BrowniesMarineGroup.com Privacy Policy
Brownie’s Marine Group, (the “Company”), has created this privacy
policy for www.BrowniesMarineGroup.com (the “Site”) in order to
demonstrate its firm commitment to privacy. (“We” or “Us”, as used in
this Privacy Policy, may include the Brownies Marine Group family of
companies, and websites within the Brownies Marine Group family of
companies.) The following discloses Brownies Marine Group’s information
gathering and dissemination practices for the information collected
through this Site. We encourage you to read this Policy before using
this Site. Your use of this Site signifies that you agree with all terms
of this Policy, so please do not use this Site if you disagree with any
part of this Policy.
PRIVACY STATEMENT
Brownies Marine Group’s Collection and Use of Information Personally Identifiable Information
We will collect personally identifiable information about you, such
as your name, postal address, telephone number, e-mail address, when you
provide it to us while on this Site. You may provide personally
identifiable information when you create an account, enter a sweepstakes
on this Site or on a third-party site, sign up for email
communications, participate in a survey, contact customer service,
engage in a promotion online or in store or otherwise interact with this
Site. Your personally identifiable information may be used by us for all
legal purposes, which may include, but are not limited to, responding
to your requests, processing your transactions, for administrative
purposes such as conducting contests, tracking which parts of the Site
are of interest to you, and processing prizes. If you choose to opt-in,
you may receive certain future information or communications from
Brownies Marine Group, and we may share your personally identifiable
information with Brownies Marine Group’s subsidiaries or affiliated
entities (“Affiliated Entities”) for purposes of sending you information
about the programs of Brownies Marine Group or its Affiliated Entities
and, occasionally, sending you advertising/promotional material from
some of their advertising and strategic partners (see the Opt-In/Choice
section below). We may also use your personally identifiable information
for internal business purposes, such as optimizing Site experiences and
analyzing and managing our businesses.
Note Regarding Use of this Site by Children
We request that children do not provide personally identifiable information through the Site.
Demographic Information
We may also collect demographic data, such as your gender and
postcode, when you provide this information to us. Demographic data may
be used to tailor your experience at this Site, such as showing you
content including special events and advertising that you might be
interested in, and displaying the content according to your postcode.
On occasion, aggregate information that does not identify any
particular user may be compiled and shared with subsidiaries and
affiliates of Brownies Marine Group, and other third parties as
described in Section II below.
Passive Collection of Non-Personal Information
This Site often requires the use of encrypted or non-encrypted
cookies. Cookies are data that a web server transfers to an individual’s
computer for recordkeeping purposes. Cookies are an industry standard
used by most websites and help facilitate users’ ongoing access to and
use of a particular website, for example by providing information used
to deliver content specific to your interests and for other purposes,
such as security and other account administrative functions, and which
may track personal identifying information.
Cookies do not cause damage to your computer systems or files, and
only the website that transferred a particular cookie to you can read,
modify or delete such cookie. If you do not want information collected
through the use of cookies, there are simple procedures in most browsers
that allow you to delete existing cookies, to automatically decline
cookies or to be given the choice of declining or accepting the transfer
of particular cookies to your computer. Please refer to your browser
instructions or help screen to learn more about these functions. You
should note, however, that declining cookies may make it difficult or
impossible for you to use portions of the Site.
As part of the log-in process, this Site may use persistent cookies
when you give us permission to do so. Persistent cookies are cookies
stored on your computer. They allow us, with your permission, to
remember information about you, such as your log-in information, so that
we may enhance your experience the next time you visit the Site. You
must give your permission to allow this Site to set persistent cookies.
You may opt-out of the use of persistent cookies at any time.
We may also use flash cookies, also known as “local shared objects,”
on this Site during the log-in process. Flash cookies are small files
similar to browser cookies and are used to remember the Site’s settings
in order to personalize the look and feel of the site. Flash cookies
only collect data in the aggregate. This Site’s log-in process also may
use session cookies, if you choose to register with this Site. Session
cookies enable the Site to recognize your log-on credentials and enhance
your browsing of the Site.
Some uses of cookies in connection with the Site may be under the
control of unaffiliated entities that the Company retains for the
management of certain programs and fulfillment of specific
visitor/customer requests. The Company requires these entities to
confine their use of cookies to the uses permitted by this Policy, but
the Company cannot be responsible for third party uses of cookies.
The Site may use “pixel tags”, “web beacons”, “clear GIFs” or similar
means (collectively, “Pixel Tags”) to compile aggregate statistics
about Site usage and response rates. Pixel Tags allow us to count users
who have visited certain pages of the Site, to deliver advertisements
for goods and services that may be of interest to you and to help
determine the effectiveness of promotional or advertising campaigns.
When used in HTML-formatted email messages, Pixel Tags can tell the
sender whether and when the email has been opened.
Brownies Marine Group also collects “referrers” information, IP addresses and various environmental variables.
A “referrer” is information the web browser passes along to our web servers that references the URL from which you came.The “IP address” is a number used by computers on the network to identify your computer so that data can be transmitted to you.”Environmental variables” include, among other things, the domain
from which you access the Internet, the time you accessed this site,
type of web browsers and operating system or platform used, the Internet
address of the website you left to visit this Site, the names of the
pages you visit while at this Site and the Internet address of the
website you then visit.
This information is collected for Brownies Marine Group’s internal
use such as to enhance website security, to detect broad demographic
trends, to assist Brownies Marine Group in providing content tailored to
your interests and to otherwise enhance your experience on this Site.
This information may also be shared with third parties on an aggregate
and non-personally identifiable basis.
We may use both personally identifiable information and
non-personally identifiable information, individually or together, to
improve our marketing and promotional efforts, improve our products and
services, better understand customer interests and preferences, and /or
provide you relevant information. We may enhance or merge personally
identifiable information that you provide with data obtained from third
parties.
Disclosure of Information to Third Parties
Brownies Marine Group may share personally identifiable information,
including information that you provide on the Site, with third parties
as described below.
Affiliated Entities
We may share any information, including personally identifiable
information that you provide on the Site, with our subsidiaries and
affiliates worldwide, for the purposes described in Section I(A).
Strategic Partners
From time to time we may enter into a special relationship with
another company that is not owned by or affiliated with Brownies Marine
Group to provide additional features on this Site. These special
relationships may include business partners, sponsors and co-branded
sites (referred to here as “co-branded pages”). Any information,
including personally identifiable information that you provide on one of
these co-branded pages, may be shared with these third party partners.
By participating in activities or providing your information on these
co-branded pages, you also consent to our providing your personally
identifiable information to those third parties. Since these third
parties will use your information in accordance with their own privacy
practices, you should check their websites for information regarding
their privacy policies.
Service Providers
We may use third party service providers to help us operate our
business and this Site or administer activities on our behalf, such as
sending emails, order fulfillment and sweepstake administration. We may
share your information with these third parties for those limited
purposes. For instance, if you participate in a sweepstake, game or
loyalty program resulting in a prize or award, we will share personally
identifiable information about you with our games and merchandise
fulfillment and management agencies.
Ad Networks
We may have relationships with third party service providers known as
Ad Networks to serve ads on our behalf across the internet. Using
Cookies and Pixel Tags (also known as Web Beacons), Ad Networks collect
anonymous information about your visits to our web site and other web
sites in order to deliver advertisements that may be of particular
interest to you. This process does not involve the collection of any
personally identifiable information. The Ad Networks do not know your
name, phone number, address, email address or any personally
identifiable information We do not share any personally identifiable
information about you with these advertising networks. To find out more
about how the networks manage the privacy of information in conjunction
with delivering ads online and how to opt-out of information collection
by these networks please go to: http://www.youradchoices.com or http://www.networkadvertising.org. We do not operate or control these sites and are not responsible for the opt-out choices available there.
Other Disclosures
Personally identifiable information of any individual user may be
shared with other companies outside Brownies Marine Group: (i) as
permitted by law, (ii) in the event of a transfer of ownership, assets
or a bankruptcy of Brownies Marine Group, (iii) where we determine that
disclosure of specific information is necessary to comply with the
request of a law enforcement or regulatory agency or other legal
process, or (iv) to protect the interests or safety of Brownies Marine
Group or other visitors to this Site.
User Generated Content Functions
This Site enables users to submit their own content in “Challenges”
and other functions on the Site. Please remember that any information
you disclose in connection with a submission becomes public information
and you should exercise caution when deciding to disclose your personal,
financial or other information in a submission. Brownies Marine Group
cannot prevent such information from being used in a manner that may
violate this Privacy Policy, the law or your personal privacy and safety
and is not responsible for the results of such postings.
Sweepstakes, Contests etc.
We may operate sweepstakes, contests, raffles and similar promotions
through the Site that may require online registration. We typically ask
you for certain personally identifiable information when you enter and,
if applicable, win a sweepstake, contest, raffle or similar promotion.
