Information
Your privacy is very important to us at Essential Vessel and we understand that you care how information about you is used and shared. This Privacy Policy governs the website located at essential-vessel.com and any other websites and services owned or operated by Essential Vessel (collectively, “Website”). The Policy outlines what information we collect, how we use it, and under what circumstances, if any, we will share it. Other than as set forth in this Policy, Essential Vessel will not provide your personally identifiable information (defined below) to third parties without your specific permission.
By visiting the website, submitting information, or using any of our products or services (e.g., newsletter), you acknowledge that that you have read and agree to be bound by the terms of this Privacy Policy and the Website Terms of Use and that you consent to having your data transferred to, and processed in, the United States. If you do not agree, you should exit the Website and not use any of our products or services or provide any information. Throughout this Privacy Policy we may refer to Essential Vessel as “us” or “we,” and we may refer to you as “you,” the “user” or “end user.”
I. Types of Information Collected and Uses
The information we learn from users helps us personalize and continually improve our offerings and your experience with essential-vessel.com such as by customizing content (including advertising content), responding to e-mail requests, and communicating with you. We gather two basic types of information: “Personally Identifiable Information” that can identify a person as an individual (e.g., name, mailing address, telephone number, e-mail address) and “Non-Personally Identifiable Information,” which may include aggregated information, demographic information, IP addresses, and any other information that does not necessarily reveal a person’s specific identity. Within those two broad categories, we gather the following types of information:
II. Information you provided to us
We may receive and store any information you enter on our website or provide to us in any way. This may include your first and last name, nickname, e-mail address, mailing address, password, telephone number, date of birth, gender, shopping preferences, and any other information you provide in creating an account, purchasing products from the Website, or any other use of the site. Information you provide us may also include information you provide when: ordering a product (which may include your credit card and related information), filling out a survey, posting a review or comment, providing feedback, requesting information, sending messages, or performing searches. Some or all of the functionality contemplated in the preceding sentence may or may not be available at any given time.
You may choose not to provide us with certain information, but that may prevent you from: participating in or utilizing the activity or service (e.g., e-mail alerts), posting comments to our Website, creating an account or user profile, performing searches or queries, sending messages, purchasing products or services, or communicating with us.
We may use information you provide to us to: provide our offerings to you; improve our offerings; analyze Website use; enhance the operation of the Website; improve our marketing and promotional efforts. We may also use Personally Identifiable Information to: contact you; troubleshoot; resolve disputes; perform administrative tasks; enforce our agreements with you (including this Privacy Policy and our Website Terms of Use); track complaints; and cooperate with governmental agencies and otherwise comply with applicable law.
III. Cookies or Other Data Tracking
A cookie is a small file that is stored on a user’s computer for record-keeping purposes that contains information about that user. We may use cookies to save you time while using the Websites, remind us who you are, and track and target user interests in order to provide a customized experience. Cookies may also allow us to gather Non-Personally Identifiable Information from you, like the web pages you have visited and the links you have clicked on. We use this information to help us create a more user-friendly experience for all visitors. In addition, we may use third party advertising companies to place advertisements on our Website. As part of their service, those third-party advertisers may place separate cookies on your computer. We have no access to or control over such third-party cookies. This Privacy Policy covers the use of cookies by our Websites only and does not cover the use of cookies by any advertiser or other third party.
Most browsers automatically accept cookies, but you may be able to modify your browser settings to decline cookies (the “help” portion of the toolbar on the majority of browsers will direct you on how to prevent your browser from accepting new cookies, how to command the browser to tell you when you receive a new cookie, or how to fully disable cookies). We encourage you to leave the cookies activated, however, because cookies may enable you to take advantage of some of the features of essential-vessel.com, and if you decline or delete cookies, parts of the Website may not work effectively or at all.
In addition to cookies, we may use other technologies like web beacons and pixel tags to track your use of our Website pages and promotions, or we may allow our Third Party Service Providers to use these devices on our behalf. Web beacons and pixel tags are small graphic images placed on websites or in e-mails that indicate whether you have performed a specific action. When you access these pages or open or click an e-mail, such web beacons and pixel tags generate a notice of that action. Web beacons and pixel tags may provide information about visitor traffic and behavior on our Website and provide a way to measure the effectiveness of any marketing or promotions. We may also utilize web beacons and pixel tags provided by our affiliated businesses for the same purposes.
