We at Passion for Spices have created this privacy statement to show our value towards the privacy of our visitors and customers. This statement contains our practices for information gathering and dissemination of our website, www.passionforspices.com. If you have any questions, please contact:

Webmaster
P.O. Box 221
Summit, NJ, 07902
info@passionforspices.com

How We Gather Personal Information:

  • Electronic Newsletters: Passion for Spices offers visitors to www.passionforspices.com a chance to voluntarily subscribe to our electronic newsletters, sent via email. In doing so, we gather the e-mail addresses of visitors who subscribe on a mailing list. Subscribers may removes themselves from our newsletter mailing list at any time by selecting “unsubscribe” at the bottom of any sent newsletter.
  • Surveys: Passion for Spices may occasionally send surveys to our mailing lists to better our services or content for our audience.
  • Registration Forms: Passion for Spices offers online registration for our events and classes which requests visitors to voluntarily provide their contact information. These registration forms may ask for the visitor’s name, e-mail address, and/or financial information.

How We Gather Non-Personal Information:

  • Usage Tracking: Passion for Spices tracks website visitor traffic patterns through out website, however we cannot correlate this information with the identity of individual visitors. Passion for Spices also catalogs website visitor data, such as search terms entered in our website’s search bar. However, this information is not associated with specific individual visitors.
  • Cookies: A “cookie”, a type of text file, may be placed in the browser files of a visitor’s computer. The cookie does not contain personal information, however it provides information about a particular visitor’s use of a website. A cookie file cannot read data off a hard disk or other cookie files created by other websites. Visitors may block cookies by changing their browser settings to never accept cookies. Our website does not require the placement of cookies in order to function.

How We Use Information:

  • Personal: Passion for Spices uses voluntary, personal contact information to send individual visitors e-mail updates on products, upcoming events, and related literature that we believe the visitor will find interesting and relevant. Visitors may unsubscribe from these e-mails at any time.
  • Non-Personal: Passion for Spices uses non-personal, aggregated tracking information to determine the preferred areas of the website and in doing so tailor out content to visitors’ preferences.

Sharing of Information:

Passion for Spices, LLC will never sell or disclose your personal information gathered through the website without our explicit permission. We will also not share aggregated tracking information about individual users with any third party, with the exception of complying with any applicable law or legal process to protect the personal safety of our visitors or the general public.

Other Issues:

  • Public Comments: The website has pages upon which visitors may make online comments. Please note that any personal information you disclose in these comments becomes public information. Passion for Spics will not be held accountable for any personal information that is disclosed in these areas, so please exercise caution.
  • Outbound Links: Our website, www.passionforspices.com, contains links to other sites. Passion for Spices is not responsible for the privacy practices or the contents of such other websites. Use these linking features at your own discretion.
  • Children: As with the Children’s Online Privacy Protection Action of 1998, Passion for Spices will not knowingly request personally identifiable information from anyone believed to be under the age of thirteen without first requesting parental consent.
  • Consent: By using www.passionforspices.com, each visitor agrees to the collection and use of information disclosed within this privacy statement.
  • Policy Updates: We will constantly assess this privacy policy as new technologies become available and as  business practices and visitors’ needs change. Passion for Spices may make updates to this statement in order to stay with the times. The date of the most recent change may be found at the bottom of this statement.

 

[Latest update: August 28, 2015]