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PRIVACY POLICY
The Oberto Sausage Company ("Oberto")
has created this privacy policy (the “Policy”)
to explain our privacy practices so you will
understand when and how personal information
is collected, used, disclosed and protected
with respect to our web site located at <www.oberto.com>
(the "Site"). By using the Site, you
consent to the privacy practices described
in this Policy, as modified from time to
time by us. Therefore, you should carefully
review this policy so you understand our
data privacy practices.
INFORMATION ABOUT
YOU
We collected two basic types of information
from our Site, namely personal information
and aggregate information. Personal
information is information that is directly
associated with a specific person or entity
such as a customer's name, address,
telephone number, e-mail address, or
information about activities that is
directly linked to that person.
Our definition of personal information does
not include “aggregate” information.
Aggregate information is data we collect
about a group or category of services or
user from which individual user identities
have been removed. Aggregate data may
include anonymous demographic information
such as country of origin, citizenship, ZIP
code, age, gender, preferences and survey
information. In other words, how you use
our Site may be collected and combined with
information about how others use the Site,
but no personal information will be included
in the resulting data. Aggregate data helps
us understand trends and our user's needs so
that we can better consider new features or
otherwise tailor our Site.
Here are the types of personal and other
information we collect. You should refer to
the rest of this Policy to see how we use,
disclose and protect this information:
Information You Give Us.
We collect information you give us when you
purchase or use our Site. Examples include
the following:
·
Transaction Information.
When you purchase a product from us, we
may collect various kinds of contact
information about you including your name,
e-mail address, home and business addresses,
and home and business phone numbers. We
also may collect purchasing information such
as product orders, shipping address(es), and
credit card information. This information
may be collected by third parties that host
and manage our online store, such as Yahoo!,
Inc.
·
Submissions and Customer
Service. From time-to-time we may post
surveys, contests or sweepstakes on our site
which may request demographic
information and customer feedback.
Participation in these requests is
completely voluntary and with each request
you will have the choice of whether or not
to participate and disclose information.
Also, we
may collect information that identifies you
personally when you submit comments,
questions or suggestions to our customer
service department.
·
Automatically Collected
Information. We automatically receive
certain types of information whenever you
interact with us. For example, when you
visit the Site, our systems automatically
collect your IP address and the type of
browser you use. Information may be
automatically collect through the use of
"cookies" which are discussed in more detail
below. We also collect various types of "clickstream"
information which is information about your
browsing behavior, such as IP address
information, entry and exit points for the
Site, search terms, Web site addresses you
visit, page views, and impressions.
·
Cookies. Cookies are
small text files placed on your hard drive
by a web site when you visit. These files
identify your computer and record your
preferences and other data about your visit
so that when you return to the site, the
site knows who you are and can personalize
your visit. In general, we use cookies to
collect information so that we can determine
how to improve our sites by seeing which
areas, features and products are most
popular; to personalize the site and make
recommendations based on products you have
liked in the past, as well as to improve the
site experience; and to complete
transactions you have requested. Most
browsers automatically accept cookies as the
default setting. You can modify the setting
to reject cookies or to prompt you before
accepting a cookie from the sites you visit
by editing browser options. If you decide
not to accept our cookies, you will still be
able to access those parts of our site
available to the general public but you may
not be able to use some of the site’s
features or services and you may have a less
satisfactory experience.
No Information About Children.
Oberto does not knowingly, directly or
passively, collect information from children
under the age of 13. If we create offers
and products that make it appropriate to
collect information from children under the
age of 13, we will notify you of the change
in this Policy.
USE OF PERSONAL INFORMATION
Internal Use of Personal Information.
In general, we use personal information
internally to serve our customers, to
enhance and extend our customer
relationships, and so our customers can take
maximum advantage of our products and
services. For example, by understanding how
you use our Web site from your computer, we
are able to customize and personalize your
experience. More specifically, we use
personal information for billing purposes,
to provide services or complete transactions
you have requested, to anticipate and
resolve problems with our Site and products,
to respond to customer support inquiries,
and to create and inform you of new products
or services from Oberto or others that
better meet your needs. You should review
the following section to understand when
Oberto discloses personal information to
non-affiliated third parties.
Disclosure of Personal Information.
We do not rent, sell, or share personal
information about you with other people or
nonaffiliated companies, except when we have
your consent to do so, as necessary to
complete a transaction you have requested,
for marketing purposes (unless you have
chosen not to receive such communications,
in certain business transactions), when
required by law, or when permitted to
protect our rights or property. The
following section describes these disclosure
circumstances more fully.
