Privacy Policy

Ensuring the privacy and security of your personal information is very important to us. Our Privacy & Security Policy outlines the information we collect about you, how we use, disclose and otherwise manage this information and the choices you have to restrict our usage of this information.

This Privacy & Security Policy applies to personal information we collect from our customers through our website located at www.blugertrude.com, through our authorized service providers and through other interactions with our customers.

Collected Information

We collect personal information when you purchase, order, return or exchange products and services; our email or catalog mailing list; purchase a gift card; visit or register on our website; apply for a job at BluGertrude; tell a friend about one of our products or services; participate in a promotion or survey; or contact us with a comment, question or complaint.

Our Email List

We offer those who sign-up for our email list advanced notice of sales, new merchandise, store openings and other BluGertrude news. Email addresses collected at blugertrude.com are only used internally for the purpose of sending you communication from BluGertrude. We respect your privacy rights and will not sell or rent your email address to other companies. If you would like to unsubscribe from our email list, you may click on the unsubscribe link at the bottom of our emails. We will remove your name from our email list as soon as possible. Please recognize that you may receive another email before we are able to remove you.

When you sign-up for our email list, we may also may collect optional information such as your name, postal code, and product interests. We use this personal information to tailor our email messages and to enhance our product and service offerings.

Visit or Register on blugertrude.com

You do not have to register to visit blugertrude.com. To take advantage of certain services, you may choose to create an account by providing us with your email address and a password that you select. Personal information you provide to us while creating or updating an account and at checkout on our website (such as name, address, telephone number, email address, billing address, ship-to address and credit card information) is maintained in electronic files on our web server and our internal systems located in the United States. Your registration information is used solely to provide and otherwise administer the services you requested, unless you otherwise consent.

Optional Information

We may collect optional demographic and/or preference information. We use this information to tailor or improve our product and service offerings, as well as for internal marketing research purposes.

Employment

If you apply for or inquire about a job at BluGertrude, you may provide us with personal information about yourself, such as that contained in a resume or similar employment-related materials. We use this information for the purpose of processing and responding to your enquiry or job application.

Promotions and Surveys

When you participate in a promotion or respond to one of our surveys, we may collect your name, address, phone number and email address. We use this information to administer your participation in the promotion and, for surveys, to contact you with follow-up questions.

Customer Service

When you contact one of our customer service representatives with a question, feedback or other comment, you may be asked for information that identifies you, such as your name, address and telephone number. We collect this information to verify your identity and to help us promptly answer your question or respond to your comment or feedback. We may retain this information to assist you in the future. We also may use your feedback, suggestions and comments to monitor and/or improve our products or website.

Website Information Collected

You can visit blugertrude.com without telling us who you are or providing us with any personal information. However, we collect the IP (Internet protocol) addresses of all our website visitors and other related information such as page requests, browser type, operating system and average time spent on our website. We use this information to monitor and improve our website.

We use cookies and similar technologies to collect product and purchase information from the pages you access or visit. Cookies are bits of information that are automatically stored on your computer so we can recognize you when you return. We use cookies to better understand your use of blugertrude.com so that we may continue to refine and improve the website. If you do not wish to have cookies on your system, you can set your browser preferences to disable them. However, if you decide not to accept cookies, you may not be able to take advantage of all of the features on blugertrude.com. The information collected through cookies may be combined with other identifiable personal information (such as demographic and past purchase information) from our records and other sources. We may use this combined information for future marketing initiatives and to help us improve our website presentation and your overall shopping experience.

Third Party Links and Advertisements

Our website may provide links to third party websites. Except as provided herein, we will not provide any of your personal information to these third parties without your prior consent. BluGertrude provides links to third party websites as a convenience to you. The inclusion of any link does not imply BluGertrude's endorsement of any other company, its websites, or its products and/or services. These linked websites have separate and independent privacy policies, which we recommend you read carefully. We have no control over such websites and therefore have no responsibility or liability for the manner in which the organizations that operate such linked websites may collect, use or disclose and otherwise treat your personal information.

We may also use third parties to serve BluGertrude advertisements on other websites. In order to measure the effectiveness of our advertisements, these companies may use tracer tags or web beacons to report certain information (but not your name, address, email address or telephone number) about your visits to blugertrude.com and the websites which advertise and feature links to blugertrude.com.

Information We Share

We may transfer (or otherwise make available) your personal information to other members of the BluGertrude corporate family and other third parties who provide services on our behalf. We may use service providers to process data and online payments, deliver our products and services, host our website, send emails, run our promotions and surveys, in order to help us better understand your use of blugertrude.com and refine and improve the website.

All of our service providers are required to maintain the confidentiality and security of your personal information and to use it only in compliance with applicable privacy laws. "These companies are not authorized to use your information in any manner, other than in helping us to provide you with products and services or as otherwise required by applicable law."Your personal information may be stored and processed in the United States by our affiliates and other third party service providers.

Legal

Please note that BluGertrude must provide your personal information in response to a search warrant or other legally valid inquiry or order, or to an investigative body in the case of a breach of an agreement or contravention of law, or as otherwise required by law. We may also disclose personal information to assist us in collecting a debt owed by you, or otherwise where necessary for the establishment, exercise or defense of legal claims.
Sale of Business

BluGertrude may transfer any information we have about you in the event of a merger with a third party or upon a sale or transfer of all or a portion of our business or assets to a third party acquirer.

Retention of Personal Information

We only keep your personal information as long as necessary for the purposes we collected it, or as otherwise required by law.

Security of Personal Information

Your privacy is important to us. We maintain reasonable administrative, technical and physical safeguards in an effort to protect against the loss, theft, unauthorized access, use, modification and disclosure of personal information in our custody and control. We have implemented measures in an effort to safeguard the personal information in our custody and control, including only providing access to personal information to employees and authorized service providers who require such information for the purposes described in this Privacy & Security Policy.

To provide you with an increased level of security, online access to certain personal information may be protected with a password you select. We strongly recommend that you do not disclose your password to anyone. We will never ask you for your password in any unsolicited communication.

Secure Shopping

Orders placed on our website are encrypted using Secure Socket Layer (SSL) technology. In order for SSL security to work, you must use an SSL enabled browser. Most browsers, version 3.x and later, support SSL.

Please note that email is not encrypted and is not considered a secure means of transmitting credit card numbers. We will never ask for sensitive information via email.

Policy Changes

Blugertrude.com may periodically update this Privacy & Security Policy for new, unanticipated uses not previously disclosed. Any changes made will be posted here. We will treat your personal information in accordance with the Privacy & Security Policy in place at the time your information was collected.

Contact Us

Feel free to contact us with any questions about our Privacy & Security Policy or the manner in which we treat your personal information or to withdraw your name from an email or other marketing list. If you wish to access or update the personal information we have about you, or to correct factual errors in our records, please contact us as set out below. To protect your privacy, we will take reasonable steps to help verify your identity before granting access or making corrections. You can also easily update your account information by logging on to blugertrude.com and clicking my account.