Privacy and Cookie Policy

Privacy Notice

The Apparel Factory Inc. is a registered, professional organization offering products of varied quality & services to our customers. We are continuously adding more products and services to our website to help our existing and new customers.

We realize and understand you as a recipient of our products and services are aware of and care about your own personal privacy interests, and we pay strict attention to this and take that seriously. This Privacy Notice contains and describes the company’s policies and practices concerning the collection and use of your personal data in detail, and establishes forth your privacy rights in entirety. We know and recognize that information privacy is a necessary and ongoing responsibility, and so we will make sure we keep updating this Privacy Notice regularly as we undertake new personal data exercised and practices or adopt new privacy policies. Additionally, it must be noted that we will never knowingly indulge in selling to or retrieving personal information from minors (children) under any circumstances.

Our Data Protection Officer

The Apparel Factory Inc. has its headquarters in Florida, United States. For your ease, convenience and ultimate understanding, our on-duty data protection officer is available to answer your queries concerning and relating to our policies. Our data protection offices are reachable through the following the following contact details :

The Apparel Factory Inc.
558 I 45 # 2 South Huntsville
TX, 77340
[email protected]
Phone: (800)-316-9833

Collection and Usage of Your Personal Information

The Apparel Factory Inc. collects user and personal information from its visitors and customers. This personal information encompasses users’ names, employment titles, employers’ identity, and work contact details. The acquired information is used for the provision of useful bundled services, goods, content, etc. It’s notable that under any circumstances, we never share, reveal or forward any information you submit to any third parties that contribute to our services.

Information You Give to Us

Publications

The Apparel Factory Inc. delivers wide-ranging content. Apart from producing original content, we also subscribe to news feeds and blogs that are produced by other sources. We link these to our official site, and this indicates that you may land yourself on The Apparel Factory Inc. official website or find yourself reading an email from our publications team that has landed in your inbox. You may be offered a link to some other organization’s website where you may find useful content on privacy or data protection. In such situations, you will leave our website. This means that The Apparel Factory Inc. is not and cannot be accountable for the content provided by any third-party websites or your personal information they may succeed at collecting from online visitors.

When you want to receive The Apparel Factory Inc. newsletters by email, you need to surrender your personal email address. We won’t share your email address or any other personal information with any third party for any purpose apart from the purpose of storing such information in our cloud-hosted databases.

We stress that we depend on a contract to process your personal information for purposes of fulfilling your demand or request to receive publications from our side. Based on your own options, you may choose to subscribe to The Apparel Factory Inc. news and updates which can be classified as direct marketing.

To handle subscriptions, The Apparel Factory Inc. utilizes a third-party tool Marketo. Marketo services are essential to send emails in volume, head subscribe/unsubscribe features, monitor open rates and unverified mailing addresses, and other related tasks. The Apparel Factory Inc. receives the information as soon the user clicks on the hyperlink text mentioned in the email. That text is embedded with a URL that includes a tracking code. If the user has accepted Marketo’s cookie, Munchkin, the Marketo will start capturing details associated with you via our cookie tool. This information helps The Apparel Factory Inc. to understand audience interest and its subscribers in a better way and to produce relevant material for them. Marketo does not utilize or sell this information.

Users can always subscribe and unsubscribe features at any time. However, it is essential to note that if your browser is set to block the cookies, this may impact your authority to unsubscribe. If you face any problem managing your email or other communication preferences with The Apparel Factory Inc., please reach us at [email protected]

To monitor how frequently users land on our site to or read our content, The Apparel Factory Inc. actively uses Google Analytics. If you have opted-in for the analytics cookies for monitoring and tracking your website use effectively, this data is used for understanding the content that is pertinent to our members and this helps to produce the most valuable content to meet the users' needs.

Your Correspondence with The Apparel Factory Inc.

If you reach us via email, postal service, or any other communication medium, we may retain such correspondence and information. We will use it to answer your queries, notify you of The Apparel Factory Inc. publications or other services and keep a record of your complaint or similar concern. If you want to stop your interaction with The Apparel Factory Inc. or wish to remove your personal information, you can always contact us at [email protected]

Note: if you ask The Apparel Factory Inc. to avoid contacting you via email at a particular email address any further, The Apparel Factory Inc. will retain a copy of that email address on its "master do not send" list to go with the no-contact request.

The Apparel Factory Inc. has a legitimate interest in handling the personal information of those users who interact voluntarily often.

Purposes for Processing User’s Data

The Apparel Factory Inc. processes details from your provided data to give you the goods or services you have demanded or purchased from us, including publications, discount deals, and other content. Additionally, these details further enhance our goods and services to customize them according to your requirements. In many scenarios, we need to process your data and related information to complete an order for goods/ services. Moreover, given data is processed to understand users' needs, concerns, and interests, so The Apparel Factory Inc. can run greatly as a business and grow its operations. While in other scenarios, our company relies upon your permission, in such cases, we will keep a record of it and respect your choices in every manner.

