Privacy policy

PRIVACY POLICY

 

INFORMATION WE COLLECT

The personal information we collect about you may include, for example, your name, Grooves username and password, postal shipping and billing addresses, telephone numbers, email addresses, social networking information (such as usernames, handles, and friends lists), information about contacts provided by you or information in your address book, demographic information (such as date of birth, age, and gender), photos you send us, payment information (including credit card numbers or online payment services numbers), financial information (such as bank account numbers), products you may select as favorites and share, purchase history and location information (often from the device on which you access the Services). You may also submit additional personal information to us in other ways, such as participating in online surveys, promotions, contests and sweepstakes, and other offerings made available through our Services. We may combine information we receive from third parties with the information we receive based on your use of the Services and any other interactions with us.
In addition to the information you submit to us on this website or when using the Services, information regarding your use of and interactions with our Services is collected and/or aggregated by or on behalf of Grooves, often through the use of automated means. Such information may include, for example, data that we gather and store about your visit to and use of the Services, such as your IP address and the location of your IP server, device IDs, device type, wi-fi connection information, geo-location data, product search history, type of browser and operating system used, date and time you access the Services, pages you visit, and if you came to the Services from another website, the address of that website.

Cookies and web beacons are sometimes used to collect and track this customer usage information. “Cookies” are small identifiers sent from a web server that are stored on your device’s hard drive for the purpose of identifying your browser during interactions on websites or storing information or settings in your browser. A “web beacon,” also known as an Internet tag, pixel tag, or clear GIF, links web pages to web servers and their cookies and may be used to transmit information collected through cookies back to a web server. We can also use web beacons to tell if you have opened or acted upon emails that we send you.
In addition to the cookies and web beacons we deliver and use, we allow others including certain third-party analytics service providers to use cookies, web beacons, APIs (application programming interfaces), SDKs (software development kits), and other tracking tools on our Services on our behalf and to retain and use de-identified usage data received from such tracking tools for their own purposes. We also allow third parties to use usage data and tracking tools for advertising purposes as described in the Advertising Network section below. These third parties may collect information or may help us collect information about your online activities over time and across different websites, applications, and devices when you use our Services or third-party websites and mobile apps that display our ads.

HOW WE MAY USE THE INFORMATION WE COLLECT
We may use the personal information we collect from our customers for a variety of purposes, including, for example:
We may also use personal information in other ways for which we provide notice at the time of collection as may be required by applicable laws, or without notice to you for any legally permissible purpose and subject to applicable laws.

1.  to accomplish ordinary business purposes, such as establishing and managing customer accounts, responding to inquiries, providing requested products and services, processing and collecting payments, and providing customer support;
2.  to provide information about our business and offer our products or services to you and the products and services of others that we think you may find of interest;
3.  to communicate about, and administer your participation in, special events, programs, surveys, contests, sweepstakes, and other offers or promotions;
4.  to enable you to interact with Grooves and our customers through our message boards, blogs, and social media;
5.  to evaluate and improve our business, including developing new products and services, identifying potential new customers, analyzing the effectiveness of advertising and marketing promotions and other aspects of our Services, and soliciting your feedback through email communications, telephone calls, and/or focus groups ;
6.  to create a profile of you and your interests, so that we may personalize your shopping experience, ads, and the manner in which we interact with you;
7.  to perform data analyses, including market and consumer research, trend analysis, demographic analysis, and financial analysis; and
8.  to protect, investigate, and deter fraudulent, unauthorized, or illegal activity and to comply with legal information requests, applicable legal requirements, and our policies and practices.

THIRD-PARTY APPLICATIONS

We may include applications from third parties on this website or through our Services, which allow interaction or content sharing by users. Some of these mini-programs provide specific services or content from a third party, such as a Facebook “Share” or “Like” button, and are visible to you when you visit our Services. Your interaction with these programs typically allows the third party to collect some information about you through cookies they place on your device and other tracking mechanisms. In some cases, the third party may recognize you through its cookies even when you do not interact with their application. Please visit the third parties’ respective privacy policies to better understand the data collection practices and controls they make available to you.

RE-TARGETING TECHNOLOGIES

Our website and (external/mobile) application use re-targeting technologies. This enables us to show our visitors, who were already interested in our shop and our products, advertisements from us on partner websites. We believe that the display of personalized, interest-based advertising is more interesting for our customers than advertising that does not have a personal connection. Re-targeting technologies analyze your cookies and display advertisements based on your past surfing behavior.

INFORMATION YOU SHARE

The Services may allow you to connect and share your actions, comments, content, and information publicly or with other people you specify. You may also connect to and share your information on third-party social media platforms, websites, applications, and services through “plugins,” widgets, buttons, and other third-party features on and connected with our Services. You may also share with Grooves the contact information of friends and people in your address book so that we can help you invite others to become Grooves  members or let them know about special offers and help facilitate deliveries. Please be mindful of your own privacy needs and those of others as you choose with whom to connect, what you share with us and others, and what you make public. We cannot control the privacy of information you choose to make public or share with others. We also cannot control and are not responsible for any third-party sharing services or their actions including the data that they collect from you and your device or how they use such data. Please review their privacy policies to understand their privacy practices.

INFORMATION WE SHARE

We may share personal information with third parties as described below:
We may share information that does not directly identify you with third parties, including our Affiliates, advertising networks, analytics providers, and others who may use the data for any legally permissible purpose and without notice to you unless required by applicable laws.

1. Affiliates. We may share your personal information with our Affiliates so long as the disclosure and use of your personal information by such entities are consistent with this Notice.


2. Consent. We may share your personal information that directly identifies you with third parties for their own purposes with your consent. For example, you may agree to our sharing your information with our suppliers and partners for their own marketing purposes subject to their separate privacy policies.


3. Service Providers. We may allow third parties under contract with us to access, store, and process your personal information in order to provide services for us.


4. Surveys/Sweepstakes/Promotions. In the event that you participate in a survey, sweepstakes, contest, or other promotion that is sponsored by Grooves and a third party, such participation serves as your consent for Grooves to share your personal information collected in conjunction with the survey, sweepstakes, contest or promotion with the co-sponsoring third party. After the information is provided to such third parties, the subsequent use or disclosure of such information is subject to those third parties privacy policies and practices.


5. Other. We may disclose information, including personal information, to (i) protect or defend the legal rights, interests, or property of Grooves and our Affiliates; (ii) protect the safety and security of our customers or members of the public; (iii) protect against fraud or for risk management purposes; or (iv) comply with legal advice, applicable law or legal process. In addition, we may disclose or transfer your personal information in connection with or during the negotiation of any merger, financing, acquisition, bankruptcy, dissolution, or any other transaction or proceeding involving sale, transfer, divestiture, or disclosure of all or a portion of our business or assets to another company.

DATA SECURITY

We employ certain administrative, technical, and physical security measures to help reduce the risks of loss, theft, and unauthorized access associated with the personal information that is in our possession. Despite these efforts, we cannot guarantee the security of the networks, systems, servers, devices, and databases we operate or that are operated on our behalf.