Freeway Eyewear

Freeway Eyewear Inc. Online Privacy Policy

 

Welcome to FreewayEyewear.com (the "Site"), a wholly owned business unit of Freeway Eyewear, Inc. (together with its affiliates, collectively "Freeway", "we", "us" or "our").  We respect your privacy and the security of your personal information, and recognize the importance of providing a secure environment for those who visit our Site and use our products and online tools.  We have adopted this online Privacy Policy (this "Privacy Policy") that guides how we collect, store, use and protect the information you provide us.  This Privacy Policy details how we safeguard the privacy of our on-line visitors.  Please read this Privacy Policy carefully.

 

By using this Site, you signify your assent to this Privacy Policy. If you do not agree to this Privacy Policy, please do not use this site. This Privacy Policy may change from time to time, so please check back periodically to ensure that you are aware of any changes. If we make a material change to this Privacy Policy, we will notify you by posting the change on this Site or in this Privacy Policy and, if necessary, give you additional choices regarding such change. Your continued use of our Site will signify your acceptance of these changes.

 

Please keep in mind that this Privacy Policy applies only to information that we collect online and does not apply to information that we may collect off-line.  This Privacy Policy does not apply to, and cannot control, the activities on any other sites linked to our Site.   In addition, we are not responsible for the privacy of any information that you reveal or post in any public forum on the Site or which you reveal to any user of the Site (on community message boards, in blogs, on public profile pages, etc.).

 

This Privacy Policy will tell you:

 

What personal and non-personal information does Freeway collect? 

 

How will Freeway use your personal information?

 

Who is collecting your information?

 

With whom may Freeway share your personal information?

 

What are your choices regarding the collection, use, and distribution of your personal information?

 

California Residents: Your California Privacy Rights

 

Does Freeway collect information from children?

 

What are cookies and how does Freeway use them? 

 

What are Internet protocol addresses?

 

What should you do if you want to correct or review your personal information?

 

How secure is your personal information?

 

What should you do if you have a question or complaint?

 

If you have any questions, complaints, or comments regarding our privacy policy statement or policies, please contact our Webmaster at info@freewayeyewear.com.

 

What personal and non-personal information does Freeway collect?

 

Freeway collects two types of information: personally identifiable information and non-personally identifiable information.

 

Personally Identifiable Information.

 

Personally identifiable information is information that can be used to identify you or contact you.  Freeway only collects personally identifiable information on a voluntary basis.  Personally identifiable information collected may include your name, photographs, home address, phone number, date of birth, e-mail address, and/or billing information.  We do not require this information to gain access to our Site; however, you will not be able to utilize certain features that require registration (such as posting to the Freeway Blog section of the Site) or receive materials such as newsletters unless such information is provided.  Unless you give us permission to do so, we will not sell, share, license, trade, or rent your personally identifiable information other than as set forth in this Privacy Policy.

 

 

Non-Personally Identifiable Information.

 

For some activities, we may ask you to create a username and password and/or to provide other, non-personal information such as your age, gender, income, education level, ethnicity, and/or health information (such as your current weight), and we may combine such information with your personally identifiable information. In addition, your web browser or client software may transmit certain geographic information or information regarding your computer (capabilities, browser, IP addresses, etc.) to us. We may use this information to help us understand who uses our Site and to improve and market our Site in general and to help us to improve the products and tools we offer online.  In addition, we may use such information for security, system integrity (the prevention of hacking, etc.), or enforcement purposes.

 

How will Freeway use your personal information?

 

The personal information you provide to us will allow us to personalize your online experience; to communicate with you; fulfill your product orders; alert you to new products or services, features, or enhancements; and/or notify you of contests, promotions, or special events and offers.  We may enhance or merge the personal information collected through our Site with data from third parties.

 

Through our referral tools for informing a friend about our Site, we will automatically send your friend a one-time email containing the information you request to be sent. If you elect to use these referral tools, we will collect from you certain personally identifiable information about your friend which you have provided, such as your friend's name and email address.  We do not store your friend's information or use it for any other purpose.

 

Lastly, we may use your personal information for internal marketing, profiling, or demographic purposes, so we can adapt our products and services to better suit your needs. We do this to better understand and serve our users.

 

Please be advised that this Privacy Policy does not protect you when you use our blog or provide information (including personally identifiable information) about yourself through PayPal® or when you use the blog or through any community area available on the Site, even if said information is marked "private".  You should carefully consider any information you disclose in any public forum, or to any other user, or through the blog feature, on our Site. 

 

Who is collecting your information?

 

When you are asked for information while on the Site, you are sharing that information with Freeway, and its various affiliates, unless specifically stated otherwise. As a result of this sharing, you may receive communications from any of Freeway's affiliates. In addition, some services are provided in conjunction with companies such as PayPal®. If your personal information is being collected by a company other than Freeway, you will be notified at the time the information is collected. If you do not want your information shared, you can choose not to allow the transfer of information by not using that particular service or by not providing any information at that time.

 

Please be aware that we cannot control the activities of third parties such as PayPal® to whom we provide data, and as such we cannot guarantee that they adhere to the same privacy and security procedures as we do. Please click here to view PayPal®'s privacy policy. 

 

Please be aware that advertisers or websites with links to our sites may collect personal information about you. And remember, this Privacy Policy does not apply to, and cannot control the activities of, those other advertisers or websites.

