1. Information We Collect
We collect your personal information to provide and continually improve our products and services.
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Information You Give Us: We receive and store any information you provide in relation to MinorityExchange Services (e.g., name, shipping address, payment information).
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Automatic Information: We automatically collect and store certain types of information about your use of MinorityExchange, including information about your interaction with content and services available through the site (e.g., IP address, browsing history).
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Information from Other Sources: We might receive information about you from other sources, such as updated delivery and address information from our carriers, which we use to correct our records.
2. For What Purposes Does MinorityExchange Use Your Personal Information?
We use your personal information to operate, provide, develop, and improve the products and services that we offer our customers. These purposes include:
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Purchase and Delivery of Products: We use your personal information to take and handle orders, deliver products and services, process payments, and communicate with you about orders.
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Provide, Troubleshoot, and Improve Services: We use your information to provide functionality, analyze performance, and fix errors.
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Recommendations and Personalization: We use your information to recommend features and products that might be of interest to you and identify your preferences.
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Comply with Legal Obligations: In certain cases, we collect and use your personal information to comply with laws (e.g., tax regulations).
3. Does MinorityExchange Share Your Personal Information?
Information about our customers is an important part of our business, and we are not in the business of selling our customers’ personal information to others.
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Transactions Involving Third Parties: We make available to you services, products, or applications provided by third parties (the minority-owned businesses) for use on or through MinorityExchange Services. You can tell when a third party is involved in your transactions, and we share information related to those transactions with that third party.
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Third-Party Service Providers: We employ other companies and individuals to perform functions on our behalf (e.g., fulfilling orders, delivering packages, processing payments). They have access to personal information needed to perform their functions but may not use it for other purposes.
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Business Transfers: As we continue to develop our business, we might sell or buy other businesses or services. In such transactions, customer information generally is one of the transferred business assets.
4. How Secure Is Information About Me?
We design our systems with your security and privacy in mind.
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We work to protect the security of your personal information during transmission by using encryption protocols and software.
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We maintain physical, electronic, and procedural safeguards in connection with the collection, storage, and disclosure of personal information.
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It is important for you to protect against unauthorized access to your password and to your computers and devices.
5. What Choice Do I Have?
If you have any questions as to how we collect and use your personal information, please contact our Customer Service.
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As described above, you can choose not to provide certain information, but then you might not be able to take advantage of many of the MinorityExchange Services.
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You can add or update certain information on pages such as those referenced in the “Your Account” section.
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The Help feature on most browsers and devices will tell you how to prevent your browser from accepting new cookies or how to disable cookies altogether.
