At Hanesbrands Direct, LLC ("Hanesbrands"), we respect our customers and understand that you may have concerns about privacy, so we have instituted privacy policies intended to ensure that your personal information is handled safely and responsibly.
This Privacy Policy Statement sets forth the privacy policy pertaining to this website, wonderbra.com (the "Site"), which is owned by Hanesbrands Direct, LLC ("Hanesbrands") and to other Internet sites on which this Privacy Policy is posted. Hanesbrands is a consumer goods company with a portfolio of leading apparel brands, including Hanes, Champion, Playtex, Bali, Just My Size, barely there and Wonderbra. Hanesbrands and it affiliates design, manufacture, source and sell a broad range of apparel essentials such as t-shirts, bras, panties, men's underwear, kids' underwear, socks, hosiery, casualwear and activewear. Hanesbrands markets directly to consumers through retail outlets, catalogs and websites, with multiple websites, catalog titles and retail stores. By using this Site, you expressly accept and agree to abide by the terms set forth in this Privacy Policy Statement. For other terms and conditions that apply to your use of the Site, please review our Terms of Use. This Privacy Policy Statement applies only to "Personal Information" (as defined below) that we collect on-line. Unless otherwise provided herein, any reference to "Hanesbrands," "we," "us" and "our" shall mean and include Hanesbrands and its affiliates.
Information Hanesbrands Collects
For purposes of this Privacy Policy Statement, "Personal Information" means any information which you provide to us to a non-public area or section of the Site by which you can be personally identified, and may include your name, address, telephone number, e-mail address, and credit card information. Examples of non-public areas of our Site include private wish list registries, registration pages and email subscribes. Hanesbrands collects Personal Information about you only when you submit it to us, such as when subscribing to our e-mail program, submitting a testimonial or question, participating in special functions of the Site, such as e-cards, wish lists or games, responding to a survey, entering a sweepstakes, or making suggestions or comments.
Besides Personal Information, when you access the Site our web servers may automatically recognize and collect information regarding your referring domain, your type of internet browser, operating system software, screen resolution, cookie preferences and similar technical data. None of this information is personally identifiable and we use this information only in the aggregate, to measure overall Site usage patterns and trends.
This Site is intended for use by individuals 13 years of age and older. We will not knowingly collect, retain, or use Personal Information from any individual who is under the age of 13. Individuals under the age of 13 should access and use this Site only with the assistance of a parent or guardian and should not provide Personal Information about themselves.
If we publish information, photographs, testimonials, questions, comments or other information that you submit to us for potential publication, we may identify you as the source of such information by first name and city of residence or as otherwise indicated on the applicable submission pages. Any information about yourself submitted in a "public" area of our Site and/or other areas or features, may allow members of the general public to view such submitted information and content on the Internet, may be routed through our servers, the servers of one or more third parties on our behalf, and the Internet, and you have no expectation of or right to privacy with regard to any such submission. We have no obligation to monitor any submissions, particularly as to the content of e-cards are similar features where visitors have the option of creating a message. Such public areas and features offered therein are public and not private communications. The security of any information you disclose is not guaranteed; you make such submissions and disclosures at your own risk. We are not responsible for any errors, omissions, or offensive material contained in any content posted in any public areas or any decisions made or actions taken or not taken based on such information or content.
Links to Other Sites
For your convenience, our website may contain links to other sites. When you use a link to go from our Site to another web site, unless otherwise noted, this Privacy Policy Statement is not in effect at that other site and a different privacy policy may be in effect. Hanesbrands is not responsible for the privacy practices employed by web sites linked to or from our Site nor for the information or content contained therein.
Security
We are committed to keeping Personal Information secure, and we have reasonable technical, administrative and physical safeguards in place to help protect Personal Information from loss, misuse or alteration. However, we cannot be and are not responsible for unauthorized access to your Personal Information by hackers or others who have obtained such access through illegal measures.
Cookies and Web Beacons
We may use a technology called "cookies" to provide you with tailored information. A cookie is a small piece of data that the Site can send to your browser, which may then be stored on your hard drive so our Site can recognize you as you browse the Site and when you return. These cookies may collect the operating system and browser that you are using, and accumulate and report anonymous, statistical information on Site usage. The use of cookies shows how our customers navigate through our web site and thus allows us to make our Site more responsive to your needs, by delivering a better and more personalized experience to you. We do not use cookies to identify or track any Personal Information. If you do not wish to have a cookie sent to your browser, you can change the settings on your internet browser to stop it from automatically accepting cookies. While rejecting a cookie will not normally affect your browsing or your ability to access the features on our Site, you may be required to re-enter certain information when you browse or when you return to the Site. If you are experiencing trouble browsing our site, it is possible that you did not accept or have configured your browser to block cookies from wonderbra.com.
