Privacy policy

Privacy Policy

BBS Safety Inc [and bbs-safety.com, INC] ("BBS Safety," "we," "us," or "our") knows that our users, visitors, and customers (collectively "Customers," "you," or "your") care about how personal information is used and shared. We take your privacy very seriously and are committed to protecting the privacy of our visitors. Our privacy policy (this "Privacy Policy") explains how information is collected, used, and disclosed by BBS Safety with respect to your access and use of BBS Safety's services, whether through our website located at bbs-safety.com (the "Website"), or any other services we offer from time to time including other linked pages (together with the Website, collectively, the "Network"). By accessing and using the Website or the Network, you acknowledge that you have reviewed this Privacy Policy, you agree to the practices and policies set forth in this Privacy Policy, and you hereby acknowledge and consent to our collection, use, and sharing of your information as described in this Privacy Policy.

Your Privacy is Important to BBS Safety

BBS Safety respects and upholds the confidentiality of information and the privacy of individuals and is committed to your privacy on the Website and the Network. Because we gather certain information from our Customers, we have established this Privacy Policy as a means to communicate our information gathering and dissemination practices. By accessing the Website or the Network, you acknowledge and agree to this Privacy Policy and also agree to the Terms of Use of the Website located at https://bbs-safety.com/terms-conditions (the "Terms of Use Agreement").

Information We Collect

We may require Customers who visit the Network and purchase services and products on the Network to give us contact information, which may include but is not limited to the Customer's name, company name, address, phone number, email address, cookies, IP logs, billing information, billing name and address, credit card number, and other information as detailed below under the "Personal Information" section (collectively, "Personal Information"). Besides the Personal Information, we may also collect other information regarding your use of the Website or the Network. From time to time, we may also collect or ask for additional Personal Information, which will also be expressly included herein as Personal Information. You can opt out of providing this additional information by not entering it when asked or not using the Website, although not providing it may hinder your ability to use the Website.

You may also have the ability to update or remove your Personal Information by logging into the Website and editing your Personal Information within your profile (to the extent one exists). However, archival or backup copies of said information will not cease to exist and BBS Safety shall not be liable for any problems in this editing process to the fullest extent permitted by applicable law.

Personal Information collected is used to provide and maintain the Website and is used at BBS Safety's discretion. The Personal Information may also be used to contact you to further discuss interest in our company, the services we provide, and to send information regarding BBS Safety, its partners, its products and other activities such as promotions and events. You may be invited to receive email correspondence by providing an email address. From time to time, we may establish a business relationship with other persons or entities whom we believe trustworthy and whom we have asked to confirm that their privacy policies are consistent with ours. In such cases, we may rent, exchange, share and/or cross-reference information, including contact information about you that will enable such persons or entities to contact you regarding products and services that may be of interest to you.

BBS Safety may also email (or send via other methods, including text messages) information regarding updates to the Website, newsletters, advertisements, or other correspondence. You will have an opportunity to unsubscribe to any emails, messages, or mailings by clicking on an "unsubscribe" hyperlink contained in such promotional emails and/or messages or by emailing us at bbs-safety.com. Despite unsubscribing from such promotional or marketing list, BBS Safety may send confirmation emails or text messages if you order online and may need to contact you by phone, email or regular mail with questions or issues concerning your order. Any opt-out by you is not deemed valid until processed by BBS Safety. BBS Safety shall not be liable for problems arising from the opt-out procedure to the fullest extent permitted by applicable law.

Personal Information

The type of Personal Information that may be collected or submitted to BBS Safety includes, but is not limited to the following:

  • Your name, current address, age group, email address, telephone/cell phone number and fax number;
  • Information about your visit to the Website, which includes the date and time of your visit, the pages accessed and the documents retrieved;
  • The type of browser used when you visit our Website;
  • Information to fulfill a purchase, which includes credit card, billing information, and shipping address; and
  • Any personal correspondence you submit to BBS Safety, which includes emails.
  • Other information you provide is not required by us but may assist with responding to your request more effectively.

Why Do We Collect Personal Information?

BBS Safety offers various products and services to our Customers and also strives to meet the needs of our Customers. We use your Personal Information for internal purposes such as tracking your order, analyzing your preferences, and noting trends and statistics. To do this effectively, we need to collect certain Personal Information.

The Personal Information We Collect From You

All Personal Information we collect from you requires your consent, for example, opening an account, purchase and delivery of products, special offers, etc. We may request your consent from time to time to take part in improving product performance or for marketing purposes that we think will be useful to you. However, unless you are informed otherwise, the Personal Information we hold is for establishing and managing our business and customer relationship with you.

By communicating with BBS Safety, including by email and by completing online forms, you are giving your consent to the collection of the Personal Information that you provide in such communications.

You have the right to anonymity and do not have to supply us with information. However, if you choose not to provide the information and we need to fulfill your request for a specific product, we may be unable to provide you with that requested product.

Keeping a Record of Personal Information

Depending on the product you have acquired, it may be necessary to keep a record of the transaction for business purposes or to enable us to respond to your concerns.

We may hold Personal Information for the following purposes:

  • Internal accounting and administration;
  • To supply you with information about your account, including regular statements;
  • To respond to inquiries;
  • To enhance customer service, product options and to improve product performance;
  • Promotions, competition entry forms, redemption vouchers, and special offers where you voluntarily supplied your personal details;
  • To administer sales records;
  • To provide information about us, our products, services and special offers; and
  • To analyze our website usage.

Occasionally we require organizations outside BBS Safety to provide a service for purposes that are necessary for us to conduct our business, functions and activities (for example, publicizing names of competition winners and delivering products). We take commercially reasonable steps to ensure that these third party organizations both inside and outside of the United States deal with Personal Information in accordance with this Privacy Policy.

Our Disclosure of Your Information/Security

Although BBS Safety uses industry standard practices to protect your Personal Information, due to technical limitations, WE DO NOT REPRESENT, WARRANT AND/OR GUARANTEE THAT PERSONAL INFORMATION WILL REMAIN SECURE. Therefore, we cannot and do not guarantee, and you should not expect, that your Personal Information or private communications will always remain private. Notwithstanding the foregoing, as a matter of policy, we NEVER sell or rent any Personal Information about you to any third party.

The following describes some of the ways that your Personal Information may be disclosed and you expressly agree that your Personal Information may be disclosed by BBS Safety in the following ways:

Advertisers. We may internally gather data across all of our Website's visitors and keep a record of your usage habits. As a result, we may disclose some limited, non-specific Personal Information to third parties for marketing and promotional purposes. However, in these situations, we do not disclose to these entities any information that could be used to identify you personally. Certain information, such as your name, email address, address, and telephone number are NEVER disclosed to advertisers.

Cookies. When you visit the Website, our server may attach a small data file known as a "cookie" to your hard drive. This enables us to analyze usage patterns on our Website in order to tailor it to our users' needs. Cookies are safe and cannot be used to deliver a virus. Cookies only identify your computer to our servers when you visit our Website. Most web browsers are set to accept cookies. If you do not wish to accept cookies, you can refuse the transfer of cookies to your computer's hard drive by adjusting your Internet browser. Without accepting a cookie, you can browse through our Website, but you will be unable to establish a shopping cart session and make a purchase on-line.

Legal Requests. BBS Safety may lawfully disclose your Personal Information for law enforcement or regulatory purposes or in connection with a legal proceeding or court order.

How We Manage Your Personal Information

You may have contact with us personally, by telephone, mail, over the Internet or other electronic medium. We take commercially reasonable steps to keep your Personal Information secure in a combination of secure computer storage, hard copy files, and other records. We take steps to protect the personal information we hold from misuse, loss, unauthorized access, modification, or disclosure. You have the right to access the Personal Information you have provided to us. If you require details of your Personal Information held by us, we will need to verify your identity before meeting your request, which we will process in a commercially reasonable time. If you find that the information we hold about you is inaccurate or out of date, then we will promptly correct it upon receipt of the changes from you.

As far as permissible under law, BBS Safety accepts no responsibility for the unauthorized access of Personal Information held by BBS Safety.

Third Party Advertising and Analytics Partners

We may use third party advertising and analytics services on our behalf to deliver interest-based advertising. Services may use cookies, web beacons, and other online identification tools to collect information about your activities in order to, among other things, better display tailored content relevant to your interests and analyze the effectiveness of our marketing efforts. For more information about Internet-based ads, or to opt out of having your web browsing information used for behavioral advertising purposes, please visit www.aboutads.info/choices and www.networkadvertising.org/managing/opt_out.asp

Children's Privacy

The Children's Online Privacy Protection Act imposes certain requirements on websites directed at children under 13 that collect information on those children, and on websites that knowingly collect information on children under 13. The Network is not directed at people under 18, and we do not knowingly collect any Personal Information from children under 13. If you are a parent or guardian who knows or has discovered that your child under the age of 18 has submitted his or her Personal Information or other information without your consent, permission or authorization, please notify us by sending an e-mail to Info@bbs-safety.com.

