Gerber Childrenswear LLC (“GC LLC”) respects your privacy. Accordingly, GC LLC has adopted the following privacy policy ("Privacy Policy"). Through your use of products or services provided by GC LLC or your accessing of any GC LLC Site (as defined herein), you are expressly agreeing to accept the terms and conditions of this Privacy Policy. If you do not agree with any of the practices or conditions set forth in this Privacy Policy, then please do not use GC LLC products or services or otherwise access any GC LLC Site.
SUMMARY
This Privacy Policy notifies you of:
- what personally identifiable information of yours is collected from you through the GC LLC Sites,
- the organization collecting the information,
- how the information is used,
- with whom the information may be shared,
- what choices are available to you regarding collection, use and distribution of the information,
- the kind of procedures we employ in an effort to hinder the unauthorized access, deletion, alteration, use or disclosure of information you provide to GC LLC or any GC LLC Site, and
- how you can correct any inaccuracies in the information you provide to GC LLC.
CONTACT
If you have questions or concerns regarding this Privacy Policy, you should contact GC LLC by calling 1-800-4-GERBER or by writing us at:
Gerber Products Company
Attn: Gerber Childrenswear LLC
445 State Street
Fremont, Michigan 49413-0001
SCOPE OF PRIVACY POLICY
This Privacy Policy applies to GC LLC's treatment of personally identifiable information that GC LLC collects through (a) the website maintained by GC LLC at www.gerberchildrenswear.com or any other website or promotional or informational pages that may be maintained on any social media platform or website, including, but not limited to, Facebook or Twitter (individually, a "GC LLC Site" and collectively, the "GC LLC Sites"), and (b) any other use of GC LLC's products or services. This Privacy Policy does not apply to practices of companies whose sites may be linked to GC LLC. For access to the privacy policies of such linked sites please refer to the information provided by such sites at their respective home pages. Also see the paragraph below under the heading “Hypertext Links.”
The GC LLC Sites are intended for residents of the United States. Although residents of other countries are permitted, at the discretion of GC LLC, to utilize and access the GC LLC Sites, you should be aware that your personal identifying information, including your IP address, will generally be transferred to the United States and processed and stored there consistent with the terms and conditions of this Privacy Policy and the privacy laws of the United States (such information may also be stored elsewhere as provided herein).
INFORMATION COLLECTION AND USE
GC LLC collects personally identifiable information when you request information from GC LLC. On such occasions, GC LLC asks for your name, email address, zip code and personal information concerning your interests, occupation, gender, and other demographic information. GC LLC also receives and records information from server logs from your browser including cookie information relating to pages requested and the like.
GC LLC 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 GC LLC. If you are the parent or guardian of a person under the age of 18 who has provided such information to GC LLC, please inform us (through the contact information previously set forth) and we will remove such information from our database as described further below.
In addition, no person (of any age) is required to provide GC LLC with the personally identifiable information we request. If you do not wish to provide such information, you are free not to do so. Your provision of requested information to GC LLC through a GC LLC Site or other means is presumed by GC LLC to be voluntary and with your consent to the uses described herein. If, after submitting personally identifiable information to GC LLC, you wish to “opt-out,” please contact GC LLC as noted above and we will remove your information from our database as set forth below in the section titled “Managing Your Information.” Please know that such a decision will not stop advertising or content that is generated prior to the time when we can accomplish the removal of your information.
GC LLC uses the personal information we collect for a variety of purposes; for example, to respond to requests, make internal business decisions, evaluate available offers and make decisions about services offered, protect our rights or property, create products and services, provide improvements to products or services, anticipate and resolve actual or potential problems with our products and services, and inform you of GC LLC products, services, and offers that we believe you will find of interest.
GC LLC may use your information to help us determine your potential interest in other products or services. For marketing and similar purposes, we may use personal information to offer products and services from us or others. We offer opt out opportunities which you may access via the GC LLC Site located at www.gerberchildrenswear.com.
GC LLC makes its customer information (names, addresses, and email addresses) available to a set of selected companies we believe may offer products or services of interest to our customers. If you prefer that we not include you on these lists, you can make changes to your information at anytime by visiting the GC LLC Site located at www.gerberchildrenswear.com and logging in on the Preferred Parent page of the top navigation bar and editing your profile. If you should have any problems, call 1-800-4-GERBER.
