Privacy Policy

Last updated and effective January 10, 2023

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Table of Contents

 

1. Scope of this Policy

This privacy policy applies to:

1.1.  PMI WW Brands, LLC d/b/a Stanley1913 and our affiliates (which may include affiliates outside of the United States) and brands (“Company,” “we,” “us,” “our”).

1.2.  Company’s online properties, including our websites, and websites or mobile applications that link to it, and our social media pages or handles; our products, and our services (collectively “Services”).

1.3.  Information you provide or we receive when you interact with us off-line.

This Policy applies when you interact with us through our Services or off-line. It also applies anywhere it is linked. It does not apply to third-party websites, mobile applications, or services that may link to the Services or be linked to from the Services. Please review the privacy policies on those websites and applications directly to understand their privacy practices.

We may change this Policy from time to time. If we do, we will notify you by posting the updated version.

2. How We Collect Personal Information

We collect personal information that you provide directly to us (online or through other communication channels) as well as information your device provides to us automatically, as described below. Where permitted by applicable law, we may also collect personal information about you indirectly from third parties (such as advertising partners) as described below.

3. Information We Collect

We collect information from you directly, from the devices you use to interact with us, and from third parties. We may combine information from the Services together and with other information we obtain from our business records. We may use and share information that we aggregate (compile to create statistics that cannot identify a particular individual) or de-identify (strip information of all unique identifiers such that it cannot be linked to a particular individual) at our discretion.

3.1. Information you give us

You may provide the following information to us directly:

  • Contact and professional information, including name, email address, telephone number, and job title, as well as company name and size.
  • Demographic information.
  • Audiovisual information, including recordings of online events or photos you include in product reviews.
  • Payment information, including credit card information.
  • Content you may include in survey responses.
  • Information contained in your communications to us, including emails to or online chats with customer service.
  • Information you make available to us via a social media platform.
  • Any information or data you provide by commenting on content posted on our Services, including product reviews. Please note that these comments are also visible to other users of our Services.
  • Information you submit to inquire about or apply for a job with us.
  • Any other information you submit to us.

3.2. Information we collect automatically

We and partners working on our behalf may use log files, cookies, or other digital tracking technologies to collect the following information from the device you use to interact with our Services. We also create records when you make purchases or otherwise interact with the Services.

For example, Company and third parties may collect information from your computer, tablet, phone, or other devices on which you install mobile applications. Information collected is used to assist in accessing our websites, or to determine whether you open an email or click on an advertisement or help keep track of items you put into your shopping cart, including when you have abandoned your cart. This information may also be used to determine when to send cart reminder messages via SMS or email.

    • Device information, including IP address, device identifiers, and details about your web browser.
    • Analytical information, including details about your interaction with our website, app, and electronic newsletters.
    • Diagnostic information, including web traffic logs.
    • Advertising information, including special advertising and other unique identifiers that enable us or third parties working on our behalf to target advertisements to you. Please be aware that our advertising partners may collect information about you when you visit third-party websites or use third-party apps. They may use that information to better target advertisements to you on our behalf.
    • Business record information, including records of your purchases of products and services.

3.3. Information We Collect From Other Sources

We may collect the following information about you from third-party sources.

    • Subscription registration information.
    • Contact information, demographic information, and information about your interests and purchases, from consumer data providers and data enrichment services.
    • Information about your credit history from credit reporting  agencies.
    • Information about your interests, activities, and employment history from social networks and other places where you choose to share information publicly.
    • Background check information if you apply for a job with us that requires a background check, where permitted by law and with your consent (to the extent required by law).
    • Information about your interaction with advertisements on our Services, or ads that we place on third party websites, from online advertising companies.
    • If you decide to invite others to the Services, we will collect your and the other person’s names, email addresses, and/or phone numbers to send an email or text message and follow up with the other person. You agree that you will obtain the other person’s consent before giving us his or her contact information. You also agree that you will not send us the contact information of a minor. We will inform any other person you invite that you gave us his or her information in the invitation email.

4. How We Use Your Information

We may use any of the information we collect for the following purposes.

