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Warren Lotas LLC Privacy Notice

Last Updated: April 5, 2023

Introduction

This “Privacy Notice” describes the privacy practices of Warren Lotas LLC and our subsidiaries and affiliates (collectively “Warren Lotas,” “we,” “us,” or “our”) with respect to the information we collect on www.warrenlotas.com (the “Site”). By using our Site, you acknowledge the data handling policies outlined in this Privacy Notice. If you do not agree with our policies, please do not use our Site.

Updates to this Notice

We may update this Privacy Notice based upon evolving laws, regulations and industry standards, or as we may make changes to our Services. We will post changes to our Privacy Notice on this page, and encourage you to review our Privacy Notice when you use our Site to stay informed. If we make changes that materially alter your privacy rights, we will take commercially reasonable measures to inform you, consistent with the significance of the changes we make.  If you disagree with the changes to this Privacy Notice, you should discontinue your use of the Site.

Third Party Links

The Site may contain hyperlinks to other unaffiliated websites that may have information policies and practices different from ours. We have no control over those websites, are not responsible for their privacy policies, practices or content, and this Privacy Notice does not apply to them.

Children

Our Site is not directed to, and we do not knowingly collect Personal Information (defined below) from, anyone under the age of 13. If a parent or guardian becomes aware that his or her child has provided us with personal information, they should contact us. We will delete such information from our files as soon as reasonably practicable.

Note to International Users

The Site is hosted in the United States. If you are a user accessing our Services from any other region with laws or regulations governing personal data collection, use, and disclosure that differ from United States laws, please be advised that through your continued use of the Site, which is governed by US law, you are transferring your Personal Information to the United States and you consent to that transfer.

Personal Information We Collect 

Information You Provide Us

We collect certain information from you by which you may be personally identified (“Personal Information”), such as your full name, email address, address, and credit card number. You may provide us with your Personal Information when you purchase something from our store or when you sign up to receive marketing communications from us.

Information We Automatically Collect

When you use our Site, we may automatically collect certain information about your device, including information about your web browser, IP address, time zone, and some of the trackers that are installed on your device using cookies and similar technologies. Additionally, as you browse the Site, we may collect information about the individual web pages and services that you view, what websites or search terms referred you to the Site, and information about how you interact with the Site. We may automatically collect this information using the following technologies:

  • “Cookies” are data files that are placed on your device or computer and often include an anonymous unique identifier. For more information about cookies, and how to disable cookies, visit http://www.allaboutcookies.org.
  • “Log files” track actions occurring on the Site, and collect data including your IP address, browser type, Internet service provider, referring/exit pages, and date/time stamps.
  • “Web beacons”, “tags”, and “pixels” are electronic files used to record information about how you browse the Site.

How We Use Cookies

We use Cookies to track how you use our Site by providing usage statistics. Cookies are also used to deliver our information (including updates) and allow account authentication to you based upon your browsing history and previous visits to the Site. Information supplied to us using Cookies helps us to provide a better online experience to our visitors and users and send marketing communications to them, as the case may be. We may combine the information we collect from Cookies with Personal Information that we have collected from you to learn more about how you use our Site to improve it.

Types of Cookies

We use both session Cookies (which expire once you close your web browser) and persistent Cookies (which stay on your device until you delete them). To make it easier for you to understand why we need them, the Cookies we use on our Site can be grouped into the following categories:

  • Strictly Necessary: These Cookies are necessary for the Site to work properly. They include any essential authentication and authorization Cookies for our Site.
  • Functionality: These Cookies enable technical performance and allow us to remember the choices you make while browsing our Site, including any preferences you set. They also include sign-in and authentication Cookies and IDs that enable you to return without additional sign-in.
  • Performance/Analytical: These Cookies allow us to collect certain information about how you navigate the Site and App running on your device. They help us understand which areas you use and what we can do to improve them.
  • Targeting: These Cookies are used to deliver relevant information related to our Site to an identified machine or other device (not a named or otherwise identifiable person) which has previously been used to visit our Site. Some of these types of Cookies on our Site are operated by third parties with our permission and are used to identify advertising sources that are effectively driving customers to our Site.

