Cookie Policy

Last Updated: January 1, 2023

 

Thank you for your interest in Standard Textile Co., Inc. and our affiliated companies and subsidiaries (collectively, the “Company,” “we,” or “us”). The Company owns, licenses, and operates certain websites, applications and platforms (each a “Site”) that are primarily designed to sell certain products, goods, and services (collectively, the “Services”). This Cookie Policy explains our use of “cookies” and other tracking technologies, including, but not limited to, web beacons, pixels, clear gifs, and other similar technologies (collectively, “Cookies and Other Tracking Technologies”) that are employed on our Sites.

PLEASE READ THIS COOKIE POLICY CAREFULLY AS IT DESCRIBES YOUR RIGHTS, RESPONSIBILITIES, AND LIABILITIES. BY ACCESSING OR USING THE SITE, YOU ARE CONSENTING TO THE TERMS OF THIS COOKIE POLICY AND THE COMPANY’S TERMS AND CONDITIONS OF SERVICE AND PRIVACY POLICY, EACH BEING INCORPORATED INTO, AND FORMING AN INTEGRAL PART OF, THIS COOKIE POLICY. IF YOU DO NOT AGREE WITH THIS COOKIE POLICY AND THE COMPANY’S TERMS AND CONDITIONS OF SERVICE AND PRIVACY POLICY, YOU SHOULD NOT USE THE COMPANY’S SITES, AND YOU SHOULD LEAVE OUR WEBSITE IMMEDIATELY.

TO PREVENT THE COMPANY FROM USING CERTAIN COOKIES AND OTHER ONLINE TRACKING TECHNOLOGIES, YOU CAN CHANGE YOUR BROWSER SETTINGS IN ACCORDANCE WITH THE INSTRUCTIONS BELOW.

 

1. What are Cookies and Other Online Tracking Technologies?

Cookies are small files that are downloaded to your device when you visit a website. The cookie then sends information back to the originating website on each subsequent visit, or to another website that recognizes that cookie. Other types of tracking technologies work similarly to cookies and place small data files on your devices or monitor your website activity to enable us to collect information about how you use our Sites. Accordingly, Cookies and Other Tracking Technologies allow our Sites to recognize your device and track your activities and preferences, thereby allowing you to navigate between pages efficiently and to generally improve the user experience. The information provided below about cookies also applies to the other tracking technologies referenced above (i.e., web beacons, pixels, clear gifs, and other similar technologies). You can find more information about cookies at www.allaboutcookies.org.

Site Monitoring. Please be aware that we use cookies and other tracking technologies on and within our Online Services to monitor and record any and all activities and communications to, from, and on, the Online Services in order to safeguard, improve, and analyze usage of, the Online Services, and for the other purposes listed in this Cookie Policy. For the avoidance of doubt, you hereby acknowledge, agree, and consent to, such monitoring and recording.

Cookies are often categorized by function. We use four types of cookies by function on our Sites:

Name	Description
Essential Cookies	These are cookies that are strictly necessary for the functioning of a website or for performing services that an individual user has requested. For instance, these cookies are necessary to allow us to operate our Sites so you may access them as you have requested. These cookies let us recognize that you have created an account and have logged into that account to access the Sites. They also include cookies that enable us to remember your previous actions within the same browsing session.
Analytical/Performance Cookies	These cookies collect information and statistics about how individuals use the Sites (e.g., which webpages or other portions of the Sites visitors go to most often). These cookies are used to improve how the Sites function.
Functional Cookies	These cookies allow the Sites to remember choices users make and to provide enhanced, personalized features. For example, within our Sites, these cookies remember users’ language preferences.
Targeting/Advertising Cookies	These cookies are used to deliver advertisements relevant to a specific user of the Sites. They remember that a user has visited a website and share this information with other organizations such as advertising vendors.

Cookies can also be categorized by how long they remain on your device and by who puts the cookie there. There are four broad categories of duration and placement cookies that we use on the Sites:

Name	Description
Persistent Cookies	Persistent cookies remain on your device until deleted manually or automatically.
Session Cookies	Session cookies remain on your device until you close your browser, at which time they are automatically deleted.
First-Party Cookies	These cookies are placed by the party operating the website or service. For example, any cookies we place on your computer from our Sites are first-party cookies.
Third-Party Cookies	These cookies are placed on a website or service by a party that does not own or operate the website or service.

 

2. How do our Sites use Cookies and Other Tracking Technologies?

We use Cookies and Other Tracking Technologies to identify you and your interests, to remember your preferences, to facilitate our marketing, and to track your use of our Sites. We also use Cookies and Other Tracking Technologies to control access to certain content on our Sites, to protect the integrity and security of the Sites, to process any requests that you make of us, and as otherwise set forth herein and in the Company’s Privacy Policy. To administer our Sites and for research purposes, the Company may, from time to time, contract with third-party service providers to track and analyze statistical usage and volume information from our Sites. These third-party service providers use persistent cookies to help us improve the user experience, manage the content on our Sites, and analyze how users navigate and utilize the Sites. The Cookies and Other Tracking Technologies we use on the Sites are as follows:

 

Facebook Connect and Custom Audience provides analytics and marketing support for our Sites. To find out more about Facebook’s data practices, and the privacy settings it provides, please see Facebook Privacy Settings (you must be logged into your Facebook account) or its Data Policy.

Bing Ads provides us with advertisement and marketing services. For more information on how Microsoft collects and retains personal information, including data derived from Bing, see its privacy policy or Bing’s privacy settings.

Pinterest Conversion Tracker helps us gather insights about activities taking place on our Site so that we can build audiences to target based on such activities. Any information collected with this tool will be shared with third parties for online behavioral advertising, and you can opt-out of online behavioral advertising any time through Pinterest’s personalization settings or the AdChoices website optout.aboutads.info (if the Pinterest tag is active). For more information about Pinterest’s data practices, please see its website privacy policy.

 

3. How DO WE Use and SharE information?

The information and data we gather from our Cookies and Other Tracking Technologies will be used, retained, and shared in accordance with this Cookie Policy and the Company’s Privacy Policy.

 

4. Rejecting Cookies AND YOUR OPTIONS

You can stop cookies from being downloaded on your device by selecting the appropriate settings on your browser. Most browsers will tell you how to stop accepting new cookies, how to be notified when you receive a new cookie, and how to disable existing cookies. You can find out how to do this for your particular browser by clicking “help” on your browser’s menu or by visiting www.allaboutcookies.org.  Please note, however, that without cookies you may not be able to access or take full advantage of the Sites. Most browsers allow users to use a “private mode” by which cookies are deleted after your website visit.  Please read the help section of your browser to learn more about how to activate the “private mode.”  You could still visit our Sites if your browser is in “private mode”; however, the user experience may not be optimal, and some features may not work.

• Click here to learn more about the “Private Browsing” setting and managing cookie settings in Firefox.
• Click here to learn more about “Incognito” and managing cookie settings in Chrome.
• Click here to learn more about “InPrivate” and managing cookie settings in Internet Explorer.
• Click here to learn more about “Private Browsing” and managing cookie settings in Safari.

If you want to remove previously stored cookies, you can manually delete the cookies at any time. However, this will not prevent the Sites from placing further cookies on your device unless and until you adjust your browser setting as described above.

More Information. You can find more information about cookies, behavioral advertising, and online privacy at www.allaboutcookies.org. For some of our service providers that participate in the Digital Advertising Alliance (DAA), you can exercise your choice to opt out of interest-based advertising at http://optout.aboutads.info. You may also opt out of receiving interest-based ads from many third-party websites and applications through the Network Advertising Initiative’s (NAI) Opt Out Tool, which is available at http://www.networkadvertising.org/choices. Certain types of mobile devices have an identifier that provides organizations with the ability to serve targeted advertising directly to a specific mobile device, and you may (depending on the device) be able to limit advertising, reset the advertising identifier, and turn off your device’s tracking features within your device’s settings. For more information see http://youradchoices.com/appchoices.

 

5. California Privacy

Data Privacy Rights. Pursuant to the California Consumer Privacy Act of 2018, as amended (“CCPA”), California residents have additional data privacy rights, including the following:

• Right to Know: The right to know what personal information that the Company collects about you, and our intended use of, and purposes for collecting, your personal information. The personal information that we collect from you, the purposes for which it is used, the source of such personal information, and the parties to whom we share your personal information, among other issues, are set forth above and in the Company’s Privacy Policy.
• Access: The right to access general categories and/or the specific pieces of personal information we have collected, used, disclosed, or sold about you over the past twelve (12) months, including the sources from which the personal information was collected; the business or commercial purpose for which your personal information was collected, used, disclosed, or sold; and the third parties with whom we have shared your personal information.
• Deletion/Erasure: The right to request that we delete/erase your personal information under certain circumstances.
• Data Portability: The right to request that the Company transfers, to the extent technically feasible, personal information in certain forms and formats.
• Nondiscrimination: The right not to be subject to discrimination for asserting your rights under the CCPA.

Please see the Company’s Privacy Policy for more information on how to exercise your CCPA rights.

 

6. COOKIE POLICY UPDATES

We reserve the right to amend this Cookie Policy at any time. We will notify you if this Cookie Policy is amended by updating the “Last Updated” section listed above. It is your responsibility to periodically review the Cookie Policy to determine whether any amendments have been made hereto. Your use of the Sites, and continued use of the Sites after any amendments are made to this Cookie Policy, signifies your consent to this Cookie Policy and any amendments hereto. We may, in our sole discretion, provide you communications, including via email or text messages, about changes to our Cookie Policy; however, such communications do not abrogate or otherwise limit your responsibility to periodically review this Cookie Policy to determine whether any amendments have been made hereto.

 

7. CONTACT US

If you have questions regarding this Cookie Policy, would like to request more information from us, or would like to exercise a data privacy right or privilege, please contact us at any of the following: (mail) Standard Textile Co. Inc, ATTN: General Counsel, 1 Knollcrest Drive, Cincinnati, OH 45237; (interactive web form) www.standardtextile.com/contact-us/; (toll free number) 1.866.506.7369(email) info@standardtextile.com.

 

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