This Privacy Policy describes how your personal information is used when you visit or make a purchase from our website.
1. Who we are
We are Polaroid America Corp, PO Box 4668 #21179, 10163-4668 New York, United States, a subsidiary of the Dutch company Polaroid B.V. (“Polaroid” or “we”).
We respect your right to privacy and will only process personal data you provide to us in accordance with the applicable data protection legislation.
2. The personal data we collect about you
When you purchase from our website and/or access and browse our website we may collect the following personal data about you:
- your (sur)name;
- your billing and delivery postal addresses, phone (including mobile phone) and email details;
- your user name and password;
- your IP address;
- where you have registered with us;
- where you place an order with us;
- your communication and shopping preferences;
- your browsing and online shopping activities;
- any company name if you choose to provide us with this information.
- payment details (all payment details you provide through our website are processed and/or stored by a third party credit card or payment facilitator or processor, and not by us).
We may also collect some or all of this personal data from third parties who have your consent to pass your details to us. This is the case with e-mail addresses you fill in using forms on other websites provided by CanopyDeploy and/or other service providers, regarding your name, e-mail address and eligible use instances of social media tools in the context of our loyalty program (for more information we refer to paragraph 3.2). This is also the case regarding unique visitor identifiers as assigned by Facebook and Google through usage of “Facebook Pixel” and “Google Analytics” (we refer to paragraph 3.3).
3. Legal bases of the processing of your personal data
We only process your personal data when we have a legal base to do so.
We mainly process your personal data because this is strictly necessary for the performance of an agreement or contract made with you, i.e. to deliver your order to you, or to enable you to browse our website. If the personal data required in this context is not provided, this may have consequences for the possibilities with regards to purchases or delivery, or your possibilities in using our website.
We also process certain personal data after you have granted free, specific, informed and unambiguous consent in this regard. You are entitled at any time to withdraw your permission for these certain processing of personal data. This does not, however, affect the lawfulness of the processing on the basis of this consent prior to the withdrawal thereof.
We also process some personal data because this is necessary for the purposes of legitimate interests, which include:
- fraud prevention and combating by Polaroid (which are, in those specific cases, not overridden by your privacy interests)
- analysis and improvement of the services and content of our website
- analysis and improvement of our products
We also process some personal data because it is necessary for compliance with a legal obligation to which Polaroid is subject. If you don’t provide us with the concerned personal data, this may influence our possibilities to offer and provide our services and products to you.
4. How we may store and use your information
Polaroid (and third party data processors acting on our behalf) may collect, store and process your personal data for the following purposes:
- to make this website available to you and to provide you with content which is tailored to your individual tastes;
- to maintain any registered account that you hold with us;
- with your agreement, to contact you (including by push notifications and email) about promotional offers and products and services which we think may interest you;
- for customer satisfaction and market research purposes;
- to provide our goods and services to you and for associate purposes, including verifying your identity;
- to keep your order(s) in your shopping cart so you can get back to it later; for research, analysis, testing, monitoring, risk management, and administrative purposes;
- to enable us to conduct surveys
- to enable you to take part in our loyalty programme; and
- for fraud prevention, fraud combating and related anti-fraud measures, as well as to comply with legal duties imposed on Polaroid or legal duty to use or disclose your information.
In addition, we may collect pseudonymised details about visitors to our website for the purposes of aggregate statistics or reporting purposes. However, no single individual will be identifiable from the pseudonymised details we collect for these purposes.
We will not disclose, sell, trade, or rent your personal data to any third party, save for any disclosures of your personal data detailed in this Privacy Policy.
In the event that a third party acquires all or part of our business and/or assets, we may disclose your personal data to that third party in connection with the acquisition.
Furthermore, we reserve the right to disclose your personal data to third parties as part of any business or asset sale carried out because Polaroid has gone into insolvency or any similar situation, but only where lawful and compliant with the applicable data protection legislation, as amended from time to time. We may also disclose your personal data where necessary to comply with applicable law or an order of a governmental or law enforcement body.
5. Email newsletter
If you subscribe to our newsletter, we will use the personal information necessary or separately provided by you to send you our e-mail newsletter as agreed.
If you wish to unsubscribe from email marketing communications that we send you, you can most easily do this by clicking on the unsubscribe link at the bottom of any e-mail marketing communications that we have sent to you.
