Privacy Policy

Privacy Policy

Last updated: May 23, 2023

The Vegan Potionry respects your privacy and values the relationship we have with you. We do not sell your information to third parties. 

This Privacy Policy describes Our policies and procedures on the collection, use and disclosure of Your information when You use the Service and tells You about Your privacy rights and how the law protects You.

We use Your Personal data to provide and improve the Service. By using the Service, You agree to the collection and use of information in accordance with this Privacy Policy. Interpretation and Definitions

The personal information that We collect about a specific person will depend on, for example, Our relationship or interaction with that person. We collect personal information that You provide to Us, from Your engagement with Our brand Sites and platforms, advertising, media, and from third parties who have Your permission to share it with Us.

Interpretation

The words of which the initial letter is capitalized have meanings defined under the following conditions. The following definitions shall have the same meaning regardless of whether they appear in singular or in plural.

Definitions

For the purposes of this Privacy Policy:

Account means a unique account created for You to access our Service or parts of our Service.

Affiliate means an entity that controls, is controlled by or is under common control with a party, where "control" means ownership of 50% or more of the shares, equity interest or other securities entitled to vote for election of directors or other managing authority.

Company (referred to as either "the Company", "We", "Us" or "Our" in this Agreement) refers to The Vegan Potionry LLC, 2030 Buford HWY P.O. Box 1743, Buford, GA, 30518 .

Cookies are small files that are placed on Your computer, mobile device or any other device by a website, containing the details of Your browsing history on that website among its many uses.

Country refers to: Georgia, United States

Device means any device that can access the Service such as a computer, a cellphone or a digital tablet.

Personal Data is any information that relates to an identified or identifiable individual.

Service refers to the Website.

Service Provider means any natural or legal person who processes the data on behalf of the Company. It refers to third-party companies or individuals employed by the Company to facilitate the Service, to provide the Service on behalf of the Company, to perform services related to the Service or to assist the Company in analyzing how the Service is used.

Usage Data refers to data collected automatically, either generated by the use of the Service or from the Service infrastructure itself (for example, the duration of a page visit).

Website refers to The Vegan Potionry, accessible from www.theveganpotionry.com

You means the individual accessing or using the Service, or the company, or other legal entity on behalf of which such individual is accessing or using the Service, as applicable.

While using Our Service, We may ask You to provide Us with certain personally identifiable information that can be used to contact or identify You. Personally identifiable information may include, but is not limited to:

Email address

First name and last name

Phone number

Address, State, Province, ZIP/Postal code, City

Usage Data

Device identifiers, such as information about your device like your MAC address, IP address, or other online identifiers.

Demographic information, such as your age, sex, ethnicity, and gender.

Commercial information, such as the products or services you have purchased, returned or considered, and your product preferences.

Payment information, such as your method of payment and payment card information (including payment card number, delivery address and billing address).

Online or network activity information, such as information regarding your interaction with our websites, mobile applications, digital properties, and advertisements, information about your browsing and search history on our websites or mobile applications, and log file information like your browser type and webpages you visit.

Geolocation information, such as information that can help identify your physical location (like your GPS coordinates or the approximate location of your device).

Health and medical information, such as skincare concerns, diagnoses, medical reports and history.

User Content, such as your communications with us and any other content you provide (including photographs and images, videos, reviews, articles, survey responses, and comments).

Inferences drawn from or created based on any of the information identified above.

Usage Data

Usage Data is collected automatically when using the Service.

Usage Data may include information such as Your Device's Internet Protocol address (e.g. IP address), browser type, browser version, the pages of our Service that You visit, the time and date of Your visit, the time spent on those pages, unique device identifiers and other diagnostic data.

When You access the Service by or through a mobile device, We may collect certain information automatically, including, but not limited to, the type of mobile device You use, Your mobile device unique ID, the IP address of Your mobile device, Your mobile operating system, the type of mobile Internet browser You use, unique device identifiers and other diagnostic data.

We may also collect information that Your browser sends whenever You visit our Service or when You access the Service by or through a mobile device.

