We recognize that your privacy is important. This
document outlines
the types of personal information we receive and collect when you use
Beth and the Biscuit, as well as some of the steps we take to safeguard
information. We hope this will help you make an informed decision about
sharing personal information with us.
Beth and the Biscuit strives to maintain the highest standards of
decency, fairness and integrity in all our operations. Likewise, we are
dedicated to protecting our customers', consumers' and online visitors'
privacy on our website.
Personal Information
Beth and the Biscuit collects personally
identifiable information
from the visitors to our website only on a voluntary basis. Personal
information collected on a voluntary basis may include name, postal
address, email address, company name and telephone number. This
information is collected if you request information from us,
participate in a contest or sweepstakes, and sign up to join our email
list or request some other service or information from us. The
information collected is internally reviewed, used to improve the
content of our website, notify our visitors of updates, and respond to
visitor inquiries.
Once information is reviewed,
it is discarded or
stored in our files. If we make material changes in the collection of
personally identifiable information we will inform you by placing a
notice on our site. Personal information received from any visitor will
be used only for internal purposes and will not be sold or provided to
third parties.
Use of Cookies and Web Beacons
We may use cookies to help you personalize your
online experience.
Cookies are identifiers that are transferred to your computer's hard
drive through your Web browser to enable our systems to recognize your
browser. The purpose of a cookie is to tell the Web server that you
have returned to a specific page. For example, if you personalize the
sites pages, or register with any of our site's services, a cookie
enables Beth and the Biscuit to recall your specific information on
subsequent visits.
You have the ability to accept or decline cookies by modifying your Web
browser; however, if you choose to decline cookies, you may not be able
to fully experience the interactive features of the site.
A web beacon is a transparent
image file used to
monitor your journey around a single website or collection of sites.
They are also referred to as web bugs and are commonly used by sites
that hire third-party services to monitor traffic. They may be used in
association with cookies to understand how visitors interact with the
pages and content on the pages of a web site.
We
may serve
third-party advertisements that
use cookies and web beacons in the course of ads being served on our
web site to ascertain how many times you've seen an advertisement. No
personally identifiable information you give us is provided to them for
cookie or web beacon use, so they cannot personally identify you with
that information on our web site.
Some third-party
advertisements may be provided by
Google, which uses cookies to serve ads on this site. Google uses the
DART cookie, which enables it to serve ads to our users based on their
visits to this site and other sites on the Web. You may opt out of the
use of the DART cookie by visiting the Google
ad and content network privacy policy
Browsers
can be
set to accept or reject
cookies or notify you when a cookie is being sent. Privacy software can
be used to override web beacons. Taking either of these actions
shouldn't cause a problem with our site, should you so choose.
Children's
Online Privacy
Protection Act This website is directed to adults; it is not directed
to children under the age of 13. We operate our site in compliance with
the Children's Online Privacy Protection Act, and will not knowingly
collect or use personal information from anyone under 13 years of age.
Non-Personal Information
In some
cases, we
may collect information about
you that is not personally identifiable. We use this information, which
does not identify individual users, to analyze trends, to administer
the site, to track users' movements around the site and to gather
demographic information about our user base as a whole. The information
collected is used solely for internal review and not shared with other
organizations for commercial purposes.
Release of Information
If Beth
and the
Biscuit is sold, the information
we have obtained from you through your voluntary participation in our
site may transfer to the new owner as a part of the sale in order that
the service being provided to you may continue. In that event, you will
receive notice through our website of that change in control and
practices, and we will make reasonable efforts to ensure that the
purchaser honors any opt-out requests you might make of us.
How You Can Correct or Remove Information
We
provide this
privacy policy as a statement to
you of our commitment to protect your personal information. If you have
submitted personal information through our website and would like that
information deleted from our records or would like to update or correct
that information, please click on this link and/or use our Contact Us
page.
Updates and Effective Date
Beth and the
Biscuit reserves the right to make
changes in this policy. If there is a material change in our privacy
practices, we will indicate on our site that our privacy practices have
changed and provide a link to the new privacy policy. We encourage you
to periodically review this policy so that you will know what
information we collect and how we use it.
Agreeing to Terms
If you do not agree to Beth and the
Biscuit Privacy Policy as
posted here on this website, please do not use this site or any
services offered by this site. Your use of this site indicates
acceptance of this privacy policy.
Copyright (c) 2010 Beth and the Biscuit. All rights
reserved.