6. Loyalty program
When ordering products on the website you automatically enrol in a loyalty program facilitated by a third party. For this purpose, encrypted personal data and encrypted data regarding your order such as order value and potential discounts are transferred to and stored by such third party and will only be used to perform its services in connection with the loyalty program.
7. Cookies and comparable technologies
Polaroid uses essential, analytics and tracking cookies on the website, as well as comparable technologies.
Certain cookies and technologies are essential in order for the website to operate. These are necessary for us to provide the basic functionalities of the website. We will use these essential cookies and technologies also without obtaining your consent
Apart from the essential cookies, we will only use analytics and tracking cookies and comparable technologies after you have granted free, specific, informed and unambiguous consent for this. You provide us with your consent for the use of analytics and tracking cookies when you choose the cookie settings upon entering our website. You are entitled at any time to withdraw or change your consent for our usage of these analytic and tracking cookies and comparable technologies. This does not, however, affect the lawfulness of the processing on the basis of this consent prior to the withdrawal thereof. If you were to withdraw your consent for the usage of the analytic and tracking cookies and comparable technologies, it will prevent us from personalizing our site for your convenience and showing you relevant content, including but not limited to personalized offers, discounts, or advertisements.
If you browse this website, you may receive personalised banner advertisements whilst browsing other reputable websites. We are committed to providing you with information on products and offers which are relevant to you. When you visit other websites, you may see an advertisement for our products because you visited this website. This is possible due to our usage of Google Analytics, Google Analytics for Display Advertising and AdWords Remarketing and/or similar services.
This website uses Google Analytics, Google Analytics for Display Advertising and AdWords Remarketing and web analytics services provided by Google Inc. ("Google"). The information generated by the cookies will be transmitted to and stored by Google on servers in the United States of America. Google will use this information on Polaroid's behalf for the purpose of evaluating your use of the website, compiling reports on website activity for us and providing Polaroid other services relating to website activity and internet usage. The IP address that your website browser conveys within the scope of Google Analytics, Google Analytics for Display Advertising and/or AdWords Remarketing will not be associated with any other data held by Google. The privacy policy for these Google services can be found under https://www.google.com/intl/en/policies/privacy/.
Some pages on the website load information from social networks to enable targeted advertising for our products on the social network platform which is activated every time someone opens a web page where a certain code is installed. This piece of code sends such general hashed information about the actions people take on a website to the social networks to help the website provider to target its advertisements to the people who took an action on its website. Facebook provides us with this information through ‘Facebook Pixel’.
This website uses a retargeting technology which uses cookies.
This website collects and stores pseudonymized data to operate a live chat system to answer live support inquiries which uses cookies.
We and/or third party data processors acting on our behalf may also use web beacons and flash cookies. Web beacons are embedded in a website or email and allow to check if a user has accessed certain content of such website or email. Flash cookies are pieces of data that websites which use Adobe Flash may store on a user's computer and can be used to store user preferences, save data from flash games, or to track a user's internet activity.
For more information, or to change or withdraw your cookie consent settings, see our cookies page at https://polaroid.com/pages/cookies.
8. International transfers
We may transfer personal data that we collect from you to third party data processors located in countries that are outside of the United States and to other Impossible group companies in connection with the above purposes. Please be aware that countries which are outside the United States may not offer the same level of data protection as the United States, although our collection, storage, and use of your personal data will continue to be governed by this Privacy Policy.
9. Fraud prevention
In regard to fraud prevention and combatting, we use services which, among others, help us to determine whether or not a transaction should be made (should there be any doubt).
For this purpose, we share certain personal information with third parties who help us to detect and prevent fraudulent transactions. The information we share with those third parties includes some of the information that you share with us (such as, your contact details and information about the transaction), and some of the information from your online interactions (such as the IP address of your device). That information is used to determine whether a transaction could be fraudulent.
One of the third parties we use to help us detect and prevent fraudulent transactions is a company called Signifyd; they are responsible for their use of your personal information and will use it for the purposes set out in their privacy policy (https://www.signifyd.com/privacy/).
