This privacy statement discloses the privacy and security
practices for the Gourmet Food Mall website.
Questions regarding this statement should be directed to:
Gourmet Food Mall is located in Pompano Beach, Florida:
GourmetFoodMall.com, Inc.
1180 SW 36th Ave, Suite 207
Pompano Beach, Florida 33069-4837
Ph. (954) 978-3311
Fax (954) 978-3355
Contact us by web
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Information Collection and Use
Gourmet Food Mall, the owner and operator of
Gourmet Food Mall is the sole owner of the information collected on this
site. We will not sell, share, or rent this information to others in ways
different from what is disclosed in this statement. Gourmet Food Mall, home of
great gourmet food, gift baskets, specialty food, and gourmet products, collects
information from our users at several different points on our website.
Information is collected when you:
- Register
- Place an order
- Make changes or additions to your account settings
- Use our Shopping Services
- Enter site contests, such as sweepstakes
- Participate in a site survey
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Use our customer service and feedback links to communicate with us
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Registration
To make a purchase, you must first register with us. When filling out our
registration form you are required to give your contact information (such as name,
street address, and email address). Your registration information becomes part
of your personal account, which you can access by selecting the
My Account tab
on the top navigation bar of our site.
During registration, you are given the opportunity to receive information and
offers from Gourmet Food Mall, home of great gourmet food, gift baskets, specialty food, and gourmet products. Selecting to receive offers from Gourmet Food Mall, home of
great gourmet food, gift baskets, specialty food, and gourmet products, lets
us know that you would like to occasionally receive email updates about new features
on our site and special offers we think will interest you.
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Placing an Order
We request information from you in our checkout area when you place
orders with any of the vendors on our site. During checkout you must
provide your credit card number and shipping address information.
Please note that Gourmet Food Mall, home of
great gourmet food, gift baskets, specialty food, and gourmet products, does
not store your credit card information. After the checkout process is
complete, your purchase information is securely forwarded to the vendor
you have made the purchase with. They will use this information so they can
fulfill your order and contact you if they have questions regarding your
order. We do not forward your My Account privacy settings or any other
personal information to the vendor.
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My Account
The personal information you enter during registration and/or
during checkout are stored in your personal account area, also known
as My Account. You can access My Account to add or change information,
including changing your privacy settings, by entering the email address
you used when you registered and the password you created. You also
have the ability to add new billing or shipping information to My
Account when placing an order. If you decide to change your privacy
options later, you can do so by changing them not only in My Account but
also by emailing us, phoning us, or writing us, using the contact
information provided above.
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Address Book
Your Address Book is the area in My Account where the billing
address you enter during registration is stored. After registration,
you also have the option to change billing and shipping addresses. You
can do this by going directly to My Account, or by entering a new
shipping address when placing an order. Shipping addresses are used
solely for the purpose of fulfilling your orders, and will not be
used for any marketing purposes by Gourmet Food Mall, home of great gourmet food, gift baskets, specialty food, and gourmet products.
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Shopping/Gift Services
Gourmet Food Mall, home of great gourmet food, gift baskets, specialty food, and gourmet products, provides you with a number of Shopping and
Gift services. Some of these require personal information in order
to carry out the given task. These services
only require the minimal amount of information necessary to carry out
the task at hand and nothing more. Although we do store this
information in our database for tracking purposes, we make no other use
of it beyond which it was intended.
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Contests
In order to participate in Gourmet Food Mall, home of great gourmet food,
gift baskets, specialty food, and gourmet products, sponsored contests or
sweepstakes you will be required to provide us some information.
Participation in these contests is completely voluntary and you have a
choice whether or not to disclose this information. You also have the option
not to have the information you give us distributed to other third parties
not specifically involved with the promotion. Information requested may
include contact information (such as name, email address and shipping
address), and demographic information (such as zip code, age level). Contact
information will be used to notify the winners and award prizes. A third
party may manage contests and this third party is not allowed to use the
information you supply us for any other purpose except to manage the
contest. Prizes are provided directly from Gourmet Food Mall, home of great
gourmet food, gift baskets, specialty food, and gourmet products, unless the
contest is being sponsored by a vendor or other specified third party. In
this case, the prize will be awarded by the vendor or third party and the
information you provide will be shared with them.
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Surveys
From time to time our site requests information from you via
surveys. Participation in a survey is completely voluntary and you
have a choice whether or not to disclose this information. Information
requested may include contact information (such as name and email
address), and demographic information (such as zip code, age level).
Survey information will be used for purposes of monitoring or
improving the use and customer satisfaction of our site.
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Customer Service / Feedback Links
Gourmet Food Mall, home of great gourmet food, gift baskets, specialty food, and gourmet products, uses an email link located in several
areas on our site to allow you to contact us directly with any
questions or comments you may have. We read every message and
do our best to reply within 24 hours. The information you
provide in these emails is used to respond directly to your
questions or comments you may have.
Our "contact us" link also allows you to give us feedback about
our site and make suggestions on what we can do to improve it.
We read every message sent in. We may file your comments to
improve the site, or review and discard the information. We do
not use the email address you supply us for any marketing purposes.
