Spice Rack Chocolates
Privacy Policy:
At Spice Rack Chocolates, your privacy is our priority. We are committed to protecting your privacy at all times, in all situations. The information we collect about you when you become a member is used to process your orders and to provide a more personalized experience on our site. Our site uses a 128 bit encrypted SSL to increase the security of our customer’s information. However, we Spice Rack Chocolates do not guarantee complete security on stored information; however, we have installed and applied our encrypted pages and installed our SSL certificate to help prevent stolen information.
What information is collected?
Information you give us: We receive and store all information you enter on our Web site or give us in any other way. This information includes information you give us at registration such as your first name, your last name, your postal address including zip code and country, your e-mail address, and your telephone number. We collect this information from you for the purpose of enhancing your user experience on our site, to improve the content of our web site and services, to alert you to our services, and to share special offers, service announcements and updated information, and other new services from Spice Rack Chocolates. We may use your telephone number to authenticate you after you have registered.
Automatic Information: We receive and store certain types of information whenever you interact with us. This includes software “cookies.” Cookies are small chunks of data created by a Web server and stored on your computer. They provide a means for Web sites that you visit to keep track of your online patterns and preferences. Among other things, cookies help us identify returning users, and they help us customize our service to a user’s needs. By understanding which areas of the site a user visits, cookies allow us to present information, products and specials that are of personal interest. In addition to cookies, for each visitor to http://www.SpiceRackChocolates.com, our web server automatically recognizes the visitor’s domain name and IP address (where possible). An IP address is a number assigned to your computer when you connect to the Internet. As part of the protocol of the Internet, Web servers can identify your computer by its IP address. We collect IP addresses and related information for the purposes of system administration, to assess the traffic to our site and to maintain and improve our site.
Collection of your personal information
Spice Rack Chocolates collects personally identifiable information, such as your e-mail address, name, home or work address or telephone number. Spice Rack Chocolates also collects anonymous demographic information, which is not unique to you, such as your ZIP code, age, gender, preferences, interests and favorites.
There is also information about your computer hardware and software that is automatically collected by Spice Rack Chocolates. This information can include: your IP address, browser type, domain names, access times and referring Web site addresses. This information is used by Spice Rack Chocolates for the operation of the service, to maintain quality of the service, and to provide general statistics regarding use of the Spice Rack Chocolates Web site.
Please keep in mind that if you directly disclose personally identifiable information or personally sensitive data through Spice Rack Chocolates public message boards, this information may be collected and used by others. Note: Spice Rack Chocolates does not read any of your private online communications.
Spice Rack Chocolates encourages you to review the privacy statements of Web sites you choose to link to from Spice Rack Chocolates so that you can understand how those Web sites collect, use and share your information. Spice Rack Chocolates is not responsible for the privacy statements or other content on Web sites outside of the Spice Rack Chocolates and Spice Rack Chocolates family of Web sites.
Use Of Your Personal Information
Spice Rack Chocolates collects and uses your personal information to operate the Spice Rack Chocolates Web site and deliver the services you have requested. Spice Rack Chocolates also uses your personally identifiable information to inform you of other products or services available from Spice Rack Chocolates and its affiliates. Spice Rack Chocolates may also contact you via surveys to conduct research about your opinion of current services or of potential new services that may be offered.
Spice Rack Chocolates does not sell, rent or lease its customer lists to third parties. Spice Rack Chocolates may, from time to time, contact you on behalf of external business partners about a particular offering that may be of interest to you. In those cases, your unique personally identifiable information (e-mail, name, address, telephone number) is not transferred to the third party. In addition, Spice Rack Chocolates may share data with trusted partners to help us perform statistical analysis, send you email or postal mail, provide customer support, or arrange for deliveries. All such third parties are prohibited from using your personal information except to provide these services to Spice Rack Chocolates, and they are required to maintain the confidentiality of your information.
Spice Rack Chocolates does not use or disclose sensitive personal information, such as race, religion, or political affiliations, without your explicit consent.
Spice Rack Chocolates keeps track of the Web sites and pages our customers visit within Spice Rack Chocolates, in order to determine what Spice Rack Chocolates services are the most popular. This data is used to deliver customized content and advertising within Spice Rack Chocolates to customers whose behavior indicates that they are interested in a particular subject area.
Spice Rack Chocolates will disclose your personal information, without notice, only if required to do so by law or in the good faith belief that such action is necessary to: (a) conform to the edicts of the law or comply with legal process served on Spice Rack Chocolates or the site; (b) protect and defend the rights or property of Spice Rack Chocolates; and, (c) act under exigent circumstances to protect the personal safety of users of Spice Rack Chocolates, or the public.
When you become an Spice Rack Chocolates member, we ask you to fill out a form that requests your name, address and e-mail address as well as some demographic information such as gender and date of birth.
Spice Rack Chocolates will NOT share data with trusted partners to help us perform statistical analysis.
Your name and address information is used solely to process orders unless your prior consent is given. Without your consent, this information will NEVER be sold, given, rented or traded to others for purposes other than order fulfillment.
Your demographic information (gender, date of birth, etc.) will be used for several security purposes, to ensure you are who you say you are and in fact you are paying with your credit cards and not someone using your stolen credit cards.
Refer-A-Friend
If you choose to use our referral service to tell a friend about our site, we will ask you for your friend's name and email address. We will automatically send your friend a one-time email inviting him or her to visit the site. Spice Rack Chocolates does not store this information and uses it for the sole purpose of sending this one-time email.
Our Use Of Log Files
When you visit the Spice Rack Chocolates site we automatically log your IP address, your browser type and your access times. We utilize this information to conduct site performance evaluations, to see where visitors are coming from and to keep track of click stream data (the screens our users visit on our site). This data helps us to determine what content our members find most appealing so that we can maximize your enjoyment of the site. Log files are not tied to personally identifiable information.
