Policy Statement
At Hand Picked Tomatoes, we are strongly committed to protecting your privacy. We know that you provide us with personal information so that we can answer your inquiries and we want you to understand how we handle that information. We do not ask you for or collect your social security number or any personal financial information such as bank account or credit card numbers. On this site, the only information you may provide to us is your name, address, email address, and telephone numbers (your “Contact Information”) so that we can respond to any inquiry you make using our “Contact Us” form.
Hand Picked Tomatoes does not share, lease or sell, and will not willfully disclose, the Information your provide to us in the “Contact Us” form with or to any unaffiliated third parties unless authorized by you or required by law or court order. “Affiliated” parties are companies under common control with Hand Picked Tomatoes, such as parent corporations or subsidiaries.
Hand Picked Tomatoes collects and maintains this Information on secure systems, another important aspect of protecting your privacy. This privacy policy applies only to Hand Picked Tomatoes.com, so if you follow a link on Hand Picked Tomatoes.com to other Web sites, please consult the policies posted on those sites.
Please read this Privacy Policy carefully. If you have any questions or concerns about the policy, please contact me here.
Who we are
Hand Picked Tomatoes is maintained in a hovel in Irvine, CA
949.466.4956 (voice)
Hand Picked Tomatoes is the personal web site of Stephen P. Kane. Please see my About Tomatoes page for further information about Hand Picked Tomatoes.
Information We May Obtain
Your Contact Information. The Hand Picked Tomatoes.com Web site is an informational, not a transactional, Web site. Therefore, the only personal information we may receive from you is that which you may provide in the “Contact Me ” form.
Technical information: cookies and Web logs. This information is not personally identifiable. When you visit a Hand Picked Tomatoes site, our Web server sends “cookies”, small data files, to your computer. Cookies help us to identify you while you are on our Web site so that you do not need to enter information repeatedly. Your browser software may be set to refuse cookies, but if it does so, you will be unable to enroll in a Hand Picked Tomatoes Program. A cookie accepted by your computer does not store or reveal any personally identifiable information such as your name, address, telephone number or email address. The cookie stores limited information about your site visit, including such things as which pages and how many times you visit. We may also use cookies or small pieces of software code known as “Web beacons” to count, on a purely anonymous basis, the number of users that have visited our pages. Web beacons also do not store or transmit personally identifiable information. Log files on our Web servers, known as “Web logs”, store non-personally identifiable information that is automatically gathered from computers that visit our site such as internet protocol address (your computer’s internet address), operating system, internet service provider, browser type, date/time stamp, and clickstream data.
Collection of Information from Children.
None of Hand Picked Tomatoes’s products or services are intended to be used by children. Therefore, Hand Picked Tomatoes does not knowingly collect or use any information in any manner from children under the age of 13.
How Your Information is Used
Hand Picked Tomatoes uses your Contact Information only to respond to your inquiry. Hand Picked Tomatoes does not share this information with any unaffiliated third party.
Use of Technical Information
Hand Picked Tomatoes uses technical information gathered by cookies, Web logs and beacons to send email confirmations, monitor and improve your navigation of our site, customize information you receive, administer, analyze and improve our Web offerings and their effectiveness, analyze trends, and gather demographic information about our user base. The information gathered by cookies and Web logs to analyze and improve our site does not identify you individually, nor do Web beacons collect personally identifiable information.
Protection of Hand Picked Tomatoes and Others
Hand Picked Tomatoes may disclose information we gather about you in order to comply with applicable laws, rules and regulations, to comply with court orders or other legal requests from government authorities, or in the course of a legal proceeding. We may also share this information with such parties as are necessary to enforce or defend our legal rights or the rights of consumers, agents or non-profits and to protect against fraud or deception.
If you provide us with an email address, we will use it to send you automated confirmations and to communicate with you. You may opt out of receiving further email from us at any time by customer care representative.
Links to Other Sites
This Hand Picked Tomatoes.com may contain links to other sites. Hand Picked Tomatoes is not responsible for the privacy practices or the content of other Web sites. Please see the Privacy pages posted on those sites for information on the applicable policies.
Security
As part of protecting your privacy, Hand Picked Tomatoes is committed to protecting the information under our control against loss, alteration or unauthorized intrusion and access. We have state-of-the-art, industry-recognized security measures in place to do just that.
Changing Your Information
If you wish to change any information you have submitted to Hand Picked Tomatoes, please call our Customer Care department at (949) 466-4956 or email us.
Changes to this Statement
In the event Hand Picked Tomatoes makes a material change to this Statement or in the manner in which we collect and use your personally identifiable information, we will notify you with an email and/or a posting on our Web site at least 30 days before implementation of those changes. Your choices with respect to opting out of the use of your information at that time will be determined by applicable laws.
Acceptance of this Privacy Policy
By using this site, you agree to and authorize the collection and use of information as described in this Privacy Policy. If you do not agree to the terms of this policy, please do not continue to use this site. If we post changes to this Privacy Policy and you continue to use this site, you agree to the terms of the amended Policy.
Inquiries
If you have any questions about this privacy policy,
please call our Customer Care department at (949) 466-4956
or email us.
