PRIVACY POLICY
Welcome to Konus Brand (including websites located at shopatkonus.com, collectively, “Site”).
Konus Brand (including any of its subsidiaries or affiliates, collectively, “Konus Brand,” “we,” “us” or “our”) provides this Site as a service to its customers.
Konus Brand KNOWS THAT YOU CARE ABOUT HOW YOUR PERSONAL INFORMATION IS USED AND SHARED AND WE TAKE YOUR PRIVACY SERIOUSLY.
Our Privacy Policy below applies to your use of our Site.
Because we gather certain types of information about our users, we want you to understand what information we collect about you, how we collect it, how that information is used, and how you can control our disclosure of it.
By visiting our Site, submitting information, using our services, and/or purchasing any products on our Site, you acknowledge that you accept the practices and policies outlined in the then current Privacy Policy and our Terms of Use. You should review this Policy every time you use the Site.
If you do not agree with this Privacy Policy, please do not use our Site.
INFORMATION COLLECTED
We collect three types of information from you:
(1) information that you provide to us;
(2) information we collect or receive from others; and
(3) information that is derived through automated tracking mechanisms and technology.
We collect information when you register online or update your account, log-in, place an order, communicate with our customer service representatives, opt-in to receive our emails, shop online, request a catalog, participate in a sweepstakes, contest, promotion or survey or join our social networking sites.
We may also collect information from you in our stores or through our catalogs or other marketing material. This information may include, but is not limited to, your contact information (for example, your name, email address, billing and shipping addresses and phone number) and your credit card and debit card information.
If you create an online account, you also have the option of providing your product preferences and demographic information.
If you use other functionalities found on our Site, like sending an email from our site to a friend, we will also collect your friend’s name and email address.
Your friend’s information is only used to send forwarding email and it will not save in our marketing databases.
We may update and supplement personally identifiable information that we have collected directly from you with other information that we obtain from third parties.
In addition, we may obtain personally identifiable information about individuals who are not yet users of our Site.
When we associate information that obtain from third parties such as personally identifiable information, that we have collected under this Privacy Policy.
We will treat the acquired information in the same way we treat the information that we collected ourselves and except as set forth in this Privacy Policy, and the information will not be shared with third parties.
We may collect information through automated tracking mechanisms and technology to make our Site useful and for various purposes. For instance, when you come to our Site, we may collect information about your computer, including the location of your IP address, operating system and browser type.
Such information may be used for system administration and to analyze the frequency with which visitors to our Site visit various parts of our sites; and we may combine such information with personally identifiable information.
We also use “cookies,” Web beacons, and other tracking technologies. Cookies are small data files that are automatically stored on your computer when you visit our Site.
Cookies are used to track the pages of the websites you have visited and do not retain any personally identifiable information such as your name, address or any credit/debit card information.
We may use cookies to, among other things, enable you to use certain website features, remember the items in your shopping cart, store your preferences, recognize you when you return to our Site, speed up your searches, track you orders, and monitor and maintain information about your general internet usage and use of our Site.
Cookies help us to improve our Site and to deliver better customized service.
They allow us to customize our Site according to your individual interests.
You may refuse to accept cookies by activating the setting on your browser which allows you to refuse the setting of cookies.
However, if you select this setting, you may be unable to access certain parts of the Site or all of our services.
Unless you have adjusted your browser setting so that it will refuse cookies, our system will issue cookies when you log on to our Site.
By using our Site, you consent to our placement of cookies on your computer.
You may occasionally get cookies from our business partners or other third parties. We have no control over these cookies.
We may also use cookies and other analytic systems to gather information and prepare reports on website activity and to provide other services related to your website activity and use of the internet. By using this Site, you agree to the treatment of information relative to you by Google in the form and with the aims indicated above.
This Site may use tracking tags in certain pages to measure and optimize marketing campaign results. It will not store, in any event, personal user information.
Web beacons are small strings of code that are placed in a website page or in an email message.
They are sometimes called “clear GIFs” (Graphics Interchange Format) or “pixel tags.” Web beacons are most often used in conjunction with cookies to track activity on our Site.
When you visit a particular page, web beacons notify us of your visit.
Since web beacons are used in combination with cookies, if you disable cookies, the web beacons will only detect an anonymous website visit.
When used in an email, web beacons enable us to know whether you have received the email.
HOW WE USE YOUR INFORMATION
Personal data you provide and/or we collect will be kept by RobinK for, among other things:
the performance and enforcement of the purchase and sale contract over the products you have purchased, or of any other contract between you and us;
attending to your requests, and;
providing you with information about Konus Brand products or of any other company belonging to Konus Brand, sending commercial communications by email and/or by any other equivalent electronic communication means (such as SMS), and/or by other means of communication.
You can change your preference in respect to receiving such communications by logging into the MY ACCOUNT section of this Site and changing your preference.
You can stop receiving Konus Brand’s newsletter by accessing the Newsletter section and choosing to unsubscribe (opt-out).
Should you choose to check the option to store your PAYMENT DATA (i.e. credit / debit card data), you expressly authorize us to process and store the data indicated as necessary for activation and development. The Card-Verification-Value-Code (CVV) will only be used to make able the purchase in progress, and will not be stored or processed subsequently as part of your PAYMENT DATA.
Giving us your consent to activate this functionality, allows your data to appear auto-filled in subsequent purchases on this Site, so you will not need to enter the data in each new process, and such consent shall be valid and effective for subsequent purchases.
