Privacy policy
August River Co (collectively referred to herein as “August River Co”) are committed to protecting your privacy and demonstrating care and respect with
regard to our treatment of any Personal Information that we may obtain from you. This privacy
policy (the “Privacy Policy”) is designed to provide transparency into our privacy practices and
principles and to provide that information in a format that our customers can easily navigate and
understand. We are dedicated to treating your Personal Information with care and respect.
BY SUBMITTING YOUR PERSONAL INFORMATION TO US, YOU ARE CONSENTING
TO THE PROCESSING OF YOUR PERSONAL INFORMATION IN THE UNITED STATES
OR IN ANY OTHER COUNTRY IN THE WORLD AND TO OUR USE OF YOUR
PERSONAL INFORMATION AS SET FORTH IN THIS PRIVACY POLICY. IF YOU ARE
SUBMITTING PERSONAL INFORMATION OF THIRD PARTIES TO US, YOU
WARRANT AND REPRESENT YOU HAVE THEIR CONSENT TO PROVIDE THEIR
PERSONAL INFORMATION TO US AND WILL HOLD US HARMLESS FROM AND
AGAINST CLAIMS BY SUCH THIRD PARTIES RELATING TO OUR PROCESSING AND
USE OF THEIR PERSONAL INFORMATION WITHIN THE TERMS OF THIS PRIVACY
POLICY.
This Privacy Policy describes the treatment of information provided to or collected on the
Augustriverco.com website and on any social media websites we may use. It also explains
the treatment of information provided or collected on software applications we make available
on third-party websites or platforms if disclosed to you in connection with the use of the software
application.
When you use or access our website or social media sites, or use a service provided by a third
party incorporating this Privacy Policy, you agree to the terms of this Privacy Policy. When you
visit the website and our social media websites, any dispute over privacy is subject to our Terms
of Use, including limitations on damages and application of the law of the State of Minnesota.
Use of the website and our social media sites is strictly voluntary. You may not use the website if
you do not agree to the Privacy Policy.
For the purposes of this Privacy Policy, the following terms are defined as follows:
“Aggregate Information” means information about groups or categories of data, which does not
identify and cannot reasonably be used to identify an individual.
“Anonymous Information” means information that does not directly or indirectly identify, and
cannot reasonably be used to identify, an individual.
“Cookies” means anonymous, unique identifiers that a website or social media site places on the
hard drive of your computer or mobile device when you visit the website or social media site.
Cookies may involve the transmission of information from us to you and from you directly to us,
to another party on our behalf, or to another party in accordance with its privacy policy.
“Flash Cookies” means local shared objects that are used to store personalized information
based on visits to websites or social media sites.
“Personal Information” means information that identifies (whether directly or indirectly) a
particular individual, such as the individual’s name, postal address, email address or telephone
number. When Anonymous Information is directly or indirectly associated with Personal
Information, this Anonymous Information is also treated as Personal Information.
“Web Beacons” means small pieces of data that are embedded in images on the pages of
websites or social media sites. Web beacons may involve the transmission of information
directly to us, to another party on our behalf, or to another party in accordance with its privacy
policy.
Types of Information August River Co Collects
We collect two basic types of information – Personal Information and Anonymous Information.
We may use personal and anonymous information to create a third type of information –
Aggregate Information.
Personal Information. There are several places where August River Co gives you an
opportunity to provide your Personal Information to August River Co. August River Co
may ask you to provide Personal Information when you engage in certain activities on a website
or a social media site, such as: signing up for the August River Co newsletter; participating
in social media activities involving third-party providers such as Facebook, Twitter, YouTube,
Instagram, Snapchat, Pinterest, Swarm, or Yelp, whether at this website or the social media
websites; filling out a survey; sending feedback; downloading, installing or using an application;
registering for sweepstakes or contests; or using a cell phone to send text messages to, or call,
August River Co.
If you choose to share any Personal Information with August River Co, you will see that the
amount and type of Personal Information August River Co requests depends on how you use
the corresponding website or social media sites. It is completely optional for you to engage in
these activities. Depending upon the activity, the information August River Co asks you to
provide will be identified as mandatory or voluntary. If you do not provide the mandatory data
with respect to a particular activity, you will not be able to engage in that activity.
