Last Updated: Dec 7, 2023
We at The Black Tux, Inc. understand that you care about how information about you is used and shared. This Privacy Policy will help you understand what information is collected when you visit our website, and how that information will be used. If we adjust this policy in the future, we will post those changes here.
By accessing, browsing or otherwise using this website, you are accepting the practices described in this Privacy Policy and you hereby consent that we will collect, use, and share your information in the following ways.
Remember that your use of The Black Tux’s Services is at all times subject to the Terms of Use which incorporates this Privacy Policy. Any terms we use in this Policy without defining them have the definitions given to them in the Terms of Use.
This Privacy Policy applies to Personal Information that is processed by The Black Tux in the course of our business, including in our retail stores and on our websites, and other online or offline offerings (collectively, the “Services”).
Our primary goals in collecting information are to provide and improve our Services, to administer your use of the Services, and to enable you to enjoy and easily navigate our Services.
The categories of personal information we collect depend on whether you are a customer, user, applicant or visitor, and the requirements of applicable law.
Information You Provide to Us
Information Collected Automatically or From Others
We use your information for a variety of business purposes, including to:Fulfill our contract with you and provide you with our Services, such as:
Use De-identified and Aggregated Information. We may use personal information and other data about you to create de-identified and aggregated information, such as de-identified demographic information, de-identified location information, information about the computer or device from which you access our Services, or other analyses we create.
Share Content with Friends or Colleagues. Our Services may offer various tools and functionalities. For example, we may allow you to provide information about your friends through our referral services. Our referral services may allow you to forward or share certain content with a friend or colleague, such as an email inviting your friend to use our Services.
How We Use Automatic Collection Technologies. We, as well as third parties that provide content, advertising, or other functionality on the Services, may use cookies, pixel tags, local storage, and other technologies to automatically collect information through the Services. Our uses of these Technologies fall into the following general categories:
Notice Regarding Third Party Websites, Social Media Platforms and Software Development Kits. The Services may contain links to other websites, and other websites may reference or link to our website or other Services. These other websites are not controlled by us. We encourage our users to read the privacy policies of each website and application with which they interact. We do not endorse, screen or approve and are not responsible for the privacy practices or content of such other websites or applications. Visiting these other websites or applications is at your own risk.
Our Services may include publicly accessible blogs, forums, and social media pages. By using such Services, you assume the risk that the personal information provided by you may be viewed and used by third parties for any number of purposes. In addition, social media buttons such as Facebook and Instagram that might include widgets (such as the “share this” button or other interactive mini-programs) may be on our site. These features may collect your IP address, which page you are visiting on our site, and may set a cookie to enable the feature to function properly. These social media features are either hosted by a third party or hosted directly on our site. Your interactions with these features apart from your visit to our site are governed by the privacy policy of the company providing it.
We may use third party APIs and software development kits (“SDKs”) as part of the functionality of our Services. APIs and SDKs may allow third parties including analytics and advertising partners to collect your personal information for various purposes including to provide analytics services and content that is more relevant to you. For more information about our use of APIs and SDKs, please contact us as set forth below.
We take your privacy very seriously, and we are committed to protecting our relationship with our customers. We use personally identifiable information that you submitted as part of our own business, and that of third parties with whom we have joint marketing agreements. We may also share with third parties aggregate non-personal information about visitors to our website without restriction as to use. We may share your Personal Information with third parties as described in this section:
Information that’s been de-identified. We may de-identify your Personal Information so that you are not identified as an individual, and provide that information to our partners. We may also provide aggregate usage information to our partners (or allow partners to collect that information from you), who may use such information to understand how often and in what ways people use our Services, so that they, too, can provide you with an optimal online experience. However, we never disclose aggregate usage or de-identified information to a partner (or allow a partner to collect such information) in a manner that would identify you as an individual person.
Affiliated Businesses: In certain situations, businesses or third party websites we’re affiliated with may sell or provide products or services to you through or in connection with the Services (either alone or jointly with us). You can recognize when an affiliated business is associated with such a transaction or service, and we will share your Personal Information with that affiliated business only to the extent that it is related to such transaction or service. We have no control over the policies and practices of third party websites or businesses as to privacy or anything else, so if you choose to take part in any transaction or service relating to an affiliated website or business, please review all such business’ or websites’ policies.
Agents: We may disclose your personally identifiable information to certain third parties to assist us in managing customer information, to assist us in our own marketing efforts, or to administer services on our behalf such as credit card processing or delivery services. In these situations, we do not authorize those parties to use your personally identifiable information for any other purpose.
Protective Discolsures: We may disclose your personally identifiable information when we believe the law requires such disclosure, in response to law enforcement requests, or as necessary to protect the property, interests and rights of The Black Tux, Inc., its affiliates and others.
Business Transfers: In the event all or a portion of the assets owned or controlled by The Black Tux, Inc. are sold, assigned, transferred or acquired by another company, both personally identifiable information and aggregate non-personal information from and/or about our customers may be among the transferred assets.
