How We Treat Your Personal Information
Effective April 21, 2025
Introduction
Wildlife Research Center and Scent Killer Sports value your business and respect your privacy. We are committed to honoring your privacy rights in accordance with U.S. federal and state privacy and data protection laws that may apply.
This privacy policy describes your privacy rights related to information you share with us, and how you contact us to exercise those rights. In addition, this privacy policy describes how we collect, use, and share information that can identify you (“Personal Information”) related to the use of our websites, mobile apps, and software applications (hereafter “Products and Services”). We will collect, process, and share your Personal Information in accordance with this privacy policy.
Who We Are
In this privacy policy, “we,” “us,” and “our” refers to the business, either Wildlife Research Center or Scent Killer, that you are interacting with, or that is providing you with our Products and Services related to which you are sharing your Personal Information.
With respect to your rights under applicable privacy laws, the data controller of your personal information is Wildlife Research Center, Inc. You can contact us at:
Wildlife Research Center, Inc.
Attn: Legal / Privacy
14485 Azurite ST NW
Ramsey, MN 55303
1-800-873-5873
Scent Killer Sports
Attn: Legal / Privacy
14485 Azurite ST NW
Ramsey, MN 55303
1-800-873-5873
What Personal Information We Collect and When
We collect the following information, including Personal Information, when you interact with us and use our Products and Services:
Purchase and Warranty Information: means information, including Personal Information, you may provide to us when you purchase our Products and Services, including related to a product warranty. Purchase and Warranty Information may include your financial information; contact information, such as your name, shipping and billing address, phone number, and email address; or product identification information, like serial or batch numbers.
Website Information: means information that you enter directly or otherwise provide or disclose, including Personal Information, when you use or access any of our websites. Website Information includes information about the technology you used to access our website, including the IP address, internet service provider, browsers, apps, and devices. Website Information also includes details of your activities while on our websites, like how long you visited a webpage, the content you clicked on or accessed, and information about other sites you visited before or after our website. Website Information includes anything you submitted via the website like a webform to “contact us”, the content of any “chat” communications you have with us through our websites.
App Usage Information: means information, including Personal Information, you provide or that is generated during your use of our apps. App Usage Information includes:
- Information you enter for app functionality including your name, address, date of birth, gender, as well as any other data that you submit in connection with your use of the app.
- Information about app usage and app features, like when you activate and use a particular feature and the extent or duration of use. This helps us provide optimal functionality and overall user experience. We also log certain technical information including information related to internet protocol and device event information such as crashes, system activity, hardware settings, and the date and time of your request.
- Use time and classification of the environment in which the apps are being used. This is necessary for us to provide certain features and functionality of our Products and Services. You can disable collection of this data, but doing so may limit functionality of our Products and Services.
- If you have your geo-location function (also known as “location services” or “GPS tracking,” or other terms) activated and working on your mobile device, we may collect location information, if you are using one of our apps. You can stop collection of this information by disabling the geo-location function on your mobile device.
Communications Information: means information you provide while communicating with us, in any way, for any reason, that may include Personal Information. Communications Information includes the information you provide over the phone, which may include your name, phone number, address, email address, as well as the content of any phone calls you have with us.
Your Information Shared by a Third-Party You Authorized: means your Personal Information that is provided to us by a third-party, because you authorized the third-party to share it. For example, you may authorize a third party to share your Personal Information with us, which may include your contact information or payment information.
Anonymous Information: means information that does not allow you to be identified or otherwise make you identifiable. For example, we collect generic information about the type of mobile device and mobile operating system you use to access and interact with our Products and Services. In some cases, we may aggregate and de-identify data to remove all information that could be used to specifically identify you, thereby rendering it anonymous. Anonymous Information does not constitute Personal Information in this privacy policy, or pursuant to applicable law.
Why We Collect Your Personal Information
We collect your Personal Information because it is necessary to provide the services, features, or functionality of our Products and Services that you have elected to use. We also collect your Personal Information for legitimate business purposes, to protect us and our customers, and for legal reasons. We only collect and process your Personal Information based on our legitimate interests when we have determined our legitimate interests are not outweighed by your privacy and data protection rights.
