Effective May 2, 2019
Birdy’s Closet, LLC (“Birdy’s Closet”) is committed to protecting the privacy of our users' personal information. To better protect your privacy, we have instituted the security and privacy practices outlined in this policy. We provide this notice explaining our information practices and the choices you can make about the way your information is used.
Information Birdy’s Closet Collects and How It Is Used
Birdy’s Closet collects certain information to enable you to take full advantage of the Birdy’s Closet System when you register at our site, interact with Institutions, participate in our contests, surveys, promotions, or activities, or otherwise communicate with us. If you choose, you can visit the Birdy’s Closet website without providing us with any information about yourself. Birdy’s Closet collects both personally identifiable and non-personally identifiable information from users of its website and mobile apps.
When you register to use Birdy’s Closet, we require you to give us contact information (such as your name, e-mail address, and physical address) and demographic information (such as your age and gender). Also, if you choose to interact with a Seller, we may provide information regarding you current location to your selected Seller. If you are a Seller, when you register to use Birdy’s Closet, we require you to give us contact information (such as your name, e-mail address, telephone number and the physical address(es) of the place(s) of business that you are registering for use with Birdy’s Closet), and other commercially relevant information. Also, Birdy’s Closet, or a designated third-party payment service may require your email address or financial information
We may require additional information for specific promotions or contests running on our site.
We use the contact information we collect to connect you with your selected Sellers, and to send you, if you so choose, information about our company, newsletters, promotional materials, and information from our Institutions. We use the information Sellers provide to let Buyers know important facts about the Seller, such as what products you have available and if there are other supplementary terms and conditions placed on the sale of those products.
We may also use the information we collect, in combination with outside records, to notify you about important changes to the website, new Birdy’s Closet services and products, and special offers and information we think you'll find valuable.
We may send you information in conjunction with third-party partners that we think is relevant to your interests.
We use information gathered when you elect to interact with a Seller to enable the Seller to process your interaction, to enable the Seller to timely interact with your interaction, to notify you of your interaction status, and to enable Sellers to understand various metrics regarding the effectiveness of their responses. A Seller customer care representative or a representative of a third party contractor may contact you in order to interact with you or to provide information you requested.
We may collect certain non-personally identifiable information about you when you visit our site, such as the type of web browser you are using (e.g., Internet Explorer, Firefox, Safari), the type of PC operating system you are using (e.g. Apple OS X, Microsoft Windows, Ubuntu), the type of mobile operating system you are using (e.g. Android, iOS), the referring site from which you came (e.g., a partner site), and the domain name of your internet service provider (e.g., Comcast, Earthlink, Spectrum).
We use the non-personally identifiable information that we collect in the aggregate to improve the design and content of our site and mobile apps. We also use this information to analyze site and mobile app usage.
Disclosure of Information to Outside Parties
To process your information, we will need to share some of the personally identifiable information you provided (e.g., contact information, your current location, and information you provide) with Sellers.
If you choose to receive promotions, newsletters, and/or other types of correspondence from us, the correspondence that you receive will originate from Birdy’s Closet or from our affiliated Institutions and your personally identifiable information will continue to be solely maintained by Birdy’s Closet.
To help you identify when you are on the Birdy’s Closet website or using a Birdy’s Closet-branded mobile app, we place our logo in the upper left corner to indicate that you are interacting with Birdy’s Closet.
You authorize Birdy’s Closet to collect and share with our payments provider Dwolla, Inc. your personal information including email address and financial information, and you are responsible for the accuracy and completeness of that data. You must be at least 18 years of age to use Dwolla’s payment system. Dwolla’s Privacy Policy is available here.
Birdy’s Closet may be obligated to disclose personally identifiable information to law enforcement or agencies, even though such agencies may not comply with the terms of our privacy policy. Birdy’s Closet will disclose information to such agencies in response to legal process or when we believe in good faith that the law requires it, for example, in response to a court order, subpoena, or a law enforcement agency's request.
Finally, Birdy’s Closet may provide aggregate statistics about our customers, sales, traffic patterns, and related website and mobile app information to Merchant/Service Providers, partners, or to the press. Aggregate statistics contain only non-personally identifiable information.
Management of Do Not Track Requests
When you browse the web, you may send a request to websites not to collect or track your browsing data. However, what happens to your data depends on how a website responds to the request that you send. Many websites will still collect and use your browsing data to improve security, provide content, services, ads and recommendations on their websites, and generate reporting statistics. Most websites and web services, including Birdy's Closet, don't change their behavior when they receive a Do Not Track request.
Information Birdy’s Closet Partners Collect
Our website and mobile apps contains links to other websites whose information privacy practices may be different than ours. You should consult the other sites' privacy policies, as we have no control over information that you may submit to them or that third parties collect on those sites.
We may offer promotions or content that is sponsored by, or co-branded with, identified third parties. By virtue of these relationships, these third parties may obtain personally identifiable information that you submit. Birdy’s Closet has no control over the third party's use of this information.
Birdy’s Closet’s use of Cookies
Birdy’s Closet’s website uses cookies, a technology that stores small pieces of information on your hard drive, to personalize content and keep track of your interactions during your visit. Each time your browser visits a website, the site sends all cookies relevant to that website; cookies are used to maintain a session between you and the web server.
Commitment to the Security of Your Information
The personally identifiable information you provide and we collect is stored within databases that we control directly or through our Service Providers. As we deem appropriate, we use security measures consistent with industry standards, such as firewalls, to protect your personally identifiable information. We also use industry standard encryption technology to protect credit card and password information. However, since no security system is impenetrable, we cannot guarantee the security of our databases, nor can we guarantee that information you supply will not be intercepted while being transmitted to us over the Internet.
Your information may be transferred to, and maintained on, computers located outside of your state, province, or country where the privacy laws may not be as protective as those where you live. If you are located outside the United States and choose to provide information to us, please be aware that we will transfer personally identifiable information to the United States and process and store it there. By submitting your personally identifiable information to us, you consent to having your personal data transferred to, processed, and stored in the United States.
You will create a user ID and a password when you register. Your user ID and password may only be used by you and: a) The members of your household if you are a Seller; and/or, b) Your authorized agents if you are an Institution. You are solely responsible for maintaining and protecting the confidentiality of your user ID and password, and are solely and fully responsible for all activities on the Website undertaken by those using your user ID and password.
How to Update/Change Your Preferences
Birdy’s Closet may send communications, promotional information, and/or newsletters to our registrants. You can choose to not receive communications from us. To review and update the personally identifiable and other account information that we collect and maintain about you, including options for communications, news, and special offers, either: 1) Log-in to the Birdy’s Closet website and visit your “User Information” webpage where you can update certain information (such as your user ID and password) and unsubscribe from receiving specific types of email messages and telephone calls. You cannot, however, unsubscribe from receiving certain emails, such as account status and billing related emails; or, 2) Via our mobile app, select “Settings” and “About” where you will find a link directing you to the “User Information” webpage in your mobile browser.
Changes to Privacy Policy
If we materially change our privacy policy, we will post changes on this page so that you are always aware of what information we collect, how we use it, and under what circumstances we disclose it. We will also post a notice on our homepage that our privacy policy has been changed.
Contact Us
You may contact Birdy’s Closet regarding this Privacy Policy via email here.