Global Privacy & Cookies Policy
Bojo Inc. Global Privacy & Cookies Policy
LAST UPDATED: February 19, 2020
Scope. This Privacy Policy applies to information collected, used and disclosed by Bojo Inc. and its affiliates (collectively referred to as “Bojo Tools”) in connection with information that we collect:
5. How are our advertisements served on other websites and devices and what choices do you have?
We may contract with third party advertising companies to tailor online advertising to be directed to you on other websites and online services. These third party advertising companies place, use, or rely on technology, such as cookies and pixel tags, to obtain information about your interactions with our Services. This information, in addition to information the companies receive from your access to and use of other websites or online services on any of your devices, and information received from third parties, helps us select advertising to serve to you and where to serve it based on your experience on our Services and other sites that you visit. They also use these technologies, along with information they collect about your online use, to recognize you across the devices you use, such as a mobile phone and a laptop.
For information about opt out programs that these third party advertising companies participate in, and the effect of opting out, and to learn how to opt out of it in desktop and mobile browsers on the particular device on which you are accessing this Privacy Policy, please visit http://optout.aboutads.info/#/ and http://optout.networkadvertising.org/#/. You may download the AppChoices app at www.aboutads.info/appchoices to opt out in mobile apps.
Note that by clicking these websites, you will then leave our Site for another online site where you may specify your preferences under that opt-out program. You can also click the preference icon that may appear on some of our advertising served through these technologies.
6. What choices do you have over how we use and disclose your Personal Information?
We give you choices about the information we collect and how we communicate with you, and use and disclose your information.
- Through our websites, microsites, mobile sites operated by us from which you are accessing this Privacy Policy (the “Sites”),
- Through our social media pages and apps that we control from which you are accessing this Privacy Policy (collectively referred to as our “Social Media Pages”),
- Through HTML-formatted email messages that we send to you that may link to this Privacy Policy,
- Offline such as when you visit our headquarters or retail kiosks, attend a tradeshow, or place an order or request for support over the phone.
- What Personal Information does Bojo Tools collect about you?
- How do we use the Personal Information we collect about you?
- Does Bojo Tools share your Personal Information with third parties?
- What Other Information about you does Bojo Tools collect?
- How are our advertisements served on other websites and devices and what choices do you have?
- What choices do you have over how we use and disclose your Personal Information?
- How does Bojo Tools secure your Personal Information?
- How can you access, change, or delete your Personal Information?
- Third party services
- Cross-border transfer
- Retention period
- Use of services by minors
- Sensitive information
- Third party payment services
- Will this Privacy Policy change?
- How can you contact Bojo Tools?
- Through the Services, for example, when you sign up for a newsletter, marketing emails and other commercial electronic messages (e.g., on upcoming promotions, new products, etc.), register an account to access the Services (e.g. to register your products, to ask for support, to participate in our contests or competitions, to make inquiries regarding product warranties), or make a purchase, or through our Social Media Pages.
- From Other Sources. We receive your Personal Information from other sources, for example:
- Publicly available databases, such as LinkedIn or local Trade or Industrial Associations’ registries.
- Joint marketing partners, when they share the information with us, including: privately held marketing or survey / enquiry databases.
- If you connect your social media account to your Services account, you will share certain Personal Information from your social media account with us, for example, your name, email address, photo, list of social media contacts, and any other information that may be or you make accessible to us when you connect your social media account to your Services account, depending on the preferences / choices you have selected within your social media account’s setting, or the opinions expressed (e.g., “Likes”) you have provided within our Social Media pages.
- Your Name
- Mailing address
- Email address
- Birthdate
- Telephone number
- Mobile phone number
- Postal/zip code, state/province, and country
- Username and password (related to your account)
- Purchase, order information and payment details
- Demographic information (for example number of household members, country of residence, age and gender)
- Information related to customer satisfaction surveys, customer requests or queries
- Purchasing habits and other information, including registration of products purchased
- Interests and hobbies
- Information on products you want, like or own
- Bank information (e.g. for special offers – reimbursement, warranty extension, prizes or contests)
- Your name and/or nickname
- Profile picture
- Gender
- Networks
- User id
- List of friends and related contact details
- Language
- Voice recordings
- Video and photographs
- Birthday
- Education
- Work history/Profession
- Address
- Interests/Hobbies
- “Likes” or online group membership
- Country
- Opinions expressed (e.g. when replying around the satisfaction about one of our products)
- Providing the functionality of the Services and fulfilling your requests, including:
- Opening and arranging access to your registered account.
- Responding to your inquiries and fulfilling your requests for example when you contact us via one of our online contact forms or chat lines.
- Processing your order or other transactions, including warranty and product registration, claim, or request, and providing related customer service.
- To send administrative information to you, such as changes to our terms, conditions and policies.