Depending on your interaction with us, and your use of our Products and Services, we may collect your Personal Information for the following reasons:
- providing you with access to and use of our Products and Services;
- operating, maintaining, and improving our Products and Services;
- entering, performing, and terminating a contract with you;
- assembling and processing your job application;
- sending you important administrative notifications or confirmations, as well as technical notices about things like updates and security alerts;
- responding to your comments and questions and providing you with customer support;
- preventing abuse of our Products and Services, and investigating or prosecuting any potential threat or misuse;
- to protect, investigate, and deter against fraudulent, unauthorized, or illegal activity;
- protecting the rights and property of us and our customers, including in the event of legal claims;
- tracking and analyzing our advertising and promotional efforts;
- sending you marketing or promotional communications that may be based on your behavior and personal information, and that may include social notifications, surveys, or other newsletters depending on your settings; and
- fulfilling any purpose for which you have given us your consent.
Some features of our websites allow you to communicate with us using an online form. If your communication requests a response from us, we may send you a response via email. The email response or confirmation may include your personal information, including your name and contact information. We cannot guarantee that our emails to you will be secure from unauthorized interception.
When required by law, we will obtain your consent before sending you certain marketing communications. You can withdraw consent at any time by contacting us. See the Who We Are section of this privacy policy for details. You may also opt-out of receiving future marketing information, like marketing emails, at any time, by using the instructions provided in the marketing communications.
How We Collect Information
You Give Us Information Directly
We collect the information you give us when purchasing and using our Products and Services. For example, when you download our mobile app, in order to create a user account and activate and utilize features of the app, it may be necessary for you to provide information to us. The information you give us may include Personal Information, like your name, address, date of birth, gender, or third-party contacts, and any other data that you submit in connection with your use of our Products and Services.
You Give Us Information Directly (Collected Using Technology like Cookies)
We use tracking technology like cookies to collect information about how you use our Products and Services, and to provide you with essential services, functionality, and personalization of our Products and Services. The purpose of this section is to provide you with the necessary information regarding our use of cookies, and the storage of such cookies on your device when you access our websites, to enable you to choose whether to allow cookies to be placed on your device.
Cookies are small text files that can be stored on your computer by a website that you visit. Cookies are widely used to make websites work, or work more efficiently, as well as to provide web services and functionalities for users.
Cookies may be either “persistent” or “session” cookies. A persistent cookie consists of a text file sent by a web server to a web browser, which will be stored by the browser until its set expiry date (unless deleted by the user before the expiry date). A session cookie, or temporary cookie, will expire at the end of the user session, when the web browser is closed.
Web beacons are small files (also called “pixels”, “image tags”, or “script tags”) that may be loaded on our websites, applications, and tools, that may work in concert with cookies to identify our users and provide anonymized data about their activity.
Privacy laws in some jurisdictions require that we obtain your consent before cookies may be stored or accessed on your equipment, except that we do not need consent for cookies that are strictly necessary to provide our Products and Services.
- Essential Cookies are necessary to provide you with core website functionality, personalization and browsing history. For example, a preference cookie is required to maintain a record of your consent or non-consent preferences so that we may respect them for future visits. These can only be disabled by changing your browser preferences. We do not share this information with third parties.
- Functionality Cookies help us customize our website content based on your preferences, to provide you with a more personal experience on our websites. The information these cookies collect may be anonymized and does not include browsing activity on third-party
- Analytics Cookies are used to collect information about traffic to our websites and user activity on our websites. The information is aggregated and anonymous and does not identify any individual visitor. It includes the number of visitors to our websites, the pages visited, and other similar information. We use this information to help operate, maintain, and improve our
- Social Media Cookies. We allow users to share links to our websites on social media sites like Facebook and Twitter. These cookies are not within our control. Please refer to the respective privacy policies of the social media provider for how their cookies
- Disabling Cookies. Most web browsers allow control of cookies through the browser settings. By adjusting your web browser, you may avoid receiving cookies. However, this might result in the website not functioning optimally. The method used to block cookies will depend on the web browser used. Consult the “Help” or corresponding menu in your web browser for
To find out more about cookies, including how to see what cookies have been set and how to manage and delete them, visit www.allaboutcookies.org. We do not currently respond to Do Not Track signals sent by the browser.
You Authorize a Third Party to Give Us Your Information
You may authorize a third party to give us information about you which may include your contact information or payment information.
How We Share Personal Information
Third Parties Designated by You: We may share your Personal Information with third parties where you have provided your consent for us to do so.
External Processing: We may share your Personal Information with our third-party service providers who provide services such as data analysis, payment processing, information technology and related infrastructure, email delivery, and other similar services. We require that our third-party service providers use your Personal Information only to provide the services we’ve requested based on our instructions and in compliance with our privacy policies and any other required confidentiality and security measures.
