Privacy Policy

EFFECTIVE DATE: 09/03/2024 LAST UPDATED: 09/03/2024

We are Sift LLC, a California limited liability company (“Sift”, “Company” “We”, “Our”, and “Us”). We operate the website www.withsift.com. Our address is 2309 Noriega St #1016, San Francisco, CA 94122. This Privacy Policy along with our General Terms of Use and Return Policy set forth the legal terms and conditions on which we allow you to access our Website. By accessing, browsing or otherwise using our Website you accept this Privacy Policy, the General Terms of Use and Return Policy, without limitation or qualification. If you do not accept this Privacy Policy, you are not entitled to access or use the Website and you should leave this Website immediately.

We at Sift value and respect your privacy. This Privacy Policy explains how we use the personal data that we gather through or related to your use of our Website (whether as a registered user, customer, or guest) and the measures we take to protect the security of this information. It also describes the choices available to you regarding our use of your personal information and how you can access and update it. We reserve the right to change this policy at any time which we will do by updating this policy online or notifying you by email.

INFORMATION WE COLLECT

We may obtain personal information about you from various sources including from Our Website or via Our social media channels. We may also collect certain information about your device or usage by automated means including using technologies such as cookies, web server logs and web beacons.

INFORMATION YOU PROVIDE TO US

You may choose to provide personal information to Us in a number of ways, such as when you participate in an offer or promotion, or when you make a purchase on Our Website. The types of personal information you may provide to us include:

  • Your name and contact details including postal address, email address, mobile or other phone number, and mobile service provider

  • Billing information (including payment card number, expiration date, delivery address and billing address)

  • Expressed personal preferences (including communications and language settings); Age and date of birth

  • Gender; pronouns

  • ACCOUNT INFORMATION including your username, password, security questions and other information used for account security purposes

  • Purchase history

  • Product preferences

  • Your physical characteristics and skincare concerns

  • Content you provide

  • Information provided to Us through social media networks

  • Preference information such as order history, marketing preferences, and reminder and notification preferences

  • Correspondence and communications between Us and you

  • Product reviews

  • Quiz answers

  • Personal care routines and other preferred brands

  • CUSTOMER SUPPORT INFORMATION including the information you choose to include in communications with us, for example, when sending a message through the Services

INFORMATION WE COLLECT FROM YOUR USE OF THE WEBSITE BY AUTOMATED MEANS

 When you visit this Website, view or click on Our online advertisements (including any advertisements on third party websites) or visit our social media pages, we may also collect certain information about your usage or device by automated means or by using technologies such as cookies, pixels and similar technologies (“Cookies”). Usage Data may include information about how you access and use our Site and your account, including device information, browser information, information about your network connection, your IP address and other information regarding your interaction with the Services.

  • Technical information including your computer’s IP address, browser type and version, time zone setting, browser plug-in types and versions, operating system and platform; and

  • Information about your visit, including the URL clickstream to, through and from our Website (including date and time); products you viewed or searched for; page response times, download errors, length of visits to certain pages, page interaction information (such as scrolling, clicks, and mouse-overs), and methods used to browse away from the page.

INFORMATION WE OBTAIN FROM THIRD PARTIES

Finally, we may obtain information about you from third parties, including from vendors and service providers who may collect information on our behalf, such as:

  • Companies who support our Site and Services, such as Shopify.

     

  • Our payment processors, who collect payment information (e.g., bank account, credit or debit card information, billing address) to process your payment in order to fulfill your orders and provide you with products or services you have requested, in order to perform our contract with you.

  • When you visit our Site, open or click on emails we send you, or interact with our Services or advertisements, we, or third parties we work with, may automatically collect certain information using online tracking technologies such as pixels, web beacons, software developer kits, third-party libraries, and cookies.

Any information we obtain from third parties will be treated in accordance with this Privacy Policy. Also see the section below, THIRD PARTY WEBSITES AND LINKS. 