HOW WE COLLECT INFORMATION

We may collect personal information about you from various sources. For example:

Directly from you, such as when you make a purchase on one of our websites or in one of our retail stores, contact us with a question or complaint, use one of our mobile applications or virtual try on experiences, chat with an automated virtual agent or live person on one of our websites, create an account on one of our websites, register for one of our brand loyalty programs or marketing lists, respond to a survey, participate in a contest or other promotion, make an appointment or sign-up to attend an event.

From your friends or family members, such as when your friend or family member sends you a gift or makes a referral.

When you interact with our websites or emails. When you visit our websites, or when you open or click on emails we send you, we (and third parties we work with) may automatically collect information from your browser or device, such as device identifiers and online and other network activity information using technologies such as cookies, pixel tags, and similar technologies. Cookies are small text files that websites place on your Internet-connected device to uniquely identify your browser or to store information or settings in your browser. Pixel tags are small images which are embedded into our websites or emails. We use pixel tags to collect information about your browser or device, how you interact with our websites, or whether you open or click on the emails we send you. Pixel tags also enable us (and third parties we work with) to place cookies on your browser.

Through in-store and other offline technologies, such as video surveillance, traffic counting devices and WiFi technology in and around our retail stores, and call recording technology when you speak to customer service.

From our business partners and service providers, such as demographic companies, analytics providers, advertising companies and networks, third-party retailers or distributors, and other third parties that we choose to collaborate or work with.

From social media platforms and networks, such as Facebook, Instagram, Twitter, Pinterest, and Google. For example, we may obtain your information from a social media platform or network if you interact with us on social media or choose to log-in to our websites using your social media credentials.

We may combine the information we obtain from the above sources. For example, we may combine information we collect in our stores with information we collect online.

Tracking Technologies and Cookies

We use Cookies and similar tracking technologies to track the activity on Our Service and store certain information. Tracking technologies used are beacons, tags, and scripts to collect and track information and to improve and analyze Our Service. The technologies We use may include:

Cookies or Browser Cookies. A cookie is a small file placed on Your Device. You can instruct Your browser to refuse all Cookies or to indicate when a Cookie is being sent. However, if You do not accept Cookies, You may not be able to use some parts of our Service. Unless you have adjusted Your browser setting so that it will refuse Cookies, our Service may use Cookies.

Web Beacons. Certain sections of our Service and our emails may contain small electronic files known as web beacons (also referred to as clear gifs, pixel tags, and single-pixel gifs) that permit the Company, for example, to count users who have visited those pages or opened an email and for other related website statistics (for example, recording the popularity of a certain section and verifying system and server integrity).

Cookies can be "Persistent" or "Session" Cookies. Persistent Cookies remain on Your personal computer or mobile device when You go offline, while Session Cookies are deleted as soon as You close Your web browser. Learn more about cookies on the Free Privacy Policy website article.

We use both Session and Persistent Cookies for the purposes set out below:

Necessary / Essential Cookies

Type: Session Cookies

Administered by: Us

Purpose: These Cookies are essential to provide You with services available through the Website and to enable You to use some of its features. They help to authenticate users and prevent fraudulent use of user accounts. Without these Cookies, the services that You have asked for cannot be provided, and We only use these Cookies to provide You with those services.

Cookies Policy / Notice Acceptance Cookies

Type: Persistent Cookies

Administered by: Us

Purpose: These Cookies identify if users have accepted the use of cookies on the Website.

Functionality Cookies

Type: Persistent Cookies

Administered by: Us

Purpose: These Cookies allow us to remember choices You make when You use the Website, such as remembering your login details or language preference. The purpose of these Cookies is to provide You with a more personal experience and to avoid You having to re-enter your preferences every time You use the Website.

For more information about the cookies we use and your choices regarding cookies, please visit our Cookies Policy or the Cookies section of our Privacy Policy.

HOW WE USE INFORMATION

The Company may use Personal Data for the following purposes:

To provide products and services to you, such as fulfilling orders and processing payments, creating, servicing and/or maintaining your account or loyalty program membership, identifying concerns and assisting with product recommendations, providing real time support via our automated virtual agent and live person chat feature on one of our websites and maintaining a transcript of the chat, and managing current or past purchases.

To communicate with you, including to respond to your inquiries or complaints, and to help you place an order.

