Who we are
THREADS is an apparel, clothing, and accessories company. Our mission statement – engage our communities through service, creative clothing, and accessories with the intention to inspire intellect. Through community participation, our company along with our clothing line will bring awareness of literacy to the public by encouraging reading and education.
Our name THREADS is a dual representation of our company. Categorized as a kangaroo word, THREADS is often another word used to describe clothing. The joey word, READ embedded within our name THREADS, signifies the action and call to our communities. In these times, the necessity of reading, comprehension and raising the awareness of literacy is of upmost importance.
Our clothing is comfortable everyday wear with an underlying focus on the significance of education. Our clothing branding represent our customers’ traits, interests, beliefs, wishes, etc. by word definition.
At THREADS we strive to create elements of clothing and accessories that promote inclusion, empowerment, and general well-being.
We are a proud Canadian owned company.
What personal data we collect and why we collect it
THREADS may also use your personal information for other business purposes including management analysis, audit, forecasting, business planning and transactions, ensuring our compliance with applicable laws, regulatory requirements, and dealing with legal claims and related administrative activities and related records retention requirements. We may also use your personal information as required or permitted by law enforcement, other government agency requests or court orders.
THREADS will use your personal data for the purposes described in this policy. If we want to use your personal information for new or additional reasons, we will provide you with notice of these purposes and give you an chance to provide or withdraw your consent.
We may anonymize your personal information and use it as part of aggregated non personal information for research, statistical and other purposes (such as improving our website, products and services) or measuring the effectiveness of our advertising. In addition, we may hire service providers to perform services on our behalf, such as such as advertising and marketing, software, couriers and payment services. These service providers may use your personal information for the purposes set out in this Policy including, for example, to complete your order or enable offers, advertising or other promotional activity about our products and services to be provided to you, or to provide you with aftercare services. We will provide these service providers with only the information necessary for them to provide the services to THREADS. THREADS prohibits service providers from using or disclosing personal information for purposes other than to facilitate and carry out those services. We will strive to protect personal information disclosed to them by contractual agreements requiring that they adhere to applicable privacy laws, confidentiality and security procedures and protections that are, at a minimum, equivalent to those employed by THREADS.
Comments
When visitors leave comments on the site we collect the data shown in the comments form, and also the visitor’s IP address and browser user agent string to help spam detection.
An anonymized string created from your email address (also called a hash) may be provided to the Gravatar service to see if you are using it. The Gravatar service privacy policy is available here: https://automattic.com/privacy/. After approval of your comment, your profile picture is visible to the public in the context of your comment.
Media
If you upload images to the website, you should avoid uploading images with embedded location data (EXIF GPS) included. Visitors to the website can download and extract any location data from images on the website.
Contact forms
Cookies
If you leave a comment on our site you may opt-in to saving your name, email address and website in cookies. These are for your convenience so that you do not have to fill in your details again when you leave another comment. These cookies will last for one year.
If you visit our login page, we will set a temporary cookie to determine if your browser accepts cookies. This cookie contains no personal data and is discarded when you close your browser.
When you log in, we will also set up several cookies to save your login information and your screen display choices. Login cookies last for two days, and screen options cookies last for a year. If you select “Remember Me”, your login will persist for two weeks. If you log out of your account, the login cookies will be removed.
If you edit or publish an article, an additional cookie will be saved in your browser. This cookie includes no personal data and simply indicates the post ID of the article you just edited. It expires after 1 day.
Embedded content from other websites
Articles on this site may include embedded content (e.g. videos, images, articles, etc.). Embedded content from other websites behaves in the exact same way as if the visitor has visited the other website.
These websites may collect data about you, use cookies, embed additional third-party tracking, and monitor your interaction with that embedded content, including tracking your interaction with the embedded content if you have an account and are logged in to that website.
Analytics
If you leave a comment, the comment and its metadata are retained indefinitely. This is so we can recognize and approve any follow-up comments automatically instead of holding them in a moderation queue.
For users that register on our website (if any), we also store the personal information they provide in their user profile. All users can see, edit, or delete their personal information at any time (except they cannot change their username). Website administrators can also see and edit that information.
What rights you have over your data
If you have an account on this site, or have left comments, you can request to receive an exported file of the personal data we hold about you, including any data you have provided to us. You can also request that we erase any personal data we hold about you. This does not include any data we are obliged to keep for administrative, legal, or security purposes.
Where we send your data
Visitor comments may be checked through an automated spam detection service.
Additional information
Unfortunately, the transmission of information via the internet is not completely secure. Although we will do our best to protect your personal information, we cannot guarantee the security of your personal information transmitted to our website and/or social medial channels. Any transmission is at your own risk. Once we have received your personal information, we will use strict procedures and security features to try to prevent unauthorized access.
