This Privacy Policy describes the types of information Paul Stuart, Inc. (“Paul Stuart,” “we” or “our”)  collects from and about you on this website (www.paulstuart.com), (the “Website”), how we use such information and to whom and under what circumstances we may disclose it. This Privacy Policy applies only to this Website ( and any other personal information obtained when you call, email, or otherwise communicate with Paul Stuart. By accessing the Website on any computer, mobile phone, tablet, or other device, making a purchase from Paul Stuart, or otherwise interacting with, you agree to the terms of this Privacy Policy. If you do not agree to the policy, please do not use the Website.

Collection of Personal Information

The Website collects personal information, including:

• Name
• Postal address
• Telephone number
• Email address
• Birthdays

Information Collected Automatically

Each time you visit the Website, we may automatically collect certain types of information. Some examples of automatic information we may collect are as follows:

• Your browser or device. Certain information is collected by most browsers or automatically through your device, such as your Media Access Control (MAC) address, computer type (Windows or Mac), screen resolution, operating system name and version, device manufacturer and model, language, Internet browser type and version and the name and version of the Website you are using.  We use this information to ensure that the Website functions properly. 

• Cookies. Cookies are pieces of information stored directly on the computer that you are using.  Cookies allow us to collect information such as browser type, time spent on the Website, pages visited, language preferences, and other traffic data.  We and our service providers use the information for security purposes, to facilitate navigation, to display information more effectively, and to personalize your experience.  We also gather statistical information about use of the Website in order to continually improve their design and functionality, understand how they are used, and assist us with resolving questions regarding them. Cookies further allow us to select which of our advertisements or offers are most likely to appeal to you and display them while you are on the Website.  We may also use cookies or other technologies in online advertising to track responses to our ads.  We do not currently respond to browser do-not-track signals. If you do not want information collected through the use of cookies, most browsers allow you to automatically decline cookies or be given the choice of declining or accepting a particular cookie (or cookies) from a particular website.  You may also wish to refer to http://www.allaboutcookies.org/manage-cookies/index.html. If, however, you do not accept cookies, you may experience some inconvenience in your use of the Website. 

• Pixel tags and other similar technologies. 

• Pixel tags. Pixel tags (also known as web beacons and clear GIFs) may be used to, among other things, track the actions of users of the Website, measure the success of our marketing campaigns, and compile statistics about usage of the Website and response rates. 
• Analytics. We use Google Analytics, which uses cookies and similar technologies to collect and analyze information about use of the Website and report on activities and trends.  This service may also collect information regarding the use of other websites, apps and online resources.  You can learn about Google’s practices by going to www.google.com/policies/privacy/‌partners/, and exercise the opt-out provided by Google by downloading the Google Analytics opt-out browser add-on, available at https://tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout.

• Adobe Flash technology (including Flash Local Shared Objects (“Flash LSOs”)) and other similar technologies. We may use Flash LSOs and other technologies to, among other things, collect and store information about your use of the Website.  If you do not want Flash LSOs stored on your computer, you can adjust the settings of your Flash player to block Flash LSO storage using the tools contained in the Website Storage Settings Panel.  You can also go to the Global Storage Settings Panel and follow the instructions (which may explain, for example, how to delete existing Flash LSOs (referred to as “information”), how to prevent Flash LSOs from being placed on your computer without your being asked, and  how to block Flash LSOs that are not being delivered by the operator of the page you are on at the time).  Please note that setting the Flash Player to restrict or limit acceptance of Flash LSOs may reduce or impede the functionality of some Flash applications.   

• Physical Location. We may collect the physical location of your device by, for example, using satellite, cell phone tower or WiFi signals.  We may use your device’s physical location to provide you with personalized location-based services and content.  We may also share your device’s physical location, combined with information about what advertisements you viewed and other information we collect, with our marketing partners to enable them to provide you with more personalized content and to study the effectiveness of advertising campaigns.]  In some instances, you may be permitted to allow or deny such uses and/or sharing of your device’s location, but if you do[, we and/or our marketing partners may not be able to provide you with the applicable personalized services and content.

Use of Personal Information

We and our service providers use this information  for the following purposes:

• Providing the functionality of the Website, fulfilling your requests, and providing you administrative information.