To administer your participation in special events, contests, sweepstakes, surveys or promotions.

For marketing and advertising, such as to send you postal mail, text messages, email, push notifications or other messages, show you advertisements for products and/or services tailored to your interests on social media and other websites.

To operate and understand your use of our websites and mobile applications, such as to remember your information so you do not have to re-enter it, understand your preferred method of purchasing with us; determine what browser and devices you use to visit our websites or mobile applications; and to evaluate and improve our services, advertisements, websites and mobile applications.

To provide and maintain our Service, including to monitor the usage of our Service.

To manage Your Account: to manage Your registration as a user of the Service. The Personal Data You provide can give You access to different functionalities of the Service that are available to You as a registered user.

For the performance of a contract: the development, compliance and undertaking of the purchase contract for the products, items or services You have purchased or of any other contract with Us through the Service.

To contact You: To contact You by email, telephone calls, SMS, or other equivalent forms of electronic communication, such as a mobile application's push notifications regarding updates or informative communications related to the functionalities, products or contracted services, including the security updates, when necessary or reasonable for their implementation.

To provide You with news, special offers and general information about other goods, services and events which we offer that are similar to those that you have already purchased or enquired about unless You have opted not to receive such information.

To manage Your requests: To attend and manage Your requests to Us.

For business transfers: We may use Your information to evaluate or conduct a merger, divestiture, restructuring, reorganization, dissolution, or other sale or transfer of some or all of Our assets, whether as a going concern or as part of bankruptcy, liquidation, or similar proceeding, in which Personal Data held by Us about our Service users is among the assets transferred.

For other purposes: We may use Your information for other purposes, such as data analysis, identifying usage trends, determining the effectiveness of our promotional campaigns and to evaluate and improve our Service, products, services, marketing and your experience.

To operate and improve our business, including to conduct analytics, provide quality assurance and process adverse event or product related claims, conduct research and development, and perform accounting, auditing and other internal business functions.

For legal and security purposes, such as to detect, prevent, and prosecute harmful, fraudulent, or illegal activity, loss prevention, identify and repair bugs on our websites or mobile applications, and to comply with applicable legal requirements, relevant industry standards and our policies.

We may share Your personal information in the following situations:

With Service Providers: We may share Your personal information with Service Providers to monitor and analyze the use of our Service, to contact You.

For business transfers: We may share or transfer Your personal information in connection with, or during negotiations of, any merger, sale of Company assets, financing, or acquisition of all or a portion of Our business to another company.

With Affiliates: We may share Your information with Our affiliates, in which case we will require those affiliates to honor this Privacy Policy.

With business partners: We may share Your information with Our business partners to offer You certain products, services or promotions.

With other users: when You share personal information or otherwise interact in the public areas with other users, such information may be viewed by all users and may be publicly distributed outside.

Advertising Companies. We work with third party advertising companies (such as advertising networks) to serve advertisements on our behalf.

Other third parties. In addition, we may disclose personal information about you (i) if we are required to do so by law or legal process, (ii) to law enforcement authorities or other government officials, (iii) when we believe disclosure is necessary or appropriate to prevent physical harm or financial loss, or in connection with an investigation of suspected or actual fraudulent or illegal activity, (iv) when disclosure of your personal information is otherwise required or permitted by law, or (v) with your consent (such as third-party salons and spas).

With Your consent: We may disclose Your personal information for any other purpose with Your consent.

Retention of Your Personal Data

The Company will retain Your Personal Data only for as long as is necessary for the purposes set out in this Privacy Policy. We will retain and use Your Personal Data to the extent necessary to comply with our legal obligations (for example, if we are required to retain your data to comply with applicable laws), resolve disputes, and enforce our legal agreements and policies.

The Company will also retain Usage Data for internal analysis purposes. Usage Data is generally retained for a shorter period of time, except when this data is used to strengthen the security or to improve the functionality of Our Service, or We are legally obligated to retain this data for longer time periods.

Transfer of Your Personal Data

Your information, including Personal Data, is processed at the Company's operating offices and in any other places where the parties involved in the processing are located. It means that this information may be transferred to — and maintained on — computers located outside of Your state, province, country or other governmental jurisdiction where the data protection laws may differ than those from Your jurisdiction.

