Privacy Policy Statement

Hanesbrands Inc. respects our customers and understand that you may have concerns about privacy, so we have instituted privacy policies intended to ensure that your personal and business information is handled safely and responsibly.

This Privacy Policy Statement sets forth the privacy policy pertaining to this “Site,” www.outerbankssportswear.com, which is owned by Hanesbrands Inc. (“Hanesbrands,” “we,” “us” or “our”). Hanesbrands is a global manufacturer and marketer of high-quality, brand-name clothing products for consumers throughout the world. By using this Site, you are accepting and agreeing to the terms set forth in this Privacy Policy Statement. For other terms and conditions that apply to your use of the Site, please review our Terms of Use and other terms applicable to your use of the Site.

The location on this Site where you submit information and not the type of information will determine whether or not information and materials you submit or upload is or is not treated privately or, instead, is available for public viewing. The same information and materials may be treated differently, depending upon where on the Site you submit or upload to it.

For purposes of this Privacy Statement, “you” and “your” refers to the individual person who is accessing this Site, as well as to any company or organization such person represents or on whose behalf such person accesses this Site.

Information Hanesbrands Collects

For purposes of this Privacy Policy Statement, "Collected Information" means any information submitted to us via a “non-public” area at the Site by which (a) you can be personally identified, or (b) your company or organization can be identified. Collected Information may include names of both individuals and companies, telephone/fax numbers, addresses, email addresses, web site addresses and the names and contact information of a company’s agents. Hanesbrands collects Collected Information only when you voluntarily submit it to us, such as when subscribing to our e-mail program, submitting a testimonial or question, participating in special functions of the Site, responding to a survey, entering a sweepstakes, creating an account, making suggestions or comments, or requesting a catalog.

If you submit any such information (Collected Information or otherwise) to a “public” area of the Site or for potential publication, it is NOT subject to the same measure of confidentiality.

Besides Collected Information, when you access the Site our web servers may automatically recognize and collect information regarding your referring domain, your type of internet browser, operating system software, screen resolution, cookie preferences, and similar technical data. None of this information is personally identifiable and we only use this information in the aggregate to measure overall Site usage patterns and trends.

This Site is intended for use by persons over the age of thirteen (13). We will not knowingly collect, retain, or use Collected Information from any person who is under the age of thirteen (13).

If we publish information, photographs, testimonials, questions, comments or other information that you submit to us for potential publication, we may identify you as the source of such information by first name and city of residence or as otherwise indicated on the applicable submission pages. Any information (Collected Information or otherwise) about yourself submitted for potential publication or in a “public” area of our Site and/or other areas or features, may allow members of the general public to view such submitted information and content on the Internet, may be routed through our servers, the servers of one or more third parties on our behalf, and the Internet, and you have no expectation of or right to privacy with regard to any such submission including but not limited to ANY submissions in the following sections: (i) Build Your Own Sell Sheets, (ii) Create Your Own Customized Emails, and (iii) Create Your Own Customized Web Page.

We have no obligation to monitor any submissions, particularly as to the content of e-cards or similar features where visitors have the option of creating a message. Such public areas and features offered therein are public and not private communications. The security of any information you disclose is not guaranteed; you make such submissions and disclosures at your own risk. We are not responsible for any network insecurity, errors, omissions, or offensive material contained in any content posted in any public areas or any decisions made or actions taken or not taken based on such information or content.

Cookies and Web Beacons

We may use a technology called “cookies” to provide you with tailored information. A cookie is a small piece of data that the Site can send to your browser, which may then be stored on your hard drive so the Site can recognize you as you browse the Site and when you return. These cookies may collect information on the operating system and browser that you are using, and accumulate and report anonymous, statistical information on Site usage. The use of cookies shows us how our customers navigate through our Site and thus allows us to make our Site more responsive to your needs by delivering a better and more personalized experience to you. We do not use cookies to identify or track any Collected Information. If you do not wish to have a cookie sent to your browser, you can change the settings on your internet browser to stop it from automatically accepting cookies. While rejecting a cookie will not normally affect your browsing or your ability to access the features on our Site, you may be required to re-enter certain information as you browse or when you return to the Site.

We also may use electronic image requests (also called “web beacons” or “single-pixel gifs”) to count page views and to access cookies. The web beacons do not collect, gather, monitor or share any Collected Information; they are only used to compile anonymous information about Site usage.

