Privacy Policy

Privacy and Security Policy

This web site is owned and operated by Masquerade Fundraising, Inc. This Privacy Policy describes how your personal information is collected, used, and shared when you visit or make a purchase from store.masqueradefundraising.com, the online selling site for Masquerade Fundraising, Inc. (the “Site”).If you choose to use our website, you are telling us you have read and agree to the terms of this Privacy Policy and consent to our actions that are consistent with this Privacy & Security Policy.

Effective Date and Updates

We may revise this Privacy & Security Policy at any time. The “Last Updated” date at the bottom of this Privacy & Security Policy reflects the date of the most recent revisions. You are responsible for regularly reviewing the Privacy Policy. The most current version of the Privacy Policy can be reviewed by clicking on the “Privacy & Security Policy” link located at the bottom of each of our pages associated with the website.

Personal Information we Collect 
When you visit the Site, we automatically collect certain information about your device, including information about your web browser, IP address, time zone, 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 information that is automatically collected as “Device Information”.

 
We collect Device Information using the following technologies: 
- “Cookies” are data files that are placed on your device or computer and often include an anonymous unique identifier. For more information about cookies, and how to disable cookies, visit http://www.allaboutcookies.org. 
- “Log files” track actions occurring on the Site, and collect data including your IP address, browser type, Internet service provider, referring/exit pages, and date/time stamps. 
- “Web beacons”, “tags”, and “pixels” are electronic files used to record information about how you browse the Site. 

Additionally when you make a purchase or attempt to make a purchase through the Site, we collect certain information from you, including your name, billing address, shipping address, payment information (including credit card numbers, PayPal, and others), email address, and phone number. We refer to this information as “Order Information”. 

When we talk about “Personal Information” in this Privacy Policy, we are talking about both Device Information and Order Information. 

Security

Masquerade Fundraising is concerned with the security of your Personal Information. Accordingly, we take care in implementing appropriate physical, technical and administrative safeguards that we believe are reasonable to protect the security of your Personal Information on our system, both internally and from outsiders, and to ensure the integrity of the data we collect. Unfortunately, no data transmission over the Internet, nor any data we collect or store, can be guaranteed to be 100% secure. As a result, while we strive to protect your Personal Information, we cannot guarantee the security of any information you transmit to us.

We use a combination of technological, physical and policy methods to protect your Personal Information such as, for example, requiring a password to access our network and employing firewall security. You are responsible for maintaining the secrecy of your passwords and any account information. Please be aware that we will never ask you for your password in an unsolicited phone call or e-mail.

Personal Information that is maintained in our offices is subject to physical, administrative, and technical controls as well. Hard copies of sensitive Personal Information are maintained in locked locations or cabinets with similar restrictions for electronic storage. When disposed of, the information is shredded, destroyed, erased, or otherwise sought to be made unreadable.

Information That Is Automatically Collected

We receive and store certain types of information when you interact with our web site, social media pages, emails, and online advertising. Our purpose is to allow the web site to work correctly, to evaluate use of the web site, and to support web site analytics and marketing campaigns. Some examples include: We may collect technical information such as your internet protocol address, your device operating system and browser type, the address of a referring web site, if any, and the path you take through our web site. We use “cookies” to recognize you as you use or return to our web site. This is done so that we can provide a continuous and more personalized shopping experience for you. A cookie is a small text file that a web site or email may save to your browser and store on your hard drive.We may also use web beacons. Beacons are small bits of code that communicate with third parties and are embedded in web pages, ads, or in emails. Beacons allow us to know if a certain page was visited, an email was opened, or if ad banners on our web site and other sites were effective. We may use other technologies that collect information about you to provide better service to you, including web session variables and browser plug-ins/add-ons.

How do we use your Personal Information? 
We use the Order Information that we collect 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). Additionally, we use this Order Information 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). 

Additionally, we will employ your usage preference, such as device used, to customize the site and other marketing activities.

