Privacy Policy

Gro Club Privacy Policy Effective as of October 1, 2021

 
 

This “Privacy Policy” describes the privacy practices of GRO DIGITAL INITIATIVES PRIVATE LIMITED. and our subsidiaries and affiliates (collectively “Gro Club,” “we,” “us” or “our”) in connection with the 

 website and any other website that we own or control and which posts or links to this Privacy Policy (collectively, the “Service”), and the rights and choices available to individuals with respect to their information.

 

 

 

Personal Information - We Collect Information you give us. Personal information that you may provide through the Service or otherwise includes:

  • Contact information, such as your (and your child’s) first name, last name and date of birth, and your email address and telephone number;
  • Profile information, such as your username, password and preferences (e.g. prior bike measurements);
  • Communications, such as information you provide when you participate in telephone conferences with our representatives (which may be recorded with your permission where permitted by law); report a problem with Service, receive customer support or otherwise communicate with us;
  • Survey information, such as information you provide when you complete any of our surveys, such as our online  quiz or our assembly flow feedback questionnaire, including your responses to those surveys (e.g., information about your child’s coordination, first bike, etc. and your experience with the assembly flow process);
  • Transaction information, such as the credit card or other payment card details that you use to pay for the Service, and your Service-related billing information and transaction history;
  • Marketing information, such your preferences for receiving marketing communications about our Services and products; details about how you engage with our communications; information you provide when you participate in a contest or promotion; and
  • Other information that you choose to provide but is not specifically listed herein, which we will use as described in this Privacy Policy or as otherwise disclosed at the time of collection.
 

Information from third party sources.  We may receive personal information about you from third-party sources such as Amazon. For example, Amazon may share your transaction history and contact information with us if you have purchased products through our online store on Amazon.  We may also obtain your personal information from other third parties, such as marketing partners, data providers and other publicly accessible sources.

 
 

Data collected automatically. We, our service providers, and our business partners may automatically log the following information about you, your computer or mobile device, and your activity over time on the Site and other online services:

  • Device data, such as your computer or mobile device operating system type and version number, manufacturer and model, browser type, screen resolution, IP address, unique identifiers, and general location information such as city or town.
  • Usage data, such as the website you visited before browsing to the Site, pages or screens you viewed, how long you spent on a page or screen, navigation paths between pages or screens, information about your activity on a page or screen, access times, and duration of access.

Some of our automatic collection is facilitated by:

  • Cookies, which are text files stored on a visitor‘s device to uniquely identify the visitor’s browser or to store information or settings in the browser for the purpose of helping you navigate between pages efficiently and remembering your preferences, enabling functionality, and helping us understand user activity and patterns.
  • Javascript libraries, which are snippets of code within web pages that execute when certain actions take place.
  • Web beacons, also known as pixel tags or clear GIFs, which are typically used to demonstrate that a webpage or email was accessed or opened, or that certain content within it was viewed or clicked, typically to compile statistics about usage of websites and the success of marketing campaigns.
 

Changes to your personal information. It is important that the personal information we hold about you is accurate and current. Please let us know if your personal information changes during your relationship with us by updating your registration profile or emailing us at 

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How We Use Your Personal Information We use your personal information for the following purposes or as otherwise described to you at the time of collection: Service delivery. We use your personal information to:

  • provide, operate, maintain, and improve the Service;
  • communicate with you regarding the Service, including by sending you Service announcements, technical notices, updates, security alerts, and support and administrative messages;
  • process your orders and process your related payments:
  • understand your needs and interests, and personalize your experience with the Service; and
  • provide support for the Service and respond to your requests, questions and feedback.
 

Research and development. We may use your personal information for research and development purposes, including to analyze and improve the Service and our business and develop other products and services. As part of these activities, we may create aggregated, de-identified or other anonymous data from personal information we collect.  We make personal information into anonymous data by removing information that makes the data personally identifiable to you.  We may use this anonymous data and share it with third parties for our lawful business purposes, including to analyze and improve the Service and promote our business.

 
  • Marketing. We and our third party advertising partners may collect and use your personal information for marketing and advertising purposes:
  • Direct marketing. If you request information from us, use the Service or participate in our surveys, promotions or events, we may send you Gro Club related marketing communications as permitted by law but will provide you with the ability to opt out.
  • Interest-based advertising. We may contract with third-party advertising and social media companies to display ads on our Service and other sites. These companies may use cookies and similar technologies to collect information about you (including the device data and online activity data described above) over time across our Service and other sites and services or your interaction with our emails, and use that information to serve ads that they think will interest you. These ads are known as “interest-based advertisements.” You can learn more about your choices for limiting interest-based advertising, in the “Advertising choices” section below.
  • Contests or promotions. If you enter and win a contest or other promotion, you expressly consent to us (i) providing your personal information to our business partner providing the prize for the contest or other promotion, solely to provide you with such prize; and (ii) publicly disclosing your name and the fact that you won the Gro Club contest or promotion. If we seek to disclose additional personal information in connection with the contest or other promotion, we will notify you prior to your entering the contest or other promotion; by entering into such contest or other promotion, you expressly consent to any such additional disclosures.
 

Compliance and protection. We may use your personal information to:

  • protect our, your or others’ rights, privacy, safety or property (including by making and defending legal claims);
  • audit our internal processes for compliance with legal and contractual requirements and internal policies;
  • enforce our Terms of Service;
  • protect, investigate and deter against fraudulent, harmful, unauthorized, unethical or illegal activity, including cyberattacks and identity theft; and
  • comply with applicable laws, lawful requests and legal process, such as to respond to subpoenas or requests from government authorities.
 

