Collection of Information & Use Thereof
It is California Sunshine Shops' policy to respect and protect the privacy of visitors to CaliforniaSunshine.com. Accordingly, California Sunshine Shops does not extract without permission personal information about its visitors or their computer at any time. Though California Sunshine Shops does analyze information about our visitors as a group to make our website better, no visitor is individually identified when we do this.
California Sunshine Shops will collect personal information such as names, home addresses, e-mail addresses, age, etc., but only when a visitor voluntarily gives it to us in the process of subscribing to the California Sunshine Shops newsletters, placing orders or registering with CaliforniaSunshine.com. This information is used internally by California Sunshine Shops to fulfill your requests and for marketing and research purposes. If you decide to opt in to our newsletter mailing list, you will receive e-mails such as company news, updates, product or service information, promotions, etc. However, you may opt out (unsubscribe) at any time by clicking the unsubscribe button at the bottom of all e-mails that you will receive from us.
California Sunshine Shops will not sell, rent or otherwise transmit a visitor's personal information to any third party unless California Sunshine Shops asks for and receives the visitor's permission at the time the personal information is collected. The only exceptions to this policy are special cases where California Sunshine Shops has reason to believe that disclosure is necessary to identify, contact or bring legal action against someone who may be causing injury to or interference (whether intentionally or unintentionally) with California Sunshine Shops rights or property or anyone else who may be harmed by such actions, or if required by law.
California Sunshine Shops does however, share aggregate information about the users of CaliforniaSunshine.com with our advertisers, business partners, sponsors and certain others. As mentioned above, this aggregate information is used to develop, improve and customize CaliforniaSunshine.com to better serve visitors to our website. Where CaliforniaSunshine.com's information collection activities involve children, CaliforniaSunshine.com provides special privacy protections as outlined below.
For Children Under 13:
Never provide any information about yourself on the Internet without your parent's/guardian's permission. Please read California Sunshine Shops Parental Consent Policy (see below) with a parent or guardian before you submit any information to this site. California Sunshine Shops requires your parents'/guardian's written permission for you to provide us with certain information required to get the California Sunshine Shops Newsletter, order subscriptions or enter certain clubs etc. on CaliforniaSunshine.com.
Parental Consent Policy
California Sunshine Shops is committed to protecting the online privacy of children. In accordance with the Children's Online Privacy Protection Act, California Sunshine Shops will not knowingly collect any personally identifiable information from children under the age of thirteen (13) without first obtaining parental consent. Its full compliance with COPPA notwithstanding, California Sunshine Shops has designed its website with the intent of providing an age-appropriate experience for all.
Prior to providing any personally identifiable information (name, email address, address, phone number etc.), either by placing an order for merchandise, setting up a CaliforniaSunshine.com account, or participating in any other activity offered through the CaliforniaSunshine.com site, children under the age of thirteen (13) must have a parent or legal guardian complete and return a Parental Consent Form to CaliforniaSunshine.com - California Sunshine Shops, 3504 Rose Avenue, Ocean, NJ 07712; or by fax to: 732.918.9501. The consent form states that the child's “Parent” or “Legal Guardian,” by his or her signature, consents to the collection and transfer of the child's personally identifiable information. Consent may be revoked by completing an “California Sunshine Shops Revocation of Parental Consent Form” and sending it to the address or fax number above.
California Sunshine Shops also adheres to the Children's Advertising Review Unit (CARU) Guidelines on Internet advertising regarding solicitations to children under thirteen (13). California Sunshine Shops encourages parents/guardians to supervise their children appropriately in exploring the Internet. California Sunshine Shops recommends that parents/guardians monitor and supervise the online activities of their children and consider using available parental control tools which can prevent children from disclosing their name, address, and other personal information without parental permission.
Should a parent not permit CaliforniaSunshine.com's use or collection of personally identifiable information, or should s/he instruct California Sunshine Shops to delete personally identifiable information, a child's participation in those CaliforniaSunshine.com activities for which the personally identifiable information has been requested will not be possible.
Correspondence & Weekly Newsletters
California Sunshine Shops uses automated e-mail systems to e-mail weekly newsletters and to collect and answer correspondence from our visitors. While California Sunshine Shops may be unable to individually answer each piece of correspondence, we do read all of them!
California Sunshine Shops tries to make it easy for visitors to contact CaliforniaSunshine.com and we provide easy instructions on our website on how you can either edit information that you previously provided (such as your address) or remove yourself from automated messages generated by California Sunshine Shops. Should you have a technical problem doing this please contact store@californiasunshine.com.
Cookies
California Sunshine Shops uses “cookie” technology to enhance a visitor's online experience by making it easier to navigate through our website or to make an activity work better.
Cookies are small pieces of information or files that a website puts on a computer's hard disk for record-keeping purposes. Cookies allow a computer to “remember” information from our website for future use. California Sunshine Shops does not use cookies to collect or record personally identifiable information about any visitor to CaliforniaSunshine.com. California Sunshine Shops uses information collected by cookies to learn about our visitors' preferences, so that we can make our website better. The information is aggregated to better understand our visitors as a whole, and is not associated with any single.
Requests for Feedback
CaliforniaSunshine.com may request feedback from visitors regarding an activity or piece of content on the CaliforniaSunshine.com website. Feedback is used for internal purposes only, and any personally identifiable information that may be submitted is deleted.
Advertisements and Links
CaliforniaSunshine.com may include advertisements and/or links to websites operated by third parties that are not sponsors and are not affiliated with California Sunshine Shops. California Sunshine Shops attempts to ensure that external links are operational and that they house content that is valuable to our site users. However, California Sunshine Shops cannot guarantee the appropriateness of any external content to which we link, nor to the appropriateness of sites that in turn link to such external content. Therefore, California Sunshine Shops holds no responsibility for the content, practices, or information provided or requested on websites operated by third parties. Further, advertisements on and links to or from CaliforniaSunshine.com do not constitute sponsorship, endorsement, or approval by California Sunshine Shops of the content, policies, practices or products or services offered on these websites or those linked to them. CaliforniaSunshine.com will always designate advertisements as such and will notify visitors when they are clicking an external link and thereby leaving CaliforniaSunshine.com.
Parents/guardians should check each website's privacy policy and terms of use in order to understand their policies and practices regarding the collection and use of personally identifiable information. California Sunshine Shops also suggests that parents/guardians review the privacy policies of all websites that their children visit, including those websites linking to or from the California Sunshine Shops websites. Information provided to those websites will be subject to the privacy policies of those other sites, over which California Sunshine Shops has no control.
Privacy Policy and Use of Site
By using this Web site for any purpose, you certify your understanding and acceptance of our Privacy Policy. Any subsequent changes to this Policy will be posted to this page and designated as such. Any future Policy changes will apply only to information collected from the date of such changes.
Review and Deletion of Personal Information
You may review and delete your personally identifiable information contained in California Sunshine Shops records at any time. If you would like to review or delete this information, please contact us at:
California Sunshine Shops
3504 Rose Avenue
Ocean, New Jersey 07712
Phone: 732.918.9500 Fax: 732.918.9501
Hours: Mon-Fri 9am-5pm EST
Questions, Suggestions & Comments
Please contact us at store@californiasunshine.com or write to us at: Business & Legal Affairs, California Sunshine Shops , 3504 Rose Avenue, Ocean, NJ 07712 with any questions regarding California Sunshine Shops Privacy Policy.