Privacy Policy

Last updated:  (January 27,2024)

Welcome to the Fragrance4Us.com website (“Website”). This privacy policy explains what personal information Fragrance 4 Us may collect from you, how we may use it, and the rights that you have concerning that data.  We strive to maintain a standard of data privacy in accordance with your data protection rights under applicable law.  The protection and proper use of the personal information that you entrust to us is a responsibility we take seriously. 

What Categories of Personal Information Do We Collect, and How Do We Obtain the Personal Information?

We may collect certain information that identifies, relates to, describes, is reasonably capable of being associated with, or could reasonably be linked, directly or indirectly, with a consumer or household (“Personal Information”).  

Data that has been de-identified or aggregated so that it cannot reasonably be linked to you is not Personal Information, and we may use that data for any purpose.  When we maintain and use de-identified data, we do not attempt to re-identify the data unless you have given us consent to maintain and use the data in identifiable form.

We may collect the following types of information:

• Identifiers, such as name, phone numbers, postal address, Internet protocol (“IP”) address, email address, and account name. We collect this information when you purchase something from our store or otherwise interact with our products or services.  We automatically receive your computer’s IP address when you browse our website.  We also may receive this information from our service providers and marketing partners.
• Internet or other electronic network activity information, including browsing history, search history, and information regarding a consumer’s interaction with our website, applications or advertisements. You provide this information to us or automatically through your interaction with our products or services.  We also may receive this information from our service providers or marketing partners.  For more information about cookies, please see below.
• Commercial information, such as records of the products or services you purchased or considered purchasing. You provide this information to us or automatically through your interaction with our products or services.  We also may receive this information from our service providers or marketing partners.
• Geolocation information. We obtain your IP address when you interact with our website, and your IP address provides information about your approximate location.
• Financial information, such as your credit or debit card number. You provide this information to us when you purchase our products or services, although we do not maintain your card information. 

What is Our Business or Commercial Purpose for Collecting Your Personal Information, and With Whom Do We Share Your Personal Information?

We may use or share your Personal Information as follows:

• Identifiers: We may use your identifiers: (1) to provide our products and services; (2) to administer your account and process your payments for products and services; (3) to operate our websites and applications, including online registration processes; (4) to send marketing materials about products, special offers or other information which we think you may find interesting; and (5) to comply with legal, regulatory or contractual requirements.  We may share this information with service providers, advertising networks, and data analytics providers.    
• Internet or similar network activity: We may use this information to customize the website according to your interests, to help us improve our products and services, and to process your payments for products and services.  See below for additional information about advertising and analytics services provided by others.  We also may use this information to detect security incidents and protect against malicious, deceptive, fraudulent or illegal activity.  We may share this information with service providers for fraud protection.  We also may share this information with advertising networks and data analytics providers.   
• Commercial information: We may use this information to customize the website according to your interests, to help us improve our products and services, and to process your payments for products and services.  We may share this information with advertising networks and data analytics providers.
• Geolocation information: We may use this information to customize the website according to your interests, to help us improve our products and services, and to process your payments for products and services.  We also may use this information to detect security incidents and protect against malicious, deceptive, fraudulent or illegal activity.  We may share this information with service providers for fraud protection.  We also may share this information with advertising networks and data analytics providers.
• Financial information: We use financial information you provide to us to process and fulfill your purchases.  We may share this information with a service provider who processes your payment.   We also may use this information to detect security incidents and protect against malicious, deceptive, fraudulent or illegal activity.  We may share this information with service providers for fraud protection.

In addition, where consistent with appropriate laws and regulations, we may disclose Personal Information if such disclosure is:

• necessary to prepare, negotiate or perform a contract with you;
• needed to respond to subpoenas, court orders, or other legal process or otherwise required by law or the competent governmental or judicial authorities;
• necessary to protect our rights, protect your safety or the safety of others, or establish or preserve a legal claim or defense;
• part of a corporate restructuring, sale of assets, merger or divestiture; or
• necessary to prevent fraud or other illegal activities, such as willful attacks on our information technology systems.

We take reasonable steps to ensure that service providers to whom we share your Personal Information are contractually obligated to keep the personal information that we provide to them confidential and to use such information only as we permit.

Data Retention.  We store the information we collect about you for as long as is necessary for the business or commercial purpose(s) for which we collected it or for other legitimate business purposes, including to meet our legal, regulatory, or other compliance obligations.

No Sale or Sharing of Personal Information

In the preceding 12 months, we have not sold or shared, as that term is defined in the California Consumer Privacy Act, any Personal Information to non-affiliated third parties without your consent.  We also have no actual knowledge of selling or haring the Personal Information of minors under 16 years of age to non-affiliated third parties without affirmative consent.

