This privacy statement was last revised on 8/31/2007. To contact us, please go to “How To Contact Us” in the table of contents below.
Table of Contents
Welcome to Somptueusement Privacy
Who We Are
How To Contact Us
What This Document Is
Our Commitment to Privacy
Our Commitment to Children’s Privacy
How We Collect Your Information
Information We Collect
Technologies We Use
How We Use Your Information
The Way We Use Information
Sharing of Your Information
Links to Third-Party Web Sites
Our Commitment to Data Security
How You Can Make Changes and How We Make Changes
How To Access Or Correct Your Information
Opt-Out Policy
Changes To This Statement
WELCOME TO SOMPTUEUSEMENT PRIVACY
Who We Are
Chocolate Tastes, LLC. is an online retailer of chocolate and fine foods. In this privacy statement, we may refer to ourselves as “somptueusement,” “we,” or “us.” In each case, we are referring to Chocolate Tastes, LLC. We maintain a website and online store at www.somptuesuement.com where you can purchase chocolates and other goods for delivery. When we talk about the website in this policy, we will use the term “our website,” or the “somptueusement site.”
How To Contact Us
We welcome your comments regarding this privacy statement, and our privacy practices. If you have questions about this statement or believe that we have not adhered to it, please contact us. You can contact us by email, by phone, or by regular mail.
email: privacy@somptueusement.com
phone: 1-866-920-5093
mail: Chocolate Tastes, LLC
Attn: Privacy
P. O. Box 9760, Washington, DC 20016-9760
What This Document Is
This document is our Privacy Statement. It states what information we collect from users of our website and our software, how we use that information, who we share it with, how you can access or change your information, how you can contact us, and other important information about how we safeguard our users’ privacy. This statement is incorporated into our “terms of use,” which is the contract that governs our relationship with you, whether you are a visitor to our website, or a user of our software. PLEASE NOTE: There are very important terms and conditions governing our relationship that are found in our “terms of use,” that are not repeated here in our privacy statement because they do not relate to data collection or privacy. To see the terms and conditions that govern our relationship with you, go to Terms & Conditions
Our Commitment to Privacy
We take privacy seriously. As a leading provider of gourmet chocolates and teas, we are committed to establishing and maintaining policies and procedures which protect the privacy of personal information gathered from our customers, prospects and other visitors to our website.
Our Commitment to Children’s Privacy
We believe that protecting the privacy of children is especially important. Therefore we do not knowingly collect or maintain personal information from children under the age of 13, and no part of our website or software is structured to attract anyone under 13. If you believe that we have stored personal identification about a child under the age of 13, please contact us so that we can investigate, and delete any personal information we may inadvertently have stored about a child under the age of 13.
HOW WE COLLECT YOUR INFORMATION
Information We Collect
We collect different types of information from different people, depending on their role and how they use our software. The types of people we collect information from are website visitors and product purchasers.
Product Purchasers
A person or organization who has signed up with our site to purchase products from us is known as a Product Purchaser. You can purchase many different products over the web from our website. To facilitate the transaction, we request personal information necessary for billing or shipping, such as: name, email address, address, telephone number, and credit card number.
All Users and Website Visitors
We also collect certain technical information about every visitor to our website, and both Administrators and Participants who use our software. This information is standard information that a visitor’s browser sends to every website the user visits, such as the computer’s IP address, browser type and language, access times, and the address of the website the browser left to come to our site.
Technologies We Use
Our website uses cookies and log files to allow us to customize your user experience there.
A cookie is a small text file that is placed on your hard disk by a web server. The information in the cookie can be read by other web servers within the same domain. A cookie cannot be used to run programs or deliver viruses on your computer.
The cookies we use are known as “session cookies,” meaning that they only maintain information relevant to your identity during your current session with the somptueusement website. Once you have logged out of the somptueusement website, either by clicking the “log out” link, or by closing your browser, the cookie information is no longer used.
A log file is a file we maintain on our server, that lists technical information about people who visit our site. It is in the log file that we store the technical information we described above, that is, IP address, browser type, language, and referring web page.
