YOUR PRIVACY: OVERVIEW

This privacy policy (this “Privacy Policy”) sets out the privacy policies and practices for Mason Jar Merchant and its subsidiaries and affiliates with respect to how Mason Jar Merchant collects personal information. It also describes how Mason Jar Merchant maintains, uses, and discloses personal information. This Privacy Policy applies to information collected from you by Mason Jar Merchant via this website and other websites operated or provided by Mason Jar Merchant, including WWW.MASONJARMERCHANT.COM, WWW.THEJARGIRL.COM, and various subdomains (collectively, the “Sites”); and our mobile applications, as well as any other applications or services that display this policy (collectively, the “Services”), and other places where or means by which we may collect personal information.This Privacy Policy also sets out how you can access certain information that Mason Jar Merchant may collect about you.In this Privacy Policy, “personal information” means information or opinion about an individual whose identity is apparent or can be reasonably ascertained from the information or opinion as further defined under applicable privacy laws, including, but not limited to, Your Contacts and other personal information collected through the Services.

Please note that the Sites may contain links to other third party websites that are not controlled or operated by Mason Jar Merchant. This Privacy Policy does not apply to such third party websites, and Mason Jar Merchant is not responsible for the content of such third party websites or the privacy practices of such third parties. Therefore Mason Jar Merchant encourages you to request and review the privacy policies of any third parties before disclosing your personal information to such parties or when visiting such third party websites.

 

CONSENT

BY SUBMITTING PERSONAL INFORMATION TO MASON JAR MERCHANT OR ITS SERVICE PROVIDERS AND AGENTS, YOU AGREE THAT MASON JAR MERCHANT MAY COLLECT YOUR PERSONAL INFORMATION AND YOU CONSENT TO THE USE, DISCLOSURE AND TRANSFER OF YOUR PERSONAL INFORMATION IN ACCORDANCE WITH THIS PRIVACY POLICY AND AS PERMITTED OR REQUIRED BY LAW. Subject to legal and contractual requirements, you may refuse or withdraw your consent to certain of the purposes identified herein at any time by contacting MASON JAR MERCHANT at the address provided below. If you refuse or withdraw your consent, you acknowledge that Mason Jar Merchant may not be able to provide you or continue to provide you with certain services or information which may be of value to you.

 

REVISIONS TO THIS PRIVACY POLICY

Mason Jar Merchant reserves the right, in Mason Jar Merchant's discretion, to change, modify, add or remove portions of this Privacy Policy at any time and from time to time, without prior notice to you. However, Mason Jar Merchant will treat your continued use of the Sites and Services following such revision as your acceptance of the revised terms. All revisions will be posted to the Sites and will apply to any personal information collected on or after the date posted. Mason Jar Merchant will obtain the necessary consents required under applicable privacy laws if it seeks to collect, use or disclose your personal information for purposes other than those to which consent has been obtained unless otherwise required or permitted by law.

This Privacy Policy was last updated January 30, 2020.

 

COLLECTION OF YOUR INFORMATION

Mason Jar Merchant may collect personal information in connection with your use or purchase of Mason Jar Merchant’s products and services, or through your use of the Services, which may include information provided in connection with the following activities: 

• Registering or filling in forms on the Sites or in Stores. This includes information you may provide when you request additional information about Mason Jar Merchant’s products and services or sign up to receive Mason Jar Merchant’s e-mail newsletters or coupons.
• Downloading and using one of our mobile applications.
• Completing a profile or uploading goals to the Sites.
• Purchasing any product or service from Mason Jar Merchant, whether at a Store or the Sites.
• Providing design or product feedback or making other submissions to Mason Jar Merchant.
• Requesting information or assistance from Mason Jar Merchant. 
• Mason Jar Merchant may also keep a copy of any communications or correspondence you may send to it, including any e-mail communications.
• Participating or responding to consumer survey or requests for consumer’s opinions, concerns, and preferences regarding Mason Jar Merchant products and services.
• Participating in consumer contests, sweepstakes and other promotions.
• Using other features of the Sites or Services that may be offered from time to time, and may require such information in order to utilize the feature(including but not limited to making a Submission as defined in the Terms of Use).

The personal information that Mason Jar Merchant may collect may include your name, username, password, email address, age, date of birth, gender, address, telephone number, credit card and debit card numbers (with expiration dates), personal preferences, and any other personal information that you choose to include in your profile, your submissions of your goals to Mason Jar Merchant, or in other communications to Mason Jar Merchant. In addition, Mason Jar Merchant may collect additional information from users of our Services, such as our mobile applications as described in the “Mobile Applications” section below. You represent and warrant that you have the right and authority or have obtained all necessary consents to provide any information, including any personal information of another individual, that is provided by you to Mason Jar Merchant.

