privacy policy
Privacy and Data Use Policy
This Privacy Policy was last updated on January 1, 2021.
Overview
We at Common Material, LLC, (referred to throughout as CM) respect your privacy and take your privacy seriously. This privacy policy (“Privacy Policy”) describes what information we collect about you, including how we collect it, how we use it, with whom we may share it and what choices you have regarding our use of your information.
This Privacy Policy applies to information collected on our website located at https://www.commonmaterial.nyc (the “Website”), information that we collect from our business partners, information collected at our stores, any current or future mobile application associated with the Website, and other offerings that post a link to this Privacy Policy, or any associated content, material, or service contained on the Website or mobile application (collectively, the “Services” and, together with the Website and the mobile application, the “System”). This Privacy Policy is not intended to and does not create any contractual or other legal right in or on behalf of any party.
What Information Do We Collect?
CM collects information about you from a variety of sources, including information that you provide directly to us when you contact us, sign-up for a customer account, and purchase products from us through the Website, visit us in store, and information that we automatically collect about you when you access and use the Website.
Information You Provide Us. If you sign-up for a customer account, purchase products, or contact us through the Website, we and/or our service providers collect the requested information that you provide including your name, e-mail, phone number, address, and payment information.
Information Collected Automatically. We collect information automatically from you when you visit us.
Such information includes the following:
Usage information. We collect information about how you interact with the Website. This includes information such as the dates and times that you visit the Website, the page you view, referring / exit URLs, and your browser type. In some cases, we collect this information through cookies, web beacons, and similar technologies. To learn more about these technologies, please see the Cookies section below. We may collect information about the devices you use to access the Website, including your device model, IP address, operating system, unique device identifiers, and mobile network operator information.
Transaction Information. We collect transaction details related to your purchases through the Website or at a store.
Cookies
By placing a small file known as a "cookie" on your device, CM’s and its third party providers’ servers passively gather information about all visitors' use of the System for the following purposes: statistics collection and analysis, System optimization, analytics, market research, and maintenance of user login information.
The information that we and our third party providers track with cookies includes, but is not limited to, the type of browser (such as Google Chrome or Internet Explorer) and Internet-connected devices being used to access the System, your Internet protocol (“IP”) address, your home domain or Internet service provider, your referrer URL (which is the URL for the website that you were viewing prior to visiting the System), how you were directed to the System, which specific pages you access on the System, how long you view each page, the time and date you access our System and the total number of visitors to the System and any portions thereof. We, and/or our third party providers, may use the information collected from cookies or similar files on your computer for security purposes (such as authentication), to facilitate site navigation and to personalize your experience while visiting the System. This data helps us and our third party providers improve our respective product and services.
Most popular Internet browser applications will allow you to configure the browser so as not to accept cookies. However, setting your browser to reject cookies may, in certain instances, prevent you from taking full advantage of the System (or some portion thereof) and its capabilities, or cause some features of the System to function improperly or more slowly. For more information, please refer to http://www.allaboutcookies.org/manage-cookies/.
Google Analytics and Web Beacons
The System may use Google Analytics, a web analysis service provided by Google, in order to better understand your use of our System and how we can improve it. Google Analytics collects information such as how often users visit a website, what pages you visit when you do so, and what other websites you used prior to coming to such website. Google Analytics collects only the IP address assigned to you on the date you visit a website, rather than your name or other identifying information. We do not combine the information collected through the use of Google Analytics with your personal information. Although Google Analytics plants a permanent cookie on your web browser to identify you as a unique user the next time you visit a website, the cookie cannot be used by anyone but Google.
Google’s ability to use and share information collected by Google Analytics about your visits to CM websites is restricted by the Google Analytics Terms of Use and the Google Privacy Policy. Google utilizes the data collected to track and examine the use of the Website, to prepare reports on its activities and share them with other Google services. To more fully understand how Google may use the data it collects on the Website, please review “How Google uses data when you use our partners' sites or apps,” (located here).
Some of the areas of the System may contain electronic images known as web beacons (sometimes known as clear gifs) that allow CM, and its third party providers or affiliates, to count and track users who have visited certain portions of the System.