Thank you for visiting Global-Chocolate.com website and we are committed to protecting your privacy.
We at Global Chocolate created this privacy policy (“Privacy Policy”) because we know that you care about how information you provide to us is being used and shared. This Privacy Policy is in relation to the information collected and used by Global-Chocolate.com while you visit the website.
INFORMATION WE COLLECT
We do not collect any personal information from you unless you voluntarily provide it to us. The information that we may collect on the Site allows us to improve your shopping experience by catering to your personal preferences.
When you sign up to become a Registered User, you will be asked to provide us with certain personal information, such as your name, email address, postal address, credit card and other payment related information. In this Privacy Policy, we refer to all of this information as “Personal Information.”
Like most web sites, we use automatic data collection technology when you visit our Site to record information that identifies your computer, to track your use of our Site, and to collect certain basic information about you and your surfing habits. This information includes information about your operating system, your IP addresses, browser type and language, referring and exit pages and URLs, keywords, date and time, amount of time spent on particular pages, what sections of a website you visit, and similar information concerning your use of the Site and the Service (the “Usage Information”).
We may collect this Usage Information by using cookies. Cookies are small packets of data that a web site stores on your computer’s hard drive so that your computer will “remember” information about your visit. You can reject cookies by following the directions provided in your Internet provider’s “help” file. If you reject cookies, you may still visit the Site, but may not be able to use some areas of the Site and/or the Service.
We do not collect personally identifying information in this way, but if you have provided us with personally identifying information, we may associate that information with the automatically collected information. In some cases our services providers may perform automatic data collection on our behalf.
HOW WE USE YOUR INFORMATION
We may use your Personal Information and the Usage Information in a manner that is consistent with this Privacy Policy and the context of our relationship with you. We will use the personally identifying information collected on this Site for the following purposes:
- To respond to your requests and to provide you with the Service;
- To respond to your inquiries and contact you about changes to this Site;
- To send you notices (for example, in the form of e-mails, mailings, and the like) regarding products or services you are receiving, and for billing and collection purposes;
For any other purposes disclosed at the time, the information is collected or to which you consent and as otherwise specifically described in this Privacy Policy.
We may also use your information to improve our Site, and may use cookies and other information to enable us to customize your user experience.
We may also share personal information, demographic information, and purchase history that you provide to Global-chocolate.com with our strategic partners, such as suppliers and distributors, in order to select the best products for you and our customers. Any strategic partners that are given access to your personal information is contractually obligated to maintain the confidentiality of the information shared with them and to strictly use the information to perform the services that we ask them to provide to us and you.
We may provide aggregate statistics, which do not include personal information, about our customers, sales, traffic patterns and related Site information to reputable third party vendors.
We, like many businesses, sometimes hire other companies to perform certain business-related functions. Examples include mailing information, maintaining databases, hosting services, delivering orders, and processing payments. When we employ another company to perform a function of this nature, we provide them with the information that they need to perform their specific function. We require such third parties to maintain the confidentiality of such information and use such information only as necessary to provide us with designated services.
If we all or substantially all of our assets are acquired, we expect that the information that we have collected, including personally identifying information, would be transferred along with our other business assets.