Chocolate-Delectables.com is a general audience web site, intended for users 18 years of age and older. Personal information of all users is collected, used and disclosed as described in this Privacy Statement.

Collection of your Personal Information

Chocolate Delectables collects personal information, such as your e-mail address, name, home or work address or telephone number. Chocolate Delectables may also collect demographic information, such as your ZIP code, age, gender, preferences, interests and favorites.

If you choose to purchase products we will collect additional personal information, including your credit card number and billing address, in order to create a Chocolate Delectables account.

Chocolate Delectables may collect information about your visit, including the pages you view, the links you click and other actions taken within Chocolate-Delectables.com.

Use of your Personal Information

Chocolate Delectables collects and uses your personal information to operate Chocolate Delectables.com and deliver the products and services you have requested. Chocolate Delectables also uses your personal information to inform you of other products or services available from Chocolate Delectables and its affiliates. Chocolate Delectables may also send you surveys regarding current services or potential new products and services that may be offered.

Chocolate Delectables does not sell, rent, or lease its customer lists to third parties. Chocolate Delectables may, from time to time, contact you on behalf of external business partners about a particular offer that may be of interest to you. In those cases, your personal information (e-mail, name, address, telephone number) is not transferred to the third party. Chocolate Delectables does not use or disclose sensitive personal information, such as race, religion, or political affiliations, without your explicit consent.

We occasionally hire other companies to provide limited services on our behalf, such as handling the processing and delivery of mailings, providing customer support, processing transactions, or performing statistical analysis of our services. We will only provide those companies the personal information they need to deliver the service. They are required to maintain the confidentiality of your information and are prohibited from using that information for any other purpose.

Chocolate Delectables may access and/or disclose your personal information 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 Chocolate Delectables or the site: (b) protect and defend the rights or property of Chocolate Delectables or (c) act in urgent circumstances to protect the personal safety of users of Chocolate Delectables services or members of the public.

Personal information collected on this site may be stored and processed in the United States or any other country in which Chocolate Delectables or its affiliates, subsidiaries or agents maintain facilities, and by using this site, you consent to any such transfer of information outside of your country. Chocolate Delectables abides by the safe harbor framework as set forth by the U.S. Department of Commerce regarding the collection, use, and retention of data from European Union.

Control of your Personal Information

Chocolate Delectables gives its customers the choice to continue to receive mailings such as promotional e-mails, newsletters and the like, or to unsubscribe. If you choose to stop the delivery of future promotional e-mails, newsletters and the like, simply follow the instructions at the bottom of the e-mail, newsletters, etc. that you receive. Those instructions will explain how to stop receiving such e-mails.

Security of your Personal Information

Chocolate Delectables is committed to protecting the security of your personal information. We use a variety of security technologies and procedures to help protect your personal information from unauthorized access, use, or disclosure. For example, we store the personal information you provide on computer systems with limited access, which are located on controlled facilities. When we transmit highly confidential information (such as a credit card number) over the Internet, we protect it through the use of encryption, such as the Secure Socket Layer (SSL) protocol.

Use of Cookies

Chocolate Delectables 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 sued 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.

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 Chocolate Delectables Web site.

Use of Web Beacons

Chocolate Delectables Web pages may contain electronic images known as Web beacons - sometimes called single-pixel gifs - that allow Chocolate Delectables to count users who have visited those pages and to deliver co-branded services. Chocolate Delectables may include Web beacons in promotional e-mail messages or Chocolate Delectables Newsletters in order to determine whether messages have been opened and acted upon.

Chocolate Delectables may also place Web beacons from third parties on our site in order to compile aggregated statistics and to help determine the effectiveness of our joint promotional or advertising campaigns. Chocolate Delectables prohibits Web beacons on our site from being used by third parties to access your personal information.

Changes to this Statement

Chocolate Delectables will occasionally update this Privacy Statement to reflect company and customer feedback. When Chocolate Delectables posts changes to this Statement, you will see the word "updated" next to the Privacy Statement link on the front page of Chocolate Delectables. If there are material changes to this Statement or in how Chocolate Delectables will use your personal information, Chocolate Delectables will prominently post such changes prior to implementing the change. Chocolate Delectables encourages you to periodically review this Statement to be informed of how Chocolate Delectables is protecting your information.