Privacy Policy

Last updated: January 30, 2024

This Privacy Policy describes how ruesophie.com (the “Site” or “we”) collects, uses, and discloses your Personal Information when you visit or make a purchase from the Site.

Collecting Personal Information

When you visit the Site, we collect certain information about your device, your interaction with the Site, and information necessary to process your purchases. We may also collect additional information if you contact us for customer support. In this Privacy Policy, we refer to any information that can uniquely identify an individual (including the information below) as “Personal Information”. See the list below for more information about what Personal Information we collect and why.

Device information

  • Examples of Personal Information collected: version of web browser, IP address, time zone, cookie information, what sites or products you view, search terms, and how you interact with the Site.
  • Purpose of collection: Like many other websites, we may also gather information when you access the Site through the use of cookies and other similar technologies such as server logs, pixel tags, web beacons, user website activity and JavaScript (collectively, "Cookies"). Cookies are small pieces of data – usually text files – placed on your computer, tablet, phone, or similar device when you use that device to visit our Site. They enable us to recognize your web browser or device and tell us how and when you visit and use our Site, to analyze trends, to learn about our user base, and to operate and improve our Site and services. We may also supplement the information we collect from you with information received from third-parties, including third-parties that have placed their own Cookies on your device(s).
  • Source of collection: Collected automatically when you access our Site using cookies, log files, web beacons, tags, or pixels.
  • Please note: If you restrict, disable, or block certain Cookies from your web browser or mobile or other device, the Site may not operate properly, and you may not have access to certain services or parts of the Site. We will not be liable for any interruption in, or inability to use, the Site or our services or degraded functioning thereof, where such are caused by your settings and choices regarding Cookies.

Order information

  • Examples of Personal Information collected: name, billing address, shipping address, payment information (including credit card numbers, email address, and phone number).
  • Purpose of collection: to provide products or services to you to fulfill our contract, to process your payment information, arrange for shipping, and provide you with invoices and/or order confirmations, communicate with you, screen our orders for potential risk or fraud, and when in line with the preferences you have shared with us, provide you with information or advertising relating to our products or services.
  • Source of collection: In general, we collect information that you submit to us in the process of creating or editing your account and user profile on the Site, or that you submit to us voluntarily through your use of the Site. We may also collect information that you provide us when purchasing a product, or communicating with us directly via email or other means. Depending on your chosen payment option, we may use a third-party service provider that handles payments for us and will receive your payment card information, such as but not limited to: Shopify, Stripe, PayPal, and any other payment capture platforms required for transactions.

Customer Support Information

  • Examples of Personal Information collected: When you visit the our website without creating an account, you can browse without submitting information about yourself. In general, we collect information that you submit to us in the process of creating or editing your account and user profile on the website, or that you submit to us voluntarily through your use of the website.We may also collect information that you provide us when purchasing a product, or communicating with us directly via email or other means.
  • Purpose of collection: To provide you with customer support.
  • Source of collection: When you visit the Site without creating an account, you can browse without submitting information about yourself.

Information Received by Third Parties

We also may receive information about you from other, third-party, sources, as described below.

  1. Social Media Sites. We may collect information from your use of, and interactions with us and others on, social media sites including, but not limited to, Facebook®, Instagram®, Twitter/X®, Snapchat®, and YouTube® (collectively, "Social Media"). In such cases, please be aware that: (a) the Personal Information that you submit by and through such Social Media can be read, collected and/or used by us (depending on your Social Media privacy settings) as described in this Policy, and (b) where we respond to any interaction with you on Social Media, your account name/handle may be viewable by any and all members or users of our own Social Media accounts. We are not responsible for the Personal Information that you choose to submit or link on any Social Media. Social Media operates independently from us, and we are not responsible for Social Media interfaces or privacy or security practices. We encourage you to review the privacy policies and settings of any Social Media with which you interact to help you understand their privacy practices. If you have questions about the security and privacy settings of any Social Media that you use, please refer to the applicable privacy notices or policies.
  2. Member Content (if applicable). We may receive information about you when you or another member uploads photos or posts other content to our Site. For further details about the rights over this information available to individuals, see Section 6 below.
  3. Other Third-Parties Analytics Tools. In order to provide you with more tailored recommendations, we may obtain information about you from publicly and commercially available sources where we are permitted to under applicable laws, such as third-party publishers, advertising networks, product vendors, and service providers that we use to manage our ads on other sites, and other third parties as permitted by law. For more information about the data that we obtain from these providers, please contact us at hello@ruesophie.com. See also Section 11 below for our Cookie and Interest-Based Advertising Policy.