Use and Disclosure of Sensitive Information

We do not use or disclose sensitive personal information, as defined by the California Consumer Privacy Act, as amended by the Louisiana Privacy Rights Act, for purposes other than those specified in Section 7027(m) of the California Privacy Rights Act regulations.

Information about Advertising and Analytics Services

Our website utilizes cookies, which are pieces of information that a website transfers to your computer’s hard drive for record-keeping purposes.  Cookies assist us in identifying your preferences when you visit our website and prevent you from having to reenter your information every time that you visit our website.  For more information, please see our Cookie Policy below. 

You can choose to accept or decline cookies. Most web browsers automatically accept cookies, but you can usually modify your browser setting to decline cookies if you prefer. This may prevent you from taking full advantage of the website and all marketing offers. Learn more about website cookies at allaboutcookies.org.

Some browsers have a “Do Not Track” feature that lets you send a request to websites to not track your online activities.  We, like many other retailers, do not honor those requests unless required under applicable law.

Fragrance 4 Us uses cookies to collect information around abandoned shopping carts. A cart is considered abandoned within one hour of inactivity/lack of purchase. Once the cart is considered abandoned, an email message will be sent as a reminder. 

Links to other websites

Our website may contain links to other websites of interest. However, once you have used these links to leave our site, you should note that we do not have any control over that other website. Therefore, we cannot be responsible for the protection and privacy of any information which you provide while visiting such sites and such sites are not governed by this privacy statement. You should exercise caution and look at the privacy statement applicable to the website in question.

Children Under the Age of 16

We do not knowingly collect Personal Information from individuals under the age of 16, unless the Personal Information is submitted by a provider for use of our services and with parental consent.  Our website is not intended for anyone under the age of 16, and no one under the age of 16 may provide information on this website.

Security

We maintain administrative, technical and physical safeguards designed to protect your Personal Information.  While no company can guarantee your Personal Information will not be accessible by unauthorized individuals, we use controls that are consistent with industry standard retail practices in an attempt to mitigate such risks in today's online environment. 

Customer Privacy Rights

We provide our customers with specific rights regarding their Personal Information.  This section describes the rights that we provide and explains how to exercise those rights. We will not discriminate against you for exercising any of the privacy rights below. 

Right to Know About Personal Information Collected, Used, or Disclosed

You have the right to request that we disclose certain information to you about our collection, use and disclosure of your Personal Information over the past 12 months. Once we receive your request and verify your identity, we can disclose to you:  (1) the categories of Personal Information we collected about you; (2) the categories of sources for the Personal Information; (3) our business or commercial purpose for collecting or disclosing that Personal Information; (4) the categories of third parties with whom we shared that Personal Information; and (5) the specific pieces of Personal Information we collected about you in the preceding 12 months. 

Right to Delete Personal Information Collected or Maintained

You have the right to request that we delete any of your Personal Information that we collected from you and retained, subject to certain exceptions. Once we receive and confirm your request and verify your identity, we will permanently delete your Personal Information from our records, unless a legal exception to deletion applies.  In our response to your request to delete, we will specify the manner in which we have deleted your Personal Information or, if we must deny your deletion request, the basis for this refusal. 

Right to Correction of Personal Information

You have the right to request that we correct inaccurate Personal Information that we maintain about you. 

To submit a request for the above privacy rights, please:

• Send a request to louisiana@fragrance4us.com

Authorizing an Agent

You may designate an authorized agent to submit your consumer request on your behalf, so long the authorized agent has your written permission to do so and you have taken steps to verify your identity directly with us. 

Verifying Your Request

We cannot respond to your request or provide you with Personal Information if we cannot verify your identity or authority to make the request and confirm the Personal Information relates to you.  Making a verifiable consumer request does not require you to create an account with us.  We will only use Personal Information provided in a verifiable consumer request to verify your identity or authority to make the request. 

To verify your identity, we ask that you provide us with the following information when you submit your request:  (1) first name, (2) last name, and (3) phone number or email.  We will use the above information to verify your identity.  We will require additional information to verify your identity and fulfill your request depending on your type of request or the information requested by you. 

Appeals Process

You may appeal a decision by us to decline to take action regarding your request.  To do so, please send an email message to louisiana@fragrance4us.com within seven days of receiving notice from us that your request has been declined.  We will respond regarding any additional action taken within the legally appropriate time. 

Cookie Policy

This Cookie Policy supplements our Privacy Policy and explains more about how we use cookies and your choices concerning cookies.  We use cookies to improve our services.  Some cookies are essential for certain services to work, and other cookies are used to collect information regarding your use of our website so that we can make the website more convenient and useful for you.  The cookies that we use generally fall into one or more of the following categories:

Technical:         These cookies are essential for our services to function properly and include: (1) remembering your log-in details, (2) making sure you are secure when logged in, (3) offering live chat support, (4) remembering what is in your shopping cart, and (5) remembering how far you are through your order.