    • Service functionality: To provide you with our products and services, including to take steps to enter a contract for sale or for services, process payments, fulfill orders, provide a loyalty program, offer a referral program, send service communications (including renewal reminders), and conduct general business operations, such as accounting, recordkeeping, and audits. We use information for service functionality to perform our contract with you and/or pursuant to our legitimate interests (to the extent permitted by law).
    • Service improvement: To improve and grow our Services, including to develop new products and services and understand how our Services are being used, our customer base and purchasing trends, and the effectiveness of our marketing. We use information for service improvement pursuant to our legitimate interests.
    • Personalization: To offer you recommendations and tailor the Services to your preferences. We use information for personalization pursuant to our legitimate interests (to the extent permitted by law).
    • Advertising and marketing: To send you marketing communications, personalize the advertisements you see on our Services and third-party online properties, and measure the effectiveness of our advertising. We may share your information with business partners, online advertising partners, and social media platforms for this purpose. We use information for advertising and marketing with your consent and/or pursuant to our legitimate interests.

 We may also use services provided by third-party platforms (such as social networking and other websites) to serve targeted advertisements on such platforms to you or others. If you have signed-up for our marketing list, we may provide a hashed version of your email address or other information to the platform provider for such purposes. You may have certain rights with respect to sharing of this information for such purposes depending on your location or residency. Please see “privacy disclosures for specific jurisdictions” below.

    • Security: To protect and secure our Services, assets, network, and business operations, and to detect, investigate, and prevent activities that may violate our policies or be fraudulent or illegal. We use information for security purposes pursuant to our legitimate interests and/or for compliance with legal obligations.
    • Legal compliance: To comply with legal process, such as warrants, subpoenas, court orders, and lawful regulatory or law enforcement requests and to comply with applicable legal requirements. We use information for legal compliance purposes for compliance with legal obligations.

5. How We Share Your Information

We may share any of the information we collect with the following recipients.

    • Affiliates: We share information with other members of our group of companies.
    • Service providers: We engage vendors to perform specific business functions on our behalf, and they may receive information about you from us or collect it directly. These vendors are obligated by contract to use information that we share only for the purpose of providing these business functions, which include:
      • Supporting Service functionality, such as vendors that support event registration, customer service and customer relationship management, subscription fulfillment, freight services, application development, list cleansing, postal mailings, and communications (email, fax).
      • Auditing and accounting firms, such as firms that assist us in the creation of our financial records.
      • Professional services consultants, such as firms that perform analytics, assist with improving our business, provide legal services, or supply project-based resources and assistance.
      • Analytics and marketing services, including entities that analyze traffic on our online properties and assist with identifying and communicating with potential customers.
      • Security vendors, such as entities that assist with security incident verification and response, service notifications, and fraud prevention.
      • Information technology vendors, such as entities that assist with website design, hosting and maintenance, data and software storage, and network operation.
      • Marketing vendors, such as entities that support distribution of marketing emails.
    • Business partners: From time to time, we may share your contact information with other organizations for marketing purposes.
    • Online advertising partners: We partner with companies that assist us in advertising our Services, including partners that use cookies and online tracking technologies to collect information to personalize, retarget, and measure the effectiveness of advertising.
    • Social media platforms: If you interact with us on social media platforms, the platform may be able to collect information about you and your interaction with us. If you interact with social media objects on our Services (for example, by clicking on a Facebook “like” button), both the platform and your connections on the platform may be able to view that activity. To control this sharing of information, please review the privacy policy of the relevant social media platform.
    • Government entities/Law enforcement: We and our US, Canadian, and other foreign service providers, may share information when we believe in good faith that we are lawfully authorized or required to do so to respond to lawful subpoenas, warrants, court orders, or other regulatory or law enforcement requests, or where necessary to protect our property or rights or the safety of our employees, our customers, or other individuals, which may include lawful access by US or foreign courts, law enforcement or other government authorities.
    • Other businesses in the context of a commercial transaction: We may change our ownership or corporate organization while providing the Services. We may transfer to another entity or its affiliates or service providers some or all information about you in connection with, or during negotiations of, any merger, acquisition, sale of assets or any line of business, change in ownership control, or financing transaction. We cannot promise that an acquiring party or the merged entity will have the same privacy practices or treat your information as described in this policy.