Sharing Personal Information

We may share your Personal Information with one or more of the following entities, and for the following corresponding reasons:

  1. With Other Third-Parties at Your Consent or at Your Direction. We may disclose your Personal Information to third-parties with your consent, which may be obtained in writing, online, or orally. We may also share your Personal Information with third-parties when you direct us to do so or when you use our products or services to intentionally interact with third-parties (if applicable). Use of the information you agree to share will be subject to those third-parties’ separate privacy policies.
  2. With Service Providers. We share your Personal Information with certain affiliates and third-party service providers to provide services to us on our behalf, such as support for the internal operations of our Site, online stores (including payment processors and third-parties we use for sending your orders to your home address), services (e.g., technical support processing), advertising, analytics and marketing services, as well as related offline product support services, data storage and other services. Where permitted, Personal Information is shared with third party marketing partners for commercial purposes.
  3. Installment Payment Services. We may offer you the ability to pay for purchases on our Site using a third-party installment payment service, such as Afterpay or Klarna. If you choose to use this service, you will be directed to the third party to create an account and complete your transaction. We will transfer certain personal information to the third party to help them create your account and provide you with services, such as your name, email address, billing address, mobile number and purchase information. You will be required to provide additional information to the third party, such as your payment information for the installment payments. Your information will be treated in accordance with the third party’s privacy policy, which is provided to you at the time of checkout.
  4. In the Event of a Potential Business Sale or Merger. We may share or transfer your Personal Information in connection with, or during negotiations of, any merger, sale of our assets, financing, or acquisition of all or a portion of our business to another company. To the extent applicable, we will provide notice (and obtain your consent, where required by law) before your Personal Information is transferred and becomes subject to a different privacy policy.
  5. With Certain Business Partners. With your consent (where required by law), we may share your Personal Information with our business partners to offer you certain products, services or promotions.
  6. With other users. When you share Personal Information or otherwise interact in the public areas with other users (e.g., Social Media), such information may be viewed by all users and may be publicly distributed outside. If you interact with other users or register through a Social Media service, your contacts on that Social Media service may see specific Personal Information, such as your name, profile, pictures and description of your activity. Similarly, other users will be able to view descriptions of your activity and view your profile, and further may be able to communicate with you.
  7. With Law Enforcement or Other Government Entities. We may also disclose your Personal Information if we believe we are required to do so by law, or that doing so is reasonably necessary to comply with legal processes; when we believe necessary or appropriate to disclose Personal Information to law enforcement authorities, such as to investigate actual or suspected fraud or violations of law, breaches of security, or breaches of this Policy, to respond to any claims against us, and to protect the rights, property, or personal safety of us, our customers, or the public.

Notwithstanding anything else in this Policy, we may share aggregate or non-identifiable information with third-parties for research, marketing, analytics and other purposes, provided such information does not identify a particular individual.

Using Personal Information

We use your personal Information to provide our services to you, which includes: offering products for sale, processing payments, shipping and fulfillment of your order, and keeping you up to date on new products, services, and offers (collectively "Business Purposes"). Specifically, the Business Purposes for which we use your Personal Information are as follows:

  • To meet or fulfill the reason you provided the information to us.
  • To communicate with you about the Site, including product announcements, updates or offers.
  • For marketing and promotions, including to check your eligibility for giveaways and competitions and to contact you in the event that you win, and to administer our various promotional programs.
  • To personalize your experience and to deliver content and product and service offerings, products, and services relevant to your interests, including offers and advertisements through third-party sites, and via email including card reminders (with your consent, where required by law).
  • To provide support and assistance for your use of the Site and purchase of our products.
  • To create and manage your account or other user profiles.
  • To personalize website content and communications based on your preferences, including targeted offers and ads served through the Site.
  • To process orders or other transactions.
  • To respond to user inquiries and fulfill user requests.
  • To process, evaluate and respond to your application for employment.
  • To improve and develop the Site, including testing, research, analysis and product development.
  • To protect against or deter fraudulent, illegal or harmful actions and maintain the safety, security and integrity of our services.To comply with our legal or contractual obligations, resolve disputes, and enforce our Terms of Use.
  • To respond to law enforcement requests and as required by applicable law, court order, or governmental regulations.
  • To evaluate or conduct a merger, divestiture, restructuring, reorganization, dissolution, or other sale or transfer of some or all of our assets, whether as a going concern or as part of bankruptcy, liquidation, or similar proceeding, in which Personal Information held by us about our users is among the assets transferred or liquidated.
  • For any other Business Purpose stated when collecting your Personal Information, or as otherwise set forth in applicable data privacy laws, such as the California Consumer Privacy Act (the "CCPA").

