Welcome to www.standardsandpractices.com (the "Website"). This Website is owned and operated by Vibes Base Enterprises, Inc. its affiliates, agents, and licensors (collectively, "we", "us", "our" or "Vibes"). We recognize and respect the importance of maintaining the privacy of our visitors and members and have established this Privacy Policy Statement ("Privacy Policy") as a result. This Privacy Policy is incorporated into our Terms of Use and Account Agreement and therefore governs your use of the Websites and/or any services offered by standards & practices. By visiting the Website, and/or utilizing any services offered by Vibes, you are accepting the current practices described in the Privacy Policy.
What Information Do We Collect About Our Customers?
The information we learn from customers helps us enhance and personalize the Website and the services we offer. We gather the following types of information:
Information You Give Us. We receive and store any information you enter on our Websites or provide us in any other way (e.g., by telephone or mail). This may include information you provide when you register as a member, engage in transactions, search, contact customer service, or participate in contests, promotions, surveys, forums, content submissions, chats, bulletin boards, discussion groups, requests for suggestions, or other aspects or services offered by us. As a result, you may be supplying us with such information as your name, address, and phone numbers; credit/debit numbers, expiration date, and other billing information; people to whom purchases have been shipped, including addresses and phone numbers; names and email addresses of friends, possible Refer-A-Friend customers, and other people.
Automatic Information. We automatically receive and store certain types of information whenever you interact with us. For example, as most Websites do, we use "cookies", and we obtain certain types of information when your web browser accesses standardsandpractices.com. This information is compiled and analyzed on both a personal and an aggregated basis, and it may include the Website's Uniform Resource Locator ("URL") that you just came from, which URL you will go to next, what browser you are using, and your Internet Protocol ("IP") address. Other examples of automatic information we may collect are purchase history, products viewed or searched for, visits to certain pages, page interaction information, and the phone number you used to call our store. We associate the information we store in cookies to personally identifiable information you submit while on our site. During some visits, we may also collect technical information from your computer to help us identify your computer for fraud prevention purposes.
Information Provided by Third Parties. We may obtain certain information about customers from third parties. This may include updated delivery or address information from carriers and information (including name and email addresses) of possible Refer-A-Friend customers from current customers.
Do We Use Cookies?
standardsandpractices.com uses small text files called "cookies" that provide non-personally identifiable information to us regarding the visitors to the Websites. In addition to the URL and IP addresses of our visitors, cookies may gather the date and time of all visits to our Website. We may also track the pages of our Websites that users viewed during their visit, or track search terms entered on our Websites by that visitor. This helps us keep track of the number of visitors to our Websites and allows us to gauge the areas that are of the most interest to our visitors.
We use a third-party tracking service that uses cookies and other tracking technologies to track non-personally identifiable information about visitors to our site in the aggregate. This information is analyzed periodically and is used to gain a broader picture of usage patterns at our site. We may share the non-personally identifiable information gathered through the use of cookies with our advertisers and/or business partners, in order to make the Websites as user-friendly as possible. Further, some of our business partners (e.g., advertisers) use cookies on our site. We have no access to or control over these cookies. This privacy statement covers the use of cookies by standards & practices only and does not cover the use of cookies by any advertisers.
How Do We Use the Information We Collect and Do We Share the Information We Receive?
Information about our customers is an important part of our business. We use the information we collect from the Websites to communicate with you, to process your orders, to provide an enhanced and more personalized interactive shopping experience, to facilitate your transactions with our third-party marketing partners, and to inform you of offers and discounts. For example, you can expect to receive a welcoming email to confirm your username and password. Additionally, we communicate with you in response to your inquiries, to provide the services you request and to manage your account. We also send service-related announcements on occasions such as when we need to temporarily suspend our site for maintenance. We also will send you promotional emails on occasion. Generally, you may not opt-out of service-related communications, which are not promotional in nature. If you do not wish to receive them, you have the option to terminate your account. Your account is with Vibes Base Enterprises Inc., the owner, and operator of the Website. You can opt-out by emailing us at [email protected]. Also, you can opt-out of direct promotional communications from the website by following the unsubscribe instructions within each communication from that you receive.
We share customer information with third parties only as follows:
Third Party Service Providers. We may work closely with other businesses (that we don't own or control) that sell products or services on www.standardsandpractices.com
In some cases, these businesses may operate stores or websites that sell products or services to you directly. In other cases, we operate store (s), provide services, or sell product lines jointly with these businesses. We share customer information related to those transactions with that third party.
For Klarna Customers: In order to offer you Klarna’s payment methods, we might in the checkout pass your personal data in the form of contact and order details to Klarna, in order for Klarna to assess whether you qualify for their payment methods and to tailor those payment methods for you. Your personal data transferred is processed in line with Klarna’s own privacy notice.
Promotional Offers. We periodically provide our customers with information about third-party products and services we believe will be of interest to you and with opportunities to participate in offers and/or promotions on behalf of other businesses. Your participation in these events may require us to share data with such a business. If you do not want to receive such information or offers, on behalf of third parties or otherwise, please opt-out during registration, email us later at [email protected], or follow the unsubscribe instructions within each communication.
Other Third Parties/Select Partners. From time to time, we might establish a business relationship with other persons or entities who we believe are trustworthy and whom we have asked to confirm that their privacy policies are consistent with ours. These are known as our Select Partners. In such cases, we might share and cross-reference information, including personal information about you that will enable such persons or entities to contact you regarding products and services that may be of interest to you. We may also combine your personal information with publicly available information and information we receive from or cross-reference with our Select Partners and others. We use that combined information to enhance and personalize your shopping experience with us, to communicate with you about our products and services that may be of interest to you, and for further promotional purposes. If you do not want us to share information with Select Partners, please opt-out during registration, email us later at [email protected], or follow the unsubscribe instructions within each communication.
Refer-A-Friend. If you choose to use our Refer-A-Friend service to tell a friend or someone else about our site, we will ask you for your friend’s or that person’s name and email address. We will automatically send your friend or that person an email sharing your Referral Code with him or her to use on the site. Your friend may contact us at [email protected] to request that we remove this information from our database. In order for you to get credit for a Refer-A-Friend who joins foryourbigdate.com the person whom you share must enter your email address or a unique password that identifies you as the sharer. We send emails on your behalf to the person you’ ve identified as a Refer-A-Friend. Also, if you were shared with the Websites by an existing member, that member may be notified each time your order qualifies him/her for a credit.
Reviews/Share This/Testimonials. If you review a product on our site, your review may be posted on standardsandpractices.com as well as on a partners’ network site that shares reviews with other shopping communities. When you use "ShareThis" to post to social networking sites or to tell your friends about our site, the information is collected by a third party site to facilitate your postings. "ShareThis" allows you to enter your friend’s email address and/or import email contacts from various email service providers. Once the email addresses are imported, you must manually click on each email address you wish to send a communication to. Please note that these third party sites’ privacy policies govern the collection and use of the information collected on those sites. You should be aware that any personally identifiable information you submit can be read, collected, or used by other users of these forums, and could be used to send you unsolicited messages. We are not responsible for the personally identifiable information you choose to submit in these forums. When seeking or receiving customer testimonials or feedback, we disclose that we may post their first name along with all or a portion of their testimonial on the Websites unless they inform us otherwise by following the instructions we provide.
Merger/Sale. In the event that standardsandpractices.com all or substantially all of its respective assets, or a line of business of standardsandpractices.com is acquired, individually identifying information of our members may be one of the assets sold in connection with that transaction, without notice to you or your consent. We will notify users of the Websites of such a change in ownership or transfer of assets by posting a notice on the Website.
Bankruptcy. In the unlikely event of our bankruptcy, insolvency, reorganization, receivership, or assignment for the benefit of creditors, or the application of laws or equitable principles affecting creditors’ rights generally, we may not be able to control how your personal information is treated, transferred or used. Therefore, you should know that in such event, your personal information may be treated like any other asset of standards & practices, and sold, transferred or shared with third parties, or used in ways not contemplated or permitted hereunder, without notice to you or your consent.
Protection of standardsandpractices.com We release account and other personal information when we believe release is appropriate to comply with the law and/or a judicial proceeding, court order or legal process served on Vibes; enforce or apply our Terms of Use and other agreements; or protect the rights, property or safety of standards & practices, our Website users or others. This includes exchanging information with other companies and organizations for fraud protection and credit risk reduction.
How Secure Is the Personal Information You Collect?
We have taken precautions, including the deployment of technological resources and the use of firewalls, systems, and procedures, to protect the security of your personal information. When you enter credit card information on our Websites, we may store it so that you do not have to re-enter it every time you order, but we encrypt it when storing. While no security system is absolutely foolproof, we are constantly reviewing, refining, and upgrading our security technology to protect your privacy. When you open an account with standardsandpractices.com you are issued a password by which to access and secure your account and account information. Although we have taken these precautions, you are responsible for maintaining the secrecy of your password, which should not be disclosed by you. When using a shared computer, always be sure to sign off when finished.
Links
standardsandpractices.com contains links to other websites. We have no control over the content, policies, or actions of these sites, even if you are offered services on those sites because you have established an account with standardsandpractices.com. We are not responsible for the privacy practices or the content of such websites. We encourage you to be aware when you leave our site and to read the privacy statements of each and every website that collects personally identifiable information. This privacy statement applies only to information collected by our Website.
Minors
You must be 18 years of age or older to become a member of standardsandpractices.com. We do not collect information from minors.
Changing Your Personal Information
You may review, change, or correct your personally identifying information at any time by accessing your account information on the Website or calling us at the contact information below. You are responsible for maintaining the accuracy and completeness of your personal and other information, including your email address, and we urge you to review your information regularly to ensure that it is correct and complete.
Conditions of Use, Notices and Revisions
If you choose to visit standardsandpractices.com and/or use Vibes services, your visit and/or any dispute over privacy is subject to this Privacy Policy Statement and our Terms of Use and Account Agreement (if you are a member), including limitations on damages, arbitration of disputes, and application of the law of the state of California. If you have any concern about privacy at standardsandpractices.com, please contact us.
Our Privacy Policy Statement, the Terms of Use and other terms and conditions may change. In the event of a change, the revised policies or terms and conditions will be posted immediately to our Websites. You should check the Websites frequently to see recent changes. If we make material changes to this policy, we will notify you here, by email, or by means of a notice on our home page. Unless stated otherwise, our current Privacy Policy Statement applies to all information that we have about you.
Contact Us
If you have any questions or concerns regarding our privacy policy, please contact us at [email protected] or send us a letter at 9440 Telstar Ave., Suite #6, El Monte, CA 91731.