Vision Sporting Goods Privacy Policy For Websites
Privacy Policy
We receive, collect and store any information you enter on our website or provide us in any other way. In addition, we collect the Internet protocol (IP) address used to connect your computer to the Internet; login; e-mail address; password; computer and connection information, and purchase history. We may use software tools to measure and collect session information, including page response times, length of visits to certain pages, page interaction information, and methods used to browse away from the page. We also collect personally identifiable information (including name, email, password, communications); payment details (including credit card information), comments, feedback, product reviews, recommendations, and personal profile.
1. How Do We Collect Personal Information?
When you conduct a transaction on our website, as part of the process, we collect the personal information you give us such as your name, address, and email address. Your personal information will be used for the specific reasons stated above only.
2. Why do you collect such personal information?
We collect such Non-personal and Personal Information for the following purposes: -To provide and operate the Services; -To provide our Users with ongoing customer assistance and technical support; -To be able to contact our Visitors and Users with general or personalized service-related notices and promotional messages; -To create aggregated statistical data and other aggregated and/or inferred Non- personal Information, which we or our business partners may use to provide and improve our respective services; -To comply with any applicable laws and regulations.
3. How do we store, use, share and disclose our site visitors’ personal information?
Our company is hosted on the WIX platform. WordPress provides us with an online platform that allows us to sell our products and services to you. Your data may be stored through WIX's’ data storage, databases, and general WordPress applications. They store your data on secure servers behind a firewall. All direct payment gateways offered by WordPress and used by our company adhere to the standards set by PCI-DSS as managed by the PCI Security Standards Council, which is a joint effort of brands like Visa, MasterCard, American Express, and Discover. PCI-DSS requirements help ensure the secure handling of credit card information by our store and its service providers.
4. Sharing your information
We may share your information with: any company within the Vision Sporting Goods including those companies listed at the bottom of this Privacy Notice, for the purposes set out in this Privacy Notice, (e.g. global information and customer relationship management; software and service compatibility and improvements; and to provide you with any information, applications, products or services that you have requested); our service providers and agents (including their sub-contractors) or third parties which process information on our behalf (e.g. internet service and platform providers, payment processing providers and those organizations we engage to help us send communications to you) so that they may help us to provide you with the applications, products, services and information you have requested or which we believe is of interest to you; partners, including system implementers, resellers, value-added resellers, independent software vendors and developers that may help us to provide you with the applications, products, services and information you have requested or which we believe is of interest to you; third parties used to facilitate payment transactions, for example clearing houses, clearing systems, financial institutions and transaction beneficiaries; third parties where you have a relationship with that third party and you have consented to us sending information (for example social media sites or other third party application providers); third parties for marketing purposes (e.g. our partners and other third parties with whom we work and whose products or services we think will interest you in the operation of your business activities. For example, financial services organizations (such as banks, insurers, finance providers), payment solutions providers, software and services providers that provide business solutions); credit reference and fraud prevention agencies; regulators to meet Sage Group’s legal and regulatory obligations; law enforcement agencies so that they may detect or prevent crime or prosecute offenders; any third party in the context of actual or threatened legal proceedings, provided we can do so lawfully (for example in response to a court order); any third party in order to meet our legal and regulatory obligations, including statutory or regulatory reporting or the detection or prevention of unlawful acts; our own and Sage Group professional advisors and auditors for the purpose of seeking professional advice or to meet our audit responsibilities; another organization if we sell or buy (or negotiate to sell or buy) any business or assets; another organization to whom we may transfer our agreement with you; and Government departments where reporting is mandatory under applicable law. We may share non-personally identifiable information about the use of our website, applications, products, or services publicly or with third parties but this will not include information that can be used to identify you.
5. Your information and your rights
If you are based within the EEA or within another jurisdiction having similar data protection laws, in certain circumstances you have the following rights: the right to be told how we use your information and obtain access to your information; the right to have your information rectified or erased or place restrictions on processing your information; the right to object to the processing of your information e.g. for direct marketing purposes; the right to have any information you provided to us on an automated basis returned to you in a structured, commonly used and machine-readable format, or sent directly to another company, where technically feasible (“data portability”); where the processing of your information is based on your consent, the right to withdraw that consent subject to legal or contractual restrictions; the right to object to any decisions based on the automated processing of your personal data, including profiling; and the right to lodge a complaint with the supervisory authority responsible for data protection matters (e.g. in the UK, the Information Commissioner’s Office). If you request a copy of your information you may be required to pay a statutory fee. If we hold any information about you which is incorrect or if there are any changes to your details, please let us know so that we can keep our records accurate and up to date. If you withdraw your consent to the use of your personal information for purposes set out in our Privacy Notice, we may not be able to provide you with access to all or parts of our website, applications, and services. We will retain your personal information for the duration of our business relationship and afterward for as long as is necessary and relevant for our legitimate business purposes, by the Sage Group Data Retention, Marking, and Destruction Policy or as otherwise permitted applicable laws and regulation. Where we no longer need your personal information, we will dispose of it securely (without further notice to you).
6. How do we communicate with our site visitors?
We may contact you to notify you regarding your account, to troubleshoot problems with your account, to resolve a dispute, to collect fees or monies owed, to poll your opinions through surveys or questionnaires, to send updates about our company, or as otherwise necessary to contact you to enforce our User Agreement, applicable national laws, and any agreement we may have with you. For these purposes, we may contact you via email, telephone, text messages, and postal mail.
7. How can our site visitors’ withdraw their consent?
If you don’t want us to process your data anymore, please contact us at sales@visionsportinggoods.com or send us a mail to: Vision Sporting Goods, 463 Hein Drive, Garner, NC 27529.
8. Privacy policy updates
We reserve the right to modify this privacy policy at any time, so please review it frequently. Changes and clarifications will take effect immediately upon their posting on the website. If we make material changes to this policy, we will notify you here that it has been updated, so that you are aware of what information we collect, how we use it, and under what circumstances, if any, we use and/or disclose it.
9. Questions and your contact information
If you would like to: access, correct, amend or delete any personal information we have about you, you are invited to contact us at sales@visionsportinggoods.com or send us a mail to: Vision Sporting Goods, 463 Hein Drive, Garner, NC 27529.
10. Marketing
From time to time, we may use your information to contact you with details about our applications, products, and services that we feel may be of interest to you. We may also share your information with our group companies and carefully selected third parties so that they (or we) may contact you with information about their products or services which we feel may be of interest to you. We or they may wish to contact you for this purpose by telephone, post, SMS, or email. You have the right at any time to stop us from contacting you for marketing purposes. You may also request at any time that we do not share your information with third parties referred to in this paragraph. If you wish to exercise these rights you can do so by selecting your contact preferences at the point where you provide us with your information on our websites, applications, or services, using any preference centers we give you access to, or by sending us an email to sales@visionsportinggoods.com. You can also unsubscribe from any email marketing using the links provided in the emails we send to you.
11.Third-party platform advertising
We may share your information with third-party platform providers (such as Facebook, Google, and Twitter) to serve targeted advertising/content to you via the relevant third-party platform based on your profile/interests. Your information is used by the third-party platform provider to identify your account and serve advertisements to you. You can control what advertisements you receive via the privacy settings on the relevant provider’s platform and you should consult the third party’s help/support center for more information.
12. Transfers outside of the European Economic Area
Personal information in the European Union is protected by data-protection laws but other countries do not necessarily protect your personal information in the same way. Our website and some of our applications or services or parts of them may also be hosted in the United States or otherwise outside of the EEA (which means all the EU countries plus Norway, Iceland, and Liechtenstein) (“EEA”) and this means that we may transfer any information which is submitted by you through the website or the application or service outside the EEA to the United States or other territories outside of the EEA. When you send an email to us, this will also be stored on our email servers which are hosted in the United States. We may use service providers based outside of the EEA to help us provide our website, applications, and services to you (for example, platform and payment providers who help us deliver our applications and services, or advertising or execute your payments) and this means that we may transfer your information to service providers outside the EEA to provide our applications, advertising, and services to you. We take steps to ensure that where your information is transferred outside of the EEA by our service providers and hosting providers, appropriate measures and controls in place to protect that information by applicable data protection laws and regulations. For example, we may share information with our group companies or affiliates based outside the EEA for the purposes envisaged by this Privacy Notice. All Sage group companies are subject to Sage group data protection policies designed to protect data by EU data protection laws. In each case, such transfers are made by the requirements of Regulations (EU) 2016/679 (the General Data Protection Regulations or “GDPR”) and may be based on the use of the European Commission’s Standard Model Clauses for transfers of personal data outside the EEA. By using our website, products, or services or by interacting with us in the ways described in this Privacy Notice, you consent to the transfer of your information outside the EEA in the circumstances set out in this Privacy Notice. If you do not want your information to be transferred outside the EEA you should not use our website, applications, or services.
