PRIVACY POLICY
Our Commitment
Your privacy is important to us. To better protect your privacy we provide this notice informing you of our intent to collect personal information, explaining our online information practices and informing you of the choices you can make about the way your information is collected and used. To make this notice easy to find, we make it available on our homepage and at every point where personally identifiable information may be requested.
Information We Collect
This notice applies to all information collected or submitted on the Blue Thumb website. On some pages, you can order products, make requests, and register to receive materials. When you do this, the types of personal information collected at these pages are:
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- Your name
- Your postal address
- Your email address
- Your phone number
- Your credit/debit card information
- The product(s) you ordered and the amount(s) paid
- Your Internet service provider
- The web page from which you came
- The pages you visited on our site
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On some pages, you can submit information about other people. For example, if you order a gift online and want it sent directly to the recipient, you will need to submit the recipient's address. In this circumstance, the types of personal information collected are:
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- The recipient's name
- The recipient's address
- The recipient's phone number
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Blue Thumb may receive personal information from third parties. Blue Thumb may also from time to time share some of your personal information with third parties. How we use this information, ways to correct your information or ways to remove your personal information are outlined below.
How We Use Information & How You Can Opt-Out
Blue Thumb respects the privacy needs and concerns of our customers. It is our goal to provide you with an enjoyable and satisfying shopping experience, and to meet and hopefully, exceed your expectations. You can correct or remove all personally identifiable information we collect and maintain by contacting us. We use this procedure to better safeguard your information.
We process and confirm your order(s) with the information we collect. The information we collect is used to improve your shopping experience by making our website easier and more enjoyable to use.
The information we collect may be used to send you catalogs, postcards and/or emails about our products and services, as well as special promotions or upcoming events for Blue Thumb. If you do not want to receive mailings and/or emails from Blue Thumb, just let us know by contacting us.
We may share your name, addresses and/or email addresses with contractors Blue Thumb hires to assist us in making improvements to our website. Blue Thumb requires that such companies keep all such information confidential and use it solely for the purpose of making improvements to our website. If you do not want us to share your name, address and/or email address with these contractors, just let us know by contacting us
We may share name, address, email address and order(s) information with cooperative database companies like the Epsilon, Wiland, Datalogix or Oracle Advertising. When we do this, we do not share any credit/debit card information. These cooperative database companies use the information we provide to select names and addresses from their databases to whom we mail our Blue Thumb catalogs. If you do not want us to share your name and address with cooperative database companies, just let us know by contacting us
We contract with a third-party service provider to place our advertising messages on other websites. This provider may collect anonymous information about your visits to our website, and your interaction with our products and services. They may also use information about your visits to this and other websites to target advertisements for goods and services. This anonymous information is collected through the use of a pixel tag, which is industry-standard technology used by most major websites. No personally identifiable information is collected or used in this process.
Notwithstanding the foregoing, we will not share with any third parties your text messaging originator opt-in data and consent.
In Regard to Google
Blue Thumb makes use of Google Analytics Demographics and Interest Reporting. Blue Thumb may also make use of other Google Analytics for Display Advertising features, including Remarketing, Google Display Network Impression Reporting and/or the DoubleClick Campaign Manager integration.
We are required by Google to disclose the following information to you in our Privacy Statement in connection with our use of any Google Analytics for Display Advertising features on the Blue Thumb Site:
You may opt-out of Google Analytics for Display Advertising or customize Google Display Network ads by using the Google Ads Settings page. You may also prevent your data from being collected and used by Google Analytics by opting out through the use of the Google Analytics Opt-out Browser Add-on.
If the Blue Thumb website makes use of the Google Analytics for Display Advertising Remarketing feature, Blue Thumb will use such Remarketing features to advertise online and third-party vendors, including Google, may show Blue Thumb ads on sites across the Internet.
Blue Thumb and third-party vendors, including Google, may use first-party cookies (such as the Google Analytics cookies) and third-party cookies (such as the DoubleClick cookie) together to (a) inform, optimize and serve ads based on a user's past visits to the Blue Thumb site, and/or (b) report how your ad impressions, other uses of ad services, and interactions with these ad impressions and ad services are related to visits to the Blue Thumb site. This website also uses cookies to help keep track of items you put in your shopping cart, including when you have abandoned your cart, and this information is used to determine when to send cart reminder messages via text or SMS.
Data from Google Analytics Demographics and Interest Reporting may be utilized by Blue Thumb to help recognize and understand user preferences, to make improvements to the Blue Thumb site, to choose content and advertising to display to you, and for other business purposes that will allow Blue Thumb to better serve you.
Data Security
Unauthorized use of this website may give rise to a claim for damages and/or be a criminal offense. Any connection or usage of the site done outside of the parameters of normal use is strictly prohibited, including but not limited to, data scraping, website monitoring, and load testing, without the, expressed written consent of Blue Thumb.
To prevent unauthorized access, maintain data accuracy, and ensure the correct use of information, we have put in place appropriate physical, electronic, and managerial procedures to safeguard and secure the information we collect online.
We use the latest technology in online security such as site identification and data encryption. With site identification, your browser automatically ensures that you are connected only to our website. If a problem arises, your browser will alert you to the potential loss of security.
The strict data encryption that we use hides sensitive information like your name, address, and credit card information. Our ordering process is protected by the Secure Sockets Layer (SSL) protocol, which encrypts your information and confirms the identity of Blue Thumb server before allowing your shopping cart to be checked out. Modern browsers support the SSL protocol. We recommend that you use the latest browsers to ensure that you are protected by advances in security technology.
Our Commitment to Children's Privacy
Protecting the privacy of the very young is especially important. For that reason, we never collect or maintain information at our website from those we actually know are under 13, and no part of our website is structured to attract anyone under 13.
How You Can Access or Correct Your Information
You can access all your personally identifiable information that we collect online and maintain this information by contacting us. We use this procedure to better safeguard your information.
You can correct factual errors in your personally identifiable information by sending us a request that credibly shows error.
Unauthorized use of this website may give rise to a claim for damages and/or be a criminal offense. Any connection or usage of the site done outside of the parameters of normal use is strictly prohibited-including but not limited to: data scraping, website monitoring, load testing-without the expressed written consent of Blue Thumb.