This Master Privacy Policy (“Privacy Policy”) explains the collection, use, and disclosure of “personal information” by Standby Brothers (“SBB” or “Standby Brothers”) in relation to your use of the Websites and the Services.
In addition, additional or supplemental Privacy Policy terms (“Supplemental Privacy Policy Terms”) may apply to a particular Website or service provided thereon. All such Supplemental Privacy Policy Terms will be accessible for you to read either within, or through your use of, that Website or service.
This Privacy Policy also explains our commitment to you with respect to our use and disclosure of non personal browsing and site usage data that Standby Brothers collects as the provider of the Websites and as service provider. That commitment is contained in a “Data Usage Policy” below.
As used in this policy, “personal information” means information that would allow a party to identify you such as, for example, your name, address or location, telephone number or email address.
By accessing the Websites or Standby Brothers services, you are accepting and agreeing to the practices
described in this Privacy Policy.
Our Principles
Standby Brothers is committed to handling responsibly the information and data we collect about you through our Websites, whether personal information or non personal browsing and site usage data. We have designed our Privacy Policy and our Data Usage Policy consistent with the following principles (the “Principles”):
- Privacy policies and data collection and use policies should be human readable, comprehensive, and easy to locate;
- Only the minimum amount of information reasonably necessary to provide you with services should be collected and maintained, and only for so long as reasonably needed or required;
- Information you provide through our Websites, or that we gather as a result of your use of our Websites or Services, should not be used for marketing or advertising purposes, nor should it be provided voluntarily (without your permission) to anyone else unless required; and
- Unless restricted or prohibited by law, and provided your email address has been collected and retained, you should be notified when circumstances require Standby Brothers to provide a third party with your personal information.
Personal Information SBB Collects
We may collect personal information at several places on the Websites, including without limitation:
- when you provide us with your personal information such as by sending an email to us or signing up to receive a newsletter or our events listing;
- when you subscribe to one of our email discussion lists or register to establish a user account on any of our Websites;
- when you purchase merchandise;
- when you join our Website, and when you thereafter create/edit your profile page, identify your content, and/or share your story; and
- when you provide personal information in connection with your participation in any of the forums we make available to that community.
What SBB does with Personal Information
Emails and Newsletters. We use the personal information you provide to us when you send us emails or sign up to receive our newsletter or events listing in order to respond to your request (for example, to reply to your email or to send you communications about news and events related to Standby Brothers).
When you subscribe to our newsletter, events list or one of our email discussion lists, your name and email address is stored. Personal information submitted as part of our email discussion lists is used for the purpose of managing the discussion lists. Your name and email address will typically be visible to other list participants when you correspond on the list and to the general public in the discussion archives. All emails sent to the discussions list are publicly archived.
If you purchase merchandise from Standby Brothers, we will use your personal information for the purpose of sending you the items you purchased. Regardless of the method by which you purchase merchandise, we additionally use the personal information you provide for the purpose of contacting you about upcoming news and events relevant to Standby Brothers. When we contact you for the first time after your purchase, we will use reasonable means to give you the option to choose not to be contacted in this manner again.
Website. When you join our website you provide personal information to create your account and establish a password and profile. We use that personal information to establish and maintain your accounts, provide you with the features we provide for account holders, and for the purpose of contacting you about upcoming news and events relevant to Standby Brothers.
By joining the Standby Brothers Website, you may also be given a public profile page where you can voluntarily post personal information for public viewing. The information that you submit on your public profile page including any photograph or image of yourself you upload, is posted by you at your discretion (although subject to Standby Brothers’s Master Terms of Use). The information you publish on your public profile page, including your personal information, may be used by anyone who views that information for any lawful purpose, with the exception of any photograph or image of yourself that you upload, which if you choose to provide in either case must be licensed under and becomes subject to the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported license. SBB may use the personal and non personal browsing information you provide in your public profile (subject to the terms of that license), to promote the Standby Brothers Website.
Participating in Our Community: Registered Users.