 

Below is a list of cookies that we use and their descriptions. We’ve listed them here so you that you are able to make an informed decision as to whether or not to opt out.

  • _session_id, unique token, sessiona: Allows Shopify to store information about your session (referrer, landing page, etc).
  • _shopify_visit: No data held; persistent for 30 minutes from the last visit; used by our website provider’s internal stats tracker to record the number of visits.
  • _shopify_uniq: No data held, expires midnight (relative to the visitor) of the next day; counts the number of visits to a store by a single customer.
  • Cart: Unique token, persistent for 2 weeks; stores information about the contents of your cart.
  • _secure_session_id: Unique token, sessional
  • _storefront_digest: Unique token, indefinite if the shop has a password; used to determine if the current visitor has access.

How to Control and Delete Cookies

Cookies can be controlled, blocked or restricted through your web browser settings. Information on how to do this can be found within the Help section of your browser. All Cookies are browser specific. Therefore, if you use multiple browsers or devices to access websites, you will need to manage your Cookie preferences across these environments.

Find out how to manage Cookies on popular browsers:

If you are using a mobile device to access the Site, you will need to refer to your instruction manual or other help/settings resource to find out how you can control Cookies on your device.  For more information about cookies, and how to disable cookies, visit http://www.allaboutcookies.org.

Please note that if you restrict, disable or block any or all Cookies from your web browser or mobile or other device, the Site may not operate properly, and you may not have access to our services available through the Site. We are not be responsible for your inability to use our Site or any degraded function you may experience that may be caused by your settings and choices regarding Cookies.

How We Use Your Personal Information

We use the Personal Information we collect from you in the following ways:

  • To provide and maintain our Site;
  • To process your orders;
  • For the performance of a contract and the development, compliance and undertaking of any contract you may have with us;
  • To personalize your experience on the Site;
  • To manage your requests;
  • To process your transactions;
  • To communicate with you, including through marketing communications;
  • To screen for and investigate potential risks and fraud in our systems;
  • To optimize our Site;
  • To comply with legal obligations; and
  • To establish, exercise, or defend a legal claim.

Sharing your Personal Information

We disclose your Personal Information:

  • To our affiliates for the purposes described in this Privacy Notice;
  • To our third-party service providers, to facilitate services they provide to us. These can include providers of services such as data analysis, payment processing, order fulfillment, information technology and related infrastructure provision, user support service, email delivery, auditing, and other services;
  • To companies we work with in order to provide you with any services you have requested from us; and
  • To comply with applicable laws, regulations, respond to subpoenas, search warrants or other lawful request for information we receive, or to otherwise protect our rights.

We may disclose your Personal Information as part of a corporate business transaction such as a merger or acquisition, divestiture, sale of Warren Lotas’ assets, or in the event of insolvency, bankruptcy, or receivership. In these cases, Personal Information could be transferred to third-parties as a business asset. We may also share information with banks and similar entities for purposes of transferring loans in connection with your device financing.

Third Party Services

Shopify & Payment Processing

Our store is hosted on Shopify Inc. They provide us with the online e-commerce platform that allows us to sell our products and services to you. Your data is stored through Shopify’s data storage, databases and the general Shopify application. Shopify stores your data on a secure server behind a firewall. If you choose a direct payment gateway to complete your purchase, then Shopify stores your credit card data. It is encrypted through the Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard (PCI-DSS). Your purchase transaction data is stored only as long as is necessary to complete your purchase transaction. After that is complete, your purchase transaction information is deleted. All direct payment gateways adhere to the standards set by PCI-DSS.

