Privacy Policy
At “Reaping What You Sow.com”, our customers are number one, always. That’s why everything we do is focused on providing excellent customer service and delivering great prices along with great cash rewards.
The information you share with Reaping What You Sow.com allows us a place to send your cash rewards too and provide the products and services you need and want while giving you the very best shopping experience.
Our founder Gay J. Scott reminded us that “we the people can change anything as long as we work together and keep moving forward,” and it’s our promise to customers that we respect the trust you place in us and the privacy of the information you share. Part of providing superior customer service includes making sure that we’re building a relationship of trust with customers. Our way of doing that is to let you know in a clear, prominent, and easily accessible way how we collect, use, share, and above all protect your personal information.
Our Policy outlines:
- How and why we collect your personal information;
- How your personal information is used and protected;
- When and with whom we share your personal information.
What Does Our Privacy Policy Include?
Our Policy covers how and why we collect, use, protect, and share your personal information:
- At Reaping What You Sow.com in the United States,
- On our websites and mobile services where this Policy is posted.
Our Policy focuses on personal information – information that identifies you or reasonably can be linked to information that identifies you.
For example, when you place an item on order online, we collect personal information, such as name, address, phone number, and credit or debit card information.
Will Reaping What You Sow.com share my information with third parties?
We do not sell or rent your personal information. We may share your personal information outside of our corporate companies in the following circumstances:
- We share personal information about you with service providers that help with our business activities, including our shipping vendors, billing and refund vendors, payment card processors, and companies that help us improve our products and services.
- We sometimes enable other businesses to make products or services available to our customers, such as an expanded assortment of items available through, Reaping What You Sow.com Marketplace retailers. We may share your information with these businesses to enable your purchase of their products or services to be completed.
- We may share your personal information when required by law, or we believe sharing will help to protect the safety, property, or rights of Reaping What You Sow.com, customers, our associates, or other persons.
- We may share your personal information in the event that all or a part of our business is merged, sold or reorganized.
- We may also share your personal information with your affirmative consent. Affirmative consent means that we will get your consent before sharing your personal information.
What should I do if my information is incorrect on my Reaping What You Sow.com account?
We take reasonable steps to keep your personal information accurate and complete. You can access or update your personal information, including contact or account information, in the following ways:
- Create an account on our websites and log into your account.
- Contact us through one of the ways listed in the “Contact Us” section at the bottom the Privacy Policy.
- If you need to access your personal information related to a Reaping What You Sow.com service provider or business partner, you will be referred to the service provider or business partner. Please contact us via the “Contact Us” section.
What are cookies, and how does Reaping What You Sow.com use cookies on its websites?
Cookies are small pieces of text sent as files to your computer by the website you are visiting. Reaping What You Sow.com uses cookies to improve your shopping and browsing experience, and to allow the site to recognize you as you move from one page to another. Without cookies enabled, you will still be able to browse the site, but will not be able to take advantage of certain website features.
Reaping What You Sow.com uses two main types of cookies – session cookies and persistent cookies:
- Session cookies exist for only as long as your browser remains open. For example, it allows us to remember the items added to your shopping cart as you browse different pages on Reaping What You Sow.com websites. Please note that if you block cookies from Reaping What You Sow.com, you may not be able to make purchases on the website.
- Persistent cookies last from one visit to another. We use persistent cookies to provide you a more personalized shopping experience and to help you navigate our websites more efficiently. For example, persistent cookies are used to remember who you are and show you items you have previously browsed online or to show you which local store you have chosen as your “home” store.
You can manage your cookie preferences from within your browser. Please see the Help section on your browser for information on how to manage your cookie preferences.
What are web beacons?
Web beacons are small images, usually 1×1 pixels on a website that are used to determine whether a page was visited by the user.
Reaping What You Sow.com uses web beacons in different ways, including to understand how our customers use our website and to personalize website content for our customers.
What are Bluetooth beacons?
Bluetooth beacons transmit a low-power signal that can be received within short distances by nearby Bluetooth-enabled mobile devices and recognized by apps a smartphone user has downloaded. Beacons only broadcast signals, and don’t collect any data. With the user’s permission, an app on a device can use the beacon’s signals to know when the mobile device is close to the beacon.
How does Reaping What You sow.com keep my data secure?
We use reasonable security measures, including physical, administrative, and technical safeguards to keep data secure. These measures may include security access controls or other physical security safeguards, information security technologies and policies, procedures to help ensure the appropriate disposal of information, and training.
Here are some examples of security measures we use to protect your personal information:
- Passwords are required to access your online account and help to protect your account information.
