Privacy & Security

At unCommon Thread, we know protecting your privacy is an important element in building and keeping your trust.

The purpose of this Privacy Policy is to inform you of our information handling practices, the reason for those practices and the security steps in place to protect your information. If you choose to interact with us, we may collect, store, use, or disclose information about you. We want to explain to you the steps we take to protect your personal information and give you information to allow you to make informed choices about your interaction with us.

What Information is collected and how is it used?

When you visit uncommonthread.biz, we collect only the personal information you voluntarily provide to us. The types of information we collect and what happens to it depends upon why and how you are interacting with us. Here are some examples where you will provide personal information to us. When you:

• contact us through contact form
• apply for a job
• put your name on the waiting list for a marketplace that’s currently in development
• participate in features of our website that ask for personal information

Product purchase or subscriptions:
Should you decide to purchase a product, service subscription, publication or a promotional offering from us, you will have to provide your contact information and credit card number so we can process your order. When you submit your payment information, we don’t see or collect it. We contract with a recognized and secured third party payment processor who has demonstrated to us that they have technical, organization, and physical safeguards to protect your financial information. The information practices of these outside services are not covered by this Privacy Policy. We cannot access, nor do we have any control over, the cookies or other web technologies they may use. When you submit your order, we will tell you who we are using as our third-party processor so you can review their privacy and data security practices.

Your Email Address and Password:

When you create and account, you will need to create a password. You are responsible for keeping the secrecy of your password at all times. We recommend using a strong password that you do not share with other services.

If you believe the security of your account has been compromised, please change your password immediately. You can also contact us for assistance.

You are responsible for ensuring the email address associated with your account is accurate. We use that email to contact you about service updates, changes to our policies, and account activities
such as requests for your information or locate attempts on your device. We are not responsible for personal data transmitted to a third party as a result of a user providing an incorrect email address.

Deletion of Account:

If you want to delete your personal information and your account, please contact us with your request. We will take steps to delete your information as soon as we can, but some information may remain in archived/backup copies for your records or as otherwise required by law.

How do we use information you provide to us?

Depending upon how you interact with us, we may use your information to:

• Provide you with the products, subscriptions, and information you request;
• Facilitate the creation of, administer and secure your account;
• Facilitate payment, using third party payment processing services;
• Identify you as a user in our system;
• Provide, maintain, administer the subscription;
• Performing business analysis, or for other internal purposes to support, improve or enhance our subscription or other products and services we offer;
• Respond to correspondence that we receive from you;
• Develop new products and services;
• Fulfill your requests and respond to your inquiries;
• If you subscribe to email updates, to send newsletters, surveys, offers and promotional materials;
• Send administrative communications about the products, subscriptions, and or other services you have purchased;
• Conduct research and measurement activities;
• Fulfilling our legally required obligations, such as preventing, detecting and investigating security incidents and potentially illegal or prohibited activities;
• Protect our rights and the rights of other users; and
• As otherwise described in this Privacy Policy or in notices we provide to you.

Mail and Mailing List:
We will not send you any on-line newsletter or similar e-mail communication/mail to you unless you expressly consent to receive such communication from us. You will always have the opportunity to “unsubscribe” from receiving the communication and/or be removed entirely from all mailing lists.

Third parties and your personal information:
We may provide your personal information to third parties who provide services on our behalf. These parties may use the information solely in conjunction with the specific services they provide for us (e.g., fulfillment of an order, responding to your question or comment, providing a prize, deployment of a customer survey etc.).

Some of these third parties may be involved in administering or supplementing our databases and will need to have access to the information in order to do so. For example, we may retain a third party to verify the accuracy of information within our databases or to gather additional information about individuals within our databases from commercially available sources.

We will not share your personal information with any third parties other than in the circumstances discussed above.

