Privacy policy

Parea, INC. (dba Cool as a Cucumber) Privacy Policy

Last updated and effective: May 15 2023

Parea Inc. owns and maintains the website www.becoolasacucumber.com, including all subdomains and subparts, as well as our social media accounts on Instagram, Facebook, and other platforms (collectively, the “Site”). When you visit the Site, you may choose to provide us with personal data that identifies you. This Privacy Policy describes how your personal information is collected, used, and shared when you visit or make a purchase from the Site, and it applies regardless of how you access the Site.

BY CLICKING THE BUTTON BEFORE USING THE SITE, YOU EXPRESSLY AGREE TO THE COLLECTION, USE, DISCLOSURE, RETENTION, AND DESTRUCTION OF YOUR PERSONAL DATA SUBMITTED TO US IN ACCORDANCE WITH THIS PRIVACY POLICY.

If you are a California resident, the section below titled “Privacy Rights for California Residents” includes a description of your rights and our handling of your Personal Data.

PERSONAL INFORMATION WE COLLECT

When you provide it to us, we collect information that identifies you (“Personal Data”), such as your: name, email address, address, telephone number, birthday, payment information, content of your email messages to us.

When you visit the Site, we automatically collect certain information about your device, including information about your web browser, IP address, time zone, browser type, and some of the cookies that are installed on your device. Additionally, as you browse the Site, we collect information about the individual web pages or products that you view, what websites or search terms referred you to the Site, and information about how you interact with the Site. We refer to this automatically-collected information as (“Device Information”). Much of this Device Data does not identify you personally. However, we may associate this Device Data with your Personal Data. When we do, we will treat any such combined data as Personal Data until such time as it can no longer be associated with you or used to identify you.

HOW DO WE USE YOUR PERSONAL INFORMATION?

We use the Personal Data generally to fulfill any orders placed through the Site (including processing your payment information, arranging for shipping, and providing you with invoices and/or order confirmations), and provide customer service to you. Additionally, we use the Personal Data to: Communicate with you, screen our orders for potential risk or fraud, and when in line with the preferences you have shared with us, provide you with information or advertising relating to our products or services.

We use the Device Information that we collect to help us screen for potential risk and fraud (in particular, your IP address), and more generally to improve and optimize our Site (for example, by generating analytics about how our customers browse and interact with the Site, and to assess the success of our marketing and advertising campaigns).

In addition, we may use third-party services and advertising networks, such as Google Display Network or Google Analytics, that collect, monitor, and analyze Device Data to deliver online behavioral advertising that serves ads to you on our behalf on other sites throughout the Internet. We may also contract with third-party vendors to send direct mail or catalogs to customers whom we think may be interested in our products or services.

SHARING YOUR PERSONAL INFORMATION

No Sale of Personal Data

We will not sell your Personal Data to third parties, including third party advertisers. We also do not share your Personal Data with third parties for cross-context behavioral advertising. There are, however, certain circumstances in which we may disclose, transfer, or share your Personal Data with certain third parties after obtaining your consent. By clicking the button prompt before using the site, you expressly consent to our sharing your Personal Data, as set forth below.

Sharing Personal Data With Affiliates, Successors, and Agents

For purposes consistent with this Privacy Policy, we may share your Personal Data with: our parent companies, subsidiaries, and/or affiliates; successors who acquire your Personal Data if we sell, merge, reorganize, dissolve, or similarly change our ownership or corporate structure; other companies we engage to perform business-related functions, such as: vendors who provide services to our customers; marketing agencies; database service providers; backup and disaster recovery service providers; email service providers; and payment processors.

For example, we use Shopify to power our online store--you can read more about how Shopify uses your Personal Information here: https://www.shopify.com/legal/privacy. We also use Google Analytics to help us understand how our customers use the Site--you can read more about how Google uses your Personal Information here: https://www.google.com/intl/en/policies/privacy/. You can also opt-out of Google Analytics here: https://tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout.

Behavioral Advertising

Third parties with whom we share your Personal Data have agreed to be bound to maintain and use it securely and only in accordance with this Privacy Policy.As described above, we use your Personal Information to provide you with targeted advertisements or marketing communications we believe may be of interest to you. For more information about how targeted advertising works, you can visit the Network Advertising Initiative’s (“NAI”) educational page at http://www.networkadvertising.org/understanding-online-advertising/how-does-it-work.

