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PRIVACY POLICY
Introduction
Hanks Belts (“Company”) is a corporation with a principal place of business located at 3119 Pearl Street, Endicott, NY 13760 (United States). This statement (“Privacy Policy”) sets forth the privacy standards that the Company utilizes to collect, retain, and use personal data obtained from or about individuals located in the United States and elsewhere in the world. It is the Company’s policy to respect, and protect, personally identifiable information obtained from individuals as set forth in this Privacy Policy.
You should also review our Terms of Use of the website, which can be found at https://www.hanksbelts.com/policies/terms-of-service and is applicable and binding upon you with respect to your use of the website and is incorporated herein.
1. What Is the Scope of this Statement? This Privacy Policy sets forth the principles under which the Company collects, uses, processes, retains, and discloses personal data and/or sensitive data in the United States or elsewhere from individuals, including by and through our website located a www.hanksbelts.com , including use of our “Search Function” and “Lookbook” (together, the “website”) and information you provide to us based upon information from our website (i.e., if you send us an e-mail at an e-mail address identified on the website) or through our website (i.e., using the contact information provided). This Policy covers information received in electronic and all other formats.
Please do not visit or use this website from the United Kingdom, the European Union, European Economic Area, Switzerland or anywhere else whose laws may conflict with this Privacy Policy; this website is not intended for your use if you are attempting to use from any of these countries and you do not have permission to use the website. Please note that this exclusion is solely because the laws of your country may not conform with our policies as set forth in this Privacy Policy.
2. Terms
The terms "we", "us" and "our" refer to the Company, and its officers, directors, owners, employees and agents.
The term “personal data” means any data which relates to a natural person (as opposed to a business or corporate entity) that makes you identifiable. As used herein and in connection with our business, the term personal data may include:
The term “processing” means any operation or set of operations performed on personal data. Processing includes, but is not limited to, the collection of data, the organizing of data, the recording or saving/storage of data, the altering of data, the using of data, the disclosing or transfer of data, the deleting or destruction of data, or the making available of data.
3. What Information We Collect About You
We may collect all types of personal data about you as described in Section 2 above under the definition of “personal data.”
You agree that we may collect and process all such personal data that you provide to us, or that you manifestly make public through publication or otherwise, to market and sell the goods and products, including merino clothing and accessories, and provide the information identified and contained on the website and to provide services related thereto, including handling sales, returns and inquiries (collectively, the “Services”). In addition, these Services may also include Services in connection with the use and management of the website and all content and services therein.
You also hereby consent that we may use your personal data for the following additional purposes which may be included in, or part of, the Services:
Please do not supply the following to us:
4. How We Collect Information About You
We collect information about you (including personal data) when:
We Collect Information From Other Sources – We may also obtain information about you from outside sources. For example, we may obtain commercially available information about you from third-parties or purchase e-mail lists from third parties for advertising, marketing or informational purposes; or from any senior living provider, organization, facility, institution, business, or company in which you live, with whom you are affiliated in any way, or from or about which you seek information through any of our Services. We may also receive information from third-parties who provide services for us through web-beacons and other technologies described in this Privacy Policy.
5. Use of Cookies
About Cookies
Cookies That We Use
We use cookies for the following purposes related to the services we provide for and to you and our users:
To learn more about cookies, please visit http://www.allaboutcookies.org.
To learn more For more information about how targeted advertising works, you can visit the Network Advertising Initiative’s (“NAI”) educational page at http://www.networkadvertising.org/understanding-online-advertising/how-does-it-work.
Cookies Used By Our Service Providers And Vendors
Our service providers and vendors may use cookies and those cookies may be stored on your computer when you visit our website. These service providers and vendors may include, but may not necessarily be limited to:
Google Analytics (see https://support.google.com/analytics/answer/6004245?hl=en and information therein).
In addition, when you visit our website, log in, register or open an email from us, cookies, ad beacons, and similar technologies (see below for more information) may be used by our online data partners or vendors to associate these activities with information they or others have about you, including your email address. We (or service providers on our behalf) may then send communications and marketing to your email address. See Section 15 below for more information if you do not wish to receive such communications.
