BEFORE USING THIS SITE, PLEASE READ THIS PRIVACY POLICY (THIS “ POLICY” ) CAREFULLY. BY VISITING AND USING THIS WEB SITE (THE “ SITE” ) OPERATED AND CONTROLLED BY THREAD ADVENTURES LLC, (“ THREAD ADVENTURES” “ WE” OR “ US” ), YOU ACKNOWLEDGE THAT YOU UNDERSTAND AND AGREE TO THIS POLICY.

 

Your use of and access to the Site is expressly conditioned on your acceptance of this Policy. If you do not or cannot agree with any part of the Policy, you may not use or access the Site. Please note that this Policy only applies to the information that we collect via the Site. Please review the contents of this Policy frequently to see if this Policy has been revised (as noted by the revision date above), since we reserve the right to modify or amend this Policy at any time, and will post any revised Policy here.

 

YOUR PERSONALLY-IDENTIFIABLE INFORMATION

The privacy of your non-public personally-identifiable information (“ PII” ) is important to us. We use reasonable safeguards, described below under the section titled “ Security” , to protect the privacy and confidentiality of your PII. This Policy discusses information we collect and the manner in which it is used. We reserve the right, at any time, to add to, change, update or modify this Policy as provided below.

 

SECURITY

We use reasonable, good-faith efforts to maintain physical, electronic and procedural safeguards to guard your PII.

 

WHILE WE USE REASONABLE EFFORTS TO PROTECT YOUR PII, AS DESCRIBED IN THIS POLICY, ELECTRONIC COMMUNICATIONS AND ELECTRONICALLY-STORED INFORMATION AND DATA ARE NOT COMPLETELY SECURE, AND WE CANNOT ENSURE AND DO NOT GUARANTEE OR WARRANT THE SECURITY OF ANY INFORMATION YOU TRANSMIT OR OTHERWISE PROVIDE TO US, AND YOU DO SO AT YOUR OWN RISK.

 

INFORMATION COLLECTION

If you do nothing during your visit but browse through the Site and read the information contained on the Site, we may gather certain information about your visit automatically. This information does not identify you personally. We may automatically gather the Internet domain (for example, “ companyx.com” ) and IP address (an IP address is a number that is automatically assigned to your computer when you connect to the Internet) from which you access Site, the site from which you arrived at the Site, the date and time you access Site and the pages you visit.

 

We may collect PII from you when you voluntarily provide it to us through a Thread Adventures Site, such as when ordering services/products and accessing account-specific or other profile information. We may collect information that we receive from others involved in your transactions, such as credit card processors and shippers. We limit use of such information to the purposes for which the information was provided, except as described below. However, we reserve the right to use such information for marketing/product development research and other similar purposes and/or to contact you regarding additional services or products that you may find useful.

 

We may also release your information (including PII) to others when we believe, in good faith, that such release is reasonably necessary to (i) comply with law, (ii) enforce or apply the terms of any of our user or client agreements, or (iii) protect the rights, property or safety of Thread Adventures , Thread Adventures’ users, or others. We may also sell, transfer and disclose your information (including PII) as part of a business divestiture, sale, merger, or acquisition of all or a part of our business.

 

If you send an electronic mail (e-mail) message that includes PII, for example, in an e-mail message containing an inquiry, we will use that information to respond to your inquiry. Remember that e-mail is not necessarily secure against interception or other disclosure. If your communication is very sensitive, or includes information such as, without limitation, your bank account, debit or credit/charge card information, or social security number, you should not send it in an e-mail.

 

We may use “ cookies” to improve Site functionality and ease of use, and our service to you. Cookies keep a record of your current session, as well as prior visits and your user and password information. If you are not comfortable with this use, you may configure your browser to be notified when cookies are to be received and to provide you with the option of refusing cookies. However, refusing cookies may limit or eliminate your ability to use the Site in its entirety.

 

USE AND SHARING OF INFORMATION

We may use and share your PII, including your email address, as follows:

 

Information Use:

 

• We will use your email address to register you to use our site and to communicate with you regarding your requested products and services, and may also use a personal question and answer for verification purposes.

• We will not share your email address with third parties unless you authorize us to do so, except as provided in this Policy.

• We will send you information, confirmation, reminders and/or updates regarding your activities and transactions with us.

• We may send you marketing information, including information about third party products or services that might be of interest, but will give an option to opt out of receiving future marketing emails by clicking on a link at the bottom of each marketing email we send we will ask unaffiliated third parties to whom we provide your PII to do the same, but we cannot ensure their compliance.

• Our employees, contractors and agents may view and use information that you provide us (including PII) in order to perform their jobs and service you. We do not authorize access to PII about you to those individuals who do not need to know that information in order to provide products or services to you, except as provided in this paragraph and in the section below titled "Information Sharing".
 

Information Sharing:

We may disclose any information that we collect about you (including PII) to our affiliates or non-affiliated third parties, except where prohibited by law. We also may disclose information we collect about you (including PII) to the following types of non-affiliated companies that perform services on our behalf:

 

• Financial service providers, such as companies engaged in banking and credit card processing.

• Non-financial companies such as envelope stuffers, email distributors, shippers and other fulfillment service providers.

 

CHILDREN

We do not knowingly collect or solicit PII from children under the age of 13. If you are under 13 years of age, you may not use the Site without providing us with express parental or legal guardian consent, and please talk to a parent or legal guardian about what sites are appropriate for you to use.

 

CHANGES TO THIS POLICY

We reserve the right to amend or modify this Policy at any time with or without notice to you. Any amendments or modifications to this Policy will be posted on the Site with a new revision date and will become effective immediately upon posting. If you have provided us with your email address and permission to contact you, we will also send notification to that email address that this Policy has been changed. Your continued use of the Site following the posting of a revised version of this Policy or our sending of the email notice will constitute your acceptance of the revised Policy. If you do not agree to the most current Policy, you may not use the Site.