For more insight, you may also want to read Shopify’s Terms of Service at: (https://www.shopify.com/legal/terms); or their Privacy Policy at (https://www.shopify.com/legal/privacy).

Analytics Providers

We use Google Analytics and other third party analytics providers (“Analytics Providers”) to collect information about how your use our Site. Analytics Providers use Cookies in order to collect demographic and interest-level information and usage information from users that visit the Site, including information about the pages where users enter and exit the Site and what pages users view on the Site, time spent, browser, operating system, and IP address. Analytics Providers use the information they collect from the Site and other websites to share with us and other website operators’ information about users including age range, gender, geographic regions, general interests, and details about devices used to visit the Site and other websites and purchase items.

For more information regarding Google’s use of cookies, collection and use of information, see their privacy policy here: https://policies.google.com/privacy?hl=en The Google Analytics Opt-Out Browser Add-On is available at: https://tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout

Privacy Technology Practices

Do Not Track Signals

Some browsers have incorporated “do not track” features to enable users to make privacy and security choices. By using these settings, your browser may send a signal to our Site not to collect tracking information. At this time, the Site does not respond to “do not track” signals, if received.

Data Security

We have implemented measures designed to secure your Personal Information from accidental loss and from unauthorized access, use, alteration, and disclosure. All information you provide to us is stored on our secure servers behind firewalls.

The safety and security of your information also depends on you. Where we have given you (or where you have chosen) a password for access to certain parts of our Site, you are responsible for keeping this password confidential. We ask you not to share your password with anyone. We urge you to be careful about giving out information in public areas of the Site like in customer reviews.

Unfortunately, the transmission of information via the internet is not completely secure. Although we do our best to protect your Personal Information, we cannot guarantee the security of your Personal Information transmitted to our Site. Any transmission of Personal Information is at your own risk. We are not responsible for circumvention of any privacy settings or security measures contained on the Site.

Data Retention

We retain your Personal Information for as long as we have a business relationship with you. The criteria used to determine our retention periods include:

  • The length of time we have an ongoing relationship with you and provide the Site and our services to you);
  • Whether there is a legal obligation to which we are subject (for example, certain laws require us to keep records of your transactions for a certain period of time before we can delete them); or
  • Whether retention is advisable in light of our legal position (such as in regard to applicable statutes of limitations, litigation or regulatory investigations).

Your personal data will be deleted or anonymized three years after your last activity with our business. We may retain your account information and order information for our records for up to 7 years after your last transaction. We reserve the right to retain anonymized and aggregate information indefinitely.

How to Opt Out of Email Communications

If after you opt-in to receive marketing communications from us you change your mind, you may withdraw your consent for us to contact you by contacting us at support@warrenlotas.com or by clicking the link provided in the marketing emails you receive.

Questions and Contact Information

If you would like to access, correct, amend or delete any Personal Information we have about you, register a complaint, or simply want more information, contact our support team at support@warrenlotas.com


 

California Consumer Privacy Rights

This section outlines data privacy rights afforded to California residents and certain disclosures that are required by the California Consumer Privacy Act, as amended by the California Privacy Rights Act (CCPA).

Categories of Personal Information Disclosed

We have disclosed the following categories of Personal Information as listed in the CCPA to third parties for our operational business purposes within the preceding 12 months:

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Category

Examples

Collected

Business Purpose Disclosures

Sale or Share with Third Parties

A: Identifiers

A real name, alias, postal address, unique personal identifier, online identifier, Internet Protocol address, email address, account name, Social Security number, driver's license number, passport number, or other similar identifiers.

YES

Data analytics providers; advertising networks; payment processors

YES

B: Personal information categories listed in the California Customer Records statute (Cal. Civ. Code § 1798.80(e)).

A name, signature, address, telephone number, bank account number, credit card number, debit card number

 

YES

Data analytics providers; advertising networks; payment processors

YES

C: Protected classification characteristics under California or federal law.

