Privacy Policy
Updated on 02/13/2024
We at Summit Products and Black River respect Your privacy. This Privacy Policy is designed to explain how We collect, use, share, and protect the personal information You provide to Us when You access Our website, purchase Our goods or services, or engage with Us on social media, as well as Your own rights to the information We collect.
Please read this Privacy Policy carefully. We will alert You to any changes to this Policy by changing the “last updated” date at the top of this Policy. Any changes become effective immediately upon publication on Our website, and You waive specific notice of any changes to the Policy by continuing to use and access Our site(s). We encourage You to review this Privacy Policy periodically, when You use Our website for any purpose or engage with Us on social media. You are deemed to have accepted any changes to any revised Privacy Policy by Your continued use of Our website after the revised Privacy Policy is posted.
INFORMATION THAT WE COLLECT
We collect a variety of information from You when You visit Our website, make purchases, or interact with Us on social media. By accepting this Privacy Policy, You are specifically consenting to Our collection of the data described below, to Our use of the data, to the processing of this data, and to Our sharing of the data with third-party processors as needed for Our legitimate business interests. The information We collect may include:
PERSONAL DATA
Personal Data is information that can be used to identify You specifically, including Your name, shipping address, email address, telephone number, or demographic information like Your age, gender, or hometown. You consent to giving Us this information by providing it to Us voluntarily on Our website or any mobile application. You provide some of this information when You register with or make purchases from Our website. You may also provide this information by participating in various activities associated with Our site, including responding to blogs, contacting Us with questions, or participating in group training. Your decision to disclose this data is entirely voluntary. You are under no obligation to provide this information, but Your refusal may prevent You from accessing certain benefits from Our website or from making purchases.
DERIVATIVE DATA
Derivative data is information that Our servers automatically collect about You when You access Our website, such as Your IP address, browser type, the dates and times that You access Our website, and the specific pages You view. If You are using a mobile application, Our servers may collect information about Your device name and type, Your phone number, Your country of origin, and other interactions with Our application. Derivative data may also include data collected by third-party service providers, such as advertising and analytics providers, and may include cookies, log data, or web beacons. Cookies are discussed more fully below. Derivative data collected by third-party service providers generally does not identify a specific individual.
FINANCIAL DATA
Financial data is data that is related to Your payment method, such as credit card or bank transfer details. We collect financial data to allow You to purchase, order, return, or exchange products or services from Our website and any related mobile apps. We store limited financial data. Most financial data is transferred to Our payment processors, Stripe or Paypal, and You should review these processors’ Privacy Policy to determine how they use, disclose, and protect Your financial data. As a courtesy, Stripe and Paypal's Privacy Policies can be found here: Stripe Privacy Policy, Paypal Privacy Policy.
SOCIAL NETWORKING DATA
We may access personal information from social networking sites and apps, including Facebook, Instagram, Linkedin, Twitter, Snapchat, or other social networking sites or apps not named specifically here, which may include Your name, Your social network username, location, email address, age, gender, profile picture, and any other public information. If You do not want Us to access this information, please go to the specific social networking site and change Your privacy settings.
MOBILE DEVICE DATA
If You use Our website via a mobile device or app, We may collect information about Your mobile device, including device ID, model and manufacturer, and location information.
OTHER DATA
On occasion, You may give Us additional data to enter into a contest or giveaway or to participate in a survey. You will be prompted for this information, and it will be clear that You are offering this kind of information in exchange for an entry into such a contest or giveaway.
HOW WE USE YOUR INFORMATION
Your information allows Us to offer You certain products and services, including the use of Our website, to fulfill Our obligations to You, to customize Your interaction with Our company and Our website, and to allow Us to suggest other products and services We think might interest You. We generally store Your data and transmit it to a third party for processing. However, to the extent We process Your data, We do so to serve Our legitimate business interests (such as providing You with the opportunity to purchase Our goods or services and interact with Our website or mobile app).
