This privacy policy describes the personal information that we, Amenism, Inc., and our subsidiaries (collectively, "Amenism, Inc." "we," "us" and "our") collect about you, why we collect it, how we use it, and when we share it with third parties or unaffiliated service providers.
This privacy policy covers our website vicariousauthorship.com (the "Site") and our associated services and mobile applications. Our policy also describes the choices you can make about how we collect and use your information.
Personal information we collect
We collect personal information directly from you. The types of information we may collect include your name, email address, postal address, phone number, credit card or other payment information, age, location, and any other information you choose to provide.
We also collect information from you automatically, including:
Transactional Information: When you make a purchase or return, we collect information about the transaction, such as product detail, purchase price, and date of the transaction.
Log Information: We collect information related to your access to and use of our website, including the type of browser you use, access times, pages viewed, your IP address, and the page you viewed before and after visiting our website. We may also collect this type of information in visual form when you visit our website, including video snippets of your website activity.
Device Information: We collect information about the computer or mobile device you use to access our website, including the hardware model, operating system and version, unique device identifiers, and mobile network information.
Geolocation Information: We may derive the approximate location of your device from your IP address. We may also collect information from your device in accordance with your device settings.
Payment Information: When you make a purchase, we may collect identifiers such as your full name and billing address in connection with your purchase. We host our store on Teepublic, a third-party services provider. After you place an order on our website you will need to make payment for the goods or services you have ordered. We share your personal information with third parties which process payment card transactions on our behalf. Our third-party payment processors collect, use, and process your information, including payment information, in accordance with their privacy policies. You can access their privacy policies via their own website.
Information Collected by Cookies and Similar Tracking Technologies: We may use tracking tools like browser cookies, flash cookies, pixels, and web beacons. Please see "How do we use browser and mobile-based cookies and other tracking technologies?" for more information.
How we collect personal information
We collect personal information from you including:
● If you register an account with us
● In connection with an online purchase
● If you upload or share a photo or other digital content through one of our websites or mobile apps, or share content linking to any of our social media platforms
● If you participate in a contest, promotion, or survey
● If you return a product
● If you contact us via e-mail or through our customer service, including through the use of online chat tools that we may make available
We may use tracking tools like browser cookies, flash cookies, pixels, and web beacons to collect information from you. Please see
"How do we use browser and mobile-based cookies and other tracking technologies?" for more information.
How we use your personal information
We may use your personal information in the following ways:
● To provide, maintain, and improve our products and services
● To fulfill your order, including to send you emails to confirm your purchase, and provide you with updates with respect to your order status and shipment, to provide you with related customer service in order to manage our contractual relationship with you, as necessary, to comply with our legal obligations.
● To communicate with you, respond to your inquiries, and to send you information by email, postal mail, telephone, text message, notifications, or other means about our products, services, and rewards and promotions, unless you have directed us not to contact you.
● To help us better understand your shopping needs and preferences and provide consistent, personalized services and experiences across our products
● To help us address problems with and improve our website design, products, and services
● To enhance your shopping experience
● To analyze trends and statistics, audit, develop new products, enhance our website, improve the Services, identify usage trends for our website and determine the effectiveness of promotional campaigns
● To protect the security or integrity of our website and the Services, including to perform security analyses to verify that the Services are working properly and have not been compromised based on our legitimate interests
● For internal and operational use, such as to enable the website to function
● For other purposes when in identified or aggregate form
How we share your personal information
All personal information we collect about you may be shared with our subsidiary companies.
We may also share personal information about you with unaffiliated service providers for purposes of helping us maintain and operate our services. These may include providers of services such as website hosting, data analytics, advertising and marketing, including advertising networks and/or social media networks, payment processing, order fulfillment, information technology and related infrastructure provisions, customer service, auditing, and other services.
When you complete a purchase, we share personal information about you and your purchase with our third-party payment providers for the purpose of processing your transaction, including credit card authorization (or other payment information), and order processing and fulfillment.
We may share personal information about you to comply with applicable law and regulations (including laws outside of your country of residence) including law enforcement. We may also share personal information to evaluate, assert, or protect our legal or financial interests and/or to protect the health, safety, or property of ourselves or others.
In the event of a sale or merger of any of our businesses, our customers' personal information and other information we have collected as described in this privacy policy may be among the transferred business assets and may be shared with, for example third-party acquirers and their advisers.
We may also share aggregated or de-identified information that cannot reasonably be used to identify you.
Third-party links
Third-party links on this site may direct you to third-party websites that are not affiliated with us. We are not responsible for the content or accuracy of third-party websites, or for any other materials, products, or services of third parties.
