Privacy Policy

Revised April 26, 2021

Section 1. Privacy Statement

Diff Eyewear appreciates how much you value your privacy. That is why we have developed this Privacy Policy: to describe the types of information we may collect from you, how we may use that information, how we store it and the steps we take to protect it, the circumstances under which we may disclose or transfer it, and the choices you have regarding submitting and maintaining the information you provide to us. We urge you to read this Privacy Policy, and to become familiar with our privacy practices. By visiting Diffeyewear.com (the “Site”), you are consenting to the practices described in this Privacy Policy. This Privacy Policy is subject to change. When we change the Privacy Policy in a material way, a notice will be posted at the Site along with the updated Privacy Policy. If you are a returning user or a regular user of the Site, we recommend that you review the Privacy Policy to be sure you are familiar with its current terms.  The terms “Diff Eyewear,” “we,” and “us” include Diff, LLC.

Section 2. Information We Collect

Our primary goal in collecting information is to provide and improve our Services, to administer your use of the Services (including your Account, if you are an Account holder), and to enable you to enjoy and easily navigate our Services.  The types of Personal Information we may collect (directly from you or from Third-Party sources) and our privacy practices depend on the nature of the relationship you have with Diff Eyewear and the requirements of applicable law.  Some of the ways that Diff may collect Personal Information include:

  • You may provide Personal Information directly to Diff Eyewear through interacting with the Services, making online purchases, participating in surveys, participating in events such as sweepstakes, and requesting Services or information.
  • As you navigate the Services, certain passive information may also be collected about your visit, including through cookies and similar technologies as described below.

2.1 Personal Information. When you join our mailing list, create an account, or make a purchase through our site, your personal information is collected and stored. Basic personal information we collect includes, but is not limited to, your full name, billing address, shipping address, phone number, and email address.

2.2 Shopify.  Our store is hosted on Shopify, Inc.  They provide us with the online e-commerce platform that allows us to sell our products and services to you.  Your data is stored through Shopify’s data storage, databases, and the general Shopify application.  They store your data on a secure server behind a firewall.

2.3 Payments.  If you choose a direct payment gateway to complete your Diff Eyewear purchase, then Shopify stores your credit card data.  It is encrypted through the Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard (PCI-DSS).  Your purchase transaction data is stored only as long as is necessary to complete your purchase transaction.  After the transaction is complete, your transaction data is deleted.  All direct payment gateways adhere to the standards set by PCI-DSS as managed by the PCI Security Standard Council, which is a joint effort of brands like Visa, MasterCard, American Express, and Discover.  PCI-DSS requirements help ensure the secure handling of credit card information by our store and its service providers.  For more insight, you may also want to read Shopify’s Terms of Service or its Privacy Statement.

2.4 Non-Identifying Information.  Non-identifying information are solo portions of your personal information that cannot be linked to you when seen alone, for example, your zip code or state. Diff Eyewear uses non-identifying information for statistical measurements to ultimately improve your experience on our site. We may combine your non-identifying information with your personal information to provide services to you, such as delivering product or addressing your inquiries.

2.5 Log Data.  When you visit Diffeyewear.com, our servers will automatically record and store information that your browser sends to every website you visit. This information is called log data. Log data can include, but is not limited to, your Internet Protocol (IP) address, browser type, web address you were visiting before coming to Diffeyewear.com, search information, the Diffeyewear.com pages you visited, and duration of time spent on each page. We collect this information to analyze and optimize our site to provide the utmost functionality to you.

2.6 Cookies.  When visiting our site, Diff Eyewear will place a “cookie” on your browsing system. A “cookie” is a piece of data that is sent to your browsing system for an optimized experience on our site. Persistent and session cookies on your browser will allow us to remember your login information and cart items when you return to our site. Parts of these cookies will be deleted when you close your browser, or log out of your account on Diffeyewear.com. We recommend allowing the use of cookies so we can provide the best online experience possible, however, if you wish to browse privately, without the use of cookies, you may instruct your browser to do so.

Here is a list of cookies that we use.  We’ve listed them here so you can choose if you want to opt-out of cookies or not. 

_session_id, unique token, sessional, Allows Shopify to store information about your session (referrer, landing page, etc.)

_shopify_visit, no data held, Persistent for 30 minutes from the last visit.  Used by our website provider’s internal stats tracker to record the number of visits.

_shopify_uniq, no data held, expires midnight (relative to the visitor) of the next day.  Counts the number of visits to a store by a single customer.

Cart, unique token, persistent for 2 weeks.  Stores information about the contents of your cart.

_secure_session_id, unique token, sessional

storefront_disgest, unique token, indefinite if the shop has a password, this is used to determine if the current visitor has access.