 

Information That Others Provide to Us

We may receive personal information about you from other sources as well. Examples of these sources are entities that can help us correct or supplement our records, improve the quality or personalization of our service to you, and help prevent or detect fraud.

 

Use, Transfer and Disclosure of Information

Masquerade Fundraising uses your information to offer and provide our products and services and to support our core business functions. Some examples include: To fulfill your requests for products and services and communicate with you about those requests; To provide customer service and send you information about our products, services, and promotions; To help us improve and customize our service offerings, web sites, social media pages and advertising; To register and service your account; and To protect the security or integrity of our web site and our business. To accomplish these purposes, we may combine personal and non-personal information we collect with offline information, including information from third parties. We only disclose your personal information with your prior consent or under the following limited circumstances.

Service Providers

We may disclose or otherwise make available personal information about you to service providers that help with our business operations. Examples are shipping vendors, billing and refund vendors, payment card processors, and companies that help us improve our product and service offerings and our web site. Your personal information may be stored and processed by our service providers in the United States or other locations where the service providers or Masquerade Fundraising maintains facilities. We require our service providers to keep your information secure. In addition, our service providers may not use or disclose personal information for any purpose other than providing the services on our behalf.

Legal Requirements and Protection of Our Company and Others

We may disclose your information in other special circumstances, including when the sharing is necessary to protect Masquerade Fundraising, our customers, our employees, or any other person, or where otherwise required by law. Masquerade Fundraising may 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 applicable law.

Managing Your Information

We want to communicate with you in ways you want to hear from us. Examples are newsletters, special offers, and new product announcements. We use the following standards for marketing communications: We use an opt-in standard for phone and text messages. Opt-in means we will only conduct the activity with your express consent. 

Please be aware that we may still contact you for transactional purposes. Some examples are contacts for customer service, product information, service or reminder notices, or recalls. We may also need to contact you with questions or information regarding your order, such as regarding order status, shipment, or refunds.

Masquerade Fundraising takes reasonable steps to keep your personal information accurate and complete. You can access or update your personal information, including contact or account information, by logging into your account on our Web Site. Once you do, you will be able to enter and update your own contact information and payment information. Contact us at the email, phone number or postal address listed below.

Cookies

When you visit our web sites, we send one or more cookies to your computer or other device. We may also use cookies in emails that you receive from us. A cookie is a small data file that is placed on the hard drive of your computer when you visit a web site. A session cookie expires immediately when you end your session (i.e., close your browser). A persistent cookie stores information on the hard drive so when you end your session and return to the same web site at a later date the cookie information is still available. We use cookies to improve the quality of our service when you visit our web site and other web sites of interest to you. We also use cookies to remind us of who you are, tailor our products, services and advertising to suit the personal interests of you and others, estimate our audience size, assist our online merchants to track visits to and sales at our web sites and to process your order, track your status in our promotions, contests, and/or analyze your visiting patterns.

Certain of our Service Providers may use cookies and collect information on our behalf. They are prohibited by our contract with them from sharing that information with anyone other than us or our other Service Providers. In addition, we or certain of our Service Providers, in connection with the services that they provide to us, may work with third parties who may use cookies to collect information to tailor advertising for you and others elsewhere on the Internet and on our web sites, and to assist in reminding us of who you are. If you would like to opt out of accepting cookies altogether, you can generally set your browser to not accept cookies or to notify you when you are sent a cookie, giving you the chance to decide whether or not to accept it. However, certain features of our web sites or other services may not work if you delete or disable cookies.

Contact us 
For more information about our privacy practices, if you have questions, or if you would like to make a complaint, please contact us by e‑mail at masqueradeonline@yahoo.com or by mail at:


Masquerade Fundraising Inc.

Attn: Privacy Compliance Officer

P.O. Box 52252

Knoxville, TN 37950

 

 

Last Updated: November 13. 2020