Browsing our Website:

We use cookies on the website to customize your experience. Although most internet browsers automatically accept cookies, you can change your settings or use third party tools to prompt you before accepting cookies and similar technologies, or to refuse them altogether. We use web analytics tools to view anonymized usage data such as site visits and time spent on pages. These services may use cookies or other web technologies to collect usage information, matched to an IP address, to help us analyze how our users use our site. These outside services may also collect information about your use of other websites over time. Since we do not link any personal information that you provide to us to the information we store within the third party analytics software, this additional information is only analyzed in a way that cannot identify you.

By Law:
We reserve the right to disclose any personal information as needed if such information is requested by law enforcement agencies or if we are required to do so by law, regulation, subpoena, court order or by a government entity.

We may also disclose personal information to third parties if we have reason to believe that disclosing such information is necessary to conduct investigations of possible breaches of law or legal rights, to cooperate in any legal investigation or to identify, contact, or bring legal action against someone who may be violating the terms of use of our site or any other terms applicable to any activity or feature of our site.

Links to other sites:
Our site may contain links to other websites owned and operated by third parties. We are not responsible for the privacy or security practices or the content of these websites. These other websites may or may not have their own privacy policies and, therefore, are not governed by our Privacy Policy/Terms Of Use.

Social Media and Commenting:
If you submit comments or other content – including information about yourself that is displayed in your public profile within an online community –  to our uncommonthread.biz or iCraftGifts.com or any other websites owned and operated by our platform (or other social media accounts such as Twitter) you should be aware that the information can be read and used by others. This may result in unsolicited messages from other posters or parties. We make no representations and undertake no obligations as to the security or use of information you voluntarily include when submitting content outside of uncommonthread.biz

International Transfer:

Your personal information may be transferred to, and maintained on, computers located outside of your province, country, state, or other governmental jurisdiction where the privacy laws may not be as protective as those in your jurisdiction. If you are located outside Canada, we may transfer your personal information to Canada and process it there.

Security:

We implement various systems, applications and procedures to secure your personal information in order to reduce the risks of theft, damage, loss of information, or unauthorized access, disclosure, modification or use of information. Please be aware, however, that these measures are cannot absolutely guarantee the security of your personal information. Therefore, although we take great efforts to protect your personal information, we cannot guarantee and you cannot reasonably expect that our databases will be immune from any wrongdoings, malfunctions, unlawful interceptions or access, or other kinds of abuse and misuse.

Your personal information is contained behind secured networks and is only accessible by a limited number of persons who have special access rights to such systems, and are required to keep the information confidential. In addition, all sensitive information you supply is encrypted.

We implement a variety of security measures when a user enters, submits, or accesses their information to maintain the safety of your personal information.

All transactions are processed through a gateway provider and are not stored or processed on our servers and we use regular malware scanning.

Our Policy Toward Children:

We are a supporter of the Canadian Code of Advertising Standards and the Broadcast Code for Advertising to Children and do not specifically market to children under the age of 13 years old and we do not knowingly collect personal information from children under 13. If we learn that we have collected personal information of a child under 13, we will take steps to delete such information from our files as soon as possible.

Your consent to the terms of this Privacy Policy:
By using this website, you will have agreed to our Privacy Policy. We have the right to change our Privacy Policy at any time. If there are any changes to this Privacy Policy, they will be posted on the site. Any changes will be effective thirty days after their initial posting.  If you do not agree with any of the terms of the Privacy Policy, as it may be amended from time to time, you have the recourse to not use this website, our applications, your user account, or purchase products or subscriptions, and are under no obligation to submit any personally identifiable information to us here.

Access to and Corrections of Your Information:

You have the right to know what information we have about you and to correct any inaccuracies. If you subscribe to our website or our applications, you can modify certain information by logging in and accessing your account. If you want to contact us directly or if you are no longer a registered user, please contact us.

We may not be able to delete your information without also deleting your user account. You will not be permitted to examine the information of any other person or entity. In order to verify your identity, you may be required to provide us with information prior to accessing any records containing information about you. We may not accommodate a request to change or delete information if we believe doing so would violate any law or legal requirement or cause the information to be incorrect.

Last Modified: February 21, 2019