GC LLC may also share your name, address, email addresses, and phone number with research firms that work on our behalf to survey our customers and others about products and services that GC LLC may offer. To opt out of our sharing this information with other companies, you can make changes to your information at anytime by visiting the GC LLC Site located at www.gerberchildrenswear.com and logging in on the Preferred Parent page of the top navigation bar and editing your profile. If you should have any problems, call 1-800-4-GERBER. GC LLC does not share your other personal information with the other companies. GC LLC also contracts with these companies to require that they only use the information we share with them for the limited purposes described above.
USE OF COOKIES
GC LLC uses cookies to enhance the interactive nature of your Internet experience and to provide a convenient feature to save you time. Cookies enable GC LLC to quickly retrieve specific information from previous visits and to recall features that you may have customized on your browser. You may instruct your browser, by editing its options, to stop accepting cookies or to prompt you before accepting a cookie from the websites you visit.
MANAGING YOUR INFORMATION
You are entitled to request access to and correction of all your personal data collected by GC LLC via the GC LLC Site located at www.gerberchildrenswear.com , as well as to require GC LLC to delete your data if you no longer want GC LLC to process it. You can make changes to your information at anytime by visiting www.gerberchildrenswear.com and logging in on the Preferred Parent page of the top navigation bar and editing your profile. If you should have any problems, call 1-800-4-GERBER. GC LLC will keep your data as long as it is reasonably necessary for the purposes described in this Privacy Policy. You may choose not to receive unsolicited marketing material from GC LLC and you have the right to request deletion of your GC LLC account information, subject to GC LLC's need to keep appropriate archives of its business operations.
SECURITY
GC LLC employs reasonable measures to maintain all personally identifiable information provided by you on computer servers in a controlled and secured environment, in an effort to hinder unauthorized access, loss, alteration, use or disclosure of such information. However, the nature of the Internet is such that information may be transmitted over networks without appropriate security measures and may be accessed, deleted, altered, used or disclosed by unauthorized persons.
Because of the international nature of the services and products provided by the GC LLC Sites and the nature of GC LLC's business, personal data may, subject to applicable law, be transferred internationally throughout GC LLC worldwide (details of which are available on request by emailing or calling us as provided above) for the purposes described above. This may mean that personal data is transferred to countries which do not have laws or regulations which protect personal data, such as the United States, where the servers for the GC LLC Sites are located.
GC LLC uses reasonable measures to limit the disclosure of the data you provide to us only to certain staff within GC LLC and its affiliates (i.e. staff whose job it is to process your inquiries and survey answers or otherwise to administer the GC LLC Sites, and those staff involved in the provision of GC LLC services and products which may be of interest to you) and to require that they process the data only for the purposes identified in this Privacy Policy.
SOCIAL MEDIA PLATFORMS AND WEBSITES
Any information, communications, or material of any type or nature that you submit to a GC LLC Site (including, but not limited to any GC LLC Site contained on a social media platform or website such as Facebook or Twitter) by email, posting, messaging, uploading, downloading, or otherwise (collectively, a “Submission”), is done at your own risk and without any expectation of privacy. GC LLC cannot control the actions of other users of any social media platform or website and GC LLC is therefore not responsible for any content or Submissions contained on such sites and platforms. By visiting any GC LLC Site that is contained on a social media platform or website, you are representing and warranting to GC LLC that you have reviewed the applicable privacy policy and terms of use of such platform or website and that you will abide by all such provisions contained therein.
Additionally, in the event that GC LLC offers a message board or any other interactive or social-type feature on a website administered directly by GC LLC, please be aware that these areas may allow you to publicly post, and share with other users, certain messages, content, or other information (e.g., stories, pictures, ingredients, tips, etc.). Although GC LLC may take certain precautions to protect those who use these areas of a GC LLC Site, we encourage you to be wary of giving out any personal information in such public forums. The information you post can be collected and used by people you don't know. We cannot guarantee the privacy and safety of these areas and are therefore not responsible for any information you choose to post. Your use of these features is fully at your own risk.
