Privacy policy | Iris Gear

This Privacy Policy (“Policy”) describes how Iris Gear (“Iris Gear,” “we,” “us,” “our”) collects, uses, and discloses information from and about you when you visit any of our websites that link to this Policy (each a “Site”) or use any of our products, services, or applications, including the Store as defined in our Terms of Service (collectively, together with the Site, the “Services”). This Policy does not apply to the practices of entities we do not own or manage, or to websites that do not link to this Policy. By using the Services, you agree to this Policy.

To the extent permitted by applicable law, by using our Services or otherwise providing your information to us, you consent to the collection, use, disclosure, and other handling of your information as described in this Policy. For individuals in the UK, European Economic Area (“EEA”), and jurisdictions with similar data protection law, we are the controller of your information.

PLEASE READ THIS POLICY CAREFULLY TO UNDERSTAND HOW WE HANDLE YOUR INFORMATION. IF YOU DO NOT WANT US TO HANDLE YOUR INFORMATION AS DESCRIBED IN THIS POLICY, PLEASE DO NOT USE THE SERVICES.

This Policy contains the following sections:

1. Information We Collect

2. How We Use Information

3. How We Disclose Information

4. Your Rights and Choices

5. Security

6. Data Retention

7. Third-Party Links and Content

8. Children’s Privacy

9. California “Shine the Light” Disclosure

10. Information for Non-United States Residents

11. Changes to This Policy

12. Contact Us

1. Information We Collect

a. Information You Provide to Us

We collect information that you provide to us, including any information provided when you interact with us in any way via the Services, email, a phone call, events, or otherwise. For example, we collect information from and about you when you fill out fill out a form on the Site, create an account, participate in an email survey or a contest, or engage with customer support via the phone, Site functionalities, or otherwise.

The information you provide to us may include, but is not limited to:

• Contact information, such as your full name and/or alias, email address, physical address, phone number, and fax number.

• Login information, such as username and password.

• Demographic information, such as age or age range, date of birth, and gender or gender identity.

• Information about your transactions on the Services, such as your purchase or transaction history.

• General location information inferred from your IP address, and information such as your state, city, and/or zip code.

• Photographs that you upload to the Services, such as a profile photo if you choose to provide one.

• Information about your interests, activities, and characteristics.

If you make purchases on the Services, your payment information is collected and managed by third-party payment processors, not Iris Gear. We do not collect or store your payment information. As noted above, we may collect your purchase or transaction history.

b. Information Collected Automatically

When you interact with the Services, we and third parties may collect information about your browser, device, and use of the Services, including but not limited to your IP address, device type and model, operating system, unique device identifier, cookie identifiers, other device or online identifiers, browser type, language, frequency of use of the Services, web logs, crash reporting, Site pages visited, and navigation through those pages. We may also collect technical information when you interact with emails or other communications from us (e.g., whether you opened an email). Some of this information is collected using cookies or other similar technologies. For more information, see the “Your Rights and Choices” section below.

c. Information Collected from Other Sources

We may collect information about you from our corporate affiliates and subsidiaries.

We may also collect information about your interactions with Iris Gear on third-party platforms, including our social media accounts. This information includes, but is not limited to, your likes and shares of our content.

When you log into the Services using your social media credentials, we will request access to your profile and your email address. We will request your permission before accessing the information in your social media site. If you decline to grant us permission, we may be unable to perform the service that you request.

We store some information that we receive from social media sites with other information that we collect from you with your approval. The social media site controls the information that it collects from you. For information about how the social media site may use and disclose your information, including any information you make public, please consult its privacy policy. We have no control over how any third-party site uses or discloses the personal information it collects about you.

2. How We Use Information

We use the information we collect for various purposes, depending on the type of information and the way you interact with the Services, including:

• To provide, manage, and improve the Services;

• To administer your account, including to process your registration and verify your information;

• To personalize the Services;

• To process transactions (as explained above, payment information is collected and processed by a third-party payment processor, not by us);

• To communicate with you about your use of our Services, to respond to your inquiries, to fulfill your orders, and for other customer service purposes, which may include communicating with you via email;

• To engage in analysis and research regarding the use of our Services;

• To test and create new products, features, and services;

• For advertising, marketing, and promotional purpose, including to develop a more complete understanding of you and to send you newsletters and advertise our services to you on third-party websites (subject to any opt-out preferences you have communicated to us);

• To provide surveys, sweepstakes, or contests;

• For security, auditing, and similar business operational purposes;

• To comply with legal requirements, relevant industry standards, and our policies;

• To protect the safety, rights, property or security of Iris Gear, our users, employees, third parties, members of the public and/or our Services;

• To prevent fraud and enforce our legal terms and policies; and

• For any other lawful purpose (subject to your consent where legally required).