 

6. Security

We use a combination of physical, technical, and administrative safeguards to protect the information we collect through the Services. While we use these precautions to safeguard your information, we cannot guarantee the security of the networks, systems, servers, devices, and databases we operate or that are operated on our behalf.

 

7. Your Options and Rights Regarding Your Information

Your Account: Please visit your account page to update your account information.

Email Unsubscribe: If you do not wish to receive marketing information from us or wish to opt out of future email promotions from us, please contact us. Please note that all promotional email messages you receive from us will include an option to opt out of future email communications.

Ad Choices: You have options to limit the information that we and our partners collect for online advertising purposes.

    • You may disable cookies in your browser or mobile device using their settings menus. Your mobile device may give you the option to disable advertising functionality. Because we use cookies to support Service functionality, disabling cookies may also disable some elements of our online properties.
    • The following industry organizations offer opt-out choices for companies that participate in them: the Network Advertising Initiative, the Digital Advertising Alliance, and the European Interactive Digital Advertising Initiative.
    • You may use our cookie settings menu.

If you exercise these options, please be aware that you may still see advertising, but it will not be personalized. Nor will exercising these options prevent other companies from displaying personalized ads to you.

If you delete your cookies, you may also delete your opt-out preferences.

Do Not Track: Your browser or device may include “Do Not Track” functionality. The information collection and disclosure practices and the choices that we provide to you will continue to operate as described in this privacy policy, whether a Do Not Track signal is received.

Jurisdiction-specific rights: You may have certain rights with respect to your personal information depending on your location or residency. Please see “privacy disclosures for specific jurisdictions” below. Please contact us to exercise your rights.

 

8. Special Information for Job Applicants

When you apply for a job with us, we may collect information from you, including:

    • Information you provide in connection with your application.
    • Information that you make available in your social media accounts.
    • Information about you that is available publicly.
    • Information that you authorize us to collect via third parties, including former employers or references.

In certain circumstances, you may submit your application for employment through a third-party service that displays our job posting. We do not control the privacy practices of these third-party services. Please review their privacy policies carefully prior to submitting your application materials.

 

9. Other Important Information

9.1.     Data retention

We may store information about you for as long as necessary for the purpose set out herein or as otherwise required to meet  a legitimate business or legal need for it.

9.2.     Cross-border data transfer

We and our service providers may collect, process, and store your information outside your jurisdiction of residence, such as in the United States and other countries. The laws in the United States regarding information may be different from the laws of your country.

9.3.     Information about children

The Services are intended for users age eighteen and older. We do not knowingly collect information from children. If we discover that we have inadvertently collected information from anyone younger than the age of 18, we will delete that information. Please contact us with any concerns.

9.4.     Sharing of Medical or Health Information

To the extent that we receive protected health information about you, that information is subject to electronic disclosure to the extent permitted by applicable law.

 

10. Privacy Disclosures for Specific Jurisdictions

10.1.  European Economic Area, United Kingdom, and Switzerland

We process “personal data,” as that term is defined in the European Union’s General Data Protection Regulation (“GDPR”).

Your rights under the GDPR: Users who are located in the European Economic Area (“EEA”), U.K., or Switzerland have the right to lodge a complaint about our data collection and processing actions with the supervisory authority concerned. Contact details for data protection authorities are available here: http://ec.europa.eu/justice/data- protection/bodies/authorities/index_en.htm.

If you are located in the EEA, U.K., or Switzerland, you have the following rights.

  • Access and Portability: Request access to personal data we hold about you or request transmission of your data to a third party.
  • Correction: Request that we rectify inaccurate or incomplete personal data we store about you.
  • Erasure: Request that we erase personal data when such data is no longer necessary for the purpose for which it was collected, when you withdraw consent and no other legal basis for processing exists, or when you believe that your fundamental rights to data privacy and protection outweigh our legitimate interest in continuing the processing.
  • Restriction of processing: Request that we restrict our processing of personal data if there is a dispute about the accuracy of the data; if the processing is unlawful; if the processing is no longer necessary for the purposes for which it was collected but is needed by you for the establishment, exercise or defense of legal claims; or if your request to object to processing is pending evaluation.\
  • Objection to processing: Object to processing of your personal data based on our legitimate interests or for direct marketing (including profiling). We will no longer process the data unless there are compelling legitimate grounds for our processing that override your interests, rights, and freedoms, or for the purpose of asserting, exercising, or defending legal claims.
  • Transfers: Obtain information about and a copy of the safeguards we use to transfer personal data across borders.