We also may use electronic image requests (also called "web beacons" or "single-pixel gifs") to count page views and to access cookies. The web beacons do not collect, gather, monitor or share any Personal Information; they are used only to compile anonymous information about Site usage.
How Hanesbrands Uses the Information
Except for Personal Information which you submit to a public area or section of our Site, it is our policy to maintain all Personal Information as confidential except as may be necessary to fulfill a function or purpose such as those listed below:
- for the specific purpose for which it was submitted (for example, to enter a sweepstakes, submit a testimonial, or to receive product information)
- to post on our site testimonials, photographs, questions, comments, or other information that you may submit to us for potential publication, subject to any disclosure or other terms and conditions found on the submission page and our Terms of Use
- to improve the content, appearance and utility of the Site
- to trace our visitors' use of the Site for internal research purposes
- to contact you to participate in market research
- to notify our visitors of updates to the Site
- to send catalogs, printed materials, offers and other announcements to your home address and to allow our sister companies and other reputable third party marketers to do the same
- to send e-mail offers, announcements, or newsletters to your e-mail address and to allow our sister companies to do the same
- to provide any necessary notices to our visitors
Additionally, we may disclose specific information about you in our possession upon governmental request or if required to do so by law or based on our good faith belief that it is necessary to conform to or comply with the law or is necessary to protect our Site, the users of our Site or the public, in general.
On occasion, we contract with other companies to provide certain services to us, including credit card processing, shipping, e-mail distribution, changing mailing addresses, market research and promotions management. We provide these companies only with the information needed to perform their services (which may include Personal Information) and work closely with them to ensure that your Personal Information is maintained and used as set forth in this Privacy Policy Statement. These companies are prohibited from using this information for their own marketing purposes or from sharing this information with others, but we cannot guarantee security of Personal Information and are not liable for misuse of it by others.
Hanesbrands may buy or sell assets, subsidiaries, or business units, or may be acquired by another company. In such transactions, Personal Information is usually one of the transferred business assets, and we reserve the right to transfer all Personal Information in our possession as part of any such transaction. Generally, such transferred Personal Information remains subject to the promises made in the applicable pre-existing Privacy Policy Statement.
Accessing and Changing Your Information
At any time, you may obtain a summary of your Personal Information on record with us. Except for Personal Information needed to complete your purchase of products, if any, you may request that: (i) we correct or update any such Personal Information; (ii) such Personal Information not be provided to third parties; or (iii) such Personal Information be removed from our active marketing databases. To make such a request, you may click here or send an e-mail to consumer.care@hanesbrands.com, write to Wonderbra Consumer Services, Hanesbrands Inc., P.O.Box 3013, Winston-Salem, NC 27102, or call 1-800-225-4872. When contacting us, please be sure to provide us with your exact e-mail address, name, postal address, and/or telephone number(s) in order to be sure we handle your request correctly. Please also note that each time we send you an e-mail message, we will give you the option to unsubscribe from our e-mail list by simply clicking the unsubscribe link.
Unauthorized Attempts to Get Your Information
Criminals use various techniques to attempt to gather your personal information for use in identity theft, credit fraud and other illegal activities. These attempts may be sophisticated in nature and designed to appear that they are requests from companies with which you may have a legitimate relationship. Do not provide your personal information to a third party unless you are certain of that party's identity. Hanesbrands does not request personal information via e-mail or telephone. If you are concerned that a third party is trying to obtain your information by impersonating Hanesbrands, please contact Hanesbrands toll free 1-800-225-4872.
Updating the Privacy Policy Statement
As we continue to develop our Site and take advantage of technologies to improve the services we provide, we may have a need to change our current privacy policies. We therefore reserve the right, at our discretion, to change, modify, add, or remove portions of this Privacy Policy Statement at any time. This policy is effective on and was last updated March 12, 2007. If elements of our privacy policy change, we will revise this Privacy Policy Statement. You should check this page periodically for changes. Your continued use of this Site following the posting of changes to this Privacy Policy Statement will mean that you accept those changes.