+ Last Updated: December 5, 2020

ChocolateConnoisseurMag.com is serious about protecting your online privacy. This Privacy Statement explains our views and practices concerning privacy, and how they may pertain to you as a user of our website.

Who Processes Your Personal Data?

For the purposes of applicable data protection legislation, Mightier Pen Marketing, LLC  (“Mightier Pen,” “we,” or “us”) is the data controller of your Personal Data. You will find our contact details in the “Contact” section at the end of this Privacy Policy.

“Our site” means ChocolateConnoisseurMag.com.

All information transmitted, printed or otherwise submitted to ChocolateConnoisseurMag.com via this website shall be deemed to be the property of ChocolateConnoisseurMag.com and ChocolateConnoisseurMag.com shall be free to use such information for any lawful purpose as detailed herein.

This site contains links to other sites and we are not responsible for the privacy practices or the content of such sites.

We reserve the right to release such information to law enforcement or other governmental officials as we, in our sole and absolute discretion, deem necessary to comply with the law. 

Purpose

This Privacy Policy is intended to let you know:

(1) who we are; (2) the kinds of Personal Data we may gather during your visit to the Site; (3) our basis for gathering your Personal Data; (4) how and why we process your Personal Data; (5) when we might disclose your Personal Data and to whom; (6) where your Personal Data is stored; (7) how long we will retain your Personal Data; (8) your data protection rights; and (9) how you can manage our collection of your Personal Data.

We also wish to inform any European citizens of their rights when we use their personal information.

The Site is not directed to children under the age of 13 (or such other digital age of consent in your jurisdiction, for example, 16 years of age in certain European countries) (together, the “Age of Consent”) and we do not knowingly collect personal information from children under the Age of Consent.

If you are under the Age of Consent you should not use this Site, and under no circumstances should you send information about yourself to us. If we are made aware that a child under the Age of Consent has provided us with personal information, we will immediately delete that child’s information from the Site.

 

What Kinds of Personal Data Do We Collect?

Activities and Information You Provide
We receive and store any information you enter on the Site or give us in any other way, including when registering for mailing list, during ordering, purchasing, and/or billing, entering a contest, sweepstakes, or other promotion, and as provided in your comments and requests.

The Site may give you the ability to register for an account or to create and update a user profile on the Site. If we offer user account or profile functionality on the Site, we will collect the Personal Data that you or your computer/device provides to us in the course of registering for an account or creating or updating a user profile. We will also collect Personal Data provided to us in the course of you making a purchase on the Site, whether or not an account is created. The information collected will vary but typically includes Personal Data, such as:

your first and last name
your e-mail address
your age
your password
your mailing address (including city, state, zip code, and country)
telephone numbers
your interests
the country in which you reside
when you click an ad or see an ad impression

Information You Do Not Directly Provide
Even if you do not explicitly provide us with information, we may collect certain personal information when you interact with the Site.For example, our servers may keep an activity log that tracks all visitors to the Site.

The information in the activity log may be anonymous and therefore may not identify you individually, however such information, in conjunction with other information that we hold, may also be capable of identifying you and so may constitute Personal Data. The information our server collects may include among other data:

your IP address
your registered domain or home server
time and date of access
web page(s) visited
number of clicks
the content, features, and activities that you access and participate in on the Site
software crash reports
type of browser used
the nature of the device from which you are visiting the Site (g., a personal computer or a mobile device)
session identification number
search terms, search results
access times
referring website’s address(es)

We may collect this information passively using technologies such as standard server logs, cookies (see below), and clear GIFs (also known as “web beacons”). We use passively-collected information to administer, operate, and improve the Site and our other services and systems, to improve the effectiveness of advertising on the Site, and to provide advertisements and other content that is tailored to you.

If, by virtue of applicable laws in your country, any of the information gathered through these passive means constitutes or includes Personal Data, or if, through linking or associating any information gathered through passive means with any other personal information, we treat the combined information as Personal Data, the terms of this Privacy Policy will apply. Otherwise, we use and disclose information collected by passive means in aggregate form or otherwise in a non-personally identifiable form.

What is our Legal Basis for Processing Your Personal Data?

