Privacy Policy: How We Protect Your Information

When you use our Site or the Services, we may collect personal information from or about you.

Information We Collect Directly From You

When you open an account, place an order, opt-in to receive emails, or interact with us on social media or through the Services, you may provide the following categories of personal information to us:

• Contact information, such as your name, email address, mailing address, and phone number.

• Account information, such as your username and password.

• Billing information, such as credit card details, billing address, and shipping address.

• Product or purchase details, such as order history, sample request, and subscription details.

• Preferences information, such as product wish lists, marketing preferences, reminder and notification preferences.

• Demographic and interest information you may choose to provide, such as your age group, date of birth, gender, social media posts (including handles and content), your location, product or cosmetics usage and concerns, and personal characteristics through polls or other surveys.
  
  Information We Collect From Other Sources
  
  If you interact with us on social media, we will collect information about those interactions. The information we collect may include your name, photograph, and email address. We may also collect information about you from third parties, including mailing list providers, online advertising networks, analytics vendors, companies that co-sponsor promotions.
  
  Information We Collect By Automated Means
  
  As is true of most websites, we automatically gather information about you and your computer or mobile device when you access our Site. To collect this information, we may use cookies, web beacons, log files, and similar technologies. Please see the section on Cookies and Other Tracking Technologies for more information on how we use these digital technologies. We may also collect information about your online activities over time and across third-party websites. The information we collect automatically may include:

• Online identifiers, such as IP address, advertising ID, unique device ID, and internal and third-party IDs that have been assigned to you.

• Device information, such as information about the devices that are used to access our Site (such as browser information, device type, and operating system information).

• Location information, such as information about your general location derived from your IP address.

• Internet activity information, such as information about your use of the Site (such as the date, time, length of stay, and specific pages accessed during your visits to our websites, and which emails you may have opened), the websites or links that referred you to our Site, the search terms used to find our Site, your interactions with the e-mails we send to you, your browsing history; and social media you use, including the “shares” and “likes” you make on a social media platform that is connected to the Site

• Usage information, such as information about the number and frequency of visitors to our Site.
  
  We may associate this information with the account you create with Growthopedia if you have one, the device you use to connect to our Site, or email or social media accounts that you use to engage with Growthopedia.

We may automatically gather information about you and your computer or mobile device when you access our Site using cookies, web beacons, log files, and similar technologies. A “cookie” is a text file that websites send to a visitor’s computer or other internet-connected device to uniquely identify the visitor’s browser or to store information or settings in the browser. A “log file” tracks your actions on websites and may collect information related to your device, browser, internet service provider, and the time of your activity. A “web beacon,” also known as a pixel tag or clear GIF, is used to transmit information back to a web server.
Cookies

We collect information using cookies. We may use both session cookies (which expire once you close your web browser) and persistent cookies (which stay on your computer or mobile device until you delete them) to provide a more personal and interactive experience on our Site.

We use two broad categories of cookies: (1) first-party cookies, served directly by us to your computer or mobile device, which we use to recognize your computer or mobile device when you revisit our Site; and (2) third-party cookies, which are served by service providers on our Site, and can be used by such service providers to recognize your computer or mobile device when visiting other websites.

Our Site uses the following types of cookies for the purposes set out below:

• Strictly Necessary Cookies. These cookies are necessary for the website to function and cannot be switched off in our systems. They are usually only set in response to actions made by you which amount to a request for services, such as setting your privacy preferences, logging in or filling in forms. You can set your browser to block or alert you about these cookies, but some parts of the site will not then work.

• Functional Cookies. These cookies enable the website to provide enhanced functionality and personalization. They may be set by us or by third-party providers whose services we have added to our pages. If you do not allow these cookies, then some or all of these services may not function properly.

• Performance Cookies. These cookies allow us to count visits and traffic sources so we can measure and improve the performance of our site. They help us to know which pages are the most and least popular and see how visitors move around the site. If you do not allow these cookies we will not know when you have visited our site and will not be able to monitor its performance.

• Targeting Cookies. These cookies may be set through our site by our advertising partners. They may be used by those companies to build a profile of your interests and show you relevant adverts on other sites. They do not store directly personal information but identify your browser and internet device. If you do not allow these cookies, you will experience less targeted advertising.
  
