UNITED BAGS, INC.
Digital Privacy Policy
Last modified: April 2025
Introduction
United Bags, Inc., including its affiliate sites, where applicable, and all business segments therein (“Company”, “us”, “our” or “we”) respects your privacy and is committed to protecting it through our compliance with this policy.
This Privacy Policy (hereinafter “Policy”) describes the types of information we may collect from you or that you may provide when you visit https:// bagcorp.com/ or https://www.unitedbags.com/, (collectively “Websites”) and our practices for collecting, using, maintaining, protecting, and disclosing that information. This Policy also applies to customers who are provided access to an individual online store for the purpose of placing orders with us (“Stores”) (“Websites” and “Stores” collectively “Web Services”).
It does not apply to information collected by:
- Us offline or through any other means, including on any other website operated by Company or any third party (including our affiliates and subsidiaries); or
- Any third party (including our affiliates and subsidiaries), including through any application or content (including advertising) that may link to or be accessible from or through Web Services
Please read this Policy carefully to understand our policies and practices regarding your information and how we will treat it. If you do not agree with our policies and practices, your choice is not to use our Web Services. By accessing or using the Web Services, you agree to this Policy. Your continued use of the Web Services after we make changes is deemed to be acceptance of those changes, so please check the Policy periodically for updates.
If you have not done so already, please also review our Digital Terms of Use. The Digital Terms of Use contain provisions that limit our liability to you. This Policy is incorporated into and made a part of our Digital Terms of Use.
Children Under the Age of 13
Our Web Services are not intended for children under 13 years of age. No one under age 13 may provide any information to or on the Websites. We do not knowingly collect personal information from children under 13. If you are under 16, do not use or provide any information on the Websites. If we learn we have collected or received personal information from a child under 13 without verification of parental consent, we will delete that information. If you believe we might have any information from or about a child under 13, please contact us at : [1-800-550-2247]
Information We Collect About You and How We Collect It
We collect several types of information from and about users of our Web Services, including information:
- By which you may be personally identified, such as name, postal address, e-mail address, telephone number or any other identifier by which you may be contacted online or offline (“personal information”);
- That is about you but individually does not identify you, such as sales order/purchase order information, third-party portal identification and customer notification to customer service and/or;
- About your internet connection, the equipment you use to access our Web Services, and usage details.
We collect this information:
- Directly from you when you provide it to us, including when you interact with our online stores or otherwise purchase our goods or services;
- Automatically as you navigate through the site. Information collected automatically may include usage details, IP addresses, and information collected through cookies and other tracking technologies; and
- From third parties, for example, our business partners.
Information You Provide to Us
The information we collect on or through our Web Services may include:
- Information that you provide by filling in forms. This includes:
- Communications data such as correspondence or messages (including emails, SMS or chat or social media messages or comments) and other personal information which you provide to within these;
- Contact data such as your postal address, e-mail address and telephone number(s);
- Identity data such as your first name, last name and title; and
- Technical data includes technical information (through the use of cookies or similar technologies, including your IP address, device identifier, browsing patterns on our website, click stream data, and HTP protocol elements)
- Details of transactions you carry out through our Web Services and of the fulfillment of your orders. You may be required to provide financial information before placing an order through our Web Services.
Information We Collect Through Automatic Data Collection Technologies
As you navigate through and interact with our Web Services, we may use automatic data collection technologies to collect certain information about your equipment, browsing actions, and patterns, including:
- Details of your visits to our Web Services, including and other communication data and the resources that you access and use on the Web Services.
- Information about your computer and internet connection, including your IP address, operating system, and browser type.
The information we collect automatically may include personal information. It helps us to improve our Web Services and to deliver a better and more personalized service, including by enabling us to:
- Estimate our audience size and usage patterns.
- Store information about your preferences, allowing us to customize our Web Services according to your individual interests.
- Speed up your searches.
- Recognize you when you return to our Web Services.
The technologies we use for this data collection may include:
- Cookies (or browser cookies). A cookie is a small file placed on the hard drive of your computer. You may refuse to accept browser cookies by activating the appropriate setting on your browser. However, if you select this setting you may be unable to access certain parts of our Websites or Stores. Unless you have adjusted your browser setting so that it will refuse cookies, our system will issue cookies when you direct your browser to our Web Services.
- Flash Cookies. Certain features of our Web Services may use local stored objects (or Flash cookies) to collect and store information about your preferences and navigation to, from, and on our Web Services. Flash cookies are not managed by the same browser settings as are used for browser cookies. For information about managing your privacy and security settings for Flash cookies.
- Web Beacons. Pages of our Web Services may contain small electronic files known as web beacons (also referred to as clear gifs, pixel tags, and single-pixel gifs) that permit the Company, for example, to count users who have visited those pages and for other related website statistics (for example, recording the popularity of certain website content and verifying system and server integrity).
