Privacy Policy

Updated June 1, 2019.

Purpose
We at Nick’s Pain Relief Salve Inc. (“Nick’s Pain Relief Salve”) know you care about how your personal information is used and shared, and we take your privacy seriously. This privacy policy explains our online and offline information practices, the kinds of information we may collect, how we intend to use and share that information, and how you can opt-out of a use or correct or change any such information. Please read the below to learn more about our privacy policy. By using or accessing the Services in any manner, you acknowledge that you accept the practices and policies outlined in this privacy policy, and you consent that we will collect, use, and share your information in the ways described herein.

Remember that your use of Nick’s Pain Relief Salve’s website is at all times subject to the Terms of Service, which incorporates this privacy policy. Any terms we use in this Policy without defining them have the definitions given to them in the Terms of Service. So, please make sure that you have read and understand our Terms of Service.

Scope
This privacy policy applies to personal information that is processed by Nick’s Pain Relief Salve in the course of our business, including this website and any related apps that we may provide, together with all products and services we may offer from time to time via our website and/or related apps, our related social media sites (for example, on Instagram, Twitter, and Facebook) or otherwise through your online or offline interactions with us (together with any and all future online and offline offerings operated by or on behalf of Nick’s Pain Relief Salve, the “Services”). Please note, that this privacy policy does not apply to any third-party websites, services or applications, even if they are accessible through our Services (including, but not limited to, PayPal (that processes payments on our behalf) and social media pages). In addition, all Individuals whose responsibilities include the Processing of personal information on behalf of Nick’s Pain Relief Salve are expected to protect that data by adherence to this privacy policy.

Types of personal information We Collect and How We Use It
This section provides an overview of the types of personal information we collect and how we use it. Nick’s Pain Relief Salve’s primary purpose in collecting information about you is to provide and improve our products, and to provide you with the best shopping experience possible. The types of personal information we may collect (directly from you or from Third-Party sources) and our privacy practices depend on the nature of the relationship you have with Nick’s Pain Relief Salve and the requirements of applicable law. Below are some of the ways that Nick’s Pain Relief Salve may collect personal information:

personal information may be provided by you directly to Nick’s Pain Relief Salve through interacting with the website, making an online or in-store purchases, participating in surveys, during events, participating in sweepstakes or giveaways, and requesting information. As you navigate the website, certain passive information may also be collected about your visit, including through cookies and similar technologies as described below. From third-party sources, including service providers such as Shopify, Paypal, and Google, and through your interactions with us on social media sites. We aim to collect only information that is relevant for the purposes of Processing. An overview of the ways we collect personal information and how we use it are outline below.

Types of personal information we collect:
Nick’s Pain Relief Salve collects personal information regarding its current, prospective, and former clients, customers, users, visitors, and guests (collectively “Individuals”).

  1. Information You Provide Directly to us. When you use the Services or engage in certain activities, such as registering for an Account with Nick’s Pain Relief Salve, making an online or in-store purchase, responding to surveys, entering contests/sweepstakes/giveaways, requesting Services or information, or contacting us directly, we may ask you to provide some or all of the following types of information:
  2. Making a Purchase. When you make a purchase online or in a retail store, we may collect some or all of the following information which can be used to identify you, such as your name, email address, postal address, phone number, credit card information (not processed or retained by Nick’s Pain Relief Salve) and your order history.
  3. Create an Account. To create an account, we’ll collect certain information that can be used to identify you, such as your name, postal address and phone number, as well as other optional information you may provide. If you create an account through the website or one of your Social Networking Services (“SNS”) Accounts, we may also collect your gender or date of birth.
  4. Communications with us. We may collect personal information from you such as name, email address, phone number or mailing address when you choose to request information about our products, create an account, subscribe to Nick’s Pain Relief Salve’s emails/newsletter or a loyalty program that we may offer from time to time, request to receive customer or technical support, provide us with feedback, or otherwise communicate with us.
  5. Surveys. From time to time, we may contact you to participate in online surveys. If you do decide to participate, you may be asked to provide certain information which may include personal information. All information collected from your participation in our surveys is provided by you voluntarily. We may use such information to improve our products, website and/or services and in any manner consistent with the policies provided herein.
  6. Registration for Sweepstakes, Giveaways, Contests and Events. Occasionally, Nick’s Pain Relief Salve may run sweepstakes and contests. We ask those who enter in the sweepstakes or contests to provide certain personal information, such as contact information (e.g., an email address). If you participate in a sweepstakes or contest, your information may be used to reach you about the sweepstakes or contest, and for other promotional, marketing and business purposes. In addition, occasionally, we will partner with third parties during events, on social media and online channels to sponsor giveaways and promotions. If you choose to share your information in order to participate in an event, giveaway or promotion, your entry information may be shared with such third parties.