• Providing you with our newsletter and/or other marketing materials and facilitating social sharing.
• Analyzing information for business reporting and providing personalized services to consumers.
• To analyze or predict our users’ preferences in order to prepare aggregated trend reports on how our digital content is used, so we can improve our Website.
• To better understand your interests and preferences, so that we can personalize our interactions with you and provide you with information or offers tailored to your interests/wants.
• To better understand your preferences so that we can deliver content via our Website that we believe will be relevant and interesting to you.
• Allowing you to participate in sweepstakes, contests or other promotions.
• Some of these promotions have additional rules containing information about how we will use and disclose your Personal Information.  Please read those additional rules before choosing to participate.
• Aggregating and/or anonymizing personal information.
• Accomplishing our business purposes.
• For data analysis, for example, to improve the efficiency of our Website;
• For audits, to verify that our internal processes function as intended and to address legal, regulatory, or contractual requirements;
• For fraud and security monitoring purposes, for example, to detect and prevent cyberattacks or attempts to commit identity theft;
• For developing new products and services and operating and expanding our business activities;
• For enhancing, improving, repairing, maintaining, or modifying our current products and services, as well as undertaking quality and safety assurance measures;
• For identifying usage trends, for example, understanding which parts of our Website are of most interest to users; and
• For determining the effectiveness of our promotional campaigns, so that we can adapt our campaigns to the needs and interests of our users.

Disclosure of Personal Information 

We may disclose Personal Information about you:

• To our affiliates for the purposes described in this Privacy Policy.
• To our third-party service providers, to facilitate services they provide to us, such as website hosting, data analysis, payment processing, order fulfillment, information technology and related infrastructure provision, customer service, email delivery, auditing, and other services.

• To third parties, to permit them to send you marketing communications, consistent with your choices on our behalf.

Other Uses and Disclosures

We may also use and disclose your Personal Information as necessary or appropriate, in particular when we have a legal obligation or legitimate interest to do so:

• To comply with applicable law and regulations.
• To cooperate with public and government authorities, including law enforcement.

• To respond to a request or to provide information we believe is necessary or appropriate.

• For other legal reasons, such as to enforce our terms and conditions and to protect out rights, privacy, safety or property, and/or that of our affiliates, you or others.

• In connection with a sale or business transaction.We have a legitimate interest in disclosing or transferring your Personal Information to a third party in the event of any reorganization, merger, sale, joint venture, assignment, transfer, or other disposition of all or any portion of our business, assets, or stock (including in connection with any bankruptcy or similar proceedings).

Security

We seek to use reasonable organizational, technical and administrative measures to protect Personal Information within our organization.  Unfortunately, no data transmission or storage system can be guaranteed to be 100% secure.  If you have reason to believe that your interaction with us is no longer secure, please immediately notify us in accordance with the “Contacting Us” section below.

Retention of Personal Information

Personal information that we collect, access or process will be retained only as long as necessary for the fulfilment of the purposes for which it was collected, unless otherwise provided in agreements between you and Paul Stuart or as required or authorized by law. Personal information that is no longer required to fulfill the identified purposes will be destroyed, erased or made de-identified.

Choices and Changes

We give you choices regarding our use and disclosure of your Personal Information for marketing purposes.  You may opt out from: 

1. Receiving marketing-related emails from us.  If you no longer want to receive marketing related emails from us on a going-forward basis, you may opt out by “by clicking on the “unsubscribe” link in such email.”
2. Our sharing of your Personal Information with affiliates for their direct marketing purposes.  If you would prefer that we discontinue sharing your Personal Information on a going-forward basis with our affiliates for their direct marketing purposes, you may opt out of this sharing by clicking on the “unsubscribe” link in such email.”

We will try to comply with your request(s) as soon as reasonably practicable.  Please note that if you opt out of receiving marketing related emails from us, we may still send you important administrative messages, from which you cannot opt out.

If you would like to request to change or update your Personal Information, you may contact us in accordance with the “Contacting Us” section below.  We will respond to your request consistent with applicable law.  Please note that we may need to retain certain information for recordkeeping purposes and/or to complete any transactions that you began prior to requesting a change or update.