Your consent to this Privacy Policy followed by Your submission of such information represents Your agreement to that transfer.

The Company will take all steps reasonably necessary to ensure that Your data is treated securely and in accordance with this Privacy Policy and no transfer of Your Personal Data will take place to an organization or a country unless there are adequate controls in place including the security of Your data and other personal information.

Delete Your Personal Data

You have the right to delete or request that We assist in deleting the Personal Data that We have collected about You.

Our Service may give You the ability to delete certain information about You from within the Service.

You may update, amend, or delete Your information at any time by signing in to Your Account, if you have one, and visiting the account settings section that allows you to manage Your personal information. You may also contact Us to request access to, correct, or delete any personal information that You have provided to Us.

Please note, however, that We may need to retain certain information when we have a legal obligation or lawful basis to do so.

Disclosure of Your Personal Data

Business Transactions

If the Company is involved in a merger, acquisition or asset sale, Your Personal Data may be transferred. We will provide notice before Your Personal Data is transferred and becomes subject to a different Privacy Policy.

Law enforcement

Under certain circumstances, the Company may be required to disclose Your Personal Data if required to do so by law or in response to valid requests by public authorities (e.g. a court or a government agency).

Other legal requirements

The Company may disclose Your Personal Data in the good faith belief that such action is necessary to:

Comply with a legal obligation

Protect and defend the rights or property of the Company

Prevent or investigate possible wrongdoing in connection with the Service

Protect the personal safety of Users of the Service or the public

Protect against legal liability

Security of Your Personal Data

The security of Your Personal Data is important to Us, but remember that no method of transmission over the Internet, or method of electronic storage is 100% secure. While We strive to use commercially acceptable means to protect Your Personal Data, We cannot guarantee its absolute security.

Children's Privacy

Our Service does not address anyone under the age of 13. We do not knowingly collect personally identifiable information from anyone under the age of 13. If You are a parent or guardian and You are aware that Your child has provided Us with Personal Data, please contact Us. If We become aware that We have collected Personal Data from anyone under the age of 13 without verification of parental consent, We take steps to remove that information from Our servers.

If We need to rely on consent as a legal basis for processing Your information and Your country requires consent from a parent, We may require Your parent's consent before We collect and use that information.

Links to Other Websites

Our Service may contain links to other websites that are not operated by Us. If You click on a third party link, You will be directed to that third party's site. We strongly advise You to review the Privacy Policy of every site You visit.

We have no control over and assume no responsibility for the content, privacy policies or practices of any third party sites or services.

Changes to this Privacy Policy

We may update Our Privacy Policy from time to time. We will notify You of any changes by posting the new Privacy Policy on this page.

We will let You know via email and/or a prominent notice on Our Service, prior to the change becoming effective and update the "Last updated" date at the top of this Privacy Policy.

You are advised to review this Privacy Policy periodically for any changes. Changes to this Privacy Policy are effective when they are posted on this page.

Contact Us

If you have any questions about this Privacy Policy, You can contact us at theveganpotionry@gmail.com

STATE-SPECIFIC DISCLOSURES

California Residents

This section applies solely to California residents and supplements our Privacy Policy above.

Collection and Disclosure of Personal Information

We may collect and disclose or may have collected and disclosed your personal information to certain categories of third parties, as described below.