While you can generally browse our website without informing August River Co about who
you are, or revealing Personal Information about yourself, August River Co is still able to
determine your IP address, which will reveal your location to August River Co. August River Co may use your IP address, together with other Personal Information that you may provide
to us, such as your email address, to communicate with you directly about products and services
that August River Co believes may be of interest based on your activity on a website or
social media site.
Anonymous Information. In general, you can browse our website without telling August River Co who you are or revealing any Personal Information about yourself. August River Co,
however, collects your computer’s and/or mobile device’s IP address, which you necessarily
disclose when you visit a website, social media site or download or use an application so that
data (such as the web pages you request) can be sent to your computer or mobile device. Our
website and our social media sites may utilize Cookies. August River Co may use Cookie
data to recognize you when you visit our website or social media site in the future, to
troubleshoot how our website or social media site is operating, and for internal analysis of how
people use our website or social media sites. Should you decide not to accept Cookies from our
website or our social media sites, you will limit the functionality August River Co can
provide you.
Aggregate Information. We may use Google Analytics, third-party data analytics tools, and/or
third-party licensors to (i) monitor traffic on our website or our social media site(s). Such tools
are for August River Co’s business purposes and help us to provide the kind of user-friendly,
up-to-date information that online users expect to find. Personal Information is not monitored or
collected through this process and Aggregate Information does not include (directly or by
inference) any information identifying you or any identifiable individual.
Participation in Activities. When you engage in certain activities on our website or our social
media sites, such as by registering or logging in as a user on our website or by sending August River Co a message using our website or social media site, August River Co may ask you
to provide Personal Information. In order to engage in such activities, you may be required to
provide information that allows August River Co to know the specifics of who you are,
where you reside, and may include, without limitation, your name, email address, billing address, and shipping address. If you choose to share any Personal Information with August River Co, you will see that the amount and type of Personal Information August River Co requests depends on how you use our website or our social media sites. It is optional for you to engage in these activities. Depending upon the activity, some of the information August River Co asks you to provide is identified as mandatory and some is voluntary. If you do not provide the
mandatory data with respect to a particular activity, you will not be able to engage in that
activity.
Examples. Examples of the type of information August River Co may collect and store
include: first and last name; age, birthday, gender, address including shipping address, email
address, telephone number(s), device profile, Facebook ID, Google Plus ID, Twitter Profile
URL, LinkedIn Plus ID, Snapchat ID, Instagram ID, social media site IDs, Cookies, application
unique identifiers (UIDs), custom identifiers, and application identifiers.
Children's Online Privacy Protection
We recognize the need to provide further privacy protections with respect to Personal
Information we may collect from children under 13 years of age (“Children”) on our website
and our social media sites. Some of the features on our website or our social media sites may be
age-gated, which means that access and/or use by children is restricted or prohibited. We do not
knowingly collect Personal Information from children under the age of 13 in connection with
those features. Of course, August River Co cannot prevent certain users, including children,
from fraudulently representing their age in order to gain access to websites or social media sites.
In the event August River Co knowingly collects Personal Information from Children,
August River Co will take additional steps to protect Children’s privacy, including notifying
parents about our information practices with regard to Children, including:
The types of Personal Information we may collect from Children;
The uses to which we may put that information;
Whether and with whom we may share that information;
In accordance with applicable law, obtaining consent from parents for the collection of
Personal Information from their children, or for sending information about our products
and services directly to their Children;
Limiting our collection of Personal Information from Children to no more than is
reasonably necessary to participate in an online activity; and
Giving parents access or the ability to request access to Personal Information we have
collected from their Children and the ability to request that the Personal Information be
changed or deleted.
How August River Co Collects Your Information
August River Co may use your IP address to, among other things: (a) help diagnose problems
with our website or our social media sites, and administer and improve our website or our social
media sites; (b) measure the use of our website or our social media sites; (c) identify the type of
web browsers used, the pages viewed, the web location from which a visitor found our website
or our social media sites, and the search terms and search engines used to find our website or our
social media sites; and (d) gather other web analytics information relating to visitors’ uses and
navigations of our website or our social media sites. If you choose to use a mobile device with
our website or social media sites your location information may be shared. On occasion August River Co may aggregate this data with data from other users to track overall visitor traffic
patterns and provide this Aggregate Information to vendors, business partners, or other parties to
demonstrate the amount of interest in our website and social media sites, and to help August River Co plan for technical infrastructure requirements, and for other reasons.