CONTESTS, SWEEPSTAKES, REBATES AND OTHER PROMOTIONS
On our website, you may wish to participate in contests, sweepstakes, rebates and other promotions that we may offer from time to time. If you choose to participate in these promotions, and are eligible to do so, we may ask you for information such as your name, email address, date of birth and telephone number.
In connection with any contests, sweepstakes, rebates and other promotions that we may offer from time to time via the website, we use the information you provide to administer the contests, sweepstakes, rebates and other promotions. We also may use the information to communicate with you, or the other people you select, about our products and services or our partners may use such information to communicate with you about the contests, sweepstakes, rebates or other promotions or their products and services. We will not use information you provide about other people for any purpose except the purpose you direct without first getting their consent.
SUBMISSIONS TO ANY GC LLC SITE
Any Submission to a GC LLC Site, including but not limited to any Postings (as defined herein), is non-confidential and non-proprietary, and GC LLC and its affiliates shall be free to use and reproduce any such Submission freely and for any purpose. Not limiting the generality of the foregoing, GC LLC shall be free to use any ideas or concepts contained in any such Submission for any purpose whatsoever, including, but not limited to, developing, manufacturing, advertising and marketing products. Any such use is without compensation to the person making the Submission.
You further acknowledge and warrant that any Submission which you may make contains only your own material and content or material and content that you have undeniable rights to use, and that GC LLC’s use of your Submission will not violate any third party rights. GC LLC shall be under no obligation to use any Submission.
REVIEW OF THIRD PARTY CONTENT
Although GC LLC may from time to time monitor or review discussions, chats, postings, transmissions, bulletin boards, walls, message boxes, and the like on the GC LLC Sites (collectively, “Postings”), GC LLC is under no obligation to do so and assumes no responsibility or liability arising from the content of any such Posting, nor for any error, defamation, libel, slander, omission, falsehood, obscenity, pornography, profanity, danger or inaccuracy contained in any information within such Postings on any GC LLC Site.
You are prohibited from posting or transmitting any unlawful, threatening, libelous, defamatory, obscene, scandalous, inflammatory, pornographic or profane material, or any material that could constitute or encourage conduct that would be considered a criminal offense, give rise to civil liability or otherwise violate any law. GC LLC will fully cooperate with any law enforcement authorities or court order requesting or directing GC LLC to disclose the identity of anyone posting any such information or materials. GC LLC may remove Postings at any time and for any reason.
INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY
GC LLC, its suppliers, licensors, or the original creators of all materials on the GC LLC Sites, own all copyrightable subject matter on the GC LLC Sites and all trademarks, patents, proprietary information, technologies, products, processes or other proprietary rights of GC LLC and/or such other parties. No license to or right in any such copyrights, trademarks, patents, proprietary information, technologies, products processes, and other proprietary rights of GC LLC and/or other parties is granted to or conferred upon you. In addition, direct linking, deep linking, framing, page-jacking, metatagging, and using a robot, spider, or automated device of any kind to monitor or copy any GC LLC Site is strictly prohibited.
Notwithstanding the foregoing, GC LLC hereby authorizes you only to copy the content herein solely for your personal and private use in learning about, evaluating, or acquiring GC LLC products. Except where expressly noted, no other permission is granted to print, copy, reproduce, distribute, transmit, upload, download, store, display in public, alter, or modify the content contained on a GC LLC Site. Any unauthorized use of any material contained on a GC LLC Site may violate copyright laws, trademark laws, the laws of privacy and publicity, and communications regulations and statutes. Any other use of materials on a GC LLC Site, including reproduction for purposes other than those expressly permitted above, modification, distribution, or republication, without prior written permission of GC LLC is strictly prohibited. Any copy made by you as permitted above must retain all copyright and trademark notices, including any other proprietary notices, contained in the materials. The use of such materials on any other website or in any environment of networked computers is prohibited.
THIRD PARTY ADVERTISING
Advertisements that appear on any GC LLC Site are sometimes delivered or "served" directly to users by third party advertisers. These third party advertisers automatically receive your IP address when this happens. These third party advertisers may also download cookies to your computer, or use other technologies such as JavaScript and "web beacons" to measure the effectiveness of their ads and to personalize advertising content. Doing this allows the advertising network to recognize your computer each time they send you an advertisement in order to measure the effectiveness of their ads and to personalize advertising content. In this way, they may compile information about where individuals using your computer or browser saw their advertisements and determine which advertisements are clicked. GC LLC does not have access to or control of the cookies that may be placed by these third party advertisers. However, third party advertisers do not have access to your information stored by GC LLC unless you choose to share it with them.
