Black-Owned Brooklyn ("we", "us", "our") respects your concerns about privacy. This privacy notice (the “Privacy Policy”) discloses the privacy practices for www.blackownedbrooklyn.com (the “Site”).
What does this Privacy Policy cover?
This privacy notice applies solely to information collected by this Site. It will notify you of the following:
What personally identifiable information (“personal data”) is collected from you through the Site, how it is used and with whom it may be shared.
What choices are available to you regarding the use of your data.
Security of personal data.
How you can reach out to us with any concerns regarding your personal data.
Information Collection, Use, and Sharing
We may collect personal data that you choose to provide to us through the Site, including, but not limited to, your first and last name, address city and state, e-mail address, such as when you:
Sign up to receive news and updates on the Site;
Sign up to a feature that we offer on the Site and you provide your personal data in connection with that feature;
Attend an event that we or one of our business partners has organized;
Communicate with us (for example, on a social media platform or by sending us an email);
Respond to a survey.
Our web servers may log information such as your operating system type, browser type, domain, and other system settings, as well as the language your system uses and the country and time zone where your device is located. The web server logs may also record information such as the address of the web page that referred you to our Sites and the IP address of the device you use to connect to the Internet. They may also log information about your interaction with the Sites, such as which pages you visit. To control which web servers collect information by automated means, we may place tags called “web beacons” — small files that link web pages to particular web servers and their cookies. We may also collect information from your browser, such as your browsing history, and use it in conjunction with data gathered from forms and e-mails to help us understand and respond to your needs.
Where the information gathered is completely anonymised, the information will not constitute personal data. Where your personal data is not in an anonymous form, our legal basis for processing your personal data in this way, is that it is in our legitimate interest to continually evaluate that personal data in operating and improving the Site (and to ensure that the content we provide are relevant to the market) that is not overridden by your interests, rights and freedoms to protect personal data about you.
Social Media Widgets
The Site includes social media functions, such as Instagram and Facebook widgets. These widgets may collect information about which pages you visit on the Site and the IP address of the device you use to connect to the Internet. The widgets may also set a cookie to ensure the features are functioning properly.
Social media functions and widgets are hosted either by a third party or directly on the Site. Your interactions with the social media functions and widgets located on the Site are governed by the privacy policies of the companies that provide them. If you use any of the social media functions or widgets on our Site, we strongly suggest you review the privacy policies of the companies that provide those functions and features.
Information That We Obtain From Third Parties
Information that we collect from third parties will generally consist of publicly available profile information (such as your preferences and interests), for example from public social media posts.
Personal Data that we do not knowling collect or solicit
We do not knowingly collect or solicit personal data from anyone under the age of 13 (or under the age of 16 in the European Union). If you are under 13 (or 16 where applicable), please do not sign up to receive news and updates on the site or otherwise send us any personal data about yourself to us. If we learn that we have collected personal data from a child under age 13 (or 16 where applicable), we will delete that information as quickly as possible. If you believe that a child under 13 (or 16 where applicable) may have provided us personal data, please contact us at team@blackownedbrooklyn.com.
Will You Share Any of the Personal Data that You Receive?
We may share your personal data with third parties as described in this section:
Affiliated Businesses: In certain situations, businesses or third party websites we’re affiliated with may sell or provide products or services to you through or in connection with the Site (either alone or jointly with us). We have no control over the policies and practices of third party websites or businesses as to privacy or anything else, so if you choose to take part in any transaction or service relating to an affiliated website or business, please review all such business’ or websites’ policies.
Our Agents: We employ other companies and people, such as vendors and third party service providers, who work on our behalf and provide us with services related to the purposes described in this Privacy Policy. These parties include:
Email service providers
Payment processors (e.g. to receive and process your credit card transactions for us)
Fraud prevention service providers
Analytics service providers
Staff augmentation and contract personnel
Hosting service providers
Co-location service providers
Telecommunications service providers
Unless we tell you differently, our agents do not have any right to use the personal data we share with them beyond what is necessary to assist us.
Business Transfers: We may choose to buy or sell assets, and may share and/or transfer user information in connection with the evaluation of and entry into such transactions. Also, if we (or our assets) are acquired, or if we go out of business, enter bankruptcy, or go through some other change of control, personal data could be one of the assets transferred to or acquired by a third party, and we would share personal data with the party that is acquiring our assets. You acknowledge that such transfers may occur, and that any acquirer of us or our assets may continue to use your personal data as set forth in this policy.
