Privacy Policy
Body by Monika by Monika A Mazur (“BBM” “us,” our” or “we”) is committed to protecting your privacy. “You/your/user(s)” means you as a user of our Services. Our privacy policy, which applies to all users of our Services, is designed to explain the information we collect and how we use it to provide our Services and give Users a better experience (“Privacy Policy”). Capitalized terms not defined in this Privacy Policy have the meanings given in our Terms of Use www.ptdistinction.com/monikaamazur This Privacy Policy is part of, and incorporated into, the Terms of Use.
This Privacy Policy describes the Personal Information (as defined below) we collect about you online through your use of the Services, why we collect it, how we use it, and when we share it with third parties. This Privacy Policy also describes the choices you can make about how we collect and use certain of that information. The Personal Information provided by you is not used for any purpose other than as outlined in this Privacy Policy.
By accessing and using the Services you consent to our collection, storage, use and disclosure of your Personal Information and other information as described in this Privacy Policy. If you do not agree with the terms of this Privacy Policy, please do not provide any Personal Information to us. If you choose not to provide any Personal Information that is necessary for us to provide you with specific Products or access to or use of specific Services, we may not be able to provide those Products or Services to you.
Personal Information Collected
When you visit the Site, we automatically collect certain information about your device, including information about your web browser, IP address, time zone, and some of the cookies that are installed on your device. Additionally, as you browse the Site, we collect information about the individual web pages or products that you view, what websites or search terms referred you to the Site, and information about how you interact with the Site. We refer to this automatically-collected information as “Device Information”.
We collect Device Information using the following technologies:
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“Cookies” are data files that are placed on your device or computer and often include an anonymous unique identifier. For more information about cookies, and how to disable cookies, visit http://www.allaboutcookies.org.
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“Log files” track actions occurring on the Site, and collect data including your IP address, browser type, Internet service provider, referring/exit pages, and date/time stamps.
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- “Web beacons”, “tags”, and “pixels” are electronic files used to record information about how you browse the Site.
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Unique Device Identifiers. Users can access and browse the Website and download the Mobile App without disclosing Personal Information, although, like most service providers, we passively collect certain information from your devices, such as your IP address, browser information, unique device identifier (“UDID”) and/or your mobile manufacturer, network provider and operating system as you use the Website
Additionally, when you make a purchase or attempt to make a purchase through the Site, we collect certain information from you, including your name, billing address, shipping address, payment information (including credit card numbers), email address, and phone number. We refer to this information as “Order Information”.
“Personal Information” in this Privacy Policy, pertains to Device Information and Order Information.
Use of Personal Information
We use the Order Information that we collect generally to fulfill any orders placed through the Site (including processing your payment information, arranging for shipping, and providing you with invoices and/or order confirmations). Additionally, we use this Order Information to:
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Review and process your submissions to promotions
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Satisfy our contractual obligations to you
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Provide, maintain, and improve our Services
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Perform internal operations, including to prevent fraud and abuse, to identify and fix problems with the Service, to conduct data analysis, testing, and research, and to monitor and analyze usage and activity trends;
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Send you communications, including information about Products, services, promotions, news, other information related to the Services; and
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Perform internal operations, processing services, maintain user accounts, resolve disputes, establish, exercise, and defend legal claims, prevent and identify fraud, verify your identity and authenticate users
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Personalize and improve the Services and performance and support of the Website, including to provide or recommend features, content, social connections, referrals, and advertisements.
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Analyze, benchmark and conduct research on user data and interactions with the Services and Products
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Provide the materials, goods and/or services we offer and/or that you request
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Identify your preferences, so we can notify you of new or additional classes, products, services, and/or promotions that might be of interest to you
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Improve our Services, customer service, and overall Website experience by aggregating and analyzing our customer data
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Analyze the use of our Products and Services and information about visitors to the Website to enhance our marketing efforts
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Communicate with you by e-mail, text message, app notifications, or other means about our company, our products, discounts, offers, or other information that we believe may be of interest to you
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Provide others with your Personal Information for the limited purposes described in this privacy policy
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Send you notices of a transactional, administrative or relationship nature, or as required by law
When in line with the preferences you have shared with us, provide you with information or advertising relating to our products or services.
