Aphrodite's
Oysters Privacy Policy
OUR COMMITMENT TO
PRIVACY
Our Privacy
Policy has been developed as an extension of our commitment to combine quality
products and services with highest integrity in dealing with our users. The
Policy is designed to assist you in the understanding of how we collect, use
and protect the personal information you provide us.
THE INFORMATION WE
COLLECT
When you
visit our site (“Site”), we collect two types of information: personal
information you actively choose to disclose (“Active Information”), and information
not readily visible to you that arises out of your browsing of our Site
(“Passive Information”). Please note that Passive Information is collected on
an aggregate and anonymous basis.
1. Personally
Identifiable Information
Personally
Identifiable Information (or “PII”) is information that identifies and is
reasonably linked to you.
A. Registration
When you register to become an authorized reseller of our products
or services, we will collect PII (such as name, address, email address, and
telephone number). This PII is securely stored and may be accessed on our
website. You are assigned an identification number and select your own password
– both are needed to enter the Site and to access your Contact Information. Please
safeguard your password in a secure location as we are not responsible for
breaches into the system when access is willingly provided.
B. Ordering
When you
place an order for products or services, we collect PII (such as name, contact
and billing information, credit card, and other transactional information). We
use this information to deliver your order, process payment, and to communicate
the status of your order.
C. Credit and Debit Card
Storage
Credit and
debit card information collected at registration or for product orders is used
only to process payment for the transaction and, generally, is not retained on
our Site. However, you may voluntarily elect to securely store multiple credit
cards to be used for product orders.
D. Surveys and
Promotions
Occasionally,
you may voluntarily provide PII to complete surveys and questionnaires or to
participate in user polls. We use this information to improve our products and
services and to ensure that we’re providing accurate disclosures. We may also
use your PII to provide you newsletters and other marketing information that
coincide with your preferences. You may customize your marketing preferences,
or let us know if you do not wish to receive any promotional materials, by
adjusting your Subscriptions & Email options on the Site.
Active Information You
Choose to Provide
To gain use
of the Site and become a “user,” we require you to disclose the following
information: Name, Address and Phone Number
We use
secure socket layer (SSL) encryption to protect the transmission of the
information you submit to us when you use our secure online forms. The
information you provide to us is stored securely.
2. Passive Information
We store and collect
various types of Passive Information on an aggregate and anonymous basis. This
information may include such technical information as it pertains to your
Internet protocol address, your device operating system and browser type,
cookies, and an address of a referring website or any other path you take to
reach our website all described in greater detail below.
Aggregate Information
This refers
to information that does not, by itself, identify you as a specific individual.
Such information would include the Uniform Resource Locator (“URL”) of the
website that referred you to our Site, your Internet Protocol (“IP”) address (a
number automatically assigned to your computer whenever you surf the web), your
operating system and browser type, and any search terms that you enter on our
Site. Our web server aggregates this information in order to monitor the level
of activity on our Site, evaluate its effectiveness, and improve the content or
our Site in order to make your visit an easy and enjoyable experience.
We may
collect, compile, store, publish, promote, report, or otherwise disclose or use
any Aggregate Information, provided that such information does not personally
identify you. We do not correlate any PII with the Aggregate Information that
we collect on our Site. If we do correlate any Aggregate Information to you, it
will be protected like any other PII under this Privacy Statement.
What is a Cookie?
Cookies are
a feature of web browser software that allows web servers to recognize the
computer used to access a site. They are small pieces of data stored by a
user’s browser to simplify subsequent interactions with the site. This makes it
easier for a user to move from site to site and to complete transactions over
the Internet. Cookies should make your online experience easier and more
personalized.
Our Site
utilizes cookies to collect information about how our Site is used. Passive
Information gathered may include the date and time of visits, the site pages
viewed, time spent at our Site, the sites visited just before and just after visiting
our Site. If you do not wish to transmit “cookie” information about yourself,
you may turn off the cookie function in your web browser.
Our Site’s
servers also automatically identify your computer by its Internet Protocol
address, which is a unique string of numbers that are assigned to your computer
by your Internet Service Provider. The IP address may be used to address
problems with our server or to gather broad demographic information about our
users. We passively collect your IP Address.
HOW WE USE THE
INFORMATION COLLECTED
Broadly
speaking, persons we employ directly, or as contractors or agents at our
direction, use Active Information for purposes of administering our core business
functions, such as the fulfillment of orders or services, the furnishing of customer
care and support, and supplying the availability of other products or services
we think might be of interest to our users.
We use
Passive Information to gather information about our users and to enhance our Site
to make it easier, faster and friendlier for users. Additionally, cookies help
us better understand the usage pattern of the people that visit our Site, which
helps us improve our services. Passive Information may result in your viewing
of particular advertising based on your user habits.
We reserve
the right to use Active and Passive Information in order to prevent, detect and
investigate fraud, security breaches, or any other potentially prohibited or
illegal activity.
We may use any
Active Information or Passive Information provided to contact you about various
changes to our Site, new services, features or products we offer. If at any
time you do not wish to receive such information, you may “opt-out” of doing so
by adjusting your email settings in the back office of the website.
Your Information Relating
to Hyperlinks
You might be
able to access other websites through our Site via hyperlinks. When you do so,
you are subjecting yourself to their privacy policies and data collection. Please
read the privacy policies of those sites to ensure you agree with the terms before
using such sites.
Receiving and Sharing of
Information from and with Third Parties
We reserve
the right to receive information about you from other third party sources, that
help us update, expand and analyze our records and identify new customers.
Furthermore,
we may share Personal Information necessary to the prevention of fraud, illegal
activities, and security breaches. Because of this, it’s possible some of your
personal information may be shared with fraud prevention agencies. If false or
inaccurate information is provided and fraud is identified, details of this
fraud may be passed on to these agencies. Likewise, law enforcement and
governmental agencies may access and use certain information pursuant to any
law, regulation, or subpoena. This applies to information as it relates to both
open and closed accounts.
Additionally,
third parties who perform services for us as it relates to security, payment,
etc. (such as Internet Service Providers, credit card processors, and merchant
banks) may also have access to your information in the performance of such necessary
services.
Finally, we
may disclose anonymous information about user habits to third party advertisers
on our Site. Should we buy or sell assets of our company, another company may
need to review our company’s assets, which might include your information, to
make business decisions as to whether to acquire such assets.
HOW WE SECURE ACTIVE
AND PASSIVE INFORMATION
We secure
your personal information submitted by you by using reasonable efforts to
prevent unauthorized access or disclosure, or accidental loss of Active and
Passive Information. Individual postings on this Site and other communications
to our office via email or standard mail may not be secure unless we advise you
that security measures are in place prior to your submission of information.
Therefore, if you choose to communicate with us through these means, you are
assuming the risk of doing so and we respectfully request that you do not send
or post sensitive information through these means.
Accessing and
Correcting Your Information
We take
reasonable measures to ensure that any PII we collect on our Site is accurate,
current, complete, and reliable for its intended use. If you wish to update or
otherwise correct PII provided to us, you may edit your information online.
Protecting Your
Information
We
acknowledge your trust and are committed to take reasonable steps to protect PII
provided from loss, misuse, and unauthorized access. We employ physical,
electronic, and managerial processes to safeguard and secure your information.
It is your
responsibility to safeguard the password you use to access our Site and to
promptly advise us if you ever suspect that your password has been compromised.
We strongly encourage you to change your password regularly to prevent
unauthorized access. Because your identification number and password are
specific to you, you acknowledge sole responsibility for any and all use of our
Site conducted with your identification number and password.
Links to Other
Websites
Links to
third-party websites may be provided solely for your information and convenience
or to provide additional shopping for various other goods and services through
our Merchant and Services Partners. If you use these links, you will leave our
Site. This Privacy Statement does not cover the information practices of those
websites nor do we control their content or privacy policies. We suggest that
you carefully review the privacy policies of each site you visit.
Children’s Privacy
Protection
We take
special care to protect the privacy needs of children and encourage parents to
be an active participant in their child’s online activities. Our Site does not
target and is not intended for children under the age of 18, and we will not
knowingly collect PII from them. If we discover personal data from a child
through our Site, we will eliminate that data. You may learn more about
protecting children’s privacy online by visiting: http://www.ftc.gov/bcp/edu/pubs/consumer/tech/tec08.shtm.
CHANGES TO THIS POLICY
Any updates
or changes to the terms of this Privacy Policy will be posted on our Site and
the date of the newest version posted below. Please check back frequently,
especially before you submit any PII at our Site, to see if this Privacy
Statement has changed. By using our Site, you acknowledge acceptance of this
Privacy Statement in effect at the time of use.
YOU’RE USE OF OUR SITE MEANS THAT YOU
ACCEPT THE PRACTICES SET FORTH IN THIS POLICY. YOU’RE CONTINUED USE INDICATES
YOUR AGREEMENT TO THE CHANGES.