Anvil Knitwear Corporate Social Responsibility Web Site
Privacy Policy
This Corporate Social Responsibility Web Site is currently located at www.anvilknitwearcsr.com (“Web Site”) and is published and maintained by Anvil Knitwear, Inc. (“Anvil” or “we,” “us,” “our,” or other similar pronouns). The general purpose of this Web Site is to further Anvil’s mission of creating a quality product without ever compromising its care for the environment.
This Privacy Policy governs your use of this Web Site and explains, in general, what Personal Information and other information is collected on this Web Site, how the information is used, and with whom we may share such information. By visiting or using any part of this Web Site, you agree to the terms of this Privacy Policy as they may be amended from time to time. As we update and expand our services and Web Site, this Privacy Policy may change, so check back to this page from time to time. This Privacy Policy is incorporated into, and part of, this Web Site’s Terms of Use, which also governs your use of this Web Site in general.
This Privacy Policy does not apply to information that you may provide to us, or that we may obtain, other than through our Web Site and online newsletters transmitted in connection with this Web Site, such as by phone, through postal mail and through other live and print media.
Purpose
Your privacy is important to us. In order to make your visits to this Web Site and use of the services available through this Web Site as worthwhile as possible, we may ask you for Personal Information and we may collect other types of information from your computer each time you visit the Web Site. “Personal Information” includes, for example, your name, postal address, e-mail address, telephone number, your company name (if applicable), your industry (if applicable) and/or other information that may identify you as an individual or allow online or offline contact with you as an individual.
Rights to Opt In/Opt Out
You may have the right to “opt in” and/or “opt out” of certain of our uses of your Personal Information. For example, at the time you are requested to provide Personal Information on this Web Site or in connection with our communications, you may have the opportunity to elect to, or not to receive correspondence from us. You may opt out of Anvil’s promotional e-mails by clicking on an opt-out or “unsubscribe” link within the e-mail you receive. You may also be able to make this request by sending an e-mail to csr@anvilknitwear.com, specifying whether: (i) you would like to opt out of receiving promotional correspondence from Anvil in general, or just via e-mail, postal mail and/or by phone, and/or (ii) you would only like to opt out of certain of Anvil’s e-newsletters or correspondence, and if so which ones.
Please understand that if you opt out of receiving promotional correspondence from us, we may still contact you in connection with your relationship, activities, transactions and communications with us.
What Information is Collected on this Web Site?
User-Provided Information
We collect Personal Information from users of our Web Site in a variety of circumstances, including, for example, through users’ activities on the Web Site, when users register or subscribe for services and features on the Web Site (such as signing up for a newsletter), when users complete surveys, submit a comment or question to us using a “contact us” or similar feature on our Web Site, send us an e-mail, or in any other way submit Personal Information to us via the Web Site.
You may be able to send information about our products and/or Web Site to your friends and family members by using an “E-mail to Friend” or similar feature on the Web Site or in an e-mail that we have sent you. In some of these cases (unless you simply forward our e-mail on your own), you may provide the name and e-mail address of your friend or family member to us. Such information will be treated in accordance with this Privacy Policy and applicable law.
Web Site Usage Information
Cookies
We may use “cookies” on or in connection with the Web Site to keep, and sometimes track, information about you. Cookies are small data files that are sent to your browser or related software from a Web server and stored on your computer’s hard drive. Cookies track where you travel and what you look at on our Web Site. A cookie may enable us to relate your use of the Web Site to other information about you, including your Personal Information. All of these purposes serve to improve and personalize your experience on the Web Site, which in turn, helps us to further our corporate mission. Most Web browsers can be set to inform you when a cookie has been sent to you and provide you with the opportunity to refuse that cookie. However, refusing a cookie may, in some cases, preclude you from using, or negatively impact the display or function of, the Web Site or certain areas or features of the Web Site.
Clear GIFs
We also may use “clear GIFs” (aka “Web beacons” or “pixel tags”) or similar technologies in the Web Site and/or in our communications with you to enable us to know whether you have visited a Web page or received a message. A clear GIF is typically a one-pixel, transparent image located on a Web page or in an e-mail or other type of message, which helps us to verify an individual’s viewing or receipt of a Web page or message, and may enable us to relate such viewing or receipt to other information, including Personal Information.
IP Address and Clickstream Data
Our servers automatically collect data about your Internet Protocol address (or IP Address) when you visit us. When you request pages from our Web Site, our servers may log your IP Address and sometimes your domain name. Our server may also record the referring page that linked you to us (e.g., another Web site or a search engine); the pages you visit on this Web Site; the Web site you visit after this Web Site; other information about the type of Web browser, computer, platform, related software and settings you are using; any search terms you have entered on this Web Site or a referral site; and other Web usage activity and data logged by our Web servers. We use this information for internal system administration, to help diagnose problems with our servers, and to administer our Web Site. Such information may also be used to gather broad demographic information, such as country of origin and Internet Service Provider. We may also link this information with Personal Information.
Any or all of these activities with regard to the above-described Web Site Usage Information may be performed on our behalf by our services providers.