Age (40 years or older), race, color, ancestry, national origin, citizenship, religion or creed, marital status, medical condition, physical or mental disability, sex sexual orientation, veteran or military status, genetic information

NO

N/A

NO

D: Commercial Information

Records of personal property, products or services purchased, obtained, or considered, or other purchasing or consuming histories or tendencies.

YES

Data analytics providers; advertising networks; payment processors

NO

E: Biometric Information

Genetic, physiological, behavioral, and biological characteristics, or activity patterns used to extract a template or other identifier or identifying information, such as, fingerprints, faceprints, and voiceprints, iris or retina scans, keystroke, gait, or other physical patterns, and sleep, health, or exercise data.

NO

None

NO

F: Internet or other similar network activity

Browsing history, search history, information on a consumer's interaction with a website, application, or advertisement.

YES

Data analytics providers; advertising networks

YES

G: Geolocation Data

Physical location or movements.

NO

N/A

NO

H: Sensory Data

Audio, electronic, visual, thermal, olfactory, or similar information.

NO

None

NO

I: Professional or employment-related information

Current or past job history or performance evaluations.

NO

None

NO

J: Non-public education information (per the Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act (20 U.S.C. Section 1232g, 34 C.F.R. Part 99)

Education records directly related to a student maintained by an educational institution or party acting on its behalf, such as grades, transcripts, class lists, student schedules, student identification codes, student financial Information, or student disciplinary records.

NO

None

NO

K: Inferences drawn from other personal information.

Profile reflecting a person's preferences, characteristics, psychological trends, predispositions, behavior, attitudes, intelligence, abilities, and aptitudes.

YES

Data analytics providers; advertising networks

YES

Right to Know

You can request information about how we have collected, used and shared your Personal Information during the past 12 months.

Right to Access

You can request a copy of the Personal Information that we maintain about you.

Right to Delete

You may request that we delete any of your personal data that we collected from you and retained, subject to certain exceptions.

Right to Correct

You may request that we correct any of your personal data that has become outdated or needs correction for any reason.

Exercising Your Rights

To access or delete specific pieces of Personal Information we will need to verify your identity to the degree of certainty required by law. As permitted by applicable law, any request you submit to us is subject to an identification and residency verification process (a “Verifiable Consumer Request”). We will not fulfill your request unless you have provided sufficient information for us to reasonably verify you are the consumer about whom we collected Personal Information. California residents may exercise their rights described above by emailing us at support@warrenlotas.com with subject line “Verifiable Consumer Request.”

Only you, or someone legally authorized to act on your behalf (an “Authorized Agent”), may make a request to know or delete related to your personal data. We require Authorized Agents to provide written authorization confirming they may submit a request on your behalf. You may only submit a request to know twice within a 12-month period. We endeavor to substantively respond to a Verifiable Consumer Request within forty-five (45) days of its receipt, unless we require an extension. If we reasonably require an extension, we will inform you of the reason and extension period.

Once we receive your request and confirm your identity, we will review your request. We may deny your request if retaining the information is proper and necessary or if an exception allowing us to retain the information applies.

You may submit your request to us by emailing use at support@warrenlotas.com with the subject line “Verifiable Consumer Request, or by calling us at (424) 355-0144.

Non-Discrimination

We will not discriminate against you for exercising any of your data subject rights. We do not charge a fee to process or respond to your Verifiable Consumer Request unless it is excessive, repetitive, or manifestly unfounded. If we determine that the request warrants a fee, we will tell you why we made that decision and provide you with a cost estimate before completing your request.

Shine The Light Law

California Civil Code sections 1798.83 permits users of our Site that are California residents to request certain information regarding our disclosure of Personal Information to third parties for their direct marketing purposes.  To make such a request, please send an email to support@warrenlotas.com with the subject line “Request for California Privacy Information” or contact us at the contact information provided below.   

Contact Us

If you have any questions regarding this Privacy Notice, please contact us at support@warrenlotas.com.