When you register to obtain a user account on any of the Websites (any such person, a “Registered User”) you may be asked to provide personal information to create your account and establish a password and profile. Providing your email address and/or real name is optional. If you do provide your email address, it will allow us to send you your password if you should forget it. If you voluntarily provide your real name in connection with any content you submit to any Website, your name may be associated with the content you contributed (such as when you edit a Wiki page). We will also use that personal information to establish and maintain your membership and provide you with the features we provide for Registered Users, and for the purpose of contacting you about upcoming news and events relevant to Standby Brothers.
Any other personal information that we may collect which is not described specifically in this Privacy Policy will only be collected and used in accordance with the Principles.
Disclosures of Personal Information
In general, it is not Standby Brothers’ practice to disclose personal information to third parties. We may share personal information in two instances:
First, Standby Brothers may share personal information with our contractors and service providers in order to maintain, enhance, or add to the functionality of the Websites or services.
Second, we may disclose your personal information to third parties in a good faith belief that such disclosure is reasonably necessary to (a) take action regarding suspected illegal activities; (b) enforce or apply our Master Terms of Use and Privacy Policy; (c) comply with legal process, such as a search warrant, subpoena, statute, or court order; or (d) protect our rights, reputation, and property, or that of our users, affiliates, or the public.
If Standby Brothers is required to provide a third party with your personal information (whether by subpoena or otherwise), then provided we have collected and retained an email address for you, Standby Brothers will use reasonable means to notify you promptly of that event, unless prohibited by law or SBB is otherwise advised not to notify you on the advice of legal counsel.
Security of Personal Information Collected via the Websites;
Standby Brothers has implemented reasonable measures to protect against unauthorized access to and unlawful interception or processing of personal information that Standby Brothers stores and controls. However, no website can fully eliminate security risks. Third parties may circumvent our security measures to unlawfully intercept or access transmissions or private communications. We will post a reasonably prominent notice to the Websites if any such security breach occurs.
Data Usage Policy: Non Personal Browsing and Site Usage Information
Our Data Usage Policy covers how we maintain and use information about you that is collected by our Websites and server logs, including when you log into a website.
Non Personal Browsing Information We Collect. When you use the Websites, our servers (which may be hosted by a third party service provider) may collect information indirectly and automatically (through, for example, the use of your “IP address”) about your activities while visiting the Websites and information about the browser you are using. In addition, whenever you log into a website, our servers (which, again, may be hosted by a third party service provider) keep a log of the websites you visit and when you visit them.
No Linking. We do not intentionally link browsing information to the personal information you submit to us. We use this information for internal purposes only, such as to help understand how the Websites are being used, to improve our Websites and the features we provide, and for systems administration purposes. SBB may use a third party analytics provider to help us collect and analyze non personal browsing information through operation of our Websites for those same purposes.
No Selling or Sharing. Except in the unique situations identified in this Privacy Policy, Standby Brothers does not sell or otherwise voluntarily provide the non personal browsing information we collect about you or your website usage to third parties.
Notice. If Standby Brothers is required to provide a third party with your non personal browsing information or to log in on behalf of a user (whether by subpoena or otherwise), then SBB will use reasonable means to notify you promptly of that event, unless SBB is prohibited by law from doing so or is otherwise advised not to notify you on the advice of legal counsel.
Any other non-personal information that we collect which is not described specifically in this Privacy Policy will only be collected and used in accordance with the Principles.
Third-Party Sites
The Websites may include links to other websites. You should consult the respective privacy policies of these third-party sites. This Privacy Policy does not apply to, and we cannot control the activities of, such other websites.
Special Note to International Users
The Websites are hosted in the United States. If you are accessing the Websites from the European Union, Asia, or any other region with laws or regulations governing personal data collection, use and disclosure that differ from United States laws, please note that you are transferring your personal data to the United States which does not have the same data protection laws as the EU and other regions. By providing your personal data you consent to:
- the use of your personal data for the uses identified above in accordance with the Privacy Policy; and
- the transfer of your personal data to the United States as indicated above.
Changes and Updates to this Privacy Policy
We may occasionally update this Privacy Policy. When we do, we will also revise the Effective Date below. We encourage you to periodically review this Privacy Policy to stay informed about how we are protecting the personal information we collect. Your continued use of the Websites constitutes your agreement to this Privacy Policy and any updates.
Effective Date: March 01, 2013