Mightier Pen relies upon your consent as a relevant legal basis for processing your Personal Data. In the event you wish to withdraw your consent to the data practices described in this Privacy Policy, please stop visiting the Site. You may also wish to exercise other rights you may have as described below.

Also, in certain circumstances, Mightier Pen may also process your data for the purposes of our legitimate interests, such as to inform you of changes to our services, to provide you with information about other services we offer. In addition, we will process your Personal Data in order to comply with any legal obligations to which we are subject or to ensure the necessary performance of a contract.

How and Why We Gather Your Data and Personal Data

Cookies
Like many, many websites, we may use cookies to enhance your shopping and browsing experience. Cookies are small text files that are stored on your computer or equipment when you visit certain online pages that record your preferences. We use cookies to track your use of the Site and its features. We may also use cookies to monitor traffic, improve the Site, and make it easier and/or more relevant for your use.

The text in a cookie, by itself, only tells us that you have visited the Site before. It does not store any Personal Data such as your name, e-mail address, street address, or phone number, however, it may store your IP address and other online identifiers which may constitute Personal Data. Cookies are also used to maintain your shopping basket. All data contained in the shopping basket is kept on our server and not in the cookie your machine is assigned.

You can change your privacy preferences regarding the use of cookies and similar technologies by customizing your browser settings. You may set your browser to accept all cookies, block certain cookies, require your consent before a cookie is placed in your browser, or block all cookies to match your comfort level with regard to the use of cookies. Blocking all cookies will affect your online experience and may limit your access to certain features on the Site, including certain personalized content. Please consult the “Help” section of your browser for more information about how to adjust these settings.

Please be aware that your use of the Site, other websites, or other services provided by third parties (“Third-Party Services”), including, for example, Google Analytics, may set cookies on your hard drive or use other means of passively collecting information about your use of the Site, Third-Party Services, or other services or content.

To do this, such third parties may use first-party cookies (which are set by the same domain your browser is receiving data from), third-party cookies (which are set by a different domain), web beacons, pixels, or similar tools. We also may make either Personal Data or non-personally identifiable information available to Third-Party Services, and these Third-Party Services may collect such information, to assist such parties in understanding our users’ activities and usage patterns on the Site.

We do not have access to, or control over, the actions of Third-Party Services. Each provider of Third-Party Services uses information that it collects in accordance with its own privacy and security policies.

Location-based services
If you access the Site from a mobile device, the Site may try to access to your location in order to tailor your experience with the Site based on your location (“Location-based Services”) and in such an event we may collect information about the location of your device such as GPS coordinates; provided however, only if certain features of your mobile phone, such as GPS, Wi-Fi, and Bluetooth, are enabled.

If Location-based Services are enabled, we may be able to identify your location through a variety of means, including GPS location, IP address, cell tower location, geo-fencing technology, or detection by physical on-location Wi-Fi or Bluetooth sensors, as available. Such information may constitute Personal Data.

To the extent that your location is collected through GPS, Wi-Fi, or Bluetooth sensors, such sensors, and the associated data services, may be provided by a third party, and you agree and acknowledge that such third party may access such information for the purpose of providing such data services to us. If you choose to disable any Location-based Services on your device, you may not be able to utilize certain features of the Location-based Services.

By enabling Location-based Services on your device, you agree and acknowledge that: (1) device data we collect from you is directly relevant to your use of the Site; (2) we may provide Location-based Services related to and based on your then-current location; and (3) we may use any such information collected in connection with the provision of Location-based Services in connection your use of the Site and as otherwise provided for in this Privacy Policy.

How We May Use Your Personal Data

Except as disclosed in this Privacy Policy, we will not disclose Personal Data that we collect to any parties other than those with whom we partner or are affiliated with, without your consent.

Information you give us
We may use this information to process and fulfill your order, notify you of your order status, respond to your inquiry, and communicate with you when necessary to provide customer service and/or follow-up information related to a product purchase or shipping information.

We may also use information you provide to communicate with you about your interest in our events and our company, to help us improve, operate, and enhance your experience on the Site, to promote our events, notify you about important functionality changes to the Site, new services, and special offers we think you’ll find valuable, to tailor advertisements, content, and other aspects of your experience on and in connection with the Site, for other administrative purposes, to prevent or detect abuses of our terms of use, and to enable third-parties to carry out technical or other functions on our behalf, as well as any other purpose that we may disclose to you at the point at which we request your Personal Data.

