Privacy policy

INFORMATION COLLECTION AND USE

Beeandyou.com is the sole owner of the information collected on this site. We will not sell, share, or rent this information to any outside parties, except as outlined in this policy. We collect information from our customers to process orders and better serve them with pertinent information, such as order confirmations and order status updates. This information includes their name, shipping address, billing address, telephone numbers, email address, and payment information such as their credit card number. We also require them to submit a username and password of their choice for their future access to their account information. To safeguard that their username and password remain confidential, they should not share this information with anyone. If they elect to receive our special promotions, their contact information will be used for the delivery of these items. We allow third-party companies to collect non-personally identifiable information when customers visit our site. These companies typically use a cookie or web beacon to collect this information to provide advertisements likely to be of interest to them. Our site does not respond to “Do Not Track” signals or mechanisms.

REGISTRATION AND ORDERING

In order to process your orders placed on this website, you must first complete the registration form. During registration, you will be required to provide your contact information, including your name, e-mail address, and telephone number. This personal information is used for billing purposes, to fulfill your orders, to communicate with you about your order and the website, and for internal marketing purposes. If we encounter a problem when processing your order, your personal information may be used to contact you.

COOKIES AND OTHER TECHNOLOGY

Like many sites, the Site employs cookies and web beacons (also known as clear GIF technology or "action tags") to speed up your navigation of the Site, recognize you and your access privileges, and track your Site usage.

1. Cookies are small pieces of information that are stored as text files by your Internet browser on your computer's hard drive. Most Internet browsers are initially set to accept cookies. You can set your browser to refuse cookies from web sites or to remove cookies from your hard drive, but if you do, you will not be able to access or use certain parts of the Site. We have to use cookies to enable you to select products, place them in an online shopping cart, and to purchase those products. If you do this, we keep a record of your browsing activity and purchase. THE SITE’S COOKIES DO NOT AND CANNOT INFILTRATE A USER’S HARD DRIVE TO GATHER A USER’S CONFIDENTIAL INFORMATION . Our cookies are not “spyware.”
2. Web beacons assist in delivering cookies and help us determine whether a web page on the Site has been viewed and, if so, how many times. For example, any electronic image on the Site, such as an ad banner, can function as a web beacon.
3. We may use third-party advertising companies to help tailor site content to users or to serve ads on our behalf. These companies may employ cookies and web beacons to measure advertising effectiveness, such as which web pages are visited or what products are purchased and in what amount. Any information that these third parties collect via cookies and web beacons is not linked to any personal information collected by us.
4. For example, Facebook collects certain information via cookies and web beacons to determine which web pages are visited or what products are purchased. Please note that any information collected by Facebook via cookies and web beacons is not linked to any customer's personal information collected by us.

LOG FILES

As is true of most websites, the site server automatically recognizes the internet URL from which you access the site. We may also log your internet protocol (IP) address, internet service provider, and date/time stamp for system administration, order verification, internal marketing, and system troubleshooting purposes. (An IP address may indicate the location of your computer on the internet.)

CHILDREN

We respect children's privacy. We do not knowingly or intentionally collect personal information from children under the age of 13. If you are under the age of 13, please do not submit any personal information to us, and rely on a parent or guardian to assist you.

INFORMATION USE AND DISCLOSURE

1. Internal Use. We use your personal information to process your order and provide you with customer service. We may also use it internally to improve the Sites' content and layout, to improve outreach and for our own marketing efforts (including marketing our services and products to you), and to determine general marketplace information about visitors to the Site. To facilitate such use and other uses described, we may share your information with affiliates under bee-and-you.com, Inc.'s control.
2. Communications with You: We will use your personal information to communicate with you about the Site and your orders and deliveries and may send you a confirmation email when you register with us. We may also send you service-related announcements on rare occasions when it is necessary. You may submit your email address for reasons such as to register for a contest or sweepstakes, to request us to notify you of new brands, new product styles, or product sizes, or to sign up for email newsletters and special offers. If you submit your email address, we use it to deliver the information to you.
3. External Use. External Use. We want to provide you with excellent service and to offer you a great selection. We do not sell, rent, trade, license or otherwise disclose your specific personal information or financial information to anyone other than to affiliates under bee-and-you.com, Inc.’s control, except that:

a)As do most catalog and internet retailers, we sometimes use third parties to perform specific functions on our behalf. When we disclose information to these service providers, we do so to help them to perform their service. For example, in order to deliver products to you, we must share some information. We partner with third parties to ship products, to ensure delivery, and to obtain feedback, improve the quality of our service, and measure and improve the quality of the service of the third party. In the example of shippers, we provide them with some personally identifiable information such as your name, shipping address, email, and phone number.

