SCOTT Sports SA (USA) Website Privacy Policy

Last modified: November 1, 2024
NOTICE: This website may share your personal information through the use of advertising and analytics-related cookies and pixels on our website.

Introduction

SCOTT Sports SA (USA) (“SCOTT,” “we,” “our” or “us”) respect your privacy and are committed to protecting it through our compliance with this policy.
The following terms and conditions, together with any documents they expressly incorporate by reference (collectively, “Privacy Policy”), describe the types of information we may collect from you that you may provide when you visit our website located at www.scott-sports.com/us/en (our “Website”), and our practices for collecting, using, maintaining, protecting, and disclosing that information.  Please read this Privacy Policy carefully to understand our policies and practices regarding your information and how we will treat it. If you do not agree with our policies and practices, then do not use our Website. BY ACCESSING OR USING THIS WEBSITE, YOU AGREE TO THIS PRIVACY POLICY.
This Privacy Policy applies to information we collect:

• On this Website.
• In email, text, and other electronic messages between you and this Website.

It does not apply to information collected by:

• Us offline or through any other means, including on any other website operated by us or any third party (including our affiliates and subsidiaries); or
• Any third party (including our affiliates and subsidiaries), including through any application or content (including advertising) that may link to or be accessible from or through the Website.

This Privacy Policy may change from time to time (see Changes to Our Privacy Policy). Your continued use of this Website after we make changes is deemed to be acceptance of those changes, so please check this Privacy Policy periodically for updates.
Jurisdiction-Specific Disclosures.  Please see Your State Privacy Rights for additional information related to rights you may have under the applicable privacy laws of your jurisdiction.  If you reside in California, then please see our Supplemental Notice for California Residents located at the end of our Privacy Policy.

1.         Children Under the Age of 18

Our Website is not intended for children under 18 years of age. No one under age 18 may provide any information to or on the Website. We do not knowingly collect personal information from children under 18. If you are under 18, do not use or provide any information on this Website or on or through any of its features. If we learn we have collected or received personal information from a child under 18 without verification of parental consent, then we will delete that information. If you believe we might have any information from or about a child under 18, then please contact us at:
privacy@scottusa.com

2.         Information We Collect About You and How We Collect It

We collect several types of information from and about users of our Website, including information:

• By which you may be personally identified, such as name, postal address, email address, telephone number, or any other identifier by which you may be contacted online or offline (“personal information”);
• That is about you but individually does not identify you; and/or
• About your internet connection, the equipment you use to access our Website, and usage details.

We collect this information:

• Directly from you when you provide it to us.
• Automatically as you navigate through the site. Information collected automatically may include usage details, IP addresses, and information collected through cookies, web beacons, and other tracking technologies.
• From third parties, for example, our business partners.

2.1           Information You Provide to Us

The information we collect on or through our Website may include:

• Information that you provide by filling in forms on our Website. This includes information provided at the time of registering to use our Website, subscribing to our service, or requesting further services. We may also ask you for information when you report a problem with our Website.
• Records and copies of your correspondence (including email addresses), if you contact us.
• Details of transactions you carry out through our Website and of the fulfillment of your orders. You may be required to provide financial information before placing an order through our Website.
• Your search queries on the Website.

2.2       Information We Collect Through Automatic Data Collection Technologies

As you navigate through and interact with our Website, we may use automatic data collection technologies to collect certain information about your equipment, browsing actions, and patterns, including:

• Details of your visits to our Website, including traffic data, location data, logs, and other communication data and the resources that you access and use on the Website.
• Information about your computer and internet connection, including your IP address, operating system, and browser type.

We also may use these technologies to collect information about your online activities over time and across third-party websites or other online services (behavioral tracking). Residents of certain states may have additional personal information rights and choices regarding behavioral tracking. Please see Your State Privacy Rights for more information on how you can opt out of behavioral tracking on this Website and how we respond to web browser signals and other mechanisms that enable consumers to exercise choice about behavioral tracking.
The information we collect automatically may include personal information, or we may maintain it or associate it with personal information we collect in other ways or receive from third parties. It helps us to improve our Website and to deliver a better and more personalized service, including by enabling us to:

• Estimate our audience size and usage patterns.
• Store information about your preferences, allowing us to customize our Website according to your individual interests.
• Speed up your searches.
• Recognize you when you return to our Website.

The technologies we use for this automatic data collection may include:

• Cookies (or browser cookies). A cookie is a small file placed on the hard drive of your computer. We may “sell” or “share” personal information through the use of advertising and analytics-related cookies on our website. We use these cookies for the sole purposes of analytics and for providing targeted behavioral advertising based on your interest in us. You may adjust your cookie preferences on your device or remove them by adjusting your browser or cookie preferences, as they permit. For more information about managing your privacy and security settings for cookies, see Choices About How We Use and Disclose Your Information.
• Web Beacons. Pages of our Website may contain small electronic files known as web beacons (also referred to as clear gifs, pixel tags, and single-pixel gifs) that permit us, for example, to count users who have visited those pages and for other related website statistics (for example, recording the popularity of certain website content and verifying system and server integrity).

2.3      Third-Party Use of Cookies and Other Tracking Technologies

Some content or applications, including advertisements, on the Website are served by third-parties, including advertisers, ad networks and servers, content providers, and application providers. These third parties may use cookies alone or in conjunction with web beacons or other tracking technologies to collect information about you when you use our website. The information they collect may be associated with your personal information or they may collect information, including personal information, about your online activities over time and across different websites and other online services. They may use this information to provide you with interest-based (behavioral) advertising or other targeted content.
We do not control these third parties’ tracking technologies or how they may be used. If you have any questions about an advertisement or other targeted content, then you should contact the responsible provider directly. For information about how you can opt out of receiving targeted advertising from many providers, see Choices About How We Use and Disclose Your Information.

3.         How We Use Your Information

We use information that we collect about you or that you provide to us, including any personal information:

• To present our Website and its contents to you.
• To provide you with information, products, or services that you request from us.
• To fulfill any other purpose for which you provide it.
• To carry out our obligations and enforce our rights arising from any contracts entered into between you and us, including for billing and collection.
• To notify you about changes to our Website or any products or services we offer or provide though it.
• To allow you to participate in interactive features on our Website.
• In any other way we may describe when you provide the information.
• For any other purpose with your consent.

We may also use your information to contact you about goods and services that may be of interest to you. If you do not want us to use your information in this way, then please contact us at privacy@scottusa.com.  For more information, see Choices About How We Use and Disclose Your Information.

4.         Disclosure of Your Information

We may disclose aggregated information about our users, and information that does not identify any individual, without restriction.
We may disclose personal information that we collect or you provide as described in this privacy policy:

• To our subsidiaries and affiliates.
• To contractors, service providers, and other third parties we use to support our business and who are bound by contractual obligations to keep personal information confidential and use it only for the purposes for which we disclose it to them.
• To a buyer or other successor in the event of a merger, divestiture, restructuring, reorganization, dissolution, or other sale or transfer of some or all of SCOTT’s assets, whether as a going concern or as part of bankruptcy, liquidation, or similar proceeding, in which personal information held by SCOTT about our Website users is among the assets transferred.
• To fulfill the purpose for which you provide it.
• For any other purpose disclosed by us when you provide the information.
• With your consent.

We may also disclose your personal information:

• To comply with any court order, law, or legal process, including to respond to any government or regulatory request.
• To enforce or apply our Terms of Use or Terms and Conditions of Sale and other agreements, including for billing and collection purposes.
• If we believe disclosure is necessary or appropriate to protect the rights, property, or safety of SCOTT, our customers, or others. This includes exchanging information with other companies and organizations for the purposes of fraud protection and credit risk reduction.

5.         Choices About How We Use and Disclose Your Information

We strive to provide you with choices regarding the personal information you provide to us. We have created mechanisms to provide you with the following control over your information:

• Tracking Technologies and Advertising. You can set your browser to refuse all or some browser cookies, or to alert you when cookies are being sent. If you disable or refuse cookies, then please note that some parts of this Website may then be inaccessible or not function properly. You can also manage cookies by clicking on the Cookie Management link located at the bottom of our Website.  
• Disclosure of Your Information for Third-Party Advertising. If you do not want us to share your personal information with unaffiliated or non-agent third parties for promotional purposes, you can opt out by sending us an email stating your request to privacy@scottusa.com.
• Promotional Offers. If you do not wish to have your email address used by us to promote our own products or services, then you can opt out by sending us an email stating your request to privacy@scottusa.com. If we have sent you a promotional email, then you may send us a return email asking to be omitted from future email distributions, or you may opt-out by selecting the “unsubscribe” option.
• Targeted Advertising. If you do not want us to use information that we collect or that you provide to us to deliver advertisements according to our advertisers’ target-audience preferences, then you can opt out by sending us an email stating your request to privacy@scottusa.com.

