Welcome to Paramount Farms’ Web site located at www.paramountfarms.com (the
“Site”). Paramount Farms wants you to feel comfortable using the Site,
so we have created this Privacy Policy to let you know what information we may collect
from you on the Site and how we may use that information. Please take a moment to
review the terms of our Privacy Policy. By using the Site, you agree to accept the
terms of our Privacy Policy. If you do not agree to the terms of this Privacy Policy,
please do not use the Site.
AGGREGATE INFORMATION
From time to time, we may collect general, non-personal, statistical information
about the use of the Site, such as how many visitors visit a specific page on the
Site, how long visitors stay on that page, and which hyperlinks, if any, visitors
“click” on. We collect this information in order to determine which
areas of the Site are most popular and to enhance the Site for visitors. We may
also group this information into aggregate visitor data in order to describe the
use of the Site to our existing or potential business partners, sponsors, advertisers
or other third parties, or in response to a government request. However, please
be assured that this aggregate data will in no way personally identify you or any
other visitors to the Site.
PERSONAL INFORMATION
Collection and Use
In order to access certain information and features contained on the Site, we may
require you to register for an account on the Site and/or provide personal information
such as your name, e-mail address, mailing address and, if you would like to purchase
Paramount Farms products on the Site, credit card information. Paramount Farms needs
to collect this information for fulfilling services and ensuring compliance with
Paramount Farms’ policies and applicable law. We may also collect certain
personal information such as your e-mail address through any written, electronic
or other type of correspondence that you send to us.
We may use your personal information to process requested transactions, customize
the services we provide to you and send you periodic communications by e-mail or
regular mail. For example, we may ask for your feedback regarding the Site or provide
you with promotional or other special offers. If you choose to opt out of receiving
any communications from us, please uncheck the box on the registration form that
says, “I would like to receive news and information from Paramount Farms”
or e-mail us your request to not receive such communications by writing “unsubscribe”
in the subject line and sending to
customerservice@paramountfarms.com.
Disclosure of Personal Information
We may sometimes use other businesses to perform certain services for us, such as
delivering Paramount Farms products, sending postal mail and providing marketing
assistance and data analysis. We may provide personal information to those businesses
when that information is necessary for them to complete a requested transaction
or otherwise perform their duties. In addition, we may sometimes share your e-mail
address or other personal information with our sister companies within the Paramount
Farms family of companies, and they may send you periodic communications that we
believe will be of interest to you. Except as provided in this Privacy Policy, we
will not share your personal information with any third parties with whom we do
not have a business relationship.
As Paramount Farms develops, we may buy other businesses or their assets or sell
our business assets. Customer information is generally one of the business assets
involved in such transactions. Thus, in the event that Paramount Farms or all of
its assets are acquired, customer information would be one of the transferred assets.
Finally, Paramount Farms reserves the right to disclose visitor information in special
cases when we have reason to believe that disclosing this information is necessary
to identify, contact or bring legal action against someone who may be causing injury
to or interference with (either intentionally or unintentionally) Paramount Farms’
rights or property, other visitors, or anyone else that could be harmed by such
activities. This includes our right to exchange information with other organizations
in order to protect against fraud and to reduce credit risk. Paramount Farms also
reserves the right to disclose visitor information when we believe in good faith
that the law requires it.
IP ADDRESSES
An IP address is a number that is automatically assigned to your computer whenever
you’re surfing the Web. Web servers, the big computers that “serve up”
Web pages, automatically identify your computer by its IP address. Paramount Farms
collects IP addresses for purposes of system administration, to report aggregate
information to our advertisers, and to track the use of the Site. When visitors
request pages from the Site, our servers log the visitors’ IP addresses. It
is not our practice to link IP addresses to anything personally identifiable, which
means that a visitor’s session will be logged, but the visitor remains anonymous
to us. However, we reserve the right to use IP addresses to identify a visitor only
when we feel it is necessary to enforce compliance with the Site’s policies
or to protect our service or customers, the Site, or others.
COOKIES
Cookies are pieces of information that a Web site transfers to an individual’s
hard drive for record-keeping purposes. Cookies make Web-surfing easier for you
by saving your preferences while you’re at the Site. We never save credit
card information in cookies. The use of cookies is an industry standard -- you’ll
find them at most Web sites. By showing how and when visitors use the Site, cookies
help us see which areas are popular and which are not. Information such as the total
number of visitors and pages viewed is most easily tracked with cookies. We may
use the information from cookies to make improvements and updates to the Site and
to tailor our services to our visitors’ needs.
You always have the option of disabling cookies using your browser preferences.
Most browsers are initially set up to accept cookies. You can reset your browser
to refuse all cookies or indicate when a cookie is being sent. However, please be
aware that some features of the Site may not function properly or may be slower
if you refuse cookies. You may occasionally get cookies from our advertisers. Paramount
Farms does not control these cookies. The use of advertising cookies sent by third-party
servers is standard in the Internet industry.
LINKS TO OTHER SITES; “PUBLIC” AREAS
Please be aware that when you are on the Site, you could be directed to other sites
that are beyond our control. There are links to other sites from the Site’s
pages that take you outside our Site. These other sites may send their own cookies
to visitors, collect data or solicit personal information. The privacy policies
of these other sites may be significantly different from this Privacy Policy. We
are not responsible for the privacy practices of these other sites and cannot guarantee
the security of any of your personal information collected there.
SECURITY
Protecting the security of your personal information is very important to us. If
you register with us, your online account information is protected by a password
chosen by you. Access to that online account requires your username and password.
We recommend that you do not disclose your username and password to any other person.
When you transmit personal information from your PC to our servers, your information
is also protected by both a “firewall” (a combination of computer hardware
and software that helps keep unauthorized visitors from accessing information within
our computer network) and industry standard SSL (secure socket layer) encryption.
Once we receive your transmission, we will take reasonable precautions to ensure
its security on our systems. Unfortunately, no data transmission over the Internet
can be guaranteed to be 100% secure. As a result, while Paramount Farms strives
to protect your personal information and privacy, we cannot guarantee or warrant
the security of any information you disclose or transmit to us online and cannot
be responsible for the theft, destruction, or inadvertent disclosure of your personal
information.
PRIVACY POLICY FOR MINORS
Paramount Farms does not knowingly collect information from minors. If you are under
18, please do not provide any personal information to us.
CHANGES TO THESE TERMS
The terms of this Privacy Policy may change from time to time without prior notice
to you, so please check this page periodically for any changes. Your continued use
of the Site following the posting of changes to these terms will mean you accept
those changes.
QUESTIONS
Any questions that you may have regarding this Privacy Policy should be directed
to:
Paramount Farms
11444 West Olympic Boulevard, 2nd Floor
Los Angeles, California 90064
Attention: General Counsel
Telephone: (310) 966-5700
e-mail:
legalinfo@paramountfarms.com