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PROPELLED BRANDS PRIVACY NOTICE

Last Updated: December 17, 2021

Effective Date: December 17, 2021

This website is targeted at, and information you submit through the website may be collected, stored, and processed in the United States. 

This Propelled Brands, Inc. (“Propelled Brands”) privacy notice (“Notice”) describes how Propelled Brands (“we,” “us,” or “our”) collects, uses, shares, stores, and protects your information and your rights and choices in relation to your information. This Notice applies to all personal information collected about you by Propelled Brands, including when you do any of the following (collectively the “Services”):

∙  Use our website located at www.propelledbrands.com, and all corresponding webpages or mobile applications that link to this Privacy Policy (collectively, the “Sites”), or any of our brand websites, including:

www.fastsigns.com

www.salonplaza.com

www.mysalonsuite.com

www.mysuitestore.com

www.nerdstogo.com

Collectively, the “Sites.”

∙  Visit our branded social media pages;

∙  Communicate with us during any written, electronic or oral communications; and

∙  Purchase our products or services.

This Notice does not apply to independently owned and operated brand locations, and thus we cannot and do not guarantee that they will follow the terms of this Notice. To the extent you have questions about how an independent brand location is processing your personal information, please contact them directly. 

You can jump to particular topics by going to the headings below:

1. Types Of Information We Collect

2. How We Use Your Information

3. Sharing Of Information

4. Security Safeguards

5. Retention

6. Your Choices

7. California Privacy Rights

8. Notice to Nevada Residents

9. Children’s Privacy

10. Other Important Information

11. Contacting Us

1. TYPES OF INFORMATION WE COLLECT

The following provides examples of the type of information that we collect from you and how we use that information.  

In addition to the information that we collect from you directly, we may also receive information about you from other sources, including third parties, franchisees, business partners, our affiliates, or publicly available sources. 

2. HOW WE USE YOUR INFORMATION

In addition to the above uses, we may also use your information in the below circumstances:

• To Provide and Maintain our Services. We use your personal information to provide you with information about our Services. If the Services are to be performed by a third party, then we will disclose the necessary personal information to the third party providing the Services on our behalf.

• To Provide Customer Support or Respond to You. We may process any information that you provide to us when you contact us, such as with questions, concerns, feedback, disputes or issues. Without your personal information, we cannot respond to you.

• To Send You Marketing and Promotional Emails. We may use your personal information to contact you with newsletters, marketing or promotional materials and other information that may be of interest to you based on the Services that you already purchased or enquired about unless you have opted not to receive such information. You may opt-out of receiving any, or all, of these communications from us by following the unsubscribe link or the instructions provided in any email we send.

• To Post Testimonials. We may use personal information to post testimonials on our Sites. Prior to posting a testimonial, we will obtain your consent to use your name and testimonial. You can request your testimonial be updated or deleted at any time by sending a request with your name, testimonial location and contact information.

• To Enforce Compliance with Our Terms and Agreements or Policies. When you access or use our Site, you are bound to our Terms and this Notice. To ensure you comply with them, we process your personal information by actively monitoring, investigating, preventing and mitigating any alleged or actual prohibited, illicit or illegal activities on our Services. We also may process your personal information to: investigate; enforce our agreements with third parties and business partners; and, as applicable, collect fees based on your use of our Services. We cannot perform our Services in accordance with our terms, agreements or policies without processing your personal information for such purposes.

• Advise You of Other Services. From time to time, subject to the applicable law, we may share your personal information with third parties or partners, so that they can provide you with more information about their services and products.

• For Research and Development. We may use your information to gather analysis or valuable information so that we can improve our Services and to detect, prevent and address technical issues. We may also use your information to monitor the usage of our Sites including without limitation search terms entered, pages visited and documents viewed.

• Other Legitimate Business Purposes. We may use your personal information when it is necessary for other legitimate purposes such as protecting our confidential and proprietary information.

3. SHARING OF INFORMATION

We only disclose your personal information to those who really need access to perform their tasks and third parties who have a legitimate purpose for accessing it. Unless described in this Notice, we do not share, sell, rent, or trade any of your personal information with third parties for their own promotional purposes. We may disclose your personal information as described below.

∙  Service Providers and Third Parties. We may employ third-party companies and individuals to facilitate our Services, provide the Services on our behalf, perform Service-related tasks, provide you with additional information on our franchise or assist us in analyzing how our Services are used. These third parties have access to your personal information only to perform these tasks on our behalf and are obligated not to disclose or use it for any other purpose.

∙  Within Our Corporate Organization. We are a part of a corporate organization that has many legal entities, business processes, management structures and technical systems. We may share your personal information within this organization to provide you with the Services, take actions based on your request, or to provide you with information about other services offered by our parts of our organization.