HOW WE USE YOUR INFORMATION
The Way We Use Information
We never use or share the personal information you provide to us online other than as described below without first giving you a chance to opt out, or otherwise prohibit such unrelated uses. We do not supplement personally identifiable information with information from any other sources.
We use the personal information you provide to us online:
• To ensure our website and our software are relevant to your needs by evaluating the effectiveness of our products and services.
• To deliver services, such as newsletters, training or software.
• To help us create and publish content.
• To alert you to product upgrades, special offers, updated information and other new services.
• To allow access to limited-entry areas of our site as appropriate.
• To send important status and service messages regarding any software you may have purchased.
For any of the uses of your information that we describe above, you may opt out, and forbid our use of the information for that purpose, by calling, mailing, or emailing us. To find our contact information, please see the “Contact Us” section of this statement. The only information a user cannot opt out of is service updates, which are important notices about the status of the software.
Sharing of Your Information
We do not share your information with any third parties except under the following very limited circumstances:
(a) As you Explicitly Allow: We may share your information as you explicitly allow us to, and we may share Poll Participant Information as both you and the Poll Participant explicitly allow.
(b) Agents Acting on Our Behalf: We may share some of your information with other companies who provide us with technical and other services. They will be granted access to only that information which is necessary for them to do their jobs. Any agents to whom we grant access to Participant or Customer Information will be contractually barred from using or releasing that information outside of the specific task we have asked them to perform.
(c) For Legal Reasons: We may disclose your information pursuant to judicial or other government subpoenas, warrants, or orders. We may also disclose your information if it is required to comply with the law, or with legal process served upon us, defend our legal rights or our property, or to act in urgent circumstances to protect the personal safety of our clients, employees, partners, or members of the public.
(d) Acquisition: We may share information during any actual or potential acquisition of our company, merger of our company with another, or acquisition by our company of another. We will notify you if your information becomes subject to a different privacy policy.
Links to Third Party Sites
Our website contains links to other sites. We are not responsible for the privacy practices of such other sites. We encourage our users to be aware when they leave our site and to read the privacy statements of each and every web site that collects personally identifiable information. This privacy statement applies solely to information collected by our website or our software.
OUR COMMITMENT TO DATA SECURITY
Our website has security measures in place to help protect against the loss, misuse, and alteration of the data under our control. We use Secure Socket Layer (SSL) technology to protect information using both server authentication and data encryption to help ensure that your information is safe, secure, and available only to you. We also implement an advanced security method based on dynamic data and encoded session identifications, and host our website, and our software, in a secure server environment that uses a firewall and other advanced technology to prevent interference or access from outside intruders. Finally, we provide unique user names and passwords that must be entered each time a customer logs on to our software. These safeguards help prevent unauthorized access, maintain data accuracy, and ensure the appropriate use of your information.
HOW YOU CAN MAKE CHANGES AND HOW WE MAKE CHANGES
How To Access Or Correct Your Information
To get a complete record of the personal information associated with your account, or to change any of that information, select “change billing information” from the shopping cart check out screen.
Opt-Out Policy
We offer our visitors and customers a means to choose how we may use information provided. If, at any time after registering for information or ordering our software, you change your mind about receiving information from us or about sharing your information with third parties, send us a request specifying your new choice. Simply email, call or write us. You can find our contact information in the “Contact Us” section at the end of this statement.
From time to time we send promotional materials or newsletters by email, as described above in “The Way We Use Information.” Any email you receive from us will include an “unsubscribe” link that you can use to prohibit us from sending any additional information, and our postal address.
Changes to This Statement
We will occasionally update this privacy statement to reflect changes in our services and customer feedback. When we post changes to this statement, we will revise the “last revised” date at the top of this statement. If there are material changes to this statement, or material changes in the way we use your personal information, we will notify you either by prominently posting a notice of such changes prior to implementing them, and giving you the option to opt-out of the new policy or procedures, or by sending you a notification of the changes directly, prior to implementing them. We encourage you to periodically review this statement to stay informed about how Chocolate Tastes, LLC collects and uses your private information.
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