California Residents – CCPA

If you are a California resident, you have the rights outlined in this section, and in accordance with the California Consumer Privacy Act ("CCPA") and California Consumer Privacy Rights Act ("CPRA"). Please see the "Exercising Your Rights" sub-section below for instructions regarding how to exercise these rights. If there are any conflicts between this section and any other provision of this Policy and you are a California resident, the portion that is more protective of your Personal Information shall control. If you have any questions about this section or whether any of the following applies to you, please contact us at hello@ruesophie.com.

Right to Access

You have the right to request certain information about our collection and use of your Personal Information over the past 12 months. Assuming verification of your identity, we will provide you with the following information:

  1. The categories of Personal Information that we have collected about you.
  2. The categories of sources from which that Personal Information was collected.
  3. The business or commercial purpose for collecting or selling your Personal Information.
  4. The categories of third-parties with whom we have shared your Personal Information.
  5. The specific pieces of Personal Information that we have collected about you.
  6. If we have disclosed your Personal Information for a business purpose over the past 12 months, we will identify the categories of Personal Information shared with each category of third party recipient.

If we have sold your Personal Information over the past 12 months, we will identify the categories of Personal Data purchased by each category of third party recipient.

Right to Deletion

You have the right to request that we delete the Personal Information that we have collected from you (or your household). Note that this deletion right does not include Personal Information we have collected from third-party sources. Furthermore, under the CCPA/CPRA, this deletion right is subject to certain exceptions: for example, we may need to retain your Personal Information to provide you with services or complete a transaction or other action you have requested. If your deletion request is subject to one of these exceptions, we may deny your deletion request.

Exercising Right To Access and/or Right to Deletion

If you are a California resident, and to exercise the rights described above, you (or someone acting under your express authorization) must send us a request that (a) provides sufficient information to allow us to verify that you are the person about whom we have collected Personal Information, and (b) describes your request in sufficient detail to allow us to understand, evaluate, and respond to it. If someone is submitting a request on your behalf, they must further (c) provide proof that they are authorized to act for you in this regard.

Each request that meets both of these criteria will be considered a "Valid Request". We may not respond to requests that do not meet these criteria. We will only use Personal Information provided in a Valid Request to verify you and complete your request. You do not need an account to submit a Valid Request.

We will work to respond to your Valid Request within 45 days of receipt. If we are not able to respond to your request within 45 days, we will let you know that we may need additional time to respond, up to 90 total days. We will not charge you a fee for making a Valid Request unless your Valid Request(s) is excessive, repetitive, or manifestly unfounded. If we determine that your Valid Request warrants a fee, we will notify you of the fee and explain that decision before completing your request.

You may submit a Valid Request by:

Emailing us at: hello@ruesophie.com

By Mail: KYS Group Corp, Rue Sophie 3724 E 26th Street, Vernon CA 90058

By Phone: +1 (323) 587-7104

Right to Opt-Out of "Sale" or "Sharing" of Personal Information

The CCPA/CPRA defines "sale" to include sharing or disclosing of personal data with a third-party for monetary or other valuable consideration. This may include when we share information about you that is associated with device identifiers with third-parties for targeted advertising purposes, and as generally described above. The CPRA further defines "sharing" as disclosing, making available, transferring, or communicating a consumer’s Personal Information to a third party for "cross-context behavioral advertising", whether or not for monetary or other valuable consideration.

There are circumstances where sharing of personal data with third-parties is not considered to be a sale. For example, we may share personal data with service providers who work on our behalf if the service provider agrees not to use that personal data for other purposes. In addition, you may intentionally direct us to share information with a third-party, which is also not a sale.

The CCPA and CPRA give California residents the right to direct a business that sells or shares Personal Information about that consumer to third-parties not to sell or share such information. To this end, we give you the option to opt-out of these sales at any time by emailing us at: hello@ruesophie.com

Once you have submitted an opt-out request, we will not ask you to reauthorize the sale of your Personal Information for at least twelve (12) months. To the extent your request comes from a third-party, we have the right to request proof from that third-party that they are authorized to act on your behalf.

Right to Correct Inaccurate Personal Information

The CPRA provides California residents with the right to request the correction of inaccurate Personal Information kept by businesses. Upon submission of a valid request by a California resident, and verification by us of the same, we shall use commercially reasonable efforts to correct inaccurate Personal Information identified by you.

