Privacy Policy
WHAT INFORMATION DO WE COLLECT ABOUT YOU?
You can visit our Websites, read materials, and browse the Website’s contents without giving us any personally identifiable information. In order to provide you with the most efficient and enhanced personalized service and attention, and to accommodate certain requests, which you make, we request information about you in certain circumstances and collect certain information automatically.
Information You Volunteer
We collect personally identifiable information that you enter on the Website or otherwise volunteer to us (such as your name, e-mail address, credit card number, home address, phone number, and/or similar information), when you contact us to, among other things, make purchases or request information. You can choose not to provide certain information, but then you might not be able to take advantage of many of the features of our Website. We use the information that you provide for such purposes as responding to your requests, customizing future experiences for you, improving our operations, and communicating with you.
B. Information Collected Automatically
We receive and store certain types of information whenever you interact with us. For example, like many web sites, we use “cookies” and we obtain certain types of information when your web browser accesses our Websites or advertisements and other content served by us or on our behalf on other web sites. We may also automatically collect your IP address and referring web site addresses, browser type and domain name. This information helps facilitate your online experience on our Websites. We use “cookies” to track usage patterns on our Website and to control the display of ads, as well as to offer other functionalities. You can turn off cookies, but that will affect your online experience. Please see below for more detail on cookies.
We also collect non-personal information to track and analyze non-personally identifiable usage and volume statistical information from our visitors and customers to administer our Website and constantly improve its quality. This information is aggregated so that it does not allow you to be personally identified or contacted. We reserve the right to publish non-personally identifiable, summary information regarding Website visitors for promotional purposes and as a representative audience for advertisers. Please note that it is not personal information, only general summaries of the activities of our visitors and customers.
WHAT DO WE DO WITH COLLECTED INFORMATION?
We use collected information to evaluate and administer our Website to improve its quality, fulfill your requests, respond to any future problems, such as difficulties in navigating our Website or accessing certain features, and to gauge user trends.
As in any transaction, when you purchase products or make a donation by credit card, your credit card company will have all relevant information about the name of the vendor, item(s) purchased, date, total cost and other information necessary to process the transaction. We will not otherwise provide any personal data to your credit card company without your permission. We and our technical and fulfillment agents, partners and consultants follow carefully proscribed procedures to safeguard credit card data in connection with your transactions and adhere to certain legal requirements.
HOW DO WE SHARE PERSONAL INFORMATION?
Personal information is available to us and the technical and fulfillment agents, partners and consultants who make our Websites available to you. Non-personal information is available to our affiliates, sponsors, advertisers and partners.
Websites hosting firms, technical and database consultants, advertising agencies, order processing partners, and other third parties may have access to personally identifiable information in the course of making our Websites and its contents available. We require that companies working for and with us comply with our Privacy Policy, and are not permitted to sell your personally identifiable information to third parties or to use it except as authorized by us and you, or as permitted or required by law.
We reserve the right to use or disclose any information without notice or consent for the following purposes: as needed to satisfy any law, regulation or legal request; to conduct investigations of consumer complaints or possible breaches of law; to protect the integrity of our Website and our property; to protect the safety of our visitors or others; to fulfill your requests; or to cooperate in any legal investigation.
If BOWA is sold or disposed of as a going concern, whether by merger, sale of assets or otherwise, our relevant customer database of could, in whole or in part, be sold as part of that transaction. In the event BOWA goes through a business transition, such as a merger, acquisition by another company, or sale of all or a portion of its assets, your personal information will likely be among the assets transferred. By accessing our Website and providing us your personal information, you indicate your acceptance of such transfers and releases of your personal information.
OPTING OUT FROM RECEIPT OF INFORMATION FROM US
You may unsubscribe to any of our online e-mail updates by following the unsubscribe instructions in the body of any e-mail message. We will take commercially reasonable steps to implement your opt-out requests promptly; but you may still receive promotional information from us by mail for up to 60 days due to printing and mailing schedules, and up to 10 days for e-mail. You may also continue to receive information from those third parties to whom your information was previously disclosed.
SECURITY OF YOUR PERSONAL INFORMATION
We incorporate standard industry practices internally and with our service providers, which we believe suits the degree of sensitivity of the information involved to maintain the security of your personal information and to avoid its disclosure except as described in this Privacy Policy.
Keep in mind however, that no method of transmission over the Internet, or method of electronic storage, is 100% secure. Therefore, while we strive to use commercially acceptable means to protect your personal information, we cannot guarantee its absolute security. Our Websites may also contain links to other websites. Keep in mind that we do not control and are not responsible for the privacy or security practices or the content of these or other websites. Our policy is to limit access to personal data to those employees or agents with a specific need to access or retrieve this information. We store data on servers in controlled environments. To maintain security, we conduct internal reviews of our security measures.
We cannot enforce or control the security of the computers, electronic devices, or electronic communication method that a user may utilize to send e-mails and submit information to us over the Internet. You are responsible for ensuring that the computers, electronic devices and electronic communication methods you utilize will provide adequate security for communicating with us. We are not responsible for the disclosure or interception of your information before we receive it.
Links from our Websites may take you to sites not covered by this Privacy Policy. We provide those links as a convenience to you and take no responsibility for the protection of your privacy on those other sites. We encourage you to check the privacy policy of any site you visit.
VISITORS OUTSIDE THE UNITED STATES
Our Websites and the servers that make these Websites available worldwide are located in the United States. Any information you provide in subscribing to our Website or registering or ordering at our Websites will be transferred to the United States. By visiting our Websites and submitting information, you authorize this transfer, processing and use. Although we will take all steps reasonably necessary to ensure your data is treated securely and in accordance with this Privacy Policy, the United States may not offer a level of privacy protection for personal information as great as that offered in other jurisdictions. Therefore, the disclosure of personal information pursuant to this Privacy Policy is at your own risk. We make no representation that the practices described in this Privacy Policy are compliant with laws outside of the United States that apply to the collection, security, use and disclosure of personal information.
CHANGES TO OUR PRIVACY POLICY
We will occasionally update this Privacy Policy as necessary to protect our users and to comply with a changing environment. We recommend that you check the Privacy Policy when you visit our Website to be sure that you are aware of and understand our current policy. If we make material changes to this policy, or in how we use or collect your personally identifiable information, we will prominently post such changes prior to implementing the change. We will not make any retroactive material changes in how we handle previously collected personal information unless you allow us to do so, or unless we are legally required to do so, and in such a case we will e-mail registered Websites visitors information on material changes to this Privacy Policy.
CHILDREN’S PRIVACY
We are strongly committed to protecting the safety and privacy of children who visit our Website. We do not knowingly collect personal information online from children under 13 and have adopted techniques to ensure compliance with this Privacy Policy and the Children’s Online Privacy Protection Act of 1998 (“COPPA”). COPPA and its accompanying regulations under United States federal law protect the privacy of children using the Internet. Our Website includes content that we believe to be unsuitable for children under 13 and which are not necessarily monitored. We encourage all parents to talk to their children about online safety and to monitor their children’s use of the Internet.
Updated July 2020