We are not liable for any harm or damages related to the purchase or use of goods, services, resources, content, or any other transactions made in connection with any third-party websites. Please review carefully the third-party's policies and practices and make sure you understand them before you engage in any transaction. Complaints, claims, concerns, or questions regarding third-party products should be directed to the third party.
How we protect your personal information
We take reasonable precautions, such as implementing physical and electronic safeguards, to help protect the security and privacy of your personal information.
Minors
Our website is not intended for individuals under the age of 13. We do not intentionally collect Personal Information from children. If you are the parent or guardian and believe your child has provided us with Personal Information, please contact us at the email address below to request deletion.
By using the Website, you represent that you are at least the age of majority in your state, province, or country of residence.
How we retain your personal information
We retain personal information for as long as needed or permitted in light of the purpose(s) for which it was obtained and consistent with applicable law.
The criteria used to determine our retention periods include:
The length of time we have an ongoing relationship with you and provide the Services to you (for example, for as long as you have an account with us or make purchases on our website);
Whether there is a legal obligation to which we are subject (for example, certain laws require us to keep records of your transactions for a certain period of time before we can delete them); or
Whether retention is advisable in light of our legal position (such as in regard to applicable statutes of limitations, litigation or regulatory investigations).
How do we use cookies and other tracking technologies?
Our website uses cookies, pixel tags, and other tracking technologies to help enable you to shop on our website and may be used in a variety of ways to enhance or personalize your online browsing and shopping experience. These tracking technologies help us better understand your shopping needs and preferences and tell us which parts of our website you have visited, facilitate and measure the effectiveness of our advertisements, and provide consistent and personalized services and experiences.
You can set your browser not to accept cookies or to notify you when you are sent a cookie, giving you the opportunity to decide whether or not to accept it. However, if you do not accept cookies, you may not be able to access information or make purchases on our website.
California residents
If you reside in California, please read this section for
additional disclosures about how we collect, use, and disclose
information about you and your rights under the California
Consumer Privacy Act (or "CCPA") (California Civil Code Section 1798.100 et seq.).
California law requires us to disclose certain information regarding the personal information we collect. The following is a list of all categories of personal information we collect, or have collected, from California Residents, in the twelve (12) months prior to the effective date of this Privacy Policy:
● Identifiers, such as your name and email address.
● Internet or other network or device activity, such as browsing history.
● Location information, such as general information inferred from an IP address.
Sale of Personal Information: California law requires that we provide transparency about personal information we
"sell" which, for the purposes of the CCPA, means scenarios in which we have shared personal information with partners or third parties in exchange for valuable consideration. In the preceding 12 months we have not sold personal information about you such as your name, email address, phone number of postal address.
Your rights and choices
Access: California consumers have the right to request access to the specific pieces of personal information we have collected about them in the last 12 months. They may also request the categories of personal information we have collected about them, the categories of sources of such collection, the business or commercial purpose for collecting or selling personal information, the categories of third parties with whom we share and sell their personal information, the categories of personal information we have disclosed and sold about them in the preceding 12 months and the business purposes for such sales, and the categories of third parties to whom we sold personal information in the preceding 12 months and the business purposes for such sales.
Deletion: California consumers have the right to request deletion of their personal information (subject to certain exceptions).
Opt Out of Sale: California consumers have the right to opt out of the sale of their personal information. We do not sell personal information for the commercial purposes of advertising.
Nondiscrimination: California consumers have the right not be discriminated against for exercising any of their CCPA rights.
If you are a California resident, you may exercise your rights under the CCPA by emailing info@vicariousauthorship.com. If applicable, you may also login to your account to access and correct your account information at any time.
When you exercise your rights, to confirm your request and ensure we respect your privacy and security, we will prompt you to verify your identity by confirming your name, e-mail address, or phone number (or other identifiable information).
Updates to this Privacy Policy
We may update this Privacy Policy from time to time. If our information practices change, we will post an updated policy on our website. You can tell if the policy has changed by checking the
"last updated" date that appears above. If you do not agree to the new terms, you should stop using our websites or otherwise providing information to us. Any changes to this Privacy Policy will become effective when we notify you of the changes. Your use of the website or Services following any such updates will constitute your acceptance of such updates. If we make a material change that will apply to information that we have already collected, we will seek your affirmative consent to such a change.
How to contact us
For questions about our privacy policy, to make choices about receiving promotional communications, to register a complaint or to update your personal information you can contact us by email, at info@vicariousauthorship.com