Privacy Policy — A Cacao Affair, Marietta

Privacy Policy Subject to Change

acacaoaffair reserves the right to change this Privacy Policy at any time, with or without notice to you, by posting a new version thereof on this Website. Please check this page periodically for changes. Such changes are effective immediately upon being posted on the Website. You are deemed to have received notice of such changes at the time they are posted, and you are bound by such changes to these Terms.

Information Collection

As you navigate through this Website, certain information can be passively collected using various technologies, such as navigational data collection. We, or third parties authorized by us, may transparently collect information that is not personally identifiable, such as the browser you use (e.g., Internet Explorer), the operating system of the device you use to access the Website, or the domain name from which you entered a site (e.g., Google.com). This Website may use Internet Protocol (IP) addresses. An IP address is a number automatically assigned to your computer by your Internet service provider. We, or third parties authorized by us, may collect IP addresses for the purposes of system administration and auditing the use of the Website. Each time you visit the Website and each time you request one of our pages, our server logs your IP address. Although we log your session with us, we will not normally link your IP address to anything that can enable us to identify you.

This Website may use “cookies.” A “cookie” is a small file stored by your Web browser to help a particular system recognize you and the pages you visit in a website. Cookies allow this Website to recognize you more quickly. We use cookies to help us measure the number of visits, average time spent, page views, and other statistics relating to the Website. If you disable cookies, certain functions of the Website may not work properly or be available to you.

Third Party Websites

Our Website may contain links to other websites. We have no control over the privacy practices or the content of any of our business partners, advertisers, sponsors or other sites to which we provide links from our Website. acacaoaffair does not endorse, approve or certify these other websites, and we do not guarantee the accuracy, completeness, efficacy, or timeliness of the information contained on these sites. This Privacy Policy applies only to information collected by our Website. Accordingly, we advise you to check the applicable privacy policy of the relevant website sponsor when linking to other websites.

Information You Submit

You may be required to provide us with your personal information in order to obtain acacaoaffair product information. This information may include, but is not limited to: name, company name, title, phone number, fax number, email address, and the products about which you would like to receive information.

We also may collect personal information, including credit card information, to complete business transactions, ship and deliver products, administer individual user accounts, provide customer support, meet government regulatory requirements, provide security and internally analyze the collected data, among other lawful purposes.

Security

acacaoaffair will take reasonable steps to protect personally identifiable information you transmit to us and this Website from loss, misuse and unauthorized access, disclosure, alteration or destruction. However, because no Internet transmission is ever fully secure, you acknowledge that acacaoaffair cannot guarantee that information transmitted via this Website will remain confidential at all times.

When collecting credit card information for online payments, we offer Secure Server Sockets Layer (SSL) transactions that encrypt your information in transit to reduce the possibility that it will be intercepted and misused. When we collect other information from our users, it is stored in an area to which the general public does not have access. We maintain physical, electronic and procedural safeguards to ensure that personal information is stored and treated responsibly.

Please bear in mind that if you choose to create a user account, anyone you provide with your user account credentials will have access to your account and personally identifiable information. If you use this Website, you are responsible for maintaining the confidentiality of your account and password and for restricting access to your computer.

Sharing of Information

acacaoaffair does not sell, rent, loan, share, or otherwise disclose any personally identifiable information, including your name, address or email address to any third parties. Only acacaoaffair or authorized agents have access to personal information provided by visitors to our site. acacaoaffair may provide certain aggregate information we collect from visitors to this Website (e.g., statistics, sales, traffic patterns and services) to third parties who can assist acacaoaffair in analyzing and understanding the information and help us to better provide online products and services. While you may access and use our Website without providing any personally identifiable information, you will not be able to access or use all the available services or purchase acacaoaffair products through the Website.

We use customer data for these primary purposes, among others:

To help you quickly find products, services, or information;
To customize your shopping experience;
To improve our services to you;
To help us create content most relevant to you;
To alert you to special offers, updated information, and other new products or services;
To conduct sweepstakes or promotions;
To conduct marketing research, such as questionnaires and surveys; and
To complete purchases.

acacaoaffair is the sole owner of all information collected on this Website. In addition, as we develop our business, we may sell our business or buy another business. In such transactions, customer information is generally one of the transferred business assets. In the event that acacaoaffair or substantially all of its assets are acquired, personal information about our customers may be one of the transferred assets.

acacaoaffair will disclose your personal information, without notice, 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 a legal process served on acacaoaffair on the site; (b) protect and defend the rights or property of you, acacaoaffair or others; (c) act in urgent circumstances to protect the personal safety of users of the acacaoaffair Website or the public; or (d) enforce this Privacy Policy.

Privacy of Our Email Lists

acacaoaffair maintains an email list to keep you informed about new products, sales and other promotional news. Individuals must affirmatively request to join our mailing lists. We do not sell, rent, loan, trade or lease the addresses on our lists to anyone. In addition, we configure our list server software to refuse to divulge the email addresses of our list subscribers to anyone but acacaoaffair personnel and our authorized agents.

Customers Under the Age of 18

You must be 18 to use the Website. acacaoaffair takes children’s privacy seriously. We do not seek to collect personal information about customers under the age of 18 through our Website. If we become aware that a person submitting information to us through any part of our Website is a minor, we delete the information as soon as we discover it and do not use it for any purpose or disclose it to third parties.

Editing, Updating, Correcting and Deleting Information

If you do not wish to receive information from us, or if you have questions or concerns regarding our Privacy Policy, the accuracy of your personal information, or the use of information we have collected, please contact us by email at acacaoaffair@gmail.com.

Please be sure to include your email address, full name, and your question(s) and, if applicable, the specific information you would not like to receive or the information you would like to update or correct. Please note that these requests may take time to go into effect. If you delete certain information, you may not be able to continue to access certain portions of the Website without entering additional information.