Privacy Policy
Effective as of October 27, 2023
Introduction
Sunlighten, Inc. (“Sunlighten,” “we,” “our,” or “us”) respects the privacy of your information. This Privacy Policy is designed to assist you in understanding how we collect, use and safeguard the information you provide to us in using our website (the “Site”) and the services provided through our Site (the “Services”).
From time to time, we may change this Privacy Policy. If we do, we will post an amended version on this webpage. If we make material changes to our Privacy Policy, we may also notify you by other means, such as sending an email or posting a notice on our home page. If required by applicable data protection laws, we will obtain your consent to any material changes. Please review this Privacy Policy periodically.
Please also refer to our Terms of Use regarding the proper usage of the Sites and Services.
This Privacy Policy covers the following topics:
- What is Sunlighten?
- Collecting and Using Information
- Cookies and Other Tracking Technologies
- Third Party Processors
- International Data Transfers
- “Do Not Track” Signals
- Advertising and Marketing Choices
- Third Party Links
- Security
- Children’s Privacy
- Your Choices and Rights
- Your Personal Data and Your Rights –Europe and the United Kingdom Only
- Your Personal Data and Your Rights –United States Only (Including California)
- Accessibility
- How to Contact Us
1. What is Sunlighten?
Sunlighten was founded as a result of a personal healing experience with infrared therapy. For more than a decade, founder Jason Lincoln Jeffers suffered from chronic illness and relied on traditional medicine to manage his condition. It was only when he discovered infrared saunas that he truly began to heal. Jason founded Sunlight Saunas (now Sunlighten) in 1999 to make more people aware of the remarkable healing power of infrared that he personally experienced. Today the company continues to innovate even greater technologies with the goal of bringing products that empower wellness into homes and businesses around the world.
Sunlighten’s offices are located at 7373 W. 107th Street Overland Park, Kansas 66212. Sunlighten is the data controller of all personal data collected from residents of the European Economic Area or the United Kingdom.
2. Collecting and Using Information
Through your use of the Site and Services, we collect personal data from you. For purposes of this Privacy Policy, “Personal Data” refers to any information relating to an identified or identifiable natural person that we maintain in an accessible form.
Information You Provide
When you use the Site or Services, you may voluntarily provide us with the following types of Personal Data:
- Get Pricing. When you request pricing on a Sunlighten product, you will provide us with your first and last name, phone number, email address, country of residence, and intended use of the product.
- Get the Infrared Sauna Buyer’s Guide. When you request an Infrared Sauna Buyer’s Guide, you will provide us with your first and last name, and email address.
- Get a Custom Sauna Quote. When you request a quote for a custom sauna through our webform or by telephone, you will provide us with your first and last name, phone number, email address, the intended use of the product, and interior room dimensions, including room depth, height, and width, ceiling height, and door width. You may also provide us with the location of the project, including the state/province/region, city, and zip/postal code.
- Contact Commercial Team. When you contact a member of the commercial team, you will provide us with your first and last name, phone number, email address, facility type, purchase timeline, whether you are a United States resident, and how you heard about us.
- Purchase a Product Online. When you purchase a product on the Site with us, you will provide us with your first and last name, country/region, street address, town/city, state, zip code, phone number, email address, and credit card information.
- Live Chat. To start a live chat with a customer representative, you will provide us with your first and last name, and email address.
- Apply for Financing. use Ally Lending to approve and issue a line of credit to our customers for sauna purchases in the United States. We use Novuna to approve and a line of credit to our customers for sauna purchases in the United Kingdom. We use humm90 Australia to approve and a line of credit to our customers for sauna purchases in Australia and New Zealand. To apply for financing, you will provide Ally Lending, Novuna or humm90 Australia with your first and last name, Social Security number, email address, birthdate, physical address, phone number, and net annual income. Ally Lending's privacy policy is available here, Novuna's privacy policy is available here, and humm90 Australia's privacy policy is available here. If we assist you in completing the application over the phone we will maintain a recording of the conversation.
- Financing for Online Products. We use Klarma to offer monthly financing to our customers that purchase products directly from the Site. To apply for financing, you may provide Klarma with your name and email address, among other things. Klarma’s privacy policy is available here.
- Request Product Support. When you contact us for product support by webform, you will provide us with your first and last name, sauna model, description of the issue, phone number, email address, and you may provide a photograph of the sauna issue. When you contact us by telephone, you may need to provide us with your first and last name, email address, phone number, and sauna model.
- Contact Us. When you contact us by telephone or email, you may need to provide us with your first and last name, email address, and/or phone number.
- Schedule a Call. When you schedule a call with us, you will provide us with your first and last name, and email address.