Please contact us to exercise these rights.

 

10.2.  California

Your California Privacy Rights; “Shine the Light” Law

California residents are entitled once a year, free of charge, to request and obtain certain information regarding our disclosure, if any, of certain categories of personal information to third parties for their own direct marketing purposes in the preceding calendar year. Please contact us to obtain this information. All requests must be labeled “Your California Privacy Rights” on the email subject line or envelope or post card. For all requests, please clearly state that the request is related to “Your California Privacy Rights,” include your name, street address, city, state, zip code, and e-mail address and indicate your preference on how our response to your request should be sent (email or postal mail). We are not responsible for notices that are not labeled or sent properly, or that do not have complete information.

California Consumer Privacy Act

This California notice supplements the information contained in our Privacy Policy and applies only to California residents. This notice sets forth the disclosures and certain additional rights for California residents regarding their personal information, as required by the California Consumer Privacy Act, as amended by the California Privacy Rights Act, and its implementing regulations (collectively the “CCPA”). All capitalized terms in this section that are not otherwise defined in this Privacy Policy shall be defined as set forth in the CCPA.

The CCPA provides California residents with rights to receive certain disclosures regarding the collection, use, and disclosure of information about them, as well as rights to know/access, correct, delete, and limit disclosure of personal information (including to opt-out of the sale/sharing of personal information). You have the right to be free from discrimination based on your exercise of your CCPA rights.

Your rights under the CCPA

  • Opt out of sale or sharing of personal information: You have the right to opt out of our sale or sharing of your personal information to third parties. To exercise this right, please visit our webform for consumer privacy requests or contact us using the information below. To disable sharing through cookies set by third parties that may be considered targeted advertising, please click here. Please be aware that your right to opt out does not apply to our disclosure of personal information to service providers.
  • Limit the use and disclosure of your sensitive personal information: You have the right to limit our use and disclosure of your sensitive personal information if we use such information to infer characteristics about you. We do not use your sensitive personal information for this purpose.
  • Know and request access to and correction and deletion of personal information: You have the right to request access to personal information collected about you and information regarding the source of that personal information, the purposes for which we collect it, and the third parties and service providers with to whom we sell or disclose it. You also have the right to request in certain circumstances that we delete personal information that we have collected directly from you and to correct personal information that we have collected about you.

Submitting Requests

To exercise your CCPA rights, please submit your request by completing the webform at www.stanley1913.com/pages/consumer-rights-privacy-form. You may also contact us by calling (206) 557-6270.

Verifying Your Requests

Any request from you must be a request we can reasonably verify and you must also describe your request with enough detail so that we can understand, evaluate, and respond to it. Making such a request does not require you to create an account with us.

When you exercise your Right to Know, Right to Delete, and/or Right to Correct, we may ask that you provide us with information, beyond your full name, in order to verify your identity and fulfill your request, such as your mailing address, phone number (if you have provided it), and email address that you have used to interact with us. We will take reasonable steps to verify your identity based upon the information you provide and the type of request you are making. We may ask for additional information as needed to fully verify your request.

If we are unable to verify that the individual submitting the request is the same individual about whom we have collected information (or someone authorized by that individual to act on their behalf), we will not be able to process the request.

Agents

California residents may designate an authorized agent to make a request on your behalf. If you are an agent submitting a CCPA request on a consumer’s behalf, please complete your request through one of the methods outlined below. We will also ask you to submit a declaration signed by the individual who is the subject of the request authorizing you to make the request on their behalf. The written permission must state your full legal name, the full legal name of the individual who is the subject of the request and needs to be clear about the permission granted. Alternatively, you may submit a copy of a power of attorney under Probate Code sections 4000-4465. The consumer’s identity, in addition to your own, will need to be independently verified in order for us to be able to fulfill your request. We may also ask the consumer to directly confirm with us that they provided you with permission to submit a request. Please keep in mind that if we do not receive adequate proof that you are authorized to act on the consumer’s behalf, we may deny the request.