 

 

 

 

With whom may Freeway share your personal information?

 

We may need to disclose your personal information to third party vendors to fulfill product orders or prizes, to process mailings, or to process, analyze, and/or store data. We will attempt to ensure that these entities do not use your personal information for any other purpose, and that they have agreed to maintain the confidentiality, security, and integrity of the personal information they obtain from us.

 

We reserve the right to disclose your personal information as required by law or in special cases when we have reason to believe that disclosing such information is necessary to identify, contact, or bring legal action against you if you are violating the terms of service or use agreements for our Site or product, or may be causing injury to or interference (intentionally or unintentionally) with our rights or property, other users of our Site or products, or anyone else who could be harmed by your activities.

 

As with any business, your personal information is also an asset of Freeway and will become part of our normal business records. As such, we may also disclose your personal information to a third party if we decide to sell a line of business to that third party, so you can continue to receive service and information in connection with that line of business with as little disruption as possible. Similarly, in the event of a merger, acquisition, reorganization, bankruptcy, or other similar event, your personal information may be transferred to our successor or assign.

 

Our Site also contains message boards, chat areas and blogs, where users can exchange ideas and communicate with one another. When posting to a message board, chat area or blog, please be aware that the information is being made publicly available on-line and the user does so at his or her own risk.

 

What are your choices regarding the collection, use, and distribution of your personal information?

 

We allow you to control the way that we use personally identifying information that we might obtain. At the time you provide personal information, we may give you the option of declining any future offers or information about new products, promotions, or services. In addition, many of the "mailings" we may send you, such as newsletters, have procedures within them to cancel the receipt of any future mailings. 

 

California Residents: Your California Privacy Rights

 

Under California law, our users that are California residents may request certain information regarding our disclosure of personal information to third parties for their direct marketing purposes. As detailed above, we do not share our customer's personal information with unaffiliated third parties for direct marketing purposes without their approval.

 

If at any time you wish to opt out of having your personal information shared with third parties and/or receiving information from Freeway (via e-mail or postal mail) about new products, services, or promotions, you can do so. You may contact us by e-mailing us at info@freewayeyewear.com.  Please indicate what publications or services you no longer wish to receive so that we may better address your needs.

 

Does Freeway collect information from children?

 

We are committed to the privacy of children, and our Site and online tools and products are not designed for or directed to children under 13 years of age.  Once a child states that his/her age is under 13, we do not collect or store any personally identifiable information such as name, address, or email address.   We urge parents or guardians to participate in their children's exploration of the Internet, and to instruct their children to never give out their real names, addresses, phone numbers, or other information without permission, when on-line.

 

What are cookies and how does Freeway use them?

 

Cookies are a feature of your Web browser that allows websites to transfer bits of information to your computer for record-keeping purposes. A cookie stored on your computer can be used to "remember" things like your password, or that you have already registered. This allows us to speed up your future activities, saving the time you would normally spend entering information such as your password or registration. In addition, we may use cookies to retrieve user information for promotional, marketing, or security purposes.

 

We also may use cookies to conduct marketing and promotional efforts, tailor certain advertisements to your browser that we think may be of interest to you, or to determine the popularity of certain content. We may link the information stored in cookies to personally identifiable information you provide us, and to personalize your Site experience we may store personally identifiable information you provide us in an encrypted form in temporary or "session" cookies, which are erased when you close your browser.

 

In addition to cookies that we place on your computer, cookies may also be placed on your computer by third parties that we use to display or serve advertisements or to collect non-personally identifiable information in order to provide advertising-related services. For example, in the course of serving advertisements, our third-party ad servers may place or recognize a unique "cookie" on your browser.

 

You do not have to accept cookies to use our Site; however, you may not be able to use certain products, offerings, features, or resources of our Site if you do not accept cookies. Although most browsers are initially set to accept cookies, you may reset your browser to notify you when you receive a cookie or to reject cookies generally. Most browsers offer instructions on how to do so in the "Help" section of the toolbar.

 

What are Internet protocol addresses?

 

An Internet protocol ("IP") address is the unique number assigned to your server or Internet Service Provider. We may track such IP addresses for system administration, to report aggregate information, site tracking, security purposes, or to prevent our servers from being abused.

 

What should you do if you want to correct or review your personal information?

 

If for any reason you are concerned with the way we are using your personal information, or would like to correct or request that we delete such personal information, please contact us by e-mailing us at info@freewayeyewear.com. 

 

Please note that the deletion of your data will lead to the termination of your account and applicable services.

 

How secure is your personal information?

 

We have taken steps to put in place industry-standard measures to assure that all information collected will remain secure and in its original form (i.e., free from any alteration) and we make good-faith efforts to store your personal information in a secure operating environment.  Access to all personal information is strictly controlled.  In addition, we will take reasonable steps to assure that third parties to whom we transfer any data will provide sufficient protection of personal information.   Unfortunately, no data transmission over the Internet can be guaranteed to be absolutely secure.  As a result, while we strive to protect your personal information, we cannot ensure the security of any information transmit to us, and you do so at your own risk.

 

What should you do if you have a question or complaint?

 

If you have any questions or wish to file a complaint, please feel free to contact us by e-mailing us at info@freewayeyewear.com.

 

This Privacy Policy was last updated on August 10, 2010.