French Gourmet

Privacy Notice

Last modified: April 11, 2023

Introduction

French Gourmet, Inc. (“French Gourmet” or ”We”) respects your privacy and are committed to protecting it through our compliance with this Privacy Notice (“Privacy Notice”).

This Privacy Notice describes the types of information we may collect from you or that you may provide when you visit the website https://www.frenchgourmet.com/ (our “Website”) and our practices for collecting, using, maintaining, protecting, and disclosing that information.

This Privacy Notice applies to information we collect:

on this Website; and
in email, text, and other electronic messages between you, French Gourmet, and this Website.

It does not apply to information collected by:

us offline or through any other means, including on any other website operated by us or any third party (including our affiliates and subsidiaries); or
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ny third party (including our affiliates and subsidiaries), including through any application or content (including advertising) that may link to the Website.

Please read this Privacy Notice carefully to understand our policies and practices regarding your information and how we will treat it. If you do not agree with our policies and practices, your choice is not to use our Website. By accessing or using this Website, you agree to this Privacy Notice. This Privacy Notice may change from time to time.

We are based in the United States. When we obtain information about you, we may transfer, process, and store such information outside of the country in which you reside, including in the United States. By using the Website, you consent to the transfer to and processing and storage of your information in countries outside of your country of residence, which may have different data protection laws than those in the country where you reside.

Your continued use of this Website after we make changes is deemed to be acceptance of those changes, so please check the Privacy Notice periodically for updates.

Information We Collect About You and How We Collect It

We collect several types of information from and about users of our Website, including information:

by which you may be personally identified, such as name, e-mail address, telephone number, or any other identifier by which you may be contacted online or offline (“Personal Information”);
that is about you but individually does not identify you, such as product information that you expressed interest in while visiting the Website;
about your organization if you inquire about being a distributor, such as your organization’s name, website address, sales channel information, years your organization has been in business, and how you found out about French Gourmet;
feedback or information you may send to us when you contact us; and/or
about your internet connection, the equipment you use to access our Website, and usage details.

We collect this information:

Directly from you when you provide it to us.
Automatically as you navigate through the Website. Information collected automatically may include usage details, IP addresses, and information collected through cookies, web beacons, and use third-party analytics tools (such as Google Analytics) that collect information about use of the Website and user traffic.
From third parties, for example, our service providers and business partners.

Information You Provide to Us

The information we collect on or through our Website may include:

Information that you provide by filling in forms on our Website. This includes information provided at the time of registering to use our Website, accessing certain features or content, or inquiring about ordering products. We may also ask you for information when you report a problem with our Website.
Records and copies of your correspondence (including email addresses), if you contact us.

Information We Collect Through Automatic Data Collection Technologies

As you navigate through and interact with our Website, we may use automatic data collection technologies to collect certain information about your equipment, browsing actions, and patterns, including:

Details of your visits to our Website, including dates, times, and duration of use of the Website, and the resources that you access and use on the Website.
Information about your computer and internet connection, including your IP address, operating system, and browser type (such as the location of the device accessing the Website).

We also may use these technologies to collect information about your online activities over time and across third-party websites or other online services (behavioral tracking). A do not track signal (“DNT”) prevents web applications from tracking you. However, because there is not a current legal or industry standard for responding to DNT signals, we do not respond to them at this time.

The information we collect automatically is statistical data and may include Personal Information or we may maintain it or associate it with Personal Information we collect in other ways or receive from third parties. It helps us to improve our Website and to deliver a better and more personalized service, including by enabling us to:

Estimate our audience size and usage patterns;
Store information about your preferences, allowing us to customize our Website according to your individual interests;
Speed up your searches; and/or
Recognize you when you return to our Website.

The technologies we use for this automatic data collection may include:

Cookies (or browser cookies). A cookie is a small file placed on the hard drive of your computer. You may refuse to accept browser cookies by activating the appropriate setting on your browser. However, if you select this setting you may be unable to access certain parts of our Website. Unless you have adjusted your browser setting so that it will refuse cookies, our system will issue cookies when you direct your browser to our Website.
Web Beacons. Pages of our Website may contain small electronic files known as web beacons (also referred to as clear gifs, pixel tags, and single-pixel gifs) that permit French Gourmet, for example, to count users who have visited those pages or and for other related website statistics (for example, recording the popularity of certain website content and verifying system and server integrity).
Analytic Tools. Our Website uses analytic tools, including Google Analytics. To learn more about how Google Analytics collects and processes data you may visit www.google.com/policies/privacy/partners/. You can also opt-out of Google Analytics here.

