Privacy Policy

PLEASE READ THIS PRIVACY POLICY CAREFULLY BEFORE USING OUR WEBSITE OR SERVICES. BY ACCESSING OR USING OUR WEBSITE OR SERVICES, YOU ACKNOWLEDGE THAT YOU HAVE READ, UNDERSTAND, AND AGREE TO BE BOUND TO ALL THE TERMS OF THIS PRIVACY POLICY AND OUR WEBSITE TERMS OF USE. IF YOU DO NOT AGREE TO THESE TERMS, THEN PLEASE EXIT THIS PAGE AND DO NOT ACCESS OR USE THE WEBSITE.

Updated May 25, 2018

INTRODUCTION

This Privacy Policy tells you the type of information we collect when you (“you” or “User”) use our website or services (collectively, the “Service”), how we use this information and the instances in which we share your information.    Blooming Secrets, a Commonwealth of Virginia corporation (referred to as “us” or “we”), is the provider of the Website and is committed to protecting your privacy online.  If you have any questions about our privacy policy, please email us at support@bloomingsecrets.com.

Changes to this Privacy Notice, Conditions of Use and Notices

This Privacy Notice and our Terms of Use will change over time and the use of information which we gather now is subject to these Notices and Terms as modified. Please check this page periodically as you continue to use our site to see if any changes have been made. This privacy notice was most recently changed on 5/25/2018. If you visit our Website your visit and any dispute over privacy is subject to this Notice and our Terms of Use, including the application of the laws of the Commonwealth of Virginia.

Information Collected By Blooming Secrets

Blooming Secrets uses information that we collect from our visitors to personalize and improve your visit at Bloomingsecrets.com. We gather the following types of information:

Information You Voluntarily Submit To The Website: Blooming Secrets collects any information which you enter on our Website. This information is normally provided when you search, buy, participate in a contest, sweepstakes or online survey, or when you comment, post a question or communicate with any of our departments such as customer service, sales or technical services through our Website, telephone, email, mail or fax. You also provide information when you establish an account with us. Examples of the type of information you may supply us with include your name, address, telephone number, credit card information, and email addresses.

Automatically Collected Information: We automatically collect certain information about you and the device with which you access the Website. For example, when you use the Website, we will log your IP address, login, password, purchase history; confirmation when you open an email that we send you, operating system type, browser type, referring website, pages you viewed, and the dates/times when you accessed the Website, such as links clicked, the pages and or products you viewed or searched for and the phone number used to call our voice telephone numbers. Your browser allows you to reject cookies and software is available from third parties which will allow you to visit our Website without providing this information. You are welcomed at our Website if you use this software but we will not be able to offer you our personalized services.

Cookies: We may log information using cookies, which are small data files stored on your browser by the Website. We may use both session cookies, which expire when you close your browser, and persistent cookies which stay on your browser until deleted, to provide you with a more personalized experience on the Website. 

Orders: If you place an order we use a secure order form which requires you to provide contact, billing, and financial information. This information is transmitted to your credit card company to authorize your purchase. Orders placed from California comply with California collection and use of personally identifiable information laws.

Action Tags: Blooming Secrets' web pages may contain action tags set by third party firms for the purpose of collecting anonymous information about the usage of our site by customers. These companies may also use this anonymous information to serve ads that may be of interest to you when you visit other sites across the internet. Action tags are also known as web beacons or 1-pixel gifs. Action tags are a technique used to compile aggregated statistics about the effectiveness of our website. They do not use personally identifiable information, such as names or addresses should you wish to opt-out of providing this anonymous information you may do so by visiting the Network Advertising Initiative's consumer opt-out page located at www.networkadvertising.org/managing/opt_out.asp

How Your Information May Be Used

We may use the information collected in the following ways:

  • To operate and maintain the Website;
  • To send you promotional information, such as newsletters. Each email promotion will provide To send you administrative communications, such as administrative, confirmation emails, technical notices, updates on policies, or security alerts;
  • To send you purchase and shipping confirmation emails;
  • To respond to your comments or inquiries;
  • To track and measure advertising on the Website;
  • To protect, investigate, and deter against unauthorized or illegal activity.

Third-Party Use of Personal Information

We may share your information with third parties when you explicitly authorize us to share your information.

Additionally, the Website may use third-party service providers to service various aspects of the Website. Each third-party service provider’s use of your personal information is dictated by their respective privacy policies.

Independent Contractors: We employ other companies or individuals to provide certain services to us such as sending e-mail, analyzing customer lists and data, providing marketing assistance, or consulting services. These third parties will have access to the information needed to perform their functions but cannot use that information for any direct marketing purpose.

Third party service providers: Some of the products which we sell require us to provide your name, address, phone number and product information to the third party service provider(s) that require this information to be shipped to you. These third party service providers have their own privacy and data collection policies which are not controlled by Blooming Secrets. We have no control, responsibility or liability for these policies and urge you to contact the third party provider if you have any questions.

Orders Requests: When you place your order from time to time we may share your name, mailing address and purchase category information with a few carefully selected marketing partners who may bring you offers of interest. If you wish to opt out of sharing this information with these companies, please email support@bloomingsecrets. We will never share any telephone number(s), or financial information which you have given us with any marketing partner(s).

Aggregate information: We provide aggregate information to some of our business partners. This information does not allow them to identify you individually.

Vendors: We provide some of our vendors with your contact information so that they may contact you directly with product support information.

Credit card companies, other Payors, and Shippers: When you buy something from us we send your credit card information, name, billing address and the amount of your purchase to your credit card company to verify and authorize the purchase. We will also send the same information (name, billing address and amount of your purchase) for other payment types which we may offer such as PayPal. Your name, telephone number, and shipping information must be provided to vendors and third party shippers such as UPS, Freight companies, Federal Express and the United States Postal Service to deliver your purchase.

Third Party Transaction-Level Data: If you visit our site from a third-party site the third-party site may be able to access your individual transaction information. In order to track and credit your transaction, the third-party site may give you a unique code, cookie or graphic which will uniquely identify you. This will only happen if you link directly from a third party site to our Website. Any transactions made on our Website while such a code is active will be reported back to the third party site. We will only report non-personal information to these sites such as the date of the transaction, the product(s) purchased and the amount spent. We will not report any information to these third-party sites that will allow them to personally identify you, however, based on information which may have previously been collected from you by the third party site they may be able to personally identify you by combining the information they have gathered with the information sent by us. You should read the privacy policy posted by the third party site to see how they may use this information.

Third Party Ads, Surveys, and Promotions: We may use third parties to display ads, surveys and various promotions on our site. These third party applications may contain cookies or other code which are outside of our control. Although we will attempt to only work with third parties who respect your privacy we do not control and are not responsible or liable for any information collected by these third parties or how it is used. You should contact the third party directly or check the third party's privacy Notice to see how any information that they may gather will be used.

Link to Third Party Site: Our Website contains links to third party sites, such as our vendors. Blooming Secrets does not control and is not responsible or liable for the privacy practices or content found on these sites. We suggest that you check the Privacy Notice of each site you visit.

Third Party Checkout Links: If you use a third party checkout link on our Website such as PayPal or BillMeLater your name, billing and shipping addresses and other information requested by that payment service is transferred to us from your account with the third party to enable you to check out of our site without having to re-enter certain information.

Google Analytics: We contract with an outside service called Google to help us better understand your use of Blooming Secrets.com. Google places cookies on your computer to collect various kinds of information for us related to the use of our websites, so that we may continue to refine and improve the sites and better serve you. Google is not allowed to collect any credit card, username or password information, nor are they allowed to use data that they collect for us for any other purpose. Additionally, Google is contractually required to maintain all the information collected for us in strict confidence

We may share limited web browsing information of site visitors that have a prior relationship with PayPal and/or other Payors. This information will allow the Payor to enhance the Payor’s targeted marketing to the site visitor. The Payor may combine the information provided by us with information held by the Payor subject to the Payor’s privacy policy.

MailChimp, Sumo, LeadPages: These services are used for the collection and delivery of emails including email updates and newsletters. We store your email address for purposes of delivering such communications. Please refer to their Privacy Policies:

Anonymous Data

From time to time, we may use anonymous data, which does not identify you alone or when combined with data from other parties. This type of anonymous data may be provided to other parties for marketing, advertising, or other uses. Examples of this anonymous data may include analytics or information collected from cookies. 

Cookies

The Website uses cookies to store visitors’ preferences, record user-specific information on what pages users access or visit, that visitors are not repeatedly sent the same banner ads, customize Website content based on visitors’ browser type or other information that the visitor sends. Cookies may also be used by third-party services, such as Google Analytics, as described herein.

