Privacy Policy
The Glass Gang Inc. (“The Glass Gang”, “we” or “us”), developer and the operator of watchgang.com, which includes an online retail store (collectively the “Site”), is committed to preserving the privacy of those who visit the Site. This document will outline how we gather and utilize various sources of information obtained during your visit to the Site. This Privacy Policy applies solely to information collected on the Site and is made a part of and incorporated into the Terms of Use, and the The Glass Gang.
This Privacy Policy communicates how, when, and why we gather information about our customers and what we do with such information. THIS PRIVACY POLICY DOES NOT APPLY TO OTHER WEBSITES TO WHICH WE LINK. YOU AGREE THAT YOUR USE OF THE SITE SIGNIFIES YOUR ASSENT TO THIS PRIVACY POLICY. IF YOU DO NOT AGREE WITH THIS PRIVACY POLICY, YOU ARE NOT AUTHORIZED TO USE THIS SITE.
INFORMATION COLLECTED.
Personal Information. If you create an account on the Site, subscribe on the Site to become a Member, as defined in the Terms of Use, and/or place an order through watchgang.com, whether a one-time purchase or the purchasing of a recurring Membership Plan, as defined in the Terms of Use, we will ask you for your name, e-mail address, shipping address, telephone number and credit card information or certain other personally identifiable information about yourself ("Personal Information"). We use this information to process and fulfill your order and to notify you of your order status. All archived credit card information is maintained in a secure and safe environment. Telephone numbers and e-mail addresses are used to contact you regarding your order. In addition, when you respond to a contest, survey, questionnaire, sweepstakes or other promotional feature, we may ask you for your name, address and email address or other Personal Information. We do not collect any Personal Information about you unless it is voluntarily provided by you. The Glass Gang will never sell, rent or share your Personal Information, with any third parties for marketing purposes without your express permission. Non-Personally Identifiable Information. We may also collect non-personally identifiable information, such as IP host address, pages viewed, browser type, duration and frequency of visits, and other data, and may aggregate any information collected in a manner which does not identify any individual ("Aggregate Information"). Aggregate Information and Personal Information obtained in connection with the Site may be intermingled with and used by us in conjunction with information obtained through sources other than the Site, including both offline and online sources.
HOW WE USE YOUR INFORMATION.
Disclosure. We will not share or disclose your information to anyone except as described in this Privacy Policy. You agree that if you win any prize or a Grand Prize, The Glass Gang may publicly tag you in posts on social media applications, including, but not limited to, Twitter, Facebook and Instagram, whereby The Glass Gang announces you, personally and by name, as the winner of the prize or Grand Prize. Upon receipt of the prize or Grand Prize, you agree to post a photo of the package and its' contents to Facebook and/or Instagram and tag The Glass Gang.
ENHANCED AND PERSONALIZED SHOPPING EXPERIENCE.
We use Personal Information in order to give you a more enjoyable convenient shopping experience and to help us identify and/or provide information, products or services that may be of interest to you. We use your Personal Information to support and enhance your use of the Site, and its features, including without limitation: fulfilling your order; providing customer service; tracking email invitations you send; and otherwise supporting your use of the Site. We may also track your past purchases to provide you with a personalized profile of your shopping history. In addition, we may notify you about new services or special promotional programs, or send you offers or information. Third parties may be permitted to access your Personal Information, but only in connection with their performance of services to maintain and operate the Site, and certain features on the Site, unless as otherwise provided in this Privacy Policy or agreed to by you. For example, we may use third parties to host the Site, operate various features available on the Site, send emails, analyze data, provide search results and links, and assist in fulfilling your orders.
AFFILIATES; CONSULTANTS; THIRD PARTIES.
Unless you specifically consent to the disclosure of your Personal Information, only we, our affiliates, technical consultants, third party auditors, payment processors, delivery services, warehousing services, and other third parties who develop, maintain, service, or otherwise operate the Site (collectively, “Affiliates”), shall have access to your Personal Information. Such Affiliates are bound by this Privacy Policy.
LAW ENFORCEMENT AND INVESTIGATIONS.
The Glass Gang reserves the right to and may disclose Personal Information about you in response to (a) requests from local, state or federal law enforcement officials; (b) any judicial, administrative or similar proceeding or order, such as subpoena; (c) if required by law; or (d) to investigate suspected fraud, harassment, physical threats, or other violations of any law, rule or regulation, the Site’s Term of Use, rules or policies, or the rights of third parties or to investigate any suspected conduct which is alleged to be improper.
CHANGE OF CONTROL.
We reserve the right to transfer your Personal Information and other information as an asset in connection with a proposed or actual merger or sale (including any transfers made as part of an insolvency or bankruptcy proceeding) involving all or part of our business or as part of a corporate reorganization, stock sale or other change in control. In such a circumstance the transferee would be bound by the terms of this Privacy Policy.
SWEEPSTAKES.
If you register to become a Member with The Glass Gang, or otherwise submit your email address to be added to a mailing list or Sweepstakes or other promotion, we will use the email address for the sole purpose of sending you announcements, special offers from The Glass Gang and its promotional partners. Each email we send will contain information on how to
unsubscribe from our mailing list. You can also unsubscribe by sending an email to glassgangteam@gmail.com.
REFERRALS.
If you elect to use our referral services for informing a friend about our Site we ask you for the friend's name and email address. The Glass Gang will automatically send the friend an initial email inviting them to visit or transact with the Site. The Glass Gang may also send additional emails reminding your friend that you referred them. Additionally, you may send additional "Nudges" to your friend to remind them to subscribe at the Site. The Glass Gang stores this information for the sole purpose of sending these referral emails and tracking the success of our referral program. The Glass Gang will not otherwise use, sell, or distribute such email addresses for any other person without consent of the friend that owns the email address. Such friend may contact The Glass Gang at glassgangteam@gmail.com to request the removal of this information from our database and to stop receiving Nudges.
USE OF COOKIES.
Our Site may pass a "cookie" (a string of information that is sent by a web site to be resident on your system's hard drive, and/or temporarily in your computer's memory blocks). The purpose of a cookie is to tell the web server that you have returned to a particular page. The Site may use cookies in on-line catalogs to keep track of your status and contents of your shopping cart or to retain information gathered in cookies to allow you access to password-protected areas of the Site. You may set your browser to decline cookies. If you do so, however, you may not be able to fully experience some interactive features of the Site.
PIXEL TAGS OR BEACONS.
In addition to cookies, we also collect Aggregate Information through the use of "tracking pixels," also known as "beacons." A tracking pixel is a transparent graphic image (usually 1 pixel x 1 pixel) that is placed on a web page and, in combination with a cookie, allows for the collection of information regarding the use of the web page that contains the tracking pixel. We use tracking pixels to tell when an advertisement has been clicked on or otherwise interacted with, and use that information to judge which advertisements are more appealing to users. In some cases, we use third party service providers to help us collect and analyze this information. You can also generally opt-out of receiving personalized ads from third party advertisers and ad networks who are members of the Network Advertising Initiative (NAI) or who follow the Digital Advertising Alliance's Self-Regulatory Principles for Online Behavioral Advertising by visiting the opt-out pages on the NAI website and DAA website.
HOW WE PROTECT YOUR INFORMATION.
We are committed to protecting your Personal Information and Aggregate Information. However, The Glass Gang is not liable for disclosures of your Personal Information due to errors in transmission or unauthorized acts of third parties. We have undertaken commercially reasonable efforts to prevent unauthorized Internet access to visitor data retained in our servers, however, due to the inherent open nature of the Internet, The Glass Gang cannot
ensure or warrant the security of any information you transmit to us or any information provided online, and you do so at your own risk. Users of the Site accept all risks associated with any data transmission, including the risk that their Personal Information may be intercepted in transit. The Site encrypts your credit card number and other Personal Information using secure socket layer (SSL) technology to provide for the secure transmission of the information from your computer or device to our servers. Only those The Glass Gang employees and third parties who need access to your information in order to perform their duties are allowed such access.
ACCESSING AND UPDATING YOUR PERSONAL INFORMATION AND PREFERENCES.
If you are register or otherwise create an account on the Site, or are a Member, as defined in the Terms of Use, you may access and update your registration information, Personal Information, and your preferences to receive email or other communications from us by sending an email to glassgangteam@gmail.com. We will take commercially reasonable steps to implement your opt-out requests promptly, but you may still receive communications from us for up to ten business days as we process your request. While we make efforts to accommodate requests to restrict our use of your information, we reserve the right to delete all or any portion of customer information if we are not able to reasonably accommodate a requested restriction.
CHILDREN'S PRIVACY AND PARENTAL CONTROLS.
