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INFORMATION COLLECTION
We collect information from you in several different ways on this Site.
One goal in collecting personal information from you is to provide an efficient, meaningful, and customized experience.
For example, we can use your personal information to:
- Help make this Site easier for you to use by not having to enter information more than once.
- Help you quickly find information, products, and services.
- Help us create content on this Site that is most relevant to you.
- Alert you to new information, products, and services that we offer.
Registration and Ordering. Before using certain parts of this Site or ordering products, you must
complete an online registration form. During registration, you will be prompted to provide to us certain
personal information, including but not limited to your name, shipping and billing address(es), phone number,
email address, and credit card number. These
kinds of personal information are used for billing purposes, to fulfill your orders, to communicate with you
about your order and our site, and for internal marketing purposes. If we encounter a problem when processing
your order, we use the personal information to contact you.
Email Addresses. Several locations of the Site permit you to enter your email address for purposes including
but not limited to: to register for a free offers; to request a copy of Casual Flavors or
to sign up for our newsletter. Your participation in a contest is completely voluntary, so you have a choice
whether to participate and disclose information to us. We use this information to notify contest winners and to
award prizes. We may post on our Site the names and cities of contest winners. We will not share or sell your e-mail.
This information will only be used for tracking purposes and to give you further information about Stonewood Grill.
Cookies and Other Technology. Like many sites, this Site employs cookies and web beacons (also known as clear
GIF technology or "action tags") to speed your navigation of the Site, recognize you and your access privileges,
and track your Site usage.
- Cookies are small pieces of information that are stored as text files by your Internet browser on
your computer's hard drive. Most Internet browsers are initially set to accept cookies. You can set your
browser to refuse cookies from web sites or to remove cookies from your hard drive, but if you do, you
will not be able to access or use portions of this Site. We have to use cookies to enable you to select
products, place them in an online shopping cart, and to purchase those products. If you do this, we keep
a record of your browsing activity and purchase. THIS SITE'S COOKIES DO NOT AND CANNOT INFILTRATE A USER'S
HARD DRIVE TO GATHER A USER'S CONFIDENTIAL INFORMATION. Our cookies are not "spyware."
- Web beacons assist in delivering cookies and help us determine whether a web page on this Site has been
viewed and, if so, how many times. For example, any electronic image on this Site, such as an ad banner,
can function as a web beacon.
- We may use third-party advertising companies to help us tailor site content to users or to serve ads
on our behalf. These companies may employ cookies and web beacons to measure advertising effectiveness
(such as which web pages are visited or what products are purchased and in what amount). Any information
that these third parties collect via cookies and web beacons is not linked to any personal information
collected by us.
Log Files. As is true of most web sites, the Site server automatically recognizes the Internet URL from which
you access this Site. We may also log your Internet protocol ("IP") address, Internet service provider, and date/time
stamp for system administration, order verification, internal marketing, and system troubleshooting purposes. (An IP
address may indicate the location of your computer on the Internet.)
Testimonials. You may choose to submit a customer testimonial. If you post a testimonial, we will ask
for your name. If you submit a review, your first name and the initial of your last name will be visible to
other users. Also, any personally identifiable information that you submit
as part of the review can be read or used by other visitors to the Site. We are not responsible for any personally
identifiable information that you choose to submit as part of your testimonial. We believe you can post a helpful
testimonial without disclosing any personal information.
INFORMATION USE
Internal Use. We use your personal information to process your order and provide you with customer service.
We may internally use your personal information to improve our Site's content and layout, to improve our outreach and
marketing efforts (including marketing our services and products to you), and to determine general marketplace
information about visitors to this Site.
Communications with You. We will use your personal information to communicate with you about our site and your
orders and deliveries. Also, we may send you a confirmation email when you register with us. We may send you a
service-related announcement on the rare occasions when it is necessary (for example, if we must temporarily suspend
our service for maintenance.) Also, you may submit your email address for reasons such as to register for a free
product giveaway; to request an electronic version of our catalog or to sign up for special offers. If you submit
your email address, we use it to deliver the information to you. We always permit you to unsubscribe or opt out of
future emails (see the opt out section, below, for more details). Because we have to communicate with you about
orders that you choose to place, you cannot opt out of receiving emails related to your orders.
External Use. We want to provide you with excellent service and to offer you a great selection - we primarily
sell merchandise, not information. We do not sell, rent, trade, license or otherwise disclose your specific personal
information or financial information to anyone, except that:
- As do most catalog and Internet retailers, we sometimes use others to perform specific functions on our
behalf. When we disclose information to these service providers, we disclose information to help them to
perform their service. For example, in order to deliver products to you, we must share some information.
We partner with third parties (such as the U.S. Postal Service, United Parcel Service, and Federal Express) to
ship products, to ensure delivery, and so that we can obtain feedback, improve the quality of our service, and
measure and improve the quality of the service of the third party. In the example of shippers, we provide them
some personally identifiable information such as your name, shipping address, email, and phone number.
- Similarly, to help you buy products and provide customer service to you, we must provide your credit card
number to financial-services corporations such as credit-card processors and issuers. When we submit your
credit card number for authorization, we use state-of-the-art data encryption to protect your information.
(More on this below in Data Security.)
- We may be required to disclose such information in response to requests from law-enforcement officials
conducting investigations; subpoenas; a court order; or if we are otherwise required to disclose such
information by law. We also will release personal information where disclosure is necessary to protect our
legal rights, enforce our Terms of Use or other agreements, or to protect ourselves or others. For example,
we may share information to reduce the risk of fraud or if someone uses or attempts to use our Site for
illegal reasons or to commit fraud.
- We will not sell (or trade or rent) personally identifiable information to other companies as part of
our regular course of business. However, it's possible that we might acquire or merge with or be acquired
by another company or that we might dispose of some or all of our assets. If that happens, your personal
information may be disclosed to another company, but that disclosure will be subject to the Privacy & Security Policy
in effect.
- We may share non-personal information (such as the number of daily visitors to a particular web page,
or the size of an order placed on a certain date) with third parties such as advertising partners. This
information does not directly personally identify you or any user.
- We publicly disclose the name, city, and state of the winner of our product giveaways.
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