PRIVACY POLICY
Effective April 28, 2016
1. INTRODUCTION
1.1. PURPOSE OF POLICY
Bossanova (“Bossanova,” “us,” “we,” or “our”) is committed to respecting the privacy rights of its customers, visitors, affiliates, and other users of the Bossanova Website (the “Site”). This online Privacy Policy (the “Policy”) is designed to give you confidence as you visit and use the Site, and to demonstrate our commitment to fair information practices and the protection of privacy. This Policy is only applicable to the Site, and not to any other websites or third-part hosted websites or other third party information that you may be able to access from the Site, any of which may have data collection and use practice and policies that differ materially from this Policy.
1.2 NOTICE CONCERNING CHILDREN (COPPA)
PLEASE NOTE: We do not direct any of our content at minors, and specifically to anyone under 13 years of age, nor do we collect personally identifiable information from children. If we learn or have reason to suspect that a registered Site user is under age 13, we will promptly delete any personal information in that user’s account.
1.3 DO WE DISCLOSE ANY INFORMATION TO OUTSIDE PARTIES?
We do not sell, trade, or otherwise transfer to outside parties your personally identifiable information. Please note that outside parties do not include trusted third parties who assist us in operating our website, conducting our business, or servicing you. We may also release your information when we believe release is appropriate to comply with the law, enforce our site policies, or protect ours or others rights, property, or safety. In addition, non-personally identifiable visitor information may be provided to other parties for marketing, advertising, or other uses.
2. INFORMATION COLLECTION PRACTICES
2.1 WHAT INFORMATION DO WE COLLECT?
We collect information from you when you register on our site, place an order, subscribe to our newsletter, respond to a survey, or fill out a form.
When ordering or registering on our site, as appropriate, you may be asked to enter your name, e-mail address, mailing address, phone number, or credit card information. You may, however, visit our site anonymously.
2.2 WHAT ADDITIONAL INFORMATION DOES BOSSANOVA COLLECT?
(a) Do we use cookies?
Cookies are small files that a site or its service provider transfers to your computer hard drive through your web browser (if you allow) that enables a site or service provider’s systems to recognize your browser and capture and remember certain information. We may use cookies to help us remember and process the items in your shopping cart, and may use them to remember other things about your visits to our site.
(b) THIRD PARTY COOKIES. This site may utilize advertising placement by third party vendors, including Google. It is important that you understand that:
i. Third party vendors, including Google, use cookies to serve ads based on your prior visits to our website.
ii. Google’s use of advertising cookies enables it and its partners to serve ads to you based on your visit to our site.
iii. You may opt out of the use of Google cookies by visiting the advertising opt-out page. http://www.google.com/policies/technologies/ads.
iv. Additionally, you may opt out of a third party vendor’s use of cookies by visiting the Network Advertising Initiative opt-out page. http://www.networkadvertising.org/choices.
(c) “Do Not Track” Notices
Bossanova will respond to “Do not Track” notices promptly and appropriately by taking whatever reasonable action is requested of it.
3. WHAT DO WE USE YOUR INFORMATION FOR?
Any of the information we collect from you may be used in one of the following ways:
3.1. To personalize your experience
Your information helps us to better respond to your individual needs.
3.2. To improve our website
We continually strive to improve our website offerings based on the information and feedback we receive from you.
3.3. To improve customer service
Your information helps us to more effectively respond to your customer service requests and support needs.
3.4. To process transactions
Certain information is naturally required to process transactions. Information you provide to us in the course of a transaction will not be sold, exchanged, transferred, or given to any other company for any reason whatsoever, without your consent, other than for the express purpose of processing the transaction and delivering the purchased product or service requested.
3.5. To administer a contest, promotion, survey, or other site feature
3.6. To send periodic emails
The email address you provide for order processing may be used to send you information and updates pertaining to your order, in addition to occasional company news, updates, related product or service information, or the like.
4. HOW DO WE PROTECT YOUR INFORMATION?
We implement a variety of security measures to maintain the safety of your personal information.
We offer the use of a secure server when placing orders. All information you supply in connection with placing an order is transmitted via Secure Socket Layer (SSL) technology and then encrypted into our payment gateway providers database, where it is accessible by people authorized to access their systems.
After a transaction, any credit, debit, gift, or other payment card numbers, expiry dates, or CVV codes you provided will not be kept on file for more than 60 days.
5. CALIFORNIA ONLINE PRIVACY PROTECTION ACT COMPLIANCE
Because we value your privacy we have taken the necessary precautions to be in compliance with the California Online Privacy Protection Act. We therefore will not distribute your personal information to outside parties without your consent.
As part of the California Online Privacy Protection Act, all registered users of our site may make any changes to their information at any time by clicking on the “Your Account” link and signing in.
6. ONLINE PRIVACY POLICY ONLY
This Policy applies only to information collected through our website and not to information collected offline.
7. YOUR CONSENT
By using our site, you consent to this Policy.
8. CHANGES TO OUR PRIVACY POLICY
We reserve the right, at any time, to add to, change, update, or modify this Policy, simply by posting such change, update, or modification on the Site and without any other notice to unregistered users. Bossanova will send registered users an email notifying them of any changes to this Policy. Any such change, update, or modification will be effective immediately upon posting on the Site, and upon notice to registered users. It is your responsibility to review this Policy from time to time to ensure you continue to agree with all of its terms.
9. CONTACTING US
If there are any questions regarding this Policy, or you would like to have us remove your information from our database, you may contact us using the information below.
www.bossanovasoap.com
4394 1/2 Louisiana St
San Diego, CA 92104
info@bossanovasoap.com
(619) 871-7050