Our Committment to Privacy
This privacy statement discloses the privacy practices for 3 Little Chefs. Your privacy is important to us. To better protect your privacy we provide this notice explaining our online information practices and the choices you can make about the way your information is collected and used. To make this notice easy to find, we make it available on our home page and at every point where personally identifiable information may be requested. 3 Little Chefs respects your privacy. Our purpose in collecting information from you is to help us provide you with better service.
Information Collection and Use
3 Little Chefs 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. 3 Little Chefs collects information from our users at several different points on our web site.
Log Files and IP Address
We use your IP address to help diagnose problems with our server, and to administer our Web site. Your IP address is used to help identify you and to gather broad demographic information. We also use IP addresses from log files to analyze trends, administer the site, track user's movement, and gather broad demographic information for aggregate use. We use non-identifying and aggregate information to better design our website and to share with advertisers. For example, we may tell an advertiser that X number of individuals visited a certain area on our website, but we cannot and would not disclose anything that could be used to identify those individuals.
Cookies
Our site uses cookies to keep track of your shopping cart. We use cookies to identify you so we can retrieve your information so you don't have to re-enter it each time you visit our site. Some of our business partners may use cookies on our site (for example, advertisers). However, we have no access to or control over these cookies.
Registration Form
Our site's registration form requires users to give us contact information, like their name and email address, and unique identifiers. We use customer contact information from the registration form to send the user information about our company and to send and goods you have ordered. The customer's contact information and email address is also used to contact the visitor when necessary if they have subscribed to the mail list. Users may opt-out of receiving future mailings by choosing to un-subscribe. Unique identifiers are collected to verify the user's identity and for use in our record system.
Orders
Our site uses an order form. We collect vistitor's contact information (like name, email and billing address), financial information (like credit card number, expiration date), and unique identifiers. This information is used for billing purposes and to fill customer's orders. If we have trouble processing an order, the contact information is used to get in touch with the customer. Unique identifiers are collected from Web site visitors to verify the user's identity and for use as account numbers in our record system.
Email
We use the return name and email addresses to answer the email we receive, to send order confirmations and electronic receipts, and to send information on special offers or discounts. Such addresses and names are not used for any other purpose and are not shared with outside parties.
Tell-A-Friend
If a user elects to use our referral service for informing a friend about our site or product, we ask them for the friend's name and email address. 3 Little Chefs will automatically send the friend a one-time email inviting them to visit our site. 3 Little Chefs stores this information for the sole purpose of sending this one-time email. The friend may contact 3 Little Chefs to request the removal of this information from our database.
Links to Other Web Sites
This web site may contain links to other sites. Please be aware that we are not responsible for the content or privacy practices of such other sites. We encourage our users to be aware when they leave our site and to read the privacy statements of any other site that collects personally identifiable information.
Sharing and Disclosing Information
We may share aggregated demographic information with our partners and advertisers. This is not linked to any personal information that can identify any individual person.
We use several credit card processing companies to bill users for goods and services. These companies do not retain, share, store or use personally identifiable information for any secondary purposes.
We will disclose personal information if required by law enforcement officials, subpoena or other court order.
Our Committment to Data Security
This site has security measures in place to protect the loss, misuse and alteration of the information under our control. All data is protected using the most advanced methods available. We do not store financial information like credit card numbers or personal information like social security numbers on this site. Our payment processors use secure, 128-bit SSL encryption whenever credit card information is collected.
Our Commitment To Children's Privacy
Protecting the privacy of the very young is especially important to us. For that reason, we never collect or maintain information at our website from those we actually know are under 13.
Notification of Changes
If we decide to change our privacy policy, we will post those changes on our Home page so our users are always aware of what information we collect, how we use it, and under circumstances, if any, we disclose it. If at any point we decide to use personally identifiable information in a manner different from that stated at the time it was collected, we will notify users by way of an email. Users will have a choice as to whether or not we use their information in this different manner. We will use information in accordance with the privacy policy under which the information was collected.
How You Can Access or Correct Your Information
Un-Subscribe from E-mail List
This site gives users the following options for removing their information from our database to not receive future communications or to no longer receive e-mail list messages.
Correct/Update
This site gives users the following options for changing and modifying information previously provided.
How To Contact Us
If you feel we are not abiding by this policy or should you have other questions or concerns about this privacy policy or our other policies, please call us immediately at 336-287-4191or Cell-336-287-4143, send us an email to privacy (AT) 3 Little Chefs DOT com or write to us at 150 Petree Rd., Winston-Salem, North Carolina 27106.