HOW WE USE THE INFORMATION

We may use the information you provide to:

  • PROVIDING PRODUCTS AND SERVICES. We use your personal information to provide you with the Services in order to perform our contract with you, including to process your payments, fulfill your orders, send notifications to you related to your account, purchases, returns, exchanges or other transactions, create, maintain and otherwise manage your account, arrange for shipping, facilitate any returns and exchanges and other features and functionalities related to your account. We may also enhance your shopping experience by enabling Shopify to match your account with other Shopify services that you may choose to use. In this case, Shopify will process your information as set forth in its Privacy Policy and Consumer Privacy Policy.

  • Order management and fulfillment and to complete any contractual arrangements between Us and you

  • Transaction processing (including the processing of your payment details, credit checks and fraud prevention activities). These checks may be required, among other things, to verify your identity, to validate your credit or debit card, to obtain an initial credit or debit card authorization and/or to authorize individual purchases

  • Website and business analysis, administration and management

  • Sending you communications via email – should you elect affirmatively to sign up and receive – about our products, services and promotions (including service updates) and making product or service recommendations to you

  • Provide services to you

  • Create and manage any online account

  • Customizing the Website to suit your preferences

  • Assist with product selection and replenishment

  • Administer any loyalty or membership program

  • Respond to your inquiries

  • Tailor ads displayed to you on the Website and elsewhere tailored to you

  • Communicate with you about, and administer your participation in, special events and other offers

  • Operate, evaluate and improve Our business (including developing new products and services, managing Our communications, analyzing Our products, performing data analytics, and performing accounting, auditing and other internal functions)

  • Comply with applicable legal requirements and/or obligations, relevant industry standards and our policies

  • We may also use the information in other ways for which we provide specific notice at the time of collection

  • To protect or defend the Services, our rights, and the rights of our users or others

  • SECURITY AND FRAUD PREVENTION. We use your personal information to detect, investigate or take action regarding possible fraudulent, illegal or malicious activity. If you choose to use the Services and register an account, you are responsible for keeping your account credentials safe. We highly recommend that you do not share your username, password, or other access details with anyone else. If you believe your account has been compromised, please contact us immediately

  • Keeping the Website secure

  • Collecting money owed to us

We may share your information with other Sift affiliates and with our suppliers and service providers for the purposes outlined in this Privacy Policy. We do not sell or rent lists or sell or otherwise disclose personal information that we collect about you, except as provided herein.

  • We may share your personal information with companies that perform services for us such as fulfilling orders, shipping, sending postal mail and emails, analyzing customer data, marketing assistance, processing payments, investigating fraudulent activity, conducting customer surveys, and providing customer service;

  • If We or substantially all of Our assets are acquired by a third party, in which case personal data held by Us about our customers will be one of the transferred assets that may be disclosed to the prospective and eventual buyers;

  • If We are under a duty to disclose or share your personal data in order to comply with any legal obligation, or in order to enforce or apply Our Terms of Use or any other agreements; or to protect the rights, property, or safety of Sift, Our affiliates, Our customers, or others. This includes exchanging information with other companies and organizations for the purposes of fraud protection and credit risk reduction; and

  • We may also share aggregate or anonymous non-personal information with third parties for their marketing or analytics uses.

We may use the information gathered through automated means for:

  • Market research;

  • Data analytics system administration purposes such as to determine if you are new or have visited Our Website;

  • Tailoring ads; and

  • Compliance with legal obligations, policies and procedures.

  • We also may use the information in other ways and if so specific notice will be provided at the time of collection,

TECHNOLOGIES WE USE

COOKIES, WEB SERVER LOGS AND WEB BEACONS


Like many websites, we use Cookies on our Site. For specific information about the Cookies that we use related to powering our store with Shopify, see https://www.shopify.com/legal/cookies. We use Cookies to power and improve our Site and our Services (including to remember your actions and preferences), to run analytics and better understand user interaction with the Services (in our legitimate interests to administer, improve and optimize the Services). We may also permit third parties and services providers to use Cookies on our Site to better tailor the services, products and advertising on our Site and other websites.

Most browsers automatically accept Cookies by default, but you can choose to set your browser to remove or reject Cookies through your browser controls. Please keep in mind that removing or blocking Cookies can negatively impact your user experience and may cause some of the Services, including certain features and general functionality, to work incorrectly or no longer be available. Additionally, blocking Cookies may not completely prevent how we share information with third parties such as our advertising partners.