Category	Disclose to Third Parties
Contact information and personal identifiers	We may disclose or may have disclosed this information to: Our Brands Our Subsidiaries and Affiliates Service Providers fraud detection providers law enforcement authorities or other government officials where required or permitted by law
Device Identifiers	We may disclose or may have disclosed this information to: Our Brands Our Subsidiaries and Affiliates Service Providers fraud detection providers law enforcement authorities or other government officials where required or permitted by law
Demographic information	We may disclose or may have disclosed this information to: Our Brands Our Subsidiaries and Affiliates Service Providers law enforcement authorities or other government officials where required or permitted by law
Physical characteristics	We may disclose or may have disclosed this information to: Our Brands Our Subsidiaries and Affiliates Service Providers law enforcement authorities or other government officials where required or permitted by law
Biometric information	We may disclose or may have disclosed this information to: Service Providers
Commercial information	We may disclose or may have disclosed this information to: Our Brands Our Subsidiaries and Affiliates Service Providers fraud detection providers law enforcement authorities or other government officials where required or permitted by law
Payment information	We may disclose or may have disclosed this information to: Our Brands Our Subsidiaries and Affiliates Service Providers fraud detection providers law enforcement authorities or other government officials where required or permitted by law
Identity verification information	We may disclose or may have disclosed this information to: Our Brands Our Subsidiaries and Affiliates Service Providers fraud detection providers law enforcement authorities or other government officials where required or permitted by law
Online or network activity information	We may disclose or may have disclosed this information to: Our Brands Our Subsidiaries and Affiliates Service Providers fraud detection providers law enforcement authorities or other government officials where required or permitted by law
Geolocation information	We may disclose or may have disclosed this information to: Our Brands Our Subsidiaries and Affiliates Service Providers fraud detection providers law enforcement authorities or other government officials where required or permitted by law
Audio and visual information	We may disclose or may have disclosed this information to: Our Brands Our Subsidiaries and Affiliates Service Providers law enforcement authorities or other government officials where required or permitted by law
Professional or employment related information	We may disclose or may have disclosed this information to: Our Brands Our Subsidiaries and Affiliates Service Providers law enforcement authorities or other government officials where required or permitted by law
Health and medical information	We may disclose or may have disclosed this information to: Our Brands Our Subsidiaries and Affiliates Service Providers law enforcement authorities or other government officials where required or permitted by law
User Content	We may disclose or may have disclosed this information to: Our Brands Our Subsidiaries and Affiliates Service Providers law enforcement authorities or other government officials where required or permitted by law
Inferences	We may disclose or may have disclosed this information to: Our Brands Our Subsidiaries and Affiliates Service Providers law enforcement authorities or other government officials where required or permitted by law

In addition to the purposes set forth in the How We Use Information and How We Share Information sections set forth and above, we collect and may disclose this personal information for the following business or commercial purposes:

• To audit our interactions with you to ensure compliance with applicable law and to measure the effectiveness of our products, services, and advertisements;
• To detect, prevent, and prosecute harmful, fraudulent, or illegal activity;
• To identify and repair bugs on our websites or mobile applications;
• To provide services, such as customer service, order fulfillment, and payment processing, which we either conduct or engage service providers to conduct on our behalf;
• For research and development;
• To further our business goals, including to advertise our products and services; and
• For quality assurance.

Collection and Use of Sensitive Personal Information

We may collect certain categories of personal information that may be used to infer characteristics about consumers. Some of these categories used to infer characteristics about consumers may be considered “sensitive personal information” under California law, such as health and medical information like your skincare concerns, and demographic information like your ethnicity. In addition to the purposes set forth above, we use this information to further our business goals, such as to advertise our products and services or provide personalized product recommendations.

Sale or Sharing of Personal Information

We do not sell or share your personal information for monetary consideration. Certain advertising practices, such as those described in the How We Use Information to Advertise section, may be considered a “sale” under California law when the personal information is exchanged for non-monetary consideration. You have the right to opt out of these types of disclosures of your information. We may “sell” or “share” (or may have “sold” or “shared”) the following categories of personal information to the third parties listed below:

Category	Sold to or shared with Third Parties
Contact Information and personal Identifiers Device identifiers Online or network activity information Commercial information Inferences	We may sell or share or may have sold or shared this information to: Advertising companies Our Brands

We do not have actual knowledge that we sell or share the personal information of minors under 16 years of age. We do not sell or share sensitive personal information.

Financial Incentives

We may offer you various financial incentives such as discounts and special offers when you provide us with contact information and identifiers such as your name, email address and/or mobile phone number. When you sign-up for one of our brand loyalty programs, marketing lists or other discounts and special offers, you opt-in to a financial incentive. You may withdraw from a financial incentive at any time by opting out from the brand marketing communications for which you initially signed-up for, or closing your brand loyalty member account. Generally, we do not assign monetary or other value to personal information, however, California law requires that we assign such value in the context of financial incentives. In such context, the value of the personal information is related to the estimated cost of providing the relevant financial incentive(s) for which the information was collected.