We may combine non-personal information that you provide with supplemental information (including mailing address updates and demographic data) that we obtain from public sources or reputable third parties. Information combined with personally identifiable information becomes, and is treated as, Personal Data under this Privacy Policy.

By giving us information, either through the Site or e-mail, you expressly consent to our collection, use, and disclosure of the information as described in this Privacy Policy.

If you use the Site for purchases or any other financial transactions, we collect information about the purchase or transaction. This may include:

name
billing information (non-sensitive, see below)
transaction history
involvement in our email club

If you contact us via the Site, or in any other way, we may retain the correspondence and the information it contains, such as:

your name
e-mail address
the reason for contacting us

We may use the information to:

respond to your inquiry to notify you of Chocolate Connoisseur offers for marketing purposes

When you contact us, we will request your affirmative, positive consent to use your contact information for marketing or other business purposes. In the event you do not consent to the use of your contact information for marketing or other business purposes, it will not be used for those purposes.

If you provide your consent but subsequently do not wish to receive related notifications, or otherwise want to restrict the use of information you provide to us, please follow the instructions on any marketing correspondence or send us an e-mail at the address listed below.

Payment Information
We accept payments through PayPal and Stripe. When processing payments, some of your data will be passed to PayPal or Stripe, including information required to process or support the payment, such as the purchase total and billing information.

Please see the PayPal Privacy Policy, and Stripe Privacy Policy, for more details regarding their handling of your financial data.

PLEASE NOTE: We do not store or have access to any credit card information at ChocolateConnoisseurMag.com.

Comments
When visitors leave comments on the site we collect the data shown in the comments form, and also the visitor’s IP address and browser user agent string to help spam detection.

An anonymized string created from your email address (also called a hash) may be provided to the Gravatar service to see if you are using it. The Gravatar service privacy policy is available here: https://automattic.com/privacy/. After approval of your comment, your profile picture is visible to the public in the context of your comment.

Media
If you upload images to the website, you should avoid uploading images with embedded location data (EXIF GPS) included. Visitors to the website can download and extract any location data from images on the website.

Information you do not directly provide
We may aggregate and use Personal Data and other non-personal information gathered in the manners described above, including IP addresses, location data, and the domain name of e-mail addresses of visitors to the Site, to help us determine how people use the Site and to improve the Site’s performance and usefulness.

Other Websites

The Site interfaces with and links to other websites of partners such as Nike and New Era, and may in the future use social media plugins (e.g., the Facebook “Like” button, “Share to Twitter” button) to facilitate social media functions. If you are a member of a social media platform or website, and log in to such social media or platform, the interfaces may allow the social media platform or website to connect your Site visit to your Personal Data. We have no control over the information that other websites, social media platforms, or plugins collect, store, or use.

Before you choose to access other websites from the Site or “Like” or share information from the Site through any social media platform or website, please be certain that you review the privacy policy of that social media platform or website.

Transfers of Personal Data

In the event that we disclose customer information to third parties, we will only disclose that amount of Personal Data necessary as part of our business practices or when there is a legal or statutory obligation to do so. Third parties that receive customer information from us must satisfy us as to the measures taken to protect the Personal Data such parties receive as stated in this Privacy Policy. Appropriate measures will be taken to ensure that all such disclosures or transfers of customer information to third parties will be completed in a secure manner and pursuant to contractual safeguards.

We may employ other companies and individuals to perform functions on our behalf, including fulfilling orders, delivering packages, processing credit card payments, marketing, and providing analytics assistance. From time to time, we may also share Personal Data or non-personally identifiable information with third parties that we have engaged to perform certain services in connection with the operation of certain aspects of the Site, including to customize, deliver, measure, analyze, improve, and support our services, content, advertising and layout, your interaction with those aspects, and to deliver more relevant messages and advertisements to you. These Third-Party Service providers are authorized to use Personal Data only as needed to perform their functions on our behalf and are required to maintain the security of your Personal Data

We may also change our ownership or corporate organization while providing the Site. As a result, we may transfer your information to another company that is affiliated with us, with which we have merged, or which has acquired all or some of our assets.

