Privacy Policy
Effective upon: October 9, 2024
Last updated: October 30, 2024
This Privacy Policy describes how GI-HI Holdings LLC, its owners, subsidiaries, affiliated companies, agents and their directors, officers, employees (“we,” “us,” and “our”) collects, uses, discloses, and protects the personal information you provide when you access or use our website at swisherblunts.com (the “Site”) or sign up for one of our newsletter on the Site. This Policy does not apply to the practices of third-party websites, services, or applications, including third parties who advertise our products or services or the services products or websites displayed to you or linked from the Site.
You understand and acknowledge that when you access or use the Site, we will collect and use your Personal Information as described in this Privacy Policy. If you do not agree to the terms of this Privacy Policy, please do not continue to access or use the Site. If you do not understand or if you have any questions about this Privacy Policy, please contact us at privacy@swisherblunts.com before continuing to access or use the Site.
We have the right to change this Privacy Policy from time to time by posting the changes here. If we make any changes to this Privacy Policy that are significant and you have signed up for one of our newsletters, we will also provide you with notice of the changes in the newsletter. Your decision to access or use the Site after we have made changes to our Privacy Policy will mean that you have accepted those changes.
1. THE PERSONAL INFORMATION WE COLLECT
For the purposes of this Privacy Policy, “Personal Information” means information that personally identifies you, such as your first name, email address, date of birth, zip code, dispensary name or other data that can be reasonably linked to you. The Personal Information we collect from you depends upon the information you provide when you sign up for one of our newsletters, how you use the Site, and how you manage your privacy controls.
Personal Information you Provide to Us
When you sign-up for one of our newsletters, you are asked to provide Personal Information, including your name, email address, date of birth, zip code, and, for some newsletters, the name of your store.
Personal Information we Automatically Collect
When you visit the Site, we automatically collect the following Personal information unless you have configured the privacy controls of our device to prevent it from being collected:
- Device Used to Access the Site: We collect information about the device you use to access the Site, including information about the computer, mobile device, or other technology you use to access the Site.
- IP Address: We collect your IP address from your internet service provider (“ISP”), who assigns it. Your IP address is subject to change, so we may maintain a record of many ISPs associated with you or your devices over time. IP addresses are typically associated with a particular geographic area and are used to estimate your location.
- Cookies & Other Session Trackers: We may also collect cookies, local shared objects and similar session-tracking technologies (collectively, “Session Trackers”) to identify you over the course of many sessions. Session Trackers help provide additional functionality to the Services, customize users’ experiences with the Services and help us analyze Services usage more accurately for research and product development purposes. If you would prefer not to accept Session Trackers when using the Site, follow the instructions provided by your website or mobile browser (usually located within the “Help”, “Tools” or “Edit” facility) to modify your Session Tracker settings. Please note that if you disable Session Trackers, you may not be able to access certain parts of the Site or some features of the Site may not work properly. We recommend that you leave Session Trackers turned on when accessing the Site because they allow you to take advantage of all of the Site’s features.
- Online Analytics: We also use various types of online analytics including Google Analytics, a web analytics service provided by Google, Inc. (“Google”), on our Website. Google Analytics uses cookies or other tracking technologies to help us analyze how users interact with and use the website, compile reports on the related activities, and provide other services related to website and app activity and usage. The technologies used by Google may collect information such as your IP address, time of visit, whether you are a return visitor, and any referring website or app. The information generated by Google Analytics will be transmitted to and stored by Google and will be subject to Google’s privacy policies. To learn more about Google’s partner services and to learn how to opt-out of tracking of analytics by Google click here. You may opt-out of Google’s use of cookies by visiting Google’s Ads Settings.
2. HOW WE USE THE PERSONAL INFORMATION WE HAVE COLLECTED
We use Personal Information:
To Communicate with You
We use your Personal Information, like your email address, to interact with you directly. For example, we may send you information related to marketing and newsletters. If you contact us, we will keep a record of your request so that we can honor your request
To Maintain and Improve the Site and Our Offerings
We use Personal Information to ensure that the Site is working properly, such as troubleshooting issues with the Site. We also use Personal Information to improve the products and services that we offer outside of the Site.
To Protect Us, Our Customers, and the Public
We use Personal Information to help improve the safety and reliability of the Site. This includes detecting, preventing, and responding to fraud, abuse, security risks, and technical issues that could harm us, our customers, or the public. We also use Personal Information to defend, protect, or enforce our rights or applicable terms of use; to assist in the event of an emergency; and to comply with applicable law
With Your Consent
We will ask for your consent before using your Personal Information for a purpose that is not covered in this Privacy Policy.
