This Privacy Statement governs the online information collection practices of The Patch Project. THE PATCH PROJECT and any and all entities that control, are controlled by, or are affiliated with THE PATCH PROJECT are collectively referred to herein as “we,” “us” or “our”. This Privacy Statement outlines the types of information that we gather about you while you are using thepatchprojectaugusta.com. It also outlines our practices for collecting, using, maintaining, protecting, and disclosing that information. This Privacy Statement applies to information we collect: on the Site and in email, text, and other electronic messages between you and the Site. It does not apply to information that we may collect offline or through other means (for example, at a live event, via telephone, through the mail), including any other website operated by us or any third party. The Site is not directed to children. If you are under 18, you may use the Site only with the involvement of a parent or legal guardian. No one under age 13 may provide any information to the Site. We do not knowingly collect personal information from children under 13. If you are under 13, do not provide any information about yourself to us, including your name, address, telephone number, email address, or any screen name or user name you may use. If you do not agree with our policies and practices, your choice is not to use our Website. By accessing or using this Website, you agree to this Privacy Statement, including any relevant supplemental privacy statements. This Privacy Statement may change from time to time (see Changes to Our Privacy Statement). Your continued use of the Site after we make changes is deemed to be acceptance of those changes, so please check the Privacy Statement periodically for updates.
Please note that we may change this Privacy Statement from time to time by posting an updated version of the Privacy Statement to the Site. It is your obligation to review this Privacy Statement from time to time and to review updates that are posted on the Site. If we believe the changes are significant, we will provide more prominent notice. Please refer to this Privacy Statement regularly. Your use of the Site following any change will signify and constitute your assent to and acceptance of the revised Privacy Statement.
Information You Give Us. We may collect and retain any information from you or your devices provided to us when you visit the Site, including when you communicate with us, such as to provide feedback, request support, or ask for additional information.
To access some of the services offered by THE PATCH PROJECT through the Site, you may be required to provide personal information such as name, phone number, email address, birthdate, and address. You acknowledge that any information you provide through this Site is provided voluntarily.
Automatically Collected Information. We may collect information automatically when you visit our Sites, such as:
Our Site collects information through a variety of technical methods, including without limitation, cookies, web beacons, and other technologies, including similar technologies as they may evolve over time. Cookies are pieces of information that a Web site sends to your computer while you are viewing the Web site. Web beacons are small pieces of data that are embedded in images on the pages of Web sites.
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 Site. 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 Site.
We may utilize tools provided by third parties on our Web sites, such as Google Analytics. These tools may automatically collect information similar to the “Automatically Collected Information” outlined above. You can opt-out of collection by Google Analytics by visiting: https://tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout/.
Information Provided by Service Providers, Business Partners, or other Third Parties. We may collect or receive information from third party partners who provide services or data to us, such as demographic information or information we receive when you interact with us via social media.
"Personally identifiable information" is identifiable information about an individual person, as more particularly described under applicable privacy laws, such as a name, email address, and age. The personally identifiable information you provide to us when using the Site may be used to provide THE PATCH PROJECT products and services to you, to enhance your experience at the Site, to enhance your experience as a subscriber to THE PATCH PROJECT's products and services, or for any other purpose described in this Privacy Statement.
We and others acting on our behalf may use the information that we collect or receive to operate our business, including our Sites, as described below:
Operate and Support our Sites. THE PATCH PROJECT uses the personally identifiable information you provide to us (i) for our business purposes, such as establishing and managing your customer account,providing products and services you request (such as processing and shipping orders, and sending order and shipping confirmations), processing and collecting payments; (ii) to provide customer support, and to send you important administrative communications regarding the Site; (iii) to evaluate and improve our business, including developing new products and services and analyzing the effectiveness of products, services, and the Site; and (v) to comply with applicable legal requirements, to enforce our policies and terms of service, , and to protect you, the Site, and us, against error and fraud.
Improving and Evolving our Services. We constantly evaluate and improve our Sites and services, including developing new products or services and use the information we gather to do so. We may use or disclose your information to perform data analyses, including market and consumer search, trend analysis, demographic analysis, and financial analysis.
Marketing. We may use personally identifiable information to market to you and others regarding matters we believe may be of interest, including via direct marketing, and/or by delivering targeted and interest-based advertising.
Contacts. We may contact you by telephone, or email for other purposes, as permitted by law.
Protection of interests, security and integrity: Personally identifiable information may be used to protect the health, safety, welfare, rights, or interests of you, us, any third party, or the general public. It can also be used to protect the safety and integrity of our Site or App, troubleshoot issues, and detect and prevent errors, fraudulent activity, or other potentially wrongful, harmful, or illegal activity.
Compliance and claims: We may use personally identifiable information to comply with, establish, assert, exercise, defend against, or enforce any legal claims, legal rights, legal obligations, legal process, government requests, THE PATCH PROJECT policies, internal investigations, or prudent security or business practices. This includes (but is not limited to) enforcing this Privacy Statement, our Terms of Use, and any other contract(s) or agreement(s) we may have with you.
Please note that other parties may collect personally identifiable information about your online activities over time and across different websites when you use our Site. To learn more about your ability to opt out of certain of the technologies used by these other parties, and for other information, please visit, the Digital Advertising Alliance and the Network Advertising Initiative.
We only share information about you for any purpose described or permitted by this Privacy Statement, unless you consent to other sharing. We may therefore share information about you in the following ways:
Corporate Affiliates. We may share information with our corporate affiliates for their everyday business purposes, to provide services or to perform marketing. We may also participate in joint ventures with others and we may share information as part of that joint venture.
Third Party Service Providers. We may employ independent contractors, vendors, and suppliers (collectively, “Outside Contractors”) to provide specific services and products related to THE PATCH PROJECT and the Site, including, without limitation, hosting and maintaining the Site, developing applications for the Site, or to help us customize advertisements, content, offers, or other communications to you, and otherwise helping us communicate with you. These Outside Contractors may receive access to information collected from you, including your personally identifiable information, in the course of providing products or services to us.
Protection of Ourselves and Others, and Compliance with Law, We may share personally identifiable information to protect the health, safety, welfare, rights, or interests of you, us, any third party, or the general public, including preventing fraud, theft, and injury to you, us or others, or to protect the safety and integrity of our Site, troubleshoot issues, and detect and prevent errors, or other potentially wrongful, harmful, or illegal activity. We may also share information to comply with, establish, assert, exercise, defend against, or enforce any legal claims, legal rights, legal obligations, legal process, government requests, THE PATCH PROJECT policies, internal investigations, or prudent security or business practices.
In addition to consenting to the Terms of Use, including this Privacy Statement (and any relevant supplemental policies), we want you to know and we request your particular consent to, a few activities relating to personal information that will help us to deal with personal information that is disclosed in furtherance of our operations and programs. These are described immediately below.
THE PATCH PROJECT takes efforts to safeguard your personally identifiable information, but this is not a promise that your information will never be disclosed except as provided herein. The nature of the Internet is such that information may be transmitted over networks without appropriate security measures and may be accessed, deleted, altered, used or disclosed by unauthorized persons. WE DO NOT GUARANTEE THE SECURITY OF PERSONAL INFORMATION OR OTHER INFORMATION IN ANY FORM. Information can sometimes be intercepted or accessed in violation of law, contract, or policy, and technologies do not always work as anticipated. Because of the international nature of the Internet, your personally identifiable information may, subject to applicable law, be collected or processed outside the country where you reside if you interact with THE PATCH PROJECT for the purposes described above via our Site. This may mean that personally identifiable information is processed in the United States, where the server for this Site is located.
No person (of any age) is required to provide us with the personally identifiable information we request. If you do not wish to provide your personally identifiable information, you are free not to do so. Your provision of requested personally identifiable to us through our Site or other means is presumed by us to be voluntary and with your consent to the uses described herein. You may limit and control the information provided to us in a number of ways. However, you may not be able to use all features of our Sites if you limit the information you share with us.
If you request, we will provide you with the opportunity to object to and correct any inaccurate information we maintain about you collected by the Site, subject to verification, as well as to require us to delete your personally identifiable information if you no longer want us to process it.
If you are a California resident, the following provisions apply to our processing of personal information relating to you (“California Personal Information”).
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A. Identifiers. |
Identifiers such as name, postal address, online identifier, Internet Protocol address, email address, account name, or other similar identifiers. |
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B. Information under the California Customer Records statute. |
Personal information described in Cal. Civil Code § 1798.80(e) (California Customer Records statute), including, but not limited to the “Identifiers” listed in (A) above, telephone number, credit card number, debit card number, or other financial information. |
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C. Commercial information. |
Commercial information, including records of products or services purchased or considered, or other purchasing or consuming histories or tendencies. |
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D. Internet or other similar network activity. |
Internet or other electronic network activity information as described in the sections above titled “Automatically Collected Information” and “Information Collected in connection with Your Account,” including, but not limited to, browsing history, search history, information regarding a consumer’s interaction with an internet website, application, or advertisement. |
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E. Characteristics of Protected Classifications under California or federal law. |
Demographic information, such as age or gender. |
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F. Inferences drawn from other California personal information. |
Inferences drawn from any of the information identified in (A)-(E) above to create a profile about a consumer reflecting the consumer’s preferences, characteristics, psychological trends, predispositions, behavior, attitudes, intelligence, abilities, and aptitudes. |
For each of these categories, we obtain California Personal Information directly from you, your device, (if you play our interactive games) from other players, and from third-party data companies. For more information, please see the “The Information We Collect” section of our Privacy Statement.
We may also use the information we collect for our own or our service providers’ other operational purposes, purposes for which we provide you additional notice, or for purposes compatible with the context in which California Personal Information was collected.
Right to Delete. You have the right to request that we delete California Personal Information about you which we have collected from you.
We may limit our response to your exercise of the above rights as permitted under applicable law. Subject to applicable law, we may not discriminate against you because of your exercise of any of the above rights.
You may request to exercise these rights by: