Privacy & Security
The following discloses True Beans’ information gathering and dissemination
practices for the information collected through this website (this “Site”). We
encourage you to read this Policy before using this Site. Your use of this Site
signifies that you agree with all terms of this Policy, so please do not use
this Site if you disagree with any part of this Policy.
PRIVACY STATEMENT
I. True Beans’ Collection and Use of Information
A. Personally Identifiable Information. We will collect personally
identifiable information about you, such as your name, address, telephone
numbers, e-mail address, when you provide it to us while on this Site such as
when you create an account, enter a contest, sign up for newsletters,
participate in a survey, contact customer service or otherwise interact with
this Site. Your personally identifiable information may be used by us for all
legal purposes, which may include, but are not limited to, responding to your
requests, processing your transactions, for administrative purposes such as
conducting contests, tracking which parts of the Site are of interest to you,
and processing prizes. If you choose to “opt-in” (as defined below), we may
share your personally identifiable information with True Beans’ subsidiaries
or affiliated entities ("Affiliated Entities") for purposes of sending you
information about the programs of True Beans or its Affiliated Entities and,
occasionally, sending you advertising/promotional material from some of their
advertising and strategic partners. We may also use your personally
identifiable information for internal business purposes, such as optimizing
Site experiences and analyzing and managing our website business. This Site is
not directed at children and we request that children do not provide
personally identifiable information through the Site.
B. Demographic Information. We may also collect demographic data,
such as your date of birth, gender and zip code. Demographic data may be used
to tailor your experience at this Site, such as showing you content including
special events and advertising that you might be interested in, and displaying
the content according to your zip code. True Beans reserves the right to share
aggregate information that does not identify any particular user with
subsidiaries and affiliates of True Beans, strategic partners, merchants and
advertisers.
C. Passive Collection of Non-Personal Information. This Site often
requires the use of encrypted or non-encrypted cookies. Cookies are data that
a web server transfers to an individual's computer for recordkeeping purposes.
Cookies are an industry standard used by most websites and help facilitate
users' ongoing access to and use of a particular website, for example by
providing information used to deliver content specific to your interests and
for other purposes, such as security and other account administrative
functions, and which may track personal identifying information. If you do not
want information collected through the use of cookies, there are simple
procedures in most browsers that allow you to delete existing cookies, to
automatically decline cookies or to be given the choice of declining or
accepting the transfer of particular cookies to your computer. Please refer to
your browser instructions or help screen to learn more about these functions.
You should note, however, that declining cookies may make it difficult or
impossible for you to use portions of the Site.
II. Disclosure of Information to Third Parties
True Beans may share personally identifiable information, including information
that you provide on the Site, with third parties as described below. You should
also be aware that this means that we may transfer information to any country in
the world, including the USA and other countries that do not offer the same
level of data protection as the country where you reside.
A. Affiliated Entities. We may share any information, including
personally identifiable information that you provide on the Site, with our
subsidiaries and affiliates, for the purposes described in Section 1(A).
B. Strategic Partners. From time to time we may enter into a special
relationship with another company that is not owned by or affiliated with True
Beans to provide additional features on this Site. These special relationships
may include business partners, sponsors and co-branded sites. Any information,
including personally identifiable information that you provide on one of these
co-branded sites, will be shared with these third party partners. By
participating in activities or providing your information on these co-branded
sites, you also consent to our providing your personally identifiable
information to those third parties. Since these third parties will use your
information in accordance with their own privacy practices, you should check
their websites for information regarding their privacy policies.
C. Service Providers. We may use third party service providers to help
us operate our business and this Site or administer activities on our behalf,
such as sending emails, order fulfillment and contest administration. We may
share your information with these third parties for those limited purposes.
D. Other Disclosures. Personally identifiable information of any
individual user may be shared with other companies outside True Beans: (i) as
permitted by law, (ii) in the event of a transfer of ownership, assets or a
bankruptcy of True Beans, (iii) where we determine that disclosure of specific
information is necessary to comply with the request of a law enforcement or
regulatory agency or other legal process, or (iv) to protect the interests or
safety of True Beans or other visitors to this Site.
E. User Generated Content Functions. This Site may enable users to
submit their own content. Any information you disclose in connection with a
submission becomes public information and you should exercise caution when
deciding to disclose your personal, financial or other information in a
submission. True Beans cannot prevent such information from being used in a
manner that may violate this Privacy Policy, the law or your personal privacy
and safety and is not responsible for the results of such postings.
F. Contests. We may operate contests and similar promotions through the
Site that may require online registration. We typically ask you for certain
personally identifiable information when you enter and, if applicable, win a
contest, raffle or similar promotion. We may share this personally
identifiable information with third party sponsors of such contests and
promotions (irrespective of whether it is hosted by us), or otherwise in
accordance with the rules applicable to such contest or promotion. You should
carefully review the rules of each contest and promotion in which you
participate through the Site, as they may contain additional important
information about True Beans’ or a sponsor's use of your personally
identifiable information. Insofar as the terms and conditions of such rules
concerning the treatment of your personally identifiable information conflict
with this Privacy Statement, the terms and conditions of such rules shall
control.
III. LINKS AND THIRD PARTIES' PRIVACY PRACTICES
This Site may contain links to other sites that are not operated by True Beans.
TRUE BEANS IS NOT RESPONSIBLE FOR THE PRIVACY PRACTICES OR THE CONTENT OF SUCH
OTHER WEBSITES, INCLUDING WEBSITES OPERATED BY AFFILIATED ENTITIES. We provide
such links only as a convenience and the inclusion of a link on the site does
not imply endorsement of the linked site by True Beans. If you provide any
personally identifiable information through any such third party website, your
transaction will occur on such third party's website (and not on this site) and
the personally identifiable information you provide will be collected by and
controlled by the privacy policy of that third party. True Beans recommends that
you review the privacy policy of third party websites arrived at from links on
this Site.
IV. SECURITY
This Site has security measures in place to help protect against the loss,
misuse and alteration of the personally identifiable information under its
control. True Beans employs security measures consistent with standard industry
practice to help protect against public access to personally identifiable and
account activity information collected on and used by True Beans at this Site.
Access to our databases with personally identifiable information is logged for
security purposes and access is limited to key personnel. Certain specific
activities are protected using secure communications software. Personally
identifiable information and account activity are also protected through the use
of user names and passwords. In order to help maintain the security of your
information, you should protect the confidentiality of your user name and
password.
V. OPT-IN/CHOICE
This Site may provide you with the opportunity to opt-in to receive marketing
communications from True Beans. If you do not opt-in, True Beans will not send
you its promotional offers. However, regardless of your opt-in preferences, True
Beans may still at times need to send program e-mails for administrative
reasons. If you opt to receive communications and then change your election,
your opt-out preference may not be effective in certain instances where you
agreed to receive brand-specific communications. We will endeavor to comply with
requests to opt-put as soon as reasonably possible. Note that despite any
request for removal of or change to personally identifiable information, we may
need to retain certain information for recordkeeping purposes and there may also
be residual information that will remain within our databases and other records,
which will not be removed or changed.
VI. UPDATES TO THIS PRIVACY POLICY
True Beans reserves the right to make changes in this Privacy Policy. In the
event that True Beans makes a material change to this Privacy Policy, it will be
posted here.
VII. GOVERNING LAW
This Privacy Policy is governed by the laws of the State of California, USA,
without regard to its choice of law provisions.
VIII. CONTACTING TRUE BEANS
If you have any questions about this Privacy Policy or the practices of this
Site, you may contact:
True Beans Website Customer Care:
webmaster@truebeans.com