PhoneSmart Privacy Policy
We take your privacy seriously, and we want you to know how we collect, use, share, and protect your information. "PhoneSmart" means any entity that carries the PhoneSmart brand, and any of our subsidiaries or divisions.
Privacy Policy Highlights
We want you to read the whole policy. This highlights section provides a summary of PhoneSmart's privacy practices, and is not the whole policy. The highlights and full privacy policy apply to PhoneSmart retail stores, and other locations where we may collect personal information.
What we collect
Uses of Information
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Your Choices You may choose to:
Important Information
How To Contact Us
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Your use of any of our sites is subject to the Conditions of Use for that site.
This Policy applies to:
For simplicity, we will call the PhoneSmart websites and mobile app "digital properties" throughout this policy.
What we collect
Information you give us
We collect and store information you provide through our digital properties and in our stores.
The information we collect from you includes things like:
In certain situations, we may also collect things like:
Information you give us about others
You may give us information about other people, such as the name and address of a gift recipient, or the name and contact information of someone who will pick up items for you at a store. We will only use this information for the specific reason you provide it.
Information from other sources
We may receive information about you from other sources, including third parties that help us update, expand, and analyze our records and identify new customers, and provide products and services that may be of interest to you.
Information collected automatically online
We collect information about your interactions with us, including the type of device or browser you're using, your IP address, your browsing behavior while on our website, and the URLs of the websites you were at before you visited our site (these are called "referring URLs").
PhoneSmart and our partners use technologies such as cookies or similar technologies to analyze trends, administer the website, track users' movements around the website, and to gather demographic information about our user base as a whole. Users can control the use of cookies at the individual browser level.
We may permit third party service providers to collect and process some information from our digital properties. We may share personal information with those providers and may have similar arrangements with interest-based advertisers. We provide more information about interest-based ads below.
Our digital properties are not designed to respond to "do not track" requests from browsers.
Location information
Some of our digital properties may collect your location to help you search for one of our stores or to use special mobile features within some of our stores. For example, PhoneSmart works with third parties to provide you helpful messaging in your mobile app when you come to our stores.
In order for any mobile application to identify your location, you must enable location services through your mobile device's settings. If you do not want PhoneSmart to collect this information or to enable these features, you can turn off location services on your mobile device. PhoneSmart has no control over your device's settings.
Store cameras
Our stores may use cameras for asset protection and other operational purposes, such as measuring traffic patterns and protecting and improving our business.
Reviews and other content you provide
Our websites offer publicly accessible blogs or community forums. Be aware that anyone who accesses these areas may read, collect, and use the information you provide.
How We Use the Information We Collect
We use the information we collect for things like:
Information Retention
We may retain your information for as long as your account is active or as needed to provide you services, comply with our legal obligations, resolve disputes, and enforce our agreements.
How We Share Your Information
PhoneSmart does not sell, rent, or trade your personal information to third parties. We share your information only in the ways we describe below.
We may combine or share information among current or future PhoneSmart companies, including affiliates and subsidiaries.
We may share your information with third parties to perform services on our behalf such as:
We may share personal information in connection with financial products or services related to our business, such as private label credit cards. For example, when you apply for a PhoneSmart credit card, and while you have a PhoneSmart credit card, we share your personal information with our banking partners that issue the card.
Sometimes we may be required to share personal information for legal reasons, for example, if we are required to do so by a regulation, court order, subpoena or other legal process. We may also share information when we believe it's necessary to comply with the law or to respond to a government request, or when we believe disclosure is necessary or appropriate to protect PhoneSmart, our customers, or others.
We may share personal information in the event of a corporate sale, merger, acquisition, dissolution, or similar event. If such an event takes place, we'll notify you through e-mail (if we have your email address) and/or a prominent notice on our applicable website(s) of any change in ownership, as well as any choices you may have regarding your personal information.
How We Protect Your Information
We use a variety of information security measures to protect your online transactions with us.
We are committed to protecting your information, but you can do your part. You should create a strong password and protect against unauthorized access to your password and your computer. Be sure to sign off when finished using a shared computer and do not share your password with anyone. We cannot guarantee the security of any information you transmit to us and by using our digital properties you acknowledge that you do so at your own risk.
Your Choices
You may at any time:
To do any of these, let us know by one of these methods:
Please note: Even if we are able to anonymize or make your content or information no longer visible, this does not ensure complete or comprehensive removal of your content or personal information from the Internet.
Protecting Children's Privacy
We are committed to protecting children's privacy on the Internet and we do not knowingly collect personal information from children under the age of 13.
Links to Other Websites
Our websites link to other websites, many of which have their own privacy policies. Be sure to review the privacy policy on the website you're visiting.
Social Media Features
Our website includes ways to interact and share using social media, through features such as the Facebook "Like" button, the "Share This" button, or interactive mini-programs that run on our website ("widgets"). These features may collect information such as your IP address or the page you are visiting on our website, and may set cookies to enable the feature to function properly. Social media features can be hosted by a third party or hosted directly on our website. Your interactions with these features are governed by the privacy policy of the social media company providing the feature.
Privacy Policy Updates
We may need to update our Privacy Policy as we and our customers grow and evolve. If we make material changes, we will notify you by e-mail (sent to the e-mail address specified in your account) or by means of posting a notice on this website prior to the change becoming effective, as well as inform you of any choices you may have with respect to these changes.
Contact Us
If you have any questions about our Privacy Policy or practices please contact us.