- To allow you to send messages to another person if you choose to do so.
- Providing you with our newsletter and/or other marketing materials and facilitating social sharing.
- To send you advertising and marketing related emails, text messages, and postal mail with information about our services, new products and other news about our company.
- To facilitate social sharing functionality that you choose to use.
- To send wish lists or other emails on your behalf.
- Analysis of Personal Information for business reporting and providing personalized services.
- To better understand you, so that we can personalize your experiences when using our Services, and provide you with information and/or offers tailored to your interests.
- To better understand your preferences so that we can deliver content via our Services that we believe will be relevant and interesting to you.
- To analyze or predict our users’ preferences in order to prepare aggregated trend reports on how our digital content is used and perform market research, so we can improve our Services.
- Allowing you to participate in sweepstakes, contests or other promotions.
- We may offer you the opportunity to participate in a sweepstakes, contest or other promotion.
- Some of these promotions have additional rules containing information about how we will use and disclose your Personal Information.
- Aggregating and/or anonymizing Personal Information.
- We may aggregate and/or anonymize Personal Information so that it will no longer be considered Personal Information. We do so to generate other data for our use, which we may use and disclose for any purpose.
- Accomplishing our business purposes.
- For data analysis, for example, to improve the efficiency of our Services.
- For audits, to verify that our internal processes function as intended and are compliant with legal, regulatory or contractual requirements.
- For fraud and security monitoring purposes, for example, to detect and prevent cyber attacks or attempts to commit identity theft.
- For improving and developing our products and services.
- For enhancing, improving, or modifying our current products and services.
- For identifying usage trends, for example, understanding which parts of our Services are of most interest to users.
- For facilitating recalls.
- For processing job applications.
- For determining the effectiveness of our promotional campaigns, so that we can adapt our campaigns to the needs and interests of our users.
- For operating and expanding our business activities, for example, understanding which parts of our Services are of most interest to our users so we can focus our energies on meeting our users’ interests.
- To our affiliates for the purposes described in this Privacy Policy.
- Our third party service providers, including distributors and sales representatives, in order to perform tasks on our behalf, such as:
- Facilitating your purchase, order fulfillment, and payment processing
- Assisting in servicing our products
- Product registrations
- Responding to requests and providing product information
- Helping you exchange products and other customer service tasks
- Providing and improving our communications with you
- Responding to requests to our investor relations
- Providing website hosting, data analysis, information technology and related infrastructure provision
- Advertising and analytic services
- Email delivery
- Auditing
- Notifying you if you have won a contest or a competition we have conducted and delivering to you the contest’s prize
- Conducting a survey or a customer satisfaction enquiry
- Responding to complaints or product claims requests (for warranties extension, injuries, damages, etc.)
- Other services
- To our licensees for their use in relation to the marketing, distribution, advertising sale and servicing of products sold under license from us.
- To third party business partners, who may contact you about their own products or services that may interest you, consistent with your choices.
- By using the Services, you may elect to disclose Personal Information:
- On message boards, public chat rooms, profile pages, blogs, research panels and communities, surveys, and other services to which you are able to post information and content (including, without limitation, our Social Media Pages). Please note that any information you post or disclose through these services will become public and may be available to other users and the general public.
- Through your social sharing activity. When you connect your Services account with your social media account, you will share information with your friends associated with your social media account, with other users, and with your social media account provider. By doing so, you authorize us to facilitate this sharing of information, and you understand that the use of shared information will be governed by the social media provider’s privacy policy.
- To comply with applicable law.
- This can include laws outside your country of residence.
- To respond to requests form public and government authorities.
- This can include laws and authorities outside your country of residence.
- To cooperate with law enforcement.
- For example, when we respond to law enforcement requests or orders.
- For other legal reasons, including:
- To protect our rights, property or safety, and/or that of our users, you, our or others.
- Browser type and version
- Operating system
- IP Address (see below for further information)
- The Internet service provider used to access our Services
- Use of links to arrive at our Services and the IP address from which you arrived
- Web pages requested and viewed
- Time spent on our Services
- For our mobile websites and apps, technical information about the device used, such as screen size, cookie support by the device and how images may appear
- App usage data
- Other information collected through cookies, pixel tags, and other technologies described below
- Demographic information and other information provided by you that does not reveal your specific identity
- Information that has been aggregated in a manner such that it no longer reveals your specific identity
- Through your browser or device:
- Certain information is collected by most browsers or automatically through your device, such as your Media Access Control (MAC) address, computer type (Windows or Mac), screen resolution, operating system name and version, device manufacturer and model, language, Internet browser type and version and the name and version of the Services (such as the Apps) you are using. We use this information to ensure that the Services function properly.
