Privacy Policy
Who we are
Our website address is: https://americanchocolatedesigns.com.
What personal data we collect and why we collect it
American Chocolate Designs,and its affiliates and subsidiaries, now or in the future, (“American Chocolate Designs,” “we” or “us”) is committed to protecting its customers’ privacy and the security of any personal information provided to it.
American Chocolate Designs owns and operates this website (the “Website”). The purpose of our privacy policy (the “Privacy Policy”) is to inform you about the types of personally identifiable information we gather about you when you visit our Website, how we may use that information, whether we disclose it to anyone, and the choices you have regarding our use of your personal information, and your ability to correct such information. The phrases “personally identifiable information” or “personal information” mean any information by which you can be identified, such as your name, address, telephone number, etc.
This Privacy Policy applies only to users accessing our Website from the United States. Please read our complete Privacy Policy before using the Website. By accessing and using this Website, you agree with the terms of this Privacy Policy, which is part of, and governed by, our Terms of Use. If purchasing products through the Website, you also accept and agree to be bound by our Terms of Sale. Whenever you submit information via this Website, you consent to the collection, use and disclosure of that information in accordance with this Privacy Policy. If you do not agree to the terms of our Privacy Policy or the Terms of Service, when applicable, please do not use this Website.
PRIVACY POLICY SUBJECT TO CHANGE
American Chocolate Designs 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., Google Chrome ), 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. American Chocolate Designs 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 American Chocolate Designs 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, provide customer support, meet government regulatory requirements, provide security and internally analyze the collected data, among other lawful purposes. Any credit card information is submitted in-house and is not collected through the website.
SECURITY
American Chocolate Designs takes 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 American Chocolate Designs cannot guarantee that information transmitted via this Website will remain confidential at all times.
We maintain physical, electronic and procedural safeguards to ensure that personal information is stored and treated responsibly.
SHARING OF INFORMATION
American Chocolate Designs 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 American Chocolate Designs has access to personal information provided by visitors to our site. 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 American Chocolate Designs 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 complete purchases.
PRIVACY OF OUR EMAIL LISTS
American Chocolate Designs 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 American Chocolate Designs personnel and our authorized agents.
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 staff@americanchocolatedesigns.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.
© 2020 American Chocolate Designs, All Rights Reserved.
Effective Date: June 7, 2020
Comments
When visitors leave comments on the site we collect the data shown in the comments form, and also the visitor’s IP address and browser user agent string to help spam detection.
An anonymized string created from your email address (also called a hash) may be provided to the Gravatar service to see if you are using it. The Gravatar service privacy policy is available here: https://automattic.com/privacy/. After approval of your comment, your profile picture is visible to the public in the context of your comment.
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