Performance:   These cookies collect information about your browsing behavior and how you engage and interact with our services.  These cookies allow us to enhance the performance of the website and enhance the user experience.  For example, we may use these cookies to determine if you have interacted with a certain page.

Analytics:         We use these cookies to help us understand and improve our services.  For example, we may use these cookies to learn more about which products you purchase and which features are the most popular with our users and where we may need to make improvements.

Advertising:      We and our advertising partners use these cookies to deliver adverting targeted to your interests, deliver customized campaigns, and to track the efficiency of our advertising campaigns, both on our services and on other websites and mobile applications.  For example, we may deliver customized campaigns in partnership with Facebook and Google, and we may use services to deliver tailored promotions to you.

You have several options to control or limit how we and our partners use cookies and similar technologies.  For example,

• Although most browsers and devices accept cookies by default, their settings usually allow you to clear or decline cookies. If you disable cookies, however, some of the features of our services may not function properly.
• To prevent your data from being used by Google Analytics, you can install Google's opt out browser add-on.
• For information on how our advertising partners allow you to opt out of receiving ads based on your web browsing history, please visit http://optout.aboutads.info/. European users may opt out of receiving targeted advertising through the European Interactive Digital Advertising Alliance.
• To opt out of ads on Facebook or Google that are targeted to your interests, use your Facebook, or Google Ads
• Check your mobile device for settings that control ads based on your interactions with the applications on your device. For example, on your iOS device, enable the “Limit Ad Tracking” setting, and on your Android device, enable the “Opt out of Ads Personalization” or “Opt Out of Interest-Based Ads” setting.

Alert Service Privacy Policy

This Privacy Policy describes how Fragrance 4 Us and its affiliates and subsidiaries (“we”, “our”, “us” or “Company”) may collect, use, and disclose personal information of visitors when you participate in any of our “Alerts” programs, which includes text message (SMS , MMS) alerts sent by an automatic telephone dialing system or email alerts or notifications (“Alerts” and together with the “Site” collectively, “Services”).

Information You Provide to Us

We collect information you provide directly to us. For example, we collect information when you participate in our Alerts program, or otherwise communicate with us. The types of information we may collect include your name, email address, postal address, and phone number and any other information you choose to provide.

Use of Information

We use the information we collect to deliver the products and services you request and customize your experience with us. We use your name, email address, phone number and postal address to send you Alerts in connection with our Alerts program in accordance with this Privacy Policy and our Terms and Service.

Sharing of Information

We may share information as follows: with service providers that perform services for us, including e-mail and mobile marketing, analytics, web hosting, and data enhancement.

Promotional Communications.

• Opting-In. To opt-in to receiving SMS Alert Services you may utilize one or more of the methods we may make available from time to time, which may include but are not limited to: (i) clicking a hyperlink provided in an email Alert describing the SMS text message Alerts and following the directions stated therein, or (ii) providing your mobile telephone number when you visit our Site and sign up for the Services (including through a “chat” function), and, in each case, a call to action will be delivered as an Alert to your mobile device, and help and stop instructions will be included in all Alerts. Additionally, participating brick and mortar stores may offer the ability to opt-in and provide a mobile device number. Alert frequency will vary. We reserve the right to alter the frequency of messages sent at any time, so as to increase or decrease the total number of sent messages.

By providing your email address and mobile telephone number you hereby consent and agree to: (a) receive reoccurring Alerts to the mobile telephone number that you provide when you sign up for the Services or any other number that you designate you, and (b) consent to receive promotional and other informational emails. Your consent to receive Alerts, including promotional messages, is not required to make a purchase.

• How to Opt-Out. You may opt-out of receiving SMS text message Alerts by sending “STOP”or “UNSUBSCRIBE” to 42081. You will no longer receive Alerts via text message if you opt-out of the Alert Services. You may opt-out of receiving promotional emails from us by following the instructions in those emails. If you opt out, we may still send you non-promotional emails, such as those about your account or our ongoing business relations.
• For Help or Support. If you need assistance with your text message, simply reply with the word “HELP”to the message you received for assistance. If your question is not answered, please send an email to louisiana@fragrance4us.com

Your Comments and Concerns

If there are any questions regarding this Privacy Policy you may contact us by emailing louisiana@fragrance4us.com

Changes to Our Privacy Policy

We reserve the right to amend this privacy notice at our discretion and at any time. When we make material changes to this privacy notice, we will notify you by email or through a notice on our website homepage.

Contacting Us

If there are any questions regarding this privacy policy, you may contact us using the information below.

Fragrance 4 Us

P.O. Box 262
Gonzales, Louisiana 70707
louisiana@fragrance4us.com