  Disabling Cookies
  
  If you do not accept our cookies, you may experience some inconvenience in your use of our Site. For example, we may not be able to recognize your computer or mobile device and you may need to log in every time you visit our Site. Your choices for managing use of cookie include:
  

• Blocking cookies in your browser. Most browsers let you remove or reject cookies. To do this, follow the instructions in your browser settings. Many browsers accept cookies by default until you change your settings. For more information about cookies, including how to see what cookies have been set on your device and how to manage and delete them, visit www.allaboutcookies.org. Google Analytics uses its own cookies and is only used to improve how our Site works. You can find out more information about Google Analytics, cookies, and about how Google protects your data on the Google website. You can prevent the use of Google Analytics relating to your use of our Site by downloading and installing a browser plugin.

• Blocking advertising ID use in your mobile settings. Your mobile device settings may provide functionality to limit use of the advertising ID associated with your mobile device for interest-based advertising purposes.

• Advertising industry opt-out tools. You can also use these opt-out options to limit use of your information for interest-based advertising by participating companies:

• Digital Advertising Alliance: http://optout.aboutads.info

• Network Advertising Initiative: http://optout.networkadvertising.org/
  
  Web Beacons
  
  Our Site contains electronic images known as web beacons (sometimes called pixels or single-pixel gifs) which are used along with cookies to compile aggregated statistics to analyze how our Site is used and may be used in some of our emails to let us know which emails and links have been opened by recipients. This allows us to gauge the effectiveness of our customer communications and marketing campaigns and to understand and optimize how our Site is used.
  

  Log Files
  
  Our site gathers certain browser details and site interaction data (i.e., when and how you interact with our site) automatically and stores it in log files to analyze trends, administer our Site, and track visitor movement for analytics and performance improvement.

We may allow third parties to provide analytics services and serve advertisements on our behalf across the internet and in mobile applications. These entities may use cookies, web beacons, and other technologies to collect information about your use of the Site, our Services and other applications, including your IP address, web browser, mobile network information, pages viewed, time spent on pages or in apps, links clicked, and conversion information. This information may be used by Growthopedia and others to, among other things, analyze and track data, determine the popularity of certain content, deliver advertising and content targeted to your interests, and better understand your online activity. For more information about interest-based ads, or to opt out of having your web browsing information used for interest-based advertising purposes, please visit the Google Ads Help page.

We and the service providers working on our behalf use personal information collected about you to:

• To Communicate with You: To send you e-mail and postal mail, surveys, and other communications; to respond to your requests, inquiries, comments, and suggestions, including any customer service inquiries you may submit.

• To Fulfill your Order: To send you order confirmations, provide order updates, and process your order (including shipping and returns).

• Provide, Maintain, and Improve our Services: To help us with website user analytics, research, product development, marketing and advertising campaign measurement; to conduct or administer surveys, quizzes, and other market research; to provide you with opportunities to participate in contests, sweepstakes, or other promotions; and to otherwise facilitate your engagement with the Services, including to enable you to post comments and reviews.

• Marketing the Services to You: Communicate with you about our Services, including to tell you about products and services that may be of interest to you.

• Enforce our Legal Rights or Comply with the Law: Respond to law enforcement requests and as required by applicable law, court order, or governmental regulations; prevent potentially prohibited or illegal activities; comply with applicable law; and enforce our terms of service on the applicable website.

• Security and Fraud Prevention: Prevent, identify, investigate, and respond to fraud or other illegal activity.
  
  We may use your personal information for any other purposes disclosed to you at the time we collect your personal information, provided we have obtained the required consent.
  
  We will not collect additional categories of personal information or use the personal information collected for materially different, unrelated or incompatible purposes without providing you with notice.
  
  You may update your personal information by logging into your account or you can contact us by emailing customersupport@growthopedia.com

We will share your personal information with third parties only in the ways that are described in this Policy. We may provide your personal information to third parties that provide services in connection with our business activities and are authorized to use your personal information only as necessary to provide these services directed by us and in a manner consistent with this Policy.

Specifically, we may share your personal information:

With service providers that perform services on our behalf, such as those that provide shipment, payment, and fulfillment services, customer service, website hosting, data analytics, marketing support, and database management services

With select partners as a part of an event or co-sponsored promotions;

To comply with a legal or regulatory obligation (e.g., to comply with a subpoena or similar legal process), protect and defend Growthopedia’s rights or property, protect the safety of our customers and website users or the public, and protect against legal liability;

In connection with, or during negotiations of, any merger, sale of company assets, financing, or acquisition of all or a portion of our business by a third party; Between and among Growthopedias’s current and future parents, subsidiaries, affiliates, and other companies under common control and ownership; and

Other third parties with your consent and at your direction.

When you provide a product review or other user content, that content may be publicly posted. Other users may be able to see your name or other information about you that you post. If you prefer that we not share your information with such third parties, you may opt out by emailing us at customersupport@growthopedia.com

Online payments made through our Site are handled by our third-party payment services provider. We do not process, record or maintain your credit card or bank account information. We will share transaction data with our payment services providers only to the extent necessary for the purposes of processing your payments and dealing with complaints and queries relating to such payments and refunds. If you have any questions about payments or would like to dispute a charge, you can contact us at customersupport@growthopedia.com

Growthopedia is headquartered in the United States, and we currently only have operations and entities in the United States. If you provide information to us from another country, your information may be transferred to, stored or accessed in a country where applicable laws do not provide the same level of privacy protection as those in the country in which you reside. We will process your personal information in accordance with applicable laws and this Policy regardless of where your personal data is stored or accessed.

Our retention periods for personal information are based on business needs and legal requirements. We will retain your personal information for as long as necessary to fulfill the purposes for which it was collected, including for the purposes of satisfying legal, accounting, or reporting requirements. In some circumstances we may anonymize your personal information (so that it can no longer be associated with you), in which case we may use this information indefinitely without further notice to you.

Managing or deleting your account with Growthopedia

You may review, update, or modify your account information, including profile and contact information, at any time by logging into your Growthopedia account. You may delete your account with us by emailing customersupport@growthopedia.com

Opting out of email marketing

You may unsubscribe from our promotional emails at any time by following the instructions included in those emails or by emailing customersupport@growthopedia.com If you opt out of receiving such communications, note that we may continue to send you non-promotional emails (such as order confirmation emails or emails about changes to our legal terms).

The California Consumer Privacy Act (“CCPA”) provides California residents with specific rights regarding their personal information. If you reside in California, you or your authorized agent may request that we take the following actions in relation to your personal information:

Right to Know: Inform you about the categories of personal information we have collected or disclosed about you within the last 12 months, the categories of sources of such information, the business or commercial purpose for collecting your personal information, and the categories of third parties with which we share/disclose personal information, including personal information (if any) that we have disclosed to third parties for direct marketing purposes.

Right to Access your Personal Information: Transfer a copy of specific pieces of personal information that we have to you in a commonly used, machine-readable format.

Right to Deletion: Delete your personal information.

Right to Opt-Out: The CCPA defines “sale” broadly to include any sharing of personal information with third parties in exchange for value. While Growthopedia does not sell your personal information in exchange for money, like many online businesses, we may share your information with third parties such as Google, Facebook and other advertising partners through the cookies and/or pixels they place on our Site. This sharing of information may be considered a “sale” under CCPA.

To submit a request, California residents, or their authorized agents can email us at customersupport@growthopedia.com, or write to us at our postal address provided below.

We will request specific information from you to help us confirm your identity and process your request. Applicable law may require or permit us to decline your request. If we decline your request, we will tell you why, subject to legal restrictions. We will not discriminate against you based upon your exercise of any of these rights.

Our Services are not designed for children, and we do not knowingly collect personal information from visitors under the age of 13. If a child under 13 submits personal information to us and we learn that the personal information is the information of a child under 13, we will attempt to delete the information as soon as possible. If you have reason to believe that a child has provided personal information to us, please contact us at customersupport@growthopedia.com, and we will delete that information from our databases.

We may provide links to third-party websites, services, and applications that are not operated or controlled by Growthopedia. When you click on a link to any other website or location, you will leave our Site, and another entity may collect personal information from you. We have no control over, do not review, and are not responsible for these websites or their content. Please be aware that the terms of this Policy do not apply to these third-party websites or content, or to any collection of your personal information after you click on links to such third-party websites. We encourage you to review the privacy policies of any third-party service before providing any information to or through them.

Third-party services may include, for example, an activity feed or social media buttons. Your interactions with these features are governed by the privacy policy of the third-party service that provides the feature. The links to third-party websites or locations are for your convenience and do not signify our endorsement of such third parties or their products, content or websites.

The security of your personal information is important to us. We follow generally accepted industry standards to protect the personal information submitted to us, both during transmission and once we receive it. However, no method of transmission over the Internet, or method of electronic storage, is 100% secure. Therefore, we cannot guarantee its absolute security. If you have any questions about security on our Site, you can contact us at customersupport@growthopedia.com

We may change this Policy from time to time. If we do so, we will post the updated policy on our Site and will indicate when the Policy was last revised. If we make any material changes, we will provide you with additional notice. You should periodically review our current Policy to stay informed of our personal information practices.