If you visit and use our website or Boutiques or otherwise interact with CHANEL’s U.S. operations while in the United States of America, or if you are purchasing CHANEL products via our website / app to be shipped to the United States of America, please read this additional specific provision:
This Amendment otherwise supplements the CHANEL Privacy Policy and includes references to it in various sections.
Under this Amendment, Personal Information is information that identifies, relates to, describes, or could reasonably be linked directly or indirectly to you or your household collected by CHANEL from or about:
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Individuals who visit:
- CHANEL’s U.S. Boutiques or U.S. freestanding retail counters/corners (i.e. concessions or leased departments) operated by Chanel, Inc.
- Attend events hosted by CHANEL in the U.S.
CHANEL may have collected all or some of the categories of personal information specified below in last 12 months, when you interact with CHANEL Platforms, or visit our U.S boutiques or events as described above.
WHAT PERSONAL INFORMATION DO WE COLLECT AND HOW?
CHANEL may collect the following categories of Personal Information:
Category |
Examples |
Categories of Third Parties to whom this Information is Disclosed |
Personal Identifiers |
First and last name, alias or previous name, address, telephone number, facsimile number, unique personal identifier, signature |
Other entities in the Chanel Organization; service providers; external advisors (e.g., lawyers, accountants, auditors etc.), |
Demographic Information |
Date of birth, gender, physical characteristics or description, language skills, number of children, household income data |
Other entities in the Chanel Organization and service providers |
Financial Information |
Credit or debit card information, bank account number, other financial information |
Other entities in the Chanel Organization; service providers; external advisors |
Government Identifiers |
Driver’s or operator’s license number, passport number |
Other entities in the Chanel Organization; service providers; external advisors |
Legally Protected Classification Characteristics |
Age, citizenship, nationality, marital status, race, gender or gender identity |
Other entities in the Chanel Organization; service providers; external advisors |
Purchase History Information |
Customer purchase history or tendencies; products purchased, obtained, or considered; returns; records of personal property |
Other entities in the Chanel Organization and service providers |
Internet, Application, and Network Activity |
Call logs; text messages or emails (content); browsing history; search history; clickstream/online website tracking information; data related to user activity, e.g., browser visits; cookies or other similar technologies, which is typically collected automatically |
Other entities in the Chanel Organization a service providers |
Device and Online Identifiers and Related Information |
Online identifier; Internet Protocol address; email address; account user name; cellular, mobile, or wireless number; social media profile; unique device identifier and serial number; device information |
Other entities in the Chanel Organization and service providers |
Location Data |
Physical location or movements, geo-location data |
Other entities in the Chanel Organization and service providers |
Sensory Data |
Audio, electronic, visual, thermal, olfactory, or similar information |
Other entities in the Chanel Organization; service providers; external advisors |
Professional or Employment-Related Information |
Information Occupation, title, employer, employment history, education |
Other entities in the Chanel Organization; service providers; external advisors |
Inferences Drawn from Personal Information |
Profile reflecting a person's preferences, characteristics, behavior, and attitudes |
Other entities in the Chanel Organization; service providers |
Image Data (may be categorized as biometric data depending on the jurisdiction) |
Upon your consent, your image is used to determine whether facial patterns are present and the parameters of those facial patterns, only in the context of the virtual try-on and other customer experiences on our Platforms. No facial characteristics are measured or collected. |
Your image in the context of the virtual try-on and other experiences on our Platforms is not shared. If you choose to save your image to your CHANEL account, we will not store your image for more than three years from the date the image was created. You will always have the opportunity to delete each photo from your account.
If you choose not to save your image to your CHANEL account, it will not be stored on any server, system, or location outside of the device you use to access the experience, it is collected only to provide you with the service and is then deleted automatically when you close the virtual try-on page. |
See section 2 of the CHANEL Online Privacy Policy for additional information about the types of Personal Information we collect and how.See Section 3 of the Chanel Privacy Policy for additional information about how CHANEL uses and collects Personal Information. See section 4 of the CHANEL online Privacy Policy for additional information about the third parties to which we disclose Personal Information. While CHANEL does not knowingly "sell" personal information nor knowingly engage in any offline or non-cookie-based "sales", as the term "sell" is commonly understood. CHANEL does share certain categories of data specified above, including Internet,Application, and Network Activity data, collected through website cookies in a way that may be considered a "sale" under the applicable data privacy laws. If you still wish to opt-of-sale or sharing of your personal information, you may do so by selecting the CHANEL "Do Not Sell or Share My Personal Information" link on the homepage, in addition to the other method described below.