- Join Our Partner Program. To join our partner program, you must provide us with your first and last name, company name, email address, phone number, email list size, social media follower size, promotional methods, how you would like to work with us, and whether you own a Sunlighten sauna.
- Join Our Referral Program. To join our referral program, you must provide us with your first and last name, company name, email address, phone number.
- Interact with our Site or Services. When you send us any feedback, questions, comments, suggestions, ideas, or interact with us in any way, you may need to provide us with your first and last name, and email address.
- SMS (Short Message SMS (Short Message Service) messages sent via cell phone, or through email and other communications;
Information as You Navigate Our Site and Services
We automatically collect certain Personal Data through your use of the Site and Services. We will automatically collect certain Personal Data, such as the following:
- Usage Information. We collect information such as which of the pages on the Site you access, the frequency of access, and what you click on while on the Site.
- Device Information. We collect information about the device you are using, such as hardware model, operating system, application version number, and browser.
- Mobile Device Information. In addition to the Device Information listed above, when you access our Site via a browser on your mobile device, we collect and aggregate information about whether you are accessing the Site via a mobile device or tablet, device type, and carrier.
- Location Information. We collect location information from Site visitors on a city-regional basis.
Third Party Information
In some cases, we may receive certain Personal Data from you about a third party. For example, when you purchase a Sunlighten product, you may provide the name and physical address of a third party who is receiving the product. If you submit any Personal Data about another individual to us, you are responsible for making sure that you have the authority to do so and to allow us to use their Personal Data in accordance with this Privacy Policy.
We use the Personal Data we collect to provide the Services to you, to improve our Services and Site, and to protect our legal rights. In addition, we may use the Personal Data we collect to:
- Provide information to you about product pricing and instant sale pricing
- Administer drawings to win a sauna;
- Send you our Infrared Sauna Buyer’s Guide;
- Provide you with a custom sauna quote;
- Provide you with a Sunlighten product;
- Provide information to you about joining our partner program;
- Contact you regarding our products and services that we feel may be of interest to you;
- Communicate with you about our Site or Services or to inform you of any changes to our Site or Services;
- Provide support;
- Maintain and improve our Site and Services;
- Defend our legal rights and the rights of others;
- Efficiently maintain our business; and
- Comply with applicable law.
We may share the information that we collect about you in the following ways:
- With service providers who perform data services on our behalf (e.g., email, hosting, maintenance, backup, analysis, etc.). Any such service providers will be under an obligation to us to maintain the confidentiality of your Personal Data;
- To service providers to prepare, deploy and analyze advertising content;
- To the extent that we are required to do so by law;
- In connection with any legal proceedings or prospective legal proceedings;
- To establish, exercise, or defend our legal rights, including providing information to others for the purposes of fraud prevention;
- To any person who we reasonably believe may apply to a court or other competent authority for disclosure of that Personal Data where, in our reasonable opinion, such court or authority would be reasonably likely to order disclosure of that Personal Data;
- To any other person or entity as part of any business or asset sale; and
- To any other person or entity where you consent to the disclosure.
- Sunlighten does not share the SMS opt-in consent to any 3rd party organization
3. Cookies and Other Tracking Technologies
Like many other companies, we use cookies and other tracking technologies (such as pixels and web beacons). To learn more about how we use cookies and to change your cookie settings, please see our Cookie Policy.
Google Analytics
We use Google Analytics, a web analytics service provided by Google, Inc. Google Analytics uses Cookies or other tracking technologies to help us analyze how users interact with the Site and Services, compile reports on their activity, and provide other services related to their activity and usage. The technologies used by Google may collect information such as your IP address, time of visit, whether you are a returning visitor, and any referring website. The technologies used by Google Analytics do not gather information that personally identifies you. The information generated by Google Analytics will be transmitted to and stored by Google and will be subject to Google’s privacy policies. To learn more about Google’s partner services and to learn how to opt-out of tracking of analytics by Google, click here.
4. Third Party Processors
To ensure that your Personal Data receives an adequate level of protection, we have put in place appropriate procedures with the service providers we share your Personal Data with to ensure that your Personal Data is treated by those service providers in a way that is consistent with and which respects the applicable laws on data security and privacy. For example, we use Google Analytics, and Hotjar for web analytics services, WooCommerce for eCommerce, PayFlowPro for payment processing, and Office 365 for data backup and recovery.
5. International Data Tranfers
We operate internationally and transfer information to the United States for the purposes described in this policy. The United States may have privacy and data protection laws that differ from, and are potentially less protective than, the laws of your country. Your Personal Data can be subject to access requests from governments, courts, or law enforcement in the United States according to the laws of the United States.