3. HOW WE SHARE THE PERSONAL INFORMATION WE HAVE COLLECTED
We share your Personal Information:
With Vendors Who Provide Services to Us
We may share Personal Information with vendors who provide services to us, including providers of analytics services and services necessary to maintain and improve the Site. We require vendors who provide services to us to use any Personal Information we provide them solely for the purposes of providing services to us.
With Our Business Partners
We may share Personal Information with our business partners so that they can market their products and services to you or improve the way in which they market products and services to you.
For Law Enforcement and Legal Reasons
We may share Personal Information if we have a good-faith belief that access, use, preservation, or disclosure of the Personal Information is reasonably necessary to:
- Meet any applicable law, regulation, legal process, or enforceable governmental request;
- Enforce applicable Terms of Use, including investigation of potential violations;
- Detect, prevent, or otherwise address fraud, security, or technical issues; or
- Protect against harm to the rights, property or safety of us, our customers, or the public as required or permitted by law.
For Reasons Relating to the Operation of our Business
We may also transfer or assign Personal Information as a result of, or in connection with, a sale, merger, consolidation, change in control, transfer of assets, bankruptcy, reorganization, or liquidation. If we are involved in defending a legal claim, we may disclose Personal Information that is relevant to the claim to third parties as a result of, or in connection with, the associated legal proceedings.
With Your Consent
We will ask for your consent before sharing your Personal Information for a purpose that is not covered in this Privacy Policy.
4. KEEPING PERSONAL INFORMATION SECURE
We have administrative, technical, and physical safeguards in place in our respective physical facilities and in our respective computer systems, databases, and communications networks that are commercially reasonably designed to protect the information contained within our systems from loss, misuse, and alteration. We employ commercially reasonable website security and customer verification procedures to protect your data. The measures we use may include storing Personal Information on secured servers, transmitting this information using encryption technologies, and auditing and reviewing our data collection and storage practices. User passwords and other sensitive information are saved and encrypted to prevent unauthorized access or disclosure and accidental loss, alteration, or destruction. We regularly review our operational and business practices for compliance with corporate policies and procedures governing the security, confidentiality, and quality of our information.
Because no method of electronic transmission or storage is completely secure, we do not guarantee absolute security of your Personal Information.
5. RETAINING INFORMATION
We may retain your Personal Information for as long as necessary for the purposes for which the information was first collected and any other business purpose, including, but not limited to, legal, archival, accounting, and/or audit purposes.
When you delete Personal Information or request that we delete Personal Information, we follow a deletion process to make sure that your Personal Information is safely and completely removed from our systems or retained only in anonymized form unless we are required to retain it for specific legal purposes. We try to ensure that our services protect Personal Information from accidental or malicious deletion. Because of this, there may be delays between when you delete, or request to delete, something and when copies are deleted from our archive and backup systems.
We may use non-personal information for any and all purposes, and we retain non-personal information for as long as we have a business need to do so.
6. SOCIAL MEDIA
If you tag, review or post about our products, we may collect and utilize content from public social media posts, including but not limited to text, images and videos that tag, review or mention us or our products. This content may be used for promotional purposes, including marketing campaigns, social media promotions and website content.
If you choose to connect to us through social media platforms, such as Instagram, Facebook, YouTube, LinkedIn or X, then We may collect personal information from your social media profile. We collect this information to help us carry out the uses described above in the How We Use the Personal Information We Have Collected section. Please be advised that social media platforms may collect information from you. We encourage you to review the social media platforms’ usage and disclosure policies and practices, including data security practices, before using them.
7. USER-GENERATED CONTENT
When you create or post content on the Site, or interact with features on the Site, we collect the Personal Information you have created, shared, or posted, which we will use as described in this Privacy Policy.
8. CHILDREN'S PRIVACY
The Site is not intended to be accessed or used by children or individuals under the age of 21 unless the individual is 18 years of age or older and a registered qualifying medical marijuana patient in the State of Michigan. We do not knowingly collect Personal Information from children or individuals under 21 years of age, except as specified above. If you think we have received Personal Information from a child or individual under the age of 18, please immediately contact us at privacy@swisherblunts.com.
9. HOW TO CONTACT US
If you have questions, concerns, or would like to update or correct your Personal Information, you can always contact us at privacy@swisherblunts.com. For your protection, we may need to verify your identity before assisting with your request, such as verifying that the information used to contact us matches the information that we have on file.