Shindigz® Party Supplies (“Shindigz,” “we,” “us,” or “our”) is committed to protecting your privacy. This Privacy Policy explains how we collect, use, and disclose information about you when you access or use our websites, mobile applications, and other online products and services (collectively, the “Services”).
Please take a moment to review this Privacy Policy carefully. By accessing or using the Services, you agree to the terms of this Privacy Policy. If you do not agree to this Privacy Policy, please do not access or use the Services.
What Information Do We Collect?
Information You Provide Directly to Us
We collect information you provide directly to us when you create an account, make a purchase, contact us, fill out forms, request information, sign up for or cancel newsletters, alerts, or other communications from us, participate in surveys, contests, promotions, activities or events, submit content or comments, or otherwise communicate with us. This information may include:
- Contact information such as your name, email address, postal address, and phone number.
- Account information such as your username and password that you set to establish an account with us.
- Payment information such as payment card details (and related billing information) that you provide when making a purchase.
- Profile information that you provide for your user profile, such as a display name, profile photo, gender, birthday, and other demographic information.
- Communications that you send to us, such as questions, suggestions, comments or requests.
- Transaction information about how you interact with us, including purchases, inquiries, customer service requests, order details, and other transaction history.
- Marketing preferences that detail your preferences for receiving marketing communications from us.
Information We Collect Automatically
We also automatically collect information about how you access and use the Services. This information helps us to improve the Services and provide additional functionality. The information we automatically collect includes:
- Log data such as your Internet Protocol (IP) address, access dates and times, browser type and settings, the web page you visited before navigating to our sites, information about your device (such as device type, operating system, phone network, and settings), and other standard server log information.
- Usage data about how you use the Services, such as search queries, views and interactions with content, clicks, orders placed, pages or screens viewed, website navigation paths, bounce rates, time spent on pages, referral URLs, and similar information.
- Device data such as your device type, device model, device maker, device operating system and version, device identifiers (like IDFA or GAID for Apple and Android devices), and similar data.
- Location data such as your device’s GPS signal, WiFi data, or similar information regarding the location of your device. We may collect this when you enable location services.
- Cookie data from cookies, pixel tags, local storage, or other technologies that allow us to recognize your browser or device and capture and remember certain information.
Information from Third Party Sources
We may obtain information about you from third party sources. For example, if you access our sites through a social media account, we may have access to certain information from that account, such as your name, account ID, profile picture, and contacts.
How Do We Use the Information We Collect?
We use the information we collect for a variety of purposes, including:
- Providing, operating, maintaining, and improving the Services.
- Enabling you to access and use the Services.
- Processing orders and payments.
- Sending confirmations, receipts, technical notices, updates, security alerts and support/administrative messages.
- Responding to comments, questions and requests, and providing customer service.
- Communicating about promotions, upcoming events, and other news about products and services.
- Sending marketing and promotional communications about our products and services.
- Linking or combining information we collect from or about you.
- Conducting research and analysis to improve our products, services and Sites.
- Protecting, investigating and deterring against fraudulent, harmful, unauthorized or illegal activity.
- Enforcing our Terms of Service and other policies.
- Assessing the effectiveness of and optimizing advertising and outreach.
- Performing accounting, auditing, and other internal functions.
- Complying with legal and regulatory requirements.
- For any other purposes that we disclose at the time you provide, or when we collect your information, and as further described in this Privacy Policy.
How Is My Information Shared?
Information You Elect to Share Publicly
The Services may allow you to post or share certain information publicly like reviews, photos, comments, profile information, and other content. This information may become public and readily available to anyone with Internet access, so use caution when deciding what information to share or include.
Vendors and Service Providers
We may share your information with third party vendors and service providers that perform services on our behalf, such as: payment processors, shipping companies, marketing providers, analytics providers, website hosts, technology providers, fraud prevention, customer support, email deployment, data storage, and other services.
We restrict vendors’ access to your information only to what is reasonably necessary for them to perform their functions, and require them to protect and keep confidential your personal information.
Legal and Regulatory Authorities
We may disclose your information if required to do so by law or if we believe such action is necessary to comply with legal requirements or legal process, to protect and defend our rights and property or the rights of third parties, or to act as immediately necessary in order to protect the personal safety of our users or the public.
Business Transfers
In connection with any reorganization, merger, sale, joint venture, assignment, transfer or disposition of all or any portion of our business, assets or stock, we may transfer your information to a third party.
With Your Consent
We may share information about you with additional third parties for other purposes with your consent.
Is My Information Secure?
We employ reasonable technical, physical and administrative safeguards designed to protect the information we collect, including personal information, from accidental or unlawful destruction, loss, alteration, unauthorized disclosure or access. However, no transmission of data over the Internet or any other public network can be guaranteed to be 100% secure.
What Choices Do I Have Regarding My Information?
You may opt-out of receiving our marketing emails by following the unsubscribe instructions included in such emails. Note that you will continue to receive non-marketing emails related to your account, orders, and ongoing business relations.
Many browsers have settings allowing you to block or delete cookies used for online behavioral advertising and other tracking methods. Although our systems are designed to work properly without cookies, disabling cookies on your browser may interfere with some functionality.
