Internet Privacy Notice
Last updated: October 12, 2011.
LAFashionWeek.com (also referred to herein as “us,” “we,” and the “Website”) respects your privacy and is committed to protecting it at all times. This Internet Privacy Notice (the “Privacy Notice”) explains how we collect, use, and safeguard information on this website. Please read this Privacy Notice carefully. By visiting LAFashionWeek.com, you acknowledge and accept the practices, terms, and conditions described in this Privacy Notice and the LAFashionWeek.com Conditions of Use (the “Conditions of Use”), which is located at the URL http://LAFashionWeek.com/privacy-notice and agree that any and all disputes, including, without limitation, those disputes arising over privacy, between you and LAFashionWeek.com, its parent company(ies), subsidiary(ies), affiliated companies, principals, owners, board members, employees, contributors, advertisers, sponsors, affiliates, partners, and any of their licensees, successors, and assignees, will be subject to terms and conditions of this Privacy Notice and/or the Conditions of Use, as applicable.
By visiting LAFashionWeek.com after we post any changes to this Privacy Notice and/or the Conditions of Use, you accept the Privacy Notice and/or the Conditions of Use, as applicable, as modified.
Your California Privacy Rights
California Civil Code Section 1798.83, also known as the "Shine The Light" law, permits our customers who are California residents to request and obtain from us once a year, free of charge, information about the personal information (if any) we disclosed to third parties for direct marketing purposes in the preceding calendar year. If applicable, this information would include a list of the categories of personal information that was shared and the names and addresses of all third parties with which we shared information in the immediately preceding calendar year. If you are a California resident and would like to make such a request, please submit your request by electronic mail to:
[info@LAFashionWeek.com]
What Personal Information About Customers Does LAFashionWeek.com Collect?
The information we learn about our customers helps us personalize and continually improve at the service and features of LAFashionWeek.com. Here are the types of information we collect:
• Information
You Give Us:
We receive and may store any personal and financial information you
enter on our Website or may give us in any other way. You can choose
not to provide certain information, but then you might not be able to
take advantage of many of our services and features. We may use the
information that you provide for a variety of purposes, including to
respond to your requests, to customize future options for you, to
improve the overall quality of the Website, and to communicate with
you, among other things.
• Automatic
Information:
We may receive and store certain types of information whenever you
interact with us. For example, like many other websites, we use
"cookies" (described more fully below) to obtain certain
types of non-personally identifiable information (i.e., your IP
address) when your web browser accesses LAFashionWeek.com. A number
of companies and some web browsers offer utilities designed to help
you visit websites anonymously. Although we will not be able to
provide you with a personalized experience at LAFashionWeek.com if we
cannot recognize you, we want you to be aware that these tools may be
available to you.
• E-mail
Communications:
To help us make our e-mails more useful and interesting, we may elect
to receive a confirmation when you open e-mail from
LAFashionWeek.com, if your computer supports such capabilities. If
you do not want to receive e-mail or other mail from us, please
adjust your Customer Communication Preferences accordingly.
What About Cookies?
• Cookies are
alphanumeric identifiers (i.e., text) that may be delivered by a web
server (like LAFashionWeek.com) to your web browser to enable the
delivering web server to recognize your browser for a variety of
purposes, including to authenticate your use of or log-in to a secure
website, to store and set your website preferences, and to provide
you with personalized greetings, among other things, Because cookies
are simple text and not “executable,” a cookie will not
give your computer a virus or other harmful program. ..
• The
“Help” portion of the toolbar on most web browsers may
tell you how to prevent your web browser from accepting new cookies,
how to have your web browser notify you when you receive a new
cookie, and how to disable cookies altogether. By disabling cookies
altogether, however, you will not be able to take full advantage of
some of LAFashionWeek.com’s coolest features, and we therefore
recommend that you leave cookies turned on, or at least instruct your
web browser to make an exception for cookies sent to you by
LAFashionWeek.com.
Does LAFashionWeek.com Share The Information It Receives?
We may allow certain third-party companies to serve ads and/or collect certain anonymous information when you visit the Website. These companies may use non-personally identifiable information (e.g., click stream information, browser type, time and date, subject of advertisements clicked or scrolled over) during your visits to this and other websites in order to provide advertisements about goods and services likely to be of greater interest to you. These companies typically use a cookie or third party web beacon to collect this information. To learn more about this behavioral advertising practice and/or to opt-out of this type of advertising, please visit: http://networkadvertising.org.
• Third-Party
Service Providers:
We may utilize third party companies and/or individuals to perform
certain functions on our behalf. Examples include, without
limitation, to fulfill orders, to deliver packages, to send postal
mail, e-mail, and other correspondence, to remove repetitive
information from customer lists, to analyze data, to provide
marketing assistance, to sponsor and/or conduct contests,
sweepstakes, or promotions, to provide search results and links
(including paid listings and links), to process credit card payments,
and to provide customer service. These third party service providers
may have access to the personal information we possess, but they will
only be permitted to use that information they need to perform their
specific functions, and will not be authorized by us to use such
information for any other purpose.
• Business
Transfers:
As we continue to develop our business, we might sell or buy
websites, stores, subsidiaries, or business units. As is customary
during the course of any such transaction, customer information is
generally one of many business assets subject to transfer, but, in
the event of such a transfer, personal information remains subject to
the promises made in the Privacy Notice applicable thereto (unless,
of course, the customer consents otherwise). Similarly, in the
unlikely event that all or substantially all of the Website’s
assets are acquired by a third party, customer information is likely
to be one of the assets transferred as part of that acquisition.
•
Protection
of LAFashionWeek.com and Others:
We may release account and other personal information when we believe
such a release is necessary and/or appropriate to comply with the
law, to prevent or aid in the prevention of any illegal activity or
any suspected illegal activity and/or any criminal investigation
thereof, to enforce, comply with and/or apply this Privacy Notice,
our Conditions of Use, and any of our other agreements, and/or to
maintain, protect, and/or enforce the rights, property, or safety of
the Website and the Website’s parent company(ies),
subsidiary(ies), affiliated companies, principals, owners, board
members, employees, contributors, advertisers, sponsors, affiliates,
partners, and any of their licensees, successors, and assigns, the
Website’s users, subscribers, customers, or any others, as
applicable. This includes, but is not limited to, the exchange of
information with other companies and organizations for fraud
protection and credit risk reduction, or in the preparation of and/or
during the course of a lawsuit. This does not include the sale,
rental, sharing, or other disclosure of personally identifiable
information from customers for commercial purposes in violation of
the commitments set forth in this Privacy Notice or as otherwise
prohibited by law.
• Your
Consent:
Unless specifically provided for herein, or as otherwise required by
law, you acknowledge and agree that you will not receive any notice
when the personal information we have collected will be sent to third
parties.
How Secure Is My Personal Information?
• We work to
protect the security of your information during transmission by using
Secure Sockets Layer (SSL) software, which encrypts information you
input.
• We reveal only the last five digits of your credit
card numbers when confirming an order. Of course, we transmit the
entire credit card number to the appropriate credit card company
during order processing.
• It is your responsibility to
protect against unauthorized access to your password and to your
computer. Be sure to sign off when you finish using a shared computer
and to close the web browser you used.
• Although we take
appropriate measures to safeguard against unauthorized disclosures of
information, we cannot assure you that the personally identifiable
information that we collect will never be disclosed to and/or
accessed by any third party in a manner that is inconsistent with
this Privacy Notice.
What Information Can I Access?
LAFashionWeek.com gives you access to a broad range of information about your account and your interactions with LAFashionWeek.com for the limited purpose of viewing and, in certain cases, updating that information. The list of information you can access may change as our Website evolves.
Are Children Allowed To Use LAFashionWeek.com?
LAFashionWeek.com does NOT provide services to children or sell products for purchase by children.
Conditions Of Use, Notices, And Revisions
If you choose to visit LAFashionWeek.com, your visit, any subsequent visit, and any dispute over privacy or any other matter related to the Website is subject to the terms of this Privacy Notice and the Conditions of Use, which include, among other things, your consent to limitations on any damages you may be entitled to, your agreement to waive any right to a trial you may have and your agreement to arbitrate any disputes, and application of the laws of the State of California. If you have any concern about this Privacy Notice and/or the privacy of your personal information at LAFashionWeek.com, please contact us with a thorough description of your concern, and we will try to address it.
Our business changes constantly, and our Website, this Privacy Notice and the Conditions of Use are subject to change as well. We may e-mail periodic reminders of our notices and conditions, unless you have instructed us not to, but we are not obligated to do so, and you should check our Website frequently to see any changes to any of our policies that may affect you. Unless we specifically state otherwise, the Privacy Notice applies to all personal information that we may have about you and your account. We stand behind the promises we make, however, and will never materially change our policies and practices to make them less protective of personally identifiable information collected in the past without attempting to notify those affected customers.
