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Privacy Policy
Last Updated June 1, 2022


Welcome to the Bougiie Blinks Privacy Policy. We appreciate your interest in our Site and our products. Your privacy is important to us, and we want you to understand how we collect, use and protect information about you. This privacy policy describes our practices in connection with information that we collect through the Site. By using the Site, you consent to the collection, use, and disclosure of your information as described in this Policy.

We may revise this Policy from time to time. If we make any changes to this Policy, we will post the revised Policy on the Site and update the "Effective Date" at the top of this Policy. We encourage you to review this Policy periodically for any updates or changes. Your continued use of the Site following the posting of any changes to this Policy means that you accept such changes.

 

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WHAT INFORMATION DO WE COLLECT 

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Personal Information That You Share: We collect the personal information that you share with us when you use our Site. This may include your name, email address, mailing address, phone number, and payment information.

We collect personal information from you when you:

  • Place an order on our site.

  • Request a catalog or brochure.

  • Create an account on our site.

  • Sign up for our newsletter.

  • Participate in a contest, sweepstakes, or promotion.

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Personal Information That We Collect Automatically:  We automatically collect certain information when you visit, use, or navigate the Site. This information does not reveal your specific identity (like your name or contact information) but may include device and usage information, such as your IP address, browser, and device characteristics, operating system, language preferences, referring URLs, device name, country, location, information about how and when you use our Site and other technical information. This information is primarily needed to maintain the security and operation of our Site, and for our internal analytics and reporting purposes.
Like many businesses,  Bougiie Blinks also collect information through cookies and similar technologies. A cookie is a small data file that a website – when visited by a user – asks permission to store on the user’s computer or mobile device. Certain cookies and other similar technologies are used to collect information for analytics and to recognize and remember your preferences.

We may also collect personal information from you offline, such as when you attend one of our events, participate in a survey, or contact our customer service team.

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HOW WE USE THE INFORMATION THAT WE COLLECT

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Bougiie Blinks use your information for legitimate business objectives, to complete our relationship with you, to comply with our legal requirements, and/or with your agreement. 

We use your information to;
Provide, operate, and maintain our Site: We use your information to provide, operate, and maintain our Site, including displaying customized content and advertising based on your preferences.

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Communicate with you: We use your information to communicate with you about our Site and products. We also may send you news, updates, promotions, and contests. You may opt-out of some of those communications as described below under the "Opt-Out" section.

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Process transactions:  Bougiie Blinks uses your information to process orders that you make on our Site. This includes sending you confirmation emails when we receive an order from you; updating you on the status of an order; responding to customer service inquiries; processing payments; preventing fraud or abuse; contacting winners of contests or sweepstakes.

Fulfill legal obligations: We may use your information as required by law, such as to comply with a subpoena or similar legal process, when we believe in good faith that disclosure is necessary to protect our rights, the rights of others, or property. 
We also may use your information for other legitimate business interests including data analysis; developing new products and services; enhancing, improving, or modifying our Site; identifying usage trends; determining the effectiveness of our marketing campaigns, and protecting against fraud.

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To Post Testimonials: We post customer testimonials on our Site that may contain personal information such as the customer’s name. We obtain the customer’s consent to post their name along with their testimonial. If you wish to update or delete your testimonial, please contact us at [email protected]

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We take steps to ensure that the personal information we collect about you is accurate and current. You may ask us to correct your personal information if it is inaccurate or incomplete by contacting us at [email]. You may also limit the collection of your device and usage information by adjusting your privacy settings on your Internet browser or device.


HOW DO WE SHARE YOUR INFORMATION
We do not share your personal information with third parties for their marketing purposes without your consent. We may share your personal information with third-party service providers who perform services on our behalf, such as website hosting, data analysis, payment processing, order fulfillment, contest and sweepstakes administration, customer service, shipping, marketing, and advertising assistance. 

We also may disclose your personal information in the following ways;


To our subsidiaries and affiliates: We may share your personal information with our subsidiaries and affiliates for purposes consistent with this Privacy Policy.

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In response to a subpoena or similar legal process: We may need to disclose your personal information when we believe in good faith that the law requires it, such as pursuant to a subpoena or other legal process; to prevent fraud or imminent harm, and to protect our property and legal rights, or those of others. 

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With your consent: We will share your personal information with third parties when you have consented to us doing so.

We also may aggregate, de-identify, or anonymize the personal information we collect about you and use it for any business purpose without restriction. For example, we may use aggregated data regarding site usage patterns to analyze trends,
In connection with a merger, acquisition, reorganization, or sale of all or part of our business.

