Privacy Policy

Your privacy is very important to us at BACOR, Inc. and we are committed to protecting it. We created this Privacy Policy to explain how we collect, use and disclose information that is gathered and disseminated on HandbagHandcuff.com (the “Site”) and the products that are available on our Site. This Privacy Policy does not apply to other websites which we may link to and it does not apply to information that we gather and disseminate through our business practices that are connected offline.

Consent to Accept the Terms of this Privacy Policy

“Handbag Handcuff®,” “us,” “our” or “we” means BACOR, Inc. and its subsidiaries and affiliates. By using our Site, you are agreeing to this Privacy Policy. If you do not agree with the terms of this Privacy Policy, then you are not authorized to use our Site and should not provide any personal information to us. You have the options to withhold or withdraw your consent, or to abstain from providing us with personal information, however, we may not be able to provide you with products or services as a result.

What Is Personal Information?

Your “personal information” is information that identifies you as an individual, and can include your name, email and postal mailing addresses, telephone number, billing and account information, shipping address and other incidental information needed to provide you with products or services. Your personal information may also include information about other individuals that you have provided to us. In this Privacy Policy, we have identified the ways in which personal information is collected so that you can make informed decisions about whether you choose to visit and interact on our Site. We will not collect your personal information without your knowledge and/or permission. We will not knowingly disclose your personal information to third parties, except as noted. We will not sell your personal information. We will, however, use all reasonable safeguards to keep your information secure. You are allowed to view correct or modify your personal information, to close your account, or opt out of viewing our Site.

How To Access and Update Personal Information and Preferences?

If you are a registered user of our Site, you can access and update your personal information on your secure My Account page once you log in. Your My Account page data includes your name, email and postal mailing address, and may include other information that may be stored for ease of use in navigating our Site. Once you place an order, your My Account page will store your order history. You will be able to modify certain preferences in My Account, such as choosing to edit or delete your account data. Please visit your My Account page to review your personal information.

When Is Personal Information Collected?

Personal Information may be collected from you both directly, over the phone and online via live chat, email, newsletter subscription, account registration, and via purchases on our online store, and also indirectly, such as through inference, comments or reviews you may make about our product in various forums. When you submit personal information to us, you are giving us your approval to collect, use and disclose your personal information in accordance with the terms of this Privacy Policy and as permitted and/or required by law.

  1. As a Visitor On Our Site

    You can visit certain areas of HandbagHandcuff.com without needing to create an account or log in. Unless you specifically input any personal information, we will not know your identity.

  2. Subscribing to Exclusive Offers

    You can subscribe to receive exclusive offers on our Site without needing to create an account by inputting only your email address. When you subscribe, we will use your email address to send you periodic newsletters, notifications about new blog posts, and/or promotional updates.

  3. During the Account Registration Process

    If you decide to create an account on our Site, you must first complete the online registration process. You will need to input your email address and choose a password. These details will be required to gain access to the My Account section of our Site reserved for registered users.

  4. During Checkout

    If you purchase a product from our Site, you will be required to input your phone number, billing and shipping addresses, and credit card information at checkout which is necessary to process your transaction. If you place an order that ships to a military installation, you may be required to provide additional information in order to ensure delivery to your recipient. All such personal information related to your transaction shall be referred to as “Order Information” and will be entered though the secure Shopify e-commerce platform. You can learn about how Shopify uses your personal information here: https://www.shopify.com/legal/privacy.

  5. Through Customer Service Interaction

    When you contact Customer Service via email, live chat or telephone, it may be necessary to obtain your contact information in order to assist you.

  6. When Third Parties’ Personal Information is Provided

    We retain the personal information of recipients in case it is necessary to further service their orders, for warranty purposes, or to facilitate a return or exchange. Should you choose to refer a friend, you will be required to provide their email address in order for us to send them a link to our Site. We may also ask you to provide your email address so that your referral can be notified of the source. We will send your friend a one-time email about our Site. We will not permanently store the name or email address of your referred friend unless they elect to register with us themselves.