Mason Jar Merchant may also collect information that may not be personal information, which may include, but is not limited to, the frequency of user visits to the Sites and Services, the routes by which users access the Sites and Services and use of any hyperlinks available on the Sites and Services. Mason Jar Merchant or its service providers and agents may process and use this aggregate data for various purposes including, but not limited to, analysis of this data for trends and statistics, development of the Sites and Services and the Sites’ and Services’ features and offerings, assessing patterns of use, or planning and evaluating marketing initiatives. This information is gathered by certain tools and methods such as the collection of your IP address or the use of cookies and is maintained, used and disclosed in aggregate form unless otherwise noted.

 

MOBILE APPLICATIONS

Mason Jar Merchant may from time to time offer users the ability to download and use mobile applications. By downloading and/or using these mobile applications, you agree to any applicable Terms of Use, which shall be provided to you when you download the mobile applications and which shall be available at any time during your use of such mobile applications, as well as to this Privacy Policy. You may be required to provide personal information in order to use the mobile application, including your first name, last name, email and password. You will have the option of providing other personal information in connection with your use of the mobile application, such as your picture, your physical location, your birthdate and your gender.

If you have provided permission through your device to allow us to collect location information, Mason Jar Merchant may obtain pinpointed physical location information from technologies like GPS, Wi-Fi, or cell tower proximity. You are able to withdraw your permission for Mason Jar Merchant to acquire pinpointed location information from your device through your device settings, although Mason Jar Merchant does not control this process. The mobile application may use the geo-location features of that application (GPS or network-based) to support your use of location-based tools such as locating retailers near you.

Some of our mobile applications allow you to connect with Facebook and import your Facebook information, such as your friends’ names, as well as your device contact list (collectively, “Your Contacts”) into the application for the purpose of allowing you to invite such persons to download the application or to invite them to participate in certain events, sales, or promotions. If you agree to connect our mobile applications with Facebook and to share information and Your Contacts, you grant Mason Jar Merchant permission to access and use such information for such purposes provided in this paragraph of the Privacy Policy. You further represent and warrant that you have the right to share and transfer Your Contacts with Mason Jar Merchant and that Mason Jar Merchant’s use of Your Contacts for the purpose provided in this paragraph does not violate the rights of any third party. Please note that Mason Jar Merchant does not, in any way, control the information that Facebook collects from you.

You will have the option to opt-out partially or completely from any of our mobile applications or withdraw any permission granted to Mason Jar Merchant, and in any such case, Mason Jar Merchant will destroy and permanently de-identify personal information it holds and has collected from your use of such mobile applications.

 

COOKIES

Like many websites, Mason Jar Merchant utilizes “cookies” to maintain a record of your visit to the Sites and your use of the Services. A cookie is a small text file that is transferred by a web server and stored on the hard drive of your computer or mobile device. It can only be read by the server that sent it to you. This information does not identify you personally and you remain anonymous unless you have otherwise provided Mason Jar Merchant with personal information.

Cookies help Mason Jar Merchant to improve the Sites and Services, and to deliver more personalized service by enabling Mason Jar Merchant to estimate audience size and usage patterns; to store information about your preferences; to speed up your searches and to recognize you when you return to the Sites or use the Services.

Most web browsers automatically accept cookies. If you would prefer to prevent your computer from accepting Mason Jar Merchant cookies, you may follow your Internet browser’s steps for doing so. Please note, however, that if you do disable cookies from your browser, you may not be able to access certain sections of the Sites or the Services.

 

IP ADDRESSES

An IP address is a computer's numeric address, by which it can be located within a network. Mason Jar Merchant may record your IP address when you visit or use services or features on the Sites. Mason Jar Merchant may use your IP address for the purposes noted above, and also to help diagnose problems with Mason Jar Merchant’s server, or to administer the Sites. Mason Jar Merchant may also use your IP address to identify you when Mason Jar Merchant feels it is necessary to enforce compliance with this Privacy Policy or the Terms of Use, or to protect the Sites, Services, systems, information, employees, service providers, business partners, users, customers and others.