We may provide information, when legally obliged to do so and in response to properly made requests, for the purpose of the prevention and detection of crime, and the apprehension or prosecution of offenders. We may also provide information for the purpose of safeguarding national security.

European Data and Transfers Outside of the European Economic Area

The Site is published in the United States and is governed by United States law. If you are located within the European Union, you should be aware that your Personal Data will be collected in the United States. With respect to information you provide to us in the course of you making a purchase, the collection is necessary because our servers and data centers are located in the United States and without collecting your Personal Data we are not able to process your payment and perform our obligation to provide you the services or goods you have purchased from us. With respect to other types of data we collect which are not related to a purchase, we rely on, among other things, your explicit consent to collect the data.

Please be informed that, although we are committed to protecting and respecting your data protection and privacy rights and we have implemented technical and organizational measures to ensure your Personal Data is protected, your Personal Data will be transferred to other jurisdictions in the absence of any adequacy decision issued by the European Commission or similar appropriate measure. You should know that each jurisdiction can have its own privacy and data security laws, some of which may be less stringent as compared to those of your own jurisdiction. Also, we may transmit your data from the United States to other countries or jurisdictions in connection with storage and processing of data, fulfilling your requests, and operating the Site. You acknowledge these risks and consent to our transmitting your Personal Data.

How Long Do We Keep Your Personal Data?

The period for which we retain Personal Data varies according to the use of that information. In some cases, there are legal requirements to keep certain data for a minimum period of time. Unless specific legal requirements dictate otherwise, we will retain Personal Data no longer than is necessary for the purposes for which the Personal Data were collected and processed (as described above).

Your Rights

European Citizen Privacy Rights
Your rights regarding the Personal Data we hold on you depend on the applicable laws in your country.If you are a European citizen, you have the right to request that we:

  • provide you with information regarding whether we process your data, including details relating to such processing
  • correct any inaccurate data we might have about your without undue delay
  • complete any incomplete information that we might have about you
  • under certain circumstances, erase your personal data without undue delay
  • under certain circumstances, be restricted from processing your data
  • under certain circumstances, furnish you with the personal data which you provided us within a structured, commonly used and machine readable format

Where we process your Personal Data solely on the basis of your consent, European citizens have the right to withdraw consent to our processing Personal Data at any time. This will not affect the lawfulness of our processing before the withdrawal. European citizens also have the right to lodge a complaint with your data protection supervisory authority.

The exercise of the above rights might be subject to certain conditions and we might require further information from you before we can respond to your request.

California Privacy Rights
California Law permits our customers who are California residents to request certain information regarding our disclosure of personally identifiable information to third parties for their direct marketing purposes. To make such a request, please send an e-mail to

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Exercising Your Rights, Managing Information, and Opting Out

You may update or change information related to your account by updating your profile, accessible via the home page once you are logged in, or by sending us an e-mail at

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. You may always opt-out of receiving future commercial e-mail messages from us or request that your information be removed from the Site by e-mailing us at the address provided above.

Please be aware that if you opt-out of receiving commercial e-mail from us, it may take up to twenty (20) business days for us to process your opt-out request, and you may receive commercial e-mail from us during that period. Additionally, even after you opt-out from receiving commercial messages from us, you may continue to receive administrative messages from us regarding our Site.

You can exercise any of your rights by making a request to us at the contact information provided in the “Contact” section. For California residents, please consult the “California privacy rights” section above for your rights and additional considerations. For European citizens, please consult the “European citizen privacy rights” section above for your rights and additional considerations.

Security

When you place orders or access your account information, including anywhere on the Site where we request credit card information, we offer the use of a secure server. Personal Data collected on the Site is stored in secure operating environments. Secure Sockets Layer (SSL) software encrypts all information you input before it is sent to us.

While we try our best to safeguard your information once we receive it, no transmission of data over the Internet or any other public network can be guaranteed to be 100% secure. It is important for you to protect against unauthorized access to your password and to your computer. Be sure to sign off when finished using a shared computer.

Choice of Law

If any disputes arise between us regarding your use of the Site, you agree that the Federal Arbitration Act, applicable federal law, and the laws of the State of Arizona, without regard to principles of conflicts of law, will govern our Privacy Policy and any dispute of any sort that might arise between you and us.