Your Rights

If you are a California resident, you have the right to:

• Request, twice in a 12 month period, access to the personal information we have collected, used, disclosed, and sold or shared about you,
• Deletion of the personal information we have collected from you (subject to certain exceptions),
• Correction of the personal information we maintain about you, if that information is inaccurate,
• Limitation of our use and disclosure of sensitive personal information used for inferring characteristics about you,
• Opt-out of the sale of your personal information or sharing of your personal information for cross-context behavioral advertising purposes.

You can exercise your rights by submitting a request by emailing us. Before processing your request, we will take reasonable steps to verify your identity, which will include verifying that the email address from which you submit the request matches the email address we maintain on file for you. To ensure you are the owner of the email address, you must respond to a confirmation email that we will send to such email address. In some cases, we may ask that you provide additional information to verify your identity. You may also designate an authorized agent to make a request on your behalf. The authorized agent may submit the request through our Privacy Request Portal and will be required to provide proof that they have been authorized to act on your behalf. If the authorized agent does not provide such proof, you will be required to confirm your identity and the authenticity of the request.

To opt-out of the sale or sharing of your personal information for cross-contextual behavioral advertising purposes, you must also edit your preferences using the “Do Not Sell or Share My Personal Information / Target Ads” link at the bottom of each our Brand websites. You may also use the Global Privacy Control signal. For more information about the Global Privacy Control, visit https://globalprivacycontrol.org/.

We will not discriminate against you on account of your exercise of your California privacy rights.

If you would like us to read this Privacy Policy to you, please contact us at 1.800.588.0070.

Colorado, Connecticut and Virginia Residents

This section applies solely to Colorado, Connecticut, and Virginia residents and supplements our Privacy Policy above.

If you are a Colorado, Connecticut, or Virginia resident, you have the right to:

• request access to, or correction or deletion of, your personal information; or
• opt out of the processing of your personal information for targeted advertising purposes or the sale of your personal information. Certain advertising practices, such as those described in the How We Use Information to Advertise section, may be deemed targeted advertising or a “sale” under some state laws.

You can exercise your rights by submitting a request through our Privacy Request Portal. Before processing your request, we will take reasonable steps to verify your identity, which will include verifying that the email address from which you submit the request matches the email address we maintain on file for you. To ensure you are the owner of the email address, you must respond to a confirmation email that we will send to the email address. In some cases, we may ask that you provide additional information to verify your identity. You may appeal our decision with respect to a request you have submitted by contacting us.

To opt-out of the processing of your personal information for targeting advertising purposes or the sale of your personal information, you must also edit your preferences using the “Do Not Sell or Share My Personal Information / Target Ads” link at the bottom of each our Brand websites.

Illinois Residents

This section applies solely to Illinois residents and supplements our Privacy Policy above.

As indicated in our Privacy Policy, we may collect biometric information such as facial geometry if you use certain of our virtual try-on applications. For Illinois residents who provide us with biometric information (such as during use of our virtual try-on apps), in accordance with Illinois state law, we will retain biometric information only until the occurrence of the first of the following:

• The initial purpose for collecting or obtaining such biometric information has been satisfied, or
• Three years following your last interaction with us.

Utah Residents

This section applies solely to Utah residents and supplements our Privacy Policy above.

If you are a Utah resident, you have the right to:

• request access to your personal information;
• request the deletion of personal information you have provided to us;
• opt-out of the processing of your sensitive information; or
• opt out of the processing of your personal information for targeted advertising purposes or the sale of your personal information. Certain advertising practices, such as those described in the How We Use Information to Advertise section, may be deemed targeted advertising.

You can exercise your rights by submitting a request through email. Before processing your request, we will take reasonable steps to verify your identity, which will include verifying that the email address from which you submit the request matches the email address we maintain on file for you. To ensure you are the owner of the email address, you must respond to a confirmation email that we will send to the email address. In some cases, we may ask that you provide additional information to verify your identity.

To opt-out of the processing of your personal information for targeting advertising purposes or the “sale” of your personal information, you can contact us to opt out.