Privacy Policy for the World of Cheddar Website Effective and Last Updated: March 31, 2016
This website is owned and operated by World of Cheddar, LLC. (“WOC”).
We are committed to protecting the privacy of our visitors while they interact with the content, products and services on this site (the “Site”). This Privacy Policy applies to the Site only. It does not apply to other websites to which we link. Because we gather certain types of information about our users, we want you to understand what information we collect about you, how we collect it, how that information is used, and how you can control our disclosure of it. You agree that your use of the Site signifies your assent to this Privacy Policy. If you do not agree with this Privacy Policy, please do not use the Site.
1) Information Collected
We collect two types of information from you: i) information that you voluntarily provide to us (e.g. through voluntary sign-ups or emails); and ii) information that is derived through automated tracking mechanisms.
• Voluntary Information for Services and Features
We collect personally identifiable information when you choose to use certain other features of the Site, including: i) consenting to receive email or text messages about upcoming promotions or events, ii) participating in our forum, iii) commenting on articles on the Site. When you choose to use these additional features of the Site, we require you to provide your “Contact Information” in addition to other personal information that may be required to complete a transaction, such as your phone number and addresses. Occasionally, we may also request information such as demographics which will help us better serve you and our others users in the future.
• Cookies
A cookie is a piece of data stored on the user’s computer tied to information about the user. World of Cheddar uses cookies to store visitor’s preferences and to record session information. We do not and will not use cookies to collect private information from any user that the user did not intentionally submit to us.
Third-Party Cookies: In the course of serving advertisements to this Site, our third-party advertisers may place a unique "cookie" on your browser if you click on the ad.
2) Referrals
You may choose to invite friends to join the World of Cheddar by sending invitation emails via our invite feature. World of Cheddar stores the email addresses you provide so that the respondents may be added to your social network, confirm orders/purchases and also to send reminders of the invitations. World of Cheddar does not sell these email addresses or use them to send any other communication besides invitations and invitation reminders. Recipients of invitations may contact World of Cheddar to request removal of their information from our database, using the “unsubscribe” feature to remove themselves from our e-mail list.
3) How We Use Your Information
World of Cheddar only uses your personal information for the original purposes it was given. Your personal information will not be sold or otherwise transferred to unaffiliated third parties without your approval at the time of collection.
World of Cheddar will not disclose, use, give or sell any personal information to third parties for any purposes other than to our suppliers and other third parties who need to know in order to deliver services on behalf of World of Cheddar, unless required to do so by law. Further, World of Cheddar reserves the right to contact you regarding matters relevant to the underlying service provided and/or the information collected.
Please note that personally identifiable information is used only to provide you with a more enjoyable, convenient online experience and to help us identify and/or provide information, products or services that may be of interest to you. We use your personally identifiable information to support and enhance your use of the Site and its features, including without limitation: fulfilling your order; storing personal preferences; providing customer service; tracking email invitations you send; and otherwise supporting your use of the Site.
World of Cheddar may use your personal information for target advertising toward you based on things such as region, gender, interests, goals, habits, etc.
We may permit certain trusted third parties to track usage, analyze data such as the source address that a page request is coming from, your IP address or domain name, the date and time of the page request, the referring Web site (if any) and other parameters in the URL. This is collected in order to better understand our Web site usage, and enhance the performance of services to maintain and operate the Site and certain features on the Site. We may use third parties to host the Site; operate various features available on the Site; send emails; analyze data; provide search results and links and assist in fulfilling your orders.
Also, we may share personally identifiable or other information with our parent, subsidiaries, divisions, and affiliates.
We may transfer personally identifiable information as an asset in connection with a proposed or actual merger or sale (including any transfers made as part of an insolvency or bankruptcy proceeding) involving all or part of our business or as part of a corporate reorganization, stock sale or other change in control.
World of Cheddar may disclose Contact Information in special cases where we have reason to believe that disclosing this information is necessary to identify, contact or bring legal action against someone who may be violating our terms and conditions of use or may be causing injury or interference with our rights, property, our customers or anyone who could be harmed by such activities.
WE ARE NOT LIABLE OR RESPONSIBLE FOR THE PERSONALLY IDENTIFIABLE OR OTHER INFORMATION YOU CHOOSE TO SUBMIT IN FORUMS SUCH AS A BULLETIN BOARD, CHAT ROOM OR ANY OTHER PUBLICLY ACCESSIBLE AREA OF THE SITE.
You will receive notice when your personally identifiable information might be provided to any third party for any reason other than as set forth in this Privacy Policy, and you will have an opportunity to request that we not share such information.
We use non-identifying and aggregated information to better design our website and for business and administrative purposes. We may also use or share with third parties for any purpose aggregated data that contains no personally identifiable information.
4) How We Protect Your Information
We are committed to protecting the information we receive from you. We take appropriate security measures to protect your information against unauthorized access to or unauthorized alteration, disclosure or destruction of data. To prevent unauthorized access, maintain data accuracy, and ensure the correct use of information, we maintain appropriate physical, electronic, and managerial procedures to safeguard and secure the information and data stored on our system. While no computer system is completely secure, we believe the measures we have implemented reduce the likelihood of security problems to a level appropriate to the type of data involved.
5) Third Party Advertising
Advertisements appearing on this Site may be delivered to you by World of Cheddar or one of our Web advertising partners. Our Web advertising partners may use cookies to track your preferences and collect data in connection with clicking on an advertisement, or ordering a third party product or service. Doing this allows the advertising partners to recognize your computer each time they send you an advertisement. In this way, they may compile information about where you, or others who are using your computer, saw their advertisements and determine which advertisements are clicked. This information allows an advertising partner to deliver targeted advertisements that they believe will be of most interest to you. World of Cheddar does not have access to or control of the cookies that may be placed by these third party advertising partners.
This privacy statement covers the use of cookies by World of Cheddar and does not cover the use of cookies by any of its advertisers.
6) Accessing and Updating Your Personal Information and Preferences
We provide mechanisms for updating and correcting your personal information for many of our services. If you are a registered user, you may access and update your registration and personal profile information and your preferences to receive email or other communications from us by sending an email to WorldofCheddar@gmail.com.
7) Email Choice/Opt-out
If any user who receives an email from the Site and would prefer not to receive such communications in the future, he or she can do so by following the instructions in the emails. In addition, you may send an email to WorldofCheddar@gmail.com. We will make commercially reasonable efforts to implement your opt-out requests promptly, but you may still receive communications from us for up to ten business days as we process your request.
8) Children's Privacy and Parental Controls
We do not solicit any personal information from children. If you are not 18 or older, you are not authorized to use the Site without the consent of a parent or guardian. Parents should be aware that there are parental control tools available online that can be used to prevent children from submitting information online or placing orders to purchase products or services without parental permission or from accessing material that is harmful to minors.
9) Disclaimer to Security
By consenting to the Terms and Conditions of the Site and hence the Privacy Policy, you acknowledge that no data transmission over the Internet is completely secure. We cannot guarantee or warrant the security of any information you provide to us and you transmit such information to us at your own risk.
10) Notification of Changes
World of Cheddar reserves the right to change this Privacy Policy from time to time at its sole discretion. If at some point in the future, there is a material change to our Privacy Policy, unless we obtain your express consent, such change will only apply to information collected after the revised Privacy Policy took effect. Your continued use of the Site indicates your assent to the Privacy Policy as posted.
11) CONTACT INFORMATION:
If you have any questions or concerns regarding this Privacy Policy please contact World of Cheddar, LLC., at WorldofCheddar@gmail.com
World of Cheddar Privacy Policy as of 03-31-2016
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