How Hanesbrands Uses the Information

It is our policy to maintain all Collected Information as confidential except as may be necessary to fulfill a particular function such as those listed below:

• for the specific purpose for which it was submitted (for example, to enter a contest or sweepstakes, to post a message to a bulletin board, to submit a request for hyperlink or custom catalog web site, to submit a technical question, to respond to a marketing survey, to submit a request to be added to the Business Locator, etc.);
• to provide referral information to other visitors to the Site;
• to post on our Site testimonials, photographs, questions, comments, or other information that you may submit to us for potential publication, subject to any disclosure or other terms and conditions found on the submission page and our Terms of Use;
• to improve the content, appearance, and utility of the Site;
• to trace our visitors' use of the Site for internal research purposes;
• to contact you to participate in market research;
• to notify our visitors of updates to the Site;
• to send catalogs, printed materials, offers and other announcements to you;
• to send e-mail offers, announcements, or newsletters to your e-mail address;
• to provide any necessary notices to our visitors;
• any information about yourself or your company submitted for potential publication or in a “public” area of our Site and/or other areas or features, including but not limited to ANY submissions in the following sections: (i) Build Your Own Sell Sheets, (ii) Create Your Own Customized Emails, and (iii) Create Your Own Customized Web Page.

Also, with your permission, we may provide that information to Hanesbrands’ industry partners such as a wholesale distributor.

Additionally, we may disclose specific information about you upon governmental request, if required to do so by law, based on our good faith belief that it is necessary to conform to or comply with the law, to facilitate law enforcement, or is necessary to protect the users of our Site or the public in general.

On occasion, we contract with other companies to provide certain services to us, including shipping, e-mail distribution, changing mailing addresses, market research, and promotions management. We provide these companies with only the information needed to perform their services. These companies are prohibited from using this information for their own marketing purposes and from sharing this information with others.

Hanesbrands may buy or sell assets, subsidiaries, or business units, or may be acquired by another company. In such transactions, Collected Information is usually one of the transferred business assets, and we reserve the right to transfer all Collected Information in our possession as part of any such transaction. Generally, such transferred Collected Information remains subject to the promises made in the applicable pre-existing Privacy Policy Statement.

The foregoing notwithstanding and to the extent permitted by law, we do NOT undertake to keep confidential any information which:

• is lawfully in the public domain prior to its disclosure by us;
• enters the public domain otherwise than as a result of an unauthorized disclosure by us;
• is or becomes lawfully available to us from a third-party who has the right to disclose such information to us on a non-confidential basis;
• is known by us prior to the date of disclosure to us; or
• is independently developed by our employees or contractors (as shown by our written records) who have not had access to the information disclosed by you.

Accessing and Changing Your Information

At any time you may obtain a summary of your Collected Information on record with us. Except for Collected Information needed to complete your purchase of products, if any, you may request that: (i) we correct or update any such Collected Information; (ii) such Collected Information not be provided to third-parties; or (iii) such Collected Information be removed from our active marketing databases. To make such a request, you may send an e-mail to service@hanes-outerbanks.com, write to Imagewear Database Group, Hanesbrands Inc., PO Box 3019, Winston-Salem, NC 27102, or call toll free 1-800-685-7557. When contacting us, please be sure to provide us with your exact e-mail address, name, address, and/or telephone number(s) in order to enable us to handle your request correctly.

Please also note that each time we send you an e-mail message, we will give you the option to unsubscribe from our e-mail list by simply clicking the “unsubscribe” link.

Links to Other Sites

For your convenience, our website may contain links to other sites. When you use a link to go from our Site to another web site, this Privacy Policy Statement is no longer in effect. Hanesbrands is not responsible for the privacy policies and practices employed by web sites linked to or from our Site, nor for the information or content contained or collected at such websites.

Security

We are committed to keeping Collected Information reasonably secure, and we have reasonable technical, administrative, and physical safeguards in place to help protect Collected Information from loss, misuse, or alteration. However, we cannot be and are not responsible for unauthorized access to your Collected Information by hackers or others who have obtained such unintended access.

Updating the Privacy Policy Statement

As we continue to develop our Site and take advantage of technologies to improve the services we provide, we may change our policies. Therefore, we reserve the right, at our discretion, to change, modify, add, or remove portions of this Privacy Policy Statement at any time. This policy is effective on and was last updated March 30, 2007. If elements of our Privacy Policy change, we will revise and post this Privacy Policy Statement on this Site. You should check this page periodically for changes. Your continued use of this Site following the posting of changes to this Privacy Policy Statement will mean that you accept those changes.