Other purposes with your consent.  In some cases we will ask for your consent to collect, use or share your personal information for other purposes. For example, we may ask for your consent to send you marketing emails where required by law or to post your testimonial or endorsement.

 

How We Share Your Personal Information We do not share the personal information that you provide us with other organizations without your express consent, except as described in this Privacy Policy.  We may share your personal information with the following parties and as otherwise described in this Privacy Policy or at the time of collection: 

 
  • We may disclose your personal information to our subsidiaries and corporate affiliates for use consistent with this Privacy Policy.
  • Business transfers. We may sell, transfer or otherwise share some or all of our business or assets, including your personal information, in connection with a business deal (or potential business deal) such as a merger, consolidation, acquisition, reorganization or sale of assets, or in the event of bankruptcy, in which case we will make reasonable efforts to require the recipient to honor this Privacy Policy.
  • Service providers. We may employ companies and individuals to help provide the Site or Service on our behalf or help us operate our business (such as IT, customer support, hosting, website analytics, email delivery, marketing and advertising, research, event management). They are permitted to use your personal information only as authorized to perform these tasks in a manner consistent with this Privacy Policy.
  • Payment processors. Any payment card information you use to make a purchase on the Service is collected and processed directly by our payment processor, Shopify, and we never physically receive or store your full payment card information. Shopify commits to complying with the Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard (PCI-DSS) and using industry standard security. Shopify may use your Payment Information in accordance with its own Privacy Policy here: https://shopify.com/legal/privacy.
  • Business partners. We may share your personal information with our business partners who offer a service to you jointly with us, for example, when running a co-sponsored contest or promotion.
  • Advertising partners. We work with third party advertising companies that collect information about your activity on the Site and other online services to help us advertise our services (including, through interest-based advertising), and/or use hashed customer lists that we share with them to deliver ads to them and similar users on their platforms.
  • Professional advisors. We may disclose your personal information to professional advisors, such as lawyers, bankers, auditors and insurers, where necessary in the course of the professional services they render to us.
  • Compliance and protection. We may disclose your personal information as we believe appropriate to government or law enforcement officials or private parties (a) for the compliance and protection purposes described above; (b) as required by law, lawful requests or legal process, such as to respond to subpoenas or requests from government authorities; (c) where permitted by law in connection with any legal investigation; and (d) to prosecute or defend legal claims.
 

Your Choices

 

Access, update, correct or delete your information. You may review, update, correct or delete the personal information in your registration profile by logging into your account or emailing us at 

 

Marketing communications. You may opt out of marketing-related emails by logging in and changing your account settings or by following the opt-out prompt in the email. You may continue to receive Service-related and other non-marketing emails.

 

Cookies. Most browsers let you remove and/or stop accepting cookies from the websites you visit. To do this, follow the instructions in your browser’s settings. Many browsers accept cookies by default until you change your settings. If you do not accept cookies, however, you may not be able to use all functionality of the Service and our Site may not work properly. For more information about cookies, including how to see what cookies have been set on your browser and how to manage and delete them, visit www.allaboutcookies.org.

 

Advertising choices. You can limit use of your information for interest-based advertising by:

  • Browser settings. Blocking third party cookies in your browser settings using or ad-blocking browser plug-ins/extensions.
  • Mobile device settings. Using your mobile device settings to limit use of the advertising ID associated with your mobile device for interest-based advertising purposes.
  • Platform settings. Using Google’s and Facebook’s interest-based advertising opt-out features:
    • Google: https://adssettings.google.com/
    • Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/about/ads
  • Ad industry tools. Opting out of interest-based ads from companies participating in the following industry opt-out programs:

The opt-out preferences described above must be set on each device for which you want them to apply. Not all companies that serve interest-based ads participate in the ad industry opt-out programs described above, so even after opting-out, you may still receive some cookies and interest-based ads from other companies. If you opt-out of interest-based advertisements, you will still see advertisements online but they may be less relevant to you.

 

Do Not Track. Some Internet browsers may be configured to send “Do Not Track” signals to the online services that you visit. We currently do not respond to “Do Not Track” or similar signals. To find out more about “Do Not Track,” please visit

 
 

Declining to provide your personal information. If you do not provide information indicated as required or mandatory within the Service, or that is otherwise necessary to provide a requested service or feature within the Service, that portion or all of the Service may be unavailable to you and we may deactivate your account.

 
 

Security

 

The security of your personal information important to us. We take a number of organizational, technical and physical measures designed to protect the personal information we collect, both during transmission and once we receive it. However, no security safeguards are 100% secure and we cannot guarantee the security of your information.

 
 

Third-Party Sites and Services

 

The Service may contain links to other websites and services operated by third parties, such as social media platforms, advertising services and other websites and applications. These links are not an endorsement of, or representation that we are affiliated with, any third party. We do not control third-party websites, applications or services, and are not responsible for their actions. Other websites and services follow different rules regarding their collection, use and disclosure of your personal information. We encourage you to read their privacy policies to learn more.

 

 

 

Changes to this Privacy Policy

 

We reserve the right to modify this Privacy Policy at any time. We encourage you to periodically review this page for the latest information on our privacy practices. If we make material changes to this Privacy Policy we will notify you by email (if you have an account linked to a valid email address) or another manner through the Service that we believe is reasonably likely to reach you.

 

Any modifications to this Privacy Policy will be effective upon our posting of the new terms and/or upon implementation of the new changes in the Service (or as otherwise indicated at the time of posting). In all cases, your continued use of the Service after the posting of any updated Privacy Policy indicates your acceptance of the update.

 

 

 

Contact Us

 

If you have any questions or concerns about our Privacy Policy, please contact us.

 
 

Gro Club

 

Attn: Privacy Compliance Officer

 

Email: