CIGARS.OUTSIDER.COM PRIVACY POLICY

Last Updated: August 25, 2022

Introduction

This Site is operated by Authentic Goods Company, LLP (“Company” or “We”) as part of outsider.com, which is owned and operated by Outsider Media Network, LLP d/b/a Outsider or outsider.com. We respect your privacy and are committed to protecting it through our compliance with this policy.

 

This policy describes the types of information we may collect from you or that you may provide when you visit the Outsider online store at shop.outsider.com (our “Site”), including any content, functionality, and services offered on or through the Site (collectively, the “Services”), and our practices for collecting, using, maintaining, protecting, and disclosing that information. This policy applies to information we collect when you purchase something from our Site or otherwise interact with us.

 

We may change this Privacy Policy from time to time. If we make changes, we will notify you by revising the date at the top of the policy and, in some cases, we may provide you with additional notice (such as adding a statement to our homepage or sending you a notification). Your continued use of the Site after we make changes is deemed to be acceptance of those changes, so please check the policy periodically for updates. 

This Site is for persons twenty-one (21) years of age and older. You may not use our Site or Services if you are under 21. You may not purchase for, pick up for, receive or send a delivery or shipment to anyone under 21. By agreeing to these Terms of Service, you represent that you are twenty-one (21) years of age or older. If you do not meet this requirement, you must not access or use the Site.

Information We Collect About You and How We Collect It

When you browse or purchase something from our Site, we collect several types of information from and about you, including information:

  • Provided by you to us;
  • Automatically as you navigate through the Site; and
  • Provided by third parties and other sources.

 

Information You Provide to Us:

 

The information we collect from you may include:

  • Information that you provide at the time of purchasing something from our Site, including, but not limited to, your name, e-mail address, shipping address, phone number, and payment information. We may also ask you for information when you report a problem with our Site.
  • Records and copies of your correspondence (including e-mail addresses), if you contact us.

 

Information We Collect Through Automatic Data Collection Technologies:

 

As you navigate through and interact with our Site, we may use automatic data collection technologies to collect certain information about your equipment, browsing actions, and patterns, including:

  • Details of your visits to our Site, including traffic data, location data, log and usage data, and other communication data.
  • Information about your computer and internet connection, including your IP address, operating system, and browser type.

 

The information we collect automatically may include personal information, and we may maintain it or associate it with personal information we collect in other ways or receive from third parties. It helps us to improve our Site and to deliver a better and more personalized Services, including by enabling us to:

 

  • Estimate our audience size and usage patterns.
  • Store information about your preferences, allowing us to customize our Site according to your individual interests.
  • Speed up your searches.
  • Recognize you when you return to our Site.

 

The technologies we use for this automatic data collection may include:

 

  • Cookies (or browser cookies). Our Site may use "cookies" to enhance User experience. Cookies are text files with small pieces of data — like a username and password — that are used to identify your computer as you use a computer network. Specific cookies known as HTTP cookies are used to identify specific users and improve your web browsing experience. Data stored in a cookie is created by the server upon your connection. This data is labeled with an ID unique to you and your computer. Users may choose to set their web browser to refuse cookies, or to alert you when cookies are being sent. If they do so, note that some parts of the Site may not function properly. Shopify also uses certain cookies for stores powered by Shopify’s platform. For more information, see Shopify’s Cookie Policy.

 

  • Flash Cookies. Certain features of our Site may use local stored objects (or Flash cookies) to collect and store information about your preferences and navigation to, from, and on our Site. Flash cookies are not managed by the same browser settings as are used for browser cookies. For information about managing your privacy and security settings for Flash cookies, see Choices About How We Use and Disclose Your Information.

 

How Do We Use Your Personal Information?