HYPERTEXT LINKS
The GC LLC Sites contain hypertext links to sites that are not created or maintained by GC LLC. This Privacy Policy applies only to GC LLC Sites and not to any third party websites. GC LLC is not responsible for the accuracy, relevance, timeliness, or completeness of any third party websites. The inclusion of any link to such sites does not imply endorsement, sponsorship, or recommendation by GC LLC of the site. GC LLC disclaims any liability for links (1) from another website to any GC LLC Site, or (2) to another website from any GC LLC Site. GC LLC cannot guarantee the standards of any website to which links are provided on a GC LLC Site nor shall GC LLC be held responsible for the contents of any third party website or subsequent links. For this reason, GC LLC does not represent or warrant that the contents of any third party website are accurate, compliant with state or federal law, or compliant with copyright or other intellectual property laws. GC LLC does not endorse the contents of these third party websites in any way. Additionally, GC LLC is not responsible for web casting or any other form of transmission received from any linked website. Any reliance on the contents of a third party website is done at your own risk and you assume all responsibilities and consequences resulting from such reliance.
VENDORS AND THIRD PARTY AGENTS
GC LLC may use outside companies, agents, or contractors (collectively, "Vendors") to provide support for the internal operations of the GC LLC Sites and to assist GC LLC with administering various other programs or services. In the course of doing so, these Vendors may be allowed to collect information (including personal information) from you or to process your information on behalf of GC LLC. These vendors are only given access to the information they need in order to perform the specific tasks they’ve been hired to do and are prohibited from using your personal information for any other purpose.
MODIFICATIONS TO THIS PRIVACY POLICY
GC LLC may make modifications or amendments to this Privacy Policy from time to time. In the event that such changes alter the manner by which GC LLC gathers, processes, uses, or discloses your personally identifiable information, GC LLC will post such changes on the GC LLC Site located at www.gerberchildrenswear.com. GC LLC encourages you to refer to this Privacy Policy on an ongoing basis so that you understand our current Privacy Policy. Unless otherwise stated, our current Privacy Policy applies to all information that we have about you at a given time.
LEGAL AND BUSINESS TRANSFERS
Notwithstanding any other provision set forth in this Privacy Policy, GC LLC may disclose your personal or other information if GC LLC is required to do so under any applicable law, or if in our good faith judgment, such action is reasonably necessary to comply with legal processes, respond to any claims, or protect the safety or rights of GC LLC, our consumers, or the public.
In the event of a merger or acquisition of all or part of GC LLC, the acquirer may have access to the information previously maintained by GC LLC, which could include your personal information. Similarly, any information in our possession, including your personal information, may be transferred to a third party entity as part of a corporate reorganization, insolvency proceeding, or other similar event. In such cases, GC LLC cannot guarantee that the third party will adhere to the terms and conditions of this Privacy Policy and GC LLC shall in no event be liable for the actions of any third party with respect to the handling and storage of any personal or other information.
LIMITATION OF LIABILITY
Your use of and browsing of any GC LLC Site is at your own risk. GC LLC makes no warranties or representations regarding the privacy of any information, except as specifically set forth in this Privacy Policy. Neither GC LLC nor any other party involved in creating, producing, or delivering a GC LLC Site shall be liable for any incidental, consequential, indirect, or punitive damages arising out of your access to, or use of, a GC LLC Site.
PREVIOUS PRIVACY POLICIES
This Privacy Policy replaces all previous disclosures we may have been provided to you about the personal information practices of GC LLC. GC LLC will update this Privacy Policy if our practices change or if laws or regulations require that such changes. If GC LLC decides to disclose personal information in a way that is materially different from that which was stated in this Privacy Policy at the time personal information was collected, GC LLC will notify you by posting notice of the change on the GC LLC Site located at www.gerberchildrenswear.com for a reasonable period of time before the implementation of such change(s) and, if feasible, will give you an opportunity to opt out of the proposed use of personal information.