  7. Personal Information Collected When Participating in a Contest or Promotion

    We may sponsor a contest or promotion on our Site or team up with a third party for a joint promotion. If you choose to participate, we will need to collect certain information from you such as your name, email or postal mailing address for entry and future notification purposes. You may be required to disclose additional personal information in order to verify your identity if you win. Any and all contests or promotions will be run in compliance with applicable sweepstakes laws. If a third party administers the contest, your participation may be subject to additional terms and conditions and to that third party’s privacy policy.

What Personal Information Is Automatically Collected?

Analytical data about websites or search terms that referred you to our Site, the individual web pages or products that you view, and how you interact with our Site is automatically and anonymously collected. This usage information is known as Session Data and its collection allows us to better understand how users navigate our Site, improve our content, and helps us create a better experience for our visitors. Session Data may tell us certain information about the device used to access our Site, such as the type of Internet browser and computer operating system that a visitor uses, the domain name of the Internet Protocol (“IP”) addresses from which they connect to our Site, the date, time zone, time and duration of the visit to specific pages and the frequency of visits to our Site.

Technology Used to Collect Personal Information

When you access our Site, our computer may seek to place cookies, pixel tags, web beacons, log files and other like technologies on your computer or mobile device to collect Session Data. These technologies allow us to understand the efficacy of our communications. They help us to recognize you when you visit our Site again or to help us customize or improve your online experience.

What Are Cookies?

There are a variety of tracking technologies that are frequently used to monitor your website browsing activity and preferences, specifically and generally referred to as “cookies”, as follows:

  • Cookie. A cookie is a small text data file sent by a website and stored on the hard drive of your computer or mobile device by your web browser. The cookie contains a unique number that identifies your visiting browser when you visit our Site or when you interact with our Site-specific content. Cookie “messages” may be sent to your browser by us or by one of our service providers. Your computer or mobile device passes the cookie back to us each time you make a request from our Site.
  • Pixel Tags (aka Tracking Pixel, Web Beacon or Clear GIF). A pixel tag is a tiny, often transparent graphic image that is similar to a cookie and is utilized to monitor the behavior or track the movement of visitors to our Site. These electronic files are embedded images that may register or record information about how you browse our Site. When content containing an affixed pixel tag is accessed, it generates a notice to us.
  • Flash Cookie (aka Local Shared Object). A flash cookie is a persistent data file collected and stored on your computer instead of your web browser. We do not currently utilize content that is flash-dependent, however, in the future there may be certain features of our Site that use flash cookies to enable specific content. It is worth noting that flash cookies cannot be removed by simply exiting your browser. Flash cookies need to be removed by clearing your storage cache of flash-enabled cookies.
  • Log Files. Log files record actions that may occur on an operating system, tracking actions on our Site, and collecting data including your IP address, browser type, Internet service provider, referring/exit pages, and date/time stamps.

Optimizing Cookies Via Website Analytics

We use third-party website analytics services, such as Google Analytics, in order to help us utilize cookies and understand statistics about visitors to our Site.  For more information about how Google Analytics uses your personal information, please visit:  https://www.google.com/intl/en/policies/privacy/.  If you would like to opt-out of Google Analytics, please visit:  https://tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout.

Third Party Content and Social Plug-ins

Often content or applications on websites may be served by third parties, content providers and application providers via the use of “plug-ins.” A plug-in adds a specific feature to an existing computer program, gathers information and sends the collected information back to the company to which it is linked. For example, when you select one of the icons for social media companies in order to share to your social media pages, it may trigger a transference of that data. However, our Site does not use plug-ins and instead those relevant features are just built into the Shopify platform. Socially sharing data to Facebook, Twitter, Pinterest, YouTube and Instagram is done within Shopify. Please note that the social networks also have their respective data privacy declarations and opt-out links available on their sites for review.