This Site and the App are not intended for persons under the age of 21, and we have no intention of collecting or soliciting Personal Information from persons under the age of 21. If you are not 21 or older, you are not authorized to use the Site or the App. Parents should be aware that there are parental control tools available online that you can use to prevent your children from submitting information online without parental permission or from accessing material that is harmful to minors. If a child under age 21 has provided us with Personal Information, we will use all reasonable efforts to delete such information from our database.
LINKS TO THIRD PARTY SITES.
The Site may contain links to other websites, including our affiliated or co-branded websites. Other websites may also reference or link to our Site. These "other" domains (websites) are not controlled by The Glass Gang. We encourage our users to be aware when they leave our Site to read the privacy policies of each and every website that collects personally identifiable information. We do not endorse, screen or approve, and are not responsible for the privacy practices or content of such other websites. Visiting these other web sites is done at your own risk.
SITE, APP, AND STORE TERMS AND CONDITIONS.
Use of this Site is governed by, and subject to, the legal notices contained in our Terms of Use, which are incorporated herein by reference. Your use, or access, of the Site constitutes your agreement to be bound by these Terms of Use. IF YOU DO NOT AGREE TO THESE TERMS YOU MAY NOT ACCESS OR OTHERWISE USE THE SITE.
PRIVACY POLICY CHANGES.
We reserve the right, in our sole and absolute discretion, to change, modify, add, or remove portions from this Privacy Policy at any time. If we decide to change our Privacy Policy, we will post the revised Privacy Policy on the Site so you will know what information we gather, how we might use that information and how it may be disclosed, if at all. Your continued use of the Site constitutes your agreement to the Privacy Policy as posted. Please check this page periodically for changes to this Privacy Policy. If we make any change to this Privacy Policy that we in our sole discretion deem material, we will notify you in a manner we deem appropriate.
THE GENERAL DATA PROTECTION REGULATION.
For any individuals using the Site that reside in the European Union, your privacy and access rights are different than the rest of the world and are governed by the General Data Protection Regulation (“GDPR”). If you reside in the European Union, you may choose to not consent to The Glass Gang’s use of your Personal Information, including name, address, contact information, and billing information. You may also opt out of use of cookies on your computer through our Site. You also have the option to require us to delete all of your Personal Information upon request. The Glass Gang encrypts your Personal Information both internally and when it is transmitted. The Glass Gang collects your data through its Affiliates when you visit the Site. The Glass Gang stores your Personal Information on its local encrypted network. The data is used to understand your preferences in shopping on our Site. Your Personal Information is not sold to any third party without your express consent. As detailed in Section 4 of this Privacy Policy, unless you specifically consent to the disclosure of your Personal Information, only we and our Affiliates shall have access to your Personal Information. Your use of the Site constitutes your affirmative acceptance to The Glass Gang’s use, collection of, storage, and submission of your Personal Information. Furthermore, your use of the Site constitutes your acknowledgement and agreement that The Glass Gang’s use, collection of, storage, and submission of your Personal Information is reasonable and necessary. To opt out of the items identified in this section, please contact us.
CONTACT.
If you have any questions about the The Glass Gang Privacy Policy please contact us at: glassgangteam@gmail.com.
SMS AND AUTO DIALED CALLS.
By filling out a The Glass Gang profile, you expressly request to receive information via telephone call, email and text/SMS message (including through the use of an automatic telephone dialing system or artificial/prerecorded voice, SMS or MMS (text) messages, even if your telephone number(s) is/are currently listed on any state, federal or corporate Do Not Call list). Consent is not a requirement to *purchase goods The Glass Gang offers*. Standard text message rates and cellular data charges apply. You may opt-out by replying “stop” to any message you receive.
EMAIL COMMUNICATION.
By filling out a The Glass Gang profile, *including filling out any person information*, you opt in to The Glass Gang occasionally sending you newsletters and emails regarding special offers, promotions, features and/or product updates as well as general marketing emails. We may also communicate with you on behalf of third parties about special offers, promotions, features and/or product updates we think may be of interest to you, or you may have opted-in to receive newsletters or special promotions from one of our trusted third party providers. If you decide you do not wish to receive these communications, you may opt-out by clicking the unsubscribe link or by following the instructions included in the communication. *Note, however, that as a user of our Services* you cannot opt-out of some administrative communications that are reasonably necessary to the Services, such as billing, *subscription,* or service notifications. You may also opt-out of certain targeted advertising by emailing glassgangteam@gmail.com.
EFFECTIVE DATE.
This Privacy Policy is effective as of May 24, 2018.