Bahama
Buck's Privacy Policy
It is the policy of Bahama Buck's Franchise Corporation ("Bahama Buck's")
to protect your privacy. We want you to enjoy every visit to Bahama Bucks
Official Website, whether you're here to order cool gear, learn more about
our "Taste of Paradise" or to tell us about your last trip to one
of our shops. So rest assured, any information you share with us, from your
email address to your favorite flavor, will be carefully guarded through our
use of industry-standard security software to encrypt your credit card number,
ordering and shipping information and other personal information. Please read
on for more details about our privacy policy.
Bahama Buck's reserves the right to change this privacy policy at any time.
Be sure to check this page periodically for updates. This policy applies only
to personal information collected online at BahamaBucks.com and does not apply
to information collected offline by Bahama Buck's.
By providing Bahama Buck's with your personal information, you signify that
you agree with the terms of our current Privacy Statement as posted here.
If you do not agree with any term in this Statement, please do not provide
any personal information. However, if you choose not to provide your personal
information, you may not be able to access particular areas of our website,
order from our shop, obtain franchise information, enter contests, request
samples, or send us messages or e-mail.
What is Personal Information?
Personal Information is defined as any information concerning the personal
or material circumstances of an identified or identifiable individual. An
identifiable person is one who can be identified, directly or indirectly,
by reference to an identification number or to one or more factors specific
to his physical, physiological, mental, economic, cultural or social identity.
Personal Information shall include but is not limited to: Social Security
Number, name, home address, home telephone number, financial statement and
similar identifying information. We will never collect sensitive Personal
Information. Sensitive Personal Information shall include but is not limited
to: information pertaining to racial or ethnic origins, political or religious
beliefs, health, and sexual orientation.
Collection and Use of Personal Information
Bahama Buck's only gathers personal information when voluntarily submitted
by you. If you request information from Bahama Buck's, or wish to share an
experience you had at one of our shops, we'll ask for personal information
such as your name, address, and email address, as well as store address and
any other information you may wish to share, so that we can best respond to
your comments. Additionally, if you contact Bahama Buck's, we may keep record
of that correspondence. This information will help us to better improve our
commitment to provide a great time - every time.
When you access certain areas of Bahama Buck's Website, such as when purchasing
products, will ask you for information. Such information can include your
name, e-mail address, residence or billing addresses, and credit card information.
Other areas of Bahama Buck's Website can include requests for information
for prospective franchisees and vendors. These areas can include requests
not only for the above type of information, but also requests for certain
financial, credit and other sensitive personal information deemed necessary
to evaluate your potential as a franchisee or vendor.
Bahama Buck's may also collect certain aggregate information about you and
your use of our website whenever you visit us online, such as various forms
of "click stream" information including URLs or domains, origination
information and Site traffic statistics, page views, impressions, and operating
system and browser type. In addition, when users request pages on our website,
our servers automatically log their IP addresses. An IP address is a number
that is automatically assigned to your computer whenever you are surfing the
Web. This aggregate information generally will not personally identify you
or be correlated to you individually for external purposes. Bahama Buck's
may collect, compile, store, publish, promote, report, sell, or otherwise
disclose or use any and all of the aggregate information, provided that, such
information does not personally identify you, and the aggregate information
will not be used by other companies to contact you.
From time to time we and/or our partners will offer information for prospective
franchisees, sponsor contests, opinion polls and special services that will
require more information. Bahama Buck's partners or websites that have links
on our Site may collect personal information about you. Please be aware that
the information collected by these partners or websites is not covered under
this Privacy Statement.
Bahama Buck's uses "cookie" technology to help improve your experience
at our website. Cookies are pieces of information a website sends to an individual's
hard drive while they are viewing the website. Cookies allow the website to
remember important information that will make your visit to the Site more
useful.
If you do not wish to receive a cookie or if you wish to set your browser
to warn you each time a cookie is being sent, or if you wish to turn off all
cookies, use the options on your browser to assist you. The "Help"
option on your Browser may assist you in changing your cookie preferences.
Please note that by turning cookies off, you will not have access to many
features available on our website.
Collection and Use of Franchisee Personal Information
If you choose to, you may submit via the Bahama Buck's website an electronic
application seeking consideration as a prospective franchisee. By doing so,
you agree that the information you disclose becomes the property of Bahama
Buck's.
By applying to become a Bahama Buck's Franchisee, you consent to the collection,
use, and disclosure of your Personal Information in accordance with the following
terms and conditions. We collect and use Personal Information in order to
assist you in applying to become a Bahama Buck's Franchisee and to assist
Bahama Buck's in selecting franchisee candidates. Personal Information collected
from franchise applicants includes but is not limited to: name, address, telephone
number, facsimile number, email address, date of birth, citizenship, educational
background, criminal background, bank account information for Electronic Funds
Transfer, financial statement, litigation history, and taxpayer identification
number. This Personal Information may be shared between Bahama Buck's and
its affiliates, pursuant to the agreements between them to better service
franchise applicants.
Use and Sharing of Personal Information
Bahama Buck's collects information in order to provide our users with personalized
and customized service. We will often use the information we collect to notify
you of important changes to Bahama Buck's, new services, and special offers
or contests that we think you'll find valuable. We do this to in order to
improve our commitment to providing a great time - every time you visit and
we may share this research with our partners.Bahama Buck's may share personal
information within the Bahama Buck's family, including the Corporation, our
franchisees, our subsidiaries and our affiliates.
Any use of this information by the Bahama Buck's family will comply with this
policy. Occasionally, with your permission, we will send marketing information
to you, such as discount coupons, information about new product offerings,
etc. If you do not elect to receive such materials, please contact us at the
number listed below and we will not send them to you.
We won't give any of your personal information to anyone outside of Bahama
Buck's other than our agents who may need, for example, to fulfill your order,
respond to your requests or inquiries, or help us improve our products or
website. We require our agents to respect our privacy practices and not use
your personal information for purposes other than to carry out our instructions.
Further, information collected through our Website is considered a trade secret
of Bahama Buck's. As the owner of such information, we may disclose or sell
such information as an asset of the company in conjunction with the sale to
a third party of our company or a portion of our assets.
Bahama Buck's reserves the right to use or disclose any information as needed
to satisfy any law, regulation or legal request, to protect the integrity
of the Site, to fulfill your requests, or to cooperate in any law enforcement
investigation or an investigation on a matter of public safety.
Protection
When you submit any files, information, or access your account, Bahama Buck's
uses a secure server. The secure server software (SSL) encrypts all the information
that you provide before it is sent to us. In addition, we take appropriate
security measures to safeguard your personal information once we receive it.
Privacy of Children
Bahama Buck's recognizes the need to provide additional privacy protection
to children. For this reason, Bahama Buck's does not collect personal information
from children under 13. We encourage parents of children under 13 to regularly
check and monitor their children's use of e-mail and other activities online.
Links
You may find that it is possible to "hot-link" from other websites
to this, the official Bahama Buck's website, or from this website to other
websites. Please recognize that other websites are not under our control and
therefore Bahama Buck's is not responsible for the privacy practices or the
content of other websites. You should consult the privacy policy of the Site
to or from which you link to determine the information practices of that Site.
Contact Us
If you have any questions regarding our privacy practices, you can telephone
us at (806) 771-2189, or you can write to us at Bahama Buck's Franchise Corporation