How to Manage Your Cookie Preferences and Disable Cookies

Most Internet browsers automatically accept cookies. If you wish to control which cookies you accept for privacy reasons, you can edit options in the Settings field of your browser to prevent it from accepting cookies or to notify you before accepting a cookie from the sites you visit. You should be able to view, disable, delete, clear, restrict or set preferences that enable cookies for specific websites. Your previous cookie preferences may continue to be stored until you clear your cached browsing data. You can obtain further information about the use of cookies and how to disable them by visiting allaboutcookies.org. If you decide not to accept our cookies, you will only be able to access those parts of our Site that are available to the general public. The absence of our cookies could affect your ability to complete an online transaction on our Site. Moreover, limiting or disabling cookies might impact features of our Site that are reliant on cookies to enhance their functionality. By continuing to use our Site, you consent to the placement of cookies on your browser.

How We Might Use Your Personal Information

The personal information we collect may be used to register you as a new customer, administer your account, verify your identity, invoice you, collect payment, arrange for and track the shipment and delivery of your order. Additional information may also be needed for customers with wholesale access to our Site, to facilitate the evaluation of credit information and references, to match credit bureau or credit reporting agency information and to further service your account.

While not an exhaustive list, the information we collect may also be used to:

  • Enhance your experience on our Site by implementing your preferences;
  • Manage our relationship by responding to any inquiries and requests you may have, such as for notice or an account review or clarification of a charge;
  • Personalize communications with you about our product;
  • Inform you about new products that may be available and Site-specific promotions;
  • Provide order status, assist you with a gift or re-order;
  • Send you high or low resolution photos of our product or our How To Video;
  • Send you POP supportive collateral, administer a coupon code;
  • Assist you with navigating a specific aspect of your account or diagnose any technical problems you have on our Site;
  • Process a return or exchange;
  • Set and conduct a video conference sales meeting or product demonstration; or
  • Schedule an in-person appointment at a gift or trade show.

How We Share Personal Information

In the event that it is necessary to provide your personal information to third parties to assist us in servicing your account, or host our Site, we will take all reasonable steps to ensure that they comply with best legal and business practices and those set forth in this Privacy Policy. We reserve the right to disclose your personal information without obtaining your consent should we be legally required to do so or if we believe, in good faith, that the release is necessary for some of the following reasons:

  • To monitor compliance with our policies and contractual obligations;
  • To investigate, detect and protect our Site, our company or its operations, our employees and ourselves, to protect you or others against fraud, theft, credit risk, error, negligence, breach of contract, illegal activity or as otherwise required in a criminal investigation;
  • If required to comply with a subpoena or warrant issued or an order made by a court, administrative or governmental body with jurisdiction to compel the production of information and/or to comply with a court’s rules relating to the production of records;
  • In the event of an emergency that threatens the life, health, security or property of an identifiable person or group of people;
  • In connection with the proposed or actual sale, merger, spin-off or other corporate reorganization of BACOR, Inc. (in which case we would require the person or entity to which the information is being transferred to likewise protect your personal information pursuant to their privacy policy);
  • To comply with any legal process or regulatory requirements; or
  • Where is it necessary to allow us to pursue available remedies or limit damages that we might sustain.

How We Retain and Store Personal Information

We will retain your personal information in our databases in compliance with applicable laws. This period may extend after you have closed your account so that we will have the necessary information that we need to respond to any future issues that may arise, including but not limited to completing a return or exchange of a product purchased by you, for yourself or for a third party. Your personal information will be stored on our secure servers which are located either at our offices or at the offices of our service providers. Clients with existing accounts prior to the sunsetting of our legacy Magento-based website and conversion to the Shopify platform similarly have their personal information securely stored.

How Is Your Personal Information Protected?

We are committed to protecting your personal information, but it is a joint effort. Although your My Account data is restricted by both a user name and password, you should take precautions to safely store your account data, limit access to your computer or mobile devices, and log out after you are finished transacting business on our Site. Further steps that you could take to safeguard your data include clearing your browser cache, logging off the Internet, powering down and turning off your computer or mobile device. We will follow reasonable technical, administrative and management practices to help protect the confidentiality, security and integrity of your personal information and data stored on our system. When your personal information is sent to our service providers, they are obligated to protect all personal information in a manner consistent with the principles articulated in this Privacy Policy. We encrypt your credit card data on our Site using secure socket layer (SSL) technology that provides for the secure transmission of your information to our servers. In addition, only those employees and third parties who need access to your information in order to perform their duties are allowed such access. Please keep in mind that any information transmitted to us via the Internet might not be secure and, as such, we can assume no liability for the loss of information that you transmit this way.