·
Transaction Processing.
We disclose personal information to third
parties as necessary to complete a
transaction you have requested or to perform
a service on our behalf. When the third
party acts solely on our behalf, we will
require them to follow our privacy
practices. For example, Yahoo! hosts our
online store pages, ordering system, and
order data. Yahoo! automatically collects
order information but may only use this
information in the aggregate.
·
Internal Analysis. We
may use information about you for our own
internal statistical, design, or operational
purposes, such as to
estimate our audience size, measure
aggregate traffic patterns as well as to
understand demographic, customer interest,
purchasing and other trends among our users.
We may outsource these tasks to third
parties; however, the third parties may not
use or disclose your personal information
for any other purposes.
·
Marketing Purposes: We
may disclose your personal information to
third parties so they can inform you about
their products or services. If you do not
wish to receive these types of third party
communications, you can
click here and complete a
form to tell us your preferences. While you
may choose not to receive direct marketing
information from third parties, you will
continue to receive invoices, service
impacting notifications and other similar
information from us, electronically or
otherwise, as well as general advertisements
through the Site.
·
Our Affiliates:
Personal as well as aggregate information
may be shared with our corporate affiliates
and stored on equipment and facilities that
we share with such affiliates. We will keep
all information collected from this Site
logically separate from other information
stored by such affiliates on such
equipment.
·
Business Transfers:
Information about our users and the Site is
one of our most important business assets.
Therefore, information about our users,
including personal information, will be
disclosed as part of any merger or
acquisition, creation of a separate business
to provide the Site or fulfill products,
sale or pledge of company assets as well as
in the event of an insolvency, bankruptcy or
receivership in which personal information
would be transferred as one of the business
assets of the company.
·
Protection of Oberto and
Others: We release personal information
when we believe release is appropriate to
comply with the law (e.g., a lawful
subpoena, warrant or court order); to
enforce or apply our policies; to initiate,
render, bill, and collect for amounts owed
to us; to protect our rights or property, or
to protect our user from fraudulent,
abusive, or unlawful use of, our Site; or if
we reasonably believe that an emergency
involving immediate danger of death or
serious physical injury to any person
requires disclosure of communications or
justifies disclosure of records without
delay.
THIRD-PARTY SITES
Please be aware that we provide links to
third-party Web sites from the Site as a
service to our guests and we are not
responsible for the content or information
collection practices of those sites. Please
also note that these Web sites' privacy
policies will differ from those of Oberto.
Therefore, we encourage your to review and
understand their privacy practices before
providing them with information.
NETWORK AND INFORMATION
SECURITY
We use commercially
reasonable efforts to protect your personal
information. You should be aware that
Oberto has no control over the security of
other sites on the Internet you might visit,
interact with, or from which you buy
products or services. Further, while we
have taken efforts to guard your personal
information, we cannot guarantee that your
information may be not be disclosed or
accessed by accidental circumstances or by
the unauthorized acts of others.
ACCESS AND
CONTROL OF PERSONAL INFORMATION
We reserve the right
to send you certain communications relating
to your purchases from the Site, such as
customer service responses and other
administrative messages, without offering
you the opportunity to opt-out of receiving
them. At any time, you may opt-out of
receiving marketing information from us or a
third-party by filling out and submitting
our
contact us form.
UPDATING THIS POLICY
We
may revise and update this Policy if our
practices change, as technology changes, or
as we add new services or change existing
ones.
Any changes will be posted to this document
so that you will always know what
information we gather and how we use it.
You are encouraged to print or download a
copy of this document for your records.
If we make any material changes to
our Policy or how we handle your personal
information, we will post an "update" notice
to our site and change the date of the
Policy. If we are going to use any personal
information in a manner that is materially
different from that stated in our Policy at
the time we collected such information, we
will give you a reasonable opportunity to
consent to the change. However, if users
have opted out of all communication with the
Site, or deleted/deactivated their account,
then they will not be contacted, nor will
their personal information be used in this
new manner. We will use information in
accordance with the most current privacy
policy.
CONTACTING US
If you have any
questions, comments or concerns about this
Policy, please contact corporate@oberto.com.
Or you can send us mail to: Oberto Sausage
Company, 7060 S. 238th St., Kent,
WA 98032
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