Disputes

Any dispute arising out of our Privacy Policy shall be governed by the dispute resolution provision in our Terms and Conditions, unless otherwise prohibited by law.

Changes to Privacy Policy

We may occasionally update our Privacy Policy. When we do, we will also revise the “last updated” date at the beginning of the Privacy Policy. Your continued use of the Site after such changes will be subject to the then-current policy.

If we change this Privacy Policy in a manner that is materially less restrictive of our use or disclosure of your Personal Data, we will use reasonable efforts to notify you of the change and to obtain your consent prior to applying the change to any Personal Data that we collected from you prior to the date the change becomes effective. We encourage you to periodically review this Privacy Policy to stay informed about how we collect, use, and disclose Personal Data.

Contact

If you have questions about this Privacy Policy or our treatment of the information provided to us, or you have any requests relating to your data protection rights, please contact us at:

Mightier Pen Marketing, LLC
ATTN: Chocolate Connoisseur Website Privacy Notice
P.O. Box 13538, Mesa, AZ 85216

Phone: (800) 705-5327

E-mail:

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Our Right to Contact You

We reserve the right to contact you regarding your account status and changes to subscriber agreements, privacy policy, or any other policies or agreements relevant to you.

Our Right to Change

We reserve the right to change this policy at any time by notifying you of the existence and location of the new or revised privacy policy or by posting the changes online at our site.

Anti Spam Policy / Can-Spam Act Compliance

ChocolateConnoisseurMag.com is dedicated to ensuring compliance with the ‘Can-Spam Act’, which took effect January 1, 2004. You may receive email from ChocolateConnoisseurMag.com in the following circumstances:

  • Acknowledging your application has been received and requesting additional action
  • Requests for additional information to support your current application
  • Response to your inquiries regarding the status of your transactional requests
  • Thanking you for your valued business
  • Advertisements for our products, services, changes in services, new product availability
  • Advertisements for third party products and services where we have determined that such product or service may be of interest to our customers

To ensure compliance with the Can-Spam Act, ChocolateConnoisseurMag.com has implemented the following guidelines for email delivery:

All emails sent to you by ChocolateConnoisseurMag.com will clearly identify ChocolateConnoisseurMag.com as the sender. FROM / SENDER:

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 (NOTE: The actual sender will vary, but all from addresses will end with @ChocolateConnoisseurMag.com).

The Subject Line of any email you receive will always accurately describe the subject matter of the email.

Any email from ChocolateConnoisseurMag.com will include the ability to unsubscribe from future email messages.

Unsubscribing will ensure the customer is removed from ALL lists at ChocolateConnoisseurMag.com; this excludes customer service emails regarding the processing and status of a current product.

All emails sent to you directly by ChocolateConnoisseurMag.com include valid postal address information in the footer.

All third party marketing partners are required to comply with the Can-Spam Act.

Emails sent to you directly by ChocolateConnoisseurMag.com will include an email address and physical address where you can send suggestions, complaints or other correspondence.

Information for ISPs

Web site: ChocolateConnoisseurMag.com
Email Address:

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ChocolateConnoisseurMag.com understands consumers’ concerns over the use of their personal information. We hope this information will relieve any concerns your company may have regarding our email policies. ChocolateConnoisseurMag.com and its affiliated sites use only an “opt-in or opt out” method of obtaining customer information, and it is not our policy or desire to send unsolicited email. We obtain email addresses and personal information from third parties that follow the same set of policies. ChocolateConnoisseurMag.com email messages sent always include information about the origin of the emails and instructions on how recipients can unsubscribe from receiving future email messages.

From time to time, ChocolateConnoisseurMag.com will enter into an arrangement with a third party website to allow individuals to opt into our marketing program on those third party websites. In each case the third party websites have represented and warranted to us that, among other things:

The data was collected voluntarily from individuals on website registrations and co-registrations
The sellers have a right, under any applicable privacy statements, to transfer the data to us, and
that ChocolateConnoisseurMag.com has the right to send marketing offers to the individuals.

We hope this information satisfies any questions or concerns you may have regarding the email practices of ChocolateConnoisseurMag.com. If you have additional questions or wish to discuss this matter further, please contact us at:

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