- Physical Location Information
- Our Services and HTML-formatted emails include features that may require collecting different types of location information (such as IP Address, GPS coordinates or postal code) that we then use for the specific feature you have selected, such as:
- Where to Buy and Store Locator. Some of our Services allow you to search for the nearest store that offers the Bojo Tools product that you want and whether such nearby stores have certain of our items in stock. If you access one of our Sites or Apps through a mobile device and you have enabled location-based services, location information may be collected for these features, by, for example, using satellite, cell phone tower or WiFi signals. If you access these features through a desktop device, you can choose to have your browser provide us your location information based on your IP Address to respond to your request, or you may be asked to provide us with your location information. The specificity of the desktop device location information can vary depending on the browser you are using and how you are connected to the Internet. Your mobile device settings may allow you to disable location-based services, which will prevent our Sites and Apps from accessing your precise mobile device location information. We recommend you review the help or user manual provided with your device for instructions.
- Email. Our emails use your IP Address to determine the postal code where you are located when you open the email. This allows us to tailor content to you, such as a map of nearby stores carrying our products. The specificity of the location can vary depending on the device used to open our emails. Your email program may allow you to prevent the pixel tags or images in the emails you receive from us from downloading, which will also prevent our service provider from accessing your location information. You can also unsubscribe from receiving our emails, as described in Section 6
- Bluetooth® Enabled Products and Services. This section applies to additional personal information that may be collected, used, and disclosed related to our Bluetooth® enabled products and related Services (collectively our “Bluetooth® Enabled Products and Services”). If you access our Bluetooth® Enabled Products and Services through a mobile device, we may collect and use your mobile device’s location services and Bluetooth® capabilities to identify the date, time and location of your mobile device when it was last in Bluetooth® range of a registered, Bluetooth® Enabled Product. This is done to assist you in locating a registered Bluetooth® Enabled Product. We may also collect location information about your registered Bluetooth® Enabled product as sent to us via other users’ mobile devices, and location information about other users’ registered Bluetooth® Enabled products as sent to us via your mobile device. (Bluetooth® is a registered trademarks owned by Bluetooth SIG, Inc. and any use of such marks by Bojo Tools is under license). You may avoid collection of this data by disallowing the Services from accessing Bluetooth® on your device through your device settings or in some cases, at the time you install the App, but we may not be able to provide all features of the Services to you.
- We may also share your device’s physical location, combined with information about what advertisements you viewed and other information we collect, with our marketing partners to enable them to provide you with more personalized content and to study the effectiveness of advertising campaigns.
- If you do not consent to provide location information or you disable location-based services on your mobile device, we may ask you to manually select the region where you are located, or to enter your zip or postal code. Your desktop or mobile device settings may allow you to disable or block location-based services, which will prevent our Services from accessing your location information. We recommend you review the help information or user manual provided with your device or browser for instructions. If you chose not to provide this information you may not be provided with content specific to your location and we and/or our marketing partners may not be able to provide you with the applicable personalized services and content.
- Cookies
- We and our third party service providers use “cookies”. Cookies assign a unique identification to your device and are typically stored directly on your device by your web browser.
- The information we and our third party service providers collect through cookies, pixel tags and similar technology includes the following:
- Your interactions with our Services and with our advertisements
- The time of your visit to our Services
- Items and products browsed, items put into your shopping cart, and whether you purchase any or all of those items
- Confirmation when you open email from us, including the time you open the email and whether you click on any links in the email
- Sites you visit after visiting one of our Sites
- Language preferences
- Other traffic data
- We and our service providers use cookies for: security purposes, to facilitate navigation, to display information more effectively, and to personalize your experience, to tailor email marketing to you based on your use of the Services, determine return visitors, keep track of items in your cart, and serving tailored ads on other sites, as described below.
- We also gather statistical information about use of the Services in order to continually improve their design and functionality, to improve and better transact business, to understand how Services are used, measure which parts of our Sites are most visited or used, monitoring the number of visitors to our Sites, and assist us with resolving questions regarding the Services.
- Cookies further allow us to select which of our advertisements or offers are most likely to appeal to you and display them while you are on the Services and on other sites. We may also use cookies or other technologies in online advertising to track responses to our ads, and measure the effectiveness of our advertising. For additional information on the use of cookies, pixel tags, and other similar technologies for advertising, see “5. How are our advertisements served on other websites and devices and what choices do you have?”).
- Our systems may not recognize “Do Not Track” headers from some or all browsers. If you do not want information collected through the use of cookies, most browsers allow you to automatically decline cookies or be given the choice of declining or accepting a particular cookie (or cookies) from a particular website. You may also wish to refer to http://www.allaboutcookies.org/manage-cookies/index.html. If, however, you do not accept cookies, you may experience some inconvenience in your use of the Services. You also may not receive advertising or other offers from us that are relevant to your interests and needs.