You can opt out of targeted advertising by:

Facebook - https://www.facebook.com/settings/?tab=ads

Google - https://www.google.com/settings/ads/anonymous

Bing - https://advertise.bingads.microsoft.com/en-us/resources/policies/personalized-ads

Additionally, you can opt out of some of these services by visiting the Digital Advertising Alliance’s opt-out portal at: http://optout.aboutads.info/.

Sharing Data Through Social Media

We work with social media sites like Facebook, Instagram, YouTube, and Google, and with application developers who specialize in social commerce so you can connect to us, share your interests, express opinions about products and services, purchase our products, and generate interest in our products and services among members of your social networks. Using these integrated tools enables you to share your Personal Data with other individuals or the public, depending on the settings that you have established with social networking websites. If you use third party social media features available on our Site, we or the third party may collect or share your data, including your Personal Data. If you do not want us to be able to access information about you, including Personal Data, from Third Party Sites, you must limit data collection and disclosure in the privacy settings on the Third Party Sites. We reserve the right to remove the Personal Data or other data of any person for any reason we, in our sole discretion, deem appropriate.

Finally, we may also share your Personal Information to comply with applicable laws and regulations, to respond to a subpoena, to prevent or investigate possible wrongdoing in connection with the Site; search warrant or other lawful request for information we receive, or to otherwise protect our rights or protect against legal liability.

YOUR RIGHTS ABOUT THE PROCESSING OF YOUR PERSONAL DATA

You have the right to consent or withdraw your consent to the processing of your Personal Data at any time, subject to exceptions defined by law. If you change your privacy preferences in the future, that will not limit the lawfulness of any processing performed based on your prior consent. To withdraw consent, please email us at care@becoolasacucumber.com and specify what you would like us to do. You may have additional rights, under the laws of your jurisdiction, with which we comply.

To stop email communications from us, you can also follow the unsubscribe instructions set forth at the bottom of our promotional e-mail messages.

We value your privacy and the information you consent to share in relation to our SMS marketing service. We use this information to send you text notifications (for your order, including abandoned checkout reminders), text marketing offers, and transactional texts, including requests for reviews from us. To stop Text Messages, You may unsubscribe at any time by replying “STOP” to any mobile message sent from us.

If you choose to limit our use of your Personal Data, you may not have access to certain functionality of the Site, such as promotions, product information, or opportunities.

CALIFORNIA PRIVACY RIGHTS

If you are a California resident, you have the following rights under the California Consumer Privacy Act (“CCPA”):

Access: You have the right to access a copy of your Personal Data that we hold about you, upon receipt of a verified request.

Deletion: You have the right to delete your Personal Data, upon receipt of a verified request, with some exceptions.

Equal Treatment: You have the right to equal treatment regardless of your exercise of your privacy rights.

Opt Out: You have the right to opt out of the sale of your Personal Data or the sharing of your Personal Data for cross-context behavioral advertising at any time. We do not presently sell Personal Data or share it for cross-context behavioral advertising.

If you wish to exercise your CCPA rights, please email us at care@becoolasacucumber.com and specify what you would like us to do. You may request this information once per calendar year. Before we may fulfill a request to access, correct, limit the use of, or delete your information, we are required to verify your identity. We will ask you to verify your name, address, email address, and telephone number.

DATA SECURITY

We have implemented appropriate measures designed to secure your Personal Data from accidental loss and from unauthorized access, use, alteration, and disclosure. We are Level 1 PCI DSS compliant. However, no network, server, database, or Internet or e-mail transmission, is ever fully secure or error free. Although we work diligently to try and protect your Personal Data, we cannot guarantee the security of your Personal Data transmitted to our Website. You can help protect your Personal Data and other information by keeping your password to our Website confidential.

You should take special care in deciding what Personal Data you send to us electronically. Any transmission of Personal Data is at your own risk. We are not responsible for circumvention of any privacy settings or security measures contained on the Website or in your operating system.