- Encryption technology such as Secure Sockets Layer (SSL) encryption, helps to protect personal information in certain areas of our websites during transport across the Internet.
- For payment card information, we use secured networks, encryption or other protection of cardholder data, physical and technical access controls, monitoring and tests of security systems, and other information security practices.
How Do We Use Your Personal Information?
We use your personal information to provide you products and services, such as to fulfill your requests for products or to help us personalize our offerings to you. We also use your personal information to support our business functions, such as fraud prevention, marketing, and legal functions.
Some examples include:
- To fulfill your requests for products and services and communicate with you about those requests;
- To register and service your account;
- To administer contests, promotions, and surveys;
- To provide customer service and alert you to product information, including recalls;
- To help us personalize our service offerings, websites, mobile services, and advertising;
- To help us improve your experience on our Web site and mobile services;
- To send you information about our products, services, and promotions;
- To respond to reviews, comments, or other feedback you provide us; and
- To protect the security and integrity of our websites, mobile services, and our business.
To do this, we combine personal and non-personal information, collected online and offline, including information from third party sources. We also transfer or share your personal information within our corporate family of companies.
How Do We Share Your Personal Information Outside of Reaping What You Sow.com?
We will not sell or rent your personal information. We may share your personal information in limited circumstances, such as to conduct our business, when legally required, or with your consent.
We will not share your personal information outside of our corporate family of companies, except in the following circumstances:
Service Providers
We share personal information about you with service providers that help with our business activities, including shipping vendors, billing and refund vendors, payment card processors, and companies that help us improve our products and services. We require our service providers to keep your personal information secure. We do not allow our service providers to use or share your personal information for any purpose other than providing services on our behalf. Your personal information may be stored and processed by our service providers in the United States or other locations where the service providers or Reaping What You sow.com maintain facilities.
Products and Services Offered by Other Businesses
We will sometimes enable other businesses to make products or services available to our customers, such as through Reaping What You Sow.com Marketplace retailers. You may purchase products or services from these other businesses through our websites or mobile services. We indicate when products or services are offered by other businesses and share with these businesses personal information related to your purchase of their products and services.
Legal Requirements and Protection of Our Company and Others
We may share your personal information in other special circumstances, which include situations when sharing is required by law, or we believe sharing will help to protect the safety, property, or rights of Reaping What You Sow.com customers, our associates, or other persons. Examples include:
- Protecting the health or safety of customers;
- Identifying and addressing fraud or financial risk;
- Providing personal information to law enforcement at their written request;
- Responding to a search warrant or other valid legal inquiry; and
- Responding to an investigative body in the case of a breach of an agreement or violation of law.
Business Transfers
In the event that all or a part of our business is merged, sold or reorganized (including transfers made as a part of insolvency or bankruptcy proceedings), personal information about you could be shared with the successor business. We will use reasonable measures to help ensure that any successor treats your information in accordance with this Policy.
With Your Consent
In any circumstance other than those described above, we will ask for your affirmative consent before we share your personal information outside of our corporate family of companies, and we also will not sell or rent your personal information.
How Does Reaping What You Sow.com Protect the Privacy of Children Online?
Our websites and mobile services are intended for a general audience and are not directed to children.
We recognize the importance of protecting children’s online privacy. In order to protect the privacy of children, Reaping What YouSow.com websites and mobile services knowingly collect personal information from children under the age of 13 only with prior parental consent or as permitted by law. Please Contact Us if you believe we may have collected information from your child through our websites or mobile services and we will work to delete it.
How Do We Secure Your Personal Information?
We recognize the importance of maintaining the security of our customers’ personal information. We use reasonable security measures, including physical, administrative, and technical safeguards to protect your personal information.
We have a team of associates who are responsible for helping to protect the security of your information. Whether you are shopping on our websites or through our mobile services, we use reasonable security measures, including physical, administrative, and technical safeguards. These measures may include security access controls or other physical security safeguards, information security technologies and policies, procedures to help ensure the appropriate disposal of information.
Here are some examples of security measures we use to protect your personal information:
- Passwords are required to access your online account and help to protect your account information. Please keep this password confidential.
- Encryption technology, called Secure Sockets Layer (SSL), helps to protect personal information in certain areas of our websites during transport across the Internet. The presence of SSL encryption may be indicated by https in the browser URL or the image of a closed lock or solid key in the browser window. These indications may not be present in mobile services that use SSL.
- For payment card information, we use secured networks, encryption or other protection of cardholder data, physical and technical access controls, monitoring and tests of security systems, and other information security practices to help to protect your information.