IV. Automatic Information
We may receive and store certain types of information whenever you interact with us. For example, like many web sites and as addressed above, we may use “cookies,” and we may automatically collect certain types of information when your Web browser accesses our Website or advertisements and other content served by or on behalf of us on other sites. This may include information about your operating system and browser, the site accessed immediately before accessing our Website, the website access after leaving our Website, your IP address, pages you requested, shopping and purchase preferences, and history. We may use this data to, among other things, customize and enhance our Website and offerings as well as your experience with third parties (as provided in Section 2), and to help operate and administer our Website.
Generally, our Website may automatically collect usage information, such as the numbers and frequency of visitors to our Website and its components. We may use this data in the aggregate to design and improve our Websites and offerings, and we may provide this information to affiliated businesses so they can understand how often users use areas of our Websites, to help enable them to provide you with an optimal Web experience. We may also collect and use that information for internal purposes.
We may use Non-Personally Identifiable Information to: troubleshoot; administer our Websites; analyze trends; gather demographic and preference information; enhance and customize our offerings; measure the effectiveness of any online advertising, content, and programming; cooperate with governmental authorities and otherwise comply with applicable law. We may also share this information with our authorized affiliated businesses and advertisers for these purposes. We may also publish this information for promotional purposes or as a representative audience for advertisers.
V. E-mail Communications
We may receive confirmation via HTML code when you open an e-mail from us. We may use that information to measure the effectiveness of our Website and offerings and reduce or eliminate duplicate e-mails. If you no longer wish to receive promotional e-mails from us, please email: info@essential-vessel.com with the subject as “Unsubscribe”. Even if you opt-out of promotional e-mails, we may continue to send you any necessary administrative or transactional e-mails, such as those regarding purchase transactions
VI. Will Essential Vessel Share Any of the Information It Receives?
No. We neither rent nor sell your personally identifiable information to anyone. We share your personal information only as provided in this Policy or with your consent, to the entities described below.
VII. Affiliated Businesses We Do Not Control
VIII. Agents or Third Party Service Providers
We may employ other companies and people to perform tasks on our behalf and need to share your information with them to provide products or services to you (“Third Party Service Providers”). Examples include sending postal mail and e-mail, removing repetitive information from customer lists, performing surveys, tracking clicks, analyzing data, performing administrative functions and website operations, providing marketing assistance, providing search results and links (including paid listings and links), processing credit card payments, and providing customer service. We may also provide your personal information to agents who will use it to verify aggregate usage data that we provide to our affiliated businesses. These agents may not use your information for any other purposes. We are not responsible for the privacy practices or content of any third-party sites, including those with which we share personal information as described in this Privacy Policy.
Please note that you may have cookies placed on your computer by third-party websites that refer you to this Site. Although we do not share your personal information with these third-party sites, they may be able to link certain non-personally-identifiable information we transfer to them with personal information they previously collected from you. For your own protection, you should review the policies of similar sites to ensure they meet your personal expectations of privacy.
IX. Communication About the Website or in Response to Your Requests
As part of the Website and our services, you may receive e-mail and other communication relating to your use of the Website or your user account. You acknowledge and agree that by posting information on the Website or otherwise using the Website, we and our agents may send you e-mail or otherwise contact you as we determine necessary in our sole discretion related to your use of the Website.
We may also use your e-mail address to send updates, a newsletter, or other news regarding the Website or our offerings. You must opt in to receipt of these emails; if you receive promotional emails without opting in, or wish to opt out of receiving emails, please email: info@essential-vessel.com with the subject as “Unsubscribe”.
X. Security of Information
We take security seriously and take numerous precautions to protect the security of Personally Identifiable Information. You can access your Personally Identifiable Information on our Website through a password and your e-mail address. This password is encrypted. We recommend that you do not share your password with anyone. In addition, your Personally Identifiable Information resides on a secure server that only selected personnel and contractors have access to. Certain sensitive information, such as purchase and credit card information for purchases made through our site, is transmitted using Secure Socket Layer (SSL) technology to help ensure that your Personally Identifiable Information is safe as it is transmitted to us.
We try to protect user information so that the user account information is kept private, but unauthorized use or entry, hardware or software failures, and other factors may undermine the security of user information at any time and no data transmission over the Internet or any wireless network can be guaranteed to be 100% secure. Accordingly, while we employ reasonable security measures to protect data and seek to affiliate with companies that do the same, we cannot guarantee the security of account information transmitted to or from the Website, and are not responsible for the actions of any third parties that may receive any such information. For more information about the security measures we use in connection with the Website, please contact us at: info@essential-vessel.com.
XI. Questions and How to Contact
If you have any questions or concerns regarding this Privacy Policy, about our practices with respect to personal information, if you wish us to delete your personal information from our database, or should you wish to stop receiving communications from us, please notify us at: info@essential-vessel.com.