Right to Limit Use and Disclosure of Sensitive Personal Information

The CPRA provides California residents with the right to direct a business that collects Sensitive Personal Information (as defined above) about the resident to limit its use of such information to that use which is necessary to perform the services or provide the goods reasonably expected by the average consumer who requests such goods or services. Any uses, or disclosure, of the consumer’s Sensitive Personal Information beyond this must be disclosed by the business and the consumer has the right to limit such use and/or disclosure. If you are interested in limiting such use and/or disclosure please email us at: hello@ruesophie.com.

The Sale or Sharing of Personal Information of Children (16 years old and younger)

We will not knowingly sell the Personal Information of a child 16 years old or younger without first obtaining the required authorizations. Specifically:

  1. Children Between 13 and 16 Years of Age. If you are between 13 and 16 years of age, you must authorize us to sell your Personal Information, which you may do by emailing us at: hello@ruesophie.com.
  2. Children Under 13 Years of Age. If you are under 13 years of age, your parent or guardian must authorize us to sell your Personal Information, which your parent or guardian may do by emailing us at: hello@ruesophie.com.

No Discrimination For Exercising Your Rights

We will not discriminate against you for exercising your rights under the CCPA. We will not deny you our goods or services, charge you different prices or rates, or provide you a lower quality of goods and services if you exercise your rights under the CCPA. However, we may offer different tiers of our services as allowed by applicable data privacy laws (including the CCPA) with varying prices, rates, or levels of quality of the goods or services you receive related to the value of Personal Information that we receive from you.

California Shine The Light Law

Under California Civil Code Sections 1798.83-1798.84, California residents are entitled to obtain from us once a year, free of charge, a list of third-parties to whom we have disclosed Personal Information (if any) for direct marketing purposes in the preceding calendar year. If you are a California resident and you wish to make such a request, please send an e-mail with "California Privacy Rights" in the subject line to hello@ruesophie.com.

EU and UK residents - GDPR

Pursuant to the General Data Protection Regulation (“GDPR”), if you are a resident of the European Economic Area (“EEA”), European Union ("EU"), United Kingdom, Lichtenstein, Norway, or Iceland, you may have additional rights under the EU General Data Protection Regulation and the UK General Data Protection Regulation (together, the "GDPR") with respect to your Personal Data, as outlined below.

For this section, we use the term "processing" as it is defined in the GDPR, but "processing" generally covers actions that can be performed in connection with data such as collection, use, storage and disclosure. We will be the controller of your Personal Information processed in connection with your access and visiting of the Site.

If there are any conflicts between this section and any other provision of this Policy, the policy or portion that is more protective of Personal Information shall control to the extent of such conflict.

Personal Information We Collect

The "Categories of Information We Collect" section above details the Personal Information that we collect from you.

Personal Information Use and Processing Grounds

The "How We Use Your Personal Data" section above explains the purposes for which and how we use your Personal Data. Where we intend to further process your personal data for a purpose other than that for which your personal data was collected, we shall provide you prior to that further processing with information on that other purpose.

We will only process your Personal Data if we have a lawful basis for doing so. Lawful bases for processing include consent, contractual necessity and our "legitimate interests" or the legitimate interest of others, as further described below.

  1. Contractual Necessity. We process the following categories of Personal Data as a matter of "contractual necessity", meaning that we need to process the data to perform under our Terms of Use with you, which enables us to provide you with the Services. When we process data due to contractual necessity, failure to provide such Personal Data will result in your inability to use some or all portions of the Services that require such data.
    • Personal identifiers
    • Customer records identified by state law
    • Commercial information
    • Special categories of data under the GDPR
    • Personal Data about children under the age of 16
  2. Legitimate Interest. We process the following categories of Personal Data when we believe it furthers the legitimate interest of us or third parties.
    • Personal identifiers
    • Customer records identified by state law
    • Protected classification characteristics under state or federal law
    • Commercial information
    • Internet or other similar network activity information
    • Geolocation data
    • Inferences drawn from other personal information
    • Age or date of birth
    • Special categories of data under the GDPR
    • Personal Data about children under the age of 16
    • Examples of these legitimate interests include:
      • Operation and improvement of our business, products and Services
      • Marketing of our products and Services
      • Provision of customer support
      • Protection from fraud or security threats
      • Compliance with legal obligations
      • Completion of corporate transactions
  3. Consent. In some cases, we process Personal Data based on the consent you expressly grant to us at the time we collect such data. When we process Personal Data based on your consent, it will be expressly indicated to you at the point and time of collection.
  4. Other Processing Grounds. From time to time we may also need to process Personal Data to comply with a legal obligation, if it is necessary to protect the vital interests of you or other data subjects, or if it is necessary for a task carried out in the public interest.
  5. Special categories of data. Where we process special category data under GDPR (which includes data relating to health, ethnicity or biometrics) we will ensure we satisfy one of the conditions for processing such data under applicable law in addition to ensuring we have a lawful basis for processing as described above.

Sharing and/or Selling of Personal Information

The section above titled "Our Information Sharing and Selling Practices" details how we share and/or sell your Personal Information with third-parties.

EU AND UK DATA SUBJECT RIGHTS REGARDING PERSONAL DATA

You have certain rights with respect to your Personal Information, including those set forth below. For more information about these rights, or to submit a request, please email hello@ruesophie.com. Please note that in some circumstances, we may not be able to fully comply with your request, such as if it is manifestly unfounded or excessive, if it jeopardizes the rights of others, or if it is not required by law, but in those circumstances, we will still respond to notify you of such a decision. In some cases, we may also need you to provide us with additional information, which may include Personal Information, if necessary to verify your identity and the nature of your request.

  1. Access. You can request more information about the Personal Information we hold about you and request a copy of such Personal Information. You can also access certain of your Personal Information by logging into your account.
  2. Rectification. If you believe that any Personal Information we are holding about you is incorrect or incomplete, you can request that we correct or supplement such information. You can also correct some of this information directly by logging into your account.
  3. Erasure. You can request that we erase some or all of your Personal Information from our systems.
  4. Withdrawal of Consent. If we are processing your Personal Information based on your consent (as indicated at the time of collection of such information), you have the right to withdraw your consent at any time. Please note, however, that if you exercise this right, you may have to then provide express consent on a case-by-case basis for the use or disclosure of certain of your Personal Information, if such use or disclosure is necessary to enable you to utilize some or all of our Site. Any withdrawal of consent will not affect the lawfulness of any processing based on your consent before its withdrawal.
  5. Portability. You can ask for a copy of your Personal Information in a machine-readable format. You can also request that we transmit the information to another controller where technically feasible.
  6. Objection. You can contact us to let us know that you object to the further use or disclosure of your Personal Information for certain purposes, such as for direct marketing purposes.
  7. Restriction of Processing. You can ask us to restrict further processing of your Personal Information.
  8. Right to File Complaint. You have the right to lodge a complaint about our practices with respect to your Personal Information with the supervisory authority of your country or EU Member State. You have the same right in the UK; the relevant data protection authority is the Information Commissioner’s Office.

By accessing and using the Site, you acknowledge that any Personal Information about you, regardless of whether provided by you or obtained from a third-party, is being provided to us in the U.S. and will be hosted on U.S. servers, and you authorize us to transfer, store and process your information to and in the U.S., and possibly other countries. The transfer of your data to the U.S. shall be subject to appropriate safeguards the details of which are further set forth below.

Transfer of Personal Information

The Site is hosted and operated in the United States (“U.S.”) through us and our service providers, and if you do not reside in the U.S., laws in the U.S. may differ from the laws where you reside. By accessing and using the Site, you acknowledge that any Personal Information about you, regardless of whether provided by you or obtained from a third-party, is being provided to us in the U.S. and will be hosted on U.S. servers, and that we will transfer, store and process your information to and in the U.S., and possibly other countries. If we transfer your Personal Information from the UK or EU to the U.S. or another country (other than where you provide your Personal Information to us directly via the Site, which is not considered a transfer by us), we are required to justify the transfer under GDPR. In some cases, it may be necessary for us to transfer your Personal Information in order to perform our contractual obligations to you (e.g. supplying you with goods or services) or to enter into a contract with you. However, in most cases the relevant safeguard in place for transfers will be the EU Standard Contractual Clauses which may be found here. For personal data transfers from the UK to the UK Addendum to the EU SCCs which may be found here are used. The completed documents may be requested from us at hello@ruesophie.com. Once the EU-US Data Privacy Framework is finalized, we may also utilize this mechanism to support our data transfers to the U.S.

Data Retention

We will only retain your personal information for as long as necessary to fulfill the purposes we collected it for, including for the purposes of satisfying any legal, accounting, or reporting requirements. Details of retention periods for different aspects of your personal information are available in our retention policy which is available by contacting the Data Privacy Team.

Questions About This Policy for EU Residents Under GDPR

If you have any questions about this section or our data practices generally, please contact us by email at hello@ruesophie.com or by mail at:

By Postal Address:

KYS Group Corp, Rue Sophie 3724 E 26th Street, Vernon CA 90058

Retention

When you place an order through the Site, we will retain your Personal Information for our records unless and until you ask us to erase this information. We will only retain your personal information for as long as necessary to fulfill the purposes we collected it for, including for the purposes of satisfying any legal, accounting, or reporting requirements. For more information on your right of erasure, please see the ‘Your rights’ section below.