You can change your PAYMENT DATA and revoke your consent for processing and storing at any time through the My Account section – Payment Data.
Konus Brand stores and transmits your cards data according to the main standards of confidentiality and security of credit and debit cards, in compliance with the Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard (PCIDSS).
When using this functionality, changing your password may be requested for security reasons.
Remember that the safety in use of the Site also depends on proper use and conservation of certain keys/passwords.
We also maintain a record of your purchases made on our Site and combine this with information you have provided in our retail stores or over the phone in order to serve you better.
We may combine information you provide with demographic information and information that is publicly available.
We may also use information about your product preferences and interests in order to improve our Site design and enhance your shopping experience.
We may permit certain trusted third parties to track usage, analyze data such as the source address that a page request is coming from, your IP address or domain name, the date and time of the page request, the referring website (if any) and other parameters in the URL. This is collected in order to contribute better understanding of website usage, and enhance the performance to maintain and operate the Site include certain features of the Site. We may use third parties to host the Site, operate various features available on the Site, send emails, analyze data, and provide search results and links.
Also, we may share personally identifiable information or others with our parent companies, subsidiaries, divisions, affiliates, consultants, contractors and sub-contractors.
We may transfer personally identifiable information as an asset in connection with a 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.
We use non-identifying and aggregate information to better design our Site and administrative purposes.
We may also use or share with third parties for any purpose aggregated data that contains no personally identifiable information.
WE ARE NOT LIABLE OR RESPONSIBLE FOR THE PERSONALLY IDENTIFIABLE OR OTHER INFORMATION YOU CHOOSE TO SUBMIT IN FORUMS SUCH AS A COMMENT AREA OR ANY OTHER PUBLICLY ACCESSIBLE AREA OF THE SITE.
Konus Brand may disclose personally identifiable information in special cases where we have reason to believe that disclosing this information is necessary to identify, contact or bring legal action against someone who may be violating our Terms of Use or may be causing injury or interference with our rights, property, our customers or anyone who could be harmed by such activities.
You should also be aware that we may disclose specific information about you if required by law, governmental request, process or court order or based on our good faith belief that it is necessary to conform or comply with such law, request or court order or to protect the users of our Site or the public.
You will receive notice when your personally identifiable information might be provided to any third party for any reason other than as set forth in this Privacy Policy, and you will have an opportunity to request that we not share such information.
HOW WE PROTECT YOUR INFORMATION
We are committed to protecting the information we receive from you. Any personal information you provide to us is maintained on secure servers and our internal systems.
We take appropriate security measures to protect your information against unauthorized access to or unauthorized alteration, disclosure or destruction of data.
To prevent unauthorized access, maintain data accuracy, and ensure the correct use of information, we maintain appropriate physical, electronic, and managerial procedures to safeguard and secure the information and data stored on our system. While no computer system is completely secure, we believe the measures we have implemented reduce the likelihood of security problems to a level appropriate to the type of data involved.
ACCESSING AND UPDATING YOUR PERSONAL INFORMATION AND PREFERENCES
We provide mechanisms for updating and correcting your personal information for many of our services.
If you are a registered user, you may access and update your registration information and your preferences to receive email or other communication s from us in the account area or by sending an email to sales@konusbrand.com
EMAIL OPT-OUT
If any user who receives an email from the Site would prefer not to receive such communications in the future, he/she can do so by following the instructions in the emails.
In addition, at any time you may access the newsletter section on the Site and choose to unsubscribe (opt-out) or send an email to sales@konusbrand.com
We will make commercially reasonable efforts to implement your opt-out requests promptly, but you may still receive communications from us until we process your request.
CHILDREN’S PRIVACY
We do not knowingly collect any personal information from children under 13.
We do not sell products for purchase by children and all children’s products we sell are for purchase by adults only.
If you are not 18 or older, you are not authorized to use the Site.
Parents should be aware that there are parental control tools available online that can be used to prevent children from submitting information online without parental permission or from accessing material that is harmful to minors.
DISCLAIMER TO SECURITY
By consenting to the Terms and Use of the Site and the Privacy Policy, you acknowledge that no data transmission over the internet is completely secure.
Although we have implemented reasonable technical and organization measures according to our written information security policy, we cannot guarantee or warrant the security of any information you provide to us and you transmit such information to us at your own risk.
YOUR CALIFORNIA PRIVACY RIGHTS
Konus Brand collects various types of personal information about you both online and offline, as described in this Privacy Policy.
Under California law, customers of Konus Brand who are residents of California may request certain information about our disclosure of personal information during the prior calendar year to third parties for their direct marketing purposes. Konus Brand does not disclose personal information to unaffiliated third parties for these purposes.
To make such a request, please send an email to sales@konusbrand with the words “California Privacy Rights” in the subject line.
CUSTOMIZED ADVERTISING
Advertisements displayed to you on our websites and elsewhere on the internet may be customized to your interests and preferences, based on information learned about you as you use our websites and the internet in general.
LINKS TO OTHER WEBSITES
To enhance your shopping experience, our Site may include links to other sites. Those websites will have their own privacy policies that you may wish to review.
Konus Brand has no responsibility for these linked websites.
PRIVACY POLICY UPDATES
We may update our Privacy Policy from time to time. Whenever we make a change, we will post the updated Policy at this Site and we encourage you to check our Policy periodically.
If we make a material change to our Privacy Policy that would lessen your privacy rights, we will either continue to honor our Prior Policy for information that we collected when it was in force, or we will ask for your consent to the change.