Privacy Policy
PRIVACY POLICY
SCOPE OF THIS POLICY
CONSENT
WHO WE ARE
INFORMATION WE COLLECT AND HOW WE USE IT
We may gather and retain Personal Information about you. “Personal Information” is information that enables us to identify you directly or indirectly, by reference to an identifier such as your name, username, postal address (including billing and shipping addresses), telephone number (including home and mobile numbers), email address, credit and debit card numbers, profile picture, social media account ID, country of residence, or one or more factors specific to you. Personal information excludes anonymous information that has had the identity of an individual permanently removed.
- Registration information you provide when you create an account, enter a promotion or sweepstakes, such as your first name and surname, country of residence, gender, date of birth, email address, username, and password;
- Transaction information you provide when you request information, contact our offices or purchase, return, request, or exchange a product or service from us, such as your postal address, telephone number, and payment information;
- Information you provide in public forums on our Sites, such as your public posts;
- Information sent either one-to-one or within a limited group using our message, chat, post, “Ask Jim,” or similar functionality;
- Location information, including precise or approximate location information provided by a mobile or other device interacting with one of our Sites, applications, or physical properties (including through pixel or beacon technologies), or associated with your IP address or other online or device identifier.
- Usage, viewing, technical, and device data when you visit our Sites, on third-party sites or platforms, or open emails we send including your browser or device type, unique device identifier, and IP address;
How We Collect Personal Information
- Information You Provide to Us: Before you can utilize some portions of our Sites, we may require that you request access to those portions by providing us with your contact information, a username, and/or a password. If you provide us with a telephone number or an email address, you expressly agree that we, or our authorized agents, can use that information to contact you about your access request or your account, and/or about Sea Foam Enterprises and its associated activities. You may opt-out of this consent as explained in this Policy.
- Through the Sites: We may collect Personal Information through the Sites, e.g., when you sign up for a newsletter.
- Offline: We may collect Personal Information from you offline, such as when you contact our office for customer service.
- Online Tracking: We may collect Personal Information through a variety of technologies, such as cookies, Flash cookies, pixels, tags, application program interfaces, and Web beacons, including when you visit our Sites and applications.
- Social Networking Activities: Our Sites may allow you to enter social networking websites such as Facebook®, YouTube®, LinkedIn®, and X® (formerly known as Twitter®). If you choose to follow, like, friend, share, or comment on our social media websites, or otherwise share information on these social networking websites, we may receive information about you. We may use such information about you in a variety of ways, including to enhance your experience with our marketing and services and to communicate with you.
- Analytical Tools: We may collect information using analytics tools, including when you visit our Sites.
How We May Use Your Personal Information
- Respond to your inquiries and fulfill your requests, such as to send you newsletters or to respond to your questions and comments.
- Send administrative information to you, for example, information regarding the Sites and changes to our terms, conditions, and policies. Because this information may be important to your use of the Sites, you may not opt-out of receiving these communications.
- Communicate with you about your account or transactions with us and send you information or request feedback about features on our Sites or changes to our policies.
- Provide you with updates and announcements concerning our products, promotions, and programs and to send you invitations to participate in special programs.
- Re-contact you if we have not heard from you in a while.
- Personalize your experience on the Sites by presenting products and offers tailored to you.
- Provide you with targeted advertising based on your activity on our Sites.
- Process rewards, prizes, and/or donations, as applicable.
- Allow you to participate in polls, sweepstakes, instant win promotions, contests, and other promotions and to administer these activities. Some of these activities have additional rules, or involve third-party administrators, which could contain or utilize additional information about how we use and disclose your Personal Information, so it is important that you read the additional rules carefully.
- Permit you to participate on message boards, chat, profile pages, blogs, and other services to which you are able to post information and materials (including our Social Media Pages). Please note that any information you post or disclose through these services will become public information, and may be available to visitors to the Sites and to the general public. We urge you to be very careful when deciding to disclose your Personal Information, or any other information, on the Sites. Please see the “Your Controls and Choices” section below, to learn how you may request removal of your posts.
- Permit you to participate in social sharing, including live social media feeds.
- For our business purposes, such as analyzing and managing our businesses, market research, audits, developing new products, enhancing our Sites, improving our services and products, identifying usage trends, determining the effectiveness of our promotional campaigns, tailoring the Sites experience and content based on your past activities on the Sites, and gauging customer satisfaction and providing customer service (including troubleshooting in connection with customer issues).
