Introduction
We at Bridges Pottery LLC (“we,” “us,” or “our”) respect your privacy and are committed to protecting it through our compliance with this Policy. This Policy describes the types of information we may collect from you or that you may provide to us, including when you visit our website at https:/www.bridgespottery.com/ (our “Website”) and our practices for collecting, using, maintaining, protecting, and disclosing that information.
This Policy applies to any information we collect through our Website, including any information in any e-mails, posts, texts and other electronic messages between you and our Website, and any information about you transferred to our Website from other websites. This Policy also applies to any information we collect about you when you mail us or e-mail, text or exchange other electronic messages with us or when you interact with messages you receive from us, any information we collect about you offline but that will be processed by automated means using our Website or other services, and information collected when you contact a customer help desk or use support services. This Policy does not apply to any other information we collect by any other means.
If you do not agree with our policies and practices, you can choose not to use our Website. By accessing or using our Website, you agree to this Policy. This Policy may change from time to time. When we make changes to this Policy, we will post the updated Policy on our Website and update the Policy’s “last modified” date. Your continued use of our Website after we make changes is deemed to be acceptance of those changes; however, we will not use your Personal Information for additional purposes beyond those disclosed in this Policy without providing notice and obtaining your consent.
Information We Collect About You and How We Collect It
Personal Information We Collect
We may collect several types of information from and about users of our Website. This information may include information by which users may be personally identified or other information about a user to the extent maintained in personally identifiable form (collectively, “Personal Information”). Specifically, we (or our third party service providers acting on our behalf) may collect the following categories of Personal Information from you:
Identifiers, such as your name, alias, postal address, e-mail address, unique personal or online identifier, IP Address or Mobile Device ID, and account or user name (“Identifiers”)
Payment information such as your credit card number, debit card number, expiration dates and security codes, and other similar or related account and authentication data necessary to process payment transactions on our Website (“Payment Information”). Please note: the third party payment processor that we have engaged to securely process payment transactions on our Website collects this information directly from you and processes this information on our behalf without sharing this information with us, and we do not at any time directly store or have access to any Payment Information.
Commercial information, including products or services purchased, obtained, or considered, or other purchasing or consuming histories or tendencies (“Commercial Information”)
Information related to Internet or other similar network activity, including browsing history, search history, information on your interaction with our Website or advertisements on our Website (“Internet Activity”)
Inferences drawn from the information described above that we use to create a profile about you reflecting your preferences, characteristics, psychological trends, predispositions, behavior, attitudes, intelligence, abilities, and aptitudes (“Inference Data”)
How We Collect Information
With the exception of your Technical Information (which we collect automatically as you navigate through or interact with our Website, as described below in the section titled “Traffic, Usage and Computer/Device Information”) and your Inference Data (which is derived from the other information collected about you, as described above), we primarily collect information, including Personal Information, directly from you when you create an account on our Website, complete a purchase to use our services or products, enter into a sweepstakes, contest, giveaway or other promotion related to our services or products, correspond with us via postal mail, e-mail, text message, telephone or through our Website, request additional services from us (such as customer support services), or report a problem with our Website or our products or services.
Traffic, Usage and Computer/Device Information
Additionally, as you navigate through and interact with our Website or interact with the e-mails and other electronic messages we send to you, we or our third party service providers may automatically collect certain traffic data, usage information, and information about your computer equipment or mobile device, such as your browser and operating system, your wireless carrier, configuration data, clickstream analytics and your actions and patterns when you use our Website (“Technical Information”). The technologies we use for this automatic data collection may include cookies that are stored on the browser of your computer or mobile device and other types of embedded code. We collect this information to manage our content and improve users’ use of our Website; count and review the number of users of our Website and their usage patterns; to track key performance indicators such as pages accessed, frequency of access, conversions (the number of users who click on our advertisements and then go on to make a product purchase) and other statistical information related to our Website (for example, recording the popularity of certain content and verifying system and server integrity); to identify the portion of users who accesses our Website via different web browsers; to recognize if a user is a return user of our Website; to store information about a user’s visits; to remember a user’s preferences; and for similar purposes in connection with monitoring, operating, maintaining and improving our Website. Third parties may also collect Technical Information and other information on our behalf as further described in the sections below titled “Use of Google Analytics,” and “Tracking and ‘DO NOT TRACK’.”
How We Use Your Information
Generally
We may use the information we collect about you or that you provide to us, including Personal Information, to:
Provide our Website, services and products and their contents to you.
Provide you with information, products or services you request from us.
Process your requests, purchases, transactions, and payments, including by transmitting certain of your Personal Information (including Payment Information) to the third party payment processor that we use for securely processing payment transactions, and to prevent transactional fraud.
Create, maintain, customize, and secure your account with us.
Verify identity, to assist with identification of users, and to determine appropriate services.
Provide you with support and to respond to your inquiries and customer service and support requests, including to investigate and address your concerns and to monitor and improve our responses.
Provide you with informational and promotional content and materials regarding the Website and our products and services offered through the Website.
Update and maintain customer, subscription or e-mail lists.
Notify you about changes to our Website, products and services.
With respect to Technical Information, fulfill the purposes described in the section above titled “Traffic, Usage and Computer/Device Information.”
Respond to lawful requests for information through court orders, subpoenas, warrants and other legal processes or obligations.
Enforce any contracts between you and us, including for billing and collection, or for the establishment, exercise or defense of legal claims.
Fulfill any other purpose for which you provide the information.
Serve any other purpose that we describe when you provide the information and for any other purpose with your consent.
Use of Personal Information for Marketing Purposes
We may use your Personal Information to provide you with marketing and promotional information about our Website, products and services. If you do not want us to use your information in this way, see the section below titled “Your Rights and Choices” for more information about how to opt out of such use.
User Contributions
You may provide information to be posted, published or displayed on public areas of our Website, or transmitted to other users of our products or services or to third parties, including information, feedback and comments (collectively, “User Contributions”). Your User Contributions are posted on our Website and transmitted to others at your own risk. We cannot control the actions of other users of our Website with whom you may choose to share your User Contributions. Therefore, we cannot and do not guarantee that your User Contributions will not be viewed by unauthorized persons.
Tracking and “DO NOT TRACK”
Tracking involves the use of cookies, web beacons, or other embedded code or tracking technologies to collect, analyze and store information on a user’s behavior over time on multiple sites, including information on the sites visited, products viewed, products purchased and other online interactions. Tracking information can be used to enable companies to make interest-based (behavioral) advertising available to users on multiple sites that they visit.
Google Analytics
We use Google Analytics to track and analyze certain traffic and usage statistics regarding the use of our Website, such as the number of visitors to our Website, how visitors are navigating to our Website, visitors’ general geographic region information, how long individuals are visiting our Website, and information about the equipment individuals are using to access our Website (e.g., browser version and operating system). Google Analytics may use a Google Analytics cookie and may collect your IP Address or Mobile Device ID as part of this service (but neither we nor Google Analytics otherwise collects or processes any of your Personal Information in connection with our use of the Google Analytics services). We use this traffic and usage information to gauge, internally, the effectiveness of our advertising efforts and to make improvements to our Website and our marketing and promotional efforts.
Disclosure of Your Information
Generally
We may disclose Personal Information to any contractors and other service providers who need to know such information to provide services to us that support our hosting, maintenance, operation and promotion of our Website and our permitted uses of Personal Information under this Policy. For example, we may use a third party cloud-hosting infrastructure service provider (e.g., Amazon Web Services, Google Cloud) to store certain Personal Information securely, we may use a provider of shipping services management software to organize and track our communications with you, we may use certain third-party advertising service providers (such as Facebook, as described above in the section titled “Use of Facebook Business Tools”) and we use Google Analytics in connection with our Website as described above in the section titled “Use of Google Analytics.”
In addition, we may disclose your Personal Information to comply with any court order, law or legal process, including to meet law enforcement requirements or to respond to any government or regulatory request or audit, or to enforce or apply any contracts you or your company have entered into with us, or if we believe disclosure is necessary or appropriate to protect the rights, property, or safety of our customers or others.
Finally, we may disclose your Personal Information for any other purpose disclosed when the information is provided and for any other purpose with your consent.
We may disclose Technical Information and all forms of Personal Information for each of the purposes described above, including Identifiers, Commercial Information, Internet Activity, and Inference Data.
No Sales of Personal Information
We do not sell, and have never sold, any Personal Information to third parties.
Your Rights and Choices
Generally
You have certain choices regarding the Personal Information you provide to us. You can set your browser to refuse all or some browser cookies. If you choose not to accept cookies, you may be unable to access certain parts or pages of our Website, or certain parts or features of our Website may not function properly. To learn more about cookies and how to disallow or manage them, go to www.allaboutcookies.org/.
If you do not wish to have your Personal Information used by us to contact you for marketing purposes, you can opt out when you complete a transaction or send us an e-mail with your request to patricia@bridgespottery.com, or clicking on the “Unsubscribe” or similar link in the most recent e-mail you received from us and by following the prompts that appear.
Third-Party Websites
Our Website may include links to blogs, social media and third-party websites. These third-party sites have their own privacy policies and terms of use and are not controlled by this Policy. You should carefully review any terms, conditions and policies of such third-party sites before visiting them or supplying them with any personal information. If you follow a link on our Website to any third-party site such as Amazon, any information you provide to that site will be governed by its own terms of use and privacy policy and not this Policy.
We are not responsible for the privacy or security of any information you provide to a third-party website or the information practices used by any third-party site, including links to any third-party site from our Website. We make no representations, express or implied, concerning the accuracy, privacy, safety, security, or the information practices of any third-party site. The inclusion of a link to a third-party site on our Website does not constitute any type of endorsement of the linked site by us. We are not responsible for any loss or damage you may sustain resulting from your use of any third-party website or any information you share with a third-party website.
Children Under the Age of 16
Our Website is not intended for children under 16 years of age, and no one under the age of 16 may provide any information to us or others on or using our Website. We do not knowingly collect Personal Information from children under the age of 16. If you are under 16 years of age, do not use our Website or provide any information about yourself to us, including your name, address, telephone number, email address, IP Address or Mobile Device ID, or any screen name or username you may use. If we learn we have collected or received Personal Information from a child under 16 years of age without verification of parental consent, we will delete that information. If you believe we might have any information from or about a child under the age of 16, please contact us.
Data Security
We have implemented measures designed to secure your Personal Information from accidental loss and from unauthorized access, use, alteration and disclosure. Unfortunately, the transmission of information over the Internet is not completely secure. Although we have implemented security measures that we think are adequate, we cannot guarantee the security of your Personal Information transmitted to or using our Website. Any transmission of Personal Information is at your own risk. We are not responsible for the circumvention of any privacy settings or security measures contained on our Website.
Changes to Our Privacy Policy
We post any changes we make to our Policy on this page. The date this Policy was last revised is identified at the top of the page. You are responsible for ensuring we have an up-to-date, active, and deliverable e-mail address for you, and for periodically visiting our Website and this Policy to check for any changes.
Contact Information
To ask questions or to submit comments about this Policy and our privacy practices, you may contact us:
Bridges Pottery, LLC
190 Main Street # 2020
Port Washington, New York