Privacy Policy
What information do we collect?
We collect information from you when you register on the site, place an order, enter a contest or sweepstakes, respond to a survey or communication such as e-mail, or participate in another site feature.
When ordering or registering, we may ask you for your name, e-mail address, mailing address, phone number, credit card information or other information. You may, however, visit our site anonymously.
We also collect information about gift recipients so that we can fulfill the gift purchase. The information we collect about gift recipients is not used for marketing purposes.
Like many websites, we use “cookies” to enhance your experience and gather information about visitors and visits to our websites. Please refer to the “Do we use ‘cookies’?” section below for information about cookies and how we use them.
How do we use your information?
We may use the information we collect from you when you register, purchase products, enter a contest or promotion, respond to a survey or marketing communication, surf the website, or use certain other site features in the following ways:
To personalize your site experience and to allow us to deliver the type of content and product offerings in which you are most interested.
To allow us to better service you in responding to your customer service requests.
To quickly process your transactions.
To administer a contest, promotion, survey or other site feature.
If you have opted-in to receive our e-mail newsletter, we may send you periodic e-mails. If you would no longer like to receive promotional e-mail from us, please refer to the “How can you opt-out, remove or modify information you have provided to us?” section below. If you have not opted-in to receive e-mail newsletters, you will not receive these e-mails. Visitors who register or participate in other site features such as marketing programs and ‘members-only’ content will be given a choice whether they would like to be on our e-mail list and receive e-mail communications from us.
How do we protect visitor information?
We implement a variety of security measures to maintain the safety of your personal information. Your personal information is contained behind secured networks and is only accessible by a limited number of persons who have special access rights to such systems, and are required to keep the information confidential. When you place orders or access your personal information, we offer the use of a secure server. All sensitive/credit information you supply is transmitted via Secure Socket Layer (SSL) technology and then encrypted into our databases to be only accessed as stated above.
Do we use "cookies"?
Yes. Cookies are small files that a site or its service provider transfers to your computer’s hard drive through your Web browser (if you allow) that enables the site’s or service provider’s systems to recognize your browser and capture and remember certain information. For instance, we use cookies to help us remember and process the items in your shopping cart. They are also used to help us understand your preferences based on previous or current site activity, which enables us to provide you with improved services. We also use cookies to help us compile aggregate data about site traffic and site interaction so that we can offer better site experiences and tools in the future.
We may contract with third-party service providers to assist us in better understanding our site visitors. These service providers are not permitted to use the information collected on our be half except to help us conduct and improve our business.
You can choose to have your computer warn you each time a cookie is being sent, or you can choose to turn off all cookies. You do this through your browser (like Netscape Navigator or Internet Explorer) settings. Each browser is a little different, so look at your browser Help menu to learn the correct way to modify your cookies.
If you turn cookies off, you won’t have access to many features that make your site experience more efficient and some of our services will not function properly. However, you can still place orders over the telephone by contacting customer service.
Do we disclose the information we collect to outside parties?
We do not sell, trade, or otherwise transfer to outside parties your personally identifiable information unless we provide you with advance notice, except as described below. The term “outside parties” does not include website hosting partners and o ther parties who assist us in operating our website, conducting our business, or servicing you, so long as those parties agree to keep this information confidential. We may also release your information when we believe release is appropriate to comply with the law, enforce our site policies, or protect ours or others’ rights, property, or safety.
However, non-personally identifiable visitor information may be provided to other parties for marketing, advertising, or other uses.
How can you opt-out, remove or modify information
you have provided to us?
To modify your e-mail subscriptions, please let us know by contacting us via email: [email protected].
To delete all of your online account information from our database, you may also reach out to us using the same email address: [email protected].
Please note that we may maintain information about an individual sales transaction in order to service that transaction and for record keeping.