Information of Payment Card

You can purchase with your payment card. Typically, customers directly provide the payment card information through The Apparel Factory Inc. website into the PCI/DSS-compliant system for payment to which The Apparel Factory Inc. subscribes. We do not, ourselves, store or process the card information.

However, it is strongly recommended not to provide such sensitive information via email. When The Apparel Factory’s Inc. employee receives payment card information from users by email, fax, phone, or mail, it is entered as instructed and then deleted or destroyed immediately.

Details We Receive from the Third Parties

Sporadically, we keep receiving personal details about individuals from third parties. We may gather your data through a third-party website (e.g., social media platforms) if you fill up a form on a site asking for content from or registering with our company. If you have a registered an account, you can update or modify your details with The Apparel Factory Inc. or reach us at [email protected]

What If You Don’t Give Us Your Information

You can avail of many of The Apparel Factory Inc. services without providing us your data. You can also subscribe to our newsletter service without having an account on our website, but you will need to create a profile with us, which involves providing your email address. In other situations, some details are necessary to provide you with the services or goods you have purchased or requested and verify your identity so that we know it is you and not any other person. You may handle your The Apparel Factory Inc. subscriptions, and you may opt-out of receiving marketing communication at any time, depending upon your preference.

Usage of Our Website

Like a lot of other websites, our company site amasses specific data and stores it in a series of log files. The information we collect contains IP addresses, the regional location of your accessed device, browser type, OS version, and our website's usage, which also consists of the page's history you view while being on our site. This information is collected solely to make our site better to enhance user experience and user interface. We may use your IP addresses to fix issues with our operational server, analyzing trends, monitoring users' movement, and for garnering wide-ranging demographic information to figure out our visitor likeness.

The Apparel Factory Inc. has a vital and legitimate interest in conceptually comprehending how people or potential customers, members, and our prospects make use of and view our website. It aids us deliver customer-centric information, products and services, that convey our brand value to our associates and corporate partners as well as the sponsors, offering sufficient staffing to satisfy customers and members' wants.

Cookies and Web Beacons: The Apparel Factory Inc. presents you the detailed Cookie Notice that comprehensively explains all the cookies used and available on our site, along with providing information on how a user can accept or reject them.

Do Not Track: Our website monitors users’ activities when they navigate our public website to the community page by logging in through their username and password. Similarly, when visitors enter our site through a marketing landing page, which is The Apparel Factory Inc. Moreover, our site also keeps track of all the third-party websites accessed through hyperlinks. But it should be counted that our site does not monitor customers to any subsequent sites and does not bring targeted advertising to them. Besides, our site does not respond to the Do Not Track (DNT) signals.

How and When We Share the Information with Other Parties

All details related to your purchases are saved in your profile or registered account. The information we fetch from you is stored and maintained in secure databases that are hosted under third parties present in the United States region. However, these third-party services are trusted and do not have any direct access to your provided details for any use apart from than cloud storage and data recovery. Generally, The Apparel Factory Inc. engages third parties to bring the information necessary to you, such as handing over items and goods that you bought.

Otherwise, we do not divulge or send your details to outsiders or businesses and persons unless: (1) you request or verify it; (2) the detailed data is provided to affirm with the law (for example, in compliance to a court order, subpoena or search warrant), impose the mutual agreement, or to protect our rights, safeguard or property of our employees or anyone else; (3) the required information is dispatched to our contacts. vendors, partners or existing active service providers who run part of operations on our behalf; (4) to address an emergency event or acts of God. (5) to manage some, declaration, discourse or the people owning legal or lawful authority to take action on your behalf only; and (6) we may also draw a collection of information about our users and site visitors and unveil the results in the collective form (personally not easily identifiable) to our partners, service providers, marketers, advertisers, and the third parties for promotional and marketing reasons.

The Apparel Factory Inc. site use interfaces with social media sites, such as Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, etc. If you want to give a "like" or want to share a piece of information from The Apparel Factory Inc. site through any of these networks, it is suggested that you read the privacy policy of these services. If you use a specific social media site, the interface can put the social media site in connection with your site visit to access your personal data.

This Privacy Notice covers personal information that our site fetches about users and how they are further processed.