PREF, persistent for a very short period, set by Google and tracks who visits the store and from where.

2.7 E-Mails.  Diff Eyewear collects your email address to provide necessary transaction confirmation notifications. You may also opt-in to be a part of our DIFF Eyewear mailing list. In doing so, we will use your email address to provide promotional or marketing material regarding the launch of new products, events, service, and other items of interest.

2.8 Other Identifying Information.  IP address, social media user names, passwords and other security information for authentication and access.

2.9. Internet or other Electronic Activity.  Geolocation, your browsing and click history, including information about how you navigate within our services and which elements of our services you use the most.

2.10.  Demographic Information.  Gender, age, employment information and salary information.

2.11. Commercial Information.  Products purchased or viewed on our website.

2.12. Inferences drawn from the categories described above in order to create a profile about you to reflect your preferences, characteristics, behavior and attitude. 

Section 3. How We Use Your Information

3.1 Transactional Purposes.  We use your personal information, payment Information and commercial information to: 

  • receive, process, confirm, send and track your order, subscription or registration;
  • communicate with you about your order, subscription or registration; and
  • process returns or subscriptions.

3.2 Analytical Purposes.  We use your other identifying information, internet activity and browsing history, commercial information, demographic information, and geolocation data to analyze preferences, trends and statistics.

3.3 Marketing and Promotional Purposes. We use your personal information, commercial information, demographic information, internet or other electronic activity, geolocation data, and inferences to: 

  • inform you of our new products, promotions, services and offers;
  • provide you with targeted advertising;
  • run contests, promotions and sweepstakes;
  • provide you with our loyalty program including earning points toward the purchase of products; and
  • Provide you with other information from Diff Eyewear including personalized marketing communications.

3.4 Maintenance and Improvement of Services and Website.  We use your contact information, commercial information, and internet activity and browsing history to:

  • Provide and maintain functionality on our website, including our live chat or customer review features;
  • Handle your customer services requests; and
  • Help us diagnose technical and service problems and administer our website and app.

3.5 Review and content creation purposes.  We use your contact information, commercial information, and audio and visual information to enable reviews of our products and to display content that you have created and allowed us to display on our website and social media accounts.

3.6 Security and Fraud Prevention. We use your contact information, other identifying information, commercial information, financial information, geolocation data, internet activity and browsing history, and inferences to protect this website, our company, and others and to prevent fraud, theft and misconduct.

Section 4. Information Sharing

4.1 Third-Party Service Providers.  We may share your information with third parties who perform services on our behalf.  For example, this may include third party merchandise vendors, providers of order fulfillment and package delivery services for our products or payment processors.  It may also include companies that send marketing communications such as direct mail, emails or text messages on our behalf, provide marketing assistance, data analysis or search results.  One of Diff Eyewear’s marketing partners with who it may share your personal information is Oracle.  Information shared with Oracle is used for commercial purposes.

Diff Eyewear will also employ third-party service providers to assist us in improving our site, supporting our business operations, and assisting us in our marketing campaigns. These services may include website maintenance, database management, website analytics, or payment processing parties, targeted advertising and partnership marketing.

However, certain third-party service providers, such as payment gateways and other payment transaction processors, have their own privacy policies in respect to the information we are required to provide to them for your purchase-related transactions.  For these providers we recommend that you read their privacy policies so you can understand the manner in which your personal information will be handled by these providers.

In particular, remember that certain providers may be located in or have facilities that are located in a Different jurisdiction than either you or us.  So, if you elect to proceed with a transaction that involves the services of a third-party service provider, then your information may become subject to the laws of the jurisdiction(s) in which that service provider or its facilities are located.  As an example, if you are located in Canada and your transaction is processed by a payment gateway located in the United States, then your personal information used in completing that transaction may be subject to disclosure under United States legislation, including the Patriot Act. 

Once you leave our store’s website or are redirected to a third-party website or application, you are no longer governed by this Privacy Policy or our website’s Terms of Service.

4.2 Third-Party Links.  Diff Eyewear’s email newsletter or Diffeyewear.com may contain links to third-party websites. When you click on these links you will be transferred to the third-party website. DIFF Eyewear does not exercise control over the third-party’s privacy policy, and their privacy policy may Differ from ours. We encourage you to read the privacy policies of the sites you visit.

4.3 Google Analytics.  Our store uses Google Analytics to help us learn about who visits our site and what pages are being looked at.  This includes demographics and interests.  This data is only collected so that we can better service our customers.

4.4 Law Enforcement.  If we deem it necessary or appropriate, Diff Eyewear will cooperate with law enforcement officials and private parties when asked to disclose any information about you.