CHANEL collects Personal Information from the following categories of sources:
- From you or a member of your household
- From other individuals acting on your behalf, such as personal shoppers or assistants
- From devices associated with you or a member of your household, including through cookies, web beacons or similar technologies when you visit our websites or online applications or open our emails
- Through technology we use in our boutiques
- From other companies affiliated with CHANEL
- From our retail partners that sell our products
- From third-party information brokers
HOW DO WE SHARE YOUR PERSONAL INFORMATION?
CHANEL shares Personal Information with Categories of Third Parties described in Section 4 of the CHANEL Privacy Policy for the purposes listed there. The categories of Personal Information shared for those purposes are those listed above in the “What Personal Information Do We Collect and How” section and section 2 of the CHANEL Privacy Policy.
Residents of certain states within the U.S, including California, Colorado, Connecticut, Virginia and Utah have the right to opt out of the "sale" of their personal information. In addition, residents of the state of California have the right to opt out of the "sharing" of their personal information for cross-contextual behavior advertising/ targeted advertising purposes. While CHANEL does not kowingly "sell" or "share" Personal Information as such terms are commonly understood. The meaning of "sale" under applicable data privacy laws is broad and may include certain routine business practises, including some that involve CHANEL's use of website cookies and similar technologies for analytics and targeted advertising purposes. You may opt out of "sale" or "sharing" of your Personal Information through CHANEL's use of targeting cookies by disabling cookies through your web browser or opt out of certain types of cookie-based sharing by visiting our link, which you can also access on our homepage cookie banner. You may also opt out of the "sale" or "sharing" of your Personal Information, by clicking the "Do not sell or Share My Personal Information" link at the bottom of the CHANEL home page. In addition, if you are using a browser that supports the Global Privacy Cosettingsntrol ("GPC"), and have enabled the GPC, when you wisit the CHANEL Site, we will interpret that as a request to opt-out of cookie based sharing, such that third-party targeting cookies will be desactivated on our Site when you use that browser. To learn how you can opt out the "sale" or "sharing" of your Personal Information through our use of targeting cookies please click here. While we respond to the GPC, we do not respond to do not track or other browser-based signals.
THIRD-PARTY DATA COLLECTION
Online advertising networks and similar companies that collect information through cookies, Web beacons, and similar tools over time and across different websites, including upon or following your visit to our Platforms, operate on our Platforms and collect or receive information from the Platforms, and from third party websites or offline sources, and use the information they collect to provide ad measurement services and to tailor ads to users’ interests on our Platforms, on third party websites, or via email. For example, third parties, including, but not limited to Google and Facebook, may use cookies, web beacons and other storage technologies to collect or receive information from our Platforms and elsewhere on the Internet to provide measurement services and target advertisements.
DATA RETENTION
With respect to Personal Information collected from U.S. residents, CHANEL will keep your personal information for as long as is needed to carry out the purposes stated in the Privacy Policy, or as otherwise required by law, subject to our then current internal retention periods from time to time. With respect to Applicant Data, this information will be retained for 6 years following your last visit to our candidate space.
With respect to Image Data (which may be categorized as biometric data depending on the jurisdiction), if you choose to save your image to your CHANEL account, we will not store your image for more than three years from the date the image was created. You will always have the opportunity to delete each photo from your account.
If you choose not to save your image to your CHANEL account, it will not be stored on any server, system, or location outside of the device you use to access the experience, it is collected only to provide you with the service and is then deleted automatically when you close the virtual try-on page.
YOUR CHOICES AND RIGHTS
Please refer to section 7 of the CHANEL Online Privacy Policy. We also include the following as relevant to CHANEL’s practices and rights that may apply under some U.S. state or federal laws.
Cookies. Most web browsers automatically accept cookies, but you usually can change your browser to prevent the browser from accepting cookies. If you reject cookies, you may still use the Site, but your ability to use some areas and features/functions of the Site may be limited. For more information about how to disable cookies on the Site, please visit the CHANEL Privacy Prefrence Center.
Targeted Advertising. For more information about targeted advertising generally and information regarding how to “opt-out” from targeted advertising provided by certain participating companies, visit: http://www.networkadvertising.org/managing/opt_out.asp or http://www.aboutads.info/choices/.
As further discussed above you may opt-out of CHANEL’s use of cookies and similar technologies for targeted advertising purposes on your browser, by visiting the CHANEL Privacy Preference Center and unselecting “Targeting Cookies” or clicking the “Do Not Sell or Share My Personal Information” link on the CHANEL homepage. In addition, CHANEL responds to the GPC, an opt-out signal that you send from your browser. If you send a GPC signal from your browser this will have the same effect as unselecting cookies and similar technologies that CHANEL uses for targeted advertising purposes.