Minors

We greatly respect the privacy of children and their information, and do not knowingly collect the Personal Information of children under the age of 16 (a “Child”) without the prior consent of their parent or legal guardian. This section outlines our policies and practices of the collection of a Child’s Personal Information.

Parental Consent Prior to Collection

Information about the cookies we use may be updated from time to time, so please check back on a regular basis for any changes.

When we knowingly collect a Child’s Personal Information, we will ask that Child's parent or legal guardian for consent before we collect it, unless the request falls within an exception.

When prior parental consent is required, we will ask for it in ways allowed by Children’s Online Privacy Protection Act (“COPPA”) or other applicable law. For example, if the Child’s Personal Information will be used only by us, we may ask for the parent's (or legal guardian’s) consent by email. While we do not currently, and do not expect to, use Child’s Personal Information in this manner, if we are aware that a Child’s Personal Information is disclosed on our Site or shared with a third-party besides a service provider, we obtain a higher level of consent from the parent (or legal guardian), such as by a form to be returned via U.S. mail or electronic scan, or consent obtained in connection with a credit card purchase.

Parental Choices and Controls Under COPPA

If you are a parent (or legal guardian) who has given consent as described above, you can ask us to:

Allow you to review your Child’s Personal Information;
Deactivate your Child's Site account;
Revoke any consent you have given for your Child;
Delete the Child’s Personal Information we have collected; and
Stop collecting your Child’s Personal Information.

To make these requests, or if you have any other questions about our policies or practices regarding the collection, use, sharing or disclosure of a Child’s Personal Information, you may contact us at:

By Phone: +1 (323) 587-7104

By Email: hello@ruesophie.com

By Postal Address:

KYS Group Corp, Rue Sophie 3724 E 26th Street, Vernon CA 90058

Selling Personal Information

Our Site sells Personal Information, as defined by the California Consumer Privacy Act of 2018 (“CCPA”). We may share your Personal Information with one or more of the following entities, and for the following corresponding reasons:

  1. With Other Third-Parties at Your Consent or at Your Direction. We may disclose your Personal Information to third-parties with your consent, which may be obtained in writing, online, or orally. We may also share your Personal Information with third-parties when you direct us to do so or when you use our products or services to intentionally interact with third-parties (if applicable). Use of the information you agree to share will be subject to those third-parties’ separate privacy policies.
  2. With Service Providers. We share your Personal Information with certain affiliates and third-party service providers to provide services to us on our behalf, such as support for the internal operations of our Site, online stores (including payment processors and third-parties we use for sending your orders to your home address), services (e.g., technical support processing), advertising, analytics and marketing services, as well as related offline product support services, data storage and other services. Where permitted, Personal Information is shared with third party marketing partners for commercial purposes.
  3. Installment Payment Services. We may offer you the ability to pay for purchases on our Site using a third-party installment payment service, such as Afterpay or Klarna. If you choose to use this service, you will be directed to the third party to create an account and complete your transaction. We will transfer certain personal information to the third party to help them create your account and provide you with services, such as your name, email address, billing address, mobile number and purchase information. You will be required to provide additional information to the third party, such as your payment information for the installment payments. Your information will be treated in accordance with the third party’s privacy policy, which is provided to you at the time of checkout.
  4. In the Event of a Potential Business Sale or Merger. We may share or transfer your Personal Information in connection with, or during negotiations of, any merger, sale of our assets, financing, or acquisition of all or a portion of our business to another company. To the extent applicable, we will provide notice (and obtain your consent, where required by law) before your Personal Information is transferred and becomes subject to a different privacy policy.
  5. With Certain Business Partners. With your consent (where required by law), we may share your Personal Information with our business partners to offer you certain products, services or promotions.
  6. With other users. When you share Personal Information or otherwise interact in the public areas with other users (e.g., Social Media), such information may be viewed by all users and may be publicly distributed outside. If you interact with other users or register through a Social Media service, your contacts on that Social Media service may see specific Personal Information, such as your name, profile, pictures and description of your activity. Similarly, other users will be able to view descriptions of your activity and view your profile, and further may be able to communicate with you.
  7. With Law Enforcement or Other Government Entities. We may also disclose your Personal Information if we believe we are required to do so by law, or that doing so is reasonably necessary to comply with legal processes; when we believe necessary or appropriate to disclose Personal Information to law enforcement authorities, such as to investigate actual or suspected fraud or violations of law, breaches of security, or breaches of this Policy, to respond to any claims against us, and to protect the rights, property, or personal safety of us, our customers, or the public.