4.5 Business Transfer.  In the event that Diff Eyewear transfers ownership, we may share your personal information during a merger, acquisition, reorganization, sale of assets, or declaration of bankruptcy.

Section 5. Consents and Opting-Out

5.1 Email and Other Campaigns.

When you provide us with personal information to complete a transaction, verify your credit card, place an order, arrange for a delivery or return a purchase, it is implied that you consent to our collecting it and using it for that specific reason.  In addition, by providing us with your email address to receive promotions or to enter a sweepstakes or some other event, you consent to receiving marketing communications from Diff Eyewear unless check the box to opt-out from receiving such communications.

If you change your maid after providing us with your email address, you may withdraw your consent to receiving marketing emails from us or collecting, using or disclosing your information, at any time, by informing us at privacy@Diffeyewear.com or mailing us at:  Attention:  Privacy Officer, Diff Eyewear, 19701 Hamilton Avenue, Suite 260, Torrance, CA 90502.

5.2 Text (SMS) Messages.

We receive your consent to send you automated text messages when you provide us with your cell phone number.  Your consent to receive automated text messages from Diff Eyewear is completely voluntary. You may opt-out at any time by texting “STOP” in response to a text message you received from Diff Eyewear or to Diff Eyewear’s short code 55721.  It is your sole responsibility to notify us if you no longer want to receive automated text messages. You waive any rights to bring claims for unauthorized or undesired text messages by failing to opt-out immediately or by failing to follow these instructions. Please allow up to thirty (30) days (or ten (10) business days where required by law) to process any opt-out request.  We will send you a SMS message to confirm that you have been unsubscribed. After this, you will no longer receive text messages from us unless you opt-in to a Different campaign. As always, message and data rates may apply for any messages sent to you from us and to us from you.

5.3 Direct Mailing.  Diff Eyewear uses third party vendors to send promotions and marketing materials through direct mail.  These vendors may collect information concerning visitors to our website using JavaScript software code and/or “cookies” which is defined above at Section 2.6.  These cookies are stored on your computer or mobile device and helps websites and mobile apps to remember things about you to improve your experience with the website.  Our vendors may then connect the information that they collect from our website using “cookies” to other sources of information, which may include your name and mailing address, for the purpose of sending you advertisements and direct mail promotions.  By using the Diff Eyewear website, you consent to these activities, including information collection by our vendors.  If you do not wish for cookies to be placed on your computer, most web browsers permit you to prevent that from taking place.  Additionally, information about opting out of cookie-based advertising can be found via the following links – http://optout.networkadvertising.org/#!/ and http://www.neustar.biz/privacy/opt-out.  However, please keep in mind that cookies and similar technologies are an important part of how the website works; removing, rejecting or limiting the use of cookies or other similar technologies might affect the availability and functionality of the website. 

5.4 Opting-Out.  If you do not want Diff Eyewear to share your personal information with its third party vendors or from renting or selling your personal information to third parties, you can opt-out out by notifying us either by email at privacy@diffeyewear.com, calling us at 310-354-5929, or sending a written request to:  Privacy Officer, 19701 Hamilton Avenue, Suite 260, Torrance, CA 90502.  We will honor those requests, but please understand that it may take up to 45 days to process your request.

Section 6. Your Account Information

You may edit, update, or delete parts or all of your personal information from your user account at any time. You may edit your account information by logging into your account, or if you wish to delete your account entirely, please contact us at privacy@Diffeyewear.com.  Although your account can be deleted an archived copy may remain on file for business records.

Section 7. International Transfer

If you are an international customer, you should be aware that your personal information is transferred to the United States for processing at our headquarters in California. The security laws in the United States may Differ from your home country or governmental jurisdiction. Your consent to this Privacy Policy and submission of your personal information, during a transaction or otherwise, represents your agreement to that transfer.

By choosing to visit the Site, utilize the Services, or otherwise provide information to us, you agree that any dispute over privacy or the terms contained in this Privacy Policy will be governed by the laws of California, United States, and the adjudication of any disputes arising in connection with Diff Eyewear or the Site will be in accordance with the Terms of Use.

If you are visiting from the European Union or other regions with laws governing data collection and use, please note that you are agreeing to the transfer of your information to the United States and to Processing of your data globally.  By providing your Personal Information, you consent to any transfer and Processing in accordance with this Policy.

Section 8. Security

To protect your personal information, we take reasonable precautions and follow industry best practices to make sure it is not inappropriately lost, misused, accessed, disclosed, altered, or destroyed.