b)Similarly, to help you buy products and provide customer service, we must provide your credit card number to financial-service corporations such as credit-card processors and issuers. When we submit your credit card number for authorization, we use state-of-the-art data encryption to protect your information.

c)We may disclose such information in response to requests from law enforcement officials conducting investigations, subpoenas, a court order, or if we are otherwise required to disclose such information by law. We also will release personal information where disclosure is necessary to protect our legal rights, enforce our Conditions of Use or other agreements, or to protect ourselves or others. For example, we may share information to reduce the risk of fraud or if someone uses or attempts to use the site for illegal or fraudulent purposes.

d)We will not sell, trade, or rent personally identifiable information to other companies as part of our regular course of business. However, it is possible that we might acquire, merge with, or be acquired by another company, or that we might dispose of some or all of our assets. If this happens, your personal information may be disclosed to another company, but this disclosure will be subject to the Privacy Policy in effect.

e)We may share non-personal information, such as the number of daily visitors to a particular web page or the size of an order placed on a certain date, with third parties such as advertising partners. This information does not directly identify you or any user personally.

f)We may publicly disclose the names, cities, and states of the contest and sweepstakes winners.

DATA SECURITY

The Site incorporates physical, electronic, and administrative procedures to safeguard the confidentiality of your personal information, including Secure Sockets Layer (“SSL”) for all financial transactions through the Site. We use SSL encryption to protect your personal information online, and we also take several steps to protect your personal information in our facilities. Access to your personal information is restricted; only employees who need access to your personal information to perform a specific job are granted access to it. Finally, we rely on third-party service providers for the physical security of some of our computer hardware, and we believe that their security procedures are adequate. For example, when you visit the Site, you access servers that are kept in a secure physical environment, behind a locked cage and an electronic firewall.

OFFLINE COLLECTION, USE & DISCLOSURE OF INFORMATION

As you might expect from us, the majority of information that we collect is obtained through the Site, and this Privacy Policy applies only to that online collection of personal information. We also may collect information offline, and we try to protect the privacy of your personal information in these instances as well. For example, when someone calls us to place an order or to ask questions, we will only ask for the personal information we need in order to place the order or to answer the question. When we need to store information (such as order information), we will enter it into our database through SSL encryption. If someone faxes something to us, we will act upon the fax and then either store it in a locked repository or shred the fax if there is no need to retain the information. There may be other ways we could learn of personal information offline (for example, someone could send us a letter including some return address information), and this Policy does not discuss or try to predict all of those methods or uses. However, we will try to treat offline collection, uses, and disclosures consistently with our relevant online practices.

UPDATED TO THIS POLICY

If we change or update this Privacy Policy, we will post the changes and updates on the Site so that you are always aware of the information we collect, use, and disclose. We encourage you to review this Privacy Policy periodically, so you know if it has been changed or updated. If you have any questions about the Privacy Policy, please contact us at info@beeandyou.com.

We value your privacy and the information you consent to share in relation to our SMS marketing service. We use this information to send you text notifications (for your order, including abandoned checkout reminders), text marketing offers, and transactional texts, including requests for reviews from us.Opt-in data and consent for text messaging will not be shared with any third parties except for messaging partners,for the purpose of enabling and operating our text messaging program.

Opt-in data and consent for text messaging will not be shared with any third-parties except for messaging partners, for the purpose of enabling and operating our text messaging program.

Our website uses cookies to keep track of items you put into your shopping cart, including when you have abandoned your checkout. This information is used to determine when to send cart reminder messages via SMS.