Site Security
All Spice Rack Chocolates employees take your personal information very seriously. All employees must learn and obey our security policies. Access to member personal information is limited to key management personnel and our member services department. The information is ID and password protected and our Web security is reviewed on a monthly basis. We have also installed and implied our site with a 128 bit encryption SSL.
Correcting / Updating your personal Information
After becoming an Spice Rack Chocolates subscriber you may correct/update your personal information by clicking on the 'My Account' link at the top of any page, entering your ID, password and birth date when prompted and clicking the Edit Information button. The changes you make will be reflected in our databases instantly. If you wish to deactivate your account, you may contact our member services group through the 'My Account' section, or the 'Contact Us' section.
Links To Other Sites
This web site contains links to other Web sites. Please note that when you click on one of these links, you may be leaving the Spice Rack Chocolates site and entering another Web site. These sites may independently collect or request information about you and we encourage you to read the privacy statements of these linked sites as their privacy policy may differ from ours.
Communication
From time to time we may send out email messages alerting you that products are available, to remind you about providing feedback or for promotional offers. In addition, you will receive communication from us 1) if you contact us for a particular reason, 2) to receive your orders, or 3) we need to contact you for administrative purposes such as winning a contest. Administrative e-mails will not contain promotional materials. If you choose to receive our News Letters, they will contain promotional materials from Spice Rack Chocolates.
Legal Disclaimer
Though we make every effort to preserve user privacy, we may need to disclose personal information when required by law wherein we have a good-faith belief that such action is necessary to comply with a current judicial proceeding, a court order or legal process served on our Web site
Supplementation
We may correct or supplement your address information with standardized postal representation in order to ensure that your orders are delivered. We do this since we want to make sure that our members receive the order and to lower costs associated with our programs.
Contests
Periodically, contests are run on our site. Sometimes contests are sponsored by our customers. To enter these contests you need only to enter your ID and password and your guess. At the time of entry, you may decide if you wish to have your first name and state posted on our site if you are the winner. Winner’s names are NEVER shared with our customers without their consent.
Use Of Cookies
The Spice Rack Chocolates Web site use "cookies" to help you personalize your online experience. A cookie is a text file that is placed on your hard disk by a web page server. Cookies cannot be used to run programs or deliver viruses to your computer. Cookies are uniquely assigned to you, and can only be read by a web server in the domain that issued the cookie to you.
One of the primary purposes of cookies is to provide a convenience feature to save you time. The purpose of a cookie is to tell the Web server that you have returned to a specific page. For example, if you personalize Spice Rack Chocolates pages, or register with Spice Rack Chocolates site or services, a cookie helps Spice Rack Chocolates to recall your specific information on subsequent visits. This simplifies the process of recording your personal information, such as billing addresses, shipping addresses, and so on. When you return to the same Spice Rack Chocolates web site, the information you previously provided can be retrieved, so you can easily use the Spice Rack Chocolates features that you customized.
You have the ability to accept or decline cookies. Most Web browsers automatically accept cookies, but you can usually modify your browser setting to decline cookies if you prefer. If you choose to decline cookies, you may not be able to fully experience the interactive features of the Spice Rack Chocolates services or Web sites you visit.
Is the Information Collected Secure?
Spice Rack Chocolates secures your personal information from unauthorized access, use or disclosure. Spice Rack Chocolates secures the personally identifiable information you provide on computer servers in a controlled, secure environment, protected from unauthorized access, use or disclosure. When personal information (such as a credit card number) is transmitted to other Web sites, it is protected through the use of encryption, such as the Secure Socket Layer (SSL) protocol.
We will take appropriate steps that we believe are reasonable to protect the security of the personal information you share with us. It is important for you to protect against unauthorized access to your user account including your password and to your computer. Accordingly, be sure to sign off when finished using a shared computer
Can I Access the Information Collected?
We will provide you with the means to ensure that your personal information is correct and current. You may review, update, and/or delete this information at any time when you log in to our site with your user name and password.
Do I Have Any Choices Regarding the Information Collected?
You can choose not to provide personal information. However, you may not be permitted to access the site. If you have set your browser to reject cookies, our site will not identify you when you enter and you will need to manually type in your ID and password.
Changes To This Statement
We reserve the right to revise this Privacy Statement at any time. When we do, we will also revise the “last updated” date at the bottom of this Privacy Statement. You are responsible for regularly reviewing the current Privacy Statement. The most current version of the Privacy Statement can be reviewed by clicking on the “Privacy Statement” hyperlink text located at the bottom of our home page at http://www.SpiceRackChocolates.com. Your continued use of Spice Rack Chocolates web site after we post any revisions constitutes your agreement to any such revisions. If any such revisions are unacceptable to you, do not access Spice Rack Chocolates web site.
Consent
By using our web sites, the user agrees to the terms and conditions set forth in this Internet Privacy Statement and the Site Terms of Use INCLUDING ALL LIMITATIONS OF DAMAGES PROVISIONS which are an integral part hereof and the user consents to the collection and use of this information by Spice Rack Chocolatesas disclosed in this Internet Privacy Statement. We may revise this Internet Privacy Statement or the Site Terms of Use at any time by updating these postings. By using this Site you agree to be bound by any such revisions in effect at the time of use and should therefore periodically visit this page and the Site Terms of Use page to determine the then current policies applicable to users of the Site.
Your Feedback Is Always Welcome
We welcome your comments and questions about our privacy policy - or anything else you might want to talk about. To contact us click here .
Last updated on Sept 2008