∙  Business Partners. From time to time, we may engage in joint sales or product promotions with selected business partners. If you purchase or specifically express interest in a jointly-offered product, promotion or service, we may share relevant personal information with those partners. While we do not control our business partners’ use of such information, we do take appropriate steps to ensure that they use appropriate safeguards to protect your personal information. Our partners are responsible for managing their own use of the personal information collected in these circumstances, including providing information to you about how they use your personal information. We recommend you review the privacy policies of the relevant partner to find out more about their handling of your personal information.

∙  Mergers and Acquisitions. If we are involved in a merger, acquisition or asset sale, your personal information may be transferred. We will inform any buyer that your information shall only be used in accordance with this Notice.

∙  Compliance with Laws or Regulatory Body. Under certain circumstances, we may be required to disclose your personal information by law or in response to valid requests by public authorities (e.g. a court or a government agency). We may disclose your personal information in the good faith belief that such action is necessary to: comply with a legal obligation; protect and defend our rights or property; prevent or investigate possible wrongdoing in connection with the Services; protect the personal safety of users of the Services or the public, or protect against legal liability.

∙  Consent. We may disclose your personal information for any purpose with your consent.

4. SECURITY SAFEGUARDS

We maintain and require our service providers to maintain appropriate physical, technical and administrative safeguards to protect the security and confidentiality of the personal information you entrust to us. However, we cannot guarantee that loss, misuse, unauthorized acquisition, or alteration of your data will not occur. Please recognize that you play a vital role in protecting your personal information. Furthermore, we cannot ensure or warrant the security or confidentiality of the information you transmit to us or receive from us by Internet or wireless connection, including email, phone, or SMS, since we have no way of protecting that information once it leaves and until it reaches us. If you have reason to believe that your data is no longer secure, please contact us at the email address or mailing address listed at the bottom of this Notice. If we are required by law to inform you of a breach to your personal information, we may notify you electronically, in writing, or by telephone, if permitted to do so by law. 

5. RETENTION

We limit our retention of your personal information as long as necessary for the purposes set out in this Notice. We will retain and use your personal information to the extent necessary to comply with our legal obligations (for example, if we are required to retain your data to comply with applicable laws), resolve disputes and enforce our legal agreements and policies.

7. CALIFORNIA PRIVACY RIGHTS

California law provides certain rights to residents of their states. For instance, California law indicates that organizations should disclose whether certain categories of information are collected, “sold” or transferred for an organization’s “business purpose” (as those terms are defined under California law).  You can find a list of the categories of information that we collect and share here. Please note that because this list is comprehensive it may refer to types of information that we share about people other than you. If you would like more information concerning the categories of personal information (if any) we share with affiliates for them to use for direct marketing, please submit a written request to us using the information in the “Contact Information” section below.  

If you are a California resident, you have rights in relation to your personal information; however, your rights are subject to certain exceptions. For instance, we cannot disclose specific pieces of personal information if the disclosure would create a substantial, articulable, and unreasonable risk to the security of the personal information, your account with us or the security of our network systems. Please see below for your applicable rights:

• Right Against Discrimination. You have the right not to be discriminated against for exercising any of the rights described in this section. We will not discriminate against you for exercising your right to know, delete or opt-out of sales.

• Right to Know. You have the right to request in writing: (i) a list of the categories of personal information, such as name, address, email address, that a business has disclosed to third parties during the immediately preceding calendar year for the third parties’ direct marketing purposes, and (ii) the names and addresses of all such third parties. In addition, you have the right to request: (i) the categories of personal information we have collected about you, (ii) the categories of sources from which personal information is collected, (iii) the business or commercial purpose for the information collection, (iv) the categories of third parties with whom we have shared personal information, and (v) the specific pieces of personal information we hold about an individual. You have the right to request a copy of the specific Personal Information we collected about you during the 12 months before your request.

• Right to Delete. You have the right to request us delete any personal information we have collected from you or maintain about you, subject to certain exceptions.  

• Right to Opt-Out of Selling. You have a right to opt-out of allowing us to sell your personal information. However, we do not sell your personal information. 

• Exercising Your Rights. To exercise your rights described above, please submit a verifiable consumer request to us by submitting our online form here ( https://www.propelledbrands.com/privacy-policy/consumer-protection/), or calling us at 877.778.6463. You may only make a verifiable consumer request for access or data portability twice within a 12-month period. Your verifiable consumer request must:

• Provide sufficient information that allows us to reasonably verify you are the person about whom we collected personal information.
• Describe your request with sufficient detail that allows us to properly understand, evaluate, and respond to it.