Protection of Black-Owned Brooklyn and Others: We reserve the right to access, read, preserve, and disclose any information that we believe is necessary to:
comply with applicable law, court order, or respond to valid legal process, including from law enforcement or other government agencies;
prevent spam or other unwanted communications and investigate or protect against fraud;
Maintain the security of our products and services;
protect the rights, property, or safety of Black-Owned Brooklyn or others.
Consent: We also share information with third parties when you give us consent to do so.
How We Use Information That We Obtain
We may use personal data we collect to respond to your inquiry, for example, to contact you about your request, ask a question, provide announcements about products and future events, conduct surveys, and contact you for other reasons related to offering and improving our services. We use the personal data for these purposes because we have a legitimate business interest in providing services to our customers and other interested individuals that is not overridden by your interests, rights and freedoms to protect personal data about you
In addition to the uses discussed above, we may also use the personal data you provide on our Site to:
operate, evaluate, and improve the Site;
develop new products and services;
perform market research;
advertise and market our products and services;
determine the effectiveness of our advertising and marketing;
analyze our products, services, and websites;
administer the Site;
segment and personalise the marketing communication that you have viewed on the Site.
We use the personal data for the purposes described above because we have a legitimate interest in operating and improving our business that is not overridden by your interests, rights and freedoms to protect personal data about you.
We may also use the information to protect against and prevent fraud, claims, and other liabilities and to comply with or enforce applicable legal requirements, industry standards, and our policies and terms. We use personal data for these purposes when it is necessary to protect, exercise or defend our legal rights, or when we are required to do so by law that applies to us.
Your Access to and Control Over Information
You may opt out of any future contacts from us at any time. You can do the following at any time by contacting us via the email address given on our website:
See what data we have about you, if any.
Change/correct any data we have about you.
Have us delete personal data that you have provided to us.
Express any concern you have about our use of your data.
Under California Civil Code Sections 1798.83-1798.84, California residents are entitled to contact us to prevent disclosure of personal data to third parties for such third parties’ direct marketing purposes. In order to submit such a request, please contact us at team@blackownedbrooklyn.com.
What Rights Do You Have Regarding Your Personal Data?
If you are a resident of the EU, United Kingdom, Lichtenstein, Norway, or Iceland, you have certain rights with respect to your personal data, including those set forth below. For more information about these rights, or to submit a request, please email team@blackownedbrooklyn.com. Please note that in some circumstances, we may not be able to fully comply with your request, such as if it is frivolous or extremely impractical, if it jeopardizes the rights of others, or if it is not required by law, but in those circumstances, we will still respond to notify you of such a decision. In some cases, we may also need you to provide us with additional information, which may include personal data, if necessary to verify your identity and the nature of your request.
Opt Not to Disclose: You can always opt not to disclose information to us, but keep in mind some information may be needed to register with us or to take advantage of some of our features.
Access: You can request more information about the personal data we hold about you and request a copy of such personal data.
Rectification: If you believe that any personal data we are holding about you is incorrect or incomplete, you can request that we correct or supplement such data. When you update information, however, we may maintain a copy of the unrevised information in our records.
Erasure: You can request that we erase some or all of your personal data from our systems.
Withdrawal of Consent: If we are processing your personal data based on your consent (as indicated at the time of collection of such data), you have the right to withdraw your consent at any time. Please note, however, that if you exercise this right, you may have to then provide express consent on a case-by-case basis for the use or disclosure of certain of your Personal Data, if such use or disclosure is necessary to enable you to utilize some or all of our Services.
Portability: You can ask for a copy of your personal data in a machine-readable format. You can also request that we transmit the data to another controller where technically feasible.
Objection: You can contact us to let us know that you object to the further use or disclosure of your personal data for certain purposes.
Restriction of Processing: You can ask us to restrict further processing of your personal data.
Do we transfer EU Users’ Personal Data Outside the EU?
The Site is hosted and operated in the United States (“U.S.”), and if you do not reside in the U.S., laws in the U.S. may differ from the laws where you reside. By using the Site, you acknowledge that any personal data about you, regardless of whether provided by you or obtained from a third party, is being provided to Black-Owned Brooklyn n the U.S. and will be hosted on U.S. servers, and you authorize us to transfer, store and process your information to and in the U.S., and possibly other countries. You hereby consent to the transfer of your data to the U.S. as set forth herein.
Security
We take reasonable precautions to protect your information. Personal data is maintained in a password protected file and access to personal data is limited to Black-Owned Brooklyn except as otherwise described herein. Although we endeavor to protect the privacy of your personal data that we hold in our records, we cannot guarantee complete security.
Updates to Our Online Privacy Policy
We may update this Privacy Policy periodically and without prior notice to you to reflect changes in our personal data practices or relevant laws. We will post the updated version and indicate at the top of the notice when it was most recently updated.