Specifically, We may use the information and data described above to:
- Create and administer Your account
- Deliver any products or services purchased by You
- Correspond with You
- Process payments or refunds
- Contact You about new offerings that We think You will be interested in
- Interact with You via social media
- Send You a newsletter or other updates about Our company or website
- Deliver targeted advertising
- Request feedback from You
- Notify You of updates to Our product and service offerings
- Resolve disputes and troubleshoot any problems
- Administer contests or giveaways
- Generate a profile that is personalized to You, so that future interactions with Our website will be more personal
- Compile anonymous statistical data for Our own use or for a third party’s use
- Assist law enforcement as necessary
- Prevent fraudulent activity on Our website or mobile app
- Analyze trends to improve Our website and offerings
GROUNDS FOR USING AND PROCESSING YOUR DATA
The information We collect and store are used primarily to allow Us to offer goods and services for sale. In addition, Summit Products and Black River may collect, use, and process Your information based on the following grounds:
LEGITIMATE BUSINESS INTERESTS
We may use and process Your data for Our legitimate business interests, which include, among other things, communicating with You, improving Our goods or services, improving Our website, and providing You with the information or products that You have requested.
Performance of a Contract: We may use and process Your information to enter into a contract with You and to perform Our contractual obligations to You.
Consent: We may use Your data, or permit selected third parties to use Your data, based on Your consent to Our use and sharing of that data. You may withdraw Your consent at any time, but doing so may affect Your ability to use Our website or other offerings.
As required by law: We may also use or process Your data as required for Us to comply with legal obligations.
WHY WE DISCLOSE YOUR INFORMATION
We may share Your information with third parties in certain situations. In particular, We may share Your data with third-party processors as needed to serve Our legitimate business interests, which include the administration of Our website, administration of Your account, entering into contracts with You, communicating with You, taking orders for goods or services, delivering Our goods and services, identifying trends, protecting the security of Our company and website, and marketing additional goods and services to You. The legal grounds for Our processing of Your data are as follows:
CONSENT
We may use Your data as described in this Policy subject to Your consent.
CONTRACT PERFORMANCE
We may use Your data as necessary to fulfill Our contractual obligations with You. For example, if You make a purchase on Our website, We will collect Your data and use it to carry out Our obligation to complete and deliver the purchased product to You.
LEGITIMATE INTERESTS
We may use Your data when We believe it is in Our legitimate interests to do so, such as when We process Your data for Our legitimate interests to administer Your account and to provide You with the content You have requested.
LEGAL OBLIGATIONS
We may disclose Your data where We are legally required to do so in order to comply with applicable law, governmental requests, a judicial proceeding, court order, or legal process, such as in response to a court order or a subpoena (including in response to public authorities to meet national security or law enforcement requirements).
VITAL INTERESTS
We may disclose Your data where We believe it is necessary to investigate, prevent, or act regarding illegal activities, suspected fraud, situations involving potential threats to the safety of any person, violations of Our terms of use or this Policy, or as evidence in litigation in which We are involved.
VITAL INTERESTS OF OTHERS
We may disclose Your data where We believe it is necessary to investigate, prevent, or act regarding illegal activities, suspected fraud, situations involving potential threats to the safety of any person, violations of Our terms of use or this Policy, or as evidence in litigation in which We are involved.
BUSINESS TRANSFERS
In the event of a merger, sale of company assets, financing, or acquisition of all or a portion of Our business by another company, or in the event of a change in control of Summit Products, Inc., including, without limitation, during the negotiation of the transaction, a party could acquire all or a portion of Our business and Your data. Your data would continue to be protected by this Policy.
HOW WE SHARE YOUR INFORMATION
THIRD-PARTY PROCESSORS
We may share Your information with third parties that perform services for Us or on Our behalf, including payment processing, data analysis, email delivery, hosting services, customer service, and marketing assistance.
MARKETING
We may share Your data with third parties for marketing purposes, as permitted by law.
INTERACTION WITH OTHERS
If You interact with others on Our website, such as participating in a group chat or a group online course, other users may have access to some of Your data, including Your name, profile picture, and Your history of interaction with Our website, such as prior comments or posts.
ONLINE POSTINGS
If You post comments, contributions, or other content to the website, Your posts may be viewed by all users and may be publicly distributed outside the website in perpetuity.
EXTERNAL LINKS
Our website may contain hyperlinks to other websites not controlled by Us. We suggest You check the privacy statements of those other websites.
