At Ganini, we want you to have the best service and shopping experience possible. And while it is necessary for us to collect certain personal information, we respect and protect your right to privacy. The following is our policy regarding your privacy and the security of your information. If you have any additional questions or concerns, please contact us at customerservice@ganini.com.

What Information Do We Collect and How?

Registration Information

Ganini keeps track of information in order to give you a more enjoyable, convenient service/shopping experience. When you register you will be asked for your email address and a password so that we can provide you access to your account in the future. When you create a new account, we will ask you for your name, phone number, email, billing and shipping addresses. This information, along with your credit card number, is necessary to fulfill your order. In addition, we use this information for internal purposes and to comply with any requirements of law. This information may be disclosed to our staff and to third parties involved in the completion of your transaction, the delivery of your order or the support of your use of the ganini.com web site. We may use your email address or phone number to contact you if we have questions about your order. We may also use your email address to notify you about new services or special promotional programs, or send you offers or information if you have opted-in. Emails are sent only to customers who have chosen to receive them (opted-in). At any time, you may stop receiving these emails (opt out) if you desire. Logging in does NOT obligate you in any way to Ganini. In addition, we will keep track of past purchases you have made to provide you with a personalized profile of your shopping history. We may also ask you for information regarding your and your family's shopping preferences and demographics in order for us to better fill your needs. However, all information not necessary to fulfill your order is optional.

Note: It is not necessary to provide us with information to view our site.

Non-Edible Cookies

In revolutionizing the way you shop, Ganini uses new technologies to better serve our customer. This includes using "cookies" so you can best experience our site. Cookies are bits of electronic information placed over the internet onto your computer. A cookie assigns a unique tracking number to each computer accessing our site, which enables us to recognize and keep track of each user. Through cookies we can customize our site to your individual preferences in order to create a more personalized, convenient shopping experience. Cookies let us know that you are a prior customer, so that we may tailor information for you and provide certain features you might enjoy. However, we do not store personal information about you or your finances using cookies. Cookies are standard on the internet and utilized by most websites whether you are aware of it or not. However, if you wish, most browsers can be set to prevent cookies or to notify you when one is being placed. Although cookies are not necessary to view our site, Ganini recommends their use for the best experience possible.

Server Logs

In an effort to make our site as effective and enjoyable as possible, the computers that operate the site will collect certain information each time you visit the site and store these statistics in server logs. These statistics do not identify you personally, but will give us information regarding the type of user who is accessing the site and certain browsing activities of that user. Information collected in this way includes the IP address of the user accessing our site (i.e. the unique I.D. number of the user's computer), the type of browser (Internet Explorer, Netscape, etc.) and operating system (system software) used to access our site, the website the user last visited before linking to our site, how long the user accessed our site in any given session, and the date and time of access. We may make extensive use of these non-personally identifiable aggregated data in order to understand how our site is being used and will share them with advertisers, sponsors, investors, strategic partners, and others in order to develop, promote, and expand our business.

Children's Privacy and Parental Controls

Our site is intended for use by general audiences that are 18 years of age and older. If you are not 18 or older, please do not use our site. Parents should be aware that there are parental control tools available online that you can use to prevent your children from submitting information online without parental permission or from accessing material that is harmful to minors.

How You Can Access and Edit Your Registration Information or Remove Yourself from Our Newsletters, Updates & Reminders Lists

You are able to review and edit your registration information from our site at any time. If you have already registered with us, click here to access your information. Our mailing lists and email notification are available on an opt-in basis. If you would like to opt out of all email communication, click here.

With Whom Do We Share Your Information?

Information about our customers is an important part of our business, and we are not in the business of selling it to others. We share customer information only as described in this policy and with our parent, Ganini and other subsidiaries controlled by Ganini that are subject to this Privacy Policy.

Service Providers

Ganini may use various outside agencies (third party service providers) to make our website operate as smoothly as possible. For example, we may use third parties to host our website, operate various features made available on our website, send emails, analyze data, provide search results and links and assist in fulfilling your orders. Some of these third parties may need access to your information in order to make the services provided through our website work. Information will only be disclosed to these service providers on a need to know basis, and they will only be permitted to use such information for the purpose of providing the particular services provided by such entities in connection with our website. We may use third party advertising companies to serve ads on our behalf. These companies may employ cookies and action tags (also known as single pixel gifs or web beacons) to measure advertising effectiveness. Any information that these third parties collect via cookies and action tags is completely anonymous.

Strategic Alliances

From time to time, Ganini may enter into strategic alliances to enhance and expand the scope of the services we are able to provide. Some of these strategic alliances may involve operating co-branded websites or web pages with a strategic partner. When you see websites or web pages that are co-branded with Ganini (meaning it would have both the Ganini logo and the logo or trademarks of another company), you should be aware that these sites' privacy policies might vary from ours. Please consult the privacy policy of the website you are visiting.

With Your Consent

Other than as set forth in this policy, you will receive notice when information about you might go to third parties, and you will have an opportunity to choose not to share the information.

Is There Any Other Way That User Information Might Be Disclosed?

Ganini may disclose information in order to comply with a subpoena, court order, administrative or governmental order, or any other requirement of law, or when Ganini in their sole discretion, deems it necessary in order to protect our rights or the rights of others, to prevent harm to persons or property, to fight fraud and credit risk reduction or to enforce or apply our web site terms of use. Personally identifiable information may be transferred as an asset in connection with a merger or sale (including any transfers made as part of an insolvency or bankruptcy proceeding) involving all or part of our business or as part of a corporate reorganization, stock sale or other change in control. Other than as described in this Privacy Policy, we will not share or disclose your information to anyone.

How We Protect Your Information

Ganini is committed to protecting the information we receive from you. We follow reasonable technical and management practices to help protect the confidentiality, security and integrity of data stored on our system. While no computer system is completely secure, we believe the measures implemented by our web site reduce the likelihood of security problems to a level appropriate to the type of data involved. Our site encrypts your credit card number and other personal information using secure socket layer (SSL) technology to provide for the secure transmission of the information from your PC to our servers. In addition, only those employees who need access to your information in order to perform their duties are allowed such access. Any employee who violates our privacy and/or security policies may be subject to disciplinary action, including possible termination and civil and/or criminal prosecution. We use SSL and encryption technology, digital certificates, secure commerce servers, and authentication to ensure that your personal information is secure online.

Changes in Policy

You acknowledge that this Privacy Policy is part of the Terms of Use and you unconditionally agree that using this site signifies your assent to Ganini's Privacy Policy. If you do not agree with this Privacy Policy, please do not use our site. Your visit and any dispute over privacy is subject to this policy and our Terms of Use, including limitations on damages and application of the law of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts. If you have any concern about privacy at Ganini, please send us a thorough description to privacy@ganini.com, and we will try to resolve it. Ganini reserves the right to change the terms of use and this Privacy Policy, at any time. We will post any changes so that you are always aware of our policy. Unless stated otherwise, our current Privacy Policy applies to all information that we have about you and your account. We stand behind the promises we make, however, and will never materially change our policies and practices to make them less protective of customer information collected in the past without the consent of affected customers. Please note: This Privacy Policy covers our website, as well as our activities on the co-branded websites (joint websites containing our logo along with another company's) where this Policy is posted. Please check the privacy policy of the website you are visiting since activities of Ganini in connection with other co-branded websites may be subject to different privacy policies. Updated as of October 10, 2006.