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Your Privacy
At Taste The Earth, we are committed to protecting your privacy. We use the information we collect about you to process orders and to provide a more personalized shopping experience. Please read on for more details about our privacy policy.
What Information Does Taste The Earth Collect? How Do We Use It?
When you order, we need to know your name, e-mail address, and mailing address, while further information, including credit-card number and expiration date, will be exclusively held by Paypal Inc (please see Paypal's Privacy Policy for more details). This allows us to process and fulfill your orders and to notify you of your order status.
You may voluntarily sign up to be informed about certain offers. For this service we need only an e-mail address, which we use to send the information you requested.
We personalize your shopping experience by using your purchases to shape our recommendations about other merchandise that might be of interest to you. We also monitor customer traffic patterns and site usage to help us develop the design and layout of the store.
We may also use the information we collect to occasionally notify you about important changes to the Web site, new Taste The Earth services, and special offers we think you'll find valuable. If you would rather not receive this information, please notify us. Make sure to notify us for each account or e-mail address you have left with us.
How Does Taste The Earth Protect Customer Information?
We are committed to ensuring that your information is secure. In order to prevent unauthorised access or disclosure we have put in place suitable physical, electronic and managerial procedures to safeguard and secure the information we collect online. Our security system is based on Joomla!'s content management system, version 1.12. This website is powered by Joomla! The software and default templates on which it runs are Copyright 2005 Open Source Matters.
We store and process your personal information on our computers in the US, and we protect it by maintaining physical, electronic and procedural safeguards in compliance with applicable US federal and state regulations. We use computer safeguards such as firewalls and data encryption, we enforce physical access controls to our buildings and files, and we authorize access to personal information only for those employees who require it to fulfill their job responsibilities
What About "Cookies"?
A cookie is a small file which asks permission to be placed on your computer's hard drive. Once you agree, the file is added and the cookie helps analyse web traffic or lets you know when you visit a particular site. Cookies allow web applications to respond to you as an individual. The web application can tailor its operations to your needs, likes and dislikes by gathering and remembering information about your preferences.
We use traffic log cookies to identify which pages are being used. This helps us analyse data about webpage traffic and improve our website in order to tailor it to customer needs. We only use this information for statistical analysis purposes and then the data is removed from the system.
Overall, cookies help us provide you with a better website, by enabling us to monitor which pages you find useful and which you do not. A cookie in no way gives us access to your computer or any information about you, other than the data you choose to share with us.
You can choose to accept or decline cookies. Most web browsers automatically accept cookies, but you can usually modify your browser setting to decline cookies if you prefer. This may prevent you from taking full advantage of the website.
Will Taste The Earth Disclose the Information it Collects to Outside Parties?
Taste The Earth does not sell, trade, or rent your personal information to others. Furthermore, Taste The Earth may provide aggregate statistics about our customers, sales, traffic patterns, and related site information to reputable third-party vendors, but these statistics will include no personally identifying information.
In Summary
We are committed to protecting your privacy. We use the information we collect on the site to make shopping at Taste The Earth possible and to enhance your overall shopping experience. We do not sell, trade or rent your personal information to others. We may choose to do so in the future with trustworthy third parties for statistical purposes, but you can tell us not to by contacting us.
Your Consent
By using our Web site, you consent to the collection and use of this information by Taste The Earth. If we decide to change our privacy policy, we will post those changes on this page, so you are always aware of what information we collect, how we use it, and under what circumstances we disclose it.
Tell Us What You Think
Taste The Earth welcomes your questions and comments about privacy.
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