If you are interested to learn about our site owns access to your personal information or processing your provided information, kindly reach us at [email protected]

Moreover, you may also demand a series of information regarding the processing purpose. All categories of information maintained outside of our site might have gained access to the data; what exactly was the source of information (if you didn't submit it directly to our site); and how long it will be kept. If your personal information handled by our site is inexact or not correct, you have all rights to rectify it. Additionally, you may request that our site remove your registered data or stop using it, subject to certain exceptions. You may also request that The Apparel Factory Inc. stop utilizing your provided information for direct marketing purposes. You have a definite right to launch a complaint with the appropriate data protection authority in most countries if you have concerns about how your personal information is being processed or used. Under practical situations, The Apparel Factory Inc. will return your registered data at your submitted request

Your Information Protection

To aid protection and privacy of data and personally identifiable details you transmit by using our site, we maintain technical and administrative safeguards. We test and verify our security technology daily. Secondly, we train our employees regarding the importance of maintaining confidentiality and privacy of all our users' personal information.

Data Storage and Retention

Personal information provided by users is stored on The Apparel Factory Inc. server and kept on the cloud-based database management system at the same time used for its operations, sited in the US. We handle a series of data for the duration of the customer's business relationship with the company and provide members and users the opportunity to regain their accounts if they decide to renew, analyze the site's operations, and wholesome archiving purposes. For further information and get to know a little more concerning the length for which your data is maintained and stored, do mail our data protection officer at [email protected]

Questions, Concerns, or Complaints

Please contact our data protection officer: [email protected]
The Apparel Factory Inc.
558 I 45 # 2 South Huntsville
TX, 77340
[email protected]
Phone: (800)-316-9833

Privacy Policy of Messaging

This Messaging Program Privacy Policy elaborates in detail how The Apparel Factory Inc. fetches and processes details about you in connection with its text message marketing program (the “Messaging Service”). It is to brief you that we utilize Twilio (https://www.twilio.com/), AttentiveSMS (https://www.attentivemobile.com/), and Ring Central (https://www.ringcentral.com/) to bring the Messaging Service. Attentive is used as the trusted service provider and efficient data processor of your information.

Collection of Information

We collect different information about you, consisting of the information you submit when you use our Messaging Service. For instance, we collect the email address and phone number you provide when signing up for our Messaging Service. In another case, when you used our Messaging Service to send messages, your messaging history and information contained in those messages will be captured by us.

It is also noted that we may also store information about you through using cookies. Kindly click here to learn more about our cookie notice.

When you take part in a contest/competition, sweepstakes, research or email survey associated with the Messaging Service, we capture your necessary contact details and any other details you submit with these activities. In another case, when you interact with us with your queries regarding Messaging or customer service, your contact information will get stored by us.

Information Usage

The primary reason to collect your information is to deliver, enhance, monitor, and support our Messaging Service. With that, your information may also be used to optimize the Messaging Service features and customize your user experience at the maximum level.

Information Sharing

While we do not sell or share user’s information to any other entity. Only with your permission and approval we may share, send, or transfer your data. Under the following circumstances, your data can also be shared:

Service Providers: We may share your information with third parties to actively bring the Messaging Service to you.

Legal Requirements , Precautions and Protection of Attentive & Others: It should be counted that we may reveal your information in appropriate and required states such as (1) to abide by applicable laws and legal processes; (ii) to answer to the government, legislative, and public authorities, that also encompass replying to official sources outside your state, region, or country; (iii) to apply to a specific agreement with us; (iv) to safeguard our rights, property, safety, and/or that of our partners or affiliates, you or others; and (v) to grant us to go with accessible remedies and to minimize the damages that we can sustain.
Sometimes, we may share collective or de-identified information about the usage of our Messaging Service. In addition to it, such form of information may also be shared among third parties, including sponsors, advertisers, and promotional partners.

Occasionally, we may share collective or de-identified information about the usage of our Messaging Service. In addition to it, such form of information may also be shared with third parties, which includes advertisers, sponsors, and promotional partners.

Protection of Information

The Apparel Factory Inc. takes a series of categorical physical, administrative, technical, and organizational security measures based on the data sensitivity we collect to secure your information against unauthorized, unlawful destruction or accidental loss, alteration, unauthorized reveal, or access. Unfortunately, no online activity can be subjected to be full-proof and 100% safe. While we always aim to secure your fetched details against unauthorized use or reveal in every way possible, we cannot ensure or guarantee the security of any information you provide or submit to us. We cannot liable for an unintentional divulgence or disclosure of data/information in any way.

Information Retention

We maintain your information when you take part in the Messaging Service or as needed to obey the legal obligations and requirements. Aside from that, your details will be held and utilized by us as essential to handle issues, secure ourselves and our users, and carry out our necessary contracts.

Controls and Choices

Your willingness to receive automated marketing text messages is not a prerequisite of any purchase. You can opt-out of receiving commercial-based text messages through the Messaging Service by replying to text messages with replies such as the following: STOP, END, CANCEL, UNSUBSCRIBE, or QUIT. For additional opt-out information, kindly go through with our Messaging Terms and Conditions.

Customer Care

If you are facing any difficulties or issues with our Messaging Service, kindly reach us at [email protected]