Use of Your Information by August River Co
August River Co may use your information, including Personal Information, for particular
activities, including, without limitation: verifying your identity; customer service, customer
relationship management (CRM), marketing and research; providing promotional and other
information to you (such as through email marketing) on behalf of August River Co,
affiliates of August River Co and August River Co business partners; responding to your
requests; sending you text messages, push notifications, and other notifications through our
social media sites and/or your mobile device; contacting you regarding administrative notices;
providing you with products and services that you request; communicating with you about your
account; detecting, investigating and preventing activities that may violate our policies or be
illegal.
August River Co may share your information with its Affiliates or business partners in
connection with any of the foregoing activities. In addition, August River Co’s Affiliates
may have access to your information to perform services on behalf of August River Co such
as in connection with the aforementioned activities. The privacy policies of August River Co’s Affiliates and business partners will govern how they use your Personal Information.
If payments are involved, we must release your credit card information to credit card
authorization service providers and associated banks to process your payment for purchases,
returns or refunds. We do not access, maintain or store your banking or credit/debit card
information.
From time to time, August River Co may provide you the opportunity to participate in
contests, sweepstakes, or surveys on our website or social media sites. If you participate, we will request certain Personal Information from you. Participation in these surveys, sweepstakes or
contests is completely voluntary and you therefore have a choice whether or not to disclose this
information. The requested information may include name, address, date of birth and email
address. We may share this information with our service provider or co-sponsors for the contest,
sweepstakes, or survey.
Online Tracking and Advertising
We, and certain service providers operating on our behalf, collect information about your
activities on our website and social media sites using tracking technologies such as Cookies,
Flash Cookies and Web Beacons. We may also use cookies, pixel tags, action tags and similar
tags to collect information. Cookies and tags allow us to compile statistics and other information
about how you use our website. To learn more about Cookies and how August River Co uses
Cookies please review our Cookie Policy.
Sharing Your Information with Other Companies and Third-Parties
If you have a registration or other type of account with August River Co, we may associate
this tracking data with your account, in which case we will treat it as Personal Information.
Specifically, August River Co retains the right to share Anonymous Information and
Aggregate Information with third parties for any reason.
August River Co may share or otherwise disclose your Personal Information with third-party
service providers contracted by August River Co or affiliates to assist with internal
marketing efforts for August River Co and its affiliates.
August River Co We will not share your Personal Information outside of August River Co or August River Co Affiliates except in limited circumstances, including:
in response to a subpoena, search warrant, court order, or other legal process or request,
or as may otherwise be required by applicable law or regulation;
to protect and defend August River Co’s rights or property or those of its Affiliates or
business partners, or others; or
as August River Co, in its sole discretion, believes is appropriate under exigent
circumstances in response to a perceived threat to the personal safety, property, or rights
of any person or organization.
Since August River Co’s database is a business asset, in the event August River Co is
reorganized or becomes part of another organization, by continuing to use our website or social
media sites you consent to the sale, assignment, or transfer of your Personal Information to a
successor that acquires substantially all of the business assets of August River Co, or to a
August River Co Affiliate, as applicable.
Other Websites
Our website and social media sites may contain links to other third-party websites. We do not
review or monitor the websites that may be linked to our website and we are not responsible for
the contents or privacy policies related to any third-party websites. If you visit a third-party
website, you may want to review that website’s privacy policy. Where our website or social
media sites contains a link to another website owned, operated by us, or affiliated with us, that
website may be subject to different and additional terms of service and privacy policy terms and
conditions.
We may have functionality on our website that is provided, in whole or in part, by a third-party
service provider. You can usually identify such third-party functionality by the use of a
trademark not owned by August River Co on or near the functionality. In that case, when you
use the functionality, you become subject to the terms of use and privacy policy of this third-
party service in addition to our Privacy Policy and the Terms of Use posted on the August River Co website. In some cases, you may need to visit that party’s website and locate the
applicable terms of use and privacy policy. For example, we may use a third party to provide you
with the opportunity to chat directly with a August River Co representative.