We cannot respond to your request or provide you with personal information if we cannot verify your identity or authority to make the request and confirm the personal information relates to you. Making a verifiable consumer request does not require you to create an account with us. Depending on the request, we may ask for additional information from you, such as your name and the last time you used a Service. We will only use personal information provided in a verifiable consumer request to verify the requestor’s identity or authority to make the request. If you have an account with us, we will deliver our written response to that account. If you do not have an account with us, we will deliver our written response by mail or electronically, at your option.

We do not charge a fee to process or respond to your verifiable consumer request unless it is excessive, repetitive, or manifestly unfounded. If we determine that the request warrants a fee, we will tell you why we made that decision and provide you with a cost estimate before completing your request.

Authorized Agent. In certain circumstances, you are permitted to use an authorized agent to submit requests on your behalf where (i) you provide sufficient evidence to show that the requestor is an authorized agent with written permission to act on your behalf and (ii) you successfully verify your own identity with us. If the authorized agent is a business, it must also provide proof that it is registered with the California Secretary of State and authorized to do business in California.

Shine the Light. California’s “Shine the Light” law (Civil Code Section § 1798.83) permits users of our Services that are California residents to request certain information regarding our disclosure of personal information to third parties for their direct marketing purposes, to the extent applicable. To make such a request, please send a letter to us at Propelled Brands, Attention: Privacy Team, 2542 Highlander Way, Carrollton, TX 75006, indicating that you are making a “Shine the Light” request.

Do-Not-Track (DNT). DNT is a concept that has been promoted by regulatory agencies such as the U.S. Federal Trade Commission (FTC), for the Internet industry to develop and implement a mechanism for allowing Internet users to control the tracking of their online activities across websites by using browser settings. The World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) has been working with industry groups, Internet browsers, technology companies, and regulators to develop a DNT technology standard. While some progress has been made, it has been slow. No standard has been adopted to this date. As such, the Sites do not generally respond to “do not track” signals.

8. NOTICE TO NEVADA RESIDENTS

This section applies only to Nevada residents. Pursuant to Nevada law, you may direct a business that operates an internet website not to sell personal information the business has collected or will collect about you to third parties, who will license or sell that personal information to other parties. 

9. CHILDREN’S PRIVACY

Our Services are not intended for anyone under the age of 18 (“children”). We do not target or knowingly collect personal information from children. We recognize the privacy interests of children and we encourage parents and guardians to take an active role in their children’s online activities and interests. If you are a parent or guardian and you are aware that your child has provided us with personal information, please contact us. If we become aware that we have collected personal information from a child without verification of parental consent, we will take steps to remove that information from our servers.

10. OTHER IMPORTANT INFORMATION

The following additional information relates to our privacy practices:

• Third Party Applications/Websites.  Our Sites may contain links to third-party websites. These third-party websites and services are not related to Propelled Brands and may have separate privacy policies and data collection practices. We have no responsibility for these websites.

• Changes To This Privacy Policy.  We may change our privacy policy and practices over time.  If we make a change that we believe materially affects how we process your personal information, we will provide notice of such change via email using the email we have on file for you or that you have submitted to us. To the extent that our policy changes in a material way, the policy that was in place at the time that you submitted personal information to us will generally govern that information unless we receive your consent to the new privacy policy.  Our privacy policy includes an “effective” and “last updated” date. The effective date refers to the date that the current version took effect. The last updated date refers to the date that the current version was last substantively modified.
• Accessibility. If you are visually impaired, you may access this notice through your browser’s audio reader. 

11. CONTACTING US

If you have any questions about this Notice, please contact us at privacy@propelledbrands.com or send physical mail to: Propelled Brands, Attn: Privacy Officer, 2542 Highlander Way, Carrollton, TX 75006, Attn: Privacy.

If you are not satisfied with our response to you or your request, you may have a right to lodge a complaint with your local government privacy regulator.

California Information Sharing Disclosure

California Civil Code Sections 1798.115(c), 1798.130(a)(5)(c), 1798.130(c), and 1798.140 indicate that organizations should disclose whether the following categories of personal information are collected, transferred for “valuable consideration,” or transferred for an organization’s “business purpose” (as those terms are defined under California law).  We do not “sell” your personal information. The table below indicates the categories of personal information we collect and transfer in a variety of contexts.  Please note that because this list is comprehensive, it may refer to types of information that we collect and share about people other than you.  For example, while we transfer credit card or debit card numbers for our business purpose in order to process payments for orders placed with us, we do not collect or transfer credit card or debit card numbers of individuals that submit questions through our website’s “contact us” page.