Addressing Phishing Scams and Data Misappropriation

“Phishing” is a term used to describe a scam devised to steal your personal information, such as your password, user name, and/or secure details about your payment information and credit card(s). Many phishing scams are attempted over the Internet. We will not approach you in an unsolicited manner and will never ask that you disclose your password or user name to us. Please refrain from disclosing information to anyone if the circumstances are suspect and do not feel right to you. Identity theft scams can include credit card aliasing, spoofing, or the misappropriation of your name or identity.

Children’s Online Privacy and Parental Controls

Under the Children’s Online Privacy Protection Act of 1998 (“COPPA”), we do not solicit, knowingly collect or maintain any personal information of any minor under the age of 13. We do not market to minors and our Site is not directed to them. We will not use, and we will delete, any personal information provided to us by a minor, unless we are required by law to first disclose and release or to maintain that information. If you are a minor, you are not authorized to provide us with your personal information. Minors are not eligible to purchase products on our Site. If you believe we might have any personal information from or about a minor under the age of 13 please let us know immediately by writing to us via the How to Contact Us section below. Furthermore, parents and guardians of minor children should familiarize themselves with the online privacy risks inherent when minors are online and should consider installing parental control software to prevent minors from submitting information online without parental permission or from accessing material that is harmful to them.

Advertising On Our Site

BACOR, Inc. will not permit third-party advertising on HandbagHandcuff.com.

How To Opt-Out Personal Information Being Used for Targeted Email Communications

You may, at any time, elect to “opt-out” of future email delivery of updates, invitations, promotions and contests by following the Unsubscribe removal instructions, which are located at the bottom of each message. Opting out of receiving our e-newsletters will not impact your receipt of email communications relating to any online order that you have or may place on our Site. If you do not opt-out from receiving these communications about our Site, we may continue to send them to you. We will take commercially reasonable steps to implement your request promptly, but you may still receive communications from us until we are fully able to process your opt-out request.

How Do I Close My Account?

If you wish to close your account, you can do so by writing to us via the How To Contact Us section below. We will do our best to respond to all such requests within ten (10) business days following receipt, to the extent possible. Please remember that we may not be able to close your account if we are legally obligated to retain your information, or for other reasons described above.

What If There Are Changes to this Privacy Policy?

Changes to this Privacy Policy may be necessitated for operational, legal or regulatory reasons. In the event that we need to modify this policy in a material way, or if we seek to collect, use or disclose personal information for purposes other than those to which consent has been obtained, we will obtain the necessary consents required under applicable privacy laws. If we make any material changes, we will notify you by email (at the email address specified in your My Account) or by means of a notice posted on our Site prior to the change becoming effective. Any and all changes will apply to the information collected from the date we post the revised Privacy Policy to our Site, as well as to existing information held by us. Your continued use of our Site indicates your assent to the terms of the Privacy Policy. Should you have questions about changes to the Privacy Policy, you may direct them to us in writing via the How To Contact Us section below. If any proposed change is unacceptable to you, you may close your account at any time, as described in the section entitled How Do I Close My Account?

Supplemental Privacy Rights and Disclosure Information for California Residents

If you are a California resident, California law may provide you with additional rights regarding our use of your personal information. The following sections apply to and provide information for California residents who are users of our Site, including California Civil Code section 1798.83 and the California Consumer Privacy Act of 2018 (“CCPA”). California privacy laws requires that we notify its residents how we use their personal information, whether collected online or offline.

Notice of Information Collection for California Consumers Under §1798.83

California residents have privacy rights under California Civil Code section 1798.83 which regulates the sharing of personal information with third parties or corporate affiliates for their direct marketing purposes. This section, known as California’s the “Shine the Light” law, is part of California’s Consumer Records Act (Civil Code § 1798.83). The “Shine the Light” law empowers consumers to learn how businesses sell their personal information. It addresses the brokering of personal information by third parties to target consumers by spam, telemarketing, junk mail and similar methods. Moreover, it provides consumers with a process to contact businesses in order to learn about disclosures of personal information and how to opt-out of them. Under California’s "Shine the Light" law, California residents who provide personal information when obtaining products or services for personal, family, or household use are entitled to request and obtain certain information from us about the personal information we share, if any, with other businesses for their own direct marketing uses.  That said, it is not our policy to engage in this type of disclosure. We have not sold personal information at any time in the past nor have we sold it within the last 12 months. We may, however, disclose your personal information for the other purposes outlined in this Privacy Policy.

List of categories of Personal Information Under §1798.83 that We Collect, Disclose, and/or Sell

Below are categories of personal information about California residents that may be collected, sold, and/or disclosed to third parties or service providers for business purposes. We do not collect all of the information listed.

Categories of Personal Information

Do we collect?

Do we disclose for business purposes?

Do we sell?

Name, contact information and identifiers:

Identifiers such as a real name, alias, postal address, unique personal identifier, online identifier, Internet Protocol (IP) address, email address, account name, social security number, driver’s license number, passport number, or other similar identifiers.

YES 

YES 

NO

Customer records:

Paper and electronic customer records containing personal information, such as name, signature, social security number, physical characteristics or description, address, telephone number, passport number, driver’s license or state identification card number, insurance policy number, education, employment, employment history, bank account number, credit card number, debit card number, or any other financial information, medical information, or health insurance information.

YES 

YES 

NO 

Protected classifications:

Protected classifications include race, color, sex (including, but not limited to, gender, gender identity and/or gender expression), sexual orientation, age, religion, ancestry, national origin, citizenship status, disability, veteran or military status, and genetic information.

NO

NO

NO

Purchase history and tendencies:

Commercial information, including records of personal property, products or services purchased, obtained, or considered, or other purchasing or consuming histories or tendencies.

YES

YES

NO

Biometric information:

Physiological, biological or behavioral characteristics that can be used alone or in combination with each other to establish individual identity, including DNA, imagery of the iris, retina, fingerprint, face, hand, palm, vein patterns, and voice recordings, keystroke patterns or rhythms, gait patterns or rhythms, and sleep, health, or exercise data that contain identifying information.

NO

NO

NO

Usage data:

Internet or other electronic network activity information, including, but not limited to, browsing history, search history, and information regarding a resident’s interaction with an internet website, application, or advertisement.

YES

YES

NO

Geolocation data:

Geolocation data, precise geographic location information about a particular individual or device.

YES

YES

NO

Audio/visual:

Audio (e.g. voicemails), electronic, visual, thermal, olfactory, or similar information.

YES

YES

NO

Employment history:

Professional or employment-related information, such as past job history or evaluations.

NO

NO

NO

Non-Public Education information:

Information that is not publicly available personally identifiable information as defined in the federal Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act (20 U.S.C. section 1232g, 34 C.F.R. Part 99), such as grades, transcripts, class lists, schedules, student transcripts, financial data or student ID.

NO

NO

NO

Profiles and inferences:

Inferences drawn from any of the information identified above to create a profile about a resident reflecting the resident’s preferences, characteristics, psychological trends, predispositions, behavior, attitudes, intelligence, abilities, and aptitudes.

YES

NO

NO

Requests for Accounting of Disclosures Under §1798.83

California residents who use our Site may request disclosures of their personal information by submitting a written request to us via the How To Contact Us section below. We will begin to process your request within ten (10) business days upon receipt and will provide an accounting categorizing the personal information disclosed to third parties (if any) during the immediately preceding calendar year, along with the names and addresses of such third parties. You may make such a request once per calendar year and free of charge.

California Consumer Privacy Act of 2018

The California Consumer Privacy Act of 2018 (“CCPA”) grants California consumers specific privacy rights and control over their personal information, including the right to know, the right to delete, and the right to opt-in or out of the sale of personal information that we might collect. It provides additional protections for minors. Under the CCPA, “personal information” is any information that identifies, relates to, describes, is reasonably capable of being associated with, or could reasonably be linked, directly or indirectly, with a particular California resident or household.