We use the Device Information that we collect to help us screen for potential risk and fraud (in particular, your IP address), and more generally to improve and optimize our Site (for example, by generating analytics about how our customers browse and interact with the Site, and to assess the success of our marketing and advertising campaigns).
Sharing/Disclosure of Personal Information
We share your Personal Information with third parties to help us use your Personal Information, as described above. For example, we use Shopify to power our online store--you can read more about how Shopify uses your Personal Information here: https://www.shopify.com/legal/privacy. We also use Google Analytics to help us understand how our customers use the Site -- you can read more about how Google uses your Personal Information here: https://www.google.com/intl/en/policies/privacy/. You can also opt-out of Google Analytics here: https://tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout.
Finally, we may also share your Personal Information to comply with applicable laws and regulations, to respond to a subpoena, search warrant or other lawful requests for information we receive, or to otherwise protect our rights.
Lawful Processing; Legitimate Interests
Our Processing of your Personal Information for the purposes set out in this Privacy Policy is necessary for one or more of the following:
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Performing a contract with you, or to take steps at your request prior to contracting with you
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Protecting your vital interests or the interests of another person
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Complying with our legal obligations
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Pursuing our legitimate interests, including without limitation:
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Providing, improving and customizing our Services;
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Administration of our operations;
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Understanding how our Services are being used;
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Exploring ways to develop and grow;
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Ensuring the safety and security of our Users, employees and others;
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Cybersecurity;
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Enhancing protection against fraud, spam, harassment, intellectual property infringement, crime and security risks; and
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Meeting our obligations and enforcing our legal rights
Behavioural Advertising
As described above, we use your Personal Information to provide you with targeted advertisements or marketing communications we believe may be of interest to you. For more information about how targeted advertising works, you can visit the Network Advertising Initiative’s (“NAI”) educational page at http://www.networkadvertising.org/understanding-online-advertising/how-does-it-work.
Additionally, you can opt out of some of these services by visiting the Digital Advertising Alliance’s opt-out portal at: http://optout.aboutads.info/.
Do Not Track
Please note that we do not alter our Site’s data collection and use practices when we see a Do Not Track signal from your browser.
Third-Party Websites
While visiting the Website, you may link to websites operated by third parties or you may have come to the Website using a link found in another website. We do not make any representations or warranties about any third-party website, we have no control over them or the information, services, products they provide or the manner or methods they employ to collect, store, access, or otherwise use your Personal Information. If you provide Personal Information at one of those websites, you are subject to the privacy policy of the operator of that website, not our Privacy Policy. Please make sure you understand any other website's privacy policy before providing Personal Information.
Security; Legally Required Disclosures
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Security. We strive to keep your Personal Information private and safe. We take commercially reasonable physical, electronic and administrative steps to maintain the security of Personal Information collected, including limiting the number of people who have physical access to database servers, as well as employing electronic security systems and password protections that guard against unauthorized access. In addition, it is our policy to never send your credit card number via e-mail. Any payment transactions will be encrypted. We will make any legally required disclosures of any breach of the security, confidentiality, or integrity of your unencrypted electronically stored Personal Information or "Personal Information" (as defined in applicable state statutes on security breach notification) to you via e-mail, text or conspicuous posting on the Website in the most expedient time possible and without unreasonable delay, insofar as it is consistent with (i) the legitimate needs of law enforcement or (ii) any measures necessary to determine the scope of the breach and restore the reasonable integrity of the data system. Your consent to such purpose remains valid after termination of our relationship with you.
Unfortunately, despite our best efforts, the transmission of data over the Internet cannot be guaranteed to be 100% secure. While we will use reasonable means to ensure the security of information you transmit through the Website, any transmission of Personal Information by you is at your own risk. We cannot guarantee that such information will not be intercepted by third-parties and we shall not be liable for any breach of the security of your Personal Information resulting from causes or events that are beyond our control, including, without limitation, your own act or omission, corruption of storage media, defects in third party data security products or services, power failures, natural phenomena, riots, acts of vandalism, hacking, sabotage, or terrorism, and we are not responsible for circumvention of any privacy settings or security measures contained on the Website.
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Legally Required Disclosures. We will make any legally required disclosures of any breach of the security, confidentiality, or integrity of your unencrypted electronically stored "Personal Information" (as defined in applicable state statutes on security breach notification) to you via e-mail and/or conspicuous posting on the Website in the most expedient time possible and without unreasonable delay, insofar as it is consistent with (i) the legitimate needs of law enforcement; or (ii) any measures necessary to determine the scope of the breach and restore the reasonable integrity of the data system.
Your Rights
European Economic Area (“EEA”) Users
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Data Transfers. For Users using our Services from within the EEA, we may need to transfer your Personal Information to countries outside the EEA, including to the USA.
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You have the right to access personal information we hold about you and to ask that your personal information be corrected, updated, or deleted. If you would like to exercise this right, please contact us through the contact information below.
California Privacy Rights
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Shine the Light. Pursuant to California Civil Code Section 1798.83, also known as the "Shine The Light" law, California residents have the right to request in writing from businesses with whom they have an established business relationship: (i) a list of the categories of Personal Information, such as name, address, e-mail address, and the type of services provided to that individual, that a business has disclosed to third-parties (including affiliates that are separate legal entities) during the immediately preceding calendar year for the third parties’ direct marketing purposes, and (ii) the names and addresses of all such third-parties. We do not share Personal Information with third-parties for those parties’ direct marketing. To request the above information, California residents can e-mail us at [email protected] Please note that, under California law, a business is only required to respond to such a request twice in any calendar year.
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California Consumer Privacy Act. The California Consumer Privacy Act, Cal. Civ. Code §1798.100 et. seq. (“CCPA”), grants residents of California certain rights with respect to their Personal Information and requires us to provide such individuals with certain information, described in this Section.
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Your Rights. California residents may exercise the following rights by contacting us at [email protected] or as described at the end of this document:
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Know the ways in which we acquire, use, share, disclose and otherwise process your Personal Information;
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Know the specific pieces of your Personal Information that we hold;
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Request the deletion of your Personal Information, subject to several exceptions; and
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Not to be denied goods or services for exercising these rights
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Requesting Access to or Deletion of Personal Information. If you are a California resident, you have the right, subject to certain exceptions defined in the CCPA and other applicable laws and regulations, to request that we disclose certain information to you about our collection and use of your Personal Information over the past twelve (12) months.
In order to verify your request, you will need to provide us with sufficient information to identify you individually so that we can comply with you request, including the name you provided to us when you created your account(s) (i.e. your legal first, last name or variants thereof, e.g. nicknames, aliases, titles (“Mr.”, “Mrs.”, “Dr.”, “Jr.”, etc.), the e-mail address(es) you use to correspond with us and any other e-mail addresses you have used with us in the past, phone number, and date of birth.
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Sale of Your Personal Information for Ad Retargeting. California residents also have the right to opt-out of the sale of their Personal Information. CCPA defines some transfers of Personal Information to third parties in exchange for value as a “sale”, even if no money changes hands, such as when online identifiers, device IDs, and other personal information is shared with third party businesses to further their own commercial purposes such as generating user profiles about individuals, or targeting or retargeting advertisements.
We do not sell your personal information for monetary compensation. We may allow certain third parties such as advertising partners to collect your personal information via automated technologies like “cookies” and “web beacons” on our Website or Services, or share your personal information with certain affiliated companies or promotional partners, in exchange for non-monetary consideration such as an enhanced ability to serve you content and advertisements that may be of interest to you. These disclosures may be considered a "sale" under CCPA, in which case we have sold the following categories of your Personal Information in the preceding twelve (12) months:-
First name, last name, your image and/or likeness, e-mail address, phone number, street address, comments, company name and address, title, work experience and skills, username and/or e-mail address in combination with a password or security questions and answers, account numbers or credit/debit card numbers, even without a security code, access code, or password if the account could be accessed without such information
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non-personally identifiable information
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Internet or other electronic network activity information
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Inferences drawn from any of the above information categories.