We may share this personally identifiable information with third party
sponsors of such sweepstakes, contests, raffles and promotions
(irrespective of whether it is hosted by us), or otherwise in accordance
with the rules applicable to such sweepstakes, contest, raffle or
promotion. You should carefully review the rules of each sweepstake,
contest, raffle and promotion in which you participate through the Site,
as they may contain additional important information about Brownies
Marine Group’s or a sponsor’s use of your personally identifiable
information. Insofar as the terms and conditions of such rules
concerning the treatment of your personally identifiable information
conflict with this Privacy Statement, the terms and conditions of such
rules shall control.
LINKS AND THIRD PARTIES’ PRIVACY PRACTICES
This Site may contain links to other sites that are not operated by Brownies Marine Group. BROWNIES
MARINE GROUP IS NOT RESPONSIBLE FOR THE PRIVACY PRACTICES OR THE
CONTENT OF SUCH OTHER WEBSITES, INCLUDING WEBSITES OPERATED BY
AFFILIATED ENTITIES. We provide such links only as a
convenience and the inclusion of a link on the site does not imply
endorsement of the linked site by Brownies Marine Group. If you provide
any personally identifiable information through any such third-party
website, your transaction will occur on such third party’s website (and
not on this site) and the personally identifiable information you
provide will be collected by and controlled by the privacy policy of
that third party. Brownies Marine Group recommends that you review the
privacy policy of third-party websites arrived at from links on this
Site.
SECURITY
This Site has security measures in place to help protect against the
loss, misuse and alteration of the personally identifiable information
under its control. Brownies Marine Group employs reasonable security
measures consistent with standard industry practice to help protect
against public access to personally identifiable and account activity
information collected on and used by Brownies Marine Group at this Site.
For instance, access to our databases with personally identifiable
information is logged for security purposes and access is limited to key
personnel. Personally identifiable information and account activity are
also protected through the use of user names and passwords. In order to
help maintain the security of your information, you should protect the
confidentiality of your user name and password.
OPT-IN/CHOICE
This Site may provide you with the opportunity to opt-in to receive
marketing communications from Brownies Marine Group. If you do not
opt-in, Brownies Marine Group will not send you its promotional offers.
You may also opt-out of marketing communications at any time by clicking
the “unsubscribe” link in the body of the communication. However,
regardless of your opt-in preferences, Brownies Marine Group may still
at times need to send program e-mails for administrative reasons. If you
opt to receive communications from multiple brands within the Brownies
Marine Group family of companies and then change your election, you may
need to opt-out individually from each of the brands to which you agreed
to receive brand-specific communications.
Brownies Marine Group also gives you convenient methods for removing
your information from our database so as not to receive future
communications or to close your account. You may:
opt-out on the account profile page;use the Contact Us form on the website;call 1-954-462-5570 Monday through Friday 8:30 am – 5 pm EST
or you may send mail to the following postal address:
Brownies Marine Group. 3001 NW 25th Avenue, Pompano Beach, FL 33069.
Please note, changes may not be effective immediately. In each event,
you must clearly indicate the information that you wish to have changed
or clearly indicate that you wish to have your personally identifiable
information removed from our database. We will endeavor to comply with
your request as soon as reasonably possible. Note that despite any
request for removal of or change to personally identifiable information,
we may need to retain certain information for record-keeping purposes,
and there may also be residual information that will remain within our
databases and other records, which will not be removed or changed. We
also reserve the right, from time to time, to re-contact former users of
the site for important administrative purposes. Finally, we are not
responsible for informing third parties (including without limitation
our third-party service providers or strategic partners) with whom we
have already shared your personally identifiable information of any
changes requested pursuant to this section, or for removing information
from or causing information to be removed from the databases or records
of such entities.
UPDATES TO THIS PRIVACY POLICY
Brownies Marine Group reserves the right to make changes in this
Privacy Policy. These changes will take effect immediately upon posting.
For your convenience, the last revised date of the current policy will
be posted at the top of this page. By continuing to use the Site
following such changes, you will be deemed to have agreed to such
changes. If you do not agree with the terms of this Privacy Policy,
please do not continue using the Site.
VII. GOVERNING LAW
This Privacy Policy is governed by the laws of the State of Michigan, USA, without regard to its choice of law provisions.
VIII. CONTACTING BROWNIES MARINE GROUP
If you have any questions about this Privacy Policy or the practices of this Site, you may Contact the Webmaster.
