Privacy Policy

Sharp Photo & Portrait

Updated: September, 2020

Sharpphoto.net (“Website”) is owned and operated by Sharp One Hour Photo Inc. We collect personally identifiable information ("Personal Information") when you use the Website and the order products or services offered on the Website ("Sharp Services"). This Privacy Policy describes the information that we collect from you, how we collect this information, and what we do with it after we collect it. By using the Website you are accepting the practices described in this Privacy Policy. If you have any questions or comments regarding this Privacy Policy, please contact us at sharp@sharpphoto.net.

1. INFORMATION COLLECTED

Personal Information. We collect Personal Information that you provide to us, such as your name, mailing address, phone number, email address, credit card number, and financial information. Credit card number and financial information is passed through to a third party provider so we never see or retain such information.

Non-Personal Information. We also collect non-personal information from you, such as your browser type, the URL of the previous website you visited, your ISP, operating system, and your Internet protocol (IP) Address ("Non-Personal Information"). Non-Personal Information cannot be easily used to personally identify you.

Providing Information to Us. We collect Personal Information from you when you provide it to us. For example, if you purchase a product, we may collect your name, mailing address, telephone number, credit card number, and email address.

Communications With Us. If you communicate with us regarding the Website or the Sharp Services, we will collect any information that you provide to us in any such communication.

Analytic and Reporting Technologies. We may use analytic and reporting technologies to record Non-Personal Information such as Internet domain and host names, Internet protocol (IP) addresses, browser software, operating system types, clickstream patterns, and the dates and times that the Website and the Sharp Services are accessed. We also may contract with online partners to help manage, monitor and optimize our Website and the Sharp Services and to help us measure the effectiveness of our advertising, communications and how visitors use the Website. To do this, we may use web beacons and cookies.

2. COOKIES AND SIMILAR TECHNOLOGIES

We use cookies, pixel tags, web beacons, and/or other similar technologies to collect visitor information. We use such items to track your use of the Website and the Sharp Services, provide you with a more personalized user experience, and to allow you to login and/or begin use of the Sharp Services automatically when you visit the Website.

A web beacon is an often-transparent graphic image, usually no larger than a 1x1 pixel that is placed on a web page or in an e-mail that is used to monitor the behavior of the user visiting the Website or receiving the e-mail.

Cookies and web beacons used by Sharp One Hour Photo Inc. and our online partners are not linked to Personal Information. Some content owners may use cookies or web beacons on our Website. We have no access to or control over these cookies and web beacons. This Privacy Policy covers the use of cookies and web beacons by Sharp One Hour Photo Inc. and our online partners only and does not cover the use of cookies or web beacons by any other third party, content owner or advertiser.

3. USE OF INFORMATION

Personal Information. We use Personal Information primarily for our own internal purposes, such as providing, maintaining, evaluating, and improving the Sharp Services and the Website, fulfilling requests for information, producing and shipping the products that you order, and providing customer support.

Non-Personal Information. We use Non-Personal Information to track the use of the Website and the Sharp Services and for other internal purposes, such as providing, maintaining, evaluating, and improving the Sharp Services and the Website.

4. INFORMATION SHARING WITH THIRD PARTIES

Disclosure to Successors. We will disclose your Personal Information to any successor-in-interest of ours, such as a company that acquires us. In the event Sharp One Hour Photo Inc. goes through a business transition, such as a merger or acquisition by or with another company, or sale of all or a portion of our assets, your Personal Information will be among the assets transferred. In addition, your Personal Information may be disclosed in any due diligence process conducted relative to a potential business transition as described above. You will not be notified of any such disclosure, or change in ownership or control, of your Personal Information.

Disclosure to Unaffiliated Third Parties. We may disclose your Personal Information to prevent an emergency, to prevent harm to others, to respond to legal requirements, to protect or enforce our rights and policies, to protect or enforce the rights of a third party, or as required or permitted by law (including, without limitation, to comply with a subpoena or court order). In particular, we may disclose your information to a third party that alleges that you have infringed their intellectual property rights. Similarly, if you allege that another party is infringing upon your intellectual property rights, we may disclose your information to that other party.