How is the Personal Information used?
We will use your Personal Information for various purposes, including, for example, to respond to your requests and to provide you with our product and service offerings. We may also use your Personal Information to maintain our internal record keeping. We may match information collected from you through different means or at different times, including both Personal Information and Web Site Usage Information, and use such information along with information obtained from other sources, including (without limitation) any of our other Web sites and third parties. In addition, we may send you notices (for example, in the form of e-mails, mailings, and the like), and otherwise correspond with you, about products, services, companies, events, sponsored by us and others, that we think might interest you. You may opt out of receiving such notices from us by following the instructions in the Rights to Opt In/Opt Out section above.
We may analyze user behavior as a measure of interest in, and use of, our Web Site and e-mails, both on an individual basis and in the aggregate.
Do we share Personal Information and Web Site Usage Information with others?
Service Providers
We may use third-party partners to help operate our Web Site and deliver our products and services, and we may share your information with our affiliates, service providers and other third parties that provide products or services for or through this Web Site or for our business (such as Web site or database hosting companies, address list hosting companies, e-mail service providers, analytics companies, distribution companies, fulfillment companies, and other similar service providers that use such information on our behalf).
Aggregate Statistics
We may disclose aggregate statistics regarding user behavior as a measure of interest in, and use of, our Web Site and e-mails to third parties in the form of aggregate data, such as overall patterns or demographic reports, which do not describe or identify any individual user.
Legally Compelled Disclosures
We may disclose user information to government authorities, and to other third parties when compelled to do so by government authorities, at our discretion, or otherwise as required or permitted by law, including but not limited to in response to court orders and subpoenas. We also may disclose user information when we have reason to believe that someone is causing injury to or interference with our rights or property, other users of the Web Site, or anyone else that could be harmed by such activities.
Business Transfer
In the event that Anvil, or substantially all of its assets, are acquired by or transferred to one or more third parties as a result of an acquisition, merger, sale, reorganization, consolidation or liquidation, Personal Information may be one of the transferred assets.
We may provide you with the ability to access, correct, update or delete the Personal Information you have provided to this Web Site by e-mailing csr@anvilknitwear.com. We will endeavor to respond to your request as soon as practicable. However, before we are able to provide you with any information or correct any inaccuracies, we may ask you to verify your identity and to provide other details to help us to respond to your request.
Security
While Anvil will endeavor to protect the security and integrity of sensitive Personal Information provided to this Web Site, due to the inherent nature of the Internet as an open global communications vehicle, we cannot guarantee that information, during transmission through the Internet or while stored on our systems or otherwise in our care, will be absolutely safe from intrusion by others, such as hackers.
If you contact us by e-mail or a “contact us” or similar feature on the Web Site, you should be aware that your transmission might not be secure. A third party could view information you send by these methods in transit. We will have no liability for disclosure of your information due to errors or unauthorized acts of third parties during or after transmission.
In the unlikely event that we believe that the security of your Personal Information in our possession or control may have been compromised, we may seek to notify you of that development. If a notification is appropriate, we would endeavor to do so as promptly as possible under the circumstances, and, to the extent we have your e-mail address, we may notify you by e-mail. You consent to our use of e-mail as a means of such notification. If you prefer for us to use another method to notify you in this situation, please e-mail us at csr@anvilknitwear.com with the alternative contact information you wish to be used.
Consent to Worldwide Transfer and Processing of Personal Data
By providing Personal Information to us through this Web Site, you understand that it may be used by us and our affiliates for the purposes described herein, and you further understand and consent to the collection, maintenance, processing and transfer of such information in and to the United States and other countries and territories, which may have different privacy laws from your country of residence and which may afford varying levels of protection for your Personal Information, and such laws may not be as comprehensive as those that exist in your country or residency (including for example, the European Economic Area ("EEA")). Regardless of the laws in place in these countries, we will treat the privacy of your information in accordance with this Privacy Policy. By providing your personally identifiable information to this Web Site, you consent to our transmission to, and processing of your information in, any jurisdiction, in accordance with this Privacy Policy.
Third-Party “Linked-To” Web Sites
When you are on this Web Site you may have the opportunity to visit, or link to, other web sites, including other Web sites operated by Anvil (such as www.anvilknitwear.com) or by unaffiliated third parties. These sites may collect Personal Information about you, and because this Privacy Policy does not address the information practices of those other web sites, you should review the privacy policies of such other sites to see how they treat your Personal Information.
Changes to this Privacy Policy
Anvil reserves the right to change or update this Privacy Policy, or any other of our policies or practices, at any time, and will notify users of this Web Site by posting such changed or updated Privacy Policy on this page. Any changes or updates will be effective immediately upon posting to this Web Site. Under certain circumstances, we may also elect to notify you of changes or updates to our Privacy Policy by additional means, such as posting a notice on the front page of our Web Site to sending you an e-mail.
If you have any questions or comments regarding our privacy practices in connection with this Web Site, you may contact us at csr@anvilknitwear.com.
Last Updated: October 22, 2008