, such as name, e-mail address, home or work address, or other such information that is on record with us so that we can match such information to the Personal Information that we maintain.
Do not provide social security numbers, driver’s license numbers, account numbers, credit or debit card numbers, medical information or health information with requests.
If requests are unclear or submitted through means other than outlined above, we will provide the California consumer with specific directions on how to submit the request or remedy any deficiencies. If we cannot verify the identity of the requestor, we reserve the right to deny the request from the requesting party in which cannot be confirmed.
Providing the Information:
We will provide this information free of charge in any 12 month period within 45 days of receiving your verifiable request (including verification of your identity and your California residency), subject to delays and exclusions permitted by law. Specific personal information about you or your account that is categorized as sensitive or confidential may be redacted.
CHANGES TO THIS PRIVACY POLICY
We reserve the right to change this Policy at any time. In the event we make changes to this Policy, such policy will be re-posted in the “Privacy” section of our Platform with the date such modifications were made indicated on the top of the page. Therefore, please review this Policy from time to time so that you are aware when any changes are made to this Policy. If you have any questions about the changes that were implemented, please contact us at [email protected] and include “Information Regarding Updated Policy” in the subject line.
In any event, your continued use of the Platform after such change constitutes your acceptance of any such change(s), and if you do not accept any changes, you may choose not to use the Platform or opt out by sending us an appropriate notice.
HOW LONG DO WE RETAIN YOUR INFORMATION
We retain the Information we collect from your use of our Platform for as long as necessary, including:
- Taking into account any legal obligations we have. For instance, keeping of the records for tax purposes
- Any other legal basis we have for using your information, such as your consent, performance of a contract with you or our legitimate interests as a business.
- For as long as you use the Platform, or as necessary to fulfill the purpose(s) for which it was collected, resolve disputes, establish legal defenses, conduct audits, pursue legitimate business purposes, enforce our agreements, and comply with applicable laws.
PRIVACY AND SECURITY
It is entirely your choice whether or not you provide Personal Data to us. We take reasonable precautions to protect our customers’ Personal Data against loss, misuse, unauthorized disclosure, alteration, and destruction. However, please remember that no transmission of data over the Internet or any wireless network can be guaranteed to be 100% secure. As a result, while we strive to protect your Personal Data, we cannot ensure or warrant the security of any Information that you transmit to us or from us, and you do so at your own risk. You hereby acknowledge that we are not responsible for any intercepted information sent via the Internet, and you hereby release us from any and all claims arising out of or related to the use of intercepted information in any unauthorized manner.
LINKS TO THIRD PARTY PLATFORMS
Our Platform or communications may contain links to third party websites, over which we exercise no control, including the form of embedded content, sponsored content or co-branded content. Except as set forth in this Policy, we do not share your Personal Data with those third parties and are not responsible for the privacy policies of any third party or their management of your Personal Data. Because they may treat your Information differently than we do, we suggest you read the privacy policies on those third-party websites prior to submitting any Personal Data to such sites.
CHILDREN UNDER 13
The Platform is intended for and targeted to adults. We do not knowingly collect or solicit Personal Data directly from anyone under the age of 13.
If you are under 13, please do not send any Personal Data about yourself to us, including your name, address, telephone number, or email address.
In the event that we learn that we have collected Personal Data from a child under age 13, we will delete that information as quickly as possible.
If you are a parent or guardian of a child under 13 years of age and you believe your child has provided us with Personal Data, please contact us at [email protected] with the subject line writing “Privacy Policy.”
YOUR AGREEMENTS
You represent and warrant that any Personal Data you provide us is true and correct and relates to you and not to any other person.
If you use the Platform, you are responsible for maintaining the confidentiality of your account and for restricting access to your computer or device, and you agree to accept responsibility for all activities that occur under your account.
MISCELLANEOUS
All other terms governing this Privacy Policy shall be those set forth in our Terms of Use which are incorporated herein by this reference.
If you have questions or comments about this Policy, please contact [email protected] with “Privacy Policy” in the subject line of your e-mail.