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Privacy Policy

Last modified: November 8, 2023

This Privacy Policy describes how BADS.CO owned by STOYKOFF LLC (“we”, “us” or “our”) collects, uses and protects the personal information of our customers, clients and visitors (collectively “Users” or “you”) who use our website located at https://bads.co/ and any subdomains of it (collectively the “Website”) and any of the products and services we offer on our Website (collectively the “Products and Services”). We value the privacy of our Users and are committed to meet the existing privacy standards required by law.

This Privacy Policy does NOT apply to the collection and use of information by third-party companies and individuals that STOYKOFF LLC does not control, employ or manage. If you visit a website that we mention or link to, please be sure to review its privacy policy before providing your personal information.

We reserve the right to make changes to our Privacy Policy at any given time. Please make sure you visit this page frequently to stay up to date with the latest changes. By visiting and using our Website and our Products and Services, you acknowledge and agree that your personal information will be handled as described in the latest version of this Privacy Policy.

 

INFORMATION WE COLLECT

INFORMATION YOU VOLUNTARILY PROVIDE TO US

    • Information you may provide during any registration or purchase process such as your names, email addresses, phone numbers, shipping and billing addresses.

    • Information you provide when you email or contact us via our contact form.

    • Debit and/or credit cards and other payment information as well as billing and shipping addresses when you purchase any of our Products and Services.

INFORMATION WE COLLECT AUTOMATICALLY

We collect some information automatically when you use our Website and our Products and Services through cookies, pixels, web beacons or other tracking technologies and mechanisms. Generally speaking, these are small data files placed on your device that enable some website’s features and functionality and can also track your activity on and usage of the websites you visit. For more general information on cookies, please read All About Cookies.

Some of the information we may collect automatically includes:

    • Your IP address; geographic location; browser type and operating system; device type and model and device ID; the length of time you visit our Website; the referring URL (the webpages and links that lead you to our Website).

    • Web pages, text, images, audio and video content you view as well as any links, buttons or other elements you click on the Website.

We may combine any information we collect about you with other information we have about you to help us update, expand and analyze our records, identify new customers, and provide products and services that may be of interest to you.

COOKIES AND TRACKING MECHANISMS WE USE

We and our third-party service providers, partners and vendors use different tracking technologies on our Website for different purposes, like certain website functionalities, features and personalization to make your experience better, website analytics to help us understand our Users and how they engage with our website better, advertising that leads to our Website or advertising on our Website that leads to a third-party website, app, product or service. We use persistent cookies, which are stored on your device between sessions and help us recognize you and may remember your preferences and actions across multiple sites and visits as well as session cookies which expire at the end of your browser session.

We use Google Analytics to help us understand how our Users engage with our Website, what marketing efforts successfully lead Users to our Website, and other similar information that Google provides. We use this information to compile reports with different sets of data that can help us improve our Website and our Products and Services. The reports provide trends and different statistics (for example, how many people visited a certain page) and do not identify individual users.

To learn more about Google’s privacy policies and technologies, you can visit https://policies.google.com. To provide you with more choice on how your data is collected by Google Analytics and to enable you to opt out of being tracked, Google has developed an opt-out browser add-on, which is available at https://tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout/.

We use Google AdSense on our website. Google, as a third-party vendor, uses cookies to help serve the ads it displays on the websites of its partners, such as websites displaying Google ads or participating in Google certified ad networks. When users visit a Google partner’s website, a cookie may be dropped on that end user’s browser. Third-party vendors, including Google, use cookies to serve ads based on a user’s prior visits to our website or other websites. Google’s use of advertising cookies enables it and its partners to serve ads to our users based on their visit to our sites and/or other sites on the Internet. Users may opt out of personalized advertising by visiting https://myadcenter.google.com/.

We also use other various third-party cookies, pixels and other tracking mechanisms, applications and tools, including but not limited to Google and YouTube, Meta (which includes Facebook, Instagram and WhatsApp), X, LinkedIn, Pinterest, TikTok, and others. These may collect your IP address and track some of your activity on our Website and on other third-party websites. These services are governed by the privacy policies of their providers. We may use these technologies to market our Website and our Products and Services to you and serve advertisements or other content to you on our Website or on other third-party websites.

