VIP & ME Privacy Policy
Last updated 1/3/2024
We care about our customers and know that your privacy is important to you. This Privacy Policy is our way of explaining how we collect personal information, why we need it, and how we use it.
Scope of this Policy
This Privacy Policy applies to your use of our websites (the "Sites") and our mobile applications (the "Apps" together with the Sites, the "Services") operated by VIP & ME LLC, including our brands ("VIP & ME", "we," or "us").
This Privacy Policy also applies to the personal information you provide to us through other interactions and correspondence. This could be, for example, when you share your information with our service representatives (e.g. a customer service agent, design professional, or an installation or assembly pro), or send us a letter, email, or chat.
Personal Information We Collect
Information you provide to us:
Your contact details and account data if you establish an online account with us (such as your name, email address, mailing address, phone number, and password).
Additional profile information you may choose to provide (such as date of birth, gender, location, and preferred language).
Your payment information if you make a purchase via the Services. We use third-party payment processors, including, but not limited to, Stripe, Affirm, and Klarna, to process your payments. These third parties will collect the information necessary to effectuate your transaction with us, such as credit/debit card number, security/CVV code, and expiration date. Our payment processors may handle your payment information in accordance with their own privacy policies. VIP & ME does not have access to your full payment information.
Tax-related information, such as your Social Security number or your entity identification number or your VAT registration number (or similar), if you (i) participate in our product review program or (ii) are a B2B customer. We will use this information to prepare your Form 1099 and other tax-related documentation related to the product review program, verify your business if you are a B2B customer, and to provide B2B customers with tax-compliant invoices.
Your financing information if you apply for financing solutions, such as our co-branded credit card or installment payment offering. As part of your application, we may collect information such as Social Security number, date of birth, and income. Our financing solutions are offered by third-party providers, such as Citibank. Your personal information will be used by these financing providers in accordance with their own privacy policies.
Your communications and contact history with us (such as emails, text messages, service call recordings, chat and instant messages, or communications with our social media channels).
Other information you choose to provide (such as product reviews, forum posts, survey responses, participation in promotions, and other user-generated content, including, but not limited to, images you upload).
Where applicable, we may indicate whether and why you must provide us with your personal information, as well as the consequences of failing to do so. For example, it may be necessary for you to disclose certain personal information in order for us to provide the Services to you.
Subject to our Cookie Policy, we may automatically collect Information from your use of the Services:
Purchase history and saved items (such as what you bought, what you've placed in or removed from your cart, or what items you've saved).
Log data and device information (such as details about how you've used the Services, IP address, access dates and times, hardware and software information, device information, device event information, unique identifiers, crash data, cookie data, location data, and page/product views or clicks).
Geo-location information (such as IP address, browser information, or mobile GPS information).
We use cookies and similar technologies (such as web beacons and local storage technologies) to collect such data. Please see our Cookie Policy for more information.
Information we may collect from third parties, including third party services (for example if you link, connect, or login to the Services with your Google, Facebook, Instagram, or Twitter accounts) or other sources (such as your contacts who want to invite you to use the Services or brands we partner with):
Contact details (such as your name, email address, mailing address, and phone number).
Social media handles (such as your Twitter or Instagram handle).
How We Use Personal Information
We use personal information for the following purposes or as otherwise described at the time of collection:
Providing and supporting our Services. We use personal information to operate, maintain, and provide you with our Services. In particular, we will use personal information to perform our contractual obligation under our terms of use, such as to allow you to create an account and make purchases via the Services, facilitate financing solutions, and for us to take payment, deliver your purchases, and process returns.
Communicate with you about our Services. It is in our legitimate business interests to use personal information to respond to your requests, provide customer support, and communicate with you about our Services, including by sending announcements, updates, security alerts, and support and administrative messages, and to administer surveys, sweepstakes, and contests.
Improve, monitor, personalize, and protect our Services. It is in our legitimate business interests to improve and keep our Services safe for our users, which includes:
Understanding your needs and interests, and personalizing your experience with the Services and our communications.
Troubleshooting, testing, and research, and keeping the Services secure.
Investigating and protecting against fraudulent, harmful, unauthorized, or illegal activity.
Research and development. We may use personal information for research and development purposes in our legitimate business interests, including to analyze and improve the Services and our business, and to train our staff. As part of these activities, we may create or use aggregated, de-identified or other anonymized data from personal information we collect. We make personal information into anonymized data by removing information that makes the data personally identifiable to you. We may use this anonymized data and share it with third parties for our lawful business purposes, including to analyze and improve the Services and promote our business.
Marketing and advertising. We, our service providers, and our third-party advertising partners may collect and use personal information for the following marketing and advertising purposes:
Direct marketing. We may send you direct marketing communications, by email or otherwise, as permitted by law.
Interest-based advertising. We engage our advertising partners, including third party advertising companies (such as Google) and social media companies, to display ads around the web. These companies may use cookies and similar technologies to collect information (including, subject to our Cookie Policy, the automatically-collected data described above) about your interactions over time across our Services, our communications, and other online services, and use that information to serve online ads that they think will interest you. This is called interest-based advertising. For more information, please visit our Cookie Policy.
Except where consent is required, we undertake such marketing and advertising on the basis of our legitimate business interests. Where we seek your consent, you may withdraw your consent at any time.
Compliance and protection. We may use personal information in our legitimate business interests to enforce and comply with our terms and policies, and to defend us against legal claims or disputes including:
Protecting our, your or others’ rights, privacy, safety, or property (including by making and defending legal claims).
Auditing our internal processes for compliance with legal and contractual requirements and internal policies.
Enforcing the terms and conditions that govern the Services.
Preventing, identifying, investigating, and deterring fraudulent, harmful, unauthorized, unethical or illegal activity, including cyberattacks and identity theft.
Some processing may also be necessary to comply with applicable laws, lawful requests and legal process, such as to respond to subpoenas or requests from government authorities, and other legal obligations such as to keep records of transactions.
How We Share Personal Information
We share personal information with the following categories of recipients:
Within VIP & ME.
Companies and individuals that help us deliver our products to you, such as suppliers, payment service providers, logistics professionals, gift card suppliers, repair and assembly providers, and delivery and freight companies.
Professional service providers who help us run our business and provide support services to us, such as marketing companies, including email providers and mobile marketing providers, software vendors, and consultants.
Advertising partners, including for the interest-based advertising purposes described above.
Financing providers. By choosing to apply for a financing solution offered by a third-party financing provider, such as Klarna or Citibank or Affirm, you direct us to share certain personal information with that provider to facilitate your application. Your personal information will be used by that provider in accordance with their own privacy policy.
Government and law enforcement agencies and private parties, as we believe in good faith to be necessary and appropriate to (i) comply with a legal process, subpoena, order, or other legal or regulatory requirement; (ii) enforce our terms of use or other policies; (iii) pursue available legal remedies or defend legal claims; or (iv) otherwise for the compliance and protection purposes described above.
Acquirers and other relevant participants in business transactions (or negotiations for such transactions) involving a corporate divestiture, merger, consolidation, acquisition, reorganization, sale or other disposition of all or any portion of the business or assets of, or equity interests in, VIP & ME (including, in connection with a bankruptcy or similar proceedings).
We may anonymize your personal information and share such anonymized information with third parties for any purpose permitted by applicable laws.