For Legal Reasons: We may share your Personal Information as we believe necessary or appropriate (a) to comply with applicable laws; (b) on reasonable request by a law enforcement or regulatory authority, body, or agency; (c) in the conduct or defense of legal claims; (d) when obtaining professional advice (including legal advice) in relation to audits and our business and consider this in our legitimate interests in managing our business; (e) to enforce our agreements; and (f) to protect our rights, privacy, safety, or property, or that of you or others. We will not delete Personal Information if it is relevant to an investigation or a dispute; relevant information will be stored until such issues are fully resolved.
New Owner of Our Business: We may share your Personal Information with a third-party (new owner) in the case of a merger, acquisition, dissolution, or sale of our business. In that case, we would also be sharing your Personal Information with that third-party’s advisors related to the transaction.
Affiliates: We may share your Personal Information with other companies owned by our (Affiliates). Our Affiliates are bound to protect Personal Information in accordance with applicable privacy and data protection laws.
How We Secure Information We Collect
We work to secure the information we collect, including by employing administrative and technical security measures to protect information from unauthorized access, loss, misuse, corruption, alteration, and destruction. We use commercially accepted means to secure your Personal Information, including encryption, but we cannot guarantee its absolute security.
Please contact us immediately if you have reason to believe your Personal Information or any of our Products and Services are not secure or have been accessed without authorization. If you receive a communication that purports to be from us that you believe is suspicious, do not open or respond to it, and please contact us.
The U.S. Federal Trade Commission provides more information on how you can protect yourself from identity theft on its website: https://consumer.ftc.gov/identity-theft-online-security.
How Long We Keep Your Information
If you have a contract with us, we will keep your Personal Information for the term of the contractual relationship, and for our use as described in this privacy policy, as allowed by applicable law. We will retain your information for such further period as necessary to defend ourselves from legal claims.
If you make a request for us to delete your Personal Information, we will keep a record of your request, to honor your request in the future. We will then delete the Personal Information you asked be deleted, subject to any legal retention requirement, or legal exceptions to deletion requests.
U.S. State Privacy Laws
You may have certain rights related to your Personal Information depending on your state of legal residence. These rights are subject to the relevant facts of your individual circumstances, as well as the applicable law. Below are general categories of rights related to personal information. For your convenience, at the end of each category we have noted certain U.S. states with privacy laws that may provide a right or rights related to that category. You should consult your state’s laws for further information. We are providing this information as a helpful reference only. We cannot provide you with legal advice. California residents please see the Privacy Notice for California Residents below for additional information.
Right to access: You may have the right to access the information or categories of information we collect about you, the information or categories of information shared with third parties, or the specific third parties or categories of third parties to which the information was shared; or, some combination of similar information. (CA, CO, CT, MT, OR, TX, UT, VA) (DE and IA effective Jan 1, 2025) (TN effective July 1, 2025) (IN effective Jan 1, 2026)
Right to correct: You may have the right to request that incorrect or outdated Personal Information be corrected but not deleted. (CA, CO, CT, MT, OR, TX, VA) (DE effective Jan 1, 2025) (TN effective July 1, 2025) (IN effective Jan 1, 2026)
Right to delete: You may have the right to request that we delete your Personal Information under certain conditions. (CA, CO, CT, MT, OR, TX, UT, VA) (DE and IA effective Jan 1, 2025) (TN effective July 1, 2025) (IN effective Jan 1, 2026)
Right to opt out of certain processing: You may have the right to restrict our ability to process your Personal Information for profiling and targeted advertising purposes, or because it is particularly sensitive. (CA, CO, CT, MT, OR, TX, UT, VA) (DE effective Jan 1, 2025) (TN effective July 1, 2025) (IN effective Jan 1, 2026)
Right to portability: You may have the right to request a copy of your Personal Information be disclosed in a common file format. (CA, CO, CT, MT, OR, TX, UT, VA) (DE and IA effective Jan 1, 2025) (TN effective July 1, 2025) (IN effective Jan 1, 2026)
Right to opt out of sales: You may have the right to opt out of the sale of your Personal Information to third parties. (CA, CO, CT, MT, OR, TX, UT, VA) (DE and IA effective Jan 1, 2025) (TN effective July 1, 2025) (IN effective Jan 1, 2026)
Right to opt in for sensitive data processing: You may have the right to opt in before we can process certain of your sensitive Personal Information. (CO, CT, MT, OR, TX, VA) (DE effective Jan 1, 2025) (TN effective July 1, 2025) (IN effective Jan 1, 2026)
Right against automated decision making: You may have the right to prohibit us from making decisions about you based solely on an automated process without human input. (CA, CO, CT, MT, OR, TX, VA) (DE and IA effective Jan 1, 2025) (TN effective July 1, 2025) (IN effective Jan 1, 2026)
Private right of action: You may have the right to seek civil damages for violations of a privacy statute. (CA)
You may exercise your rights by contacting us via email at info@wildlife.com or phone at 1-800-873-5873. Requests to exercise these rights are subject to our ability to verify relevant information including your identity, your Personal Information comprising the basis of your request, and the details of the applicable law.