HOW YOU CAN CONTROL COOKIES AND OTHER TRACKING TECHNOLOGIES

Most web browsers automatically accept cookies, but you still have control over them in your browser’s settings, options or preferences and you can delete and block or disable them if you want. You can also use ad-blockers and privacy browser tools like Ghostery or others. Please note that if you refuse or block all cookies, some functionalities or features of our Website may be limited or unavailable to you. Our Website does not currently recognize browser “do not track” requests, but we do not track your activities after you leave our Website.

Users in the United States may opt out of some third-party ad networks. Please visit the Digital Advertising Alliance (“DAA”) Consumer Choice Page for information about opting out of interest-based advertising and their choices regarding having information used by DAA companies. You may also visit the Network Advertising Initiative (“NAI”) Consumer Opt-Out Page for information about opting out of interest-based advertising and their choices regarding having information used by NAI members. If you are in the EU, you may opt-out of certain third-party cookies that we and other websites may use for targeted advertising through the European Interactive Digital Advertising Alliance (EDAA) Your Online Choices Page. You can also opt out of some third-party vendors’ uses of cookies for personalized advertising by visiting www.aboutads.info.

 

HOW WE USE YOUR INFORMATION

We use the information we collect, both on its own and combined with any other information, for the following business and commercial purposes:

    • To offer, administer and improve our Website and our Product and Services.

    • To ensure the proper functioning of our Website and our Products and Services, to diagnose and fix problems of our Website and our Products and Services, and to perform technical operations and updates.

    • To communicate with you, to respond to your inquiries and provide you with requested information or customer support.

    • To provide you with marketing and other content, news, newsletters, promotions and special offers.

    • To process transactions, bill for, ship and deliver our Products and Services to you when you purchase them.

    • To offer you a more personalized or otherwise tailored experience for you when using our Website and our Products and Services.

    • To market and advertise our Website and our Products and Services (subject to your consent where required by applicable law).

    • To advertise and market third-party websites, apps, products and services (subject to your consent where required by applicable law).

    • To target current or prospective Users through online advertisements served on third-party websites and apps by third-party vendors, such as Google, Meta, and other platforms (subject to your consent where required by applicable law).

    • As otherwise described in this Privacy Policy.

Payment information that you provide to us, including debit and credit card data, will only be used to facilitate payments for our Products and Services when needed.

 

HOW WE SHARE YOUR INFORMATION

We may share some of your personally identifiable information with trusted third-party service providers, partners, affiliates, subsidiaries, vendors, contractors, payment processors, shipping carriers, email marketing providers or agents to provide service on our behalf and to assist us in providing you the Products and Services you requested. Those third parties are strictly prohibited to use your personally identifiable information in any way other than to provide or deliver our Products and Services, and they are required to maintain the strictest of confidentiality with regards to all of your personally identifiable information.

We may also disclose and transfer some or all of the information we have collected in the following circumstances:

    • Business transfers – if we are being or will be acquired by or merged with another company and/or if any of our assets are being transferred to another company as a part of a bankruptcy or insolvency proceeding.

    • In order to to comply with the law or in response to a proceeding, court order, subpoena or any other legal processes.

    • To protect our Website and our Users – if we believe it is necessary to investigate, prevent or take action against suspected fraud, illegal activities, situations involving potential threats to the safety of any person, violations of our Terms & Conditions or this Privacy Policy or as evidence in a legal process in which we are involved.

We do not sell, rent or lease any personal information of our Users to any third parties.

 

YOUR RIGHTS AS A DATA SUBJECT

Under the regulations of the General Data Protection Regulation (“GDPR”) of the EU you have certain rights as a Data Subject. These rights are as follows:

    • The right to be informed – we must inform you of how we intend to use your personal data and we do this through the terms of this Privacy Policy.

    • The right of access – you have the right to request access to the data we hold about you and we must respond to those requests within one month.

    • The right to rectification – if you believe that some of the data we hold is incorrect, you have the right to have it corrected.

    • The right to erasure – you can request from us to delete your personal information from our systems.

    • The right to restrict processing – you can change your communication preferences or opt-out of certain communications.

    • The right of data portability – you can obtain and use the data we hold for your own purposes without explanation.

