Last updated: August 15, 2023
This privacy policy describes how J.Crew Group, LLC, 225 Liberty St., New
York, NY 10281, USA, and our brands and subsidiaries (including J.Crew Inc.,
J.Crew, crewcuts, J.Crew Factory, and Madewell) (collectively, “J.Crew,” “we”
or “us”) collect, use or disclose personal information and the choices that
are available with respect to our handling of personal information.
This privacy policy applies to personal information we collect when you
interact with us online [e.g., through our website or other online products
and services or download one of our mobile applications (collectively, our
“App”)], offline (e.g., when you shop in our stores or interact with customer
support), or otherwise interact with us as described below. Our online and
offline services and interactions with you are collectively referred to as our
“Services” in this Privacy Policy.
The “U.S. Privacy Rights” section
below serves as our
Notice at Collection for purposes of the California Consumer Privacy Act
(“CCPA”).
This Privacy Policy does not apply to personal information collected from or
about current or former job applicants or our employees. If you are an
employee or job applicant, please contact your human resources partner or
contact
privacy@jcrew.com.
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1. Collection of Information
2. Use of Personal Information
3. Disclosure of Personal Information
4. Sweepstakes, Contests and Promotions
5. Cookies, Advertising and Analytics
6. Data Retention
7. Protecting Personal Information
8. Children’s Privacy
9. Your Privacy Choices
10. International Data Transfers
11. Residents of the EEA and U.K.
12. U.S. Privacy Rights
13. Your Consumer Rights and How to Exercise them
14. Notice of Financial Incentives
15. Additional Notice for California Residents
16. Contact Us
Changes to this Privacy Policy
We may change this Privacy Policy from time to time to address changes in applicable laws or our business operations. If we make changes, we will notify you by revising the “Last Updated” date at the top of this Privacy Policy. We also will inform you in advance of significant changes that may be applicable to you (such as adding a statement to the homepages of our websites or sending you an email notification). If your prior consent is required by applicable laws, we will request your consent to such changes before the revised Privacy Policy becomes applicable to you. We encourage you to review the Privacy Policy whenever you interact with us to stay informed about our personal information practices and the choices available to you.
Collection of Information
Personal information we collect directly from you
We collect personal information you provide directly to us. For example, we
collect personal information when you visit our websites; download an App;
provide product reviews; shop in our stores; call us on the phone; create an
online account; sign up to receive our emails; request a catalog; participate
in a sweepstakes, contest, promotion or survey; communicate with us via
third-party social media sites; request customer support; apply for and/or
participate in our loyalty program; or otherwise communicate with us.
The types of personal information that we collect include your contact details
(name, email address, zip or postal code, billing address, shipping address,
telephone number), payment card information, product preferences, demographic
information, and any other personal information that you choose to provide.
Personal information also includes personal information that you provide about
others, such as when you purchase a gift card for someone and request that we
deliver it electronically, create and share a “wish list” or decide to
purchase and ship products to someone else. We will use this personal
information to fulfill your requests and will not send marketing
communications to your contacts unless they separately opt in to receive
communications from us.
When you download and install an App, the information that we collect depends
on your mobile device’s operating system and permissions. We may collect
precise geolocation (GPS) when permitted through your mobile device’s
operating system to help customize your experience of the App, to let you know
when products, promotions or events are available near you or to send
geographically-relevant advertising. To learn more about the specific
information collected by our App, please check your device settings or review
the permissions information available on the platform (e.g., Google Play and
the App Store) from which you downloaded the App. The App also may allow you
to check or change your status for certain data collection in the App’s
settings. If you change your settings, certain features may not function
properly.
