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Privacy Policy

Last Updated: December 21, 2022

 

INTRODUCTION

Thank you for visiting the SAS for Women ® ("SAS" "we" or “us”) website (“Website”) and for reviewing our Privacy Policy (the “Policy”). At SAS we respect your privacy and are committed to protecting it through our compliance with this Policy. This Policy will inform you of how we use: 1) information captured automatically by cookies and other tracking technologies on our Website, and 2) information voluntarily disclosed by you through the Website, either by subscribing to our emails (“Email Subscription”), directly contacting SAS or when purchasing SAS’ services (“Services”).

 

Your access and use of this Website constitutes agreement to the terms of this Policy, as amended from time to time at SAS’ sole discretion. If you do not agree to the terms of this Policy, then you should not access or use the Website nor should you post comments to our Website, sign up for the Email Subscription, or purchase our Services. Please contact smartsupport@sasforwomen.com if you have any questions or concerns.

 

SAS may change this Policy from time to time. If we make changes to the Policy, then we will notify you by updating the date first written above and, in some cases, we may provide you with more prominent notice (such as adding a statement to our homepage or sending you a notification). You are responsible for reviewing this Policy regularly to stay informed about changes to this Policy. Your continued access and use of this Website after the date of any changes to this Policy will constitute your agreement to any such changes.

 

WHAT DOES THIS POLICY COVER?

This Policy covers information described below that is collected automatically when you visit this Website and information that you voluntarily provide to SAS through this Website. This Policy also covers information shared between the Website and third-party service providers used by SAS (such as Mailchimp, Google Analytics, and Facebook Pixels) and information shared across social media accounts used by SAS that have links to this Website.

This Policy does not cover information collected through any other means, such as information collected through other Websites owned and/or operated by SAS that do not reference this Policy, information collected offline, or information disclosed and/or collected via any third-party service, application, or website, except for as expressly mentioned in the preceding paragraph.

 

LEGAL DISCLAIMER: THIS POLICY DOES NOT COVER ANY WEBSITE, APPLICATION, OR SOCIAL MEDIA PLATFORM OWNED AND/OR OPERATED BY ANY THIRD PARTY. PLEASE REVIEW THE INDIVIDUAL PRIVACY POLICY FOR EACH SUCH THIRD PARTY TO LEARN ABOUT HOW SUCH PARTY COLLECTS, STORES, AND USES YOUR INFORMATION. SAS DOES NOT ENDORSE OR GUARANTEE ANY THIRD-PARTY PRODUCT OR SERVICE EVEN IF A LINK TO SUCH A THIRD PARTY IS PROVIDED IN THIS POLICY OR ELSEWHERE ON THE WEBSITE. SAS IS NOT LIABLE FOR ANY THIRD-PARTY PRODUCT OR SERVICE.

 

WHAT INFORMATION DOES SAS COLLECT?

For purposes of this Policy, “Personally Identifiable Information” or "PII" as used herein means information by which you may be personally identified, such as your name, postal address, email address, telephone number, IP address, and any other identifier by which you may be contacted online or offline.

 

Information You Voluntarily Provide

The information we collect that you voluntarily provide on or through our Website may include:

  • Information that you provide by filling in forms on our Website. This includes information provided at the time of registering for our Services, subscribing to our Email Subscription, or submitting inquiries to our support email address.
  • Email correspondence, including records and copies of your correspondence (including email addresses), if you contact us.
  • Your responses to our surveys.
  • Details of transactions you carry out through our Website, such as financial information required to pay for our Services through our Website. However, SAS currently only uses third-party payment services such as Stripe, Square, PayPal, Venmo, and Zelle. Please review the privacy policy for your preferred payment method for more information.
  • Your search queries on the Website.
  • Information that you provide when engaging with us via social media platforms.
  • Details regarding your divorce or ancillary matters to the extent you provide that information voluntarily through our Website, by email, or through engaging in the Services.
  • Information that is about you but individually does not identify you, such as gender, race, or marital status, to the extent you voluntarily provide that information to us.
  • Information you provide to be published or displayed on public areas of the Website or transmitted to other users of the Website or third parties (collectively, "User Contributions"). Your User Contributions are voluntary and are posted on our Website and transmitted to others at your own risk. Additionally, we cannot control the actions of other users of the Website with whom you may choose to share your User Contributions. Therefore, we cannot and do not guarantee that your User Contributions will not be viewed by unauthorized persons.