Sharing of Aggregate / De-Identified Information

Notwithstanding anything else in this Policy, we may share aggregate or non-identifiable information with third-parties for research, marketing, analytics and other purposes, provided such information does not identify a particular individual.

HOW WE STORE AND PROTECT YOUR INFORMATION

We use certain physical, managerial, and technical safeguards designed to preserve the security of your Personal Information that we maintain in connection with your use of the Site. This, however, does not guarantee that your Personal Information may not be accessed, disclosed, altered, or destroyed by any breach of our physical, technical or managerial safeguards. In the event that any of your Personal Information under our control is compromised as a result of a breach of security, we will take reasonable steps to investigate the situation and will notify you, as appropriate, in accordance with pertinent laws and regulations.

We, or our third-party hosting providers, store Personal Information in operating environments that are safeguarded against public or unauthorized access and protected from internal access with physical and technical security measures. While these measures are helpful to safeguard your Personal Information after we receive it, no transmission of data over the internet is 100% secure.

Your rights

Depending on where you reside and the types of information that we collect from you, you have various rights and choices surrounding the collecting, processing, sharing and selling of your Personal Information. Within this section is a list of general rights that you have, with additional rights listed in this Policy below for specific locations.

We strive to timely respond to all requests that we receive from individuals who wish to exercise their data privacy and protection rights in accordance with applicable law. You can contact us with your request by sending an email to hello@ruesophie.com or as otherwise described in this Policy.

Opting Out of Providing Personal Information or Deleting Account.

Please note that while you can always opt not to disclose Personal Information to us, some Personal Information may be needed to set up an account with us or to take advantage of some features on our Site. You may be able to add, update, or delete information within an account you create. When you update information, however, we may maintain a copy of the unrevised information in our records. You may also request deletion of your account by emailing hello@ruesophie.com. However, some information may remain in our records after your deletion of such information from your account to meet our legal, business or contractual obligations. We may use any aggregated data derived from or incorporating your Personal Information after you update or delete it, but not in a manner that could reasonably be used to identify you personally, and we may also retain and continue to use your non-personally identifiable information.

Online Tracking/Cookie Choices.

Most browsers are initially set up to accept Cookies, but you can reset your browser to refuse certain Cookies or to indicate when a cookie is being sent. However, some features and services of the Site (particularly those that require sign-in) may not function properly if your Cookies are disabled. Similarly, if you choose to delete session objects from our Site, you may not be able to access and use all or part of the site or benefit from some or all of the information or features and services offered. See our Cookie and Interest-Based Advertising Policy for additional information.

Opting Out of Behavioral Advertising.

See our Cookie and Behavioral Advertising Policy on how to opt-out of Bevaioral or Interest-Based Advertising activities.

Do Not Track

Some web browsers incorporate a "Do Not Track" ("DNT") or similar feature that signals to websites that a user does not want to have the user’s online activity and behavior tracked. If a website that responds to a particular DNT signal receives the DNT signal, the browser can block that website from collecting certain information about that browser’s user. Not all browsers offer a DNT option and DNT signals are not yet uniform. For this reason, the Site may not respond to DNT signals.

Exercising Your Rights Under Other Privacy Laws

Please be aware that we are headquartered in the United States. The Site is governed by United States law. If you are using any of our products or services from outside of the United States, your information may be transferred to, stored, and processed in the United States where our servers may be located. The United States might not offer the same level of privacy protection as the country where you reside or are a citizen. By using the Site, communicating with us via mail, email or telephone, or otherwise providing information to us, you consent, to the extent required by applicable law, to the transfer to, and processing of, your information in the United States.

Behavioral Advertising

We use third-party service providers such as ad networks and advertising companies to serve advertisements or collect data on our behalf across the internet and on this Site (“Advertisers”). Some of these Advertisers may collect your Personal Information about your Site visits and your interactions with our products and services as well as your visits to other websites (such as web pages you visit and your interaction with our advertising) and use this information to make predictions about your preferences and to tailor advertising or marketing messages on other sites, trigger real-time interactions, customize the Site, or enhance your profile. Examples of such:

  • We use Google Analytics to help us understand how our customers use the Site. You can read more about how Google uses your Personal Information here: https://policies.google.com/privacy?hl=en.You can also opt-out of Google Analytics here: https://tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout.
  • We share information about your use of the Site, your purchases, and your interaction with our ads on other websites with our advertising partners. We collect and share some of this information directly with our advertising partners, and in some cases through the use of cookies or other similar technologies (which you may consent to, depending on your location).

For more information about how targeted advertising works, you can visit the Network Advertising Initiative’s (“NAI”) educational page at http://www.networkadvertising.org/understanding-online-advertising/how-does-it-work.

