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Change Summary
Faire's updated privacy policy expands data collection and use practices for retailers and expands how marketplace information is shared between users. The policy now explicitly describes collecting inferred or predicted business attributes (store type, category), implementing automated credit decision-making for retailers, and sharing business profile information with other Faire users and Brands to facilitate marketplace discovery and transactions. The policy also introduces Faire Pay, a credit facility requiring collection of additional information including Social Security numbers, shared with banking partner Lead Bank.
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2Last update and effective: May 15, 2026 This Privacy Policy describes how Faire Wholesale, Inc. and its affiliates and subsidiaries (collectively, “Faire,” “we,” “us,” or “our”) collects, uses, shares, and protects personal information.2Last update and effective: August 20, 2026 This Privacy Policy describes how Faire Wholesale, Inc. and its affiliates and subsidiaries (collectively, “Faire,” “we,” “us,” or “our”) collects, uses, shares, and protects personal information.
18Retailers: When you register as a Retailer with Faire, we will collect your first and last name, email address, phone number, business address, website, store name, store address, years you have been in business, and projected sales figures.18Retailers: When you register as a Retailer with Faire or use the Services, we may collect information about your business, including your store name, store type or category, website, store description, products, preferences, and other information you provide to us or make available through your use of the Services, which can include your first and last name, email address, business address, and phone number.
19We may also infer or predict business attributes, such as store type or category, based on information you provide, publicly available information, information from your website or connected third-party services, and your activity on the Services.
88In assessing a retailer's credit standing and setting a credit limit for their account, we may also use information such as the retailer's credit risk rating, payment history, including any missed or late payments and how much of their limit they have used, and how long it has been since their account was last reviewed.
89To reduce our exposure to credit risk, we use information about the retailer to assess their credit standing within Faire.
90Based on this assessment, we may automatically set a credit limit applicable to a retailer's account.
91This determination involves automated decision-making.
92We use this credit limit to determine the applicable payment term for the retailer's account, Payment on Shipment or 60 Day Terms.
88How We Use Information In addition to the purposes and uses described above, we use information in the following ways: To provide you with our Services To determine your order or account limits and eligibility for extended payment terms Process applications, transactions, and payments Allow you to register for events Engage in marketing or sales outreach Provide customized content, offers, or Services, including marketing content via email, postal mail, social media, SMS, or other channels, subject to applicable laws Research and develop Services, including but not limited to training artificial intelligence chat algorithms Improve and streamline our Services Detect security incidents; protect against malicious, deceptive, fraudulent, or illegal activity Ensure quality control Debug to identify and repair errors Enforce our Terms and policies Audit or other compliance activities To comply with our legal or regulatory obligations, to establish or exercise our rights, and to defend against a legal claim For internal administrative purposes, as well as to manage our relationships For such other purposes as you may consent (from time to time) Although the sections above describe our primary purpose in collecting your information, in many situations we have more than one purpose.94You may have rights regarding this automated decision, as described under 'Your Choices' below.
95Faire Pay You may have the ability to create a credit facility through Faire Pay.
96When applying, you may be asked to provide your name, employer, and Social Security number, among other information.
97When we collect this information in connection with Faire Pay, it will be processed by Faire in accordance with our Privacy Policy in order to process your application and conduct due diligence.
98It may also be shared with, and processed by, Faire’s banking partner, Lead Bank, in accordance with Lead Bank’s privacy notice made available to you during the application process in order to consider your application and provide the Faire Pay service.
99How We Use Information In addition to the purposes and uses described above, we use information in the following ways: To provide you with our Services To determine your order or account limits and eligibility for extended payment terms Process applications, transactions, and payments Allow you to register for events Engage in marketing or sales outreach Provide customized content, offers, or Services, including marketing content via email, postal mail, social media, SMS, or other channels, subject to applicable laws Research and develop Services, including but not limited to training artificial intelligence chat algorithms To improve, streamline, categorize, or personalize our Services, including by using self-selected, inferred, or predicted business attributes, such as retailer store type or category, to help Brands and Retailers discover relevant products, stores, advertisements, promotional offers, and other marketplace opportunities Detect security incidents; protect against malicious, deceptive, fraudulent, or illegal activity Ensure quality control Debug to identify and repair errors Enforce our Terms and policies Audit or other compliance activities To comply with our legal or regulatory obligations, to establish or exercise our rights, and to defend against a legal claim For internal administrative purposes, as well as to manage our relationships For such other purposes as you may consent (from time to time) Faire Pay You may have the ability to create a credit facility through Faire Pay.
100When applying, you may be asked to provide your name, employer, and Social Security number, among other information.
101When we collect this information in connection with Faire Pay, it will be processed by Faire in accordance with our Privacy Policy in order to process your application and conduct due diligence.
102It will also be shared with, and processed by, Lead Bank in accordance with its Privacy Policy, made available to you during the application process, in order to consider your application and provide the Faire Pay service.
103Although the sections above describe our primary purpose in collecting your information, in many situations we have more than one purpose.
104We may allow advertisers and/or merchant partners (“Advertisers”) to choose the demographic information of users who will see their advertisements and/or promotional offers.119We may use information we collect or infer about users and their businesses, including business profile information, store type or category, location, purchasing activity, browsing activity, and other marketplace attributes, to determine which advertisements, promotional offers, or sponsored placements are displayed within the Services.
105We may provide any of the information we have collected from you in non-personally identifiable form to an Advertiser, in order for that Advertiser to select the appropriate audience for those advertisements and/or offers.120Advertisers and/or merchant partners (“Advertisers”) may be able to select or bid for ads to be shown to users or categories of users, but we do not disclose information to Advertisers in a manner that identifies you personally for this purpose, except as otherwise described in this Privacy Policy, such as when you interact with an advertisement, place an order, or otherwise engage with a Brand through the Services.
106For example, we might use the fact you are located in San Francisco to show you ads or offers for San Francisco businesses, but we will not tell such businesses who you are.Removed
107Or, we might allow Advertisers to display their ads to users with similar usage patterns to yours, but we will not disclose usage information to Advertisers except in aggregate form, and not in a manner that would identify you personally.Removed
108Note that if an advertiser asks us to show an ad to a certain audience or audience segment and you respond to that ad, the Advertiser may conclude that you fit the description of the audience they were trying to reach.Removed
117User Profiles and Submissions.129User Profiles, Submissions, and Information Shared with Other Faire Users.
118Certain user profile information, including your name, location, and any video or image content that such user has uploaded to the Services, may be displayed to other users to facilitate user interaction within the Services or address your request for our Services.130Certain information about you or your business may be displayed or made available to other users of the Services to facilitate discovery, interaction, ordering, advertising, transactions, and other marketplace functionality.
119Your account privacy settings may allow you to limit the other users who can see the personal information in your user profile and/or what information in your user profile is visible to others.131This may include your name, business name, store name, user name, location, website, store profile information, product interests, products, profile content, images, videos, messages, comments, engagement with the Services, and other information you provide, upload, submit, or otherwise make available through the Services.
120Please remember that any content you upload to your public user profile, along with any personal information or content that you voluntarily disclose online in a manner other users can view (on discussion boards, in messages and chat areas, etc.) becomes publicly available, and can be collected and used by anyone.132It may also include business profile information and marketplace attributes, such as store type or category and other information relating to your participation in the marketplace.
121Your user name may also be displayed to other users if you send messages or comments or upload images or videos through the Services and other users can contact you through messages and comments.133Some attributes, such as store type or category, may be self-selected by you or inferred or predicted by Faire based on information you provide to us, publicly available information, information from your website or connected third-party services, and your activity on or use of the Services.
122Other Faire Users.134Where appropriate, we may indicate when an attribute is predicted.
123If you place an order to purchase goods from Brands through Faire, we will share your information with the Brand to facilitate your order.135Please remember that any content you upload to your public user profile, along with any personal information or content that you voluntarily disclose online in a manner other users can view (including on discussion boards, in messages and chat areas, through other interactive features of the Services, etc.) may become publicly available and can be collected and used by others.
136Your account privacy settings may allow you to limit the other users who can see certain personal information in your user profile and/or what information in your user profile is visible to others.
137Brands may use information made available through the Services to identify, evaluate, engage with, market to, and transact with retailers on the Faire platform.
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