SOBE World Co was committed to maintaining clear communication with its customers. That’s why we wanted to inform you about how we collected, used, and disclosed your Personal Information.
This Privacy Policy described our practices in connection with our E-commerce and websites in the US. Knowing that you were accessing our websites through software applications (websites) made available by SOBE World Co, through computers and Mobile devices, social media pages and apps, and HTML-Formatted email messages that we sent to you that linked to this Privacy Policy, as well as any offline interaction with us.
If you had any additional questions regarding this Privacy Notice, you could contact us at info@sbciinternational.com
“Personal Information” was information that identified you as an individual or related to an identifiable individual, including Name, Postal Address (billing and shipping addresses), telephone number, email address, credit or debit card number, profile picture, and social media account ID.
Collection of Personal Information: We and our service providers collected Personal Information in a variety of ways, including:
Through the Services: We collected Personal Information through the Services, e.g., when you signed up for a newsletter or made a purchase.
Offline: We collected Personal Information from you offline, such as when you visited our stores, attended one of our trade shows, placed an order over the phone, or contacted customer service.
From Other Sources: We received your Personal Information from other sources, such as our U.S. affiliates, public databases, joint marketing partners, social media platforms (including from people with whom you were friends or otherwise connected), and other third parties. In addition, if you elected to connect your social media account to your website account, certain Personal Information from your social media account was shared with us, which may have included Personal Information that was part of your profile or your friends' profiles.
We may have used a third-party payment service to process payments made through the Services. If you wished to make a payment through the Services, your Personal Information may have been collected by such a third party and not by us and would have been subject to the third party’s privacy policy, rather than this Privacy Policy. We had no control over and were not responsible for, this third party’s collection, use, and disclosure of your Personal Information.
If you submitted any Personal Information relating to other people to us or to our service providers in connection with the Services, you represented that you had the authority to do so and to permit us to use the information in accordance with this Privacy Policy.
HOW WE MAY HAVE USED PERSONAL INFORMATION
We and our service providers may have used Personal Information:
To respond to your inquiries and fulfill your requests, such as to complete your transactions and provide you with related customer service.
To send administrative information to you, such as changes to our terms, conditions, and policies, as well as marketing communications that we believed may have been of interest.
To personalize your experience on the Services by presenting products and offers tailored to you and to facilitate social sharing functionality.
To allow you to participate in sweepstakes, contests, and similar promotions and to administer these activities. Some of these activities may have had additional rules containing additional information about how we used and disclosed your Personal Information.
For our business purposes, such as data analysis, audits, fraud monitoring, and prevention, developing new products, enhancing, improving, or modifying our Services, identifying usage trends, determining the effectiveness of our promotional campaigns, and operating and expanding our business activities.
DISCLOSURE OF PERSONAL INFORMATION
Your Personal Information may have been disclosed:
To our affiliates for the purposes described in this Privacy Policy.
To our third-party service providers who provided services such as website hosting, data analysis, payment processing, order fulfillment, information technology, and related infrastructure provision, customer service, email delivery, auditing, and other services.
To third parties, to permit them to send you marketing communications, consistent with your choices.
To third-party sponsors of sweepstakes, contests, and similar promotions.
By you, on message boards, chat, profile pages and blogs, and other services to which you were able to post information and content (including, without limitation, our social media pages). Please note that any information you posted or disclosed through these services became public and may have been available to other users and the general public.
To your friends associated with your social media account, to other website users, and to your social media account provider, in connection with your social sharing activity. By connecting your Services account and your social media account, you authorized us to share information with your social media account provider, and you understood that the use of the information we shared was governed by the social media provider's privacy policies.
OTHER USES AND DISCLOSURES
We also may have used and disclosed your Personal Information as we believed to be necessary or appropriate:
To comply with applicable law, which may have included laws outside your country of residence, to respond to requests from public and government authorities, which may have included such authorities outside your country of residence, to cooperate with law enforcement, or for other legal reasons.
To enforce our terms and conditions; and (c) to protect our rights, privacy, safety or property, and/or that of our affiliates, you, or others.
We may have furthermore used, disclosed, or transferred your information to a third party in the event of any reorganization, merger, sale, joint venture, assignment, transfer or other disposition of all or any portion of our business, assets, or stock (including in connection with any bankruptcy or similar proceedings).
We may also have used and disclosed Personal Information collected through the Services in other ways, with your consent.
