Privacy Statement

Necessary Design, LLC. Privacy Statement

Necessary Design, LLC. (“Necessary Design”) knows that you care how information about you is used and shared. This notice describes Necessary Design’s privacy policy for the website on which this Statement is posted (the “Site”) including all online services and functions of the Site.

Registration

You must register on this Site in order to use some of the Site’s online services and functions, such as our newsletter. If you only want to browse the Site, registration is optional.
During registration, you will be required to provide a valid e-mail address.
Necessary Design reserves the right to revoke the access, or otherwise remove any user for any reason at the sole discretion of Necessary Design.

Cookies

A cookie is a small text file that is stored on a user’s computer for record-keeping purposes. Necessary Design uses cookies on the Site.
Necessary Design uses session cookies to make it easier for you to navigate the Site. A session ID cookie expires when you close your browser.
Necessary Design has no access to or control over these cookies. This Privacy Statement covers the use of cookies by Necessary Design only and does not cover the use of cookies by any advertisers or other business partners.

E-mail from Necessary Design for Bowpop Newsletters and Announcements

Necessary Design may use your e-mail address to provide you with e-mail newsletters and announcements. Necessary Design offers you the option to unsubscribe from newsletters by using the unsubscribe function at www.thebowpop.com/newsletter.

Additional Information for Specific Purposes

This Site may request additional information from you on product order forms or other online transaction forms. Such forms may require you to provide contact information (such as name and mailing or shipping address) and payment information (such as credit card number and credit card expiration date). Information that you provide in this way may be used for billing and accounting purposes, and to fill your orders. Necessary Design may use this contact information to communicate about orders, products, services, or fees or charges, and to process charges and payments.
Necessary Design may use an outside shipping company to ship orders and uses a credit card processing company to process payments for goods and services. These companies have access to user information in order to perform their functions.
Necessary Design may partner with other third parties to provide specific goods or services. When you sign up for such goods or services, Necessary Design will share names or other contact information that is necessary for the third party to provide these goods or services. Necessary Design does not authorize third party providers to use personally identifiable information except for the purpose related to these goods or services.

Communications with Others requires username in lieu of e-mail address

The Site may allow you to contribute to one or more blogs or communicate by means of online functions.
Nothing requires you to disclose your identity to others. If you choose to disclose your identity to third parties using any Site function or service, you do so at your own risk. Necessary Design is not responsible for the privacy or security of any information, personal or otherwise, that you may choose to communicate or exchange using the functionality of the Site.
Each item of information or any materials you contribute for such purposes are your “Public Content.” Public Content must be content and information that you have a right to disclose and transfer and must not violate any other person’s privacy or intellectual property rights.

Feedback to Necessary Design

Necessary Design has feedback functionality on the Site that allows you to submit comments or suggestions. Necessary Design may collect your name or username and e-mail address in order to follow up with you or thank you for a suggestion. Necessary Design has the right, at its sole discretion and without limitation, to use in any manner, feedback or suggestions for Product or Service improvements.

Anonymous Data

Necessary Design may track the Site to analyze trends, administer the Site, track your actions and use of the Site, record transactions, and gather demographic information for aggregate use. Such analysis is not linked to personally identifiable information.
Necessary Design may share aggregated demographic and usage information with its partners and advertisers. This aggregated information is not linked to any personal information that can identify any individual person.

Links

This Site may contain links to other sites. Necessary Design is not responsible for the privacy practices of such other sites. Necessary Design encourages users to be aware when they leave the Site and to read the privacy statements of sites that collect personally identifiable information. This Privacy Statement applies only to information collected on this Site by Necessary Design. It does not apply to any information collected by third parties, including but not limited to advertisers and business partners.

Security Technology

When a Site’s registration/order form asks users to enter financial information (such as credit card number), that information is encrypted during transmission through the Internet using Secure Socket Layer (SSL) software. You should see the lock icon on the bottom of web browsers such as Microsoft Internet Explorer becomes locked, as opposed to unlocked or open when you are just surfing. If you have any questions about the security, you can send an e-mail to hello@thebowpop.com.

Correction/Updating of Personal Information

If you provide personally identifiable information changes (such as an e-mail address or zip code), Necessary Design will endeavor to provide a way to correct, update or remove your personal data.

Protection of Minors

Children under the age of 14 are not permitted to register on this Site or use any functionality for which registration is required unless with permission from their parent or legal guardian.

Business or Asset Transfer or Sale

Necessary Design may be sold, might sell or buy businesses or assets of businesses, or Necessary Design might merge with another business. In such transactions, customer information generally is one of the transferred business assets. Also, in the event that Necessary Design, or substantially all the assets of Necessary Design are transferred, customer information may well be one of the transferred assets. Necessary Design will make reasonable effort to provide notice on the Site and to notify you via e-mail to the most recent e-mail address that you have provided to Necessary Design of any such change in ownership or control of your personal information.

Release of Information for Legal Reasons

Necessary Design may release information concerning your use of Necessary Design (including, but not limited to, posted Public Content, registration information, and network records) when it believes in good faith that such release is appropriate to comply with the law (for example, pursuant to a statutory demand, subpoena, warrant or court order), to protect against fraudulent, abusive or unlawful use of Necessary Design, to protect Necessary Design's rights or property, enforce any contract between you and Necessary Design, or if Necessary Design reasonably believes that a situation involving danger of death or injury to any person requires disclosure.

Limited Use

Necessary Design does not intend to sell, share, or rent information obtained on this Site other than as discussed in this privacy policy.

Changes in This Privacy Policy

If Necessary Design decides to change its privacy policy, Necessary Design will post those changes on this Site so Necessary Design’s users can remain aware of what information Necessary Design collects, how Necessary Design uses it, and under what circumstances, if any, Necessary Design discloses it.

Your California Privacy Rights

Residents of the State of California, under the California Civil Code, have the right to request from companies conducting business in California a list of all third parties to which the Company has disclosed personal information during the preceding year for direct marketing purposes and a disclosure of the shared information. Alternatively, the law provides that if the company has a privacy policy that provides you with an “opt-out” choice for use of your personal information by third parties for marketing purposes, the Company may instead provide you with information on how to exercise your disclosure choice options.
This Site qualifies for the alternative option. Its privacy policy provides you with information on how you may opt-out from the use of your personal information by third parties for direct marketing purposes. Therefore, we are not required to maintain or disclose a list of the third parties that received your personal information during the preceding year for marketing purposes.
If you are a California resident and request information about how to exercise your third party disclosure choices, send a request to the following e-mail address: hello@thebowpop.com.

Effective on: February 1, 2010
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