Personal information we collect automatically
We automatically collect certain personal information about you when you
access or use our websites or App or shop in our stores:
Use of Personal Information
We use personal information about you for various purposes, including to:
Disclosure of Personal Information
We disclose personal information about you as follows:
Sweepstakes, Contests and Promotions
We may offer sweepstakes, contests and other promotions, including promotions jointly sponsored or offered by third parties. If you voluntarily choose to enter a sweepstake, contest or other promotion, we collect your information and may disclose it to co-sponsors and other business partners, such as for posting a winners list. By participating in a promotion, you agree to the official rules or terms and conditions that govern that promotion (“Promotion Terms”). Promotion Terms may include personal information handling practices that are different from what is described in this Privacy Policy. If the practices described in Promotion Terms differ from the practices in this Privacy Policy, the Promotion Terms govern but solely to the extent of the differences between the Privacy Policy and Promotion Terms. Please review the relevant Promotion Terms carefully before you participate in any promotion. You can find our Notice of Financial Incentives here.
Data Retention
Our retention periods for personal information are based on business needs and legal requirements. We retain personal information for as long as is necessary for the purposes described above. We also retain personal information as long as necessary to comply with legal obligations, resolve disputes and enforce our agreements. For example, we may retain certain transaction details and correspondence until the time limit for claims arising from the transaction has expired. Please also see the retention periods set forth in the “U.S. Privacy Rights” Section here.
Cookies, Advertising and Analytics
We engage third parties to serve advertisements on our behalf across the
Internet and to provide analytics services. These third parties may use
cookies, web beacons and other technologies to collect personal information
about your use of our websites, such as your IP address, web browser, pages
viewed, time spent on pages, links clicked, conversion information, and use of
our App. This personal information may be used by us and others to analyze and
track data, determine the popularity of certain content, deliver advertising
and content targeted to your interests on our websites and other websites and
better understand your online activity and similar data analytics among other
things. To exercise your choices regarding this personal information, please
see “Your Privacy Choices” here.
We may use Google Analytics, Adobe Analytics, or other vendors for analytics
services. These vendors use cookies and other tracking technologies to help us
analyze how the Services are used. Information generated by these vendors,
such as IP address and usage information, is transmitted to and stored by
these vendors in the U.S. or elsewhere. These vendors use this information to
compile reports for us on use of the Services and related analytics. Please
see “Your Privacy Choices” here for more
information on your choices regarding these third-party services.
We also may work with third parties (such as Facebook and Instagram) to serve
ads to you as part of a customized campaign on their platforms. If you prefer
not to see customized ads from us, you can usually opt out by changing your
account settings or preferences on those platforms.
Protecting Personal Information
J.Crew uses technical, physical and administrative safeguards intended to protect you and your personal information. J.Crew takes reasonable security measures appropriate to the level of information we maintain. You are responsible for maintaining the security of your account credentials.
Children’s Privacy
The Services are intended for a general audience and not directed to children
under age 13. We do not, in providing the Services, knowingly collect personal
information from children. We do not knowingly Sell or Share the Personal
Information of Consumers under age 16.
If you think we may have unknowingly collected Personal Information of a
customer under age 16 or if you have reason to believe that a child under age
13 has provided personal information to us via our Services, please contact us
immediately at privacy@jcrew.com and we
will endeavor to delete the child’s personal information as required by
applicable law.
Your Privacy Choices
Your online J.Crew account
You may update, correct or delete certain information stored with in your
online J.Crew and/or Madewell accounts at any time by logging into your
account and navigating to the “My Account” page. To delete your online
account(s), please write to
privacy@jcrew.com. If you request
account deletion, we may retain certain personal information (such as
transaction information) as permitted or required by law. We may also retain
cached or archived copies of personal information about you for a certain
period of time. If you have other questions about your account, please “Contact Us.”
Opting out of promotional communications
You can opt out of receiving promotional communications from us at any time.
International Data Transfers
J.Crew is headquartered in the United States. We process and store the
personal information that we handle in the U.S. We may transfer personal
information across borders to any of the places where we and our vendors and
partners do business. These other places may have data protection laws that
are different from (and, in some cases, less protective) than the laws where
you reside.