Your Controls and Choices
If you request to receive information from us, we presume that you have given us permission to
communicate that information to you directly either by mail, e-mail, text message, social media,
telephone or other form of communication. Further, if you choose to use e-mail, text messaging
or telephone for communications about August River Co, such as regarding a product review
or past experience, we will presume again that you have given us permission to communicate
with you about the information you have shared publicly.
We provide you with the ability to exercise certain controls and choices regarding our collection,
use and sharing of your Personal Information. Your controls and choices may include:
You may correct, update and delete your registration account by contacting us at
info@augustriverco.com. You may change your choices for subscriptions,
newsletters and alerts. You may unsubscribe from receiving offers and promotions for
our products and services, or products and services that we think may be of interest to
you.
You may exercise your controls and choices, or request access to your Personal
Information, by contacting August River Co at info@AugustRiverCo.com, or
by following instructions on methods to contact us found in communications we have
sent to you.
Notice to California Residents
California Civil Code Section 1798.100 permits users who are California residents to request
certain information regarding our disclosure of personal information to third parties for their
direct marketing purposes. August River Co, through our website or social media sites
collects Personal Information that identifies, relates to, describes, references, is reasonably
capable of being associated with, or could reasonably be linked, directly or indirectly, with a
particular California consumer or household. To learn more about the Personal Information we
may have collected, and what your rights are under the CCPA, please review our Notice to
California Residents under the CCPA. PROVIDE LINK.
Notice to International Residents
At August River Co, we are committed to being transparent with our customers regarding
our privacy practices and compliance with the European Union (“EU”) privacy regulations the
General Data Protection Regulations (“GDPR”), the United Kingdom (“UK”) Privacy Act of
2018, and other applicable data privacy regulations globally. In certain situations, August River Co may transmit personal information collected on our website, during the purchase of a
products or services, or through the use of our social media sites to our affiliates or third-party
service providers in other countries, but at all times such data transfer will be in furtherance of
the purposes set out in this Privacy Policy. If Personal Information is transmitted from Europe
to other countries. we will ensure that all personal information will be transferred with
safeguards equivalent to those provided by the European data protection laws. For more
information on the safeguards implemented by August River Co, please review our GDPR
Privacy Practices Statement at PROVIDE GDPR LINK.
Please be aware that, if you do not allow us to collect Personal Information from you, we may
not be able to deliver certain products and services to you, and some of our services may not be
able to take account of your interests and preferences. If you have questions regarding the
specific Personal Information about you that we process or retain, please contact
info@augustriverco.com.
Data Security
The security, integrity and confidentiality of your Personal Information are extremely important
to us. We follow generally accepted industry standards to protect the personal information
submitted to us, both during transmission and once we receive it. We have implemented what we
believe to be reasonable precautions and safeguards to protect the security of data and
information. For example, we use a PCI vendor partner for the collection and processing of all
bank card information. We also may encrypt information using secure socket layer technology
(SSL), whereby your information is converted into tiny bits of encrypted code that cannot be
read by others during transmission. Our servers use this SSL technology to protect your
information.
However, August River Co cannot guarantee against any loss, misuse, unauthorized
disclosure, alteration or destruction of data or Personal Information, including credit card
information that is provided to us. While August River Co strives to protect your Personal
Information, August River Co cannot guarantee the security of any information you transmit
to or from our website or social media sites, by email or otherwise, and you provide such
information at your own risk.
You understand and acknowledge that: (a) there are security and privacy limitations in computer
systems and on the Internet which are beyond the control of August River Co; (b) the
security, integrity, and privacy of any and all information and data exchanged between you and
August River Co through our website or social media sites, including Personal Information,
cannot be guaranteed; and (c) any such information and data may potentially be viewed or
tampered with by a third-party while such information or data is being used, transmitted,
processed, or stored.
Changes to Privacy Policy
From time to time, we may change this Privacy Policy, in whole or in part, without notice to you.
You expressly waive any right to receive notice of any changes to this Privacy Policy. We will
obtain your consent where required by applicable law. August River Co encourages you to
review this Privacy Policy regularly in your use of our website and social media sites to ensure
that you are aware of our current practices. Any use of our website or social media sites
following the posted date on which August River Co implements changes to this Privacy
Policy shall constitute your acceptance of all such changes.
Comments and Questions
Please contact info@augustriverco.com if you have a comment or question about this
Privacy Policy.