How We Use Your Information

We may use information that we collect about you or that you provide to us, including any Personal Information:

To present our Website and its contents to you;
To provide you with information, products, or services that you request from us;
To fulfill any other purpose for which you provide it;
To maintain a record of your purchases and other transactions using the Website;
To carry out our obligations and enforce our rights arising from any contracts entered into between you and us, including for billing and collection;
To notify you about changes to our Website or any products or services we offer or provide though it;
To respond to your questions and comments, and provide customer support;
To operate, evaluate, and improve our business and the products and services we offer;
To analyze trends and statistics regarding use of the Website and transactions conducted using the Website;
To protect against and prevent fraud, unauthorized transactions, claims, and other liabilities, and manage risk exposure, including by identifying potential hackers and other unauthorized users;
To enforce our agreements;
To comply with applicable legal requirements and industry standards;
In any other way we may describe when you provide the information; and
For any other purpose with your consent.

Disclosure of Your Information

We may disclose aggregated information about our users, and information that does not identify any individual, without restriction.

We may disclose Personal Information that we collect or you provide as described in this Privacy Notice:

To our subsidiaries and affiliates;
To contractors, service providers, and other third parties we use to support our business;
To a buyer or other successor in the event of a merger, divestiture, restructuring, reorganization, dissolution, or other sale or transfer of some or all of French Gourmet’s assets, whether as a going concern or as part of bankruptcy, liquidation, or similar proceeding, in which Personal Information held by French Gourmet about our Website users is among the assets transferred;
To fulfill the purpose for which you provide it;
For any other purpose disclosed by us when you provide the information; and With your consent.

We may also disclose your Personal Information:

To comply with any court order, law, or legal process, including to respond to any government or regulatory request;
To enforce or apply our agreements, including for billing and collection purposes; and
If we believe disclosure is necessary or appropriate to protect the rights, property, or safety of French Gourmet, our customers, or others. This includes exchanging information with other companies and organizations for the purposes of fraud protection and credit risk reduction.

Choices About How We Use and Disclose Your Information

We strive to provide you with choices regarding the Personal Information you provide to us. We have created mechanisms to provide you with the following control over your information:

Tracking Technologies. You can set your browser to refuse all or some browser cookies, or to alert you when cookies are being sent. If you disable or refuse cookies, please note that some parts of this Website may then be inaccessible or not function properly.
Web Analytics. You may opt out of the aggregation and analysis of data collected about you on our Website by Google Analytics by visiting https://tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout.
Promotional Offers from French Gourmet. If you do not wish to have your contact information used by French Gourmet to promote our own products or services, you can opt-out by sending us an email stating your request to info@frenchgourmet.com. If we have sent you a promotional email, you may send us a return email asking to be omitted from future email distributions. This opt out does not apply to information provided to French Gourmet as a result of a product purchase, product service experience, or other transactions.

Accessing and Correcting Your Information

You may also send us an email at info@frenchgourmet.com to request access to, correct or delete any Personal Information that you have provided to us. We cannot delete your Personal Information except by also deleting your user account. We may not accommodate a request to change information if we believe the change would violate any law or legal requirement or cause the information to be incorrect.

Your California Privacy Rights

California Civil Code Section § 1798.83 permits users of our Website that are California residents to request certain information regarding our disclosure of Personal Information to third parties for their direct marketing purposes. To make such a request, please send an email to info@frenchgourmet.com.

Data Security

We have implemented measures designed to secure your Personal Information from accidental loss and from unauthorized access, use, alteration, and disclosure. All information you provide to us is stored on our secure servers behind firewalls.

Unfortunately, the transmission of information via the internet is not completely secure. Although we do our best to protect your Personal Information, we cannot guarantee the security of your Personal Information transmitted to our Website. Any transmission of Personal Information is at your own risk. We are not responsible for circumvention of any privacy settings or security measures contained on the Website.

Data Transfers

Changes to Our Privacy Notice

It is our policy to post any changes we make to our Privacy Notice on this page. If we make material changes to how we treat our users’ Personal Information, we will notify you (for example, by email and/or posting on our Website). The date this Privacy Notice was last revised is identified at the top of the page. You are responsible for ensuring we have an up-to-date active and deliverable email address for you, and for periodically visiting our Website and this Privacy Notice to check for any changes.

Children Under the Age of 13

Our Website is not intended for children under 13 years of age. No one under age 13 may provide any information to or on the Website. We do not knowingly collect Personal Information from children under 13. If you are under 13, do not use or provide any information on this Website or on or through any of its features/register on the Website, make any purchases through the Website, or provide any information about yourself to us, including your name, address, telephone number, or email address. If we learn we have collected or received Personal Information from a child under 13 without verification of parental consent, we will delete that information. If you believe we might have any information from or about a child under 13, please contact us at info@frenchgourmet.com.

Contact Information

To ask questions or comment about this Privacy Notice and our privacy practices, contact us at info@frenchgourmet.com.