Privacy Policy

Welcome to FundraisingForACause.com (the “Site”), which is owned and operated by Your Wholesale Source, Inc. and Fundraising For A Cause, Inc. (Collectively “us,” “Company,” “we,” or “Fundraising For A Cause”). The term “you” refers to the user or viewer of our Site.

This Privacy Policy explains how we collect, use, share and protect personal data (“Personal Information”) we receive from users. The Company reserves the right to modify, change, or replace this Privacy Policy at any time by updating this document. You agree to be bound by the most recent version of the Privacy Policy available on the Site. The date of the last modification will be displayed near the top of the Privacy Policy.

Information that we collect:

Generally, you may browse any of our websites without providing any personally identifiable information. However, we may ask you to provide personally identifiable information at various times and places on our websites. In some cases, if you choose not to provide us with the requested information, you may not be able to access all parts of this website or participate in all of its features, pricing, and product selection.

We may collect the following information:

  • name
  • contact information including email address
  • demographic information such as postcode, preferences and interests
  • other information relevant to customer surveys and/or offers

For the exhaustive list of cookies we collect see the List of cookies we collect section. From your purchases and other interactions with us, we obtain information concerning the specific products or services you purchase or use. When you visit this website, our web server automatically collects anonymous information such as log data and IP addresses, and may collect general information concerning your location. We may use the automatically collected information for a number of purposes, such as improving our site design, product assortments, customer service, and special promotions.

How we use the information that we collect:

We require this information to understand your needs and provide you with a better service, and in particular for the following reasons:

  • Internal record keeping.
  • Optimizing our Site.
  • To help process orders.
  • To provide customer and technical support.
  • To improve our products and services.
  • We may periodically send promotional emails about new products, special offers or other information which we think you may find interesting using the email address which you have provided.
  • From time to time, we may also use your information to contact you for market research purposes. We may contact you by email, phone, fax or mail. We may use the information to customize the website according to your interests.

Other parties with whom we share Personal Information:

  • Your Wholesale Source, Inc.: All of the above information that we collect, as described above, may be shared among all of our affiliated entities, including Fundraising For A Cause and Wholesale For A Cause, website and Private Sales.
  • Service Providers: We also may disclose information to outside companies that help us bring you the products and services we offer. For example, we may work with an outside company to: (a) manage a database of customer information; (b) assist us in distributing emails; (c) assist us with direct marketing and data collection; (d) provide us storage and analysis; (d) provide fraud prevention; and (e) provide other services designed to assist us in maximizing our business potential. We require that these outside companies agree to keep confidential all information we share with them and to use the information only to perform their obligations in our agreements with them.
  • Other Companies: We may provide information to carefully selected outside companies when we believe their products or services may be of interest to you.
  • Business Transitions: We may transfer or share a copy of personal information about you in the event that the Company or one of its properties, affiliates, or subsidiaries goes through a business transition, such as a merger, being acquired by another company, or selling a portion of its assets. You will be notified via email or prominent notice on our website prior to a change of ownership or control of your personal information, if your personal information will be used contrary to this policy. However, nothing in this Privacy Policy is intended to interfere with the ability of the Company to transfer all or part of its business and/or assets to an affiliate or independent third party at any time, for any purpose, without any limitation whatsoever.
  • The Company specifically reserves the right to transfer or share a copy of personally identifiable information collected from its websites to the buyer of that portion of its business relating to that information.
  • Compliance with Law: We may provide access to information when legally required to do so, to cooperate with police investigations or other legal proceedings, to protect against misuse or unauthorized use of our website, to limit our legal liability, and to protect our rights or to protect the rights, property, or safety of visitors of this website or the public.
  • Partnerships: The Company partners with advertising companies to place our advertising on publisher websites on the Internet. These advertising companies collect anonymous information about your visits to our website. This technology involves the use of third party cookies that allow them to develop personalized advertising so that it directly relates to offers that may be of interest to you. You may choose to opt out of this service we have with our third-party advertising partner. We may also use cookies to provide similar enhanced online marketing to you based on your interests and preferences. You may also choose to opt out of these enhanced online marketing ads.

Security that we provide:

We take your security seriously and utilize industry standard physical, electronic and managerial procedures to safeguard and secure the information we collect online.

Our website uses encryption technology, like Secure Sockets Layer (SSL), to protect your personal information during data transport. SSL encrypts ordering information such as your name, address, and credit card number. Our Customer Care center also operate over a private, secure network. Please note that email is not encrypted and is not considered to be a secure means of transmitting credit card information.

Nevertheless, we cannot guarantee the safety or security of your Personal Information and you agree to transmit Personal Information solely at your own risk.