Information collected automatically by us:

  1. Pixel Tags/Web Beacons, Cookies, Social Media Widgets, Embedded Scripts, Analytics Information, and Other Data Collection.
    Nick’s Pain Relief Salve, as well as Third Parties that provide content, advertising, or other functionality on our Services, may use pixel tags, cookies, local storage, or other technologies (“Technologies”) to automatically collect information through the Services. We use Technologies that are small data files placed on your electronic device, mobile phone, or other devices (referred to collectively as a “device”) that allow us to record certain pieces of information whenever you visit or interact with our website, services, applications, messaging, and tools, and to recognize you across each device. These Technologies include, among others, the following: Pixel Tags/Web Beacons. A pixel tag (also known as a web beacon) is a piece of code embedded on the website that collects information about users’ engagement on that web page. The use of a pixel allows us to record, for example, that a user has visited a particular web page or clicked on a particular advertisement.
  2. Cookies. Cookies are small text files placed in visitors’ computer browsers to store their preferences. Most browsers allow you to block and delete cookies. However, if you do that, the website may not work properly.
  3. Social Media. Our website may, now or in the future, include social media features such as the Facebook “Like” button and LinkedIn (that might include widgets such as the share this button or other interactive mini-programs). These features may collect your IP address, which page you are visiting on our website, and may set a cookie to enable the feature to function properly. Moreover, if you register for or access the Services using a Third Party Account (such as your social media login credentials), we may receive personal information that you allow such Third Party Service to share with us. These social media features are either hosted by a Third Party or hosted directly on our website. Your interactions with these features are governed by the privacy policy of the company providing it.
  4. Analytics. When you browse or use the Services, we utilize commonly-used logging and analytics tools, including Shopify’s analytics tools and Google Analytics, a service provided by Google, Inc. (“Google”), to gather information about how users engage with our Services. For more information about Google Analytics, please visit https://policies.google.com/technologies/partner-sites. You can opt out of Google’s collection and processing of data generated by your use of the Services by going to http://tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout.

Other Data Collection. We may collect certain information automatically through our Services or other methods of web analysis about how users use our Services (we refer to this information as “Event Data”). Event Data may include information such as an user’s Internet Protocol (IP) address, cookie identifiers, MAC address, IMEI, Advertiser ID, and other device identifiers that are automatically assigned to your computer or device when you access the Internet, operating system, browser type and language, hardware type, the web page that a user was visiting before accessing our Services, the pages or features of our Services to which a user browsed and the time spent on those pages or features, search terms, the links on our Services that a User clicked on and other statistics.

Our uses of such Technologies fall into the following below general categories. If you would like to opt out of the Technologies we employ on our websites, services, applications, or tools, you may do so by blocking, deleting, or disabling them as your browser or device permits.

Operations-Based Necessity. We may use cookies, web beacons, or other similar technologies that are necessary to the operation of our website, services, applications, and tools. This includes technologies that allow you access to our website, services, applications, and tools; that are required to identify irregular website behavior, prevent fraudulent activity and improve security; or that allow you to make use of our functions such as shopping-carts, saved search, or similar functions.

Performance Related. We may use cookies, web beacons, or other similar technologies to assess the performance of our website, applications, services, and tools, including as part of our analytic practices to help us understand how our visitors use our website, determine if you have interacted with our messaging, determine whether you have viewed an item or link, or to improve our website content, applications, services, or tools.

Functionality Related. We may use cookies, web beacons, or other similar technologies that allow us to offer you enhanced functionality when accessing or using our website, services, applications, or tools. This may include identifying you when you sign into our websites or keeping track of your specified preferences, interests, or past items viewed so that we may enhance the presentation of content on our websites.