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To protect the safety of users of our Site or the public. We reserve the right to transfer your personal information in the event we sell or merge with another company. In such an event, we will require the new combined entity to follow this Privacy Policy with respect to your personal information.


DATA RETENTION
We retain your personal information for as long as needed to provide you services, comply with our legal obligations, resolve disputes between Bougiie Blinks and its customers, and/or enforce our agreements. When we no longer need to use your personal information and there is no legal reason for us to keep it, we will either delete or anonymize it or, if this is not possible, then we will securely store your personal information and isolate it from any further use until deletion is possible.


HOW DO WE PROTECT YOUR PERSONAL INFORMATION
Bougiie Blinks takes reasonable steps to protect the personal information that we collect from unauthorized access, disclosure, alteration, or destruction. However, no security system is impenetrable and we cannot guarantee the security of our systems 100%.

In the event that your personal information is compromised as a result of a breach of Bougiie Blinks’s security systems, Bougiie Blinks will take reasonable steps to investigate the situation and where appropriate, notify you and take other action in accordance with applicable laws.


PRIVACY RIGHTS
You may have certain rights with respect to your personal information, including the right to access, correct, delete or limit the use of your personal information. To exercise these rights, please contact us as set forth in the “Contact Us” section below. Please note that we may need to verify your identity before we can respond to any request you make pursuant to this Privacy Policy. We will make all good faith efforts to respond within a reasonable timeframe and keep you updated on our progress.

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Certain exceptions apply to these rights, such as where the burden or expense of providing access would be disproportionate to the risks to your privacy in the case in question, or where it would violate another individual’s right to privacy. If an exception applies, we will explain this to you.

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In some regions (like the EEA and UK), you have certain rights under applicable data protection laws. These may include the right

 (i) to request access to your personal information; 

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(ii) to request that we update or correct your personal information if it is inaccurate or incomplete; 

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(iii) to request that we delete your personal information; and 

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(iv) where the processing of your personal information is based on consent, the right to withdraw such consent at any time. You also have the right to complain about our handling of your personal information to the relevant data protection authority. However, we encourage you to first contact us so that we can attempt to resolve any issue or concern you may have. 

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OPT-OUT
You have choices about how we collect and use your personal information. You may opt out of receiving promotional communications from us by following the unsubscribe instructions included in each message. If you opt out of promotional communications, we may still send you other types of communications, such as those about your account or our ongoing business relations.

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Terminating Account:  You may delete your Bougiie Blinks account by contacting us as outlined in the “Contact Us” section below. Please note that we may need to verify your identity before we can respond to any request you make pursuant to this Privacy Policy. We will make all good faith efforts to respond within a reasonable timeframe and keep you updated on our progress.

Even if you terminate your Bougiie Blinks account, we may retain certain information associated with your account for analytical purposes and record-keeping integrity, as well as to prevent fraud, collect any fees owed, enforce our terms and conditions, and take actions we deem necessary or advisable or take other actions otherwise permitted by law. In addition, if certain information has already been provided to third parties as described in this Privacy Policy, retention of that information will be subject to those third parties' policies.

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Opting out of email marketing:  You can unsubscribe from our marketing email list at any time by clicking on the unsubscribe link in the emails that we send to you or by contacting us as outlined in the “Contact Us” section below. Please note that if you opt out of receiving marketing-related emails from us, we may still send you important administrative messages, from which you cannot opt out.


CONTROLS FOR DO-NOT-TRACK FEATURES
Most web browsers and some mobile operating systems include a Do-Not-Track (“DNT”) feature or setting you can activate to signal your privacy preference not to have data about your online browsing activities monitored and collected. No uniform technology standard for recognizing and implementing DNT signals has been finalized. As such, we do not currently respond to browser DNT signals on our Site. For more information about DNT, please visit: allaboutdnt.com.


DO CALIFORNIA RESIDENTS HAVE SPECIFIC PRIVACY RIGHTS 
California’s “Shine the Light” law (Civil Code Section 1798.83) permits our users who are California residents to request and obtain from us once a year, free of charge, a list of the third parties to whom we have disclosed (for their marketing purposes) personal information during the preceding calendar year, as well as the type of personal information disclosed to those parties. If you are a California resident and would like to make such a request, please submit your request in writing to us using the contact information provided below.

We may revise this Privacy Policy from time to time. The most current version of the policy will govern our use of your personal information and will be located here. By continuing to access or use the Services after those changes become effective, you agree to be bound by the revised Privacy Policy. 


Contact Us

If you have any questions about this Privacy Policy, please contact us by email at support@bougieblinks.com or by mail at: 

Bougie Blinks

Attn.: Legal Department

P.O Box ___

City

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