If you provide us with your credit card information, the information is encrypted using secure socket layer technology (SSL) and stored with a AES-256 encryption.  Although no method of transmission over the Internet or electronic storage is 100% secure, we follow all PCI-DSS requirements and implement additional, generally accepted industry standards. 

Section 9. Children

In compliance with the Children’s Online Privacy Protection Act, Diff Eyewear will not knowingly collect any information from children under the age of 13 years. If you are under 13, please have your parents or legal guardian enter their information when required. If a parent or legal guardian becomes aware that his or her child has provided his or her personal information without parental consent, please contact privacy@Diffeyewear.com, and we will remove the information from our files. Additionally, if Diff Eyewear becomes aware that a child under the age of 13 has provided us with his or her personal information, we will delete the information from our files.

Section 10. California Do Not Track Disclosure

Do Not Track is a privacy preference that users can set in their web browsers. When a user turns on the Do Not Track signal, the browser sends a message to websites requesting them not to track the user. At this Time, Diff Eyewear does not respond to Do Not Track browser settings or signals. In addition, Diff Eyewear may use third-party advertising companies to collect data and/or serve ads when you visit Diffeyewear.com.

These companies may use information about your visits to this and other websites in order to provide advertisements about goods and services of interest to you. Please keep in mind that your browser settings may not permit you to control the technologies utilized by these third-party companies. If you would like more information about this practice and to know your choices about not having this information used by these companies, visit http://www.networkadvertising.org/choices/.

Section 11.  Your California Privacy Rights

This Section applies to any California residents about whom we have collected personal information from any source, including through your use of our Service or by communicating with us electronically, in paper correspondence, or in person.  Any terms defined in the California Consumer Protection Act (“CCPA”) have the same meaning when used in this Section 11. This Section only applies to non-California residents as may be required by applicable state law in your state of residence.

11.1 What Personal Information We Collect?

We collect the following categories of personal information from consumers:

a) Identifiers.  We collect your name, physical address, e-mail address, phone number, cell phone number, Internet Protocal (IP) address and account name.


b) Information In Customer Records.  We collect your name, address, telephone number and cell phone number.  If you purchase prescription glasses through our website we will collect your prescription.

c) Legally Protected Characteristics.  In some circumstances, usually through a voluntary survey, we collect your age, marital status, gender and familial status.

d) Commercial Information.  We collect information on products or services you purchased, obtained, or considered purchasing or other purchasing or consuming histories or tendencies. 

e) Internet or Network Activity.  We collect information regarding consumer’s interaction with our Internet website.  We collect your browser type, web address you were visiting before coming to Diffyeyewear.com, search information, what Diffeyewear.com pages you visited, duration of time spent on each page and whether consumers tried on through our virtual try on tool and how much time a consumer spends on our website.

f) Additional Information.  See Sections 2 and 3 above for additional information on the information we collect and how we use it.

11.2 Sources of Collected Personal Information.

We may collect personal information from the following categories of sources:

  • From you, including via our websites, cookies, mobile applications, telephone, text message, postal mail, social media, surveys, message boards, or other means;
  • Our service providers, which includes customer relationship management providers, analytics providers, hosting providers, systems administrators, and communications delivery services;
  • Nonaffiliated companies with which we have a business relationship, which includes our Customers;
  • Other third parties, which includes analytics service providers and other websites and mobile applications, online advertising partners, and other data suppliers;
  • Employees and job applicants.

11.3 What Do We Do With Your Personal Information? 

We use the personal information we collect from you for all of the business purposes outlined in Section 3 above.    

11.4 Who We Share Personal Information With?

We may share your personal information with the following categories of third parties for a business purpose:

  • Service Providers or other strategic partners;
  • Nonaffiliated companies with which we have a business relationship, such as our Customers;
  • Third party marketing partners;
  • Third parties in the event of any reorganization, merger, sale, joint venture, assignment, transfer or other disposition of all or any portion of our business assets or stock (including in connection with any bankruptcy or similar proceedings); and
  • Other parties described in Section 4 above.

11.5 Your Privacy Rights

If you are a California resident, subject to applicable law, you have the following rights under California law with respect to your personal information:

  • Right to Know.  You may have the right to request what personal information we collect, use, disclose, and/or sell, as applicable and request the information be provided to you in a portable format.
  • Right to Delete.  You have the right to request the deletion of your personal information that is collected or maintained by us.
  • Right to Opt-Out of Sale.  You have the right to request to be opted out from any future sales of your personal information by us.  This opt-out will not change your preferences with respect to the receipt of marketing and other communications from the Company unless you make an additional request to change such preferences.  
  • Right to Non-Discrimination.  You have the right not to be denied goods or services, charged Different prices or rates for goods or services, or receive a Differing level of quality of goods or services as a result of exercising the above rights.  