Marketing Communications. You may choose to stop receiving our newsletter or marketing emails by following the unsubscribe instructions included in these emails or contacting us at customercare@chanelusa.com
Your Legal Rights. Some consumers (including job applicants located in California) may have additional rights with respect to their Personal Information under applicable law, such as:
- Right to access Personal Information. You may be entitled to receive the specific pieces of your Personal Information we hold.
- Right to data portability. You may be entitled to receive a copy of your electronic Personal Information in a readily-usable format.
- Right to disclosure. You may be entitled to receive information regarding the categories of Personal Information we collected, the sources from which we collected Personal Information, the purposes for which we collected and shared Personal Information, the categories of Personal Information that we sold or shared and the categories of third parties to whom the Personal Information was sold or shared, and the categories of Personal Information that we disclosed for a business purpose in the 12 months preceding your request.
- Right to Correct Personal Information. You have the right to request in certain circumstances that we correct any personal information that we, our vendors or service providers on our behalf, have collected directly from you.
- Right to deletion. You may be entitled to request that we delete the Personal Information that we have collected from you. We will use commercially reasonable efforts to honor your request, in compliance with applicable laws. Please note, however, that we may need or be required to keep certain information, such as for our legitimate business purposes or to comply with applicable law.
- Right to opt-out of sales or sharing of Personal Information to third parties. You have the right to opt out of sales of your Personal Information, as defined under applicable state privacy laws. In addition, California residents have the right to opt of the sharing of Personal Information for cross-contextual behavior advertising / targeted advertising purposes. The definitions of “sale” under applicable state privacy law is very broad and may include certain activities that CHANEL routinely engages in, including the use of website cookies and similar tracking technologies for analytics and advertising purposes. To learn how you can opt out of the “sale” or “sharing” of your personal information through our use of targeting cookies please click here.
- Right to use an Authorized Agent. You can designate an authorized agent to submit requests on your behalf. However, to protect your Personal Information and in accordance with applicable state privacy laws, CHANEL will require written proof of the agent’s permission to do so and we will need to verify your identity directly.
- Right to Appeal. You have a right to appeal decisions concerning your ability to exercise your consumer rights.
Please note that these rights may be limited under applicable laws. For example, we may need to retain certain Personal Information for business purposes, to complete transactions you have requested, to comply with our legal obligations, or for other purposes as required or permitted by applicable law.
If you wish to exercise your rights under applicable law, please contact us at via customercare@chanelusa.com, by webform accessible here, or troll-free by phone at 1.800.550.0005.
Please note that we may require additional information from you in order to verify your identity and process your request. CHANEL will not discriminate against you because you exercise any of the consumer rights described in this section. You may also submit a request via an authorized agent using the email address or phone number above.
Your California Privacy Rights. Under California's "Shine the Light" law, California residents who provide Personal Information to us in obtaining products or services for personal, family or household use are entitled to request and obtain from us once a calendar year information about the customer information that we disclosed, if any, to other businesses for their own marketing purposes in the immediately prior calendar year. This request may be sent electronically by email to customercare@chanelusa.com or by phone at 1.800.550.0005. We will respond to these requests within 30 days. Written requests may be sent to CHANEL, INC., 9 West 57th Street, 2nd Floor, New York, New York 10019, Attn: Customer Care. Requests for this information that come to us through other channels may result in a delayed response. Please be aware that not all information sharing is covered by the "Shine the Light" requirements and only information on covered sharing will be included in our response.
CHILDREN UNDER THE AGE OF 13
The Sites are not directed to children and we do not intentionally collect or maintain any Personal Information from children under the age of 13 years. If you believe that we might have any Personal Information from or about anyone under the age of 13, please contact us at customercare@chanelusa.com or troll-free by phone 1.800.550.0005.
NOTIFICATION OF CHANGES
We reserve the right, in our sole discretion, to modify, alter or otherwise update this policy at any time. We will notify you of material changes to this Privacy Policy by posting the revised policy with the date it was revised on this page or as otherwise required by law. Your continued use (including access, browsing and/or use of any interactive feature) of our Sites and visits to our physical locations or events constitutes your agreement to this Privacy Policy and any updates.
CONTACT US
If you have any questions or concerns regarding our Privacy Policy, including how to access our Privacy Policy in a more accessible format, or any questions about the security at our Site, please contact us by email at customercare@chanelusa.com, by webform accessible here, or toll-free by phone at 1.800.550.0005.