Engaging with third party links:

You may encounter links to third party websites, videos, pictures, and applications (“Third Party Links”) when using the Site. We cannot control the content on these Third Party Links and we can make no guarantees as to the protection and privacy of any information which you submit to these Third Party Links. Please exercise caution when accessing Third Party Links. 

Use by children:

We do not knowingly collect Personal Information from any child under the age of 13. Further, you may not use the Site unless you are at least 18 years of age. If you believe we have collected Personal Information from a child under the age of 13, please contact us immediately.

Direct Mail or Telephone Marketing: If you on any of our websites and wish to be removed from the list of customers that receive direct mail or telemarketing calls, please either write to our Customer Care at 6201 John’s Road, Suite 9 Tampa, FL  33634 or call +1 800-519-2814. If you choose to write to us, please include your name, address, and phone number and state one of the following:

  • “NO MAIL OFFERS” (if you don't want to receive offers by mail);
  • “NO PHONE OFFERS” (if you don't want to receive offers by phone);
  • “NO PHONE OR MAIL OFFERS” (if you don't want to receive either).

Because customer lists often are prepared well in advance of an offering (sometimes a few months before the offer is made), you may continue to receive some offers after you send us a request not to use your information for specified marketing purposes. We appreciate your patience and understanding in giving us time to carry out your request.

How we utilize cookies, web beacons, and analytics:

A cookie is a small text file which asks permission to be placed on your computer's hard drive. Once you agree, the file is added and the cookie helps analyze web traffic or lets you know when you visit a particular site. Cookies allow web applications to respond to you as an individual. The web application can tailor its operations to your needs, likes and dislikes by gathering and remembering information about your preferences.

We use traffic log cookies to identify which pages are being used. This helps us analyze data about web page traffic and improve our website in order to tailor it to customer needs. We only use this information for statistical analysis purposes and then the data is removed from the system.

Overall, cookies help us provide you with a better website, by enabling us to monitor which pages you find useful and which you do not. A cookie in no way gives us access to your computer or any information about you, other than the data you choose to share with us. You can choose to accept or decline cookies. Most web browsers automatically accept cookies, but you can usually modify your browser setting to decline cookies if you prefer. This may prevent you from taking full advantage of the website.

A “web beacon” or “pixel tag” or “clear gif” is typically a one-pixel image, used to pass information from your computer or mobile device to a website.

We use cookies and web beacons to keep track of what you have in your shopping cart and to remember you when you return to the website as well as to identify the pages you click on during your visit to our site and the name of the website you visited immediately before clicking to the Site. We use this information to improve our site design, product assortments, customer service, and special promotions. You can, of course, disable cookies and web beacons on your computer by indicating this in the preferences or options menus in your browser. However, it is possible that some parts of our website will not operate correctly if you disable cookies. We may also use web beacons, and other technologies, to help track whether our communications are reaching you, to measure their effectiveness, or to collect certain non-personal information about your computer, device, or browser in order to allow us to better design future communications to you.

We may contract with third parties who may use cookies and web beacons and collect information on our behalf or provide services such as credit card processing, shipping, promotional services, or data management. We call them our Customer Care Partners. These third parties are prohibited by our contract with them from sharing that information with anyone other than us or our other Customer Care Partners.

List of cookies we collect:

The table below lists the cookies we collect and the information they store.

COOKIE name

COOKIE Description

CART

The association with your shopping cart.

CATEGORY_INFO

Allows pages to be displayed more quickly.

COMPARE

The items that you have in the Compare Products list.

CUSTOMER

An encrypted version of your customer id.

CUSTOMER_AUTH

An indicator if you are signed into the store.

CUSTOMER_INFO

An encrypted version of the customer group you belong to.

CUSTOMER_SEGMENT_IDS

Stores your Customer Segment ID

EXTERNAL_NO_CACHE

A flag that, indicates whether caching is on or off.

FRONTEND

Your session ID on the server.

GUEST-VIEW

Allows guests to edit their orders.

LAST_CATEGORY

The last category you visited.

LAST_PRODUCT

The last product you looked at.

NEWMESSAGE

Indicates whether a new message has been received.

NO_CACHE

Indicates whether it is allowed to use cache.

PERSISTENT_SHOPPING_CART

A link to information about your cart and viewing history if you have asked the site.

RECENTLYCOMPARED

The items you recently compared.

STF

Information on products you emailed to friends.

STORE

The store view or language you have selected.

 

USER_ALLOWED_SAVE_COOKIE

Indicates whether a customer authorized cookies.

 

VIEWED_PRODUCT_IDS

The products that you recently looked at.

 

WISHLIST

An encrypted list of products added to your wish list.

 

WISHLIST_CNT

The number of items in your wish list.

 

Emails and Electronic Communications: