Jewish Celiacs Newsletter Privacy Policy

Jewish Celiacs Newsletter respects your privacy.

This is a statement of our privacy policy, which discloses our information practices. It describes:

• What personally identifiable information of yours (information from which someone may personally identify you) is collected from you through this Web Site


• What personally identifiable information of a third party (such as your Internet Service Provider) is collected from you through this Web Site


• The organization, or company, that is collecting the information


• How the information is used


• With whom the information may be shared


• What choices you have regarding collection, use and distribution of the information


• The kind of security procedures that are in place to protect the loss, misuse or alteration of information under our control


• How you can correct any inaccuracies in the information

If you believe that we are not abiding by our posted privacy policy, you should contact us by e-mailing your concern to .

Information Collection

Jewish Celiacs Newsletter collects information from our users in several areas of this Web Site as described in this privacy policy.

Registration

This Web Site will include a registration form for you to provide information to us though at this time it is only getting information from our e-mail page form. You will be required (for registration) to give us information so that we will be able to contact you (such as your name and e-mail address). We will use this information to contact you about the services on our site for which you will have expressed an interest. In order to provide you with a more personalized experience on our site, we will give you an opportunity to provide demographic information (such as income level and gender) and unique information that will identify you (such as your social security, or credit card number in the case of an online purchase).

Newsletter

If you wish to subscribe to our e-zine newsletter, we will ask for contact information such as your name and e-mail address.

Order Forms

We will request information from you on our order form. You must provide contact information (such as name and shipping address) and financial information (such as credit card number and expiration date). This information will be used to fill your orders and for billing purposes. If we will have trouble processing your order, we will use this contact information to get in touch with you.

Surveys & Contests

From time to time our site may request information from you to conduct surveys or contests. Participation in these surveys, or contests will be completely voluntary. Therefore, you will have a choice whether or not to disclose the information. This information may include contact information (such as name and address) and demographic information (such as age, or zip code). Unless otherwise stated near the information form, we will use survey information to monitor, or improve our site and contest information to notify the winners and award prizes.

Tell a Friend

If you elect to use our referral service to inform a friend about our site, we will ask your friend for his, or her name and e-mail address. We will automatically send the friend a one-time e-mail inviting him, or her to visit our site. We will store this information for the sole purpose of sending this one-time e-mail. The friend may contact us at to request removal of this information from our database.

Cookies

A cookie is a message that the server for this Web site will give to your Web browser. Your browser will store the message in a file called cookie.txt. Each time the browser requests a page from the server, a message will be sent back to the server. Purposes for cookies include identifying users and preparing customized Web pages for them. When you fill out a form on our site, this information could be packaged into a cookie and sent to your browser (though at present it is not done).  It will be, or may be stored for later use. The next time you visit our site, your browser will send the cookie to the server, which can use the information to present you with a more personalized experience. For instance, the site may greet you by your name or remember your username when you begin to fill out a form.

If you reject the cookie, you may still use our site; however, you may only receive limited information in some areas of the site.

Some of our business partners, such as advertisers, use cookies, but not on our site. We have no access to these cookies, on their site, or control over them.

Log Files

We may use Internet Protocol (IP) addresses to analyze trends, administer the site, track a user’s movement and gather broad demographic information for aggregate use.  “Aggregate use” means that information from all users is collected and gathered into a whole unit so that information as a whole can be used. We do not link IP addresses to personally identifiable information.

Special Offers

When you will complete our registration form, we will send you a welcoming e-mail to verify your password and username. You may occasionally receive information on products, services and special deals. We will offer you the option to discontinue receiving these communications by “opting out” of receiving promotional offers and material.

Site and Service Updates

We will try to send you update announcements that contain important information about our site and services. If you will register on our site, you may not discontinue receiving these announcements unless you choose to delete your registration information and discontinue using our site. We will communicate with you regarding your account through e-mail, or the telephone if you so choose.

Supplemental Information

In order for us to tailor our site to your individual tastes and preferences, we will combine information about the interests and purchasing habits of users with similar information from our partners to create a personalized user profile. Our partners names addresses and other contact information will be made available on this Web site in the near future. When you will make a purchase from any of them, the company will collect and share that purchase information with us so that we will be able to tailor our site to your preferences.

Information Use

Jewish Celiacs Newsletter is the sole owner of the information collected on this site. We will not share, sell or rent this information to others in any way other than as disclosed in this policy, or stated at the point where the information is collected.

Sharing

We may share aggregated demographic information with our partners and advertisers. This information is not linked to any personal information that can identify any individual person.

We may use a credit card processing company to bill for goods and services and an outside shipping company to ship orders. These companies will not use, share, retain or store personally identifiable information for any purposes other than to process the transaction, or to ship the order, or will not work with them.

We may partner with other companies and individuals to provide specific services. When you will sign up for these services, we may share your name, or other contact information that will be necessary for the third party to provide these services. These parties will not be allowed to use personally identifiable information except for the purpose of providing these services.

Your Choice to Opt-Out

You will have the opportunity to “opt-out” of having your information used for purposes not directly related to our site at the point where we will ask you for the information. For example, our order form will have an opt-out box. If you want to buy a product from us, but you do not want to receive future promotional e-mails, or marketing material, you will simply check the box to opt-out of the group receiving such e-mails.

If you will no longer wish to receive promotional material from our partners, you may opt-out of this group by responding to the “unsubscribe” e-mail link, or by e-mailing us at .

We will notify you when your information is being collected by any outside parties. You may then make an informed choice as to whether, or not you would like to continue receiving services that require an outside party.

Correcting and Updating Personal Information

If any of your personally identifiable information changes, or if you no longer wish to use our service, we will offer you a way to correct, update or remove your personal data that you have provided to us. Usually this could be done on the member information page, or by e-mailing us at .

Security

We want to protect your information.  When you submit sensitive information on this Web Site, your information is protected online and off-line.

When you will provide sensitive information on our site (such as credit card number, or social security number), that information will be encrypted and protected with encryption software. While you will be on a secure page, such as our order form page, the lock icon on the bottom of Web browsers such as Microsoft Internet Explorer, Mozilla Firefox, or Opera becomes locked.

While we will be using encryption software to protect sensitive information online, we also will use our best efforts to protect your information off-line. All of our users’ information, not just the sensitive information, is restricted in our offices. Only me, Sid Karp, or employees who need the information to perform a specific job (such as our billing clerk or customer service representative) will be granted access to personally identifiable information. Our employees must use password-protected screen savers when they leave their desk. The servers on which we store personally identifiable information are kept in a secure environment behind a locked cage.

If you have any questions about the security for this Web Site, please e-mail us at .

Links

This Web Site contains links to other Web Sites. We are not responsible for the privacy practices of the other sites. We encourage you to read the privacy statements of each and every Web Site that collects personally identifiable information. This privacy policy applies solely to information collected by this Web Site.

Notification of Changes

If we decide to change our privacy policy, we will post those changes on our Home Page so you will always be aware of what information we collect, how we use it and under what circumstances, if any, we disclose it. If we decide to use personally identifiable information in a manner different from that stated at the time it was collected, we will notify you by e-mail. You will have the choice to allow us to use the information in this different manner. We will use information according to the privacy policy posted at the time the information was collected.

Sid Karp, Owner/Editor/Publisher/Webmaster - Jewish Celiacs Newsletter