If you are based outside the U.S., we transfer your personal information to,
and process your personal information on, servers located in the U.S., a
jurisdiction that may not provide equivalent levels of data protection as your
home jurisdiction. These transfers and processing of your personal information
are necessary to provide our Services.
Residents of the EEA and U.K.
Data controller (J.Crew entity responsible for your personal
information)
We process your personal information described above:
U.S. Privacy Rights
This U.S. State Privacy Rights Notice (“U.S. State Notice”) applies to
Consumers under the State Privacy Laws (defined below).
This U.S. State Notice serves as our Notice at Collection for purposes of
CCPA.
In this U.S. State Notice:
1. Identifiers
Real name, alias, postal address, unique personal identifiers, online identifier, Internet Protocol address, email address, and account name.
Disclosures for Business Purposes:
2. Personal Records
Name, signature, description, address, telephone number, and financial information (e.g., payment card information). Some Personal Information included in this category may overlap with other categories.
Disclosures for Business Purposes:
3. Personal Characteristics or Traits
In some circumstances, we may Collect Personal Information that is considered protected under U.S. law, such as age or gender.
Disclosures for Business Purposes:
4. Customer Account Details/
Commercial InformationRecords of products or services purchased, obtained, or considered, or other purchasing or consuming histories or tendencies.
Disclosures for Business Purposes:
5. Internet Usage Information
When you browse our sites or otherwise interact with us online, we may Collect browsing history, search history, and other information regarding your interaction with our sites, applications, or advertisements.
Disclosures for Business Purposes:
6. Geolocation Data
Real name, alias, postal address, unique personal identifiers, online identifier, Internet Protocol address, email address, and account name.
Disclosures for Business Purposes:
7. Sensory Data
We may Collect audio, electronic, or similar information when you visit our store or contact us through our customer service line.
Disclosures for Business Purposes:
8. Inferences from Personal Information Collected
Inferences drawn from Personal Information to create a profile about a Consumer reflecting preferences, characteristics, and behavior.
Disclosures for Business Purposes:
9. Sensitive Personal Information
Government Issued Identification Numbers (e.g., social security, driver’s license, state identification card, or passport number)
Disclosures for Business Purposes:
We may Collect other information that meets the definition of Personal
Information under State Privacy Laws but is not reflected by a category above.
When this occurs, we will treat the information as Personal Information as
required by the State Privacy Laws.
As permitted by applicable law, we do not treat “de-identified information”
and "publicly available information” as Personal Information. We reserve the
right to convert (or permit others to convert) your Personal Information to
de-identified information. We will not attempt to reidentify data that we
maintain as de-identified data and if we share it with third parties will use
technical and administrative controls to ensure that it is not reidentified.
Retention Period: Our Personal Information retention periods vary for each of
the categories of Personal Information described above. The length of time for
which we retain each category of Personal Information depends on the purposes
for our Collection and use and requirements pursuant to applicable laws. We do
not retain your Personal Information for any longer than reasonably necessary
to achieve the purposes for which it was Collected or processed, or as
required by applicable law.
Use and Disclosure of Personal Information – By Processing Purpose
We use and disclose Personal Information for the processing purposes described
below:
1. Performing Services
Real name, alias, postal address, unique personal identifiers, online identifier, Internet Protocol address, email address, and account name.
2. Managing Interactions and Transactions
Auditing: related to counting ad impressions to unique visitors, verifying positioning and quality of ad impressions, and auditing compliance with user interaction or transaction specifications and standards (e.g., ecommerce activities).
3. Security
Security/fraud prevention: to protect the security of J.Crew, our Services, or its users and to prevent and address fraud.
4. Debugging
Repairs: identify and repair errors that impair existing intended functionality of our Services. Advertising & Marketing (excluding Cross-context Behavioral Advertising and Targeted Advertising) Content and offers customization: to customize your experience on our Services, or to serve you specific content and offers that are relevant to/customized for you (e.g., pricing and discounts based on your profile, location, or shopping history)
5. Advertising & Marketing (excluding Cross-context Behavioral Advertising and Targeted Advertising)
Content and offers customization: to customize your experience on our Services, or to serve you specific content and offers that are relevant to/customized for you (e.g., pricing and discounts based on your profile, location, or shopping history)
Advertising, marketing, and promotions: to assist us in determining relevant advertising and the success of our advertising campaigns; to help us determine where to place our ads, including on other websites; for promotional activities such as running sweepstakes, contests, and other promotions (including third-party and co-promotions).
