This privacy policy outlines the information collected by the store, its affiliates, and subsidiaries from customers, as well as how this information is utilized. It is important to note that your use of this website may be subject to additional terms and conditions outlined in separate user agreements. Should you have any inquiries regarding this policy or how we handles personal information, please feel free to reach out.
We gather data from users on our website through various methods to ensure a streamlined, personalized shopping experience. This includes utilizing your personal information to:
Store and recall information you have previously provided
Assist in locating information, products, and services quickly
Develop tailored content
Keep you informed about our latest updates, products, and services
Use of Customer Information
foodvacs.com values the privacy of its customers and upholds strict measures to safeguard against any unauthorized sharing of customer information with third parties. Customer information encompasses all data submitted to foodvacs.com through various channels such as email, online forms, telephone, facsimile, mail, or any other means. foodvacs.com stores this information for the purpose of fulfilling orders and enhancing Customer service. Additionally, foodvacs.com may share personal and/or financial information with merchant account and banking vendors to facilitate order processing and payments, as well as with common carriers for product shipping. Rest assured, your personal information and image will not be displayed on the website without your explicit consent. Unless required by law or by court order, foodvacs.com will not disclose, share, license or sell any customer's personal or financial information to any other third party without your prior authorization. Unless otherwise stated, this privacy policy does not apply to information posted by users to publicly accessible portions of our websites, including but not limited to, product reivews, bulletin boards, dealer listings or online auction services.
Personal and Financial Information Collected by foodvacs.com
Throughout our websites there are forms that request information from you and/or allow you to purchase products and services. These forms typically ask for contact information (such as name, mailing address and email address), membership, login and password information and financial information (such as credit card number, expiration date and verification code) required to process your order and ship products to you. foodvacs.com will collect similar information when processing orders via telephone. The provision of such information by you is entirely voluntary. If you elect or opt in to receive information from us, we will ask for a valid email address and telephone number so we can inform you of other products or services available or to contact you about your opinion of current products and services or potential new products and services that may be offered. You may opt out of receiving future mailings from foodvacs.com by following the procedures detailed in the Choice/Opt Out section located below, on forms located on our website or in emails you receive from us. You may also request that we delete any personal information from our customer databases at any time by contacting foodvacs.com. In certain cases, foodvacs.com, may forward purchasing and shipping information to vendors who ship products or provide services directly to consumers. Such third party vendors and suppliers are not bound by this privacy policy.
IP Address Logging
foodvacs.com' web servers collect domain names and/or IP addresses of users to measure what pages and features are accessed by our visitors. foodvacs.com uses software such as Web Trends to collect and analyze this information. This information helps us administer the site, improve content and gather broad demographic information for aggregate use. foodvacs.com links IP addresses to personally identifiable information submitted to foodvacs.com. This information is used to verify whether a visitor has opted in to receiving additional information from foodvacs.com.
Cookies
foodvacs.com may use cookies or similar files or scripts throughout its website to enhance your convenience in using our websites, to improve search functionality or to hold information that you would otherwise need to re-key. Cookies are text files collected by a user's web browser. If you do not wish to accept cookies from our website, you may configure your web browser so that it does not accept cookies; however, you may lose certain functions available on our website.
Storage of collected information
The security of your personal information is important to us. When you enter sensitive information (such as credit card numbers) on our website, we encrypt that information using Secure Socket Layer technology (SSL). When Credit Card details are collected, we simply pass them on in order to be processed as required. We never permanently store complete Credit Card details on the website.
We follow generally accepted industry standards to protect the personal information submitted to us, both during transmission and once we receive it.
Choice and Opt-Out
If you no longer wish to receive the our promotional communications, you may "opt-out" of receiving them by following the instructions included in each communication or by e-mailing to unsubscribe@foodvacs.com.
Your Rights
You have many rights over your personal information and how it is used. These include:
Right to access your information
Right to be informed about what we do with your information
Right to correct your information
Right to object to, or restrict, foodvacs.com using your information
Right to delete your personal information
Right to stop direct marketing messages
Right to portability of your information
Please note that if we offer any incentives or free items for the collection, sale or deletion of your personal information, you have the right to be notified of any incentives and free items, the right not be included in such offers without prior informed opt-in consent, and the right to be able to opt-out of such offers at any time. We may not offer unjust, unreasonable, coercive or usurious incentives or free items except in certain circumstances:
With purchase of a product
As part of a marketing campaign
When the primary purpose is not to collect personal information from users
Links
The website may contain links to other websites not affiliated with foodvacs.com, including websites of foodvacs.com' vendors and service providers. foodvacs.com is not responsible for the privacy practices or the content of such other sites. By including links to other websites, we neither endorse such sites nor guarantee that the information they contain is accurate. We encourage you to be aware when you leave our site to read the privacy statements of every linked website as the privacy policies of each may differ from ours. This privacy statement applies solely to websites owned or operated by foodvacs.com.
Monitoring
foodvacs.com is under no obligation to monitor the conduct of its website users, but it may investigate and respond if violations are reported. foodvacs.com reserves the right to delete, remove or exclude any listing or information, in its sole discretion, that does not meet its intent and guidelines for the services offered on the website.
Changes to Privacy Policy
In the future, foodvacs.com may offer new and different programs that necessitate a change in this Policy. foodvacs.com reserves the right to change its privacy policy at any time without prior notice. Any changes to the privacy policy will be posted on this page and will be effective immediately upon posting.
Governing Law and Jurisdiction
This Policy, and foodvacs.com' collection and use of customer information, shall be governed and interpreted in accordance with the laws of the United States and the state of Wisconsin. Any disputes arising out of this Policy shall be adjudicated in a court of competent jurisdiction in the Eastern District of the state of Wisconsin.
Governing Language
Any translation of this Policy is done for local requirements and in the event of a dispute between the English and any non-English versions, the English version of this License Agreement shall govern.
Security
We are committed to preventing others from unauthorized access to the personal information you provide to us, and we maintain commercially reasonable procedures and technology designed for this purpose. This site incorporates physical, electronic, and administrative procedures to safeguard the confidentiality of your personal information, such as:
* Safeguarding all financial transactions done through this site with Secure Sockets Layer ("SSL") encryption
* Granting only employees who are providing a specific service access to your personal information
* Working only with third-party service providers who we believe adequately secure all computer hardware.
However, we cannot guarantee that unauthorized third parties will never be able to defeat those security measures. Although we cannot guarantee that our systems are 100% secure all of the time, we periodically update and test our technology in order to improve the protection of customer information.
We suggest that you install anti-virus software on your computer and routinely check for viruses, keyloggers, spyware and other programs that may become installed on your computer without your permission. If you believe that you have received a virus from foodvacs.com, please contact us as soon as possible so that we may take remedial measures to remove the virus.
foodvacs.com does not send emails to customers requesting billing, login or password information. If you receive an email purporting to be from foodvacs.com that asks you to provide personal or account information, or login and passwords, do not provide such information unless you have first verified that the website or email is from foodvacs.com. Such emails may be fraudulent and used in connection with scams known as phishing. foodvacs.com asks that you report any suspicious emails or websites to foodvacs.com.