Privacy Policy
PRIVACY POLICY
Welcome to the ESSIEREE website (the “Site”). At ESSIEREE our goal is to maintain our customers’ privacy and provide a pleasant shopping experience. To provide the best customer service we collect information from the Site that will allow us to enhance your shopping experience by catering to your personal preferences.
ESSIEREE knows that you care how information about you is used and shared, and we appreciate your trust that we will do so carefully and sensibly. This notice describes our privacy policy for the ESSIEREE.com web site (the “Site”).
If you have questions or concerns regarding this statement, you should contact us at helpsupport@essieree.com. This privacy policy covers only information that is collected through the Site and does not cover websites to which we link.
NOTICE OF INFORMATION WE COLLECT AND HOW WE USE IT
Our primary purpose in collecting personal information is to provide you with a safe, enjoyable, efficient, and customized experience. This allows us to provide services and features that most likely meet your needs, and to customize our service to make your experience safer and easier. We only collect personal information about you that we consider necessary for achieving this purpose.
In general, our collection and use of information is as follows:
- ESSIEREE will not sell or disclose your name or email address to third parties without your explicit consent, except as specified in this privacy policy.
- When you subscribe to ESSIEREE, we will collect personal information such as your name, e-mail address, shipping address and credit card 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 as described in this privacy policy.
- ESSIEREE automatically receives and records information on our server logs from your browser, including your IP address, cookies, and the pages you request.
- ESSIEREE uses information for the following general purposes: products and services provisioning, billing, identification and authentication, services improvement, contact, research, and anonymous reporting. IP addresses are automatically reported by your browser each time you view a web page. Your IP address is stored in ESSIEREE’s user registration databases when you register with ESSIEREE. IP addresses may be used for various research purposes, and/or delivering unique functionality to our service.
INFORMATION WE COLLECT ABOUT ANONYMOUS VISITORS
We automatically track certain information based upon your behavior on the Site. We use this information to do internal research on our users’ demographics, interests, and behavior to better understand, protect and serve you and our community.
COOKIES
A cookie is a small text file that is stored on a user’s computer for record-keeping purposes. We use cookies on this site. We [do not] link the information we store in cookies to any personally identifiable information you submit while on our site. This privacy policy covers the use of cookies by the Site only and does not cover our business partners sites in the COCOShop. We have no access to or control over these cookies. 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.
REGISTRATION
In order to use some features of this Site, you must first subscribe to the ESSIEREE service. During registration you are required to give truthful contact information (such as name and email address) in accordance with our terms of use. We use this information to contact you about the services on our site in which you have expressed interest.
ORDERS
If you purchase a subscription or product from us, we request certain personally identifiable information from you on our order form. You must provide contact information (such as name, email, and shipping address) and financial information (such as a credit card number and expiration date).
We use this information for billing purposes and to fill your orders. If we have trouble processing an order, we will use this information to contact you.
SURVEYS OR CONTESTS
We may provide you the opportunity to participate in contests or surveys on our site. If you participate, we will request certain personally identifiable information from you. The requested information typically includes contact information (such as name and shipping address) and demographic information.
We use this information to notify contest winners and award prizes, to monitor site traffic, or to personalize the site (in the case of anonymous information collected in surveys) and to send participants an email newsletter.
REFER A FRIEND
If you choose to use our referral service to tell a friend about our site, we will ask you for your friend’s name and email address. We will automatically send your friend a one-time email inviting him or her to visit the site. ESSIEREE does not store this information for the sole purpose of sending this one-time email and tracking the success of our referral program.
Your friend may contact us at helpsupport@essieree.com to request that we remove this information from our database.
SPECIAL OFFERS AND UPDATES
We will occasionally send you information on products, services, special deals, and promotions. You can sign up for these emails from us on our registration page.
Out of respect for your privacy, we present the option not to receive these types of communications. Please see the "Choice and Opt-out.”
NEWSLETTERS
If you wish to subscribe to our newsletter(s), we will use your name and email address to send the newsletter to you. Out of respect for your privacy, we provide you a way to unsubscribe. Please see the “Choice and Opt-out” section.