Please note that while your browser may allow you to transmit a “do not track” signal, like many websites, our Site is not designed to respond to such signals. To learn more about “do not track” signals, you can visit http://www.allaboutdnt.com/.

 

THIRD PARTY WEB ANALYTICS SERVICES

 

We may use third party web analytics services on the Website. The service providers that administer these services use technologies such as cookies, web server logs and web beacons to help us analyze how visitors use the Website. The information collected through these means (including IP address) is disclosed to these service providers, who use the information to evaluate the Website. You may deactivate the ability of these analytics services to analyze your browsing activities on this Website.

 

THIRD PARTY WEBSITES

Our Website may contain links to third party websites. The links to third party websites or locations are for your convenience only and do not signify our endorsement of such third parties or their products, content or websites. When you click on a link to any other website or location, you will leave Our Website and go to another site and that site may collect your personal data. We have no control over and are not responsible for these outside sites and their content. This Privacy Policy does not apply to those outside sites and their collection of your personal data. We encourage you to read their privacy policies before using those websites.

TARGETED ADVERTISING

We also may contract with third-party advertising networks that collect IP addresses and other information through the use of cookies, web server logs and web beacons on Our website and emails, on third-party websites and emails and on our advertising placed on third party websites. They use this information to provide advertisements tailored to your interests.

YOUR RIGHTS

  • RIGHT OF PORTABILITY: You may have a right to receive a copy of the personal information we hold about you and to request that we transfer it to a third party, in certain circumstances and with certain exceptions.

  • MANAGING COMMUNICATION PREFERENCES: We may send you promotional emails, and you may opt out of receiving these at any time by using the unsubscribe option displayed in our emails to you. If you opt out, we may still send you non-promotional emails, such as those about your account or orders that you have made.

CALIFORNIA LAWS

CALIFORNIA DO NOT TRACK NOTICE

 

Under California law. Website and online service operators are required to disclose how they respond to web browser “do not track” signals or other similar mechanisms that provide consumers the ability to exercise choice regarding the collection of personal information about a consumer’s online activities over time and across third-party websites. We currently do not change Our tracking practices on response to ‘”do-not-track” signals or other similar mechanisms.

California law also requires websites and online service operators to disclose whether third parties may collect personal information about their users online activities over time and across different sites when the users use the operator’s website or services. Third parties that have content or services on Our Site such as a social feature, analytics, service or an advertising network partner, may obtain information about your browsing or usage habits but this information does not include personal information. These third parties do no change their tracking practices in response to ”do-not-track” signals from your web browser and we do not obligate these parties to honor ”do-not-track” signals. To learn more about browser tracking signals and ”do-not-track” signals please visit allaboutdnt.org.

CALIFORNIA PRIVACY NOTICES

If you are a California resident and a registered user of the Site, you can request that we

  • provide you with access to a copy of the personal information we have about you

  • delete your personal information

  • correct personal information

  • limit the use or disclosure of your sensitive personal information

Please note that responding to your request may not ensure complete or comprehensive removal from Our Website. To request removal of content or information, please contact us at privacy@withsift.com. If we are unable to comply with the request in whole or in part we will notify you with reasons for the denial.

SHINE THE LIGHT LAW

California’s “Shine the Light” law (Civil Code Section 1798.83) permits users of this Website that are California residents to request certain information regarding Our disclosure of personal information to third parties for their direct marketing purposes. To make a request under this law, please send an email to privacy@withsift.com.

INTERNATIONAL USERS

Please note that the Website is directed towards users who reside in the United States, as well as users who reside outside the United States. By using the Website, you consent to the collection, storage, processing, and transfer of your information in and to the United States, or other countries and territories, pursuant to the laws of the United States. Some of these countries may not offer the same level of privacy protection as your own. Any such transfers will comply with safeguards as required by relevant law. If applicable, you may have a right to claim compensation for damages caused by a breach of relevant data protection laws.

The provisions of this Section are intended to comply with the provisions of the GDPR, and should be interpreted in a manner to be consistent therewith.