Targeting/Advertising Related. We may use first-party or third-party cookies and web beacons to deliver content, including ads relevant to your interests, on our websites or on third party websites. This includes using technologies to understand the usefulness to you of the advertisements and content that has been delivered to you, such as whether you have clicked on an advertisement.

Information Collected from Third Parties.
We may receive personal information from third parties that we have engaged to provide ervices to us (including payment processors such as PayPal, Stripe, Amazon Pay, shipping platforms such as ShipStation to fulfill orders, and ecommerce platforms such as Shopify) as well as from third parties that provide web analytics and usage information to us (including platforms such as Google Analytics, Heap, and Hotjar, which may change from time to time). In addition, if you choose to interact with us or our partners on social media by posting to our pages, tagging us (or using certain hashtags or other identifiers) in posts, or participating in activities, we may collect certain information from the social media account you use to interact with us, including the name associated with the account, the account handle, recent activity, the content of any posts in which we are tagged, and other information that may be contained on your social media profile to allow us to respond to the posts and engage with our audience.

How Nick’s Pain Relief Salve Uses Your Information
We acquire, hold, use, and Process personal information about Individuals for a variety of business purposes, including:

To Provide Products, Services, or Information Requested. Nick’s Pain Relief Salve may use information about you to fulfill requests for products, Services, or information, including information about potential or future Services, including to:

  • Generally manage Individual information and Accounts;
  • Respond to questions, comments, and other requests related to Nick’s Pain Relief Salve’s products;
  • Provide access to certain areas, functionalities, and features of Nick’s Pain Relief Salve’s products;
  • Contact you to answer requests for customer support or technical support

Administrative Purposes.
Nick’s Pain Relief Salve may use personal information about you for its administrative purposes, including to:

  • Measure interest in Nick’s Pain Relief Salve’s products and Services;
  • Develop new products and Services;
  • Verify your identity;
  • Ensure internal quality control;
  • Communicate about Nick’s Pain Relief Salve’s products and systems, and, in Nick’s Pain Relief Salve’s discretion, changes to any Nick’s Pain Relief Salve policy;
  • Send email to the email address you provide to us for informational and operational purposes, such as Account management, customer service, or system maintenance;
  • Process payment for products or services purchased;
  • Prevent potentially prohibited or illegal activities; and
  • Enforce our Terms.

Nick’s Pain Relief Salve may use personal information to provide you with materials about offers, products, and Services that may be of interest, including new content or Services. Nick’s Pain Relief Salve may provide you with these materials by phone, postal mail, or email, as permitted by applicable law. Such uses include:

  • To tailor content, advertisements, and offers;
  • To notify you about offers, products, and services that may be of interest to you;
  • To provide Services to you and our sponsors;
  • For other purposes disclosed at the time that Individuals provide personal information; or
    otherwise with your consent.

You may contact us at any time to opt out of the use of your personal information for marketing purposes, as further described herein.

Research and Development.
We may share aggregated information and non-identifying information with third parties for industry research and analysis, demographic profiling and other similar purposes. We may contract with third parties who provide us with other information about you, which we may then combine with the information we receive from you. We use this information to better provide our Services, to customize our advertisements to you and other customers, and to provide direct marketing to you, including by mail.

Surveys.
From time to time, Nick’s Pain Relief Salve may perform research (online and offline) via surveys. We may engage Third-Party service providers to conduct such surveys on our behalf. All survey responses are voluntary, and the information collected will be used for research and reporting purposes to help us better serve Individuals by learning more about their needs and the quality of the products and services we provide. The survey responses may be utilized to determine the effectiveness of our Services, various types of communications, advertising campaigns, and/or promotional activities. If an Individual participates in a survey, the information given will be used along with that of other study participants. We may share anonymous Individual and aggregate data for research and analysis purposes.

Direct Mail, Email.
Individuals who provide us with personal information, or whose personal information we obtain from Third Parties, may receive periodic emails, newsletters, or mailings from us with information on Nick’s Pain Relief Salve’s or our business partners’ products and services or upcoming special offers/events we believe may be of interest. We offer the option to opt-out of any direct mail or email communications with Nick’s Pain Relief Salve.