    • The right to object – you can file a formal objection with us regarding our use of your information with regard to third parties or its processing where our legal basis is our legitimate interest in it.

If you want to exercise any of your rights above, please check to see if you can do it by changing the settings in your profile. If that is not possible, please contact us via our Contact page or send us an email at bads@bads.co.

 

CALIFORNIA CONSUMER PRIVACY ACT (CCPA)

The California Consumer Privacy Act gives California residents more control over the personal information that businesses collect about them. If you are a California resident, you have the following rights:

    • Right to know – You can request that we disclose to you – the categories and/or specific pieces of personal information we have collected about you; the categories of sources for that personal information; the purposes for which we use that information; the categories of third parties with whom the business discloses the information; and the categories of information that we sell or disclose to third parties. You can make a request to know up to twice a year, free of charge. We have specified most of this information in this Privacy Policy.

    • Right to delete – You can request that we delete personal information we have collected from you, subject to certain exceptions (such as if we are legally required to keep the information).

    • Right to opt-out of sale or sharing – You may request that we stop selling or sharing your personal information (“opt-out”). We don’t sell any personal information of our Users to any third parties. We have described how and in what circumstances we may disclose your information to third parties thoroughly in this Privacy Policy.

    • Right to correct – You may ask us to correct inaccurate information that we have about you.

    • Right to limit use and disclosure of sensitive personal information – You can ask us to only use your sensitive personal information (for example, financial account information or your precise geolocation data) for limited purposes, such as providing you with the products and services you requested. We generally don’t use sensitive personal information for purposes other than providing you with the products and services you requested.

If you are a California resident and want to exercise any of these rights, please contact us via our contact page or send us an email at bads@bads.co.

 

CHILDREN UNDER THE AGE OF 13

Our Website and out Products and Services are not designed for children under the age of 13. We do not knowingly collect any personal information from children under the age of 13. If we discover that a child under 13 has provided us with personal information, we will delete such information from our systems. Anyone under the age of 13 must seek and obtain parent or guardian permission to use this Website.

 

SECURITY

While no transmission of information via the internet is completely secure, we take reasonable measures to protect your personal information. We cannot guarantee the security of your personal information transmitted to our website; any transmission is at your own risk. Once we have received your information, we will use strict procedures and security features to try to prevent unauthorized access.

If we collect sensitive information (like debit or credit card information), that information is encrypted and transmitted to us in a secure way. All information you provide to us is stored on secure servers in a controlled environment with limited access. Any payment transactions will be encrypted in transit using SSL technology. We use sophisticated and secure third-party payment processors like Stripe and PayPal to process all payments.

You are responsible to protect yourself against unauthorized access to your password, phone, computer or other devices. You should always sign off after using a shared computer. You should also use a robust password that nobody else knows or can easily guess and keep it private along with your login information. We are not responsible for any lost, stolen or compromised passwords or for any activity on your account by unauthorized users as a result of your negligence.

 

DIRECT MARKETING

We may occasionally send you content, news, newsletters, promotions and special offers via email. You may opt out of these by updating your preferences in your profile or by emailing us at bads@bads.co. If you opt-out of certain types of emails, we may still send you emails about your account or any products or services you have requested or received from us.

 

THIRD-PARTY LINKS

Our Website and our Products and Services may contain links to third-party websites or apps. Our Privacy Policy does not apply to these third-party websites or apps and we are not responsible for the privacy practices of such third-party websites and apps. We recommend you to check the privacy policy of any website or app before you share your personal information.

 

ACCEPTANCE OF TERMS

By using this website, you acknowledge and accept the terms and conditions described in this Privacy Policy. If you don’t agree with our Privacy Policy, please refrain from using of our Website and our Products and Services.

Our Privacy Policy is current as of the Effective Date set forth above. We may make changes to this Privacy Policy from time to time, so please visit this page frequently to stay up to date with the latest changes. By continuing to visit and use our Website and our Products and Services after the changes are in effect, you agree to the latest version of this Privacy Policy.

 

HOW TO CONTACT US

If you have any questions or concerns regarding our Privacy Policy, please reach out to us via our contact page or send us an email at bads@bads.co.