For your privacy and security, your account is protected by a password. To prevent unauthorized access to your account and Personal Information, you should take care to protect your password.
We maintain your information on a secure server. When you enter sensitive information (such as a credit card number) on our registration or order forms, we encrypt that information using secure socket layer technology (SSL). We follow generally accepted industry standards to protect the Personal Information submitted to us, both during transmission and once we receive it. No method of transmission over the Internet, or method of electronic storage, is 100% secure, however. Therefore, while we strive to use commercially acceptable means to protect your Personal Information, we cannot guarantee its absolute security.
The Black Tux may provide access to discussion boards or chat rooms on our website or those of social networking websites. Please remember that any information disclosed in these areas is available to the public. The dissemination of any Personal Information you provide via any linked sites is beyond our control and you should therefore exercise caution before disclosing any Personal Information.
The Black Tux is very concerned about the privacy and safety of children when they use the Internet. In compliance with the Children’s Online Protection Act of 1998, we will never knowingly collect personally identifiable information from any visitor under the age of 16. If we discover that a visitor under the age of 16 has registered without parental consent, we will immediately delete his or her registration from our files.
From time to time, we may update this Privacy Policy. We will alert you to changes by placing a notice on the https://theblacktux.com, by sending you an email, and/or by some other means. If you use the Services after any changes to the Privacy Policy have been posted, that means you agree to all of the changes. Use of information we collect now is subject to the Privacy Policy in effect at the time such information is used.
We collect the personal information you provide to us when you purchase our products or visit our website. The categories of information we may collect include:
We may collect personal information about you from third-party sources, including Background Check Provider and Human Resources Information.
The categories of information we may collect include:
Background Check Provider
Human Resources Information
We do not retain data for any longer than is necessary for the purposes described in this Policy.
We generally retain data according to the guidelines below.Type of Data | Retention Period |
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Cookies and online data we collect while you use our website, including Online Identifiers, Internet Activity | We delete or anonymize data concerning your use of our website within 2 years of collecting it. |
Data we collect in order to process and ship orders you place with us, including Name, Email address, Postal address, Telephone number, Purchases, Physical characteristics or descriptions, Age | We keep personal information related to products you purchase for as long as you remain a customer with us plus as long as necessary for legal reasons or to protect our interests. |
Data we collect when you contact us for customer support and other inquiries, including Name, Email address, Postal address, Telephone number, Internet Activity, Credit or debit card number, Physical characteristics or descriptions | We keep customer feedback and correspondence with our customer service for as long as we need the information to provide service to you. |
Data we collect when you sign up for promotional and marketing communications, including Name, Email address | Where you have signed up to receive promotional and marketing communications from us, we will retain any data collected until you opt out or request its deletion. We may keep data beyond this period in anonymized form. We will further retain a record of any opt-outs in order to prevent sending you future communications. |
Data we collect when you review our products, answer surveys, or send feedback, including Name, Email address, Online Identifiers | We retain review, survey, and feedback data until you request its deletion. We may keep data beyond this period in anonymized form to help improve our products and services. |
Data we collect in connection with privacy requests, including Name, Email address | We retain records related to privacy requests for a minimum of 24 months following the completion of the request. |
Data we collect for security purposes, including Online Identifiers, Internet Activity | We retain security-related data as long as necessary to comply with our legal obligations and to maintain and improve our information security measures. |
We process personal information for the following business and commercial purposes:
We may disclose personal information about you for business and commercial purposes when you purchase our products or visit our website:
Personal Information Category | Categories of Service Providers | Categories of Third Parties |
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Personal Identifiers | Ad Networks, Business Operations Tool, Commerce Software Tools, Communications Tools, Customer Support Contractors, Customer Support Tools, Data Analytics Providers, Governance, Risk & Compliance Software, IT Infrastructure Services, Sales & Marketing Tools, and Website Operations Tool | Ad Networks, Business Operations Tool, Payment Processors, Shipping Services, and None |
Internet Activity | Ad Networks, Commerce Software Tools, Customer Support Contractors, Data Analytics Providers, Governance, Risk & Compliance Software, IT Infrastructure Services, and Sales & Marketing Tools | Ad Networks and None |
Commercial Information | Commerce Software Tools, Customer Support Contractors, Customer Support Tools, Data Analytics Providers, IT Infrastructure Services, and Sales & Marketing Tools | Ad Networks and Payment Processors |
Financial Information | Customer Support Contractors, Data Analytics Providers, and IT Infrastructure Services | Ad Networks and Payment Processors |
Physical and Audio Data | Customer Support Contractors, Data Analytics Providers, IT Infrastructure Services, and Sales & Marketing Tools | None |
Protected Classifications and Other Personal Characteristics | Data Analytics Providers, IT Infrastructure Services, and Sales & Marketing Tools | None |