SERVICE-RELATED ANNOUNCEMENTS
We will send you strictly service-related announcements on rare occasions when it is necessary to do so. For instance, if our service is temporarily suspended for maintenance, we might send you an email.
Generally, you may not opt-out of these communications, which are not promotional in nature. If you do not wish to receive them, you have the option to deactivate your account.
CUSTOMER SERVICE
Based upon the personally identifiable information you provide us; we will send you a welcoming email to verify your username and password. We will communicate with you in response to your inquiries, to provide the services you request, and to manage your account. We will communicate with you by email, in accordance with your wishes. You may contact customer service at helpsupport@essieree.com
ID AND ADDRESS VERIFICATION.
We use a third party to verify your identity and address for shipping purposes.
CONDITIONS UNDER WHICH WE SHARE INFORMATION
AGGREGATE INFORMATION (NON-PERSONALLY IDENTIFIABLE)
We share aggregated demographic information about our user base with our partners and advertisers. This information does not identify individual users.
We do not link aggregate user data with personally identifiable information.
PERSONALLY IDENTIFIABLE INFORMATION
Except as discussed below, we do not share Personally Identifiable Information with Third Parties.
AGENTS
We use an outside shipping company to fulfill orders, and a credit card processing company to bill you for goods and services. These companies do not retain, share, store or use personally identifiable information for any other purposes.
LEGAL DISCLAIMER
We reserve the right to disclose your personally identifiable information as required by law and when we believe that disclosure is necessary to protect our rights; to comply with a judicial proceeding, court order, or legal process served on us or the Site; or in connection with an actual or proposed corporate transaction or insolvency proceeding involving all or part of the business or asset to which the information pertains.
CHOICE/OPT-OUT
We provide you the opportunity to ‘opt-out’ of having your personally identifiable information used for certain purposes, when we ask for this information. For example, if you purchase a product/service but do not wish to receive any additional marketing material from us, you can indicate your preference on our order form.
If you no longer wish to receive our newsletter and promotional communications, you may opt-out of receiving them by following the instructions included in each newsletter or communication or by emailing us at helpsupport@essieree.com.
LINKS TO OTHER SITES
The Site contains links to other sites that are not owned or controlled by ESSIEREE. Please be aware that we are not responsible for the privacy policies of such other sites.
We encourage you to be aware when you leave the Site and to read the privacy policies of each and every Web site that collects personally identifiable information.
This privacy policy applies only to information collected by the Site.
ACCESS TO PERSONALLY IDENTIFIABLE INFORMATION
If your personally identifiable information changes, or if you no longer desire our service, you may [correct, update, delete or deactivate] it by making the change on our member information page or by emailing our Customer Support at helpsupport@essieree.com
SECURITY
We are committed to protecting the information we receive from you. However, ESSIEREE will not be liable for disclosures of your Personal Information due to errors in transmission or unauthorized acts of third parties. We have undertaken all 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, ESSIEREE 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 must 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 PC to our servers. In addition, only those employees and third parties who need access to you information in order to perform their duties are allowed such access.
CHILDREN'S PRIVACY AND PARENTAL CONTROLS
This Site is not intended for persons under the age of 13, and we have no intention of collecting or soliciting Personal Information from persons under the age of 13. If you are not 13 or older, you are not authorized to use the Site. 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 13 has provided us with Personal Information, we will use all reasonable efforts to delete such information from our database.
SITE TERMS AND CONDITIONS
Use of this Site is governed by, and subject to, the legal notices contained in our Terms and Conditions. Your use, or access, of the Site constitutes your agreement to be bound by these provisions. IF YOU DO NOT AGREE TO THESE TERMS, YOU MAY NOT ACCESS OR OTHERWISE USE THE SITE.
CHANGES IN THIS PRIVACY POLICY
If we decide to change our privacy policy, we will post changes to this privacy policy and other places we deem appropriate so that you are aware of what information we collect, how we use it, and under what circumstances, if any, we disclose it.
We reserve the right to modify this privacy policy at any time, so please review it frequently. If we make changes that materially affect our uses or disclosures of personally identifiable information that we have previously collected, we will notify you here, by email.
CONTACT US
If you have any questions or suggestions regarding our privacy policy, please contact us at: helpsupport@essieree.com
Effective Date: November 21, 2020