“Do Not Track” and “Global Privacy Control” Signals

Do Not Track signals or other mechanisms that provide a method to opt out of the collection of information over time and across third-party websites are currently under development. For more information about do not track, visit www.allaboutdnt.org. Global Privacy Control (“GPC”) is a technical specification in your browser settings that you can use to automatically inform websites of your privacy preferences with regard to third party online tracking. To find out more about and set up GPC, please visit https://globalprivacycontrol.org/#about.

Notice at Collection Regarding the Categories of Personal Information Collected

You have the right to receive notice of the categories of personal information we collect and the purposes for which we use personal information. The following table summarizes the categories of personal information we collect, the categories of sources of that information, and whether we disclose or sell that information to service providers or third parties, respectively. The categories we use to describe personal information are those enumerated in the CCPA. We collect this personal information for the purposes described in “how we use information.”

*This information is collected about job applicants.

Data Retention

We will retain all categories of personal information described in this California notice for as long as it is reasonably necessary for the purposes set out in this California notice, considering the time period reasonably necessary to: (1) retain the information to achieve the business or commercial purpose for which it was obtained (including to allow you to use the Services, for us to respond to the choices and rights you have requests, and comply with our contractual obligations), (2) meet any legal or regulatory requirements applicable to such information, (3) conduct internal operational needs, and (4) comply with actual or anticipated investigation or litigation.

Financial Incentives.

Under California regulation, certain programs we offer that provide benefits to consumers may be considered financial incentive programs. We may collect personal information from you in connection with these programs, for example contact information (name, email address, phone number, residential country, year of birth) and certain commercial information for a number of reasons, including to administer the program, contact you with regard to your participation, to provide the benefits to you, to better serve you, process payments, and to fulfill your requests associated with the program.

To opt into the programs, you may need to provide certain information, register for an account and agree to the applicable program terms, or otherwise follow the instructions associated with that applicable program. Please also see the terms of the program you are joining for additional description of the program and any additional requirements. Participation in our programs is voluntarily, and you can withdraw at any time by following the instructions in the terms of the applicable program or by contacting us as described in the Contact section below.

To the extent that we provide a program that may be considered a financial incentive because the program is directly or reasonably related the collection, deletion, sale, or retention of consumer personal information, the value is reasonably related to the overall value we receive from the personal information participants provide specific to the program, minus the costs and expenses we incur in providing the program.

 

10.3.  Colorado, Connecticut, Delaware, Iowa, Montana, Nebraska, New Hampshire, New Jersey, Oregon, Texas, Utah, and Virginia

We set forth in our Privacy Policy the categories of personal data we process, the purpose for processing personal data, the categories of personal data shared, and the categories of third parties with whom personal data is shared. Residents of certain U.S. states may have the ability to exercise additional rights and choices regarding their personal data. We will take reasonable steps to accommodate your request but may need to verify your identity before doing so. (If you are a California resident, please see Section 10.2, above.)

Residents of the States of Colorado, Connecticut, Delaware, Iowa, Montana, Nebraska, New Hampshire, New Jersey, Oregon, Texas, Utah, and Virginia may have the following rights:

  • Opt-Out of Sales/Targeted Advertising (CO, CT, DE, IA, MT, NE, NH, NJ, OR, TX, UT, VA): Opt-out of “sales” of personal information and use of their personal information for “targeted advertising,” as those terms are defined under applicable law. Note that certain states define “sale” broadly to include sharing for monetary or other valuable consideration that may be triggered by certain targeted advertising, analytics, or similar practices that we engage in. We engage in online advertising practices (and certain analytics or similar activities) that may be considered “targeted advertising” under certain state laws. To disable sharing through cookies set by third parties that may be considered targeted advertising, please click here.
  • Opt-Out of Profiling (CO, CT, DE, MT, NE, NH, NJ, OR, TX, VA): Opt-out of “profiling” under certain circumstances, as defined under applicable law.
  • Access/Data Portability (CO, CT, DE, IA, MT, NE, NH, NJ, OR, TX, UT, VA): Confirm processing of and access to personal information under certain circumstances, and to the extent feasible and where permitted by applicable law, in a readily usable format to allow data portability. In Oregon and where otherwise permitted by applicable law, this includes the right to request a list of third parties with whom we have shared personal information.  In Delaware and where otherwise permitted by applicable law, you have the right to request a list of the categories of third parties with whom we have specifically shared your information.
  • Correct (CO, CT, DE, MT, NE, NH,  NJ, OR, TX, VA): Correct personal information under certain circumstances.
  • Delete (CO, CT, DE, IA,  MT, NE, NH,  NJ, OR, TX, UT, VA): Delete personal information under certain circumstances.
  • Appeal (CO, CT, DE, IA, MT, NE, NH, NJ, OR, TX, VA): Right to appeal our decision relating to your previous request.