Please note that you are not required to provide us with PII when visiting and navigating our Website. However, you will be required to provide PII if you decide to engage our Services or enroll in our Email Subscriptions.

 

Information We Collect Automatically

When you visit our Website and/or transact business with us, we automatically collect information about you, including:

  • Device and Usage Information: We obtain information about the device you use to access our Website and your use of our Services, including the type of browser you use, hardware model, operating system and app version, mobile network information, internet connection, IP address, unique device identifiers, access times, pages viewed, links clicked, browsing behavior, and the webpage you visited before navigating to our Website.
  • Location Information: In accordance with your device permissions, we may collect information about the precise location of your device.
  • Information Collected by Cookies and other Tracking Technologies: We (and those who perform work for us) use cookies, clear GIFs (also known as web beacons or pixel tags), and other tracking technologies to collect information about your interactions with our Website, including information about your browsing behavior and other engagement with the Website. Cookies are small data files stored on your hard drive or in device memory that help us improve our Services and your experience, see which areas and features of our Services are popular, and count visits. Our system will issue cookies when you direct your browser to our Website unless you have adjusted your browser setting so that it will refuse cookies. You may refuse to accept browser cookies by activating the appropriate settings on your browser. However, if you select this setting, you may be unable to access certain parts of our Website. Web beacons (also known as “pixel tags” or “clear GIFs”) are electronic images that we use on our Services and in our emails to help deliver cookies, count visits, and understand usage and campaign effectiveness.
  • Information from Third Party Services. If you create an account or access our Website using credentials from a third-party social media platform (such as Pinterest or Facebook), we have access to certain information from that platform, such as your name, email address, friends list, and public profile information, in accordance with the authorization procedures determined by that platform. Additionally, we may use third-party technologies such as Facebook Pixels and other similar social media tracking technology that provide SAS with data regarding your browsing behavior across social media applications.

 

HOW DOES SAS USE YOUR INFORMATION?

We use the information we collect about you to deliver the Services you request and customize your experience with us. We also use the information we collect to:

  • provide, maintain, and improve our Services;
  • provide you with the information you request from us;
  • facilitate and improve your online experience;
  • provide, deliver, and develop new services and/or products;
  • detect, investigate, and help prevent security incidents, fraudulent transactions, and other malicious, deceptive, fraudulent, or illegal activities and help protect the rights and property of SAS and others;
  • respond to your comments and questions and provide customer service;
  • comply with our legal and financial obligations;
  • monitor and analyze trends, usage, and activities in connection with our Services and your Website experience;
  • tailor the content and information that we send or display to you, offer location customization and personalized recommendations, help, and instructions, and otherwise personalize your experience while using our Services;
  • provide advertising and marketing targeted toward your interests;
  • compile statistical data about user locations and Website usage trends for marketing purposes;
  • carry out any other purpose conveyed to you at the time the information was collected; and
  • for any other purpose with your consent.

 

HOW DOES SAS SHARE YOUR INFORMATION?

We may share information in the following circumstances, or as otherwise described in this Policy.

  • We may share information with service providers, vendors, contractors, or agents who complete transactions or perform services on our behalf, such as those that assist us with our business and internal operations like customer service, personalization, marketing, analytics, and advertising.
    • The following third-party services are currently used by SAS for the Website:
      • Mailchimp
      • Google Analytics
      • Facebook Pixels
  • We may share and publicly display information when you participate in the interactive areas of our Website, such as posting comments and other content or writing reviews.
  • We may share information in connection with, or during negotiations concerning, any merger or acquisition of all or a portion of our business by another company, joint venture, corporate reorganization, insolvency or bankruptcy, financing or sale of company assets.
  • We may share information if we believe disclosure is in accordance with, or required by, any applicable law, regulation, or legal process.
  • We may share information between and among SAS and any current and future parents, affiliates, subsidiaries, and other entities under common control and ownership.
  • We may aggregate or de-identified information for statistical purposes, which cannot reasonably be used to identify you.