You can opt out of targeted advertising by:

Additionally, if you would like more information about Advertisers’ practices, please visit the Digital Advertising Alliance at https://digitaladvertisingalliance.org or http://optout.aboutads.info/#!/ or, the Digital Advertising Alliance of Canada at https://youradchoices.ca/ or https://optout.aboutads.info/?c=3&lang=en.

Cookies

A cookie is a small amount of information that’s downloaded to your computer or device when you visit our Site. We use a number of different cookies, including functional, performance, advertising, and social media or content cookies. Cookies make your browsing experience better by allowing the website to remember your actions and preferences (such as login and region selection). This means you don’t have to re-enter this information each time you return to the site or browse from one page to another. Cookies also provide information on how people use the website, for instance whether it’s their first time visiting or if they are a frequent visitor.

This Cookie and Behaviorial Advertising Policy explains how Rue Sophie uses cookies and similar technologies in connection with the www.ruesophie.com website and any other website that we own or control and which posts or links to this Cookie and Interest-Based Advertising Policy (collectively, the “Sites”), along with Rue Sophie mobile application and any other mobile applications that we own or control and which posts or links to this Cookie and Interest-Based Advertising Policy (collectively, the “Apps”).

Advertisers may use Cookies, pixel tags and other technologies to collect your Personal Information, measure the effectiveness of their advertisements, and personalize the advertisements on other sites. Some of these Advertisers may collect your Personal Information that you share on the Site via a web form automatically and prior to your submission of the Personal Information (i.e., before you click, “Submit”). Advertisers may be able to use information from your Site visits to send marketing messages to you in a way that could personally identify you. The information collected by Advertisers may include your IP address, email addresses and other user and device level information. For example, when Advertisers send advertisements and links that appear on the Site directly to your browser, they automatically receive your IP address. Please keep in mind that your browser settings may not permit you to control Advertisers’ technologies, and this Policy does not apply to, and we cannot control the activities of, Advertisers.

The length of time that a cookie remains on your computer or mobile device depends on whether it is a “persistent” or “session” cookie. Session cookies last until you stop browsing and persistent cookies last until they expire or are deleted. Most of the cookies we use are persistent and will expire between 30 minutes and two years from the date they are downloaded to your device.

You can control and manage cookies in various ways. Please keep in mind that removing or blocking cookies can negatively impact your user experience and parts of our website may no longer be fully accessible.

Most browsers automatically accept cookies, but you can choose whether or not to accept cookies through your browser controls, often found in your browser’s “Tools” or “Preferences” menu. For more information on how to modify your browser settings or how to block, manage or filter cookies can be found in your browser’s help file or through such sites as www.allaboutcookies.org.

Additionally, please note that blocking cookies may not completely prevent how we share information with third parties such as our advertising partners. To exercise your rights or opt-out of certain uses of your information by these parties, please follow the instructions in the “Behavioural Advertising” section above.

For specific information about the Cookies that we use related to powering our store with Shopify, see https://www.shopify.com/legal/cookies. Please keep in mind that removing or blocking Cookies can negatively impact your user experience and may cause some of the Services, including certain features and general functionality, to work incorrectly or no longer be available. Additionally, blocking Cookies may not completely prevent how we share information with third parties such as our advertising partners.

When visiting our online store, we may place additional Cookies from these third-parties on your device:

Third Party Description Privacy Policy
Appmate We use an Appmate app for our site wishlist. https://www.appmate.io/legal/privacy-policy
Accessbily We use Accessbily to improve accessbility. https://accessiblyapp.com/privacy-policy/
Route We use Route for shipping package protection. https://route.com/privacy
ShareASale We use ShareASale for our affiliate marketing network. https://www.awin.com/us/privacy
ShopMy We use ShopMy for our creator marketing program. https://shopmy.us/terms

Changes to Privacy Policy

Because our privacy practices and privacy law necessarily evolve over time, we reserve the right to revise this Policy from time to time in our sole discretion, upon notice to you such as by posting updated Policy on the Site, sending you an email to your account email, or by any other reasonable means. You should periodically review this Policy to ensure that you are familiar with the most current version. Your continued use of the Site after the date posted above will constitute your acceptance of the updated Policy.

Questions

If you have any questions or comments about this Policy, including the ways we collect and use your information as described in this Policy, your choices and rights regarding such use, or wish to exercise your rights under laws that apply to you, please contact us in any of the following ways:

By Phone: 1 (323) 587-7104

By Email: hello@ruesophie.com

By Postal Address:

KYS Group Corp, Rue Sophie
Attn: Privacy Policy
3724 E 26th Street, Vernon CA 90058