Anonymous and Aggregated Information Use.
Nick’s Pain Relief Salve may use personal information and other information about you to create anonymized and aggregated information, such as de-identified location information, de-identified demographic information, information about the computer or device from which you access Nick’s Pain Relief Salve’s Services, or other analyses we create. Anonymized and aggregated information is used for a variety of functions, including the measurement of visitors’ interest in and use of various portions or features of the Services. Anonymized or aggregated information is not personal information, and Nick’s Pain Relief Salve may use such information in a number of ways, including research, internal analysis, analytics, and any other legally permissible purposes. We may share this information within Nick’s Pain Relief Salve and with Third Parties for our or their purposes in an anonymized or aggregated form that is designed to prevent anyone from identifying you.

Other Uses.
Nick’s Pain Relief Salve may use personal information for which we have a legitimate interest, such as direct marketing, individual or market research, anti-fraud protection, or any other purpose disclosed to you at the time you provide personal information or with your consent.

We Process personal information for, or based on, one or more of the following: (i) based on your consent; (ii) as required or permitted by law; (iii) for our legitimate business purposes; (iv) as necessary to perform a contract with you, complete a transaction or provide you with information or services you have requested or authorized; and/or (v) to fulfill our legal responsibilities, in each case as provided in this Privacy Statement.

Social Media Platforms and Third-party Websites
The website may contain links to other websites and other websites may reference or link to our website or other Services. These other domains and websites are not controlled by us, and Nick’s Pain Relief Salve does not endorse or make any representations about Third-Party websites or social media platforms. We encourage our users to read the privacy policies of each and every website and application with which they interact. We do not endorse, screen or approve, and are not responsible for the privacy practices or content of such other websites or applications. Visiting these other websites or applications is at your own risk.

Nick’s Pain Relief Salve’s website may, now or in the future, include publicly accessible blogs, community forums, or private messaging features. The website and our other Services may also contain links and interactive features with various social media platforms (e.g., widgets). If you already use these platforms, their cookies may be set on your device when using our website or other Services. You should be aware that personal information which you voluntarily include and transmit online in a publicly accessible blog, chat room, social media platform or otherwise online, or that you share in an open forum may be viewed and used by others without any restrictions. We are unable to control such uses of your information when interacting with a social media platform, and by using such services you assume the risk that the personal information provided by you may be viewed and used by third parties for any number of purposes.

Third-Party Payment Processing
When you make purchases through our website, we process your payments through a Third-Party application and we use the payment services of PayPal. PayPal may collect certain financial information from you to process a payment on behalf of Nick’s Pain Relief Salve, including your name, email address, address and other billing information. We do not process, record or maintain your credit card or bank account information and we will share transaction data with our payment services providers only to the extent necessary for the purposes of processing your payments, refunding such payments and dealing with complaints and queries relating to such payments and refunds. For more information on how payments are handled, or to understand the data security and privacy afforded such information, please refer to PayPal’s privacy policy.

Onward Transfer—Nick’s Pain Relief Salve May Disclose Your Information
We may share your information as described in this privacy policy (e.g., with our Third-Party service providers; to comply with legal obligations; to protect and defend our rights and property) or with your permission. Other ways we may disclose your personal information include:

Disclosures to Protect Us or Others (e.g., as Required by Law and Similar Disclosures).
We may access, preserve, and disclose your personal information, other Account information, and content if we believe doing so is required or appropriate to: (i) comply with law enforcement or national security requests and legal process, such as a court order or subpoena; (ii) respond to your requests; (iii) protect yours’, ours’ or others’ rights, property, or safety; (iv) to enforce Nick’s Pain Relief Salve policies or contracts; (v) to collect amounts owed to Nick’s Pain Relief Salve; (vi) when we believe disclosure is necessary or appropriate to prevent physical harm or financial loss or in connection with an investigation or prosecution of suspected or actual illegal activity; or (vii) if we, in good faith, believe that disclosure is otherwise necessary or advisable.

Merger, Sale, or Other Asset Transfers.
Nick’s Pain Relief Salve may also disclose and transfer your personal information: (i) to a subsequent owner, co-owner or operator of the website or applicable database, or of our products or services; (ii) if Nick’s Pain Relief Salve (or any of its affiliated, parent, or subsidiary companies) assigns its rights regarding any of your information to a third party; or (iii) in connection with or during negotiation of a corporate merger, financing consolidation, restructuring, the acquisition or dissolution transaction or proceeding involving sale, transfer, divestiture, or disclosure of all or a portion of our business or assets including, without limitation, during the course of any due diligence process. In the event of an insolvency, bankruptcy, or receivership, personal information may also be transferred as a business asset. If another company acquires our company, business, or assets, that company will possess the personal information collected by us and will assume the rights and obligations regarding your personal information as described in this privacy policy. These transfers and disclosures may be carried out without notice to you.

Opt-Out and Right to Restrict Processing
We offer you choices regarding the collection, use and sharing of your personal information, and we’ll respect the choices you make. Please note that if you decide not to provide us with the personal information that we request, you may not be able to access all of the features of the Services. You have the right to opt out of certain uses and disclosures of your personal information. Where you have consented to Nick’s Pain Relief Salve’s Processing of your personal information, you may withdraw that consent at any time and opt out of further Processing by contacting [email protected]. Even if you opt out, we may still collect and use non-personal information regarding your activities on our websites and/or information from the advertisements on Third-Party websites for non-interest based advertising purposes, such as to determine the effectiveness of the advertisements.

1. Email Communications
If you receive an unwanted email from us, you can use the unsubscribe link found at the bottom of the email to opt-out of receiving future emails. We will process your request within a reasonable time after receipt. Note that you will continue to receive transaction-related emails regarding products or services you have requested. We may also send you certain non-promotional communications regarding Nick’s Pain Relief Salve and our Services and you will not be able to opt-out of those communications (e.g., communications regarding updates to our Terms or this privacy policy).

2. Do Not Track (“DNT”)
DNT is a privacy preference that users can set in certain web browsers. DNT is a way for users to inform websites and services that they do not want certain information about their webpage visits collected over time and across websites or online services. Please note that we do not respond to or honor DNT signals or similar mechanisms transmitted by web browsers.

3. Cookies and Interest-Based Advertising
You may stop or restrict the placement of cookies on your computer or remove them from your browser by adjusting your web browser preferences. Please note that cookie-based opt-outs are not effective on mobile applications. However, on many mobile devices, application users may opt out of certain mobile ads via their device settings.

The online advertising industry also provides websites from which you may opt out of receiving targeted ads from our data partners and our other advertising partners that participate in self-regulatory programs. You can access these, and also learn more about targeted advertising and consumer choice and privacy, at www.networkadvertising.org/managing/opt_out.asp, or http://www.youronlinechoices.eu/ and www.aboutads.info/choices/. You can also choose not to be included in Google Analytics here: https://tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout.

Whether you are using our opt-out or an online industry opt-out, cookie-based opt-outs must be performed on each device and browser that you wish to have opted out. For example, if you have opted out on your computer browser, that opt out will not be effective on your mobile device. You must separately opt out on each device. Advertisements on Third-Party websites that contain the AdChoices link and that link to this privacy policy may have been directed to you based on anonymous, non-personal information collected by advertising partners over time and across websites. These advertisements provide a mechanism to opt out of the advertising partners’ use of this information for interest-based advertising purposes.

Rights of Access, Rectification, Erasure, and Restriction
You may inquire as to whether Nick’s Pain Relief Salve is Processing personal information about you, request access to personal information, and ask that we correct, amend or delete your personal information where it is inaccurate. Where otherwise permitted by applicable law, you may send an email to [email protected] or use any of the methods set out in this privacy policy to request access to, receive (port), seek rectification, or request erasure of personal information held about you by Nick’s Pain Relief Salve. Please include your full name, email address associated with your Account, and a detailed description of your data request. Such requests will be processed in line with local laws.

Although Nick’s Pain Relief Salve makes good faith efforts to provide Individuals with access to their personal information, there may be circumstances in which Nick’s Pain Relief Salve is unable to provide access, including but not limited to: where the information contains legal privilege, would compromise others’ privacy or other legitimate rights, where the burden or expense of providing access would be disproportionate to the risks to the Individual’s privacy in the case in question or where it is commercially proprietary. If Nick’s Pain Relief Salve determines that access should be restricted in any particular instance, we will provide you with an explanation of why that determination has been made and a contact point for any further inquiries. To protect your privacy, Nick’s Pain Relief Salve will take commercially reasonable steps to verify your identity before granting access to or making any changes to your personal information.

