NAUGHTY BISCOTTI
PRIVACY POLICY
OVERVIEW
Naughty Biscotti, Inc. ("Naughty Biscotti") is
committed to protecting your privacy. This Policy explains
how we protect your privacy as a purchaser of our interactive
products and services or as a visitor to our websites located
at: <www.naughtybiscotti.com>
WHAT PERSONAL INFORMATION DO WE COLLECT?
Personal information refers to information that
identifies you such as your name and address. At various places
throughout our websites, you are asked to voluntarily provide
us with personal information if you wish to purchase products
or you wish to obtain other services such as our online newsletter
called Naughty Biscotti News or you wish to participate in
a contest. The following is a list of the ways that Naughty
Biscotti collects personal information from you:
a. Ordering from the Naughty Biscotti Online Store. We ask
for your name, address and credit card number when you purchase
products online such as food products, biscotti.
b. Warranty Registration. If you purchase a Naughty Biscotti
product, we ask that you register for your product warranty
online or by mail. We collect your name, address, email address
and telephone number, as well as the name of the product that
you purchased, the date of purchase and the purchase price.
c. Online subscription to Naughty Biscotti News. We ask you
for your email address when you subscribe online for Naughty
Biscotti News at
<newsletter@naughtybiscotti.com>. You may unsubscribe
for Naughty Biscotti News at any time.
d. Online Surveys. Occasionally we may ask visitors of our
website to provide us with personal information about their
preferences about food products, where they purchase food products
and the like.
e. Online Contest. From time to time, we sponsor games and
sweepstakes online. To participate, we ask for your name, address,
email address and may ask for other information.
f. Customer Service/Help Desk/Online Support. If you contact
our Customer Service or Helpdesk by phone, we ask for your
name and phone number. If you contact our Customer Service
or Helpdesk over the Internet, we ask for your name and email
address. We may require further information in order to provide
you with technical support. If your are placing an order for
a particular product, we require your address for delivery
and credit card information.
WHAT OTHER INFORMATION DO WE COLLECT FROM
YOU?
Naughty Biscotti's website automatically collects
the following non-personally identifiable information from
visitors of our site:
o the Internet Protocol (IP) address of your computer, which
is a number automatically assigned to your computer when you
are surfing the Web.
o the IP Address of your Internet Service Provider
o your browser and platform type (e.g. a Netscape browser on
a Windows platform)
o the date and time you access our site
o the sections of the website you visit, as well as the pages
read and the images viewed
o certain content that you download from the website
We do not link any of the above information with information
that is personally identifiable to you. This means that although
your session on our website is recorded, you remain anonymous
to us. We collect this date in an aggregate format for a number
of reasons. For example, the information about our visitors'
browsers tells us what kind of browsers we need to support.
Other information lets us know how many visitors come to our
site and what sections are the most popular. In this way, we
can constantly update and revise our website to be more appealing
for our visitors. We do not share this aggregate data with
third parties.
COOKIES
Our website uses "per-session cookies" on the pages
of the Online Naughty Biscotti Store. We use per-session cookies
to facilitate your online purchases of products. Cookies enable
our websites to save and retrieve information that you enter
into the "shopping cart" as you make your way through our Online
Store. Without per-session cookies, you would have to re-fill
your shopping cart each time you left the pages of the Online
Store, and your movement around our online store would be much
slower. Per-session cookies are only stored in memory for the
length of your visit to the store and expire when you leave
our websites. You can set your browser to detect and reject
cookies, however, if you choose to reject cookies, you will
be unable to use our online shopping facilities.
HOW DOES NAUGHTY BISCOTTI USE THE INFORMATION
IT COLLECTS?
Naughty Biscotti uses the information that it collects
to process purchase transactions, to administer our product
warranties, to administer games and sweepstakes and to provide
you with services that you request such as our Naughty Biscotti
News. We use the information that we collect from online surveys
to improve our products and our site. We also use your personal
contact information to send you promotional offers, new announcements
and other news about Naughty Biscotti. However, if you do not
wish to receive our marketing communications, let us know by
contacting our Webmaster
By email: webmaster@naughtybiscotti.com
By telephone: 1-877-262-6422
Any other uses of your personal information that are not identified
here will be disclosed to you at the time of collection, and
we will make all reasonable efforts to obtain your consent,
where appropriate.