Third party links
In an attempt to provide you with increased value, we may include third-party links on our site. These linked sites have separate and independent privacy policies. We therefore have no responsibility or liability for the content and activities of these linked sites. Nonetheless, we seek to protect the integrity of our site and welcome any feedback about these linked sites (including if a specific link does not work)
California Residents Privacy Notice
In addition to the rights provided for above, the information contained in this section applies solely to those individuals who reside in the State of California. We adopt this notice to comply with the California Consumer Privacy Act of 2018 and California Privacy Rights Act of 2020 (together, the “CCPA”) and any terms defined in the CCPA have the same meaning when used in this Policy.
Personal information we collect
FundSmart Financial may collect, or has collected, the following categories of personal information from California residents within the last twelve (12) months:
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Identifiers:
First and last name; email address; phone number; home address; and other contact and personal identification information.
Personal information categories listed in the California Civ Code § 1798.80(e):
First and last name; phone number; home address;
Internet or other electronic activity information:
Cookie identifiers; pixel tags; embedded scripts; tags; IP address, device identifier, device type, operating system and Internet browser type, screen resolution, operating system name and version, device manufacturer and model, language, plug- ins, add-ons, and the language version of the Websites and Apps you are visiting; geolocation data, browsing history, time spent on the Platform, pages visited, links clicked, language preferences, patterns of use, and the pages that led or referred you to our Platform including individual Websites and Apps
Characteristics of protected classifications under California or federal law:
Date of birth; demographic information (e.g., nationality, gender)
Geolocation data:
Global Positioning System (“GPS”) data based on your IP address
Please note that because of the overlapping nature of certain of the categories of personal information identified above, which are required by state law, some of the personal information we collect may be reasonably classified under multiple categories.
Sensitive personal information. Certain of the personal information that we collect, as described above, may constitute “sensitive personal information” under California law, including:
- Precise geolocation
The specific types of personal information we collect are further detailed in Section 1 of this Privacy Policy. Personal information does not include information excluded from the CCPA’s scope.
FundSmart Financial will not retain any information we collect form you for longer than is reasonably necessary for the disclosed purpose of using such information. Our determination of precise retention periods will be based on (i) the length of time we have an ongoing relationship with you; (ii) whether there is a legal obligation to which we are subject; and (iii) whether retention is advisable in light of our legal position (such as in regard to applicable statutes of limitations, litigation or regulatory investigations).
8.2 Uses of personal information
FundSmart Financial may collect, use, or disclose personal information about California residents for purposes of carrying out the users request of this Privacy Policy.
8.3 Sources of personal information
FundSmart Financial may collect personal information about California residents from the categories of sources listed in Sections 1.3 and 2 of this Privacy Policy.
8.4 Disclosure of personal information
We may disclose your personal information to the categories of service providers and third parties we work with to fulfill your request, and in ways that are described in this policy
This includes disclosure of your personal information to service providers for a business purpose. When we disclose personal information for a business purpose, we enter a contract that describes the purpose and requires the recipient to both keep that personal information confidential and not to use it for any purpose except performing the contract. In the preceding twelve (12) months, we have disclosed each categories of personal information listed in Section 8(a), including the listed sensitive personal information, for a business purpose.
In addition, FundSmart Financial “sells”/”shares” certain personal information, as those terms are defined by the CCPA, for purposes of cross-contextual behavioral advertising, as that term is defined by the CCPA. Specifically, as with many online companies, FundSmart Financial partners with third-parties advertising platforms and similar providers to manage our marketing of FundSmart Financial on other platforms, where such advertising is based on your past visits to our Sites and Services. These third-party partners may use technologies, such as cookies and pixels, to gather information about your activities on the Sites and Services to deliver such advertising to you when you visit their platforms.
The CCPA requires us to identify the categories of personal information that we have “sold”/“shared” under the CCPA in the preceding twelve (12) months. In the last twelve (12) months, we have “sold”/”shared” the following categories of personal information to advertising partners for cross-context behavioral advertising purposes:
- Identifiers
- Internet or other electronic network activity information
- Personal information categories listed in the California Civ Code § 1798.80(e)
- Internet or other electronic activity information
8.5 Your California privacy rights
The CCPA provides California residents with specific privacy rights regarding their personal information. This section describes your CCPA rights and explains how to exercise those rights.
