This Privacy Policy describes how we handle consumer personal information in the United States and Canada when consumers use our websites; mobile applications; visit our retail locations; buy our products; participate in our promotions and events; or provide information to us in other ways. We process consumers’ personal information in different ways and to different degrees, based in part on how consumers choose to interact with us. We may provide different or additional notices of our privacy practices for certain offerings, in which case those notices will supplement or replace the disclosures in this Privacy Policy.
We engage others to serve advertisements, provide analytics services, and perform related services across third-party websites and apps. To do this, we and our vendors use technologies such as cookies, web beacons, pixels, SDKs, and other technologies to collect information about your use of our websites and apps and those provided by third parties. The information collected via these technologies may include your IP address, mobile advertising identifier, other unique identifiers, device type, domain, browser type, operating system, date and time stamp, click-path, pages visited, referring URLs, how frequently you access our offerings, items placed in cart or purchased, and conversion information. This information is used to deliver advertising targeted to you on other companies’ sites or mobile apps, understand the effectiveness of this advertising, analyze and track data, determine the popularity of certain content, and better understand your activity.
You can opt out of ad targeting through cookies and similar technologies on our websites by following the prompts behind the Your Privacy Choices link in the footer of our website. Your opt out choice will be linked to your browser only; therefore, you will need to renew your opt out choice if you visit our website from a new device or browser, or if you clear your browser’s cookies. Depending upon where you reside, you may also have the right to opt out by visiting our websites with a legally recognized universal opt out signal enabled, such as Global Privacy Control.
Use of Information
We use the personal information we collect directly and indirectly to conduct our business, to communicate with you, and to provide better products, services, and experiences, as further described below. We also use the information we collect to:
· Process and fulfill your orders and purchases, and facilitate returns and exchanges;
· Provide, maintain, improve and develop our products and services and develop new products and services;
· Respond to your comments, questions, and requests, send you transactional communications, and provide customer service;
· Personalize your experience with us;
· Monitor and analyze trends, usage, and activities in connection with our products and services;
· Send you promotional communications (see below for information about how to opt out);
Identify, report, and repair errors that impair the functionality of our services;· Share reviews, testimonials, or other user-generated content;· Detect, investigate, respond to, prosecute, and help protect against security incidents and other malicious, deceptive, fraudulent, or illegal activity, and help protect the rights and property of JanSport and others; and· Comply with our legal and financial obligations. What Information About You Is Disclosed and With WhomWe disclose personal information as described in the Targeted Advertising and Analytics section above and in the following scenarios:VF Family of Brands: We operate under the following brand names: Altra®, Dickies®, Eastpak®, Icebreaker®, JanSport®, Kipling®, Napapijri®, Smartwool®, The North Face®, Timberland®, and Vans®, and we may disclose your personal information within our organization. Vendors and Service Providers: We may also disclose your personal information to service providers, vendors, and contractors who provide services to us or conduct activities on our behalf, such as vendors that provide marketing and advertising services; order fulfillment; consumer or market research and analysis; account management; event or promotion management; fraud detection; security; customer service; payment processing; technical support; or product creation.Public Reviews and Content: If you provide a product review or otherwise post content on our websites or in our mobile applications, the information is visible to the public.Law Enforcement Authorities and Individuals Involved in Legal Proceedings: We disclose personal information in response to a request for information if we believe that disclosure is in accordance with, or required by, any applicable law, regulation, or legal process, including lawful requests by public authorities to meet national security or law enforcement requirements.To Protect the Rights of JanSport and Others: We may disclose your personal information if we believe that your actions are inconsistent with our user agreements or policies, if we believe that you have violated the law, or if we believe it is appropriate to protect the rights, property, and safety of JanSport, our users, the public, or others.Corporate Transactions: We disclose personal information in connection with, or during negotiations of, certain corporate transactions, including a merger, sale of company assets, financing, or acquisition of all or a portion of our business by another company.With Your Consent or at Your Direction: We make personal information available to third parties when we have your consent, or you intentionally direct us to do so.We may also use or disclose information that does not identify you (e.g., anonymous, deidentified, or aggregated data) and, in these instances, we do not attempt to reidentify the information and require that each recipient agree not to reidentify or allow reidentification of the information. Children’s PrivacyWe do not intend to collect personal information from anyone under the age of 16. If you are under the age of 16, you should not provide any personal information to us. If you are a parent or guardian of a child under the age of 16 and suspect they have provided personal information to us, you may contact us using one of the communication methods described in this Privacy Policy to notify us so that we may delete the information. Other age requirements may apply to our loyalty programs or other activities and events.Links To Other WebsitesOur websites and mobile applications may contain links to third-party websites to which this Privacy Policy does not apply (“Linked Websites”). Your use of Linked Websites will be governed by the terms of use, privacy policies, and other terms, notices, and policies set forth on or referenced in those Linked Websites.International Data TransfersThis Privacy Policy describes our policies and procedures in the United States and Canada. We are a global company, and personal information we collect in the United States and Canada may be transferred to other jurisdictions (such as the United States, Canada, and the European Union) as permitted by law, for the purposes described in this Privacy Policy, and the information may become subject to the laws of those jurisdictions and accessible to authorities in those jurisdictions.