DO WE DISCLOSE YOUR PERSONAL INFORMATION
With the following exceptions, Naughty Biscotti
does not give, rent or sell personal information about its
customers to third parties. In certain limited circumstances
authorized by law, Naughty Biscotti may be required to disclose
your personal information. Information provided to other third
parties is used only for the purposes stipulated and is subject
to strict confidentiality requirements. These parties may include:
" Agents acting on our behalf, such us companies performing
maintenance on our system;
"
Credit reporting agencies, in the event that we require verification
of your credit information;
" Collection agencies, in the event that we need to collect
overdue accounts;
" Law enforcement agencies, in case we are required by subpoena
to provide such information to them;
" if Naughty Biscotti is ever involved in the sale or transfer
of all or part of its business, Naughty Biscotti may disclose
your personal information to the purchaser, however, we would
require the purchaser to handle your personal information in
a manner consistent with this Privacy Policy
" Regulatory bodies, in the event that our system is subject
to a compliance audit
NAUGHTY BISCOTTI ONLINE RETAIL PARTNERS
Naughty Biscotti has a number of online retailer
partners, whose websites you can access from our website. Although
we recommend them to you based on their reputation for providing
safe and secure online purchasing of our products, we make
no warranty about their goods and services, the content on
their websites or their protection of your personal information.
This Policy does not apply to their activities and we encourage
you to view their privacy policies and to contact these companies
directly if you have any questions about their collection,
use and disclosure of your personal information.
OUR PRIVACY POLICY AND CHILDREN
Naughty Biscotti uses best efforts to comply with
the Marketing Association's Code of Ethics and Standards of
Practice in its marketing to children and teenagers, and in
its online contests.
SAFEGUARDS
Naughty Biscotti uses security measures to ensure
that the information that you provide to us through our websites
and that we retain on file are secure from loss, theft, as
well as unauthorized access, disclosure, copying, use or modification.
These security measures include appropriate technologies, such
as firewalls.
CODE OF CONDUCT
Naughty Biscotti makes all reasonable efforts to
comply with the Personal Information Protection and Electronic
Documents Act, and has devised a Code of Conduct to in respect
of its handling of your personal information:
1. Accountability
We are responsible for personal information under
our control and shall designate one or more persons accountable
for our compliance with the Code of Conduct.
2. Identifying purposes for collection of personal
information
We shall identify the purposes for collection of
personal information at or before the time the information
is collected.
3. Consent
We will only collect, use and disclose personal
information with your knowledge and consent, except where inappropriate.
You may withdraw your consent at any time, subject to legal/contractual
restrictions, and reasonable notice.
4. Limiting collection of personal information
We shall limit collection of personal information
to what is necessary to fulfill the purposes identified, and
such information shall be collected by fair and lawful means.
5. Limiting use, disclosure and retention of personal
information
We shall not use or disclose personal information
for purposes other than those for which it was collected, except
with your consent or as required by law, and shall use our
best efforts to retain personal information only for as long
as is necessary to fulfill those purposes.
6. Accuracy of personal information
Personal information shall be accurate, complete
and up-to-date, but we shall not routinely update personal
information, unless necessary to fulfill the purposes for which
it was collected.
7. Safeguards for protecting personal information
We shall protect personal information by security
safeguards which are appropriate to the sensitivity of the
information.
8. Openness about policies and practices
We shall make readily available to you specific
information about our policies and practices relating to the
management of personal information.
9. Individual Access to your personal information
Our internal policies regarding security, fraud
prevention and protection of information may prevent us from
allowing you access to your personal information from time
to time. However, upon request, we shall use our best efforts
to inform you of the existence, use and disclosure of your
personal information. If you can demonstrate the inaccuracy
or incompleteness of your personal information, we shall use
our best efforts to amend the information as required.
10. Challenging compliance
You shall be able to challenge our compliance with
this Personal Information Code of Conduct to the designated
person accountable for our compliance, indicated below.
CHANGES TO THE PRIVACY POLICY
This version of our Policy has been in effect since
2003. Due to the evolving nature of the technologies used by
Naughty Biscotti to communicate with you, we may occasionally
update this Policy. Please check this page periodically for
changes.
ACCESS TO YOUR PERSONAL INFORMATION, QUESTIONS,
COMPLAINTS OR COMMENTS
With certain exceptions, you are entitled to full
access to your personal information that we have on file and
you may request that the information be deleted, updated or
otherwise modified. If you wish to have access to your personal
information, or if you have any questions or comments about
this Privacy Policy, or if you have a complaint about our privacy
practices, please contact Naughty Biscotti Customer Service
at:
By email: customerservice@naughtybiscotti.com
By telephone: 1-877-262-6422
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