Privacy Policy


Privacy Notice

Gourmet Italian ("Company") is committed to protecting the privacy of our
customer's personal information. This statement applies with respect to the
information that we collect from the Company Web site, located at
gourmetitalian.com. Amendments to this statement will be posted at this URL
and will be effective when posted. Your continued use of this site following
the posting of any amendment, modification or change shall constitute your
acceptance thereof.

I. INFORMATION COLLECTED
We collect non-personally identifiable information about you in a number of
ways, including tracking your activities through your IP address, computer
settings or most-recently visited URL. We may also ask you to provide
certain non-personally identifiable information about yourself, such as your
age, household income, buying preferences, etc. We do not collect any
personally identifiable information about you unless you voluntarily submit
such information to us, by, for example, filling out a survey or
registration form. The types of information that may be requested include
your name, address, e-mail address, and telephone number.

II. USE OF INFORMATION
In general, we will only use the information you provide to us for the
purpose for which such information was provided. We may also use this
information to deliver to you information about our company and promotional
material from some of our partners, trend analysis, pattern detection, and
site administration. Your information may also be used to contact you when
necessary and may be shared with other companies that may want to contact
you with offers consistent with your stated preferences. Users may opt-out
of receiving future mailings from Company and other entities by following
the instructions set forth in the opt-out section below.

Non-personal demographic and profile data is used to tailor your experience
at our site, showing you content we think you might be interested in. This
information may also be shared with advertisers on an aggregate nonpersonal
basis.

III. USE OF IP ADDRESSES
We use your IP Address to help diagnose problems with our server, and to
administer our Web site.

IV. USE OF COOKIES
When you view our Web site we might store some information on your computer.
This information will be in the form of a "cookie" or similar file. Cookies
are small pieces of information stored on your hard drive, not on our site.
Cookies do not spy on you or otherwise invade your privacy, and they cannot
invade your hard drive and steal information. Rather, they help you navigate
a Web site as easily as possible. We use cookies to deliver content specific
to your interests and to prevent you from reentering all your registration
data at each connection. We use an outside advertisement server company to
display ads on our site. These ads may contain cookies. The advertisement
server company may collect cookies received with outside banner ads. We do
not have access to information that would confirm the use of cookies by the
advertisement server company.

V. SECURITY
Our site has industry standard security measures in place to protect the
loss, misuse and alteration of the information under our control. While
there is no such thing as "perfect security" on the Internet, we will take
all reasonable steps to insure the safety of your personal information.

VI. OTHER WEB SITES; LINKS
Our Web site contains links to other Web sites. Gourmet Italian is not
responsible for the privacy practices or the content of such Web sites.

VII. CORRECT; UPDATE
Gourmet Italian allows its users the option to change or modify information
previously provided. This may be done through the following methods:

(1) e-mail the information to [email protected]
(2) visit the Customer Service section of the site and follow the
appropriate instructions.

Unfortunately, to the extent that such information is also stored in other
databases, we cannot always ensure that such corrections or deletions will
reach the other databases. We will use all reasonable efforts to ensure that
your information is removed from or corrected in our records.

VIII. CHOICE; OPT OUT
You may opt-out of receiving communications from our partners, and from us,
by the following means:
(1) send an e-mail to [email protected]
(2) visit the Customer Service section of the site and follow the
appropriate instructions.