Managing Cookies
• Most browsers allow you to refuse to accept cookies and to delete cookies. The methods for doing so vary from browser to browser, and from version to version. To obtain more information about managing cookies on your mobile device, please see these links:
Microsoft Internet Explorer,
Mozilla Firefox,
Google Chrome,
Google Chrome mobile,
Microsoft Edge Browser,
Safari,
Safari mobile.
• You may also be able to install so-called ad-blockers. However, blocking some or all cookies may have a negative impact upon the usability of the website.
• The website may also include cookie banners, which allow you to consent to the use of certain cookies for certain purposes, including to personalize our Services for you and make the Services easier and more practical to use. Once you have provided your consent, you can revoke it at any time on a going forward basis by calling up the cookie administration via the following link and unchecking the box next to the processing to which you had consented.
• Some devices (i.e., your smartphone or tablet) allow you to refuse to accept cookies and to delete cookies. The methods for doing so vary from device to device, and from version to version. To obtain more information about managing cookies on your device, please see: https://www.allaboutcookies.org/mobile/.
• Blocking some or all cookies may have a negative impact upon the usability of many websites, including our website and our Services.
6. Use of Web Beacons, Clear-GIFs, Pixel Tags and JavaScript
7. Server Logs
A web “server log” is a record of activity created by a computer that delivers certain webpages to your browser. Certain activities that you perform on our website may record information in server logs. For example, if you enter a search term on the website or enter your login information, the server log may record the search term, the link you clicked on to bring you to our website and/or information about your browser, such as your IP address and the cookies set on your browser.
8. Search Queries on Our Website
We may provide you with options to search for information on our website. If you enter information in a search query box, we may store that information and we may aggregate that information with other information we may have about the browser and/or IP address from which the search query originated.
9. Social Media Platforms
We may link to certain Company social media platforms on Twitter®, TikTok®, LinkedIn®, Reddit®, Facebook®, YouTube®, Instagram® or other platforms. When you engage with our content at or through these social media platforms, you may be asked to share certain information about these interactions with us. Please review the privacy policies/notices and privacy settings with each such social media platform you use so you understand how this data and information may be used, and to choose your options for the sharing of such data and information.
10. How We Use Your Personal Data
11. Providing Your Personal Data To Others
12. Retaining And Deleting Personal Data
13. Amendments
14.Your Rights - FOR CALIFORNIA, COLORADO, CONNECTICUT, OREGON, NEVADA, TEXAS, UTAH, and VIRGINIA RESIDENTS ONLY
If you are a resident of California, Colorado, Connecticut, Oregon, Nevada, Texas, Utah or Virginia and to the extent such state law(s) is applicable to us, your state law may provide you with additional rights regarding our use of your personal information. To learn more about your privacy rights, visit:
●(California)https://oag.ca.gov/privacy/privacy-laws;
●(Colorado)https://coag.gov/resources/colorado-privacy-act/;
●(Connecticut)https://portal.ct.gov/AG/Sections/Privacy/The-Connecticut-Data-Privacy-Act;
●(Oregon) https://olis.oregonlegislature.gov/liz/2023R1/Downloads/MeasureDocument/SB619/Enrolled;
●(Nevada)https://www.leg.state.nv.us/NRS/NRS-603A.html;
●(Texas)https://statutes.capitol.texas.gov/Docs/BC/htm/BC.541.htm#C;
●(Utah)https://le.utah.gov/~2022/bills/static/SB0227.html;
●(Virginia)https://law.lis.virginia.gov/vacodefull/title59.1/chapter53/.