- Operate, understand, optimize, develop, or improve our Sites, applications, products, services, and operations, including by using guest survey research and analytics tools.
- Detect, investigate, and prevent activities that may violate our policies, pose safety issues, or be fraudulent or illegal. • Notify you of product recalls or safety issues.
- As we believe to be necessary or appropriate: (a) under applicable law, including laws outside your country of residence; (b) to comply with legal process; (c) to respond to requests from public and government authorities, including public and government authorities outside your country of residence; (d) to enforce our terms and conditions; (e) to protect our operations or those of any of our affiliates; (f) to protect our rights, privacy, safety or property, and/or that of our affiliates, you or others; and (g) to allow us to pursue available remedies or limit the damages that we may sustain.
COOKIES POLICY
Essential cookies: These are cookies that are necessary for the operation of our Sites. They include, for example, language and privacy preferences. Session cookies: These temporary cookies expire and are automatically erased whenever you close your browser window. We may use session cookies to grant our users access to content and to enable actions such as remembering application or payment information as you are in the process of entering it.
We may permit third-party service providers to place cookies through our Websites to provide us with better insights into the use of the Websites or user demographics or to provide relevant services to you. These third parties may collect information about a user’s online activities over time and across different websites when he or she uses our Website. For example, we may use a third-party tool to analyze usage patterns of the Sites. Such a tool may generate a cookie to capture information about your use of the Sites which the third-party provider uses to compile reports on website activity for us and to provide other related services. The third-party provider may use a portion of your IP address to identify its cookie. We do not control the use of third-party cookies or the resulting information and we are not responsible for any actions or policies of such third parties.
YOUR CONTROLS AND CHOICES
- Correcting, updating, and deleting your registration account, if applicable.
- Choosing or changing your choices for subscriptions, newsletters, and alerts.
- Choosing whether to receive offers and promotions for our products and services, or products and services that we think may be of interest to you.
- Choosing whether we share your Personal Information with other companies so they can send you offers and promotions about their products and services.
- Controlling targeted advertising from many ad networks and partners; data exchanges; and marketing analytics and digital advertising and marketing service providers.
- Requesting removal of your personal information from a public forum on one of our Sites or application; and
- Requesting access to the Personal Information we hold about you and that we amend or delete it.
DISCLOSING INFORMATION
- To our affiliates for the purposes described in this Privacy Policy. Sea Foam International, Inc. is the Party responsible for the management of the jointly used Personal Information.
- To our third-party service providers who may provide services to us such as website hosting, data analysis, payment processing, order fulfillment, infrastructure provision, IT services, customer service, email delivery services, auditing services and other services, to enable them to provide services.
- In connection with promotions, for example, to third parties that are sponsors of sweepstakes, instant win promotions, contests and other promotions, to provide lists of the names and countries of residence of the winners and/or to announce the names of winners on the Sites (e.g., on our blog) or otherwise in accordance with the rules applicable to the specific promotion. To the extent that the Rules of a sweepstakes or promotion concerning the treatment of your Personal Information conflict with this Privacy Policy, the terms and conditions of the applicable Rules shall control.
- By you, on message boards, chat, profile pages and blogs and other services to which you are able to post information and materials (including our social media pages). Please note that any information you post or disclose through these services will become public information and may be available to visitors to the Sites and to the general public. We urge you to be very careful when deciding to disclose your Personal Information, or any other information, on the Sites.
- By you, if you participate in a live social media feed (which you may do, for example, by referencing us in your social media post or “liking” us on a social media platform). If you do participate, your public username and profile photo may be displayed on the Sites along with your post.
- To a third party in the event of any reorganization, merger, sale, joint venture, assignment, transfer, or other disposition of all or any portion of our business, assets, or stock (including in connection with any bankruptcy or similar proceedings).
- As we believe to be necessary or appropriate: (a) under applicable law, including laws outside your country of residence; (b) to comply with legal process; (c) to respond to requests from public and government authorities, including public and government authorities outside your country of residence; (d) to enforce our terms and conditions; (e) to protect our operations or those of any of our affiliates; (f) to protect our rights, privacy, safety or property, and/or that of our affiliates, you or others; and (g) to allow us to pursue available remedies or limit the damages that we may sustain.
- We may also share aggregated or anonymous information that cannot identify you with third parties. For example, we may disclose the number of visitors to our Sites or the number of people who have downloaded a particular document.
- We will never sell your information to a third-party. We will not share your Personal Information with a third party outside Sea Foam Enterprises except in limited circumstances, including:
- When you request or authorize release of your Personal Information.