- Google Analytics. Our Web Services also utilize Google Analytics to better understand and serve your needs. Google Analytics is a secured platform used to track web activity, including but not limited to session duration, pages per session, engagement rate and the sources of web traffic. Cookies used by Google Analytics are used to identify each customer as a unique user, and are protected by Google encryption from being used by any other tracking platform. Just as with our Website’s cookies, your web browser may enable you to decline Google cookies. For more information on Google Privacy or Terms of Use, visit com/analytics/tos.html and google.com/intl/en/analytics/privacyoverview.html.
You can refuse to accept these cookies, and most devices and browsers offer their own privacy settings for cookies. You may manage your cookie settings for each device and browser you use. However, you may experience some inconvenience in your use of our Web Services and some online products and services.
You should visit the “Help” section of your browser for how to manage your cookie settings. For further general information on cookies and more detailed advice on how to disable and enable them, please visit www.allaboutcookies.org (https://www.allaboutcookies.org).
How We Use Your Information (Legal Basis)
We will only use your personal information for the purposes for which we collected it, unless we reasonably consider that we need to use it for another reason and that reason is compatible with the original purpose and complies with applicable data protection laws.
The purposes for which we use your personal information and the lawful basis on which we rely to process it for each purpose is as follows:
- To ensure the effective operation of our Web Services. This may require the use of technical data, described in this Policy, and assists us in delivering our services to you via the Web Services.
- To provide you with information, products, or services that you request from us. This may require use of communications, contact, identity and technical data, as described in this Policy, as necessary to both communicate with you and provide you with our services.
- To carry out our obligations and enforce our rights arising from any contracts entered into between you and us, including for billing and collection. This may require use of communications, contact, identity and technical data, as described in this Policy, as necessary to both communicate with you and provide you with our services.
- To notify you about changes to our Web Services or any products or services we offer or provide though them. This may require use of communications, contact and identity data, as described in this Policy, as necessary to provide you with services via our Web Services.
- To learn about user behavior on the Web Services. This may require the use of technical data, as described in this Policy, as necessary to help us improve our services or the Web Services.
- To maintain network and information security. This may require the use of technical data, as described in this Policy, as necessary to protect your information against loss or damage, theft or unauthorized access and to protect our business.
- To protect our services, Web Services, systems information, employees business partners, affiliates, users, customers or others, or when required by law or for law enforcement purposes. This may require use of communications, contact, identity and technical data, as described in this Policy, as necessary to protect our business interests and assist law enforcement.
- In any other way we may describe when you provide the information.
- For any other purpose with your consent.
Disclosure of Your Information
We may disclose aggregated information about our users without restriction.
We will not disclose your personal information to third parties other than as described in this policy unless we have your permission or are required or permitted to do so by law. We may share such information with our affiliates as necessary to carry out the purposes for which the information was supplied or collected. Similarly, third party contractors, consultants and/or vendors engaged by the Company to provide services may have access to your personal information. These third parties will be subject to their own data protection requirements providing the same or greater level of security provided by the Company and in most instances will also have entered into a written agreement with the Company which addresses the protection of your personal information.
We may disclose personal information that we collect or you provide as described in this Policy:
- To a buyer or other successor in the event of a merger, divestiture, restructuring, reorganization, dissolution, or other sale or transfer of some or all of United Bags, Inc.’s assets, whether as a going concern or as part of bankruptcy, liquidation, or similar proceeding, in which personal information held by United Bags, Inc. about our Web Services’ users is among the assets transferred.
- To fulfill the purpose for which you provide it.
- For any other purpose disclosed by us when you provide the information.
- With your consent.
We may also disclose your personal information:
- To comply with any court order, law, or legal process, including to respond to any government or regulatory request.
- To enforce or apply our terms of use [https://www.unitedbags.com/terms-and-conditions/] and other agreements, including for billing and collection purposes.
- If we believe disclosure is necessary or appropriate to protect the rights, property, or safety of United Bags, Inc., our customers, or others.
Your Privacy Rights
Depending on your jurisdiction and subject to certain limitations, you have the following rights with respect to the personal information we process about you:
- Request a copy of the personal information the Company holds about you (including as necessary to support your right of data portability),
- Request to know information about the categories of personal information we process about you,
- Request that the Company correct your data,
- Request that your data be deleted, and
- Withdraw consent for any processing where we have requested your consent.
If you would like to exercise any of these rights, you may submit your request at [customerservice@unitedbags.com]. If we deny your request, you may appeal our decision by contacting us at [customerservice@unitedbags.com] (please put “APPEAL” in your subject line). If you have concerns about the results of an appeal, you may contact the attorney general in the state where you reside.
Account Information.
You may manage and update your information or close your account by emailing us at [customerservice@unitedbags.com]
Marketing Communications.
If you would prefer not to receive marketing emails from us, simply click on the unsubscribe link included at the bottom of any of those emails. If you opt out of receiving marketing emails, we may still send you other types of messages, such as purchase receipts, information about shipments, or emails about your account.
CCPA and CPRA disclosure about data collection practices
In the last 12 months, we collected the following categories of personal information:
- identifiers (such as name, contact information and device identifiers)
- commercial information (such as items purchased)
- internet or other network activity information (such as browsing behavior and other usage data)
- audio, electronic, visual or similar information (such as customer support call information);
- and other personal information (such as product feedback or payment method information).