We do not control third parties’ collection or use of your information to serve interest-based advertising. However these third parties may provide you with ways to choose not to have your information collected or used in this way. You can opt out of receiving targeted ads from members of the Network Advertising Initiative (“NAI”) on the NAI’s website.
Residents of certain states may have additional personal information rights and choices. Please see Your State Privacy Rights for more information.

6.         Accessing and Correcting Your Information

You can review and change your personal information by logging into the Website and visiting your account profile page.
You may also send us an email at privacy@scottusa.com to request access to, correct, or delete any personal information that you have provided to us.  We may not accommodate a request to change information if we believe the change would violate any law or legal requirement or cause the information to be incorrect.
Residents of certain states may have additional personal information rights and choices.  Please see Your State Privacy Rights for more information.

7.         Your State Privacy Rights

State consumer privacy laws may provide their residents with additional rights regarding our use of their personal information.  If you are a resident of California, then please see our Supplemental Notice for California Residents.   Other states, such as Colorado, Connecticut, Delaware, Florida, Indiana, Iowa, Kentucky, Maryland, Minnesota, Montana, New Hampshire, Nebraska New Jersey, Oregon, Rhode Island, Tennessee, Texas, Utah, and Virginia provide (now or in the future) their state residents with rights to:

• Confirm whether we process their personal information.
• Access and delete certain personal information.
• Correct inaccuracies in their personal information, taking into account the information’s nature processing purpose (excluding Iowa and Utah).
• Data portability.
• Opt-out of personal data processing for:
  • targeted advertising (excluding Iowa);
  • sales; or
  • profiling in furtherance of decisions that produce legal or similarly significant effects (excluding Iowa and Utah).
• Either limit (opt-out of) or require consent to process sensitive personal data.

The exact applicability and scope of these rights may vary by state.  To exercise any of these rights please contact us at privacy@scottusa.com.
Nevada provides its residents with a limited right to opt-out of certain personal information sales. Residents who wish to exercise this sale opt-out rights may submit a request to this designated address:  privacy@scottusa.com.

8.         Data Security

We have implemented measures designed to secure your personal information from accidental loss and from unauthorized access, use, alteration, and disclosure. All information you provide to us is stored on our secure servers behind firewalls. Any payment transactions and {OTHER ENCRYPTED INFORMATION} will be encrypted using SSL technology.
The safety and security of your information also depends on you. Where we have given you (or where you have chosen) a password for access to certain parts of our Website, you are responsible for keeping this password confidential. We ask you not to share your password with anyone.
Unfortunately, the transmission of information via the internet is not completely secure. Although we do our best to protect your personal information, we cannot guarantee the security of your personal information transmitted to our Website. Any transmission of personal information is at your own risk. We are not responsible for circumvention of any privacy settings or security measures contained on the Website.

9.         Changes to Our Privacy Policy

It is our policy to post any changes we make to our privacy policy on this page. If we make material changes to how we treat our users' personal information, we will notify you by email to the email address specified in your account and/or through a notice on the Website home page. The date the privacy policy was last revised is identified at the top of the page. You are responsible for ensuring we have an up-to-date active and deliverable email address for you, and for periodically visiting our Website and this privacy policy to check for any changes.

10.      Contact Information

To ask questions or comment about this privacy policy and our privacy practices, please contact us at:  privacy@scottusa.com. 

11.      Supplemental Notice for California Residents

This Supplemental Notice for California Residents only applies to our processing of data about California residents.  This policy was last reviewed on November 1, 2024.

11.1    Do Not Track

We currently do not support the Do Not Track (“DNT”) browser setting or respond to DNT signals. DNT is a preference you can set in your browser to let the websites you visit know that you do not want them collecting certain information about you. For more details about DNT, including how to enable or disable this preference, visit https://termsfeed.com/do-not-track.

11.2    Your Rights

The California Consumer Privacy Act of 2018 as amended by the California Privacy Rights Act (“CPRA”) (collectively, “CCPA”), provides California residents with specific rights regarding their personal information.  Personal information does not include deidentified or aggregate consumer information (Cal. Civ. Code § 1798.140(v)(2), (3)). 
If you are a California resident, then you have the right to:

• Limit sensitive personal information (SPI) use and disclosure for Non-Permitted SPI Purposes (Cal. Civ. Code § 1798.121; Cal. Code Regs. tit. 11, § 7027).
• Opt-out of personal information sales and sharing (Cal. Civ. Code § 1798.120).
• Know what personal information we collect about you and how we use and share it (Cal. Civ. Code §§ 1798.110 and 1789.115).
• Correct inaccurate personal information (Cal. Civ. Code § 1798.106).
• Equal treatment that prohibits us from discriminating against you for exercising your rights (Cal. Civ. Code § 1798.125).
• Delete personal information (Cal. Civ. Code § 1798.105).