Users may, at any time, prevent the setting of cookies, by the Website, by using a corresponding setting of your internet browser and may thus permanently deny the setting of cookies. Furthermore, already set cookies may be deleted at any time via an Internet browser or other software programs. This is possible in all popular Internet browsers. However, if users deactivate the setting of cookies in your Internet browser, not all functions of our Website may be entirely usable.

Advertising:

Display Ads: We may use third-party advertising companies to serve content and advertisements when you visit the Website, which may use cookies, as noted above. If you would like more information about this practice and to know your choices to opt-in or opt-out of this data collection, please visit http://www.networkadvertising.org/managing/opt_out.asp

Retargeting Ads: From time to time, the Website may engage in remarketing efforts with third-party companies, such as AdRoll, Google, or Facebook, in order to market the Website. These companies use cookies to serve ads based on someone's past visits to the Website.

Facebook: Opt-out of Facebook remarketing https://www.facebook.com/help/568137493302217

Google: Opt-out of Google remarketing https://www.facebook.com/help/568137493302217

Affiliate Program Participation: The Website may engage in affiliate marketing, which is done by embedding tracking links into the Website. If you click on a link for an affiliate partnership, a cookie will be placed on your browser to track any sales for purposes of commissions.

Newsletters: On the Website, you may subscribe to our newsletter, which may be used for advertising purposes. All newsletters sent may contain tracking pixels. The pixel is embedded in emails and allows an analysis of the success of online marketing campaigns. Because of these tracking pixels, we may see if and when you open an email and which links within the email you click. Also, this allows the Website to adapt the content of future newsletters to the interests of the user. This behavior will not be passed on to third parties.

Rights Related To Your Personal Information

Opt-out: You may opt-out of future email communications by following the unsubscribe links in our emails. You may also notify us at support@bloomingsecrets.com to be removed from our mailing list.

Access: You may access the personal information we have about you by submitting a request to support@bloomingsecrets.com

Amend: You may contact us at support@bloomingsecrets.com to amend or update your personal information.

Forget: In certain situations, you may request that we erase or forget your personal data. To do so, please submit a request to support@bloomingsecrets.com

Please note that we may need to retain certain information for recordkeeping purposes or to complete transactions, or when required by law.

Sensitive Personal Information

At no time should you submit sensitive personal information to the Website. This includes your social security number, information regarding race or ethnic origin, political opinions, religious beliefs, health information, criminal background, or trade union memberships. If you elect to submit such information to us, it will be subject to this Privacy Policy.

Law Enforcement and Protection of Users

We will release personally identifiable information to third parties and organizations when we believe it is appropriate for us to do so to comply with the law. We will also do so to cooperate with law enforcement investigations, comply with court orders or subpoenas, protect the legal rights of us and our users, or when we believe it is needed for fraud protection and/ or credit risk reduction.

Business Transfer

Blooming Secrets is an independent business, and our intent is to continue in this manner. However, in the unlikely event that Blooming Secrets is sold, has substantially all of its assets acquired or merges or becomes affiliated with any other individual or entity any customer information owned or under the control of Blooming Secrets may be one of the transferred assets.

Security

Our Website protects the security of personal information you transmit to us by using Secure Sockets Layer (SSL) software, which encrypts the information you input during the transmission to us. We do not reveal your credit card number when we confirm your order. In order to protect against unauthorized access to your account, you should sign off when you finish visiting our site.

Choice/Opt-Out:

Our Web site gives you the opportunity to opt-out of receiving communications from us. If you no longer wish to receive communications from us you may opt-out by emailing us at support@bloomingsecrets.com.

Children's Online Policy

Blooming Secrets is committed to the preservation of online privacy for all of its website visitors, including children. Consistent with the Children's Online Privacy Protection Act, we will not knowingly collect any personally identifiable information from children under the age of 13. Bloomingsecrets.com sells products intended for purchase by adults. If you make a purchase on Bloomingsecrets.com, you are representing that you are an adult. If you are a child under the age of 13, you must ask your parent or guardian to assist you in using Bloomingsecrets.com.

Your California Privacy Rights

California Civil Code Section 1798.83, also known as the "Shine The Light" law, permits our customers who are California residents to request and obtain from us once a year, free of charge, information about the personal information (if any) we disclosed to third parties for direct marketing purposes in the preceding calendar year. If applicable, this information would include a list of the categories of personal information that was shared and the names and addresses of all third parties with which we shared information in the immediately preceding calendar year. If you are a California resident and would like to make such a request, please submit your request in writing to:

Blooming Secrets
13079 Bourne Place
Bristow, VA 20136
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