10. Our processors and other recipients
Only those employees of Polaroid whose access to the personal data is necessary will have access to it. Our employees, as well as the third parties to whom personal data is made available, are obliged to respect the confidentiality of your personal data. We also impose this obligation on processors through a data processing agreement that we use when executing our services.
Polaroid does not in principle provide your personal data to third parties, unless this is necessary for the aforementioned purposes. In that context, Polaroid will provide your personal data to parties who facilitate order placement and payment, payment guarantees and authorisation, fraud prevention and browser session monitoring. In addition, Polaroid will make personal data available to third parties if a legal obligation or a court order requires it to do so.
11. Security
We use internet standard encryption technology ("SSL" or "Secure Socket Layer" technology) to encode personal data that you send to us when placing an order through the website. To check that you are in a secure area of the website before sending personal data to us, please check that your website browser displays an image of a closed padlock or an unbroken key at the beginning of the website address.
However, please note that whilst we take appropriate technical and organisational measures to safeguard the personal data that you provide to us, no transmission over the internet can ever be guaranteed secure. Consequently, please note that we cannot guarantee the security of any personal data that you transfer via the internet to us.
12. Spoof/false emails
We will never ask you to confirm any account or credit card details via email. If you receive an email claiming to be from us asking you to do so, please ignore it and do not respond. You may forward any such e-mail to usa@polaroid.com.
13. Your rights
You have the following rights:
- the right to ask what personal data we hold about you at any time and obtain information in that regard;
- the right to ask us to update and correct any out-of-date or incorrect personal data that we hold about you free of charge;
- the right to erasure of your personal data (under circumstances listed in the applicable law);
- the right to restrict the processing of your personal data (under circumstances listed in the applicable law);
- the right to object against the processing of your personal data;
- the right to data portability (you can ask us to provide you or a third party with your personal data in a readable and accessible form); and
- the right to opt out of any marketing communications.
For security purposes we may occasionally request proof of identity before we are able to disclose personal information to you. If you wish to exercise any of the above rights, please contact us on usa@polaroid.com.
Under California Civil Code Section 1798.83, individual customers who reside in California and who have an existing business relationship with us may request information about our disclosure of certain categories of personal information to third parties for the third parties’ direct marketing purposes, if any.
To make such a request, send an email with the subject heading “California Privacy Rights” to usa@polaroid.com or write to us by post at: PO Box 4668 #21179, 10163-4668 New York, United State. In your request, please attest to the fact that you are a California resident and provide a current California address for our response. Please be aware that not all information sharing is covered by these California privacy rights requirements and only information on covered sharing will be included in our response. This request may be made no more than once per calendar year.
Pursuant to applicable California law, including the California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA), Polaroid makes the following disclosures regarding the personal information it collects:
Category of Personal Information |
Category of Source from Which Data is Collected |
Purpose of Collection |
Category of Third Parties to Whom Data is Disclosed |
Contact information such as name, billing and delivery mailing address, phone number, and e-mail address |
Directly from user |
To maintain any registered account that you hold with us; for customer satisfaction and market research purposes; to enable you to take part in our loyalty programme; for fraud prevention, fraud combating and related anti-fraud measures, as well as to comply with legal duties imposed on Polaroid or legal duty to use or disclose your information; to contact you (including by push notifications and email) about promotional offers and products and services which we think may interest you; to provide our goods and services to you and for associate purposes, including verifying your identity |
Service Providers |
Account log-in credentials such as username and password |
Directly from user |
To enable you to take part in our loyalty programme; for fraud prevention, fraud combating and related anti-fraud measures, as well as to comply with legal duties imposed on Polaroid or legal duty to use or disclose your information; to maintain any registered account that you hold with us. |
Service Providers |
Internet or other electronic network activity information, including, but not limited to, IP address, browsing history, search history, and information regarding a consumer’s interaction with an Internet Web site, application, or advertisement |
Cookies and other tracking technologies |
To keep your order(s) in your shopping cart so you can get back to it later; for research, analysis, testing, monitoring, risk management, and administrative purposes; to make the website available to you and to provide you with content which is tailored to your individual tastes |
Service Providers |
Where you have registered with us |
Directly from user |
To contact you (including by push notifications and email) about promotional offers and products and services which we think may interest you; |
Service Providers |
Where you place an order with us |
Directly from user |
To contact you (including by push notifications and email) about promotional offers and products and services which we think may interest you; |
Service Providers |
Your communication and shopping preferences |
Directly from user |
To contact you (including by push notifications and email) about promotional offers and products and services which we think may interest you; |
Service Providers |
Any company name you provide us |
Directly from user |
To maintain any registered account that you hold with us |
Service Providers |
Polaroid has not sold consumers’ personal information in the twelve (12) months preceding the Effective Date of this Privacy Policy.
If you are a California resident, pursuant to the California Consumer Protection Act (CCPA), you have the right to request:
- the categories of personal information Polaroid has collected about you;
- the categories of sources from which your personal information is collected;
- the business or commercial purpose of collecting or selling your personal information;
- the categories of third parties with whom Polaroid shares your personal information;
- the specific pieces of personal information Polaroid has collected about you;
- the categories of personal information that Polaroid has sold about you and the categories of third parties to whom the personal information was sold, if applicable;
- deletion of your personal information; and
- an opt out of having your personal information disclosed or sold to third parties.
To submit a request, or designate an authorized agent to make a request under the CCPA on your behalf, please contact us at usa@polaroid.com. To verify your identity when you submit a request, Polaroid will match the identifying information you provide us to the personal information we have about you.
Polaroid will not be required to comply with your request to delete your personal information if it is necessary for Polaroid to maintain your personal information in order to:
- complete the transaction for which the personal information was collected, provide a good or service requested by you, or reasonably anticipated within the context of Polaroid’s ongoing business relationship with you, or otherwise perform a contract between you and Polaroid;
- detect security incidents, protect against malicious, deceptive, fraudulent, or illegal activity; or prosecute those responsible for that activity;
- debug to identify and repair errors that impair existing intended functionality;
- exercise free speech, ensure the right of another consumer to exercise his or her right of free speech, or exercise another right provided for by law;
- comply with the California Electronic Communications Privacy Act pursuant to Chapter 3.6 (commencing with Section 1546) of Title 12 of Part 2 of the Penal Code;
- engage in public or peer-reviewed scientific, historical, or statistical research in the public interest that adheres to all other applicable ethics and privacy laws, when Polaroid’s deletion of the information is likely to render impossible or seriously impair the achievement of such research, if you have provided informed consent;
- to enable solely internal uses that are reasonably aligned with your expectations based on your relationship with the Polaroid;
- comply with a legal obligation; or
- otherwise use your personal information, internally, in a lawful manner that is compatible with the context in which you provided the information.
Polaroid will not discriminate against you in the event you exercise any of the aforementioned rights under CCPA, including, but not limited to, by:
- denying goods or services to you;
- charging different prices or rates for goods or services, including through the use of discounts or other benefits or imposing penalties;
- providing a different level or quality of goods or services to you; or
- suggesting that you will receive a different price or rate for goods or services or a different level or quality of goods or services.
14. Data retention
Polaroid will not retain the personal data for longer than is necessary for the purposes for which it is collected or processed. Polaroid will in any case comply with legal data retention obligations.
15. Third party sites
This website contains links to other websites operated by third parties. Please note that this Privacy Policy applies only to the personal data that we collect through this website and we are not responsible for personal data that third parties may collect, store, and use through their websites. We recommend that you check the privacy policies of such other websites.
We do not exercise control over the websites that may be linked to the website. These other websites may place their own cookies or other files on your computer, collect data, or solicit personal information from you.
16. Collection of Information from Children
Our website is not directed to or intended to be used by children under 16 years of age. No one under the age of 16 is authorized to provide any personal information to or on the website, and we do not knowingly request or collect personal information from any individual under 16 years of age. If you are under 16 years of age, do not use this website, sign up for our newsletter, or provide any information about yourself to us, including without limitation your name, email address, postal address or location. If you are a parent or guardian and believe that your child under the age of 16 has submitted personal information to us in connection with the website or otherwise, please email us at usa@polaroid.com so that we can take steps to delete the personal information as required in accordance with applicable law.
17. Updates to this Privacy Policy
This Privacy Policy was last updated in March 2020. We may update this policy from time to time.
18. Contact us
For more information about our privacy practices, if you have questions, or if you would like to make a complaint, please contact us by e‑mail at usa@polaroid.com.