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You have the right to opt out of this disclosure of your information and can instruct us to stop the sale of your Personal Information by following the instructions here, Do Not Sell My Personal Information [email protected]
If we have actual knowledge that a California resident is younger than 16, we will request opt-in consent before selling their Personal Information.
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Notice Disclosures. Depending on the circumstances and which Service you use, we have disclosed the following categories of your Personal Information for a “business purpose” (as defined in the CCPA) in the preceding twelve (12) months:
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First name, last name, your image and/or likeness, e-mail address, phone number, street address, comments, company name and address, title, work experience and skills, username and/or e-mail address in combination with a password or security questions and answers, account numbers or credit/debit card numbers, even without a security code, access code, or password if the account could be accessed without such information
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Geolocation data,
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Non-Personally Identifiable Information
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Internet or other electronic network activity information
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Audio, electronic, visual, or similar information
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Non-Discrimination. We will not discriminate against you for exercising any of your rights under California law, including:
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Deny you goods or services
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Charge you different prices or rates for goods or services, including through granting discounts or other benefits, or imposing penalties
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Provide you a different level or quality of goods or services
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Suggest that you may receive a different price or rate for goods or services or a different level or quality of goods or services
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Do Not Track. Some web browsers may let you enable a "do not track" feature that sends signals to the websites you visit, indicating that you do not want your online activities tracked. This is different than blocking or deleting cookies, as browsers with a "do not track" feature enabled may still accept cookies. There is currently no industry standard for how companies should respond to "do not track" signals, although one may develop in the future. We do not respond to "do not track" requests or signals at this time.
Data Retention
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We will retain your Personal Information for as long as is necessary for the purposes set out in this Privacy Policy unless a longer period is required under applicable law or is needed to resolve disputes or protect our legal rights or otherwise to comply with legal obligations.
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Where we are processing Personal Information based on our legitimate interests, we generally will retain the data for a reasonable period of time based on the particular interest, taking into account the fundamental interests and the rights and freedoms of the data subjects.
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Where we are processing Personal Information based on your consent, we generally will retain the information for the period of time necessary to carry out the processing activities to which you consented, subject to your right, under certain circumstances, to have certain of your Personal Information erased (see Section 8, Deleting, Changing & Updating Your Personal Information).
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Where we are processing Personal Information based on contract, we generally will retain the information for the duration of the contract plus some additional limited period of time that is necessary to comply with law or that represents the statute of limitations for legal claims that could arise from the contractual relationship.
Children
This Website is not directed to or intended for children under 18 years of age. We do not knowingly solicit, collect or maintain information from those we actually know are under 18, and no part of our Website is targeted to attract anyone under 18. We also do not send e-mail correspondence to anyone who advises that they are under the age of 18. If we later obtain actual knowledge that a User is under 18 years of age we will take steps to remove that User’s Personal Information from our systems. If you are the parent or guardian of a child whom you believe has disclosed Personal Information to us, please contact us at [email protected]
Privacy Policy Changes
We reserve the right to change, modify, add or remove portions of this Privacy Policy at any time and without prior notice, and any changes will become effective immediately upon being posted. However, we will not use your Personal Information in a way that is adverse and materially different from the uses described in this Privacy Policy without giving you an opportunity to opt out. The “Last Modified” date indicates if and as of when changes have been made to this Privacy Policy. Your continued use of the Services after this Privacy Policy has been amended shall be deemed to be your continued acceptance of the terms and conditions of the Privacy Policy, as amended.
Contact Us
For more information about our privacy practices, if you have questions, or if you would like to make a complaint, please contact us by e-mail at [email protected]