Residents of these states can exercise their rights by completing the form at www.stanley1913.com/pages/consumer-rights-privacy-form or contacting us at using one of the methods listed below, including to call us at (206) 557-6270. In your request, please provide enough information to allow us to verify you are the person about whom we collected personal information. You must also describe your request with enough detail so that we can understand, evaluate, and respond to it. We can’t respond to your request if we can’t verify your identity. Making such a request does not require you to create an account with us, and we will only use the information you provide in a request to verify your identity.

Certain states permit you to designate an authorized agent to submit your request to opt-out of sales of your personal information and targeted advertising your behalf. We may ask authorized agents to provide a signed declaration by the consumer, authorizing the agent to act on the consumer’s behalf. The written permission must state the agent’s full legal name, the full legal name of the consumer who is the subject of the request and needs to be clear about the permission granted.

 

10.4.  Nevada

Residents of the State of Nevada have the right to opt out of the sale of certain pieces of their information to third parties. Currently, we do not engage in such sales. If you are a Nevada resident and would like more information about our data sharing practices, please contact us.

 

10.5.  Canada

If you are a resident of Canada, then, subject to limited exceptions under applicable law, you have the right to access, update, rectify and correct inaccuracies in your personal information in our custody and control or withdraw your consent to our collection, use and disclosure of your personal information. You may request access, updating, rectification and corrections of inaccuracies in your personal information in our custody or control or withdraw your consent by completing the webform at www.stanley1913.com/pages/consumer-rights-privacy-form or by contacting us at the contact information set out below. We may require certain personal information for the purpose of verifying the identity of the individual making the request.

Notice to Quebec Residents

All Company personnel handling personal information will be subject to a duty of confidentiality and will ensure that personal information is handled in accordance with standard security measures. By using the Services, you acknowledge and agree that your personal information will be transferred outside of Quebec.

We will only use your personal information for the purposes stated at the point of collection or as otherwise noted in this privacy policy.  Subject to applicable law, if you are a Quebec resident and would like to submit a request to be informed, access, erasure, rectification, to withdraw or restrict processing, or portability you must submit your request at www.stanley1913.com/pages/consumer-rights-privacy-form  or by calling (206) 557-6270. You may also ask us to clarify the categories of persons that have access to your personal information and the applicable retention period. Your request or complaint must include your full name, street address, city, province, postal code, and an email address so that we are able to contact you if needed regarding this request.

Our Head of Legal is in charge of the protection of personal information. You may contact our Head of Legal by emailing [email protected] or calling (206) 557-6270.

You may submit a complaint to the Commmision d’accès à l’information du Québec (CAI) by visiting: https://www.cai.gouv.qc.ca/a-propos/nous-joindre/.

11. Contact information, submitting requests, and our response procedures

11.1.  Contact

Please contact us if you have questions or wish to take any action with respect to information to which this privacy policy applies.

Title:      Head of Legal

Email:   [email protected]

Telephone: (206) 557 - 6270

Mail:      PMI WW Brands, LLC 2401 Elliott Avenue, 4th Floor Seattle, WA 98121, USA

11.2.  Making a request to exercise your rights

Submitting requests: You may request to exercise your rights by submitting the form on this page or making a request using the contact information above.

We may have a reason under the law why we do not have to comply with your request, or why we may comply with it in a more limited way than you anticipated. If we do, we will explain that to you in our response.

We will not use personal information we collect in connection with verifying or responding to your request for any purpose other than responding to your request.