Requests for Information – California Residents
Under Section 1798.83 of the California Civil Code, residents of California have the right to request from a business, with whom the California resident has an established business relationship, certain information with respect to the types of personal information the business shares with third parties for those third parties' direct marketing purposes, and the identities of the third parties with whom the business has shared such information during the immediately preceding calendar year. To exercise your rights, you may make one request each year by emailing us atprivacy@hanksbelts.com with "Request for California Privacy Information" in the subject line and explicitly makes such request. Be sure to provide in the request sufficient information to properly identify you and/or the members of your family to whom the request applies.
Do Not Track Disclosure –CALIFORNIA, COLORADO, CONNECTICUT, OREGON, NEVADA, TEXAS, UTAH, and VIRGINIA RESIDENTS
As required by Section 22575 of the California Business and Professions Code, the following disclosure is made to California residents and to residents of other states, including Colorado, Connecticut, Oregon, Nevada, Texas, Utah and Virginia:
Our Website does not alter its behavior or change its services when it receives a “do-not-track” flag or signal from your operating system or browser. As described herein, we use cookies and other tools to collect information about you when you visit our Website to, among other things, better tailor the features, performance and support of our products, services and Website. After you leave or close-out from the Website, we do not track your online activity on other apps or websites, but third parties (and their affiliates) may track your online activity to offer you advertisements. This tracking is anonymous and is not linked to your personal information.
Marketing –CALIFORNIA, COLORADO, CONNECTICUT, OREGON, NEVADA, TEXAS, UTAH, and VIRGINIA RESIDENTS
We collect various types of personal data about you during the course of your relationship with us. Under applicable law, if you are a resident of California, Colorado, Connecticut, Oregon, Nevada, Texas, Utah or Virginia, you may make a written request to us to disclose the categories or personal data of yours which we have shared with third parties, for the third parties’ direct marketing purposes during the prior year. In response to your written request, we are allowed to provide you with a notice describing the cost-free means to opt-out of our sharing your information with third parties with whom we do not share the same brand name, if the third party will use such information for its direct marketing purposes.
If you would like to exercise your rights under California, Colorado, Connecticut, Oregon, Nevada, Texas, Utah or Virginia law, please send your written request to the e-mail address or postal address below with the words “[INSERT APPLICABLE STATE NAME] OPT-OUT” in ALL CAPS in the subject line or clearly set forth elsewhere. Please include your postal address in your request. Within thirty (30) days of receiving your written request, we will provide you with a Third-Party Direct Marketing Opt-Out Form so you may request that your personal data not be disclosed to third parties for their direct marketing purposes.
E-mail Address:
Attention: PRIVACY OFFICER
Postal Address:
Hanks Belts
3119 Pearl Street
Endicott, NY 13760 (United States)
Attention: PRIVACY OFFICER
ATTENTION: PRIVACY OFFICER
Phone:
Consumer Rights Under the California Consumer Privacy Act of 2018 (the CCPA) and the California Privacy Rights Act of 2020 (the CPRA) AND for residents ofCOLORADO, CONNECTICUT, OREGON, NEVADA, TEXAS, UTAH, and VIRGINIA
To the extent the California Consumer Privacy Act or other state law is applicable, with certain exceptions and, including but not limited to in connection with data subject to federal regulation (i.e., the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA), the Gramm-Leach Bliley Act California (GLBA), the Fair Credit Reporting Act (FCRA), as applicable, the California Financial Information Privacy Act (CFIPA), the Federal Farm Credit Act of 1971, the Drivers’ Privacy Protection Act (DPPA), the Confidentiality of Medical Information Act (CMIA), certain laws concerning clinical trials data, the First Amendment and related law), contractual rights and obligations, and certain other exceptions based upon applicable state law, we provideCalifornia, Colorado, Connecticut, Oregon, Nevada, Texas, Utah or Virginia residents with the following rights with respect to our data collection and data processing of such residents’ personal data (excluding de-identified or aggregate data) which is collected in that resident’s state, processed in that resident’s state, or part of a transaction occurring in such state:
(1) The right to know whether your personal data was collected by us.
In large part, the personal data we collect is set forth above in this Privacy Policy.