6. Quality Assurance
Quality and Safety of Service: undertaking activities to verify or maintain the quality or safety of our Services, and to improve, upgrade, or enhance our Services.
7. Processing Interactions and Transactions
Short-term, transient use: including, but not limited to, non-personalized advertising shown as part of a Consumer’s current interaction with J.Crew and use of our Services’ features and functionality (e.g., e-commerce transactions).
8. Research and Development
Research and analytics: to better understand how users access and use our Services, both on an aggregated and individualized basis, to improve our Services and respond to user preferences, and for other research and analytical purposes.
Market research and customer satisfaction surveys: to administer surveys and questionnaires, such as for market research or customer satisfaction purposes.
9. Additional Business Purposes
Compliance with legal obligations: to comply with legal obligations, as part of our general business operations, and for other business administration purposes and in response to legal obligations or process.
Prevention of illegal activities, fraud, injury to others, or violation of our terms and policies: to investigate, prevent or act if someone may be using information for illegal activities, fraud, or in ways that may threaten someone’s safety or violate of our terms or this U.S. State Notice.
Purposes disclosed at Personal Information Collection: We may provide additional disclosures at the time of Personal Information Collection, such as on a checkout page.
Related or compatible purposes: for purposes that are related to and/or compatible with any of the foregoing purposes
10. Commercial Purposes
Cross-context Behavioral Advertising and Targeted Advertising (as explained below), which may be treated as a Sale and/or Share under State Privacy Laws. For the specific types of Personal Information Sold or Shared for this purpose and the recipients thereof, see the first chart above.
Your Consumer Rights and How to Exercise them
Subject to certain limitations permitted by applicable laws and meeting the
requirements for a Verifiable Consumer Request (defined below), J.Crew
provides California, Colorado, Connecticut, Nevada, Utah (beginning December
31, 2023), and Virginia Consumers the privacy rights as legally required
described in this section. For residents of states without Consumer privacy
rights, we will offer you a limited right to delete, but will apply our
discretion with respect to if and how we process such requests. You or an
authorized agent may make these requests by calling 1-866-467-8688 and
entering service code 358#, emailing
privacy@jcrew.com, or visiting
https://jcrew.clarip.com/dsr/create
for our J.Crew brands,
https://jcrew.clarip.com/dsr/create?brand=Madewell
for our Madewell brand, and responding to any follow-up inquiries we make.
Once we receive your request, we will verify it by asking you to provide
certain information, such as identifiers like your email address and phone
number.
Right to Limit Sensitive Personal Information Processing
We only process Sensitive Personal Information for purposes that are exempt
from Consumer choice under the State Privacy Laws.
Right to Know/Access
Residents of California, Virginia, and Colorado are entitled to access
Personal Information up to twice in a 12-month period. Residents of
Connecticut and Utah (beginning December 31, 2023) are entitled once every
12-month period to access Personal Information maintained by J.Crew, with
subsequent requests subject to a service fee. We apply the same limitation on
the number of Verifiable Consumer Requests in Connecticut and Utah to all
states other than California, Virginia, and Colorado.
1. Categories (available for California Residents Only). California Residents
have a right to submit a request for any of the following for the period that
is 12-months prior to the request date:
The categories of Personal Information we have Collected about you.