 

Please note that SAS does not sell your data to any third party. SAS only uses third-party tracking technology, such as Mail Chimp, Google Analytics, and Facebook Pixels to collect statistical data for marketing purposes and to improve services.

 

DOES SAS SHARE YOUR INFORMATION WITH SOCIAL MEDIA SITES?

The Website may offer social sharing features or other integrated tools, which let you share actions you take on the Website with other media, and vice versa. The use of such features enables the sharing of information with your friends or the public, depending on the settings you establish with the third party that provides the social sharing feature. For more information about the purpose and scope of data collection and processing in connection with social sharing features, please visit the privacy policies of the third parties that provide these features. SAS currently has accounts with the following social media platforms:

 

WHERE DOES SAS PROCESS AND STORE YOUR INFORMATION?

SAS is based in the United States. We process and store your PII through the Website on servers located in the U.S.

 

WHAT ADVERTISING AND ANALYTICS SERVICES DOES SAS USE?

We allow third parties to provide analytics services and serve advertisements on our behalf across the web and in mobile applications. These third parties may use cookies, web beacons, and other technologies to collect information about your use of the Website and other websites, including your IP address, web browser, mobile network information, pages viewed, time spent on pages, links clicked, and conversion information. In some cases, the information in these cookies and other technologies may be linked to other data we collect about you, such as your email address. This information may be used by SAS and these third parties to analyze and track data, determine the popularity of certain content, deliver advertising and content targeted to your interests on our Website and other websites and mobile applications, and better understand your online activity.

We may also work with third parties to serve ads to you as part of a customized campaign on third-party platforms (such as Facebook, Google and Pinterest). As part of these ad campaigns, we or third-party platforms may convert information about you, such as your email address and phone number, into a unique value that can be matched with a user account on these platforms to allow us to learn about your interests and to serve you advertising that is customized to your interests. Note that the third-party platforms may offer you choices about whether you see these types of customized ads.

SAS currently uses the following third-party services. You may use the links provided to view each service's privacy policy.

 

WHAT ARE YOUR PRIVACY CHOICES?

Generally

SAS is committed to adhering to privacy laws. We ask that you please contact us with your privacy-related questions or concerns at smartsupport@sasforwomen.com.

Cookies

Most web browsers are set to accept cookies by default. If you prefer, you can usually adjust your browser settings to remove or reject browser cookies. Please note that removing or rejecting cookies could affect the availability and functionality of our Services.

Email Subscriptions

Please click on the “unsubscribe” button contained in our emails to cease receiving our Email Subscriptions. Please contact us at smartsupport@sasforwomen.com if the unsubscribe button is unsuccessful in preventing further email communications and we will be happy to manually remove your email from our systems.

Social Media

Social media platforms typically ask if you want to allow sharing of your information across platforms in a “pop-up” notification when you log into your account. If you do not wish to allow the sharing of your information across platforms, then please indicate as such on the “pop-up” notification and/or visit the social media site’s privacy policy for more information on how to prevent your information from being shared across platforms.

 

GENERAL DATA PROTECTION REGULATION (“GDPR”) COMPLIANCE

(This section is provided by SAS pursuant to its commitment to adhere to privacy laws as it grows in geographic scope and does not constitute an admission by SAS that it is subject to this law as of the date first written above.)

If you are located in the European Economic Area (“EEA”), the United Kingdom, or Switzerland, the following section applies to you.

 

Legal Basis for Processing. When we process your PII, we will only do so when:

  • We need to use your PII to perform our responsibilities under any agreement with SAS to provide the Services.
  •  We have a legitimate interest in processing your PII. For example, if you are a customer, we may process your PII to send you marketing communications, to communicate with you about changes to our Services, and to provide, secure, and improve our Services.
  • We find such processing is necessary to comply with our legal obligations.
  • We have your consent to do so. When your consent is the legal basis for our processing, you may withdraw such consent at any time.