If you are a resident of the EEU or Switzerland, the following information applies:

  • Right to lodge a complaint Users that reside in the EEA or Switzerland have the right to lodge a complaint about Our data collection and processing actions with the supervisory authority concerned. Contact details for data protection authorities are available here.

  • Purposes of processing and legal basis for processing As explained above, we process personal data as defined under data protection laws in various ways depending upon your use of the Website. We process personal data on the following legal bases: (1) with your consent; (2) as necessary to sell products; and (3) as necessary for Our legitimate interest in operating the Website where those interests do not override your fundamental rights and freedom related to data privacy.

  • Transfers Personal information we collect may be transferred to, and stored and processed in, the United States or any other country in which We or Our affiliates or subcontractors maintain facilities. Upon the start of enforcement of the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), We will ensure that transfers of personal information to a third country or an international organization are subject to appropriate safeguards as described in Article 46 of the GDPR.

INDIVIDUAL RIGHTS

If you are a resident of the EEA or Switzerland, you are entitled to the following rights, which may be exercised by contacting Us as described below. In order to verify your identity, We may require you to provide Us with personal information prior to accessing any records containing information about you.

  • The right to request data erasure. You have the right to have your data erased from our website if the data is no longer necessary for the purpose for which it was collected, you withdraw consent and no other legal basis for processing exists, or you believe your fundamental rights to data privacy and protection outweigh our legitimate interest in continuing the processing.

  • The right to restrict or object to our processing. You have the right to restrict or object to our processing if we are processing your data based on legitimate interests or the performance of a task in the public interest as an exercise of official authority (including profiling); using your data for direct marketing (including profiling); or processing your data for purposes of scientific or historical research and statistics.

CHILDREN’S DATA

  • The Services are not intended to be used by children, and we do not knowingly collect any personal information about children. If you are the parent or guardian of a child who has provided us with their personal information, you may contact us using the contact details set out below to request that it be deleted.

  • As of the Effective Date of this Privacy Policy, we do not have actual knowledge that we “share” or “sell” (as those terms are defined in applicable law) personal information of individuals under 16 years of age.

HOW WE PROTECT PERSONAL INFORMATION

We maintain appropriate administrative, technical and physical safeguards designed to protect your personal information against accidental, unlawful or unauthorized destruction, loss, alteration, access, disclosure or use. However, no security system is perfect and we cannot promise that information about you will remain secure in all circumstances, including the security of your data during transmission to Us or the security of data on your mobile device.

In addition, any information you send to us may not be secure while in transit. We recommend that you do not use insecure channels to communicate sensitive or confidential information to us.

How long we retain your personal information depends on different factors, such as whether we need the information to maintain your account, to provide the Services, comply with legal obligations, resolve disputes or enforce other applicable contracts and policies.

LINKS TO OTHER WEBSITES

Our website may provide links to other websites, including social media sites. for your convenience and information that operate independently from Us. All linked sites may have their own privacy notices and/or policies. We strongly suggest you review those policies if you visit any linked websites. To the extent any linked websites you visit are not owned by Us, We are not responsible for the privacy practices of the site, the content of the site, or any use of the site

UPDATES TO OUR PRIVACY POLICY

This Privacy Policy may be updated periodically and without prior notice to you. Any changes to this Privacy Policy will be posted on this page. We reserve the right to modify this Privacy Policy at any time, so please review it frequently. Changes and clarifications will take effect immediately upon their posting on the website. YOUR CONTINUED USE OF THIS WEBSITE FOLLOWING POSTING OF ANY CHANGES OR MODIFICATIONS CONSTITUTES YOUR ACCEPTANCE OF SUCH CHANGES OR MODIFICATIONS. IF YOU DO NOT AGREE WITH THESE CHANGES OR MODIFICATIONS, YOU MUST IMMEDIATELY CEASE USING THE WEBSITE.

HOW TO CONTACT US

If you have any questions about this Privacy Policy, our privacy or security practices, or you would like to request access to or a correction to your personal information, please contact us via email at legal@withsift.com. Our address is 2309 Noriega St #1016, San Francisco, CA 94122. Your right to access or correct your personal information is subject to applicable legal restrictions. We may take reasonable steps to verify your identity before granting access or making corrections.