(Cal. Civ. Code §§ 1798.100(a) and 1798.130; Cal. Code Regs. Tit. 11, § 7011(e)(2)).

11.3    Submitting Requests to Limit SPI, Out-out, Know, Correct, or Delete Personal Information

You may submit a verifiable consumer request to us to exercise any of these rights by emailing us at privacy@scottusa.com. We will process such requests in accordance with applicable laws.

11.4    Verification

To protect your and others’ privacy, we will take steps to verify your identity before fulfilling your request. When you make a request, we will ask you to provide sufficient information that allows us to reasonably verify you are the person about whom we collected personal information or an authorized representative. We verify consumer requests by matching personal information that you provide with information in our possession, in order to confirm your identity. Any additional information you provide will be used only to verify your identity and not for any other purpose.

11.5    Authorized Agent

Only you, or someone legally authorized to act on your behalf, may make a verifiable consumer request related to your personal information. You may designate an authorized agent to make requests on your behalf. You must provide an authorized agent written permission to submit a request on your behalf, and we may require that you verify your identity directly with us. Alternatively, an authorized agent that has been provided power of attorney under Probate Code sections 4000-4465 may submit a request on your behalf. To designate an authorized agent, please contact us at privacy@scottusa.com.

11.6    “Sales” or “Sharing” of Personal Information under the CCPA

We may “sell” or “share” personal information through the use of advertising and analytics-related cookies and pixels on our website. We use these cookies and pixels for the sole purposes of analytics and for providing targeted behavioral advertising based on your interest in us. You may adjust your cookie preferences on your device or remove them by adjusting your browser or devices preferences, as they permit, and you may exercise your opt-out right by emailing us at privacy@scottusa.com to request that we do not collect or use your personal information for behavioral advertising. We do not otherwise, in any way, “sell” or “share” your personal information. 
SPI is a subtype of personal information consisting of specific information categories. While we collect information that falls within the sensitive personal information categories listed in the table below, the CCPA does not treat this information as sensitive because we do not collect or use it to infer characteristics about a person. We only use SPI for Permitted SPI Purposes.  Permitted SPI Purposes include:

• Perform services or provide goods that an average consumer requesting those goods or services would reasonably expect.
• To prevent, detect, and investigate security incidents compromising personal information.
• To resist malicious, deceptive, fraudulent, or illegal actions directed at our business and to prosecute those responsible for those actions.
• To ensure individuals’ physical safety.
• For short-term, transient use, including, but not limited to, non-personalized advertising shown as part of your current interaction with us. In doing so, we do not disclose SPI to another third party or use it to build a profile about you or otherwise alter the your experience outside your current interaction with us.
• To perform services for the business, including maintaining or servicing accounts, providing customer service, processing or fulfilling orders and transactions, verifying customer information, processing payments, providing financing, providing analytic services, providing storage, or providing similar services for the business.
• For products, services, or devices that the business owns, manufactures (directly or indirectly), or controls, to verify or maintain the quality or safety of the product, service, or device; or improve, upgrade, or enhance the service or device.
• For other purposes that do not infer characteristics about a consumer.

We do not knowingly collect personal information from children under 18 without verification of parental consent.  We also do not have actual knowledge of any “sale” or “sharing” of personal information of minors under 18 years of age.  Our website is not intended for children under 18 years of age.  If we learn we have collected or received personal information from a child under 18 without verification of parental consent, then we will delete that information.  If you believe we might have any information from or about a child under 18, then please contact us at:
privacy@scottusa.com
The categories of sources from which we collect personal information are set forth below.  We do not collect personal information regarding characteristics of protected classifications under California or United States federal law, such as race, national origin, religion, gender, or sexual orientation, or biometric information such as fingerprints, faceprints, voiceprints, sleep, health or exercise data.

11.7    Accessibility

This Privacy Policy uses industry-standard technologies and was developed in line with the World Wide Web Consortium’s (W3C) Web Content Accessibility Guidelines 2.1 (WCAG 2.1) at the AA level.  If you wish to print this policy, then please do so from your web browser or by saving the page as a PDF.