If you are a California resident, you have the right to make the following requests under applicable California law in relation to your personal information, subject to certain exceptions:
- Right to Know.You have the right to, up to twice in a 12-month period, request what personal information we collect, use, disclose, and/or sell, and to whom, as applicable. You may request either a report disclosing the general categories of the personal information we collect, or a report disclosing the specific pieces of personal information we collect.
- Right to Delete.You have the right to request, under certain circumstances, the deletion of your personal information that we collect.
- Right to Opt-Out of Sale or Sharing.You have the right to opt-out of the “sale”/“sharing” of your personal information, as those terms are defined under California law.
- Right to Limit Use and Disclosure.You have the right to limit the use or disclosure of your sensitive personal information to only the uses necessary for us to provide our products and services to you, or for certain other authorized purposes. We will not use or disclose your sensitive personal information after you have exercised your right unless you subsequently provide consent for the use of your sensitive personal information for additional purposes.
- Right to Correct. You have the right to request the correction of your inaccurate personal information.
- Right to Non-Discrimination. You have the right not to receive discriminatory treatment for the exercise of the privacy rights described above.
How to submit a request
You can exercise your rights by contacting us at [email protected] so that we may consider your request.
Any request you submit to us is subject to an identification and residency verification process as permitted by the CCPA. We will not fulfill your request unless you have provided sufficient information that enables us to reasonably verify that you are the consumer about whom we collected the personal information on. In order to verify you, you must provide us with first name, last name, and email address.
Requests by authorized agents. If you are a California resident, you may designate an authorized agent to make a request to access or a request to delete on your behalf. We will respond to your authorized agent’s request if they submit proof that they are authorized to be able to act on your behalf, or submit evidence you have provided them with power of attorney pursuant to California Probate Code section 4000 to 4465. We may deny requests from authorized agents who do not submit proof that they have been authorized by you to act on their behalf, or are unable to verify their identity
Household data. We currently do not collect household data. If we receive a request submitted by all members of a household, we will individually respond to each request. We will not be able to comply with any request by a member of a household under the age of 18, as we do not collect personal information from any person under the age of 18.
Responses.We will respond to your request within forty-five (45) days after receipt of a Verifiable Consumer Request for a period covering twelve (12) months and for no more than twice in a twelve-month period. FundSmart Financial reserves the right to extend the response time by an additional forty-five (45) days when reasonably necessary and provided consumer notification of the extension is made within the first forty-five (45) days.
These rights are subject to various exclusions and exceptions under California law and other applicable laws. In addition, if we are unable to verify your identity to a degree of certainty as required by the CCPA through any reasonable method, we will state that we are unable to verify in a written response to you along with a reason as to why there is no reasonable method by which we can verify your identity.
Direct marketing by third parties. FundSmart Financial does not disclose personal information to third parties for their own direct marketing purposes. However, California residents additionally have the right to request information regarding such practices under California’s “Shine the Light” law. If you are a California resident and would like to inquire further, please email [email protected]. We will continue to update our business practices as direct regulatory guidance becomes available.
8.6 Notice of Right to Opt-Out
As detailed above, FundSmart Financial “sells”/“shares” personal information with third parties for purposes of cross-context behavioral advertising, as those terms are defined by the CCPA.
If you wish to opt-out of the “sale”/“sharing” of the limited personal information that is gathered when you visit our Sites and Services for purposes of cross-context behavioral advertising, email us at [email protected].
Changes to our policy
If we decide to change our privacy policy, we will post those changes on this page. Policy changes will apply only to information collected after the date of the change. This policy was last modified on June 13, 2024.
Questions and feedback
We welcome your questions, comments, and concerns about privacy. Please send us any and all feedback pertaining to privacy, or any other issue.
Online Policy Only
This online privacy policy applies only to information collected through our website and not to information collected offline.
Your consent
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