Privacy Statement
General Information
You can place an order without an account however. We encourage you to register with us as it provides you with the following benefits.
Makes ordering easy by removing the need to type in your shipping information.
Allows you to keep a personal address book to make sending gifts to your family friends and business associates easy.
Provides you with e-mail updates on special events and sales.Allows you to receive full benefit of any new features we may add.We have taken the following steps to make sure your information is secure
• Our database is not accessible to the public. • No personal financial information is stored in our database. • All information for orders is transferred in an encrypted format • We use a 128bit SSL Certificate which is industry standard. • 128-bit encryption is 309,485,009,821,345,068,724,781,056 stronger than 40-bit encryption. • We will never rent, sell or give out your e-mail address, or other personal information in ways other than disclosed in this privacy statement. Orders and Registration. If you buy a product or service from us, we ask certain personally identifiable information from you on our order form. You must provide contact information such as name, e-mail and shipping address and credit card number, billing address and expiration date. We use this information for billing purposes and to fill your orders. If we have trouble processing an order, we will use this information to contact you. Please note as stated under NO circumstances is your credit card information stored. When you shop with us the following information is stored in your record of purchase. Name Address E-mail address If you buy a product or service from us and ask us to send it to someone else we need all of the information above as well as the following additional information
• Receiver’s name • Receiver’s address Please note this additional information is not used for any other purpose than to deliver the product or service you purchased from us. Should you choose to create an account the following information is stored. Name Address E-mail address Additionally you will be asked if you would like to opt in to receive our newsletter. The choice is up to you. What you will receive from us You may receive an e-mail with a special offer coupon or an invitation to a private sale. Subscribers to our newsletter will receive a newsletter as well. Tell-A-Friend If you choose to use our referral service to tell a friend about our site, we will ask for your friend’s name and e-mail address. We will automatically send your friend a onetime e-mail inviting him or her to visit the site. TastesoftheWorld does not store this information. Information Sharing and Disclosure Here at Tastes Of The World individual privacy is a top priority your information is just that yours! Your information will never be sold or shared to any third party in ways other than listed in this privacy statement. We will not combine Aggregate information (non-personally identifiable information) with personally identifiable information Agents We use an outside shipping company to ship orders, a credit card processing company to bill you for goods and services and a web hosting company to host our website. These companies do not save, share, store or use personally identifiable information for any other purpose. Legal Disclaimer We reserve the right to disclose your personally identifiable information as required by law when such disclosure is considered necessary to protect our rights to comply with a judicial proceeding, court order, or legal process served on our Web site. Choice/Opt-out Here at Tastes Of TheWorld we have an “Opt-out” policy for our newsletter and an “Opt-out” policy for special offers. When you create an account should you wish you can sign up for our newsletter. Our newsletter will not be sent to you unless you sign up. You are however, included in special offers. Should you wish not to receive special offers please send an e-mail to privacy@tastesoftheworld.net.
The only other type of communication you would receive from us is regarding an order you have placed. This would be pertaining to the following.
• Acknowledgement of order received from you • Update on your order when processing or shipped • Question or concern regarding your order. Log Files As is true of most websites we gather certain information automatically and store it in log files. This information includes internet protocol (IP) addresses, browser type, referring/exit pages, operating system, and date/time stamp.
We use this information, which does not identify individual users, to analyze trends and administer the site. This information is not linked to personally identifiable information. Cookies A cookie is a small text file that is stored on a user’s computer for record-keeping purposes. We use session ID cookies for the shopping cart only. Session ID cookies expire when you close your browser.
Please note that some of our business partners (e.g., advertisers, statistic tracking utilities, etc.) use cookies on our site. We have no access to or control over these cookies.
Additionally this privacy statement covers the use of cookies by www.TastesoftheWorld.net (this site) only and does not cover the use of cookies by any advertisers.
Should you choose to create an account a persistent cookie will be created for account login purposes and to help personalize your experience. You can remove persistent cookies by following directions provided in your Internet browser’s “help” file. Cookies are not tied to personally identifiable information.
Access to Personally Identifiable Information
If you personally identifiable information changes, or if you no longer desire our service, you may.
Login to your account and update the information Contact customer service by sending an e-mail to customerservice@tastesoftheworld.net Discussion Board There are many forums and you are welcome to take part in them. Please understand that giving your e-mail address is voluntary and not needed for submitting posts. Should you give your e-mail address it is at your own risk. You can post with an alias which you give yourself. This is perfectly acceptable. Changes in this Privacy Statement If we decide to change our privacy policy, we will post those changes to this privacy statement, the homepage, and other places we deem appropriate so that you are aware of what information we collect, how we use it, and under what circumstances, if any, we disclose it.
We reserve the right to modify this privacy statement at any time, so please review it frequently. If we make material changes to this policy, we will notify you here, by e-mail, or by means of a notice on our home page.
Please note this Privacy Policy is in effect as of 05/30/2007
If you have any questions or comments please send an e-mail to privacy@tastesoftheworld.net or contact us at
Tastes of the World
106 Minuteman Circle
Allentown NJ 08501 | 