Upon receiving such a notice, we will take steps to: (a) notify you what information may have been used and/or disclosed; and (b) remove your child's Personal Information or other information from our databases, cease the use of such information, and direct any other party with access to such information to do the same.

Changes to Our Privacy Statement

From time to time, it may be necessary for us to review and revise this Privacy Policy. We reserve the right to change this Privacy Policy at any time and to notify you by publishing an updated version of this Privacy Policy on the Website.

How to Contact us if You Have a Problem or Complaint

If you have any queries in relation to this Privacy Policy or its administration or if you would like more details of the type of Personal Information BBS Safety holds, for what purposes, and how we collect, hold, use, and disclose that information, please contact BBS Safety at Info@bbs-safety.com

Additional Information

This Privacy Policy is part of the Terms of Use Agreement for BBS Safety's services. Any use of the Network is governed by the respective terms of use and privacy policies of the other websites or services of the Network, and each such terms of use and privacy policies must be reviewed and agreed to in each instance, as applicable.

EFFECTIVE DATE: January 1, 2020


California Consumer Privacy Act Disclosures

Effective Date: January 1, 2020; Updated: October 2, 2020

These California Consumer Privacy Act Disclosures (these "CCPA Disclosures") supplement the information contained in our Privacy Policy and apply solely to visitors, users, and others who reside in the State of California ("consumers," "you," or "your"). BBS Safety and its affiliates (collectively, "we," "us," "our", or "BBS Safety"), adopt these CCPA Disclosures to comply with the California Consumer Privacy Act of 2018 (the "CCPA").

Categories of Personal Information that BBS Safety has collected from consumers in the preceding twelve (12) months:

  • identifiers such as your name, alias, address, phone numbers, or IP address;
  • personal information, such as a credit card number;
  • age, gender, or other protected classifications;
  • commercial information, such as purchase history;
  • Internet or other electronic network activity information, including content interaction information, such as content downloads and details;
  • geolocation data, such as the location of your device or computer;
  • professional information, for example data you may provide about your business if you are a supplier; and
  • inference data, such as information about your purchase preferences.

Categories of Personal Information that BBS Safety disclosed about consumers for a business purpose in the preceding twelve (12) months:

  • identifiers such as your name, address, phone numbers, or IP address, for example if we use a third party carrier to deliver your order;
  • personal information, such as a credit card number, for example if we use a third party payment processor;
  • your age, gender, or other protected classifications, for example if you choose to participate in a survey distributed by a survey provider;
  • commercial information, such as the details of a product or service you purchased if a third party service provider is assisting to provide that product or service to you;
  • internet or other electronic network activity information, such as if we use a service provider to help us gather crash reports for analyzing the health of our website and services;
  • geolocation data, such as providing a delivery partner your delivery address; and
  • professional information, for example if we provide your account details to a service provider for verification as part of enrollment for an BBS Safety account.

Right to Request Access to or Deletion of Personal Information. You may have the right under the CCPA to request information about the collection of your Personal Information by BBS Safety , or access to or deletion of your Personal Information. If you wish to do any of these things, please contact our customer service department using the contact information below, or submitting a request to Info@bbs-safety.com. Depending on your data choices, certain services may be limited or unavailable.

Selling Personal Information. We do not sell your Personal Information.

Non-Discrimination. To the extent prohibited by applicable law, we will not discriminate against you for exercising any of your CCPA rights. For example, unless permitted by the CCPA, we will not do the following in response to your exercise of any rights under the CCPA:

  • Deny you goods or services;
  • Charge you different prices or rates for goods or services, including through granting discounts or other benefits, or imposing penalties; or
  • Provide you a different level or quality of goods or services.

Changes to these CCPA Disclosures.

We reserve the right to amend these CCPA Disclosures at our discretion and at any time. When we make changes to these CCPA Disclosures, we will notify you by email or through a notice on our Website.

Contact Information.

If you have any questions or comments about these CCPA Disclosures, the ways in which we collect and use your Personal Information, or your choices and rights regarding such use, please do not hesitate to contact us at:

Phone: (888) 209-4885.  

Email: Info@bbs-safety.com

Website: www.bbs-safety.com