This privacy statement describes the methods used by Growing Babies and its affiliates to collect, process, and share personal information. If an affiliate offers a different privacy statement on its website, it will address the affiliate's procedures for collecting, using, and sharing information. In this Privacy Policy, "affiliates" refers to concepts such as Growing Babies and any other affiliates we may from time to time establish or purchase.
When you use Growing-Babies.com ("we," "our," or "us"), this Privacy Policy describes how we gather, use, and disclose your personal information. You accept the terms of our privacy policy by visiting or using our website.
Context
The following provides examples of the types of information that Growing-Babies.com collects about you and how we use the information.
Types of Information
Account Registration
We collect your name and contact information when you create an account.
We have a legitimate interest in providing account-related functionalities to our users. Accounts can be used for easy checkout and to save your preferences and transaction history.
Demographic Information
We may collect information from you, such as your age or location.
We have a legitimate interest in understanding our users and providing tailored services and products.
Distance Information
When you use one of our Apps, we collect your location from the GPS, Wi-Fi, and/or cellular technology in your device to determine your distance from a store.
We have a legitimate interest in understanding our users and providing tailored services and products. In some contexts, our use is also based upon your consent to provide us with geolocation information.
Email Interconnectivity
If you receive email from us, we use certain tools to capture data related to when you open our message, click on any links or banners it contains, and make purchases.
We have a legitimate interest in understanding how you interact with our communications to you.
Feedback/Support
If you provide us feedback or contact us for support, we will collect your name and email address and possibly other personal information, as well as any other content that you send to us in order to reply.
We have a legitimate interest in receiving, and acting upon, your feedback or issues.
Loyalty or Rewards Programs
If you sign up for one of our loyalty or rewards programs, we collect your name and contact information (such as email address and telephone number).
We have a legitimate interest in administering our loyalty and rewards programs. That administration includes, among other things, communicating with you about program benefits, providing you with membership benefits, detecting security incidents, and protecting against malicious, deceptive, fraudulent, or illegal activity.
Mailing List
When you sign up for one of our mailing lists, we collect your email address or postal address.
Where required by law, we have obtained your consent to share information about our products or services, and we use your email address or postal address to share such information. We also have a legitimate interest in sharing information about our products or services, and we use your email address or postal address to share such information.
Mobile Devices
We collect information from your mobile device such as unique identifying information broadcast from your device when visiting our website or when visiting one of our stores.
We have a legitimate interest in identifying unique visitors and in understanding how users interact with us on their mobile devices.
Order Placement
We collect your name, billing address, shipping address, e-mail address, phone number, and payment card information when you place an order. We use reasonable efforts to protect such payment card information from unauthorized access, use, or disclosure (for more information please see the section below titled “How We Protect Personal Information”).
We use your information to perform our contract to provide you with products or services.
Use and Processing of Your Personal Information
In addition to the uses described above, we use your personal information in the following ways:
- To identify you when you visit our websites or our stores.
- To provide the products and services you request, or to process returns.
- To improve our services and product offerings.
- To streamline your checkout process.
- To conduct analytics (e.g., to enhance user experience on our website).
- To respond to your inquiries related to support, employment opportunities, or other requests.
- To send marketing and promotional materials, including information relating to products, services, sales, or promotions.
- For internal administrative purposes, as well as to manage our relationship with you.
- To detect security incidents and protect against malicious, deceptive, fraudulent, or illegal activity, including attempts to manipulate or violate our policies, procedures, or terms and conditions.
- To comply with legal obligations, to establish or exercise our rights, to defend against a legal claim, and to investigate, prevent, or take action regarding possible misconduct.
Sharing of Personal Information
In addition to the specific situations discussed elsewhere in this Policy, we disclose personal information in the following situations:
- Affiliates and Acquisitions: We may share your personal information with our corporate affiliates (e.g., parent company, sister companies, subsidiaries, joint ventures, or other companies under common control). If another company acquires (or proposes to acquire) our company, any of our affiliates, business, or our assets, we will also share your personal information with that company, including at the negotiation stage.
- Financial Companies: We may offer credit cards for some of our brands. If you apply for one of our brand credit cards, we transfer that information to the financial companies we partner with. Additionally, if you use one of our brand credit cards, we transfer transaction records to those financial companies as part of the program administration.
- Other Disclosures without Your Consent: We may disclose personal information in response to subpoenas, warrants, or court orders, or in connection with any legal process, or to comply with relevant laws. We may also share your personal information to establish or exercise our rights, to defend against a legal claim, to investigate, prevent, or take action regarding possible illegal activities, suspected fraud, safety of person or property, or a violation of our policies, or to comply with your request for the shipment of products to or the provision of services by a third-party intermediary.
- Public: Some of our websites provide the opportunity to post comments or reviews in a public forum. If you decide to submit information on these pages, that information may be publicly available.
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Service Providers: We share your personal information with service providers. Among other things, service providers may help us administer our website, support our loyalty programs, conduct surveys, provide technical support,
respond to complaints or other issues, and assist in the fulfillment of orders. - Baby, and/or Gift Registry: Some of our websites provide the opportunity to create public registries where you can indicate to others what types of products you might be interested in receiving. We share the information that you provide about your event (e.g., name, date, location, etc.) with the public to permit others to search for that information. In some cases,