The CCPA provides that you have the right to:

  • Request that we disclose certain information to you about our collection, use, disclosure, and sale of your personal information to third parties (if any) over the past 12 months.
  • Request access to a copy of the personal information that we have collected about you within the past 12 months and to have this delivered, free of charge, either (a) by mail or (b) electronically in a portable and readily useable format (if feasible) that allows the individual to transmit this information to another entity without hindrance.
  • Request that we delete any personal information that we collected from you and retained, subject to certain exceptions.
  • Opt out of the sale of your personal information. In general, when the Do Not Track (“DNT”) setting is activated on your web browser it sends a signal to alert sites to disable tracking your activity. However, we do not sell personal information for any of our consumers, whether they be California residents or otherwise, so we do not respond to DNT signals.
  • Exercise your rights under the CCPA free from discrimination. We will not deny you goods or services, charge you different prices or rates, provide you a different level of service, offer inferior goods, or penalize you in any way for making a request under CCPA.

The CCPA temporarily exempts personal information reflecting written or verbal business-to-business communications (“B2B personal information”) from many of its requirements. This Privacy Notice does not disclose our practices with respect to B2B personal information.

Submitting Requests Under the CCPA

Only you, or your legally authorized agent, may make a verifiable consumer request on your behalf for your personal information. You may authorize an agent so long as such person (or entity) is registered with the California Secretary of State. You may also make a verifiable consumer request on behalf of your minor child. You may not request that we delete data for someone other than yourself, your minor child or belonging to someone for whom you are not an authorized agent. Once we receive, confirm and verify your request, we will delete (and direct our service providers to delete) your personal information from our records, unless we are restricted from doing so by law. You may submit your request to exercise right of deletion, right to a copy, and / or the right to information to us in writing via the How to Contact Us section enumerated below.

Personal Information of Minors

In addition to the aforementioned Children’s Online Privacy and Parental Controls, if you are a minor between the ages of 13 and 18 and have an account on our Site, you may ask us to remove reviews or other content that you posted on our Site by writing to us via the How To Contact Us section below. We will begin to process your request within ten (10) business days.

Nevada Privacy Rights Under SB 220

Under Senate Bill 220, Nevada residents who are consumers on our Site have the right to opt out of the sale of certain "covered information" collected by operators of websites or online services. We currently do not sell covered information, as "sale" is defined by such law, and we don't have plans to sell this information.

International and Cross-Border Transfer of Personal Information

If you are a European resident, please be advised that by using our Site you consent to the transfer of your personal information a country that may be outside your country of residence, which may have different data protection rules that your country. The processing and fulfillment of your order may involve transferring your data outside the European Economic Area ("EEA"), such as to Canada, or to the United States, where we are based. Some of our external third-party service providers are also based outside of the EEA, and their processing of your personal data will involve a transfer of data outside the EEA. Where personal data is transferred to and stored in a country not determined by the European Commission as providing adequate levels of protection for personal data, we will take reasonable steps to provide appropriate safeguards to protect your personal data, whenever possible.

Special Rights Information for European Residents

The EU General Data Protection Regulation 2016/679 (“GDPR”) offers EU residents privacy protections for their personal data which include the rights of access and portability, as well as the right of erasure. If you are an EU resident consumer of our Site, you have the right to access personal information we hold about you and to ask that your personal information be corrected, updated, or deleted. If you would like to exercise this right under the GDPR, please submit your request through the How To Contact Us section below.

How To Contact Us

If you have any questions or concerns about (a) this Privacy Policy, (b) the collection, use, management or disclosure of your personal information, (c) accessing, modifying or closing your account, or if you wish to make personal data requests pursuant to §1798.83, CCPA, or GDPR, as applicable, please contact us in writing via email or U.S. postal mail. It will be necessary for you to clearly identify the nature of your request and the applicable privacy law in the subject line of your request. We will respond to your questions or concerns promptly. You may also direct complaints, if any, to us using the same contact details.

Email: info@HandbagHandcuff.com

Mail: BACOR, Inc.
137 North Larchmont Boulevard, #219
Los Angeles, California 90004
Attention: Privacy Manager

Revised & Effective January 1, 2021