We may combine information that we collect from and about you (including automatically generated information) with information that we obtain about you from other sources and use such combined information in accordance with this Policy.

We may aggregate and/or de-identify information collected through the Services. We may use and disclose appropriately aggregated or de-identified data for any purpose.

The laws in some jurisdictions require companies to tell you about the legal grounds they rely on to process your information. Our legal bases for processing your information as described in this Policy are (1) where the processing is necessary to perform our obligations under a contract or commitment to you; (2) where the processing furthers the legitimate interests of Iris Gear or others; (3) where the processing is necessary to comply with applicable legal obligations; or (4) where you have consented to our processing of your information for a particular purpose.

3. How We Disclose Information

We may disclose your information as follows:

• Affiliates. We may disclose your information to our corporate affiliates, such as our subsidiaries.

• Vendors. We may disclose your information to companies that provide services to us, such as providers of data storage, web hosting, website support, billing and payment processing, security, analytics, advertising, marketing, shipping, and fraud prevention.

• Legal Compliance and Rights. We may disclose your information if we believe in good faith that this is required or appropriate to comply with applicable law, regulations, or legal process; to establish or exercise our legal rights; to defend against legal claims; to seek legal representation or advice; and to enforce our legal terms, agreements, and policies.

• Protection of Iris Gear and Others. We may disclose your information if we believe disclosure is appropriate in connection with efforts to investigate, prevent, or take other action regarding illegal activity, suspected fraud or other wrongdoing; and to protect and defend the rights, property or safety of Iris Gear, our users, our employees, or others.

• Corporate Transactions. We may disclose your information as part of, or to take steps in anticipation of, a sale of all or a portion of our business, a divestiture, merger, consolidation, asset sale, bankruptcy, or other significant corporate event.

• Your Consent. If you have consented to additional disclosure of your information, we will disclose your information consistent with your consent.

• Other Disclosures. We may also disclose your information as otherwise permitted or required by law.

4. Your Rights and Choices

a. Your Rights

The laws of your jurisdiction of residence may provide you with certain rights with regard to your information. These rights may include the right to request:

• Access to, or a copy of, your information;

• Confirmation that we are processing your information and information about how we use and disclose your information;

• Correction or amendment of your information;

• Deletion of your information;

• Transfer of your information to a third party;

• Restriction or objection to certain uses or disclosures of your information;

• Withdrawal of consent previously provided for the handling of the information (without affecting the lawfulness of prior use and disclosure of the information).

To exercise any of these rights, please email us at irisgearxyz@gmail.com. Please explain the right you want to exercise and the data with respect to which you want to exercise that right.

Many of the rights described above are subject to limitations or exceptions under applicable law. For example, if you ask us to delete information that we are legally required to retain, we may deny your request. We may take reasonable steps to verify your identity before responding to your request, including by asking you to provide us with information necessary to reasonably verify you.

In some cases (e.g., if you are an EEA or UK resident), you have the right to lodge a complaint with the data protection authority in your country of residence, but we encourage you to contact us first, as we would like to do our best to resolve any concern you may have.

b. Marketing Communications

You may use the unsubscribe link found at the bottom of emails we send to you to opt out of receiving future marketing emails. If you are currently receiving SMS/text messages from us and wish to opt out of receiving such messages, you may do so by replying STOP. You can also notify us of your desire to opt out of marketing via phone calls or direct mail using the information in the “Contact Us” section below. We process requests to be placed on do-not-mail, do-not-phone, and do-not-contact lists as required by applicable law.

Note that if you opt out of marketing communications, you may continue to receive certain non-promotional communications about services you request or engage with (e.g., a confirmation of purchase email) and service-related communications regarding us and our Services and opting out of marketing communications will not halt those communications (e.g., communications regarding our Services or updates to our legal terms, including this Policy).

c. Cookies

We and third parties use cookies and other similar technologies (such as web beacons and pixels) to collect information about your use of our Services. Cookies are files that are stored on your device through your web browser. Web beacons and pixels, which we may place on our Services and in our emails, operate in your browser or in your email program and can run operations on your device (such as reading and writing cookies) and can send information from your device to us or third parties. Cookies and similar technologies perform a variety of functions, including enabling the Services to function, securing the Services, personalizing the Services, helping us analyze and understand use of the Services, and assisting with advertising and marketing.