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Sharing
If you have agreed to receive specific offers from our
vendors, we will provide them your contact information when
we forward your order or information request to them. They will
then include you on their mailing list.
If you have agreed to receive offers from third-party marketing
partners or respond to a specific marketing partner request, the
personal information from our records will not be shared, only the
information that you choose to provide the third-party will be
shared. This information may be combined may be used by them to bring
you offers of interest. If you prefer that your name and address
not be shared with these third parties, do not select these options
when you respond to a third party request.
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Postal Address Info
If you have agreed to receive offers from Gourmet Food Mall, home of great gourmet food, gift baskets, specialty food, and gourmet products,
on topics or categories of interest, we will not provide your
name, postal address, or your email address to any company whose
products you may find of interest. From time to time you may
receive direct mail from Gourmet Food Mall, home of great gourmet food, gift baskets, specialty food, and gourmet products,
vendors or marketing
partners for products or services that may be of interest to you
based on your My Account settings. These companies will contract
with Gourmet Food Mall, home of great gourmet food, gift baskets, specialty food, and gourmet products, for us to send these solicitations to you.
If you respond directly to a vendor or marketing partner then
only that company may collect the information that you provide
directly.
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Opt Out
Gourmet Food Mall, home of great gourmet food, gift baskets, specialty food, and gourmet products, gives you the option to opt out from
receiving offers from us and/or the vendors that you've made
purchases from on our site. You can opt out by de-selecting
"Yes, send me offers from Gourmet Food Mall" and "Yes, send me
offers from vendors that interest me." You can do this during
the registration process or by going to the privacy settings in
your account area (My Account) after you've registered. You can
also opt out by e-mailing us, phoning us or writing us, using the
contact information provided above. Additionally, if you have
previously agreed to receive offers from our vendors and
marketing partners, and would like to discontinue receiving these
offers, you can do so by following the simple opt out procedures
they provide in the email or contacting them directly.
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Security
Our website takes every precaution to protect your
information. When you submit sensitive information, that
information is protected both online and offline. Website
security is reviewed regularly to ensure we are up to date
with industry standards and technology.
Whether you're requesting information or making a
purchase, we want you to feel safe and secure while
visiting Gourmet Food Mall, home of great gourmet food, gift baskets, specialty food, and gourmet products,. You can feel confident making
purchases from Gourmet Food Mall, home of great gourmet food, gift baskets, specialty food, and gourmet products,
vendors. To ensure that
your credit card information is even more secure, we use
our secure transmission (SSL) when you give us your credit
card information. We encrypt all credit card information
and do not store it on any Gourmet Food Mall, home of great gourmet food, gift baskets, specialty food, and gourmet products,.
Internally, Gourmet Food Mall, home of great gourmet food, gift baskets, specialty food, and gourmet products, takes extra caution to limit
access to customers' information. Only a few individuals
within the company are given degrees of access to customers'
personal information according to job function and necessity.
Access is granted to these employees through special
passwords. All employees are kept up to date on our security
and privacy practices.
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Cookies
Gourmet Food Mall, home of great gourmet food, gift baskets, specialty food, and gourmet products, may set and access cookies on your computer. Cookies
allow you to take full advantage of Gourmet Food Mall's many features. Cookies
allow us to customize the advertising and content you see, to fulfill your
requests for certain products and services, and to only contact you about
specials and new products in categories that you are interested in. We keep
track of your Gourmet Food Mall ID and your name in the cookies we set on your
browser. If you set your browser to reject cookies, usage of our site will
be limited. For example, you will not be able to see "My Favorite Stores" in
My Account, address book and your shopping cart without having to log in each
time you visit Gourmet Food Mall, home of great gourmet food, gift baskets, specialty food, and gourmet products,. These cookie-based settings also allow us to
welcome you back by name each time you return.
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Third Party Advertising
Some of our advertising may be served by third party advertising
companies that deliver a cookie to you so the ads you see can be
tracked and ensures that you are not shown the same ad too many times.
Since the third party advertising company only tags your computer with
a number, they have no personal information about you. However, these
companies may use non-personally identifiable information about your
visits to Gourmet Food Mall, home of great gourmet food, gift baskets, specialty food, and gourmet products, and other sites in order to provide
advertisements on our sites and other sites about goods and services
of interest to you.
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Log Files
Gourmet Food Mall, home of great gourmet food, gift baskets, specialty food, and gourmet products, uses our Web server log files to help track the
performance of our site. We do not tie the IP addresses within the log
files to your personally identifiable information.
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Legal Disclaimer
We may disclose personal information when required by law or in
the good-faith belief that such action is necessary in order to conform
to the edicts of the law or comply with a legal process served on our
website.
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Notification of Changes
If we decide to change our privacy policy, we will post those
changes on our Privacy Policy page so you are aware of what information
we collect, how we use it, and under what circumstances, if any, we
disclose it. If at any point Gourmet Food Mall, home of great gourmet food, gift baskets, specialty food, and gourmet products, decides to use personally
identifiable information in a manner different from that stated at the
time it was collected, we would take commercially reasonable measures
to obtain email consent from you. You will have a choice as to whether
or not we use your information in this different manner. We will still
use information in accordance with the privacy policy under which the
information was collected.
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