Privacy Policy

Carol’s Chocolate Blog Site is committed to protecting your privacy and developing technology that gives you the most powerful and safe online experience. This Statement of Privacy applies to the Carol’s Chocolate Blog Site and governs data collection and usage. By using Carol’s Chocolate Blog Site, you consent to the data practices described in this statement.

Collection of your Personal Information

Carol’s Chocolate Blog Site collects personally identifiable information, such as your e-mail address, name, home or work address or telephone number. Carol’s Chocolate Blog Site also collects anonymous demographic information, which is not unique to you, such as your ZIP code, age, gender, preferences, interests and favorites.

There is also information about your computer hardware and software that is automatically collected by Carol’s Chocolate Blog Site. This information can include: your IP address, browser type, domain names, access times and referring Web site addresses. This information is used by Carol’s Chocolate Blog Site for the operation of the service, to maintain quality of the service, and to provide general statistics regarding use of the Carol’s Chocolate Blog Site.

Please keep in mind that if you directly disclose personally identifiable information or personally sensitive data through Carol’s Chocolate Blog Site public message boards, this information may be collected and used by others. Note: Carol’s Chocolate Blog Site does not read any of your private online communications.

Carol’s Chocolate Blog Site encourages you to review the privacy statements of Blog sites you choose to link to from Carol’s Chocolate Blog Site so that you can understand how those Blog sites collect, use and share your information. Carol’s Chocolate Blog Site is not responsible for the privacy statements or other content on Web or Blog sites outside of the Carol’s Chocolate Blog Site and family of Web sites.

Use of your Personal Information

Carol’s Chocolate Blog Site collects and uses your personal information to operate the Carol’s Chocolate Blog Site and deliver the services you have requested. Carol’s Chocolate Blog Site also uses your personally identifiable information to inform you of other products or services available from Carol’s Chocolate Blog Site and its affiliates. Carol’s Chocolate Blog Site may also contact you via surveys to conduct research about your opinion of current services or of potential new services that may be offered.

Carol’s Chocolate Blog Site does not sell, rent or lease its customer lists to third parties. Carol’s Chocolate Blog Site may, from time to time, contact you on behalf of external business partners about a particular offering that may be of interest to you. In those cases, your unique personally identifiable information (e-mail, name, address, telephone number) is not transferred to the third party. In addition, Carol’s Chocolate Blog Site may share data with trusted partners to help us perform statistical analysis, send you email or postal mail, provide customer support, or arrange for deliveries. All such third parties are prohibited from using your personal information except to provide these services to Carol’s Chocolate Blog Site, and they are required to maintain the confidentiality of your information.

Carol’s Chocolate Blog Site does not use or disclose sensitive personal information, such as race, religion, or political affiliations, without your explicit consent.

Carol’s Chocolate Blog Site keeps track of the Web or Blog sites and pages our customers visit within Carol’s Chocolate Blog Site, in order to determine what Carol’s Chocolate Blog Site services are the most popular. This data is used to deliver customized content and advertising within Carol’s Chocolate Blog Site to customers whose behavior indicates that they are interested in a particular subject area.

Carol’s Chocolate Blog Site will disclose your personal information, without notice, only if required to do so by law or in the good faith belief that such action is necessary to: (a) conform to the edicts of the law or comply with legal process served on Carol’s Chocolate Blog Site or the site; (b) protect and defend the rights or property of Carol’s Chocolate Blog Site; and, (c) act under exigent circumstances to protect the personal safety of users of Carol’s Chocolate Blog Site, or the public.

Use of Cookies

Carol’s Chocolate Blog Site uses “cookies” to help you personalize your online experience. A cookie is a text file that is placed on your hard disk by a Web page server. Cookies cannot be used to run programs or deliver viruses to your computer. Cookies are uniquely assigned to you, and can only be read by a web server in the domain that issued the cookie to you.

One of the primary purposes of cookies is to provide a convenience feature to save you time. The purpose of a cookie is to tell the Web server that you have returned to a specific page. For example, if you personalize Carol’s Chocolate Blog Site pages, or register with Carol’s Chocolate Blog Site or services, a cookie helps Carol’s Chocolate Blog Site to recall your specific information on subsequent visits. This simplifies the process of recording your personal information, such as billing addresses, shipping addresses, and so on. When you return to the same Carol’s Chocolate Blog Site, the information you previously provided can be retrieved, so you can easily use the Carol’s Chocolate Blog Site features that you customized.

You have the ability 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. If you choose to decline cookies, you may not be able to fully experience the interactive features of the Carol’s Chocolate Blog Site services or Web sites you visit.

Security of your Personal Information

Carol’s Chocolate Blog Site secures your personal information from unauthorized access, use or disclosure. Carol’s Chocolate Blog Site secures the personally identifiable information you provide on computer servers in a controlled, secure environment, protected from unauthorized access, use or disclosure. When personal information (such as a credit card number) is transmitted to other Web sites, it is protected through the use of encryption, such as the Secure Socket Layer (SSL) protocol.

Changes to this Statement

Carol’s Chocolate Blog Site will occasionally update this Statement of Privacy to reflect company and customer feedback. Carol’s Chocolate Blog Site encourages you to periodically review this Statement to be informed of how Carol’s Chocolate Blog Site is protecting your information.

Contact Information

Carol’s Chocolate Blog Site welcomes your comments regarding this Statement of Privacy. If you believe that Carol’s Chocolate Blog Site has not adhered to this Statement, please contact Carol’s Chocolate Blog Site at carolwerelius@comcast.net. We will use commercially reasonable efforts to promptly determine and remedy the problem.