Privacy Policy

Last modified: January 4, 2023.

Introduction

Mark Broumand, Inc. (“Mark Broumand,” “we,” “our,” or “us”), respects your privacy and is committed to protecting your privacy. This Privacy Policy describes the information we may collect from you or that you may provide to us when you visit www.markbroumand.com (“Website”) and our practices for collecting, using, maintaining, protecting, and disclosing that information.

This policy applies to information we collect:

  • On this Website.
  • In email, text, and other electronic messages between you and this Website.

This policy does not apply to information collected by:

  • Us offline or through any other means, including on any other website operated by Mark Broumand or any third party, including our affiliates and subsidiaries.
  • Any third party, including our affiliates and subsidiaries, including through any application or content (including advertising) that may link to or be accessible from or through this Website.

Please read this policy carefully to understand our policies and practices regarding your information and what we will do with it. If you do not agree with our policies and practices, you may choose not to use the Website. By accessing or using this Website, you agree to this Privacy Policy. This Privacy Policy may change from time to time (see the “Changes to Our Privacy Policy” section). Your continued use of this Website after we make changes means that you accept and agree to those changes, so please check this Privacy Policy periodically for updates.

Information We Collect

We collect several types of information from and about users of our Website, including:

  • Information by which you may be personally identified, such as name, postal address, email address, telephone number, government-issued identification information, or any other identifier by which you may be contacted online or offline (“personal information”).
  • Information that is about you but individually does not identify you, such as account access credentials, demographic data, profile data, payment and transaction data, and content provided from contacting or interacting with us.
  • Data about your internet connection, location, usage of the Website, device connectivity and configurations, IP addresses and device identifiers, and other information collected through cookies, web beacons, and other tracking technologies.

We collect this information:

  • Directly from you when you provide it to us.
  • Automatically as you navigate through the site.
  • From third parties, for example, our business partners.

Information You Provide

The information we collect on or through our Website includes:

  • Contact Data. We collect contact information that you provide by filling in forms on our Website. This includes information provided at the time of registering to use our Website, posting material, or requesting further services. We may also ask you for information when you enter a contest or promotion sponsored by us or when you report a problem with our Website.
  • Account Credentials. We collect passwords and other information for authentication and account access.
  • Demographic Data. We collect demographic information such as your age, birth month and day, gender, and country.
  • Profile Data. We collect your interests, favorites, wish lists, ring size preferences, and other profile data. 
  • Payment and Transaction Data. We collect payment data, including credit card numbers and bank account numbers and any associated security codes and expiration dates. 
  • Content. We collect the content you provide from contacting or interacting with us. For example, if you contact us, we collect records and copies of your correspondence (including email addresses).
  • Contacts. We collect information about your contacts to fulfill a request by you. For example, when you email a product to a friend or refer a friend through the Website, we request that you provide your and your friend’s names and email addresses. This information will be used in ways consistent with this Privacy Policy.

Information Collected Automatically

As you navigate through and interact with our Website, we may use automatic data collection technologies to collect certain information about your device, browsing actions, and patterns, including:

  • Service Use Data. We collect details of your visits to our Website, including traffic data, location data, logs, and other communication data and the resources that you access and use on the Website.
  • Device Connectivity and Configuration Data. We collect information about your device and internet connection, including your IP address, operating system, and browser type.

Information collected automatically may include personal information. Such information helps us to improve our Website and to deliver a better and more personalized service, including by enabling us to:

  • Estimate our audience size and usage patterns.
  • Store information about your preferences, allowing us to customize our Website according to your individual interests.
  • Speed up your searches.
  • Recognize you when you return to our Website.

The technologies we use for this automatic data collection include:

  • Cookies. A cookie is a small file stored by your browser on your device’s hard drive. You may refuse to accept browser cookies by activating the appropriate setting on your browser. However, if you select this setting you may be unable to access certain parts of our Website. Unless you have adjusted your browser setting so that it will refuse cookies, our system will issue cookies when you direct your browser to our Website.
  • Web Beacons. Pages of our Website may contain small electronic files known as web beacons (also referred to as clear gifs, pixel tags, and single-pixel gifs) that permit us, for example, to count users who have visited those pages and for other related website statistics, such as the popularity of certain website content.

Third-Party Use of Tracking Technologies

Some content or applications, including advertisements, on the Website are served by third parties, including advertisers, ad networks and servers, content providers, and application providers. These third parties may use cookies alone or in conjunction with web beacons or other tracking technologies to collect information about you when you use our Website. The information they collect may be associated with your personal information or they may collect information, including personal information, about your online activities over time and across different websites and other online services. They may use this information to provide you with interest-based (behavioral) advertising or other targeted content.

We do not control these third parties’ tracking technologies or how they may be used. If you have any questions about an advertisement or other targeted content, you should contact the responsible provider directly. For information about how you can opt out of receiving targeted advertising from many providers, see the “Your Rights and Choices” section.

Use of Your Information

We collect and use your information for business purposes, including to:

  • Improve our products and services, marketing and promotional efforts, and our Website and its contents.
  • Provide you with information, products, or services that you request from us, such as to process and fulfill your order, to respond to your comments, question, and requests, and to provide customer service.
  • Develop and send you direct marketing, including advertisements and communications about our products, promotions, events, and services, through different channels such as email, SMS/MMS text messaging, and postal mail, to the extent you have opted into such communications as may be required by law.
  • Conduct market research.
  • Monitor and analyze usage, activities, patterns, and trends. We may anonymize your information so that it can no longer be associated with you.
  • Carry out our obligations and enforce our rights arising from any contracts entered into between you and us, including for billing and collection.
  • Notify you about changes to our Website or any products or services we offer or provide though it.
  • Fulfill any other business or commercial purpose disclosed to you with your consent. 

