Privacy PolicyUpdated 4 months ago

Effective Date: December 28, 2023

DOLLAR SHAVE CLUB PRIVACY POLICY

This Privacy Policy applies to information collected by Dollar Shave Club Canada Inc. (and its affiliates) (“DSC,” “we,” “our” or “us”) in connection with the products and services that DSC offers. This includes information collected online through our websites, branded pages on third-party platforms (i.e., social networking services), mobile applications, and through our direct marketing campaigns or other online communications, as well as offline through our Member Services Team, events, and mobile messaging services (collectively, “DSC Services”).

This policy applies to personal information about individuals and does not apply to the information collected, used or disclosed with respect to corporate or commercial entities. This policy does not impose any limits on our collection, use or disclosure of the information exempted under applicable privacy legislation, such as business contact information and certain publicly-available information.

This Privacy Policy explains what information the DSC Services may collect, how we may use or share such information with others, how we safeguard it and how you may access and control its use in connection with our marketing communications and business activities. By using the DSC Services, you agree to the collection, use, and disclosure of your information as described in this Privacy Policy. If you do not agree, please do not use the DSC Services.

This Privacy Policy is hereby incorporated into and forms part of the DSC’s Terms of Service.

1. INFORMATION COLLECTION

There are several ways we may obtain information about you:

Information You Provide To Us

When you use the DSC Services, we may ask you to provide certain personal information. For example, we may ask for information when you register to create an account, update your information, sign up for a membership or subscription, use certain features, access, upload or download content, purchase products or services, enter into sweepstakes or other promotions, register or participate in a competition, fill out a survey, request customer support, or otherwise communicate with us.

We (or our service providers or business partners) may collect information that relates to you, including personal information, such as your name, e-mail address, phone number, mailing address, date of birth, gender, demographic information, and other information you may provide to us.

Information You Provide When You Participate in an Online Survey or Other Research. We may also collect information you provide us in connection with participating in an online survey or as a research panel participant. This may include, but may not be limited to, information about your shopping habits, lifestyle preferences, interests and hobbies, health, physical or behavioural characteristics, or other demographic information, as well as photos, videos, and other user-generated content.

Information You Provide When You Make a Purchase. If you make a purchase from us, you will be required to provide a credit/debit card number and related financial information (such as CVV, expiration date, and billing address), or other payment information (such as via PayPal or Apple Pay), depending on the form of payment you choose.   

Information You Provide about a Third Party. You may decide to provide us with another person's information (such as name, email, address, or phone number) so that we may recommend or send products or services to such person, or so that we may facilitate your communication with other people. Local law may require you to seek the consent of your contacts to provide their personal information to DSC (or in connection with using the DSC Services), and we may, in turn, use that information in accordance with the terms of this Privacy Policy.

Information You Provide Through Social Media. You may have the option to link to your Facebook or other social media accounts through the DSC Services. When you do, we may automatically receive certain information from you based upon your privacy settings on those sites. This may include, but may not be limited to, name, user name, demographic information, updated address or contact information, location, interests, and publicly-observed data, such as from social media and online activity.

Information Collected Automatically

Whenever you visit or interact with the DSC Services, DSC, as well as any third-party advertisers and/or service providers, may use a variety of technologies that automatically or passively collect information about your online activity. This information may be collected in the following ways:

Usage Information: We may use cookies, web beacons, pixel tags, mobile analytics software, log files, or other technologies to collect certain information about your online activity, and interactions with our emails, online and mobile advertisements, and to allow us to keep track of analytics and certain statistical information which enables DSC to improve the DSC Services and provide you with more relevant DSC content and advertising or linked from the DSC Services.

For example, we may automatically or passively collect certain non-personal information from you, including your browser type, mobile device manufacturer, mobile carrier, phone number, operating system, email client, activations, content, products or services you purchase or access, the page served and the preceding page views or websites visited, and any mobile device activity and configurations. We may also automatically collect information about your use of the DSC Services, including the date and time you visit the DSC Services or use or click through to any of the DSC Services, the areas or pages of the DSC Services that you visit, the amount of time you spend viewing or using the DSC Services, the number of times you return to the DSC Services, other click-stream or site usage data, emails that you open, forward or click through to our DSC Services, and other sites that you may visit.

Device Information. We may automatically collect your IP address or other unique identifier (“Device Identifier”) for the computer, mobile device, tablet or other device (collectively, “Device”) you use to access the DSC Services, including the hardware model and mobile network information. We may use a Device Identifier to, among other things, provide the DSC Services, help diagnose problems with our servers, analyze trends, track users’ web page, email and mobile application movements/activities, help identify or gather broad demographic information for aggregate use, and retarget online and mobile advertisements to you across Devices you may use.

Geolocation Information: We may collect information about the location of your Device when you access or use the DSC Services. In addition, if you choose to turn on your Bluetooth, Wi-Fi or other geolocation functionality when you use our mobile applications, we may collect and use your geolocation information.

Third-Party Service Providers. We may use third-party service providers to support the DSC Services. Some of these service providers may use technology such as cookies, web beacons, pixel tags, log files, or other technologies to receive, collect, and store information on our behalf.

Third-Party Analytic Technologies. We may use third parties’ analytics and tracking tools, such as Google Analytics, Adobe Marketing Cloud, Facebook Custom Audience and others, to help us track, segment and analyze usage of the DSC Services, and to help us or those third parties serve more targeted advertising to you on the DSC Services and across the Internet. These tools may use technology such as cookies, web beacons, pixel tags, log files, Flash cookies, or other technologies to collect and store non-personal information. They may also combine information they collect from your interaction with the DSC Services with information they collect from other sources. We may not have access to information these third parties collect using cookies or other tracking technologies.

To learn more about your advertising choices relating to the collection and use of your information, please see the Your Choices section below.

Information Received from Other Third Parties

We may obtain information about you from other trusted third party sources to update or supplement the information that you provide or that we collect automatically. This includes, for example, information from public databases or data aggregators that may include your demographic information, media consumption, previous purchases, shopping habits, loyalty program information or lifestyle preferences. We may also receive information about you from our partners and service providers, (including, for example, business partners, analytics vendors, advertising networks and search information providers).

We may use this information to help us maintain the accuracy of the information we collect, personalize your experience with the DSC Services, target our communications so that we can inform you of products and services or other offers that may be of interest to you, measure ad quality and responses, and for internal business analysis or other business purposes.

Combination of Information

We may combine the information we receive from and about you, including information you provide to us, information we automatically collect through the DSC Services, information collected across other computers or devices that you may use, information from other online or offline sources, and information from third-party sources. We may use this combined information in any manner detailed in this Privacy Policy.

2. HOW WE USE THE INFORMATION COLLECTED

We may use the information about you for a variety of business purposes, including for example:

For Customer Service and Transactional Purposes, such as to:

• respond to your questions or requests and provide customer service;
• manage your account and registration;
• troubleshoot issues, bugs or defects related to your account or activities;
• provide you with access to certain features of the DSC Services;
• validate, confirm, verify, deliver, and track your orders (including to arrange for shipping, handle returns and refunds, and contact you about your orders, including by telephone), and send you related information, coupons, products or samples;
• verify your identity or communicate with you about your activities with respect to the DSC Services;
• to use and disclose your credit, debit or payment card or other financial information only to process payments and prevent fraud;
• contact you with regard to your use of the DSC Services and, in our discretion, changes to any Dollar Shave Club policy;
• develop new products or services and to enhance current products and services;
• protect the security or integrity of the DSC Services and our business, such as by protecting against and preventing fraud, unauthorized transactions, claims and other liabilities, and managing risk exposure, including by identifying potential hackers and other unauthorized users; and
• for other purposes as disclosed at the time you provide your personal information or otherwise with your consent.

For Advertising Customization and Analytics Purposes, such as to:

• perform market research, understand the effectiveness of our competition or promotions and DSC Services analytics and operations;
• personalize and improve the DSC Services and our products, services, offers and advertising made available on or outside the DSC Services (including on other sites/ applications that you visit);
• provide you with localized or customized content, advertisements, offers and promotions offered by DSC or on behalf of our partners and affiliates, and provide news and other information we think will be of interest to you on the DSC Services, in emails and across third-party websites;
• link or combine your information with information we receive from others to help understand your needs, use for interest-based or targeted advertising or re-targeting on your computers or other devices, and to provide you with better service; and
• communicate with you, either directly or through one of our partners (e.g., through Facebook Custom Audience, Google Customer Match, Twitter Match, etc.) for DSC marketing and promotional purposes via emails, notifications, or other messages, consistent with any permissions you may have communicated to us.

3. SHARING OF INFORMATION

DSC or you may share the information collected or generated through your use of the DSC Services as described below.

Sharing of Information by You

The DSC Services offer many ways to find, enjoy, and share content.

Your activity in connection with the DSC Services, such as filling out surveys, reviewing and rating products, inquiring about or purchasing products, participating in online communities, “liking” or “sharing” DSC content to your social media accounts or pages or otherwise interacting with the DSC Services, may be visible to other users of the DSC Services and in some cases, publicly available. In light of this, please be careful when sharing such information in connection with using the DSC Services.

Sharing of Information by Us

We may share the information collected from or about you in the following ways:

With Our Affiliates. We may share your information with our subsidiaries and affiliated companies for internal reasons, primarily for business and operational purposes, and to fulfill the other purposes listed in section 2 above. 

Third-Party Service Providers. We may share your information with third-party service providers that provide business, professional or technical support functions on our behalf. This includes, but may not be limited to, service providers that host or operate the DSC Services; process payments; analyze data; provide customer service; provide postal or delivery services, along with sponsors or other third parties that participate in or administer any promotions.

Other Third Parties. We may also share your information with our sponsors, partners, advertisers, advertising networks, advertising servers, and analytics companies or other third parties in connection with marketing, promotional, and other offers, as along with product information. We may also share your information with third parties we identify at the time you provide your personal information or otherwise with your consent.    

Sweepstakes, Contests, and Promotions. If you choose to enter into one of our sweepstakes, contests, or other promotions (a “Promotion”) we may disclose your information to third parties or the public in connection with the administration of such Promotion, as required by law, as otherwise permitted by the Promotion’s official rules, or otherwise in accordance with the terms of this Privacy Policy.

Business Transfers. In the event that another entity acquires us or all or substantially all of our assets, or assets related to the DSC Services, we may disclose your information to such entity as part of the due diligence process and transfer your information to such entity as one of the transferred assets. Also, if any bankruptcy or reorganization proceeding is brought by or against us, we may consider all such information an asset of ours and as such we may sell or transfer such information to third parties. Finally, we may also disclose the information described in this paragraph for due diligence purposes in connection with any proposed transaction described in this paragraph.

Legal Disclosures; Safety.  DSC may transfer and disclose your information to third parties to comply with a legal obligation; when we believe in good faith that the law requires it; at the request of governmental authorities conducting an investigation; to verify or enforce our Terms of Use or other applicable policies; to detect and protect against fraud, or any technical or security vulnerabilities; to respond to an emergency; or otherwise to protect the rights, property, safety, or security of third parties, users of the DSC Services, DSC, or the public.

Aggregate or Anonymous Non-Personal Information. We may also share aggregate or anonymous non-personal information with third parties for their marketing or analytics uses.

4. YOUR CHOICES AND OPT-OUT

Cookies, Tracking Options and Do Not Track Disclosures:

We, or other parties we do business with, may place or recognize unique cookies or other technologies on your browser when you visit the DSC Services to collect information about your use of the DSC Services and your other online activities over time and across different websites and apps, and may use that information to serve interest-based advertisements to you as you browse the Internet. To learn more about such interest-based advertising, and to opt out of such collection and use for online behavioural advertising by United States companies that participate in the Digital Advertising Alliance (DAA), please visit: http://www.aboutads.info/choices/ and/or DAA AppChoices – http://www.aboutads.info/appchoices/. To opt out from the use of information about your online activities for online behavioural advertising by NAI member companies, visit: http://www.networkadvertising.org/choices/. Please note that even if you opt out, you may still receive advertisements from DSC that are not customized based on your usage information.

Our system may not respond to Do Not Track requests or headers from some or all browsers. We may use cookies or other technologies to deliver more relevant advertising and to link data collected across other computers or devices that you may use.

You may also set your browser or operating system settings to limit certain tracking or to decline cookies, but by doing so, you may not be able to use certain features of the DSC Services or take full advantage of all of our offerings. Please refer to your Web browser’s or operating system’s website or “Help” section for more information on how to delete and/or disable your browser or operating system from receiving cookies or controlling your tracking preferences. On your mobile device, you may also adjust your privacy and advertising settings to control whether you want to receive more relevant advertising.

Access and Updates to Your Information:

If you wish to verify, correct, or update any of your personal information, you may visit your Account Page or contact us at the address or e-mail in the “Contact Us” section below.

Unsubscribing from Non-Essential Purposes:

You may withdraw your consent to our collections, uses and disclosures of your personal information at any time, subject to legal, contractual and other restrictions, provided that you give us reasonable notice. When we receive your notice to withdraw of consent, we will inform you of the likely consequences of your consent withdrawal, which may include our inability to provide you with certain services that require that information.

• Send us an e-mail at [email protected],
• Contact our Club Pros or Privacy Officer by mail at Dollar Shave Club, 13335 Maxella Ave. Marina Del Rey, CA 90292, or
• Unsubscribe from our marketing email communications at any time by unsubscribing or following the instructions contained within the email.

Your Canadian Privacy Rights:

Upon written request and after verifying your identity, we will provide you with a summary of your personal information under our control, information about how we use that information, and a description of the individuals and organizations to whom we have disclosed that information. We will make the information available within 30 days or provide written notice where additional time is required to fulfill the request.

Your information may be subject to a decision based on automated processing, including profiling. Where applicable, you also have the right not to be subject to a decision based solely on automated processing, including profiling, which produces legal effects concerning you or similarly significantly affects you. 

In some situations we may not be able to provide access to certain personal information. This may be the case where, for example, disclosure would reveal personal information about another individual, the personal information is protected by solicitor/client privilege, the information is prohibitively costly to provide, the information was collected for the purpose of an investigation or where disclosure of the information would reveal confidential commercial information that, if disclosed, could harm our competitive position. We may also be prevented by law from providing access to certain personal information. When we refuse an access request, we will notify you in writing, document the reasons for refusal and outline further steps which are available to you.

Accuracy

We will make a reasonable effort to ensure that personal information we use or disclose is accurate and complete. In most cases, we rely on you to ensure that your information is current, complete and accurate.

If you inform us that your personal information is inaccurate or incomplete, we will amend the information as required. If appropriate, we will send the amended information to third parties to whom we have disclosed the information. If we do not resolve a challenge regarding the accuracy of personal information to your satisfaction, we will annotate the personal information under our control with a note that the correction was requested but not made.

Retention

We will keep personal information used to make a decision affecting you for at least one year after using it to make the decision, unless otherwise permitted or required by law.

We will destroy, erase or make anonymous documents or other records containing personal information as soon as it is reasonable to assume that retaining the information does not serve the original purpose for collecting the information and retention is no longer necessary for legal or business purposes.

We will take due care when destroying personal information in and effort to prevent unauthorized access to the information, but we cannot guarantee your information’s security.

5. CHILDREN’S PRIVACY

Protecting children’s privacy is important to us. We do not direct the DSC Services to, nor do we knowingly collect any personal information from, children under the age of thirteen. If DSC learns that a child under the age of thirteen has provided personally identifiable information through the DSC Services, we will use reasonable efforts to remove such information from our files

6. SECURITY OF YOUR INFORMATION.

We use certain reasonable security measures to help protect your personal information. However, no electronic data transmission or storage of information can be guaranteed to be 100% secure. Please note that we cannot ensure or warrant the security of any information you transmit to us. You use the DSC Services and provide us with your information at your own risk. If we share information with a third party, as detailed in this privacy policy, we shall use all reasonable efforts to ensure that they keep the information secure and only use the information consistent with the terms of this Privacy Policy.

7. OTHER SITES

The DSC Services may contain links to other sites that we do not own or operate. This includes links from service providers, fulfillment companies, advertisers, sponsors, or other business partners that may use our logo(s) as part of a co-branding agreement. We are not responsible for these sites or their content, products, services or privacy policies or practices. These other web sites may send their own cookies to your Device, they may independently collect data or solicit personal information and they may or may not have their own published privacy policies. You should independently assess the authenticity of any site which appears or claims that it is one of the DSC Services (including those linked to through an email or social networking page).

8. CONSENT TO PROCESSING & INTERNATIONAL TRANSFERS.

DSC is a global business and we, or our service providers, may process, transfer and store information about our users on servers located in a number of countries, including the United States. As a result, your personal information may be subject to data protection and other laws that may differ from your country of residence. We may disclose your personal information in response to inquiries or requests from government authorities or to respond to judicial process in the countries in which we operate. By using the DSC Services, or by providing us with any information, you consent to the collection, processing, maintenance and transfer of such information in and to the United States and other applicable territories in which the privacy laws may not be as comprehensive as, or equivalent to, those in the country where you reside and/or are a citizen. You may contact our Privacy Officer (whose contact information is provided below) to obtain information about our policies and practices regarding our transfer of data or use of service providers outside of your country, or to ask questions about the collection, use, disclosure or storage of personal information outside of your country.

9. CHANGES & OTHER DSC PRIVACY POLICIES

We will post any changes we may make to our Privacy Policy on this page. Please check back frequently to see any updates or changes to our Privacy Policy. If you do not agree or consent to these updates or changes, do not continue to use the DSC Services. If we make a material change to this Privacy Policy, we will provide appropriate notice to you.

In addition to this Privacy Policy, additional privacy terms or policies may govern specific campaigns or promotions. We encourage you to read these additional terms or policies before participating in any such campaigns or promotions as you must comply with them if you participate. We will make any additional privacy terms or policies will be made prominently available to you.

10. CONTACT US

We have designated a Privacy Officer who is accountable for our compliance with this policy. If you have any questions or concerns regarding this Privacy Policy, please contact us at:

Alternatively, please go to ca.dollarshaveclub.com, and click on the Contact Us link.