Links to Other Websites

This Privacy Policy does not address, and we are not responsible for, the privacy, information, or other practices of any third parties, including any third party operating any website or service to which the Website links.  The inclusion of a link on the Website does not imply endorsement of the linked site or service by us or by our affiliates.

Third Party Advertising and Opt-Out Preference Signals

We use third-party advertising companies to serve advertisements regarding goods and services that may be of interest to you when you access and use the Website and other websites or online services.

You may receive advertisements based on information relating to your access to and use of the Website and other websites or online services on any of your devices, as well as on information received from third parties.  These companies place or recognize a unique cookie on your browser (including through the use of pixel tags).  They also use these technologies, along with information they collect about your online use, to recognize you across the devices you use, such as a mobile phone and a laptop.  If you would like more information about this practice, and to learn how to opt out of it in desktop and mobile browsers on the particular device on which you are accessing this Privacy Policy, please visit http://optout.aboutads.info/#/ and http://optout.networkadvertising.org/#/. 

Children’s Privacy Statement

The Website is not directed to children, nor do we knowingly collect any personal information from children under the age of 13 without verifiable parental consent. If you believe that a child has provided personal information to us, please contact us promptly as described below, and we will endeavor to investigate and delete such information from our systems.

Do Not Track

Do Not Track (“DNT”) is a privacy preference that users can set in some web browsers, allowing users to opt out of tracking by websites and online services. At the present time, the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) has not yet established universal standards for recognizable DNT signals and therefore, Paul Stuart and the Website do not recognize DNT.

Your State Privacy Rights

Pursuant to the California Consumer Privacy Act of 2018 (“CCPA”), Paul Stuart, Inc. (“Paul Stuart,” “we” or “our”) is providing the following details regarding the categories of Personal Information that we collect, use and disclose about California residents.  This CCPA Notice does not apply to our job applicants, employees, contractors, owners, directors, or officers where the Personal Information we collect about those individuals relates to their current, former, or potential role at Paul Stuart. Under the CCPA, “Personal Information” is information that identifies, relates to, or could reasonably be linked with a particular California resident or household. 

Source and Categories of Personal Information Collected

We collect Personal Information from 1) our interactions with you, such as through our websites, surveys and questionnaires, emails, social media, and any other online or offline interactions, such as when you contact us via phone or attend one of our events; and 2) our affiliates, publicly available online sources, joint marketing partners, and business partners. 

We collect, and have collected within the preceding 12 months, the following categories of Personal Information as listed in the CCPA:

•  Identifiers, such as name, contact information, government-issued ID numbers, IP address and other online identifiers;
• Personal information, as defined in the California customer records law, such as name, contact information, signature, payment card number, insurance information, education information, employment information, and government-issued ID numbers;
• Characteristics of protected classifications under California or federal law, such as age, sex, and marital status;
• Commercial information, such as transaction information and purchase history
• Internet or network activity information, such as browsing history and interactions with our website
• Audio, electronic, visual and similar information, such as call and video recordings
• Professional or employment-related information, such as work history and prior employer
• Inferences drawn from any of the Personal Information listed above to create a profile/summary about, for example, an individual’s preferences and characteristics.

Use of Personal Information

We use these categories of Personal Information for the purposes of operating, managing, and maintaining our business, providing our products and services, and accomplishing our business purposes and objectives, including using Personal Information to:

• Develop, improve, repair, and maintain our products and services;
• Fulfill your requests and process your transactions;  
• Personalize, advertise, and market our products and services;
• Conduct research, analytics, and data analysis;
• Maintain our property and our records, and undertake quality and safety assurance measures;
• Conduct risk and security control and monitoring, and detect and prevent fraud;
• Perform identity verification, accounting, audit, and other internal functions, such as internal investigations and record-keeping;
• Carry out corporate transactions, such as mergers, joint ventures or acquisitions; and
• Comply with law, legal process, and internal policies, and exercise and defend legal claims.

