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The Marzipan House Website Privacy Statement This document was last updated on 06/15/2008. 1. Acknowledgment and acceptance of terms This Website is owned and operated by The Marzipan House, 1301 Pine Ridge, Bushkill, PA, 18324. If you have any questions about this Privacy Statement, you can contact us by mail or by Email at : privacy@themarzipanhouse.com
The Marzipan House is firmly committed to protecting your privacy. We use the information we collect on our website to make shopping our website possible and to provide a pleasurable and efficient shopping experience. We will not sell, trade or lease your personal information to others.
We use a secure PayPal shopping cart, which links to the secure Paypal website and returns you to our website after your purchase is complete. This increases protection of the privacy of your financial information.
The Marzipan House is committed to protecting your privacy. This Privacy Statement sets forth our current privacy practices with regard to the information we collect when you or your computer interact with our website. By accessing The Marzipan House / themarzipanhouse.com, you acknowledge and fully understand The Marzipan House’s Privacy Statement and freely consent to the information collection and use practices described in this Website Privacy Statement.
2. Participating Merchant Policies Related services and offerings with links from this website, including vendor sites, have their own privacy statements that can be viewed by clicking on the corresponding links within each respective website. Online merchants and others who participate in The Marzipan House services are encouraged to participate in industry privacy initiatives and to take a responsible attitude towards consumer privacy. However, since we do not have direct control over the policies or practices of participating merchants and other third parties, we are not responsible for the privacy practices or contents of those sites. We recommend and encourage that you always review the privacy policies of merchants and other third parties before you provide any personal information or complete any transaction with such parties. 3. Information We Collect and How We Use It The Marzipan House collects certain information from and about its users three ways: directly from our Web Server logs, the user, and with Cookies. a. Web Server Logs. When you visit our Website, we may track information to administer the site and analyze its usage. Examples of information we may track include:
b. Use of Cookies The Marzipan House may use cookies to personalize or enhance your user experience. A cookie is a small text file that is placed on your hard disk by a Web page server. Cookies cannot be used 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. One of the primary purposes of cookies is to provide a convenience feature to save you time. For example, if you personalize a web page, or navigate within a site, a cookie helps the site to recall your specific information on subsequent visits. Hence, this simplifies the process of delivering relevant content and eases site navigation by providing and saving your preferences and login information as well as providing personalized functionality. The Marzipan House reserves the right to share aggregated site statistics with partner companies, but does not allow other companies to place cookies on our website unless there is a temporary, overriding customer value (such as merging into themarzipanhouse.com a site that relies on third-party cookies). 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 reject cookies by changing your browser settings then be aware that this may disable some of the functionality on our Website.
Visitors to our website can register to purchase services. When you register, we will request some personal information such as name, address, email, telephone number or facsimile number, account number and other relevant information. If you are purchasing a service, we will request financial information. Any financial information we collect is used only to bill you for the services you purchased. If you purchase by credit card, this information may be forwarded to your credit card provider. For other types of registrations, we will ask for the relevant information. You may also be asked to disclose personal information to us so that we can provide assistance and information to you. For example, such data may be warranted in order to provide online technical support and troubleshooting. We will not disclose personally identifiable information we collect from you to third parties without your permission except to the extent necessary including: § To fulfill your service requests for services. § To protect ourselves from liability, § To respond to legal process or comply with law, or § In connection with a merger, acquisition, or liquidation of the company. 4. Use of Web Beacons or GIF files The Marzipan House/ themarzipanhouse.com Web pages may contain electronic images known as Web beacons – sometimes also called single-pixel gifs – that allow The Marzipan House to count users who have visited those pages and to deliver co-branded services. The Marzipan House may include Web beacons in promotional e-mail messages or newsletters in order to determine whether messages have been opened and acted upon. Some of these Web beacons may be placed by third party service providers to help determine the effectiveness of our advertising campaigns or email communications. These Web beacons may be used by these service providers to place a persistent cookie on your computer. This allows the service provider to recognize your computer each time you visit certain pages or emails and compile anonymous information in relation to those page views, which in turn enables us and our service providers to learn which advertisements and emails bring you to our website and how you use the site. The Marzipan House prohibits Web beacons from being used to collect or access your personal information. 5. Accessing Web Account Information We will provide you with the means to ensure that personally identifiable information in your web account file is correct and current. You may review this information by contacting us by sending an email to our support attendant : privacy@themarzipanhouse.com 6. Changes to this Statement The Marzipan House has the discretion to occasionally update this privacy statement. When we do, we will also revise the “updated” date at the top of this Privacy page. We encourage you to periodically review this privacy statement to stay informed about how we are helping to protect the personal information we collect. Your continued use of the service constitutes your agreement to this privacy statement and any updates. 7. Contacting Us If you have questions regarding our Privacy Statement, its implementation, failure to adhere to this Privacy Statement and/or our general practices, please contact us. privacy@themarzipanhouse.com or send your comments to : The Marzipan House Attention: Privacy Statement Personnel 1301 Pine Ridge Bushkill, PA, 18324 The Marzipan House will use commercially reasonable efforts to promptly respond and resolve any problem or question. © 2008 The Marzipan House™
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