- Pixel tags and other similar technologies
- We may also use pixel tags (also known as web beacons, web bugs, and clear GIFs) in providing the Services. A pixel tag is a nearly invisible pixel-sized graphic image on a webpage or in an email message. We use these technologies to, among other things, track the actions of users of the Services (including email recipients), measure the success of our marketing campaigns, measure which parts of our Sites are most visited or used, and compile statistics about usage of the Services and response rates.
- Third-party analytics
- We use third-party analytics providers, such as Google® Analytics, which uses cookies and similar technologies to measure traffic and usage trends, and to help us better understand your use of and interaction with our Services. This service may also collect information regarding the use of other websites, apps and online resources. For more information on how Google uses data when you use our Services, click here, and opt out of Google’s practices by downloading the Google Analytics opt-out browser add-on, available here. https://tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout.
- Other Information from Social Media Pages
- Similar to the navigational information described above, the social media sites where we have our Social Media Pages may provide aggregate information and analysis to us about visitors to our Social Media Pages. This allows us to better understand and analyze our user growth, general demographic information about the users of, and interaction with content on, our Social Media Pages.
- Using Adobe Flash technology (including Flash Local Shared Objects (“Flash LSOs”)) and other similar technologies
- We may use Flash LSOs and other technologies to, among other things, collect and store information about your use of the Services. If you do not want Flash LSOs stored on your computer, you can adjust the settings of your Flash player to block Flash LSO storage using the tools contained in the Website Storage Settings Panel. You can also go to the Global Storage Settings Panel and follow the instructions (which may explain, for example, how to delete existing Flash LSOs (referred to as “information”), how to prevent Flash LSOs from being placed on your computer without your being asked, and how to block Flash LSOs that are not being delivered by the operator of the page you are on at the time). Please note that setting the Flash Player to restrict or limit acceptance of Flash LSOs may reduce or impede the functionality of some Flash applications.
- We additionally use Other Information gathered through technology for identifying and addressing difficulties visitors may experience in accessing our Services.
- Our Services and HTML-formatted emails include features that may require collecting different types of location information (such as IP Address, GPS coordinates or postal code) that we then use for the specific feature you have selected, such as:
Disabling Cookies
You can manage website cookies in your browser settings, and you always have the choice to change these settings by accepting, rejecting, or deleting cookies. If you choose to change your settings, you may find that certain functions and features on this website will not work as intended. All browser settings are slightly different, so to manage cookies, you should refer to the relevant settings within your browser.
We understand that you may want to know more about cookies. The following are some useful resources that provide detailed information about types of cookies, how they are used, and how you can manage your cookie preferences: www.allaboutcookies.org. Please click below for detailed information on how to disable and delete cookies in some commonly used browsers:
- Email: You may opt-out of our marketing emails by following the instructions listed in the email that you received or by contacting us through the contact information provided on this website. However, even if you opt-out you may still receive non-marketing emails, such as order/shipping confirmations, changes to service, product registrations, product recalls or customer service communications.
- Text messaging/IM: You may opt out of mobile text messages (e.g., SMS, MMS) and other instant messages (e.g., WhatsApp, Facebook Messenger) from us, by following the opt-out instructions accompanying such messages, if applicable, or by contacting us as detailed at “16. How can you contact Bojo Tools?” below.
- Postal Marketing: If you no longer want to receive marketing materials from us via regular postal mail, please contact us as detailed at “16. How can you contact Bojo Tools?” below, and tell us that you want to be removed from the Bojo Tools postal mailing list, including the postal address you wish to have removed.
- Cookies: You may set your web browser to notify you when you receive a cookie or to not accept certain cookies. However, if you decide not to accept cookies from our Services, you may not be able to take advantage of all of the features of our Services. For information on how to opt-out of the use of cookies for online behavioral advertising, see “5. How are our advertisements served on other websites and devices and what choices do you have?”).
- Our sharing of your Personal Information with affiliates for their direct marketing purposes: If you would prefer that we discontinue sharing your Personal Information on a going-forward basis with our affiliates for their direct marketing purposes, you may opt-out of this sharing by contacting us as detailed at “16. How can you contact Bojo Tools?” below.
- The length of time we have an ongoing relationship with you and provide the Services to you (for example, for as long as you have an account with us or keep using the Services);
- Whether there is a legal obligation to which we are subject (for example, certain laws require us to keep records of your transactions for a certain period of time before we can delete them); or
- Whether retention is advisable in light of our legal position (such as in regard to applicable statutes of limitations, litigation or regulatory investigations).
- Contact us using the contact information above.
- Lodge a complaint with a data protection authority for your country or region, or where an alleged infringement of applicable data protection law occurs. A list of EEA data protection authorities is available here.