 

THIRD PARTY ANALYTICS AND TRACKING

Mason Jar Merchant uses automated devices and applications provided by third parties, such as Google Analytics (including Google Analytics’ Demographics and Interest Report) Adobe Analytics, Adobe Target and Bazaarvoice, to evaluate usage of our Sites and Services. We also may use other analytic means to evaluate our Services. Mason Jar Merchant participates in the Adobe Marketing Cloud Device Co-op to better understand how you use our website and apps across the various devices you use, and to deliver tailored promotions. Learn about the ADOBE MARKETING CLOUD DEVICE CO-OP and MANAGE YOUR PRIVACY. We use these tools to help us improve our Services, performance, and user experiences. These entities may use cookies and other tracking technologies which collect information to perform their services. We do not share personal information that we collect directly with these third parties. However, these third parties may collect personal information directly through the use of cookies and other tracking technologies. For an explanation of the information collected by these third parties and their respectiveprivacy policies, please go to the BAZAARVOICE PRIVACY POLICY and the GOOGLE ANALYTICS PRIVACY POLICY. Those wishing to opt out of Google Analytics data collection should use the GOOGLE ANALYTICS OPT-OUT BROWSER ADD-ON. Those wishing to opt out Adobe Analytics and Adobe Target should use ADOBE'S OPT-OUT TOOL. Those wishing to opt out of Hot Jar should use the HOT JAR OPT-OUT TOOL. Those wishing to opt out of Crazy Egg should SET THEIR BROWSER TO 'DO NOT TRACK'.

Please note that these third parties use cookies — text files that are stored on your computer and that enable an analysis of your use of the Sites. You can prevent the collection of data concerning your use of the Sites (including your IP address), which are generated by the cookie, and the processing of that data by Google by downloading and installing the browser plug-in that is available under the following link: DOWNLOAD AND INSTALL THE BROWSER PLUG-IN. To delete, disable and opt-out of cookies used by Bazaarvoice, please go to the opt-out section of the BAZAARVOICE PRIVACY POLICY.

Mason Jar Merchant collects transactional information and browse behavior on our website. Mason Jar Merchant may use such information to offer you recommendations for products and services that are relevant to your interests. Mason Jar Merchant uses the services of trusted third parties to offer you meaningful recommendations during the online experience. Merchant Jar Merchant shares IP address, unique ID number, and shop and browse behavior with the third party service provider on an aggregate basis but does not share personal information for these purposes.

Mason Jar Merchant also works with trusted third parties that use tracking technologies to serve advertisements on our behalf across the Internet. These companies may use cookies and tracking pixels to collect non-personally identifiable information such as items viewed, items added to your shopping cart and items purchased during your visits to our website in order to help show advertisements on other websites likely to be of interest to you. If you would like more information about this practice or to opt-out of this use of your anonymous information, please visit HTTP://WWW.NETWORKADVERTISING.ORG.

 

PROTECTION OF YOUR INFORMATION

To prevent unauthorized access or disclosure, maintain data accuracy and facilitate the appropriate use of information, Mason Jar Merchant uses physical, technological and administrative procedures to protect the personal information that Mason Jar Merchant collects from loss, unauthorized access, modification, disclosure or other misuse.

Nevertheless, Internet or wireless transmissions are never completely private or secure. You understand that any messages or information you send to the Sites or through the Services may be read or intercepted by others. If you have any questions about the security of personal information collected by Mason Jar Merchant, please contact: INFO@MASONJARMERCHANT.COM   

You should also be aware that certain aspects of the Sites and Services are not confidential and are available for public viewing. For example, other users of the Sites and Services will be able to view your profile and goals that are publicly available. Any submissions that you may post to any publicly available blogs or other publicly available features of the Sites and Services are not confidential and may be viewed by other users of the Sites and Services. By making personal information publicly available where the Sites and Services allow you to do so, you consent to such publication by Mason Jar Merchant or its service providers and agents.Please refer to the Terms of Use for additional provisions relating to user submissions that may apply to you.

 

USE OF YOUR PERSONAL INFORMATION

Upon Mason Jar Merchant’s collection of your personal information, Mason Jar Merchant may use such personal information internally, separately or in combination with pre-existing information, for the following purposes:

• To develop, enhance, market, sell or otherwise provide information, products or services;
• To establish and conduct commercial relationships, including to process purchases or other transactions and to conduct or administer other transactions that you may engage in with Mason Jar Merchant including at the Stores, on or through the Sites or through the GEC or through the Services;
• To conduct or administer contests, sweepstakes or other promotions in which you have participated;
• To contact you and to respond to any communications that you may have had with us;
• To troubleshoot problems with the Sites and Services;
• To customize your experience or homepage on the Sites;
• To develop and manage Mason Jar Merchant business and operations;
• To enforce Mason Jar Merchant’s Terms of Use or comply with this Privacy Policy;
• To detect and protect Mason Jar Merchant and other third parties against error, negligence, breach of contract, fraud, theft and other illegal activity, and to audit compliance with Mason Jar Merchant’s policies and contractual obligations;
• To engage in business transactions, including the purchase, sale, lease, merger, amalgamation or any other type of acquisition, disposal, securitization or financing involving Mason Jar Merchant;
• As permitted by, and to comply with, any legal or regulatory requirements or provisions;
• To access, preserve, disclose and use your personal information contained in your account, all communications to and from you, all information relating to your use of the Sites, if Mason Jar Merchant is required to do so by law or legal process or if Mason Jar Merchant determines, in its sole discretion, that such action is necessary to protect the rights of Mason Jar Merchant, third parties, and other users of the Sites or for purposes of responding to your request for customer service; or
• For any other purpose to which you consent.