13.Cookies, Analytics, and Traffic Data
Cookies are small text files that are transferred from our websites, applications, or services and stored on your device. We use cookies to help us provide you with personalized service and to help make our websites, applications, and services better for you. Our cookies may be session cookies (temporary cookies that identify and track users within our websites, applications, or services which are deleted when you close your browser or leave your session in the application or service) or persistent cookies (cookies which enable our websites, applications or services to “remember” who you are and to remember your preferences within our websites, applications or services and which will stay on your computer or device after you close your browser or leave your session in the application or service). We use the following different types of cookies: Strictly necessary cookies These are cookies that are needed for our websites, applications, or services to function properly, for example, these cookies allow you to access secure areas of our website or to remember what you have put into your shopping basket. Performance cookies and analytics technologies These cookies collect information about how visitors and users use our websites, applications, and services, for instance, which functionality visitors use most often, and if they get error messages from areas of the websites, applications, or services. These cookies don’t collect information that identifies a visitor or user. All information these cookies collect is aggregated and therefore anonymous. We only use these cookies to improve how our website, applications, and services work. Functionality cookies These cookies allow our websites, applications, and services to remember choices you make (such as your user name, language, or the region you are in) and provide enhanced, more personal features. These cookies can also be used to remember changes you have made to text size, fonts, and other parts of web pages that you can customize. They may also be used to provide the services you have asked for. The information these cookies collect may be anonymized and they cannot track your browsing activity on other websites. Targeting or advertising cookies These cookies are used to deliver adverts more relevant to you and your interests. They are also used to limit the number of times you see an advertisement as well as help measure the effectiveness of the advertising campaign. They are usually placed by advertising networks with the website operators’ permission. They remember that you have visited a website and this information is shared with other organizations such as advertisers. Quite often targeting or advertising cookies will be linked to site functionality provided by the other organization. Web beacons and parameter tracking We also use cookies and similar software known as web beacons to count users who have visited our website after clicking through from one of our advertisements on another website or in emails and to collect details of any products or services purchased. These web beacons collect limited information which does not identify particular individuals. It is not possible to refuse the use of web beacons. However, because they are used in conjunction with cookies, you can effectively disable them by setting your browser to restrict or block cookies. IP Address and traffic data We keep a record of traffic data that is logged automatically by our servers, such as your Internet Protocol (IP) address, device information, the website that you visited before ours, and the website you visit after leaving our site. We also collect some site, application, and service statistics such as access rates, page hits, and page views. We are not able to identify any individual from traffic data or site statistics. Find out more about the individual cookies and analytics technologies that we use. Google Analytics Google Analytics uses “cookies”, which are text files placed on your computer, to help the website analyze how users use the websites, applications, or services. The information generated by the cookie about your use of the websites, applications, or services (including your IP address) will be transmitted to and stored by Google on servers in the United States. Google will use this information to evaluate your use of the websites, applications, or services compiling reports on website activity for website operators and providing other services relating to website activity and internet usage. Google may also transfer this information to third parties where required to do so by law, or where such third parties process the information on Google’s behalf. Google will not associate your IP address with any other data held by Google. You may refuse the use of cookies by selecting the appropriate settings on your browser or within the application, however, please note that if you do this you may not be able to use the full functionality of this website. By using our websites, applications, or services you consent to the processing of data about you by Google in the manner and for the purposes set out above. To find out more, see “How Google uses data when you use our partners’ sites or apps”, (located at www.google.com/policies/privacy/partners/, or any other URL Google may provide from time to time).
14. How to disable cookies
You may be able to configure your browser or our website, application, or service to restrict cookies or block all cookies if you wish, however, if you disable cookies you may find this affects your ability to use certain parts of our website, applications, or services. For more information about cookies and instructions on how to adjust your browser settings to accept, delete or reject cookies, see the www.allaboutcookies.org website.
15. Security and storage of information
We will keep your information secure by taking appropriate technical and organizational measures against its unauthorized or unlawful processing and its accidental loss, destruction, or damage. We will do our best to protect your personal information but we cannot guarantee the security of your information which is transmitted to our website, applications, or services or other websites, applications, and services via an internet or similar connection. If we have given you (or you have chosen) a password to access certain areas of our websites, applications or services please keep this password safe – we will not share this password with anyone.