Your mobile device may allow you to adjust settings related to the collection of device and usage data. Consult instructions from your mobile service provider or the manufacturer to exercise these options.
You have the right to request access to the personal data we hold about you. You also have the right to request the correction, restriction of use, or deletion of your personal information at any time. Please submit privacy-related requests to our contact information below.
What about Advertising and Analytics?
Tailored Advertising
We or our third party advertising partners may use cookies, pixels or other technologies to display relevant promotions and content based on your browsing activities, inferred interests, and other information we or they collect. This allows us to tailor advertising to better match your likely interests on our sites and third party sites.
Online Advertising Tracking and Do Not Track
We participate in the AdChoices self-regulation program for online behavioral advertising established by the Digital Advertising Alliance (DAA) and observe its Self-Regulatory Principles. As part of this service, we utilize cookies or other tracking technologies to analyze trends, track user movements, and gather demographics and interests to serve targeted advertising.
Most browsers allow you to adjust your browser settings to: (i) notify you when you receive a cookie, allowing you to decide whether to accept it; (ii) disable existing cookies; or (iii) set your browser to automatically reject any cookies. Disabling cookies on your browser may interfere with the ability to personalize your experience on our sites. We also honor Do Not Track requests from browsers or other mechanisms regarding tailored advertising.
Analytics
We use internal and third party analytics tools such as Google Analytics to analyze trends, administer sites, track users’ movements, and gather demographic and other aggregated data. These tools collect information sent by your browser or mobile device, including the pages you visit, your use of third party applications, and other such information.
We use the information we get from analytics to improve our sites, apps, products, services, and user experience. Although these analytics programs use data in the aggregate without identifying individual users, they may collect your IP address or other device identifier. You can opt-out of Google Analytics data collection by installing the Google Analytics Opt-out Browser Add-on. For more details, see Google Analytics’ currently available opt-outs.
Social Media Features
The Services may integrate with social sharing features and other related tools which let you log in to Services and share actions you take on our sites with social media sites such as Facebook and Twitter. These features may collect information such as the pages you visit and IP address, and may set a cookie or utilize other tracking technologies to function properly. Social media features are hosted by the social media sites and governed by their privacy policies.
Does This Privacy Policy Apply When I Link to Other Websites?
The Services may contain links enabling you to visit third party websites. We are not responsible for the privacy practices or content of those sites. We encourage you to be aware when leaving our sites and to read the privacy policy applicable to each site that collects your personal information.
Does This Privacy Policy Apply to Mobile Apps?
This Privacy Policy applies to any of our mobile apps that reference or link to this Privacy Policy. Mobile app providers may have access to your personal information collected through the app to assist with delivering and improving the app services.
Mobile apps may request access to features on your device such as contacts, calendar, camera, music, photos and location services. You can manage what information the app accesses through your device and app permissions. We do not sell personal or device data to third parties for their own marketing purposes without your explicit consent.
Push Notifications: With your consent, we may send push notifications or alerts to your mobile device to provide updates about new products or services that may interest you. You can change your notifications permissions in your device settings to control notifications.
Location Tracking: We may seek access to your location to provide location services (like stores or events near you), and location information to third parties who provide services like traffic data. You can enable or disable location services when you use our mobile apps through your device settings.
What about Children’s Privacy?
The Services are meant for adults and are not intended or designed to attract children under the age of 13. We do not knowingly collect personal information from children under 13. If you are a parent or guardian and believe we may have information from a child under 13, please contact us as described below.
California Privacy Rights
If you are a California resident, you have certain privacy rights under the California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA).
Right to Know and Access
You have a right to request details about how we collect, use, and disclose your personal information.
Right to Request Deletion
You have a right to request the deletion of your personal information collected or maintained by us, subject to certain legal exceptions.
Right to Non-Discrimination
You have a right to not be discriminated against for exercising your rights under the CCPA. We will not deny goods or services, charge different prices, or provide a lesser quality service if you choose to exercise your rights under the CCPA.
Authorized Agent
You may designate an authorized agent to make requests on your behalf.
Verification Process
We must take reasonable steps to verify your identity before fulfilling access or deletion requests for personal information to protect against fraudulent requests.
Categories of Personal Information
During the preceding 12 months, we have collected the following categories of personal information:
- Identifiers such as name, address, email, account name, Social Security number, driver’s license number, passport number, or other similar identifiers.
- Commercial information including records of products or services purchased, or other purchasing histories.
- Internet or other electronic network activity information such as browsing history, search history, and information regarding interaction with our website, applications, systems, and advertisements.
- Geolocation data such as physical location and device location.
- Sensory data such as audio, electronic, visual, and similar information.
- Professional or employment-related information.
- Inferences drawn from the above information to create a profile reflecting preferences and characteristics.
Changes to this Privacy Policy
We may change this Privacy Policy from time to time. Please take a look at the “Last Updated” legend at the top of this page to see when this Privacy Policy was last revised. Any changes to this Privacy Policy will become effective when we post the revised Privacy Policy on the Services. Your use of the Services following these changes means that you accept the revised Privacy Policy.
How to Contact Us
If you have any questions about this Privacy Policy, please contact us at:
Shindigz® Party Supplies
Attn: Privacy
1-800-314-8794
[email protected]
Last Updated: March 1, 2023