Privacy Notice For California Residents
The California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA) requires us to provide California residents with certain information about how we handle their personal information.
CCPA Categories of Personal Information
We collect the following categories of personal information identified under CCPA:
- Identifiers
- Customer Records
- Biometric
- Internet or Network Activity
- Geolocation
- Sensory
- Professional or Employment
- Inferences
As described in further detail in this privacy policy, we collect this information when you visit our websites or purchase and use our Products and Services. We collect your Personal Information because it is necessary to provide, operate, maintain and support our Products and Services, as well as to administer and promote our business. Please refer to the other sections of our privacy policy for further detail, including the sections Why We Collect Your Personal Information and How We Collect Your Personal Information.
Exercising your Rights
California residents have the right to make the following requests, up to twice every 12 months:
- The right to request the specific pieces of personal information we have collected about You.
- The right to request that we disclose what personal information we collect, use, disclose, or sell.
- The right to request that we delete personal information that we have collected about You (subject to certain exceptions).
- The right to opt out of the sale of Your personal information.
You may exercise your rights to access and delete data by:
- Emailing us at info@wildlife.com; or
- Calling us at 1-800-873-5873
We do not sell your information for money. We do disclose your information to certain third parties that provide valuable services to us, such as analytics and advertising services, which we do not believe is considered a “sale” under the CCPA. Categories of third parties with whom we have shared personal information in the last 12 months include third-party integrations for advertising and website analytics.
If you’d like to be included in a Do Not Sell My Personal Information Register we maintain, please contact us at info@wildlife.com. After 12 months, we may request that you update your preference.
California Civil Code § 1798.83 permits our visitors who are California residents to request certain information regarding our disclosure of personal information to third parties for their direct marketing purposes. To make such a request, please contact us and indicate whether you are a California resident.
California law requires us to let you know how we respond to web browser “Do Not Track” signals. Our websites are not currently able to support “Do Not Track” codes. We do not currently respond to or take any action regarding “Do Not Track” requests.
Non-Discrimination
We will not penalize you, or discriminate against you, for exercising your rights under CCPA. In accordance with CCPA, should you elect to exercise your rights under CCPA, we will not: (i) deny you goods or services; (ii) charge you different prices or rates for goods or services, including by use of discounts, benefits, or penalties; (iii) provide you a different level or quality of goods or services; or (iv) threaten or imply that you may receive a different level of goods or services.
“Do Not Track” Browser Settings
“Do Not Track” is a preference you can set in your web browser to inform websites you visit that you do not wish to be tracked. The “Do Not Track” setting must be supported by the website you are visiting to be effective. We are not currently able to support “Do Not Track” browser codes. Therefore, we do not currently respond to or take any action regarding “Do Not Track” requests.
Personal Information From Children
Our Products and Services are not directed to children under 13 years old. Consistent with United States law, specifically the Children’s Online Privacy Protection Act of 1998 (COPPA), we do not knowingly collect Personal Information from anyone under the age of 13 in the United States without the consent of the individual’s parent or legal guardian. Please contact us if you believe we have been provided Personal Information of a child without the appropriate consent of the parent or legal guardian.
Changes To This Policy
We may change our privacy practices and revise this privacy policy periodically. If we make significant changes (information we collect, how we use it, or why), we will highlight those changes at the beginning of this privacy policy. To the maximum extent permitted by law, any changes will become effective when we post the updated privacy policy on our websites, and you will be accepting the changes by your use of our Products and Services. We recommend you review our privacy policy frequently as you use our Products and Services, to keep up to date on our privacy practices.
Third-Party Products, Services, And Websites
Please be aware that any third-party websites, software applications, or other products or services linked or accessible via our websites, products, or services are governed by the third party’s terms of use and privacy policies. You should carefully review a third-party’s terms or use and privacy policies before using the third-party’s products or services.
Contact Information
Thank you for using our Products and Services, and for reviewing this privacy policy. We welcome your comments or questions. If you have any feedback, we encourage you to contact WRC or SKS at:
Wildlife Research Center, Inc.
Attn: Legal / Privacy
14485 Azurite ST NW
Ramsey, MN 55303
1-800-873-5873
Scent Killer Sports
Attn: Legal / Privacy
14485 Azurite ST NW
Ramsey, MN 55303
1-800-873-5873
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