By using our Services, you explicitly consent to this risk and to the transfer, processing and storage of your information in the United States, irrespective of which country you live in. This includes when you request pricing, request the Infrared Sauna Buyer’s Guide, request a custom sauna quote, purchase a product, request instant sale pricing, request product support, join our partner program, and contact us through webform, live chat, telephone, or email. We also may transfer your Personal Data to the United States if necessary to perform a contract between you and us.
For any transfers of Personal Data from the European Economic Area, Switzerland or the United Kingdom that we make to other entities as described in this Privacy Policy, we use appropriate safeguards to ensure for the law processing and transfer of the Personal Data, including, when appropriate, the use of standard contractual clauses approved by the European Commission. To obtain a copy of the safeguards, contact us at privacy@sunlighten.com.
6. “Do Not Track” Signals
Some internet browsers incorporate a “Do Not Track” feature that signals to websites you visit that you do not want to have your online activity tracked. Given that there is not a uniform way that browsers communicate the “Do Not Track” signal, the Site does not currently interpret, respond to or alter its practices when it receives “Do Not Track” signals.
7. Advertising and Marketing Choices
Depending on your location (and reflecting applicable law), you may have been asked to indicate your preferences, provide us with your consent regarding the receipt of such information from us, and indicate how you would like to receive it.
Wherever you are located, we will send you marketing communications based on any preferences you may have expressed.
We only want to send you information in which you are interested. If you do not want to receive these communications or would like to understand more about other unsubscribe options, please contact us as set out in the “How to Contact Us” section below.
For email communications, you can opt out and/or manage your preferences by clicking on the unsubscribe link provided at the bottom of any email you receive from us. You also may submit a request to us at unsubscribe@sunlighten.com. If we call you with information you do not want to receive, you can advise us of this during the telephone call.
To stop text messages and calls, you can opt out of receiving text messages or calls to your phone number at any time by (i) for text messages, texting "STOP" in response to any text message you receive from us; and (ii) for calls, requesting opt out during any call you receive from us or contacting us as set out in the “How to Contact Us” section below and specifying you want to opt out of calls. Please note that your opt out is limited to the phone number used.
8. Third Party Links
The Site and Services may contain links that will let you leave the Site and Services and access another website. Linked websites are not under our control. Except as stated below, this Privacy Policy applies solely to Personal Data that is acquired on this Site and Services. We accept no responsibility or liability for these other websites.
9. Security
We maintain commercially reasonable security measures to protect the Personal Data we collect and store from loss, misuse, destruction, or unauthorized access. However, no security measure or modality of data transmission over the Internet is 100% secure. Although we strive to use commercially acceptable means to protect your Personal Data, we cannot guarantee absolute security.
10. Children’s Privacy
The Site and Services are not intended for children under 16 years of age. We do not knowingly collect, use, or disclose personal information from children under 16.
11. Your Choices and Rights
Depending on the jurisdiction in which you are located, you may have additional rights with respect to your Personal Data. We discuss some of those jurisdictions and rights below. For example, you may have the rights to access, delete, update, or correct your information. You also may have the right to object to or opt out of direct marketing from us. If you would like to exercise your legal rights, please contact us at privacy@sunlighten.com. We will process your request in accordance with any applicable legal requirements.
12. Your Personal Data and Your Rights – Europe and the United Kingdom Only
If you are in a country in the European Economic Area (EEA) or in the United Kingdom, you are entitled to the following explanation of the legal bases we rely on to process your Personal Data and a description of your privacy rights.
Legal Bases for Processing Your Personal Data
The legal basis for collecting and using the Personal Data described above will depend on the Personal Data concerned and the specific context in which we collect it.
Consent
We may process your Personal Data based on your consent such as when you create an account or when you ask us to send certain kinds of marketing communications. You have the right to withdraw your consent at any time without affecting the lawfulness of the processing based on consent before its withdrawal.
Our Legitimate Interests
We may process your Personal Data if doing so is necessary for our legitimate interests and your rights as an individual do not override those legitimate interests. For example, when we process your Personal Data to carry out fraud prevention activities and activities to increase network and information security, to market directly to you, to expand our business activities, and to improve our services and the content and functionality of our Site.
To Perform a Contract
We may process your Personal Data to administer and fulfill contractual obligations to you.
To Enable Us to Comply with a Legal Obligation
We may process your Personal Data to comply with legal obligations to which we are subject. This may include any requirement to produce audited accounts and to comply with legal process.
Necessary for the Exercise or Defense of Legal Claims
If you bring a claim against us or we bring a claim against you, we may process your Personal Data in relation to that claim.
If you have any questions about or need further information concerning the legal basis on which we collect and use your Personal Data for any specific processing activity, please contact us using the “How to Contact Us