Privacy Policy
INVISTA is the owner of this website and the LYCRA® brand. We want you to understand how and why we collect, use and disclose the personal information about you on our website located at www.myLYCRA.com. This Website Privacy Policy (“Policy”) provides you with information concerning our practices and procedures as they relate specifically to information we collect at this website. If you have additional questions or would like further information on this topic, please feel free to write to our Webmaster at info(at)myLYCRA.com or http://www.mylycra.com/contact.html. We may update this Policy from time to time, so please check this Policy periodically for changes.
We gather your information needed to provide you with superior service, communicate offers on products and services that we believe will be of interest to you and to administer our business.
We do not collect any personal information about you at our website unless you choose to provide it to us voluntarily. We define “personal information” as information that is unique to you and might include your phone number, name, age or address. We may need this information, for example, if you subscribe to any email program we offer via the website (information such as your name and e-mail address), if you choose to provide us with your preference information (such as interests, product preferences, and items purchased), or when you enter a sweepstakes or one of our promotions (information such as name, address and telephone number) that we may offer via the website from time to time. If you encounter a screen or page that requests information you do not want to share with us, do not enter the information and do not proceed with that screen or page.
If you do provide us with personal information, we will only use it for the purposes described where it is collected or elsewhere on the website, and we will not sell, license, transmit or disclose this information outside of INVISTA or its affiliates unless (1) you expressly authorize us to do so, (2) it is necessary to allow our service providers, representatives, or agents to provide services for or to us, (3) in order to provide our products or services to you, (4) it is disclosed to entities that perform marketing services on our behalf or to other entities with whom we have joint marketing or other agreements including, without limitation, Billabong USA and TAOW, LLC, (5) it is necessary or we deem it appropriate in connection with a sale of all or substantially all of the assets or business of INVISTA, a sale of stock or equity interests of INVISTA, or the merger of INVISTA into another entity or any consolidation, share exchange, combination, reorganization, or like transaction in which INVISTA is not the survivor, or (6) otherwise as we are required or permitted by law. Also, note that in connection with contests or other promotions, other registered website users may be able to review your name, your profile and your contest entry (e.g., design), but they will not be able to see your email address, phone number or age.
If you are a California resident, you may ask us to refrain from sharing your information (whether collected online or offline) with third parties for their marketing purposes. Please tell us your preference by contacting us as indicated in the "How to Contact Us" section of this Policy.
CONTESTS, SWEEPSTAKES AND OTHER PROMOTIONS
On our website, you may wish to participate in contests, sweepstakes and other promotions that we may offer from time to time. Through these promotions, you may choose to participate in activities such as sharing information found on our websites with others and sending email invitations. If you choose to participate in these promotions, and are eligible to do so, we may ask you for information such as your name, email address, date of birth and telephone number.
In connection with any contests, sweepstakes and other promotions that we may offer from time to time via the website, we use the information you provide to administer the contests, sweepstakes and other promotions. We also may use the information to communicate with you, or the other people you select, about our products and services or our partners may use such information to communicate with you about the contests, sweepstakes or other promotions or their products and services. As mentioned above, if you create a profile and submit an entry in connection with a contest or promotion, your name, profile and entry (e.g., design), but not your email address, phone number and age, will be visible to other registered users. We will not use information you provide about other people for any purpose except the purpose you direct without first getting their consent.
INFORMATION COLLECTED FROM CHILDREN
www.myLYCRA.com is a general audience site, and we do not knowingly collect information about children or sell products to children under the age of 13. If you are under the age of 13, you must ask your parent or guardian to assist you in using our website. Furthermore, we may restrict entries to any contests, sweepstakes or promotions to entrants who are at least 18 years of age.
We appreciate your questions and comments about our website and services and welcome your email messages to mailboxes listed on our website. We will share your messages with those within and outside our organization who may be able to address the issues contained in your message. We will keep a copy of your message until we have had an opportunity to address your concerns. We may archive your message for a certain period of time or discard it, but your email address will not be used for any other purpose.
CONFIDENTIALITY AND SECURITY
We restrict access to personal information collected about you at our website to our employees, our affiliates' employees, those who are otherwise specified in this Policy, or others who need to know that information to provide services to you or in the course of conducting our business operations or activities. We maintain appropriate physical, electronic, and procedural safeguards to protect your personal information collected via the website. We protect our databases with various physical, technical and procedural measures and we restrict access to your information by unauthorized persons. We also advise all INVISTA employees about their responsibility to protect customer data and we provide them with appropriate guidelines for adhering to our company's business ethics standards and confidentiality policies.
THE RIGHT TO VERIFY THE ACCURACY OF INFORMATION WE COLLECT
Keeping information accurate and up to date is important to us. You can personalize your experience at www.myLYCRA.com by becoming a registered user. By registering, you will be able to tell us what products and services interest you and whether you wish to receive e-mails about special sales and promotions. Once registered, you can review and maintain your account information at anytime, by clicking on the "Contestant" link at the top of each www.myLYCRA.com page. Your account information is secure and is accessible by using a password that you select. Do not share your www.myLYCRA.com password with anyone. To become registered user at www.myLYCRA.com, go to the "Contestant" tab, where you will enter the requisite information to become registered, provide profile data and confirm the accuracy of such information. Once those steps are completed, your registration is confirmed. You will receive a confirmation of your registration via email at the email address you provided. Once registered, you can log into your user profile at www.myLYCRA.com and make any necessary updates or changes.
LINKS TO OTHER SITES
For your convenience we may provide links to other websites and web pages that we do not control. We cannot be responsible for the privacy practices of any websites or pages not under our control and we do not endorse any of these websites or pages, the services or products described or offered on such sites or pages, or any of the content contained on those sites or pages.
USE OF “COOKIES” OR OTHER DATA COLLECTION TOOLS
A cookie is a piece of information which a web server may place on your computer when you visit a website. Cookies are commonly used by websites to improve the user experience and have not been known to transmit computer viruses or otherwise harm your computer. Many cookies last only through a single website session, or visit. Others may have an expiration date, or may remain on your computer until you delete them.
We may use cookies for a number of purposes - for example, to maintain continuity during a user session, to gather data about the usage of our website for research and other purposes, to store your preferences for certain kinds of information and marketing offers, or to store a user name or encrypted identification number so that you do not have to provide this information every time you return to our website.
Our cookies will track only your activity relating to your online activity on this website, and will not track your other Internet activity. Our cookies do not gather personally identifiable information.
You can decide if and how your computer will accept a cookie by configuring your preferences or options in your browser. However, if you choose to reject cookies, you may not be able to use certain of our online products and services or website features.
We may occasionally use other companies to set cookies on our website and gather cookie information for us. In some cases, we may also use another company to operate web servers for our website. We use the cookie information gathered by these companies in the same manner as stated above.
In addition to the information we collect from cookies, we also obtain information which you provide to us online - for example, when you sign up for product updates or when you purchase products or otherwise communicate with us. In some cases, we retain both the cookie information and/or the information you provide to us online - for example, to complete a transaction you requested or to keep historical records of your past transactions. In other cases, we only retain the cookie and/or online information you give us if you request us to do so for your use in subsequent sessions.
Certain pages on our websites contain "web beacons" (also know as Internet tags, pixel tags and clear GIFs). These web beacons allow third parties to obtain information such as the IP address of the computer that downloaded the page on which the beacon appears, the URL of the page on which the beacon appears, the time the page containing the beacon was viewed, the type of browser used to view the page, and the information in cookies set by the third party.
An IP address is a unique identifier that certain electronic devices use to identify and communicate with each other on the Internet. When you visit our website, we may view the IP address of the device you use to connect to the Internet. We use this information to determine the general physical location of the device and understand from what regions of the world our website visitors come. We also may use this information to enhance our website.
PROMOTIONAL EMAILS
We may send you e-mails with promotional offers, special event information, sales notifications or other messages only if you opt-in to receiving such e-mails. If you would no longer like to receive such e-mails from us, please follow the "Unsubscribe" instructions at the end of each email or contact us at http://www.mylycra.com/backend/nlDeactivate.php. Your e-mail address will be removed from our marketing list. Please allow us a reasonable period of time in order to satisfy your request, as some promotions may already be in process.
CHANGES TO OUR WEBSITE PRIVACY POLICY
We may change this Policy at any time and from time to time. The most recent version of the Policy is reflected by the version date located at the bottom of this Policy.
CONTACTING US
If you have any questions about this Policy or would like to learn more about how we protect privacy, please write to us at INVISTA S.à r.l., INVISTA Building, 4123 East 37th Street North, Wichita, KS 67220, USA or at http://www.mylycra.com/contact.html.
Last Updated: April 9, 2010
