We may collect information relevant to you in three ways.
First, we may collect information directly from you. This could be as part of your interactions with HomeHup personnel, such as at our retail stores or during in-home visits, or when you provide information though our digital properties.
The personal information we collect directly from you may include things such as:
- Name
- Postal address
- Email address
- Phone number
- Payment card number and other payment information
- Your My HomeHup™ member ID
- Survey responses
- Chat submissions
Reviews and other content you post on our digital properties in publicly accessible blogs and other forums (be aware that anyone who accesses these posts may view, collect, and use the information you provide)
In certain situations, we may also collect other information directly from you such as:
- Driver's license number (for example, if you return a product or apply for credit)
- Social Security Number (for example, if you apply for credit)
- Location information (such as when you ask us to tell you about nearby stores)
- Demographic and lifestyle information (for example, if you sign up for a registry or birthday list)
- Health information (for example, if you purchase a hearing aid)
- Fingerprints (when required by law for fraud detection in connection with HomeHup’s product trade-in program)
- Facial or wrist geometry (for example, if you choose to use HomeHup’s virtual try-on tool, with your permission your camera will scan your facial or wrist geometry. The experience is exclusively done in real time, and we do not retain such data after you use this feature.)
Second, we will collect such information by observing behavior — either in the “real world” or through our digital properties.
Store cameras & sensors
Our stores may use cameras and sensors for asset protection and other operational purposes, such as measuring traffic patterns and protecting and improving our business.
Information collected automatically
Our digital properties are not designed to respond to “do not track” requests from browsers. We may collect information about your digital interactions with us including, for example:
- Type of device and/or browser you’re using
- IP address
- Browsing behavior while visiting our digital properties
- The URLs of the websites visited before visiting our site (these are called “referring URLs”)
- IMEI/UDID (a numeric identifier for your mobile device)
- MAC address (another kind of numeric identifier for your mobile device)
- IDFA (Apple’s ID for advertising, a randomly generated number)
- AAID (Google Android’s unique ID for advertising)
- Location information
Most current operating systems on mobile devices require that a user give permission for a specific app to collect specific location information—don’t give our app permission if you don’t want that information collected. Mobile devices also often provide users with the ability to adjust settings related to sharing specific location information. Note that adjusting these settings does not completely eliminate the ability of others to develop location information about your device (such as non-specific location information derived from IP addresses).
Collection by others
HomeHup and our partners use cookies, pixels, tags, or similar technologies on our digital properties. We may permit third-party service providers to collect and process some information from our digital properties through these or other automated means. We may share personal information with those providers and may have similar arrangements with interest-based advertisers. See above regarding “Advertising Opt-Outs” to learn more on how you can limit this collection and sharing and below for more on interest-based advertising.
Our digital properties link to other companies’ websites, many of which have their own privacy policies. Be sure to review the privacy policy on the website you are visiting to understand their privacy practices—our policy will not apply to others’ digital properties.
Third, we may receive information about you from other sources, independent of you. For example, we may receive information about you as a gift recipient or as the person designated by another customer to pick up a purchased item at our store. We may receive information relating to you from our financial-services partners, consistent with federal law and the specific partner’s privacy notice, arising from our My HomeHup Credit Card program or other financial services. We may also receive information related to you from data brokers or other third parties.