Sharing of Your Information

We may share aggregated information about our users without restriction.

We may share your personal information as follows:

  • Service Providers. We may share your information with contractors and other service providers for various aspects of our business, including but not limited to shipping, data management, web hosting, fulfillment, assembly, marketing, emailing, mailing, and payment processing. These service providers receive personal information only as needed to perform their services and are not authorized to use any personal information for any other purpose.
  • Affiliates. We may share your information with related entities such as parent or subsidiary companies for business purposes.
  • Business Partners. We may share your information with our business partners in connection with joint marketing activities. For example, we may share your information with a business partner for purposes of providing financing for the purchase of Mark Broumand products.
  • Special Events: If you choose to participate in a special event, such as a promotion, contest, or sweepstakes, we may share your personal information with organizations participating in the event. Unless we tell you otherwise, these third parties do not use your information for any purpose other than to manage the event. In some cases, these promotional partners may send you information about products and services that may be of interest to you.
  • Business Transfer. We may share your information with a buyer or other successor in any merger, divestiture, restructuring, reorganization, dissolution, or other sale or transfer of some or all of Mark Broumand’s assets, whether as a going concern or as part of bankruptcy, liquidation, or similar proceeding, in which personal information held by Mark Broumand about our Website users is among the assets transferred.
  • Security, Compliance with Law, and Fraud Protection: We may share your information as we deem necessary, in our sole discretion, to comply with any court order, law, or legal process, including to respond to any governmental or regulatory request. We may also share your information to investigate, prevent, or take action regarding suspected illegal activity such as fraud or to protect the rights, property, or safety of us, our employees, customers, or any other person. We may also share your information with other companies or organizations for fraud protection and credit-risk reduction. We may also share your information to enforce any agreement we have with you, including for billing and collection purposes.
  • Consent. We may share your information for any other business or commercial purpose disclosed to you and with your consent.

Children

Our Website is not intended for children under the age of 16. We do not knowingly collect personal information from children under 16. If you are under 16, do not use or provide any information on this Website or through any of its features, register on the 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, postal address, telephone number, email address, or any screen name or user name 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 contact@markbroumand.com.

Your Rights and Choices

  • Tracking Technologies. You can set your browser to refuse all or some browser cookies or to alert you when cookies are being sent. Please note that if you disable or refuse cookies, some parts of this Website may not function properly.
  • Do Not Track. Your browser settings may allow you to automatically transmit do-not-track requests to websites you visit. No industry consensus yet exists for how website operators should respond to such requests. Accordingly, unless the law is interpreted to require us to do so, we do not monitor or respond to do-not-track signals or other similar mechanisms. For more information on “Do Not Track,” visit www.allaboutdnt.com.
  • Promotional Communications. To opt out of receiving promotional emails, mailings, telephone calls, or other communications, please follow the unsubscribe instructions in the email or contact us at contact@markbroumand.com. Opting out of promotional communications does not affect our non-promotional communications with you, including those related to your account, a product purchase, or other business transactions. 
  • Third-Party Advertising. If you do not want us to share your personal information with unaffiliated or non-agent third parties for marketing purposes, you can opt out by sending us an email with your request to contact@markbroumand.com.
  • Targeted Advertising. If you do not want us to use information that we collect or that you provide to us to deliver advertisements according to our advertisers’ target-audience preferences, you can opt out by sending us an email with your request to contact@markbroumand.com.
  • Online Behavioral Advertising. We do not control third parties’ collection or use of your information to deliver online behavioral advertising, also called interest-based advertising. However, these third parties may provide you with ways to choose not to have your information collected or used in this way. You can opt out of receiving targeted advertising from members of the Network Advertising Initiative (NAI) or Digital Advertising Alliance (DAA) on their respective websites.

Residents of certain states, such as Nevada, may have additional rights. Please see the “Nevada Privacy Rights” section for more information.

Accessing and Correcting Your Information

You can review and change your personal information by logging into the Website and visiting your account page. You may also send an email to contact@markbroumand.com to request access to, correct, or delete any personal information you have provided to us. We cannot delete your personal information except by also deleting your user account. We may not grant a request to change information if we believe the change would violate any law or cause the information to be incorrect.

Residents of certain states, such as Nevada, may have additional rights. Please see the “Nevada Privacy Rights” section for more information.

Nevada Privacy Rights

Nevada residents have a limited right to opt out of sales of certain kinds of personal information. If you are a Nevada resident and wish to exercise this right, you may submit a request to contact@markbroumand.com. 

Mark Broumand does not sell your personal information.

Data Security

No transmission of information over the internet can be guaranteed to be completely secure. Although we do our best to protect your personal information, we cannot guarantee the security of your personal information transmitted to our Website. Any transmission of personal information is at your own risk.

International Transfer

This Website is operated from the United States. Information collected on this Website may be stored and processed in the United States or any other country in which Mark Broumand or its affiliates, subsidiaries, service providers, or agents maintain facilities. Data protection laws in the U.S. and other jurisdictions may be different from those of your country of residence. By using this Website, you consent to the transfer to and from, processing, usage, sharing, and storage of your information in the U.S. and other jurisdictions as set forth in this Privacy Policy.

Changes to Our Privacy Policy

The date this Privacy Policy was last revised is identified at the top of the page. We may occasionally revise this Privacy Policy to reflect changes in our practices. Any revised privacy policy will be posted on this page with a revised “last modified” date. If any changes are material, we may notify you by email at your account’s designated email address. You are responsible for ensuring that we have a valid email address for you and for periodically visiting our Website and Privacy Policy to check for any changes.

Contact Us

If you have questions or comments about this Privacy Policy, contact us at contact@markbroumand.com, 866-676-9676, or Mark Broumand, 628 1/2 South Hill Street, Los Angeles, California 90014.