You can disable cookies through your browser or device settings or through this link. Please consult your browser “Help” menu and device settings for more information. Certain cookies (“essential” or “strictly necessary” cookies) may not be disabled as they are essential for the Services to function.) If you disable cookies using a browser or device setting, that setting will apply only to the browser or device you are using, so you will need to reset the setting on a different browser or device. If you disable some or all cookies, the Services may not function as intended and some features may be unavailable.

d. Online Analytics

We and our vendors may use third-party analytics services on the Services to help us understand how users engage with the Services, including Google Analytics. These parties may use cookies and other technologies to help collect, analyze, and provide us with reports and/or data. For more information about Google Analytics and how it collects and processes data, please visit: https://policies.google.com/technologies/partner-sites. To opt out of Google Analytics using your information for analytics purposes, see: https://tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout.

e. Online Advertising

We and third parties may use the information we collect to tailor the advertising you see online. You have choices about how information about you is used for this purpose.

Some tailored advertising is carried out using cookies. You may be able to set your browser to refuse certain types of cookies or alert you when they are being used, as explained above. In addition, you may go to the Digital Advertising Alliance ("DAA") Consumer Choice Page for information about opting out of tailored advertising and your choices regarding having information used by companies participating in the DAA. You may also go to the Network Advertising Initiative ("NAI") Consumer Opt-Out Page for information about opting out of tailored advertising and your choices regarding having information used by NAI members. We make no representation about the accuracy or effectiveness of these opt-out mechanisms.

Mobile devices often include settings to help you manage how your device collects and discloses information for advertising purposes. For more information on how to manage those devices settings, please visit the Network Advertising Initiative’s mobile choice page.

Modifying your browser settings, or opting out of tailored advertising via your web browser, may have different results depending on the type of device or web browser you use and the version of your device operating system. Opting out of tailored advertising does not prevent you from seeing ads online; instead, the ads you see are less likely to be customized to your interests. Opting out is generally effective only on a device-by-device, or browser-by-browser basis. If you use more than one browser or device, the effect of any opt-out mechanism may be limited to the device on which you used the mechanism.

f. “Do Not Track”

Do Not Track (“DNT”) is a setting that users can enable in certain web browsers. DNT signals do not have a commonly agreed-upon meaning and we do not currently recognize or respond to DNT signals.

5. Security

Although we take certain measures to protect your information, no method of security is perfect. By using our Services, you acknowledge and accept that we cannot guarantee the security of your information, and that you provide information to us at your own risk. You are responsible for keeping your username and password confidential.

6. Data Retention

We may retain your information until we determine that retention no longer is necessary to fulfill the purpose for which it was collected and retained, and as required by applicable law. Retention periods may vary depending on the type of information and the context and purpose of its collection and use.

7. Third-Party Links and Content

The Services may have links and embedded content to third-party websites, apps, or other digital properties that may have privacy policies that differ from ours. We are not responsible for the practices of such third parties or their sites, apps, or properties. You should check their privacy policies to understand how they may handle your information.

Likewise, the Services may have third-party content. We do not make any representations concerning the accuracy of such information and are not responsible in any way for third-party content on our Services. You interact with third-party content at your own risk.

8. Children’s Privacy

We do not knowingly solicit or collect personal information (as defined in applicable law) from children under the age permitted by applicable law without parental consent. If we become aware that a child has disclosed information to us in a way that is prohibited by applicable children's privacy laws, we will delete such information in accordance with applicable law.

9. California “Shine the Light” Disclosure

The California “Shine the Light” law gives residents of California the right under certain circumstances to opt out of the sharing of certain categories of personal information (as defined in the Shine the Light law) with third parties for their direct marketing purposes. We do not disclose your personal information with third parties for their own direct marketing purposes within the meaning of that law.

10. Information for Non-United States Residents

Please note that Iris Gear is located in the United States. If you are located outside of the United States, you should be aware that any personal data you provide to us is transmitted to us and processed in the United States. Your information will be protected subject to this Policy and United States laws, which may not be as protective as the laws in your country. To understand your rights with regard to your data, please visit the website of the appropriate data protection authority for your region.

11. Changes to This Policy

We may update this Policy from time to time. If we make any changes, we will update the Last Updated date above. We encourage you to read this Policy regularly to check for changes. Changes to this Policy are effective when they are posted on this page. Your continued use of the Services after we publish changes to this Policy constitutes your acceptance of the updated Policy.

12. Contact Us

If you have questions about this Policy or our privacy practices, please contact us at irisgearxyz@gmail.com.