(2) The right to request the categories and specific pieces of personal data that we have collected about you in the past 12 months, the categories of sources for which that information is collected, the business purposes for collecting or selling/sharing the information, and the categories of third parties with whom the information is shared or sold.
In large part, these categories and specific pieces of personal data that we have collected is set forth above in this Privacy Policy.
(3) The right to know what information we are collecting about you and the purposes for which it is being used.
In large part, the type of information we collect and the purpose for which it is collected is set forth above in this Privacy Policy.
(4) The right to not allow us to sell or share any of your personal information.
We do not sell or share your personal information with third parties for their purposes except with your express consent.
(5) The right to limit our use of your sensitive personal information.
We do not sell or share your personal information with third parties for their purposes except with your express consent.
(6) The right to have your personal information deleted, subject to certain exceptions.
These exceptions may include:
Complete the transaction for which we collected the personal information, provide a good or service that you requested, take actions reasonably anticipated within the context of our ongoing business relationship with you, or otherwise perform our contract with you.
Detect security incidents, protect against malicious, deceptive, fraudulent, or illegal activity, or prosecute those responsible for such activities.
Debug products to identify and repair errors that impair existing intended functionality.
Exercise free speech, ensure the right of another consumer to exercise their free speech rights, or exercise another right provided for by law.
Comply with the California Electronic Communications Privacy Act (Cal. Penal Code § 1546 seq.).
Engage in public or peer-reviewed scientific, historical, or statistical research in the public interest that adheres to all other applicable ethics and privacy laws, when the information's deletion may likely render impossible or seriously impair the research's achievement, if you previously provided informed consent.
Enable solely internal uses that are reasonably aligned with consumer expectations based on your relationship with us.
Comply with a legal obligation.
Make other internal and lawful uses of that information that are compatible with the context in which you provided it.
(7) The right to have your personal information corrected, subject to certain exceptions.
(8) The right to know the length of data retention.
Unless indicated otherwise elsewhere or required pursuant to any applicable law, we generally retain your personal information for up to ten (10) years.
(9) The right to not be discriminated against for exercising any of the above rights.
We will not discriminate against you if you exercise any of the above rights. However, as explained, some or all of our services necessarily require us to process your personal information, and share your personal information with certain third parties in connection with providing the services. Therefore, and as explained above, exercise by you of certain of the above rights may impact our ability to provide the services to you.
TO THE EXTENT APPLICABLE, AND TO EXERCISE ANY OF THE ABOVE RIGHTS, PLEASE CONTACT US AT ANY OF THE BELOW AND INCLUDE THE WORDS “EXERCISE MY RIGHTS”IN ALL CAPS IN THE SUBJECT LINE, OR BE CLEAR BY PHONE THAT YOU WANT TO EXERCISE YOUR RIGHTS andCLEARLY LET US KNOW: (1) Your address and state of residency; and (2) the rights you seek to exercise.
E-mail Address:
Attention: PRIVACY OFFICER
Postal Address:
Hanks Belts
3119 Pearl Street
Endicott, NY 13760 (United States)
Attention: PRIVACY OFFICER
ATTENTION: PRIVACY OFFICER
Phone:888-465-7977
15. Your Choices About Information We Collect
Hanks Belts
3119 Pearl Street
Endicott, NY 13760 (United States)
Attention: PRIVACY OFFICER (support@hanksbelts.com)
With a copy (including the words “Hanks Belts - Privacy” in the subject line) to:
OlenderFeldman LLP
422 Morris Avenue
Summit, NJ 07901 (United States)
Attention: Michael J. Feldman, Esq.
You may opt out of our various communications as follows:
E-mail Communications: (1) click the unsubscribe link located in our emails, or (2) by emailing us at support@hanksbelts.com with Unsubscribe request in the subject line, or (3) by calling us at 888-229-2358 and clearly setting forth your request.
Third-Party Sharing: (1) e-mail us at support@hanksbelts.com with the words “THIRD-PARTY E-MAIL REMOVAL” in the subject line, or (2) by calling us at 888-229-2358 and clearly setting forth your request.
