Privacy Policy
Privacy Policy
Last updated: April 1, 2025
This Privacy Policy describes how Bear of PA (the "Site", "we", "us", or "our") collects, uses, and discloses your personal information when you visit, use our services, or make a purchase from bearofpa.com (the "Site") or otherwise communicate with us regarding the Site (collectively, the "Services"). For purposes of this Privacy Policy, "you" and "your" means you as the user of the Services, whether you are a customer, website visitor, or another individual whose information we have collected pursuant to this Privacy Policy.
Please read this Privacy Policy carefully. By using and accessing any of the Services, you agree to the collection, use, and disclosure of your information as described in this Privacy Policy. If you do not agree to this Privacy Policy, please do not use or access any of the Services.
Changes to This Privacy Policy
We may update this Privacy Policy from time to time, including to reflect changes to our practices or for other operational, legal, or regulatory reasons. We will post the revised Privacy Policy on the Site, update the "Last updated" date and take any other steps required by applicable law.
How We Collect and Use Your Personal Information
To provide the Services, we collect and have collected over the past 12 months personal information about you from a variety of sources, as set out below. The information that we collect and use varies depending on how you interact with us.
Information We Collect Directly from You
Information that you directly submit to us through our Services may include:
- Contact details including your name, address, phone number, and email.
- Order information including your name, billing address, shipping address, payment confirmation, email address, and phone number.
- Account information including your username, password, security questions and other information used for account security purposes.
- Customer support information including the information you choose to include in communications with us.
Information We Collect about Your Usage
We may also automatically collect certain information about your interaction with the Services ("Usage Data"). To do this, we may use cookies, pixels and similar technologies ("Cookies"). Usage Data may include information about how you access and use our Site and your account, including device information, browser information, information about your network connection, your IP address and other information regarding your interaction with the Services.
Information We Obtain from Third Parties
We may obtain information about you from third parties, including from vendors and service providers who may collect information on our behalf, such as companies who support our Site and Services (such as Shopify), our payment processors, and advertising partners.
How We Use Your Personal Information
- Providing Products and Services. We use your personal information to process your payments, fulfill your orders, send notifications related to your account, and manage returns and exchanges.
- Marketing and Advertising. We may use your personal information to send marketing, advertising and promotional communications by email, text message or postal mail, and to show you advertisements for products or services.
- Security and Fraud Prevention. We use your personal information to detect, investigate or take action regarding possible fraudulent, illegal or malicious activity.
- Communicating with You and Service Improvement. We use your personal information to provide you with customer support and improve our Services.
Cookies
Like many websites, we use Cookies on our Site. We use Cookies to power and improve our Site and our Services, to run analytics and better understand user interaction with the Services. We may also permit third parties and service providers to use Cookies on our Site to better tailor the services, products and advertising on our Site and other websites.
How We Disclose Personal Information
We may disclose your personal information to third parties in certain circumstances, including:
- With vendors or other third parties who perform services on our behalf (e.g., IT management, payment processing, data analytics, customer support, cloud storage, fulfillment and shipping).
- With business and marketing partners to provide services and advertise to you.
- When you direct, request us or otherwise consent to our disclosure of certain information to third parties.
- In connection with a business transaction such as a merger or bankruptcy, to comply with any applicable legal obligations, or to protect or defend the Services, our rights, and the rights of our users or others.
Children's Data
The Services are not intended to be used by children, and we do not knowingly collect any personal information about children. If you are the parent or guardian of a child who has provided us with their personal information, you may contact us using the contact details set out below to request that it be deleted.
Security and Retention of Your Information
Please be aware that no security measures are perfect or impenetrable, and we cannot guarantee "perfect security." How long we retain your personal information depends on different factors, such as whether we need the information to maintain your account, to provide the Services, comply with legal obligations, resolve disputes or enforce other applicable contracts and policies.
Your Rights
Depending on where you live, you may have some or all of the rights listed below in relation to your personal information:
- Right to Access / Know
- Right to Delete
- Right to Correct
- Right of Portability
- Restriction of Processing
- Withdrawal of Consent
- Appeal
- Managing Communication Preferences – You may opt out of promotional emails at any time using the unsubscribe option in our emails.
Contact
Should you have any questions about our privacy practices or this Privacy Policy, or if you would like to exercise any of the rights available to you, please email us at info@bearofpa.com or contact us at Shepperd Drive, Butler, PA, 16002, US.