- When you allow us to share your personal information with another company, by electing to share your personal information with carefully selected companies so that they can send you offers and promotions about their products and services;
- When companies perform services on our behalf, like package delivery, marketing and advertising, and customer service; however, these companies are prohibited from using your personal information for purposes other than those requested by us or required by law; and
- When we share your personal information with third parties in connection with the sale of a business, to enforce our Terms of Use or rules, to ensure the safety and security of our customers and third parties, to protect our rights and property and the rights and property of our customers and third parties, to comply with legal process, or in other cases if we believe in good faith that disclosure is required by law.
CHILDREN’S PRIVACY POLICY
SECURITY
DATA TRANSFERS, STORAGE, AND PROCESSING GLOBALLY
If you access the Sites from outside of the United States, information that we collect about you will be transferred to servers inside the United States and maintained indefinitely, which may involve the transfer of information out of your country of origin. By using our Sites and allowing us to collect information about you, you consent to such transfer and processing of your data.
The vast majority of the information collected automatically by us is anonymized and cannot be traced back to you. Any Personal Information provided by you such as your name, e-mail, or other identifiable information is kept for the length of time needed to fulfill the purposes outlined in this Privacy Policy unless a longer retention period is required or permitted by law or you “unsubscribe” or otherwise notify us that your information should be removed from our database.
GOVERNING LAW
CHANGES TO THIS PRIVACY POLICY
LAWFUL BASIS
Your Consent. You are able to remove your consent at any time. You can do this by contacting: [email protected].
CONTACT INFORMATION
an email to [email protected], call us at
(952) 938-4811, or write us at:
Sea Foam
ATTN: RMC
510 N. Chestnut St.
Chaska, MN 55318
US STATE PRIVACY RIGHTS
California
Effective January 1, 2023
This notice to California residents is provided under California law. It explains your privacy rights, provides our “notice at collection,” and provides certain mandated disclosures about our treatment of California residents’ information, both online and offline.
NOTICE OF COLLECTION OF PERSONAL INFORMATION
Sea Foam never sells your information. We may, as outlined in the Privacy Policy, share your information for certain purposes. Refer to the Privacy Policy for more information.
“DO NOT SELL OR SHARE MY PERSONAL INFORMATION” RIGHTS
CALIFORNIA RESIDENTS’ RIGHTS
EXERCISING YOUR CALIFORNIA PRIVACY RIGHTS
CALIFORNIA MANDATORY DISCLOSURES
If you are a California resident, California Civil Code Section 1798.83 permits you to request information regarding the disclosure of your personal information by certain members of Sea Foam Enterprises to third parties for the third parties’ direct marketing purposes. Pursuant to California Civil Code Section 1798.83(c)(2), members of Sea Foam Enterprises do not share personal information with other member companies or others outside Sea Foam Enterprises for those parties’ direct marketing use without consent.
If you are a California resident under the age of 18, and a registered user of any site where this policy is posted, California Business and Professions Code Section 22581 permits you to request and obtain removal of content or information you have publicly posted.
Colorado law provides Colorado residents with the rights listed below.
Right to Delete: You have the right to request that we delete the personal data we have collected about you, subject to applicable legal exceptions.
Right to Correct: You have the right to request that we correct inaccurate personal data.
Right to Opt Out of Targeted Advertising and Sale of Personal Data: You have the right to “opt out” of “targeted advertising” and the “sale” of your “personal data” (as defined under Colorado law).
EXERCISING YOUR COLORADO PRIVACY RIGHTS
To appeal our decision regarding a request related to these rights, you may email us at: [email protected].
Right to Delete: You have the right to request that we delete the personal data we have collected about you, subject to applicable legal exceptions.
Right to Correct: You have the right to request that we correct inaccurate personal data.
Right to Opt Out of Targeted Advertising and Sale of Personal Data: You have the right to “opt out” of “targeted advertising” and the “sale” of your “personal data” (as defined under Connecticut law).
EXERCISING YOUR CONNECTICUT PRIVACY RIGHTS
Right to Delete: You have the right to request that we delete the personal data we have collected about you, subject to applicable legal exceptions.
Right to Correct: You have the right to request that we correct inaccurate personal data.
Right to Opt Out of Targeted Advertising and Sale of Personal Data: You have the right to “opt out” of “targeted advertising” (as defined under Virginia law). We do not “sell” personal data as defined under Virginia law.