Personal information collected by Mason Jar Merchant may be transferred to, stored and processed in the United States, or Canada,Hong Kong or Australia. While in another jurisdiction for processing, the information may be accessed by the courts, law enforcement, and national security authorities of that jurisdiction.

 

DISCLOSURE OF YOUR INFORMATION

Mason Jar Merchant may disclose your personal information to its subsidiaries or affiliates and to third parties whom Mason Jar Merchant hires to provide services on Mason Jar Merchant’s behalf, including, but not limited to, support services, website services, delivering promotional materials, contests, sweepstakes and other promotions, and answering customer questions about Mason Jar Merchant’s products and services. These subsidiaries, affiliates and third parties may be located overseas. Mason Jar Merchant will only provide those third parties with the personal information that they need to deliver the services to Mason Jar Merchant and/or on Mason Jar Merchant’s behalf. Mason Jar Merchant will not disclose your personal information to third parties for their direct marketing purposes without obtaining prior affirmative consent. In the event that Mason Jar Merchant is involved in a business transaction, including the purchase, sale, lease, merger, amalgamation or any other type of acquisition, disposal, securitization or financing involving Mason Jar Merchant, you consent to your personal information and any other information Mason Jar Merchant may have collected being transferred to another party in connection with such transaction. You also consent to Mason Jar Merchant disclosing your personal information to legal, financial, insurance, or other advisors in connection with such business transaction or management of all or part of Mason Jar Merchant’s business or operations; as consented to by you from time to time, including to fulfill any other purposes that are identified when the personal information is collected; or as otherwise permitted or required by law.

 

RETENTION OF YOUR PERSONAL INFORMATION

The personal information that you provide will be retained by Mason Jar Merchant in accordance with applicable laws. However, Mason Jar Merchant will take reasonable steps to destroy or permanently de-identify personal information it holds if it is no longer needed for Mason Jar Merchant’s business purposes.

 

CHILDREN'S PRIVACY

Mason Jar Merchant does not collect your personal information unless you choose to provide it. If, at any time, you prefer not to receive further email communications from Mason Jar Merchant (except in connection with information, products or services that you specifically request), you will have the ability to unsubscribe from such communications by means of a link provided in every broadcast e-mail that is sent to you by Mason Jar Merchant. If, at any time, you prefer not to receive any other form of communication from Mason Jar Merchant, you will have the ability to unsubscribe from such communications by contacting us at INFO@MASONJARMERCHANT.COM

 

CHOICE AND OPT-OUT PREFERENCES

Mason Jar Merchant does not collect your personal information unless you choose to provide it. If, at any time, you prefer not to receive further email communications from Mason Jar Merchant (except in connection with information, products or services that you specifically request), you will have the ability to unsubscribe from such communications by means of a link provided in every broadcast e-mail that is sent to you by Mason Jar Merchant. If, at any time, you prefer not to receive any other form of communication from Mason Jar Merchant, you will have the ability to unsubscribe from such communications by contacting us at INFO@MASONJARMERCHANT.COM.

 

ACCESS AND CORRECTION

Mason Jar Merchant will take reasonable steps to ensure the personal information it holds is accurate, complete and up to date. Upon your written request, subject to certain exceptions provided by law, Mason Jar Merchant will inform you of the existence, use and disclosure of your personal information and give you access to that information. Additionally, if you have any questions or enquiries relating to our privacy practices or procedures, or if you believe that the personal information that Mason Jar Merchant holds about you is not accurate, complete or up to date you may write to Mason Jar Merchant at the address provided below. If you are able to establish that the information is not accurate, complete or up to date, Mason Jar Merchant will take reasonable steps to correct the information so that it is accurate, complete and up to date.

 

REQUEST FOR ACCESS AND CORRECTION, QUESTIONS OR COMMENTS

Mason Jar Merchant welcomes questions and comments about this Privacy Policy. Requests for access and correction of your personal information, and questions or comments should be directed to Mason Jar Merchant at: