This Privacy Policy describes how LAFCO NY (“LAFCO”, “we”, “our”, or “us”) collects, uses, and shares personal information of users of this website, www.lafco.com (the “Site”). We periodically update this Privacy Policy and reserve the right to change the provisions of this Policy or our privacy practices at any time. Your use of the Site constitutes consent to any changes in this Policy as in effect on the date of such use.

Collection of Personally Identifiable Information

We collect personally identifiable information about you when you provide it to us. For example, if you decide to complete a user registration form or make a purchase, you may be asked to provide certain information such as your contact information (name, email address, mailing address, and telephone number). If you place an order, we will also need to know your delivery and billing address, credit card number and expiration date. To protect your personal information, users registering at the Site must also enter a user name, email address and password. If you would prefer that we not collect any personally identifiable information from you, please do not provide us with any such information. When you submit your personally identifiable information on the Site, you are giving your consent to the collection, use and disclosure of your personal information as set forth in this Privacy Policy. The personally identifiable information that you provide to us and information about your order may be combined with other personally identifiable information (such as demographic information and past purchase history) available from our records and other sources. This information will be used to make our future marketing efforts more efficient. This information may also be shared with our third party service providers that assist us with our marketing efforts and with other marketers whose products or services we feel may be of interest to you. If you prefer that we do not share your name and address with other marketers, please email us at [email protected]. LAFCO does not seek to collect such information from persons under the age of 18. If you are under the age of 18, please do not submit any such information to us. If you are the parent or guardian of a person under the age of 18 who has provided such information to us, please inform us (through the telephone number listed below) and we will remove such information from our database as described further below.

How LAFCO.com Uses Your Personal Information

LAFCO collects personal information to fulfill your requests and communicate with you, operate, support and improve our website, products and services, conduct internal research, and personalize the content, products, services and advertisements offered to you. If you opt-in during the site registration process or at other times when you submit personally identifiable information, the information you provide may be used by LAFCO.com to create and deliver to you emails such as newsletters, and messages containing product or event information (“Opt-in emails) as well as direct mail campaigns. If you do opt-in and later no longer want to receive these communications, please select “Unsubscribe” on the email or contact us to be removed from our direct mailing list.

How LAFCO Protects Your Information

We realize that our customers trust us to protect their personal information. We take that task seriously. We use industry-standard Secure Sockets Layer ("SSL") authentication to guarantee the confidentiality of online transactions made on our site. SSL authentication and encryption of the information that you send to us over the Internet help protect your online transaction information from third party interception. We never display your full credit card number once it has been entered. We will only reveal the last four digits of your credit card for verification purposes. We urge you to protect your own privacy. We recommend that you do not share your password with anyone or share your password in an unsolicited phone call or e-mail. To protect LAFCO’s customers from fraudulent transactions, all orders are subject to review and verification. As part of the verification process, an order may be temporarily placed on hold in order to verify credit card billing information, which may include contacting the credit card holder. Unfortunately, despite all our efforts, there is always a risk that third parties may unlawfully intercept transmissions. This reality is true of all Internet use. As a result, we cannot ensure the security of any information you transmit, and you transmit all information at your own risk.

Who Views Your Personal Information

LAFCO may share your personal information with companies that perform services for us, such as fulfilling orders, delivering packages, sending postal mail and e-mails, analyzing customer data, providing marketing assistance, processing credit card payments, investigating fraudulent activity, conducting customer surveys, and providing customer service. Such third parties may be provided with access to personally identifiable information needed to perform their functions, but may not use such information for any other purpose.

Fraud Protection and Compliance with Law

We may disclose any information, including personally identifiable information, we deem necessary, in our sole discretion, to comply with any applicable law, regulation, legal process or governmental request. We may also exchange information, including personally identifiable information, with other companies and organizations for credit fraud protection and risk reduction.

Cookies on LAFCO.com

LAFCO uses cookies to enhance the interactive nature of your Internet experience and to provide a convenient feature to save you time. Cookies enable LAFCO to quickly retrieve specific information from previous visits and to recall features that you may have customized on your browser. LAFCO uses cookies to collect information around abandoned shopping carts. A cart is considered abandoned after one hour of inactivity/lack of purchase. Once the timer has expired an SMS and email message will be sent as a reminder.

Use of Aggregate Information

We may use the information you provide in aggregate form (non-personally identifiable) for internal business purposes, such as generating statistics and developing marketing plans. We may collect, store or accumulate certain non-personally identifiable information concerning your use of the Site, such as information regarding which of our pages are most popular. We may share or transfer non-personally identifiable information with or to our affiliates, licensees and partners.

Links

The Site may contain links to or from other websites. Please be aware that we are not responsible for the privacy practices of other websites. This Privacy Policy applies only to the information we collect on the Site. We encourage you to read the privacy policies of other websites you link to from the Site or otherwise visit.

Use of content

Content Ownership As between you and LAFCO New York, you are and will remain the owner of your content. You own all right, title and interest, including copyright, to the UGC you submit or post to the site or through social media. You acknowledge this content is truthful and accurate and shall not breach, infringe, or detrimentally affect any other party's rights whatsoever, including intellectual property rights and that no other party has any rights to the content. In other words, you promise that no other company or person will claim that you stole or are inappropriately using the content. Our Right to Use the Content. Although, as we explain above, you retain ownership of your content, by submitting, posting or #yesLAFCO on social media you are automatically granting, and hereby do grant to LAFCO New York, a perpetual, non-exclusive, fully paid-up, fully transferable license to use (including copy, display, perform, publish, modify, adapt and translate) such content in all forms and media. This means that our right to possess, use and display the content anywhere and through any means will never expire, that we will never owe you any money for it and that we may allow others to use or possess the content.

Modifications to this Policy

LAFCO may make modifications or amendments to this policy from time to time. In the event that such changes alter how LAFCO gathers, processes, uses or discloses your personally identifiable information, LAFCO will post such changes on our website.

Questions About This Policy

If you have any questions about this Privacy Policy, or the content or practices of our website, you can contact LAFCO directly at:

[email protected]
LAFCO New York
ATTN: Privacy
23 E. 4th Street, 7th floor
New York, NY 10003