Disclosure to Third Party Service Providers and Online Partners. We may contract with various third parties who help us provide, maintain and improve the Website and the Sharp Services. For example, we use a third party to process payments made to us, and may subcontract out production, fulfillment, analytics, reporting or other operations. We may also contract with online partners to help manage, monitor and optimize our Website and the Sharp Services and to help us measure the effectiveness of our advertising, communications and how visitors use the Website. We will use commercially reasonable efforts to prevent such third parties from disclosing your Personal Information, except for the purpose of providing the services in question. We cannot guarantee that such third parties will not disclose your Personal Information. Sharp One Hour Photo Inc. does not share, rent or trade your Personal Information with third parties for their promotional purposes.

Disclosure of Non-Personal Information. We will disclose Non-Personal Information, in aggregate form, to potential strategic partners, advertisers, investors, customers, and others. You may not opt-out of the sharing of this information. However, it cannot be easily used to identify you personally.

Internet Advertising. We may use third party service providers to serve ads on our behalf across the Internet and sometimes on the Website. They may collect anonymous information about your visits to our Website, and your interaction with our products and services. They may also use information about your visits to this and other websites to target advertisements for goods and services. This anonymous information is collected through the use of a web beacon, which is industry standard technology used by most major websites.

5. PROTECTING INFORMATION

Personal Information. Whenever we obtain your Personal Information, we use commercially reasonable efforts to protect it from unauthorized access or disclosure. However, we are not insurers of the security of your Personal Information. Accordingly, we assume no liability for any disclosure of data due to errors in transmission, unauthorized third party access or other acts of third parties, or acts or omissions beyond our reasonable control.

Website Content. The content that you store, post, or transmit on or through the Website, such as images, may be accessed by other users, including people that you do not know. We are not responsible for the actions of others. Therefore, you should use care in communicating with other users and only disclose your Personal Information to other users that you know to be trustworthy. You should not assume that your content will be kept private.

6. OPTING OUT OF INFORMATION SHARING

If you do not want us to share your information, please contact us through the Contact Us page and we will remove your name from lists we share with other companies as soon as reasonably practicable. When contacting us, please clearly state your request, including your name, mailing address, email address and phone number.

However, under the following circumstances, we may still be required to share your personal information:

• If we respond to subpoenas, court orders or legal process, or if we need to establish or exercise our legal rights or defend against legal claims.
• If we believe it is necessary to share information in order to investigate, prevent or take action regarding illegal activities, suspected fraud, situations involving potential threats to the physical safety of any person, violations of our Terms of Use or as otherwise required by law.
• If we believe it is necessary to restrict or inhibit any user from using our Website including, without limitation, by means of "hacking" or defacing any portion thereof.

7. SECURITY

We use a secure server (SSL) to encrypt your personal financial information. We use other physical, electronic and procedural safeguards to protect the security and confidentiality of the information we have collected, and to prevent unauthorized access to or disclosure of your information. While we strive to use commercially acceptable means to protect your Personal Information, we cannot guarantee its absolute security.

8. THIRD PARTY SITES

Our Website may contain links to other sites for news and other information. Our Privacy Policy only applies to our Website and we are not responsible for the privacy practices or the content of other sites which are linked to or integrated with our Website. You should check the privacy policies of those sites before providing your personal information to them. See our Terms of Use for additional information.

9. CHILDREN’S INFORMATION

Under Thirteen. The Sharp Services are intended for users ages 13 and older only. Accordingly, we will not knowingly collect or use any Personal Information from children that we know to be under the age of 13. In addition, we will delete any information in our database that we know originates from a child under the age of 13.

Thirteen to Seventeen. Prospective users between the ages of 13 and 17 can only use the Sharp Services under their parents or legal guardian's supervision. If you are between the ages of 13 and 17, you, your parent, or your legal guardian may request that we deactivate any of your Personal Information in our database and/or opt-out from receiving communications from us. If you wish to do so, please contact us at sharp@sharpphoto.net

10. CLASS ACTION WAIVER

ANY DISPUTE RESOLUTION PROCEEDINGS, WHETHER IN ARBITRATION OR COURT, WILL BE CONDUCTED ONLY ON AN INDIVIDUAL BASIS AND NOT IN A CLASS OR REPRESENTATIVE ACTION OR AS A NAMED OR UNNAMED MEMBER IN A CLASS, CONSOLIDATED, REPRESENTATIVE OR PRIVATE ATTORNEY GENERAL LEGAL ACTION. YOUR ACCESS AND CONTINUED USE OF THE WEBSITE SIGNIFIES YOUR EXPLICIT CONSENT TO THIS WAIVER.

11. UPDATES TO PRIVACY POLICY

We may modify this Privacy Policy from time to time by posting updates on this page. Please check back periodically to view any updates.