11.6 Exercising Your Rights

If you are a California resident and wish to seek to exercise any of the rights in Section 11.5 above, please reach us in one (1) of the following ways:

a) Email.  By sending an email to privacy@Diffeyewear.com with “California Privacy Rights” as the subject line.

b) Mail.  By sending a letter addressed to:

Attention:  Privacy Officer
Diff, LLC
19701 Hamilton Ave., Suite 260
Torrance, CA 90502

Your request through either email or mail must identify which right(s) you are seeking to exercise (access to your personal information; provide you with your personal information; and/or deletion of your personal information).  Your request must also include full name, email address and/or postal address.

You may also authorize someone to exercise the above rights on your behalf provided we can verify that individual is authorized to act on your behalf.  If we have collected information on your minor child, you may exercise the above rights on behalf of your minor child.

The above rights are subject to our being able to reasonably verify your identity and authority to make these requests.  These rights are also subject to various exclusions and exceptions under applicable laws.  You may only make a verifiable consumer request for access or data portability twice within a twelve (12)-month period.  The verifiable consumer request must:

  • Provide sufficient information that allows us to reasonably verify you are the person about whom we collected personal information or an authorized representative.
  • Describe your request with sufficient detail that allows us to properly understand, evaluate, and respond to it.

We cannot respond to your request or provide you with personal information if we cannot verify your identity or authority to make the request and confirm the personal information relates to you.  Making a verifiable consumer request does not require you to create an account with us.  We will only use personal information provided in a verifiable consumer request to verify the requestor’s identity or authority to make the request.

Once we receive and confirm your verifiable consumer request, we will disclose to you:

  • The categories of personal information we collected about you.
  • The categories of sources for the personal information we collected about you.
  • Our business or commercial purpose for collecting or selling that personal information.
  • The categories of third parties with whom we share that personal information.
  • The specific pieces of personal information we collected about you (also called a data portability request).

We may deny your deletion request if retaining the personal information is necessary for us or our service providers to:

  1. Complete the transaction for which we collected the personal information, provide a good or service that you requested, take actions reasonably anticipated within the context of our ongoing business relationship with you, or otherwise perform our contract with you.
  2. Detect security incidents, protect against malicious, deceptive, fraudulent, or illegal activity, or prosecute those responsible for such activities.
  3. Debug products to identify and repair errors that impair existing intended functionality.
  4. Comply with the California Electronic Communications Privacy Act (Cal. Penal Code § 1546 seq.).
  5. Comply with a legal obligation.
  6. Make other internal and lawful uses of that information that are compatible with the context in which you provided it.

We endeavor to respond to a verifiable consumer request within forty-five (45) days of receipt.  If we require more time (up to ninety (90) days), we will inform you of the reason and extension period in writing.  We will deliver our written response by either mail or electronically.  Any disclosures we provide will only cover the twelve (12)-month period preceding the verifiable consumer request’s receipt.  The response we provide will also explain the reasons we cannot comply with a request, if applicable.  For data portability requests, we will select a format to provide your personal information that is readily useable and should allow you to transmit the information from one entity to another entity without hindrance.

We do not charge a fee to process or respond to your verifiable consumer request unless it is excessive, repetitive, or manifestly unfounded.  If we determine that the request warrants a fee, we will tell you why we made that decision and provide you with a cost estimate before completing your request.

11.7 Non-Discrimination

We will not discriminate against you for exercising any of your rights. Unless permitted under applicable law, we will not:

  • Deny you goods or services.
  • Charge you Different prices or rates for goods or services, including through granting discounts or other benefits, or imposing penalties.
  • Provide you a Different level or quality of goods or services.
  • Suggest that you may receive a Different price or rate for goods or services or a Different level or quality of goods or services.

Section 12.   Changes to This Privacy Policy

We reserve the right to modify this privacy policy at any time, so please review it frequently.  Changes and clarifications will take effect immediately upon their posting on the website.  If we make material changes to this policy, we will notify you here that it has been updated, so that you are aware of what information we collect, how we use it, and under what circumstances, if any, we use and/or disclose it.

Section 12.   Contact

We have appointed our In-House Counsel as our Privacy Officer. The Privacy Officer is accountable for our compliance with the principles of applicable legislation and this Privacy Policy.  All requests to exercise your rights, or inquiries about your personal data should be made to the Privacy Officer at privacy@Diffeyewear.com or by writing to: Diff, LLC d/b/a Diff Eyewear, Attn: Privacy Officer, 19701 Hamilton Avenue, Suite 260 Torrance, CA 90502.