Text/SMS Message Consent and Opt-Out: If you choose, you can provide your mobile phone number to receive text message alerts from the Company. By providing your mobile phone, you are consenting to receive automated marketing text messages from us, but you can always purchase products from the Website without providing this consent. Message and data rates may apply, and you should check the rates of your mobile carrier. You can opt out from further text marketing communications by texting STOP to the SMS number used by the Company to contact you.
SMS/MMS MOBILE MESSAGING MARKETING PROGRAM
We respect your privacy. We will only use information you provide through the Program to transmit your mobile messages and respond to you, if necessary. This includes, but is not limited to, sharing information with platform providers, phone companies, and other vendors who assist us in the delivery of mobile messages. WE DO NOT SELL, RENT, LOAN, TRADE, LEASE, OR OTHERWISE TRANSFER FOR PROFIT ANY PHONE NUMBERS OR CUSTOMER INFORMATION COLLECTED THROUGH THE PROGRAM TO ANY THIRD PARTY. Nonetheless, We reserve the right at all times to disclose any information as necessary to satisfy any law, regulation or governmental request, to avoid liability, or to protect Our rights or property. When you complete forms online or otherwise provide Us information in connection with the Program, you agree to provide accurate, complete, and true information. You agree not to use a false or misleading name or a name that you are not authorized to use. If, in Our sole discretion, We believe that any such information is untrue, inaccurate, or incomplete, or you have opted into the Program for an ulterior purpose, We may refuse you access to the Program and pursue any appropriate legal remedies.
Text marketing (if applicable): With your permission, we may send text messages about our store, new products, and other updates. Updates include Checkout Reminders. Webhooks will be used to trigger the Checkout Reminders messaging system.
We may share your mobile phone number with service providers with our service providers to help us with the above activities, but not for their own marketing. We do not guarantee availability or performance of this text/SMS service, including liability for transmission delays or message failures.
Please note that even once we comply with any of your requests as set forth above, de-identified and aggregate data including your personal data may still be shared, but it will not be identified or identifiable to you.
16. Limited Use Of Artificial Intelligence
We may use artificial intelligence (AI) to assist the Company in effectively and efficiently responding to your inquiries made via text/SMS and email, as well as the processing of your customer service text/SMS and email requests. We have opted out of allowing Gorgias, our AI provider, to use the data it obtains from Company’s customers in this manner to train their models. For more information on Gorgias the AI used on our platform, see https://www.gorgias.com/blog/how-ai-agent-works-and-gathers-data.
17. Privacy of Children Who Visit the Website
We recognize the importance of children’s safety and privacy. The website is not designed to attract children, and is not intended for use by any children under the age of 18. We do not request, or knowingly collect, any personally identifiable information from children under the age of 18. If you are under age 18, you do not have permission to use this website or our Services.
18. Links
For your convenience, the website may contain links to other websites. We are not responsible for the privacy practices, advertising, products, or the content of such other websites. None of the links should be deemed to imply that we endorse or have any affiliation with the links. You should review the privacy policies and Terms of Use of all other websites or links you visit.
19. Security
We believe in providing a safe and secure experience for all of our online visitors. To that end, we have implemented security measures to protect the information collected from you. We maintain reasonable physical and electronic safeguards designed to limit unauthorized access to your personally identifiable information, and to protect you against the criminal misuse of that information.
While we use the foregoing security measures to protect your information, please note that no data transmitted over the Internet or stored and utilized for business purposes can be guaranteed to be completely secure. No security measures are perfect or impenetrable. We cannot guarantee that only authorized persons will view your information. We cannot ensure that information you share on the website will not become publicly available. You can reduce these risks by using common sense security practices such as choosing a strong password, using different passwords for different services, and using up to date antivirus software.
20. Questions / Changes in Notice
If you have questions or concerns with respect to our Privacy Policy, you may contact us at privacy@hanksbelts.com. We may elect to change or amend our Privacy Policy; in such event, we will post the changes in our Privacy Policy on the website.