Little Scoops' policy is to respect and
protect your privacy. Please read the following
to learn about Little Scoops' privacy policy.
What this Privacy Policy
Covers
This Privacy Policy covers Little
Scoops' treatment of personally identifiable
information that Little Scoops collects when you
are on a Little Scoops web site. This Privacy
Policy does not apply to the practices of
companies that Little Scoops does not own or
control, or to people that Little Scoops does
not employ or manage.
Information
Collection and Use
Little Scoops is the
sole owner of the information collected on this
site. We do not intend to sell or rent your
personally identifiable information to other
companies or people, except as herein set forth.
Little Scoops will sell or share personally
identifiable information about you with third
parties under the following circumstances:
- when we have your consent to share the
information;
- when we need to share the information to
provide a product or service you have requested;
- when we need to share the information with
companies who work on behalf of Little Scoops to
provide a product or service to you;
- when we respond to subpoenas, court orders
or legal process;
- when we find that your action on our web
site violates our Terms and Conditions of Use,
or any of our usage guidelines for specific
products or services;
- or when any future subsidiaries, affiliated
companies or successor companies (resulting from
a merger or acquisition) have a need for such
information.
Little Scoops collects personal information
from its users in connection with the
following:
- online contact or other on-line
transactions;
- promotions, sweepstakes and contests;
registration for membership in clubs;
- e-mail; sending of on-line cards;
fulfillment of prizes;
- mailing of promotional and other material to
people who contact us;
- tracking/verifying compliance with our
policies, as well as with federal, state and
local laws;
- Parties and event hosting or registrations
- and for internal marketing purposes.
Contact Us
When a user wants to
e-mail us, we ask for the user's e-mail address
and comment only.
Cookies
Little Scoops may set
and access "cookies" on your computer. "Cookies"
are pieces of information that a web site
transfers to an individual's hard drive for
record-keeping purposes.
Log
Files
We use IP addresses to analyze
trends, administer the web site, track the
user's movement, and gather broad demographic
information for aggregate use. IP addresses are
not linked to personally identifiable
information.
Sharing of Information
with Third Parties
We may share
aggregated demographic information with our
business affiliates and advertisers. This
demographic information is not linked to any
personal information that can identify any
individual person.
We use, or may use,
an outside shipping company to ship orders and a
credit card processing company to bill users for
goods and services. These companies do not/will
not retain, share, store or use personally
identifiable information for any secondary
purposes.
We may contract with a third
party to provide specific services. When the
user signs up for these services, we will share
names or other contact information that is
necessary for the third party to provide these
services. Such third parties are not allowed to
use personally identifiable information, except
for the purpose of providing the services in
question.
Links
This web site
may contain links to other sites. Little Scoops
is not responsible for the privacy policies of
other sites not affiliated with Little Scoops.
When you leave this web site, you should read
the privacy policies of each web site that
collects personally identifiable information.
This Privacy Statement applies solely to
information collected by this web site.
Surveys & Contests
From
time-to-time, our web site requests information
from users in connection with surveys or
contests. Participation in these surveys or
contests is completely voluntary, and the user
therefore has a choice whether or not to
disclose the requested information. Information
requested may include name, address, zip code,
telephone number, e-mail address, age, and
gender. Contact information will be used to
notify the winners and to award prizes. Survey
information will be used for purposes of
monitoring or improving this web site.
Security
As your privacy is
extremely important to us, we exercise great
care in providing secure transmission of your
information from your computer to our servers.
Unfortunately, no transmission of data over the
Internet can be guaranteed to be totally secure.
Therefore, we cannot guarantee or warrant the
security of any information you transmit to us,
and you do so at your own risk. As soon as we
receive your transmission, we make our best
effort to ensure its security on our
systems.
Correction/Updating/Removal of
Personal Information
If a user's
personally identifiable information changes, or
if a user no longer desires his/her personally
identifiable information to be contained in our
data bank, we will endeavor to provide a way to
correct, update or remove that user's personal
data provided to us. You can request correction,
updating or removal of personal data by
e-mailing our Customer Relations Department.
Notification of Changes
Little
Scoops may amend this Privacy Policy at any
time. If we decide to change our privacy policy,
we will notify you by posting a prominent
announcement on our web site.
Acceptance of Terms by User
By
using this site, you signify your consent to
Little Scoops' Privacy Policy. If you do not
agree to this Privacy Policy, please do not use
our web site. Your continued use of Little
Scoops' web site following the posting of
changes to those terms will mean you accept
those changes. A COPY OF THIS PRIVACY POLICY MAY
BE DOWNLOADED,
STORED OR PRINTED.