Gerber Childrenswear | Privacy Policy

Gerber Childrenswear LLC (“GC LLC”) respects your privacy. Accordingly, it has adopted the following privacy policy. This policy notifies you of:

what personally identifiable information of yours is collected from you through our website,
the organization collecting the information,
how the information is used,
with whom the information may be shared,
what choices are available to you regarding collection, use and distribution of the information,
the kind of procedures we employ in an effort to hinder the unauthorized access, deletion, alteration, use or disclosure of information you provide to GC LLC, and
how you can correct any inaccuracies in the information you provide to us.

If you have questions or concerns regarding this statement, you should contact us by calling 1-800-4-GERBER or by writing us at:

Gerber Products Company

Attn: Gerber Childrenswear LLC

445 State Street

Fremont, Michigan 49413-0001

SCOPE OF POLICY

This policy applies to GC LLC's treatment of personally identifiable information that GC LLC collects through GC LLC's site and when you use GC LLC's services. The policy does not apply to practices of companies whose sites may be linked to GC LLC. For access to the privacy policies of such linked sites please refer to the information provided by such sites at their home pages. Also see the paragraph below under the heading “Hypertext Links”.

INFORMATION COLLECTION AND USE

GC LLC collects personally identifiable information when you request information from GC LLC. On such occasions, GC LLC asks for your name, email address, zip code and personal information concerning your interests, occupation, gender and other demographic information. GC LLC also receives and records information from server logs from your browser including cookie information relating to pages requested and the like.

GC LLC does not seek to collect such information from persons under the age of 18. If you are under the age of 18, please do not submit any such information to us. If you are the parent or guardian of a person under the age of 18 who has provided such information to us, please inform us (through the website or telephone number listed above) and we will remove such information from our database as described further below.

In addition, no person (of any age) is required to provide us with the personally identifiable information we request. If you do not wish to provide such information, you are free not to do so. Your provision of requested information to us through our website or other means is presumed by us to be voluntary and with your consent to the uses described herein. If after submitting personally identifiable information to us, you wish to “opt-out,” please contact us as noted above and we will remove your information from our database as set forth below in the section titled “Managing Your Information.” Please know that such a decision will not stop advertising or content that is generated prior to the time when we can accomplish the removal of your information.

GC LLC uses the personal information we collect for a variety of purposes; for example, to respond to requests, make internal business decisions, evaluate available offers and make decisions about services offered, protect our rights or property, create products and services, provide improvements to products or services, anticipate and resolve actual or potential problems with our products and services, and inform you of GC LLC products, services and offers that we believe you will find of interest.

We may use your information to help us determine your potential interest in other products or services. For marketing and similar purposes, we may use personal information to offer products and services from us or others. We offer opt out opportunities which you may access via this website.

We make our customer information (names, addresses and email addresses) available to a set of selected companies we believe may offer products or services of interest to our customers. If you prefer that we not include you on these lists, you can make changes to your information at anytime by visiting www.gerberchildrenswear.com and logging in on the Preferred Parent page of the top navigation bar and editing your profile. If you should have any problems, call 1-800-4-GERBER. We may also share your name, address, email addresses and phone number with research firms that work on our behalf to survey our customers and others about products and services we may offer. To opt out of our sharing this information with other companies, you can make changes to your information at anytime by visiting www.gerberchildrenswear.com and logging in on the Preferred Parent page of the top navigation bar and editing your profile. If you should have any problems, call 1-800-4-GERBER. We do not share your other personal information with the other companies. We also contract with these companies to require that they only use the information we share with them for the limited purposes described above.

USE OF COOKIES

GC LLC uses cookies to enhance the interactive nature of your Internet experience and to provide a convenient feature to save you time. Cookies enable GC LLC to quickly retrieve specific information from previous visits and to recall features that you may have customized on your browser.

MANAGING YOUR INFORMATION

You are entitled to request access to and correction of all your personal data collected by us via this website, as well as to require us to delete your data if you no longer want us to process it. You can make changes to your information at anytime by visitng www.gerberchildrenswear.com and logging in on the Preferred Parent page of the top navigation bar and editing your profile. If you should have any problems, call 1-800-4-GERBER. We will keep your data as long as it is reasonably necessary for the purposes described in this Statement. You may choose not to receive unsolicited marketing material from GC LLC and you have the right to request deletion of your GC LLC account information, subject to GC LLC's need to keep appropriate archives of its business operations.