We use the Personal Information we collect for various purposes, including to:

  • Provide, maintain and improve our Services, and develop new products and services;
  • Provide you with products and services, such as fulfilling your orders and processing your payments; arranging shipping; providing you with invoices and/or order confirmations; processing, maintaining and servicing your account(s) and loyalty program membership;
  • Communicate with you about products, services, offers, promotions, rewards, and events offered by Outsider and others, and provide news and information we think will be of interest to you when in line with the preferences you have shared with us;
  • Screen our orders for potential risk or fraud to protect the rights and property of Outsider;
  • Send you technical notices, updates, security alters and support and administrative messages;
  • Respond to your comments, questions and request and provide customer service;
  • Improve and optimize our Services (for example, by generating analytics about how our customers browse and interact with our Services, and to assess the success of our marketing and advertising campaigns); and
  • Carry out any other purpose described to you at the time the information was collected.

 

Sharing Your Personal Information

We may also disclose your personal information:

  • To comply with any court order, law, or legal process, including to respond to any government or regulatory request.
  • To enforce or apply our Terms of Use and other agreements, including for billing and collection purposes.
  • If we believe disclosure is necessary or appropriate to protect the rights, property, or safety of Company, our customers, our uses or others. This includes exchanging information with other companies and organizations for the purposes of fraud protection and credit risk reduction.

 

Choices About How We Use and Disclose Your Information

We strive to provide you with choices regarding the personal information you provide to us. We have created mechanisms to provide you with the following control over your information:

  • Tracking Technologies and Advertising. You can set your browser to refuse all or some browser cookies, or to alert you when cookies are being sent. To learn how you can manage your Flash cookie settings, visit the Flash player settings page on Adobe’s website. If you disable or refuse cookies, please note that some parts of this Site may then be inaccessible or not function properly.
  • Disclosure of Your Information for Third-Party Advertising. If you do not want us to share your personal information with unaffiliated or non-agent third parties for promotional purposes, you can opt-out by checking the relevant box located on the form on which we collect your data. You can also always opt-out by sending us an e-mail with your request to info@outsider.com.
  • Promotional Offers from the Company. You may opt out of receiving marketing e-mails from the Company by following the instructions in those e-mails.
  • Targeted Advertising. If you do not want us to use information that we collect or that you provide to us to deliver advertisements according to our advertisers’ target-audience preferences, you can opt-out by sending us an e-mail with your request to info@outsider.com. 

 

Social Sharing Features

Our Site may offer social sharing features and other integrated tools (such as the Facebook “Like” button), which let you share actions you take on our Services with other media, and vice versa. Your use of such features enables the sharing of information with your friends or the public, depending on the settings you establish with the entity that provides the social sharing feature. For more information about the purpose and scope of data collection and processing in connection with social sharing features, please visit the privacy policies of the entities that provide these features.

Shopify

Our Site is hosted on Shopify Inc. (“Shopify”). Shopify provides us with the online e-commerce platform that allows us to sell our products to you. Your data is stored through Shopify’s data storage databases and the general Shopify application. For more information, review Shopify’s Terms of Service and Privacy Policy.

Payment

Shopify works with Authorize.net to process payments for purchases made in the store. For more information, review Authorize.net’s Terms of Use.

Security

We take reasonable measures to help protect your personal information from accidental loss and from unauthorized access, use, alteration, and disclosure. 

The safety and security of your information also depends on you. Where we have given you (or where you have chosen) a password for access to our Site, you are responsible for keeping this password confidential. We ask you not to share your password with anyone. 

Unfortunately, the transmission of information via the internet is not completely secure. Although we do our best to protect your personal information, we cannot guarantee the security of your personal information transmitted to our Site. Any transmission of personal information is at your own risk. We are not responsible for circumvention of any privacy settings or security measures contained on the Site.

Do Not Track

Please note that we do not alter our Site’s data collection and use practices when we see a Do Not Track signal from your browser.

State Law Compliance

Outsider complies with the requirements of California’s “Shine the Light” law (Civil Code Section 1798.93) and the Delaware Online Privacy and Protection Act (“DOPPA”).  Both laws permit users of the Site that are California or Delaware residents, respectively, to request certain information regarding our disclosure of the information you provide through the Site to third parties for their direct marketing purposes. To make such a request, please contact us at the following address info@outsider.com. 

If you are a California resident, California law may provide you with additional rights regarding our use of your personal information. Learn more about your California privacy rights here. 

 

Contact Us

For more information about our privacy practices, if you have questions, or if you would like to make a complaint, please contact us by e-mail at info@outsider.com.