Privacy Policy

F.WORDS Gear LLC (“F.WORDS”, “F.W”, “we” or “us”), the operator of the www.fwordsgear.com site (the “Site”), is committed to preserving the privacy of those who visit and interact with the Site. This privacy policy (the “Privacy Policy”) outlines how we gather and utilize various sources of information obtained during your visit to and use of the Site. This Privacy Policy communicates how, when, and why we gather information about our customers and what we do with it. This Privacy Policy does not apply to other websites to which we link. 
YOU AGREE THAT YOUR USE OF THE SITE SIGNIFIES YOUR ASSENT TO THIS PRIVACY POLICY AND THE ACCOMPANYING TERMS OF USE (COLLECTIVELY, THE “AGREEMENT”). IF YOU DO NOT AGREE WITH ANY OF THE TERMS OF THE AGREEMENT, YOU ARE NOT AUTHORIZED TO USE THIS SITE. Capitalized terms not defined in this Privacy Policy shall have the meaning set forth in our Terms of Use.

Personal Information

If you place an order on www.fwordsgear.com, we will ask you for your name, e-mail address, shipping address, telephone number and credit card information, and certain other personally identifiable information about yourself ("Personal Information"). We do not collect any Personal Information from you when you visit the Site unless you provide us with the Personal Information voluntarily. In addition, we may also collect non-personally identifiable information, such as IP host address, pages viewed, browser type, duration and frequency of visits, and other data. We may collect this information from your activity on the Site, including information about time spent on particular pages, sections of the Site you visit, and other usage data, or from cookies (as described in more detail below). Information obtained in connection with the Site may be intermingled with and used by us in conjunction with information obtained through sources other than the Site including both offline and online sources.

How We Use Your Information

We will not share or disclose your information to anyone except as described in this Privacy Policy.

Order Processing

We use Personal Information to process and fulfill your orders and to notify you of your order status. Telephone numbers and e-mail addresses are used to contact you regarding your order. In addition, when you respond to a contest, questionnaire, or sweepstakes, we may ask you for your name and email address or other Personal Information. We do not collect any Personal Information about you unless it is voluntarily provided by you. All Transactions are processed by our third-party payment vendors. We do not collect, store, or maintain any billing information. Instead, it is collected and processed through these third-party vendors pursuant to the terms and conditions of their privacy policies and terms of use.

Affiliates and Third Parties

We may use third parties to host the Site; operate various features available on the Site; send emails; analyze data; and assist in fulfilling your orders. Further, in order to administer our contests and sweepstakes, we may share your Personal Information and other information with our third-party promotional and marketing partners. These other companies will have access to your Personal Information and other information only as necessary to perform their functions and to the extent permitted by law. Unless you specifically consent to the disclosure of your Personal Information, aside from us, only our affiliates, technical consultants, third party auditors and other third parties who make our Site available or whereby our site is hosted, enhance its functionality, assist with the processing of your purchases, or provide associated services and/or who deal with you in delivering content and prizes, have access to your Personal Information.

Sweepstakes

If you submit your email address to be added to a mailing list or sweepstakes or other promotion, we will use the email address for the purpose of sending you announcements, special offers from F.WORDS and its promotional partners along with Site updates. Each email we send will contain a link to unsubscribe from our mailing list.

Use of Cookies & Pixel tags

Our Site may pass a "cookie" (a string of information that is sent by a web site to be resident on your system's hard drive, and/or temporarily in your computer's memory blocks). The purpose of a cookie is to tell the web server that you have returned to a particular page. The Site may use cookies to keep track of your status and contents of your shopping cart or to retain information gathered in cookies to allow you access to password-protected areas of the Site. You may set your browser to decline cookies. If you do so, however, you may not be able to fully experience some interactive features of the Site. In addition to cookies, we also collect Aggregate Information through the use of "tracking pixels". We use tracking pixels to tell when an advertisement has been clicked on or otherwise interacted with, and use that information to judge which advertisements are more appealing to users. In some cases, we use third party service providers to help us collect and analyze this information. 

Analytics and Remarketing

We use one or more third–party analytics services (such as Google Analytics) to evaluate your use of the Site, compile reports on activity (based on their collection of IP addresses, Internet service provider, browser type, operating system and language, referring and exit pages and URLs, data and time, amount of time spent on particular pages, what sections of the Site you visit, number of links clicked while on the Site, search terms and other similar usage data), and analyze performance metrics. These third parties use cookies and other technologies to help analyze and provide us the data. By accessing and using the Site, you consent to the processing of data about you by these analytics providers in the manner and for the purposes set out in this Privacy Policy. We also use one or more third-party remarketing services to advertise on third-party websites to previous visitors to our Site. These third-party remarketing service providers use cookies to serve ads based on a past visit to the Site. Any data collected by such third party remarketing service providers will be used in accordance with this Privacy Policy and the privacy policy of such third party remarketing services provider. 

How We Protect Your Information

We are committed to protecting the information we receive from you. However, F.WORDS will not be liable for disclosures of your information, including Personal Information, due to errors in transmission or unauthorized acts of third parties. We have undertaken commercially reasonable efforts to prevent unauthorized access to data retained in our servers, however, due to the inherent open nature of the Internet, F.WORDS cannot ensure or warrant the security of any information you transmit to us or any information provided online, and you do so at your own risk. Users must accept all risks associated with any data transmission, including the risk that their Personal Information may be intercepted in transit.

Accessing and Updating Your Personal Information and Preferences

You may access and update your personal registration information by logging in to your account. To stop receiving email communications from us, you can click the unsubscribe link in any email.

Privacy Policy Changes

We reserve the right, at our discretion, to change, modify, add, or remove portions from this Privacy Policy at any time. If we decide to change our Privacy Policy, we will post the revised Privacy Policy here so that you will always know what information we gather, how we might use that information and whether we may disclose it to anyone. Your continued use of the Site indicates your assent to the Privacy Policy as posted. Please check this page periodically for changes to this Privacy Policy.