For more details about the personal information we collect, including the categories of sources, please see the section “Information We Collect About You and How We Collect It” above. We share how we use this information for the business and commercial purposes described in the “How We Use Your Information (Legal Basis)” section above. We discuss this information with the categories of recipients described in the “Disclosure of Your Information” section above. Further details are as follows:
| Categories of Personal Information | Categories of Recipients with Whom Personal Information May be Shared |
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· Identifiers (such as name, contact information and device identifiers) · Commercial information (such as items purchased) · Internet or other network activity information (such as browsing behavior and other usage data) · Inferences (such as purchasing preferences and approximate location) · Audio, electronic, visual or similar information (such as customer support call information) · Other personal information (such as product feedback or payment method information)
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· Affiliates and subsidiaries · Analytics companies · Cloud storage providers · Communications providers · Fraud prevention providers · Fulfillment partners · Marketing and advertising partners · Payment processing companies · Providers of third-party app integrations · Webhosting providers
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Subject to certain limitations, the CCPA provides California residents the right to request to know more about the categories or specific pieces of personal information we collect, use, disclose, “share” and “sell”, to request to delete their personal information, to opt out of any “sales” or “sharing” that may be occurring, to limit certain uses of sensitive personal information, and to not be discriminated against for exercising these rights.
We do not use third-party cookies and related technologies to send targeted ads.
Notification to EU and Other International Website Users
If you are in the EEA, UK or Switzerland, you have certain rights and protections under the law regarding our processing of your personal data. We discuss “Information We Collect About You and How We Collect It” above. We share how we use this information for the business and commercial purposes described in the “How We Use Your Information (Legal Basis)” section above.
We will only process personal data about in accordance with the following legal basis:
- Necessity: As necessary to perform our responsibilities under our contract with you. For example, by processing your order and delivering the products you purchase;
- Legitimate Interest: When we have a legitimate interest in processing your personal data. For example, to communicate with you about changes to our services or legal documents, to prevent fraud, or to provide, protect and improve our products and services. We only rely on our legitimate interests to process your Personal Information when these interests are not overridden by your rights and interests;
- Consent: If we request your consent to a specific processing activity (such as to send marketing emails), and you provide your consent in the manner indicated; and
- Legal Obligation: In some cases, processing will be necessary for compliance with a legal obligation, such as response to legal process requests.
Data subject requests
Please see the “Your Privacy Rights” section above for more information about your privacy rights and how to exercise them. In addition, you have the right to object to certain processing or request we restrict certain processing. To exercise any of these rights, please email us at [customerservice@unitedbags.com]
Data transfers
When we transfer personal information outside of the European Economic Area, United Kingdom or Switzerland, we will comply with applicable data protection laws. We may transfer your personal information to countries which provide an adequate level of protection under applicable data protection law, we may use contractual protections for the transfer of personal information. You may contact us as specified in the “Contact Us” section to obtain a copy of the safeguards we use to transfer personal information outside of the European Economic Area, United Kingdom or Switzerland.
Retention of your personal information
The Company retains your personal information for the period of time reasonably required for the purposes for which it was collected, any compatible purposes which we subsequently establish, or any new purposes to which you subsequently consent, or to comply with legal, regulatory and the Company’s policy requirements. This period of time will usually be the period of your, or the relevant client’s, relationship or contract with the Company plus a period reflecting the length of time for which legal claims may be made following the termination of such relationship or contract. Some information (such as call recordings, tax records and certain information required to demonstrate regulatory compliance) may need to be kept for longer. Personal information will be kept for a shorter or longer period of time if so required by law or Company policies, if the information becomes subject to a legal hold (for example, following a communication from our regulator) or if we have identified through a data protection impact assessment that a different retention period is appropriate. Please contact us using the information below if you have any questions about retention periods.
Information security
We employ industry-standard security measures designed to protect the security of all information submitted through the Web Services. However, the security of information transmitted through the internet can never be guaranteed. We are not responsible for any interception or interruption of any communications through the internet or for changes to or losses of data. Users of the Services are responsible for maintaining the security of any password, user ID or other form of authentication involved in obtaining access to password protected or secure areas of any of our digital services.
In order to protect you and your data, we may suspend your use of any of the Web Services and associated services, without notice, pending an investigation, if any breach of security is suspected. Access to and use of password protected and/or secure areas of any of the Web Services are restricted to authorized users only. Unauthorized access to such areas is prohibited and may lead to criminal prosecution.
Changes to Our Privacy Policy
It is our policy to post any changes we make to our privacy policy on this page. If we make material changes to how we treat our users’ personal information, we will notify you through a notice on the Website home page. The date the privacy policy was last revised is identified at the top of the page. You are responsible for ensuring we have an up-to-date active and deliverable email address for you, and for periodically visiting our Website and this privacy policy to check for any changes.
Contact Information
To ask questions or comment about this privacy policy and our privacy practices, contact us at:
customerservice@unitedbags.com
800-550-BAGS (2247)
1355 North Warson Rd
St. Louis, MO 63132