ADVERTISERS
We may use third-party advertising companies to run and manage Our ads, such as Facebook or Google. These third-party advertisers may collect and use data about Your visit to Our website to run ads to You on other websites. You can opt-out of receiving these ads by going to the advertiser’s website and updating Your preferences.
AFFILIATES
We may share Your data with Our affiliates, in which case We will require those affiliates to honor this Privacy Policy. Affiliates include Our parent company and any subsidiaries, joint venture partners, or other companies that We control or that are under common control with Us.
ANONYMOUS DATA
From time to time, We may use anonymous data, which does not identify You alone or when combined with data from other parties. This type of anonymous data may be provided to other parties for marketing, advertising, or other uses. Examples of this anonymous data may include analytics or information collected from cookies.
PUBLICLY VISIBLE INFORMATION
If You create a user profile on Our website or leave a comment, certain information may be publicly visible. To create a user profile, You must choose a username and password and input Your email address for profile confirmation. Your email address will never be available publicly. At Your option, You may also add an avatar, a profile description, and a link to Your website.
EMAIL LIST
While visiting Our website, You may sign up for Our newsletter or marketing emails. In this case, We will use Your email for marketing purposes. You can opt-out of these emails at any time.
RETENTION OF YOUR INFORMATION
We retain information for as long as required, allowed, or We believe it useful, but do not undertake retention obligations. We may dispose of information in Our discretion without notice, subject to applicable law that specifically requires the handling or retention of information. You must keep Your own, separate back-up records.
SENSITIVE DATA
We request that You do not send Us sensitive data.
INTERNATIONAL DATA
Our website is hosted by servers located in the United States. Therefore, if You reside in the European Union, some of Your data will be transferred internationally to those servers. Transfers will be protected by appropriate safeguards, namely the EU-US Privacy Shield. More information on the Privacy Shield can be found at: https://www.privacyshield.gov/welcome.
CALIFORNIA PRIVACY RIGHTS
California residents have certain rights pursuant to the California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA). If You are a California resident, You may request that We:
- Provide You with the categories of personal data We have collected or disclosed about You in the last twelve months; the categories of sources of such data; the business or commercial purpose for collecting or selling Your personal data; and the categories of third parties with whom We shared personal data.
- Provide access to and/or a copy of certain information We hold about You.
- Delete certain information We have about You.
- You may opt-out of the sale of Your personal information. Please note that not all Your information is subject to erasure.
- You will not be discriminated against for exercising these rights.
To make such requests, contact Us at info@summit-products.com.
COOKIES AND TRACKING TECHNOLOGIES
We use cookies and similar tracking technologies to access or store information. Specific information about how We use such technologies and how You can refuse certain cookies is set out in Our Cookie Policy.
THIRD-PARTY WEBSITES
Our website may contain links to third-party websites. We have no control over, and are not responsible for, the content, privacy policies, or reliability of such sites.
SECURITY OF YOUR INFORMATION
We use administrative, technical, and physical security measures to help protect Your personal information. While We have taken reasonable steps to secure the personal information You provide to Us, please be aware that despite Our efforts, no security measures are perfect or impenetrable, and no method of data transmission can be guaranteed against any interception or other type of misuse.
Any information disclosed online is vulnerable to interception and misuse by unauthorized parties. Therefore, We cannot guarantee complete security if You provide personal information.
POLICY FOR CHILDREN
We do not knowingly solicit information from or market to children under the age of 13. If You become aware of any data We have collected from children under age 13, please contact Us using the contact information provided below.
OPTIONS REGARDING YOUR INFORMATION
You may opt-out of future email communications by following the unsubscribe links in Our emails. You may also notify Us at info@summit-products.com to be removed from Our mailing list.
CHANGES TO THIS POLICY
You may review, change, or terminate Your account at any time. Upon Your request to terminate Your account, We will deactivate or delete Your account and information from Our active databases. However, some information may be retained in Our files to prevent fraud, troubleshoot problems, assist with any investigations, enforce Our Terms of Use, and/or comply with legal requirements.
If You have any questions or concerns regarding this Privacy Policy, please feel free to contact Us at:
Summit Products, Inc.
Black River
info@summit-products.com
Last updated: 13th February 2024