 

Data Retention. We store the information we collect about you for as long as is necessary for the purpose(s) for which we collected it or for other legitimate business purposes, including to meet our legal, regulatory, or other compliance obligations.

 

Data Subject Requests. Subject to certain limitations, you have the right to access PII we hold about you and to ask that your PII be corrected, erased, or transferred. You may also have the right to object to, or request that we restrict certain processing. If you would like to exercise any of these rights, please send an email message to smartsupport@sasforwomen.com.

 

Questions or Complaints.  If you have a concern about our processing of PII that we are not able to resolve, you have the right to lodge a complaint with the Data Protection Authority where you reside. Contact details for your Data Protection Authority can be found using the links below:

For individuals in the EEA: https://edpb.europa.eu/about-edpb/board/members_en

For individuals in the UK: https://ico.org.uk/global/contact-us/

For individuals in Switzerland: Data Protection - Switzerland (admin.ch)

For more information regarding the GDPR please visit https://www.gdpreu.org/

 

CALIFORNIA CONSUMER COMPLIANCE ACT (“CCPA”) COMPLIANCE

(This section is provided by SAS pursuant to its commitment to adhere to privacy laws as it grows in geographic scope and does not constitute an admission by SAS that it is subject to this law as of the date first written above.)

Consumers residing in California are afforded certain rights with respect to their Personally Identifiable Information under the CCPA. If you reside in California, this section applies to you.

 

Your Rights: Subject to certain limitations, you have the right to (1) request to know more about the categories and specific pieces of PII we collect, use, and disclose for a business purpose, (2) request deletion of your PII, and (3) not be discriminated against for exercising these rights.

 

Exercising Your Rights: You may send privacy-related requests to smartsupport@sasforwomen.com. We will verify your request by asking you to provide information related to your recent interactions with us, such as information regarding whether you enrolled in our Email Subscriptions or have purchased our Services. We will work with you in good faith to comply with your requests. We will not discriminate against you if you choose to exercise your rights under the CCPA.

 

Notice of Financial Incentives: We may from time to time offer various financial incentives. For example, we may provide discounts or other benefits to customers who sign up to receive our Email Subscriptions or participate in a survey. When you participate in a financial incentive, we collect PII from you, such as identifiers (like your name and email address) and commercial information (like your purchase history). You can opt into a financial incentive by following the sign-up or participation instructions provided, and, for any ongoing benefits, you have the ability to opt-out at any time, such as by following the unsubscribe instructions in our promotional emails or contacting us at smartsupport@sasforwomen.com. In some cases, we may provide additional terms and conditions for a financial incentive, which we will provide to you when you sign up. The value of your PII is reasonably related to the value of the offer or discount presented to you.

For more information regarding the CCPA please visit https://oag.ca.gov/privacy/ccpa

 

OTHER STATE LAWS

(This section is provided by SAS pursuant to its commitment to adhere to privacy laws as it grows in geographic scope and does not constitute an admission by SAS that it is subject to any state law indicated below as of the date first written above.)

For U.S. residents, below is a link to other state privacy laws that may affect your rights depending on where you reside. Please note that this website may not contain an exhaustive list of your rights in every state:

https://www.ncsl.org/research/telecommunications-and-information-technology/state-laws-related-to-internet-privacy.aspx

 

CHILDREN UNDER THE AGE OF 16

Our Website is not directed toward or intended for children under 16 years of age. We do not knowingly collect personal information from children under 16. If you are under 16, parental consent is required for you to provide any information on this Website, make any purchases through the Website, use any of the interactive or public comment features of this Website, or provide any information about yourself to us, including your name, address, telephone number, email address, or any screen name or username you may use. If we learn we have collected or received personal information from a child under 16 without verification of parental consent, we will delete that information. If you believe we might have any information from or about a child under 16, please contact us at smartsupport@sasforwomen.com.

 

CONTACT US

You can contact us at: smartsupport@sasforwomen.com