DATA RETENTION

We will retain your personal data as long as necessary to carry out the function for which you provided it to us, including maintenance of your account. You may close your account, unsubscribe to emails, and otherwise limit our use of your Personal Data by contacting us at 188 Grand Street FL 2, New York, NY, 10013, United States or care@becoolasacucumber.com. However, we may retain your Personal Data for an additional period as is permitted or required under applicable laws.

DO NOT TRACK

Do Not Track (DNT) is an optional browser setting that allows you to express your preferences regarding tracking by advertisers and other third-parties. Please note that we do not alter our Site’s data collection and use practices when we see a Do Not Track signal from your browser. Therefore, please be advised that third party web analytics companies may collect information about your online activities over time and across our website and other online properties.

WHAT DATA IS NOT COVERED BY THE PRIVACY POLICY?

The limitations in and requirements of this Privacy Policy do not apply to:

Third Party Sites: Any data you disclosed on websites not operated or controlled by us (“Third Party Sites”), even though we may provide links to them on the Site or in our emails. We are not responsible for the policies and practices employed by, or the content of, Third Party Sites. We suggest contacting those sites directly for information about their privacy policies and practices.

Non-Personally Identifiable Data: Any non-personally identifiable data we collect, including, without limitation, Log Data, domain names of your Internet Service Provider, your approximate geographic location, a record of your usage of the Site, the time of your usage, and aggregated personally identifiable information, but only to the extent the foregoing cannot be used to specifically identify you.

Aggregated Personal Data: Any aggregated Personal Data that can no longer be used to identify you will be treated as non-personally identifiable data under this Privacy Policy.

MINORS

We do not intentionally or knowingly collect any Personal Data from children under the age of eighteen (18), nor do we target our emails to them. Children under the age of eighteen (18) should not submit any Personal Data through the Site. We encourage parents and legal guardians to monitor their children's use of the Internet and instruct them to never provide Personal Data through the Site. If you believe a child under the age of eighteen (18) may have provided Personal Data to us through the Site, please contact us at 188 Grand Street FL 2, New York, NY, 10013, United States or care@becoolasacucumber.com., and we will use reasonable efforts to delete it from the Site and our files.

CHANGES

We may update this privacy policy from time to time in order to reflect, for example, changes to our practices or for other operational, legal or regulatory reasons. The date this Privacy Policy was last revised is identified at the top of the page. You are responsible for periodically visiting our Website and reviewing this Privacy Policy to check for any changes.

HOW YOU CAN RESOLVE A PRIVACY DISPUTE WITH US

If you have a complaint about this Privacy Policy or our privacy practices, we will work with you in an attempt to resolve your complaint. Please contact us at care@becoolasacucumber.com. BY CLICKING THE BUTTON BEFORE USING THE SITE, WE EACH AGREE TO SETTLE DISPUTES ONLY BY NON-CLASS, INDIVIDUAL ARBITRATION, INSTEAD OF SUING IN COURT (EXCEPT CERTAIN SMALL CLAIMS). THE RULES IN ARBITRATION ARE DIFFERENT. THERE IS NO JUDGE OR JURY, LIMITED DISCOVERY RIGHTS, AND REVIEW IS LIMITED, BUT AN ARBITRATOR CAN AWARD THE SAME DAMAGES AND RELIEF, AND MUST HONOR THE SAME LIMITATIONS STATED IN THE AGREEMENT, AS A COURT WOULD.

To initiate an arbitration proceeding, you must send us a notice of your complaint that includes a written statement of your name, address, and contact information, the facts giving rise to your complaint, and the relief you are requesting (the “Dispute Notice”). The Dispute Notice must be addressed to: Parea INC., 188 Grand Street FL 2, New York, NY, 10013, United States. and sent to us by certified mail. If we do not reach an agreement to resolve your privacy complaint within sixty (60) days after we receive your Dispute Notice, you may commence an arbitration proceeding under the Dispute Resolution section of the Site’s Terms of Use.

For more information about our privacy practices, if you have questions, or if you would like to exercise any and all of your rights, please contact us by e-mail at care@becoolasacucumber.com or by mail using the address: 188 Grand Street FL 2, New York, NY, 10013, United States.