SECURITY

GC LLC employs reasonable measures to maintain all personally identifiable information provided by you on computer servers in a controlled and secured environment, in an effort to hinder unauthorized access, loss, alteration, use or disclosure of such information. However, the nature of the Internet is such that information may be transmitted over networks without appropriate security measures and may be accessed, deleted, altered, used or disclosed by unauthorized persons.

Because of the international nature of the services and products provided by this website and the nature of GC LLC's business, personal data may, subject to applicable law, be transferred internationally throughout GC LLC world-wide (details of which are available on request by emailing or calling us as provided above) for the purposes described above. This may mean that personal data are transferred to countries which do not have laws or regulations which protect personal data, such as the United States, where the server for this website is located. We use reasonable measures to limit the disclosure of the data you provide to us only to certain staff within GC LLC and its affiliates (i.e. staff whose job it is to process your inquiries and survey answers or otherwise to administer the website, and those staff involved in the provision of GC LLC services and products which may be of interest to you) and to require that they process the data only for the purposes identified in this Statement.

MODIFICATIONS TO THIS POLICY

GC LLC may make modifications or amendments to this policy from time to time. In the event that such changes alter how GC LLC gathers, processes, uses or discloses your personally identifiable information, GC LLC will post such changes on our site.

INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY

GC LLC, its suppliers, licensors, or the original creators of all materials on GC LLC website own all copyrightable subject matter on this website and all trademarks, patents, proprietary information, technologies, products, processes or other proprietary rights of GC LLC and/or such other parties. No license to or right in any such copyrights, trademarks, patents, proprietary information, technologies, products processes and other proprietary rights of GC LLC and/or other parties is granted to or conferred upon you. In addition, direct linking, deep linking, framing, page-jacking, metatagging, and using a robot, spider, or automated device of any kind to monitor or copy our website is strictly prohibited.

Notwithstanding the foregoing, GC LLC hereby authorizes you only to copy the content herein solely for your personal and private use in learning about, evaluating, or acquiring GC LLC products. Except where expressly noted, no other permission is granted to print, copy, reproduce, distribute, transmit, upload, download, store, display in public, alter, or modify the content contained on this site. Any unauthorized use of any material contained on this site may violate copyright laws, trademark laws, the laws of privacy and publicity, and communications regulations and statutes. Any other use of materials on this site, including reproduction for purposes other than those expressly permitted above, modification, distribution, or republication, without prior written permission of GC LLC is strictly prohibited. Any copy made by you as permitted above must retain all copyright and trademark notices, including any other proprietary notices, contained in the materials. The use of such materials on any other website or in any environment of networked computers is prohibited.

HYPERTEXT LINKS

This site contains hypertext links to sites that are not created or maintained by GC LLC. This Privacy Policy applies only to this website and not to any of these third party websites. GC LLC is not responsible for the accuracy, relevance, timeliness, or completeness of those third party sites. The inclusion of any link to such sites does not imply endorsement, sponsorship, or recommendation by GC LLC of the site. GC LLC disclaims any liability for links (1) from another website to gerberchildrenswear.com and (2) to another website from gerberchildrenswear.com. GC LLC cannot guarantee the standards of any website to which links are provided on this site nor shall GC LLC be held responsible for the contents of non-Gerber Childrenswear LLC sites, or any subsequent links. For this reason, GC LLC does not represent or warrant that the contents of any third party website is accurate, compliant with state or federal law, or compliant with copyright or other intellectual property laws. GC LLC does not endorse the contents of these third party websites in any way. Also, GC LLC is not responsible for web casting or any other form of transmission received from any linked website. Any reliance on the contents of a third party website is done at your own risk and you assume all responsibilities and consequences resulting from such reliance.

This Policy replaces all previous disclosures we may have provided you about our personal information practices. GC LLC will update this Policy if our practices change or if laws or regulations require that we change it. If we decide to disclose personal information in a way that is materially different from that which was stated in this Policy at the time personal information was collected, GC LLC will notify you by posting notice of the change on our site and on this page for a reasonable period before we implement that change and, if feasible, will give you an opportunity to opt out of the proposed use of personal information.