Data Retention
Nick’s Pain Relief Salve retains the personal information we receive as described in this privacy policy for as long as you use our products or as necessary to fulfill the purpose(s) for which it was collected, provide you our products, resolve disputes, establish legal defenses, conduct audits, pursue legitimate business purposes, enforce our agreements, and comply with applicable laws.

Security of Your Information
We take reasonable administrative, physical and electronic measures designed to protect the information that we collect from or about you (including your personal information) from unauthorized access, use, or disclosure. Please be aware, however, that no method of transmitting information over the Internet or storing information is completely secure. Accordingly, we cannot guarantee the absolute security of any information.

International Users and Data Transfers
All personal information collected via or by Nick’s Pain Relief Salve may be stored anywhere in the world, including but not limited to, the United States, in the cloud, on our servers, on the servers of our affiliates or the servers of our service providers (e.g., Shopify) and partners. Your personal information may be accessible to law enforcement or other authorities pursuant to a lawful request. By providing information to Nick’s Pain Relief Salve, you consent to the storage of your personal information in these locations.

If you are located outside of the United States, please be aware that any information you provide to us may be transferred to and processed in the United States and other countries. By choosing to visit the website, utilize the Services or otherwise provide information to us, you agree that any dispute over privacy or the terms contained in this privacy policy will be governed by the laws of New York, United States and the adjudication of any disputes arising in connection with Nick’s Pain Relief Salve or the website will be in accordance with the Terms.

If you are visiting from the European Union or other regions/countries with laws governing data collection and use, please note that you are agreeing to the transfer of your information to the United States and to Processing of your data globally. By using the website, or providing us with any information, you acknowledge and consent to this transfer, processing and storage of your information in countries where the privacy laws may be less stringent than those in the country where you reside or are a citizen.

Children’s Privacy
The Services are not directed to children under 13 years of age, and Nick’s Pain Relief Salve does not knowingly collect Personally Identifiable Information from children under 16 years of age. If you are under the age of 18, you must have your parent’s permission to access the Services. If you learn that your child has provided us with personal information without your consent, you may alert us at [email protected]. If we learn that we have collected any personal information from children under 16, we will promptly take steps to delete such information and terminate the child’s Account.

California Privacy Rights
California law permits users who are California residents to request and obtain from us once a year, free of charge, a list of the Third Parties to whom we have disclosed their personal information (if any) for their direct marketing purposes in the prior calendar year, as well as the type of personal information disclosed to those parties.

Redress/Compliance and Accountability
If you have any questions about our privacy practices or this privacy policy, please contact Nick’s Pain Relief Salve by email at [email protected]. We will address your concerns and attempt to resolve any privacy issues in a timely manner.

Modifications and Updates to the Privacy Policy
This privacy policy may change from time to time. You understand and agree that you will be deemed to have accepted the updated privacy policy if you use the Services after the updated privacy policy is posted on the Services. If at any point you do not agree to any portion of the privacy policy then in effect, you must immediately stop using the Services.

We will post any updates to the privacy policy on this web page, and the revised version will be effective immediately when it is posted (or upon notice as applicable). If you are concerned about how your information is used, bookmark this page and read this privacy policy periodically. Where consent of the Individual for the Processing of personal information is otherwise required by law or contract, Nick’s Pain Relief Salve will endeavor to comply with the law or contract.

Definitions
The following capitalized terms shall have the meanings herein as set forth below.

“Agent” means any Third Party that Processes personal information pursuant to the instructions of, and solely for, Nick’s Pain Relief Salve or to which Nick’s Pain Relief Salve discloses personal information for use on its behalf.
“partners” means affiliates, service providers, licensors, vendors, manufacturers, distributors, or other third parties with which we have a business relationship.
“personal information” is any information relating to an identified or identifiable natural person.
“Process” or “Processing” means any operation which is performed upon personal information, whether or not by automatic means, such as collection, recording, organization, structuring, storage, adaptation or alteration, retrieval, consultation, use, disclosure by transmission, dissemination or otherwise making available, alignment or combination, restriction, erasure, or destruction.
“Third Party” is any company, natural or legal person, public authority, agency, or body other than the Individual, Nick’s Pain Relief Salve or Nick’s Pain Relief Salve’s Agents.