Disclosure of Personal Information

We have disclosed the following categories of Personal Information as listed in the CCPA to third parties for our operational business purposes within the preceding 12 months:

• Identifiers, such as name, contact information, government-issued ID numbers, IP address and other online identifiers;
• Personal information, as defined in the California customer records law, such as name, contact information, signature, payment card number, insurance information, education information, employment information, and government-issued ID numbers;
• Characteristics of protected classifications under California or federal law, such as age, sex, and marital status;
• Commercial information, such as transaction information and purchase history;
• Internet or network activity information, such as browsing history and interactions with our website;
• Audio, electronic, visual and similar information, such as call and video recordings;
• Professional or employment-related information, such as work history and prior employer; and
• Inferences drawn from any of the Personal Information listed above to create a profile/summary about, for example, an individual’s preferences and characteristics.

We have disclosed these categories of Personal Information to: our affiliated entities; trusted third-party service providers; event co-sponsors; joint marketing and other business partners; and third parties in connection with sales or other transactions involving our business.

We have not sold Personal Information, as “sale” is defined in the CCPA.

Non-Discrimination

If you make a request under the CCPA, we will not discriminate against you in any way.  For example, we will not deny you goods or services, charge you different prices or rates for goods or services, deny you discounts or other benefits or impose penalties on you, or provide you with or suggest that you will receive a different level or quality of goods or services.

Your California and Other State Rights

If you are a resident of California, Colorado, Connecticut, Delaware, Iowa, Montana, Nebraska, New Hampshire, New Jersey, Oregon, Texas, Utah, or Virginia, the law in your state provides you with the following rights with respect to your Personal Information.

• The right to know what Personal Information we have collected, used, disclosed, and sold about you, including the categories of Personal Information, the categories of sources from which the Personal Information is collected, the business or commercial purpose for collecting, selling, or sharing Personal Information, the categories of third parties to whom Paul Stuart discloses Personal Information, and the specific pieces of Personal Information Paul Stuart has collected about you.
• The right to obtain a copy of Personal Information we have obtained about you in a portable and, to the extent technically feasible, readily usable format.
• The right to correct inaccurate personal information about you, taking into account the nature of the Personal Information and the purposes of the processing.
• The right to request that we delete any Personal Information we have about you. 
• The right to opt-out of the selling your Personal Information, which you can exercise on our website here
• The right to opt-out of the sharing of your Personal Information for purposes of targeted advertising (also called cross-context behavioral advertising and/or the profiling in furtherance of decisions that produce legal or similarly significant effects), which you can exercise on our website here or by modifying your privacy preferences (e.g., Global Privacy Control), available through certain internet browsers and extensions, that signal your preference to opt out.  Please note that clearing your cookies at any time will remove the signal of your selected privacy preferences.
• For California residents, the right to limit the use of your Sensitive Personal Information, which you can exercise through the contact form available on our website.
• If we deny your request, certain states provide you the right to appeal our decision.

To make a request for the disclosures or deletion described above, please contact us at CCPA@paulstuart.com or  1-800-373-4990. We will respond to your request consistent with applicable law. 

In addition, and as set forth below, California law requires us to identify, for the 12-month period prior to the date of this Privacy Policy, what information we may have “sold” or “shared” about you. For the 12-month period prior to the date of this Privacy Policy, Paul Stuart has only sold Personal Information about its customers as described above. For the 12-month period prior to the date of this Privacy Policy, Paul Stuart has only shared Personal Information about its customers as described above.  Paul Stuart does not use or disclose Sensitive Personal Information, as defined in applicable laws, for any purposes other than those permitted by applicable law.

Changes to Privacy Policy

We may change this privacy policy from time to time, including as required to keep current with rules and regulations, new technologies and security standards. When we do, we will post the change(s) on our website. If we change the policy in a material and retroactive manner, we will provide appropriate notice to you.

CONTACTING US

If you have any questions about this Privacy Policy, please contact us at 1-800-373-4990, or by e-mail at CCPA@paulstuart.com. Because email communications are not always secure, please do not include credit card or other sensitive information in your emails to us.

We may also be reached in person at any of these four (4) locations:

Paul Stuart New York
Madison Avenue at 45^th Street
New York, New York 10017

Paul Stuart, Washington DC
906 I Street NW
Washington, DC 20001

Paul Stuart, Southampton
50 Main Street
Southampton, NY 11968

Paul Stuart, Chicago, Michigan Ave
822 N Michigan Ave
Chicago, IL 60611