Privacy Policy
Last Updated: January 26, 2023
Introduction
This Platform is operated by Better Weather Story LLC (“Company” or “We”) as part of portal.betterweatherstory.com. We respect your privacy and are committed to protecting it through our compliance with this policy.
This policy describes the types of information we may collect from you or that you may provide when you visit the Better Weather Story weather information platform at portal.betterweatherstory.com and betterweatherstory.com (collectively, our “Platform”), including any content, functionality, and services offered on or through the Platform (collectively, the “Services”), and our practices for collecting, using, maintaining, protecting, and disclosing that information. This policy applies to information we collect when you purchase something from our Platform or otherwise interact with us.
We may change this Privacy Policy from time to time. If we make changes, we will notify you by revising the date at the top of the policy and, in some cases, we may provide you with additional notice (such as adding a statement to our homepage or sending you a notification). Your continued use of the Platform after we make changes is deemed to be acceptance of those changes, so please check the policy periodically for updates.
Children's Privacy
Our Platform is not intended for children under 13 years of age. Because we care about the safety and privacy of children online, we comply with the Children's Online Privacy Protection Act of 1998 (COPPA) and the FTC's rule interpreting COPPA (16 CFR § 512). This Platform is not directed to children and we do not knowingly contact or collect information from persons under the age of 13. The Platform is not intended to solicit information of any kind from persons under the age of 13.
If we learn we have collected or received personal information from a child under 13 without verification of parental consent, we will delete that information. If you believe we might have any information from or about a child under 13, please contact us at support@betterweatherstory.com.
Information We Collect About You and How We Collect It
When you browse or purchase something from our Platform, we collect several types of information about you, including information:
- Provided by you to us;
- Automatically as you navigate through the Platform; and
- Provided by third parties and other sources.
Information You Provide to Us:
The information we collect from you may include:
- Information that you provide at the time of purchasing something from our Platform, including, but not limited to, your name, e-mail address, shipping address, phone number, and payment information. We may also ask you for information when you report a problem with our Platform.
- Records and copies of your correspondence (including e-mail addresses), if you contact us.
Information We Collect Through Automatic Data Collection Technologies:
As you navigate through and interact with our Platform, 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 Platform, including traffic data, location data, log and usage data, and other communication data.
- Information about your computer and internet connection, including your IP address, operating system, and browser type.
- Estimate our audience size and usage patterns.
- Store information about your preferences, allowing up to customize our Platform according to your individual interests.
- Speed up your searches.
- Recognize when you return to our Platform.
- Cookies (or browser cookies). Our Platform may use “cookies” to enhance User experience. Cookies are text files with small pieces of data — like a username and password — that are used to identify your computer as you use a computer network. Specific cookies known as HTTP cookies are used to identify specific users and improve your web browsing experience. Data stored in a cookie is created by the server upon your connection. This data is labeled with an ID unique to you and your computer. Users may choose to set their web browser to refuse cookies, or to alert you when cookies are being sent. If they do so, note that some parts of the Platform may not function properly.
- Flash Cookies. Certain features of our Platform may use local stored objects (or Flash cookies) to collect and store information about your preferences and navigation to, from, and on our Platform. Flash cookies are not managed by the same browser settings as are used for browser cookies. For information about managing your privacy and security settings for Flash cookies, see Choices About How We Use and Disclose Your Information.
How Do We Use Your Personal Information?
We use the Personal Information we collect for various purposes, including to:
- Provide, maintain and improve our Services, and develop new products and services;
- Provide you with products and services, such as fulfilling your orders and processing your payments; arranging shipping; providing you with invoices and/or order confirmations; processing, maintaining and servicing your account(s) and loyalty program membership;
- Communicate with you about products, services, offers, promotions, rewards, and events offered by Better Weather and others, and provide news and information we think will be of interest to you when in line with the preferences you have shared with us;
- Screen our orders for potential risk or fraud to protect the rights and property of Better Weather;
- Send you technical notices, updates, security alerts, and support and administrative messages;
- Respond to your comments, questions and requests and provide customer service;
- Improve and optimize our Services (for example, by generating analytics about how our customers browse and interact with our Services, and to assess the success of our marketing and advertising campaigns); and
- Carry out any other purpose described to you at the time the information was collected.
Sharing Your Personal Information
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 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 Company, our customers, our uses or others. This includes exchanging information with other companies and organizations for the purposes of fraud protection and credit risk reduction.
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. To learn how you can manage your Flash cookie settings, visit the Flash player settings page on Adobe's website. If you disable or refuse cookies, please note that some parts of this Platform may then be inaccessible or not function properly.
- 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 checking the relevant box located on the form on which we collect your data. You can also always opt-out by sending us an e-mail with your request to support@betterweatherstory.com.
- Promotional Offers from the Company. You may opt out of receiving marketing e-mails from the Company by following the instructions in those e-mails.
- 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, you can opt-out by sending us an e-mail with your request to support@betterweatherstory.com.
Social Sharing Features
Our Platform may offer social sharing features and other integrated tools (such as a “like” button on social media platforms), which let you share actions you take on our Services with other media, and vice versa. Your use of such features enables the sharing of information with your friends or the public, depending on the settings you establish with the entity that provides the social sharing feature. For more information about the purpose and scope of data collection and processing in connection with social sharing features, please visit the privacy policies of the entities that provide these features.
Security
We take reasonable measures to help protect your personal information from accidental loss and from unauthorized access, use, alteration, and disclosure.
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 our Platform, 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 Platform. 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 Platform.
Do Not Track
Please note that we do not alter our Platform's data collection and use practices when we see a Do Not Track signal from your browser.
State Law Compliance
Better Weather complies with the requirements of California's “Shine the Light” law (Civil Code Section 1798.93) and the Delaware Online Privacy and Protection Act (“DOPPA”). Both laws permit users of the Platform that are California or Delaware residents, respectively, to request certain information regarding our disclosure of the information you provide through the Platform to third parties for their direct marketing purposes. To make such a request, please contact us at the following address: support@betterweatherstory.com.
If you are a California resident, California law may provide you with additional rights regarding our use of your personal information. Learn more about your California privacy rights here.
Contact Us
For more information about our privacy practices, if you have questions, or if you would like to make a complaint, please contact us by e-mail at support@betterweatherstory.com.