Notice of Financial Incentives
We offer various financial incentives, such as discounts, coupons, and other
benefits for customers who sign up to receive our marketing emails or join our
loyalty program. When you participate in a financial incentive, we collect
Personal Information from you, such as identifiers (like your name and email
address) and commercial information (like your purchase history). You can opt
in to a financial incentive by following the sign-up or participation
instructions provided, and you have the ability to opt-out of the financial
incentive, or our subsequent use of your Personal Information in connection
with a financial incentive, at any time by contacting us at
help@jcrew.com. In some cases, we may
provide additional terms and conditions for a financial incentive, which we
will present to you when you sign up. We value your Personal Information as
the value of the offer or discount provided to you, and the value of your
Personal Information is reasonably related to the value of the offer or
discount presented to you.
Our Rights and the Rights of Others
Notwithstanding anything to the contrary, we may process your Personal
Information as required or permitted by applicable law and this processing may
override your rights under State Privacy Laws. We are not required to honor
your privacy requests if doing so infringes on our or another party’s rights
or conflicts with applicable law.
Additional Notice for California Residents
In addition to the CCPA, certain Californians are entitled to certain other notices. This section provides information on our online practices and your California rights specific to our online Services. Californians that visit our online Services and seek to acquire goods, services, money or credit for personal, family or household purposes are entitled to the following notices of their rights:
California Minors
Any California resident under age eighteen (18) who has registered to use our Services and posted content on the Services can request removal by contacting us at privacy@jcrew.com with information about where the content is posted and attesting to posting it. We will then make reasonably good faith efforts to remove the post from prospective public view or anonymize it, so the minor cannot be individually identified to the extent required by applicable law. This removal process cannot ensure complete or comprehensive removal; third parties may have republished or archived content by search engines we do not control.
Shine the Light
We do not share personal information as defined by California Civil Code Section 1798.83 (“Shine the Light law”) with third parties for their direct marketing purposes absent your consent.
Contact Us
If you have any questions about this Privacy Policy, please contact us at privacy@jcrew.com.
Categories of Third Partie
Vendors, consultants and other service providers who perform services on our behalf
Comenity Bank (in connection with the J.Crew Credit Card)
Other J.Crew website visitors (in connection with product reviews submitted through our Services)
Categories of Personal Information Disclosed for a Business or Commercial Purpose
Sale of Personal Information: California law requires that we provide transparency about personal information we "sell," which for the purposes of the CCPA broadly means scenarios in which we have shared personal information with partners in exchange for valuable consideration. While we do not provide personal information about you to other companies for money, we do allow our advertising partners to collect identifiers, commercial information and Internet or other electronic network activity information via our Services to show you ads that are targeted to your interests. To opt out of having your personal information used for targeted advertising purposes, please see the “Advertising and Analytics” section above. You can also visit our “California Do Not Sell My Personal Information” webpage to make an opt-out request.
Your Rights: Subject to certain limitations, you have the right to request (1) more information about the categories and specific pieces of personal information we have collected, used, sold and disclosed about you, (2) deletion of your personal information and (3) that we stop selling your personal information. We will not discriminate against you if you exercise your rights under the CCPA.
You may make these requests by calling 1-866-467-8688 and entering service code 358# or visiting this page. Once we receive your request, we will verify it by asking you to provide certain information, such as identifiers like your email address and phone number. If you would like to use an authorized agent registered with the California Secretary of State to exercise your rights, we may request evidence that you have provided such agent with power of attorney or that the agent otherwise has valid written authority to submit requests on your behalf.
Notice of Financial Incentives: We offer various financial incentives. For example, we may provide discounts, coupons and other benefits for customers who sign up to receive our marketing emails or join our loyalty program. When you participate in a financial incentive, we collect personal information from you, such as identifiers (like your name and email address) and commercial information (like your purchase history). You can opt into a financial incentive by following the sign-up or participation instructions provided, and you have the ability to opt-out of the financial incentive, or our subsequent use of your personal information in connection with a financial incentive, at any time by contacting us at help@jcrew.com. In some cases, we may provide additional terms and conditions for a financial incentive, which we will present to you when you sign up. The value of your personal information is reasonably related to the value of the offer or discount presented to you.
If you have any questions about this Privacy Policy and you reside: