Privacy Notice

The Planters Peanut Center recognizes and respects the importance of maintaining the privacy of our customers, registered members ("Members") and users, and has established this Privacy Policy as a result. The purpose of this Privacy Policy is to inform you of: the personal information we may collect from you when you visit our web site, respond to our emails, place orders for flavored popcorn or other products via mail or fax, or otherwise contact us via telephone, email, fax or mail, why we gather information from you, how we collect it, how we use it, and the choices you have regarding our use of personal information you have provided. This Privacy Policy is part of the Terms of Use, which governs your use of our web site located at www.suffolkpeanuts.com. The Web Site is owned by Suffolk Peanut Center, Inc. t/a Planters Peanut Center (the "Company"). Note: You must be 18 years or older to use, subscribe or register as a member of the Planters Peanut Center. The Web Site is a general audience site and we do not knowingly collect, maintain or disclose personal information from or about children. Why do we gather information? The Planters Peanut Center gathers personal information to help improve our products and customer service, to communicate with you, to process your peanut orders, to provide an enhanced and more personalized shopping experience and to inform you, and your gift and message recipients, of special offers and discounts from us. What information do we gather? We collect information through our Web Site, emails, mail, fax, and telephone, including when you: place an order for gourmet peanuts or other products, participate in our forums, surveys, contests, sweepstakes, promotions, content submissions, chats, bulletin boards, discussion groups, requests for suggestions, and membership registrations, and engage in other activities, services, purchase peanuts, products and resources we make accessible to our customers, members or users. Depending on how you interact with us, we collect some or all of the following types of information: Your name, address, telephone number, email address, We do collect financial information (such as credit card number) on our web site which is used for authorization through Authorize.net. Payments are processed through a secure connection with a trusted payment processing system. products purchased and occasion type (for example, Mother's Day), any promotion code and related information Message and gift recipients' names, addresses, telephone numbers and email addresses, and other information you provide to us, including User Submissions (defined in the Terms of Use). Information you provide to us may be collected by us even if an order, registration, or other process is started but not completed or otherwise cancelled. Members may also add to their Address Book the name, address and telephone number of friends or other persons to whom they may wish to send gifts or expressions. Only Members have the right to view and edit their Address Book entries. How we use "Cookies" A "cookie" is a small data file sent to your browser from a web server and stored on your computer. We use cookies to let us know that you are a prior customer, user or Member and to provide certain features to you. Most web browsers allow you to instruct the browser to prevent the use of cookies. However, if you disable this feature, certain aspects of The Planters Peanut Center Web Site, such as the shopping basket, may not function properly. How we use the information we collect We use information we collect to communicate with you, to process your orders, to provide an enhanced and more personalized shopping experience, to inform you and your gift and message recipients of offers and discounts from Planters Peanut Center and our affiliated brands and to enable you to receive credits for purchases under loyalty or buying programs which you have joined. We do not share any of your information we gather when you are ordering our gourmet peanuts with anyone else except when it is required to process and ship your order. We reserve the right to disclose information you provide to us as required by law, in response to legal process and law enforcement requests and as necessary or appropriate, in our view, to operate the Web Site, process orders or registrations, to conduct promotions, contests, and sweepstakes you participate in, and to protect the rights or property of the Company, its Affiliates, users, customers, recipients, Members, Sponsors, Providers, Licensors, Merchants and Associates (as these terms are defined in the Terms of Use). Please note that any personal information you reveal or post on one our public forums (as defined in the Terms of Use), such as a message board, chat room, discussion group, folder, survey, contest, sweepstakes, user review and rate forum, and all User Submissions, are not protected by this Privacy Policy and may be collected, shared and used by us or with third parties, including to contact you. Information you give out or post on our public forums you disclose at your own risk. Consent to Transfer and Submission The Planters Peanut Center is operated in the United States. If you are located outside the United States, please be aware that any information you provide to us will be transferred to the United States. By using the Web Site or otherwise providing us with information, you hereby consent to this transfer. In addition, if you submit data to us about other individuals (such as your message and gift recipients when you order our flavored popcorn), you agree that you have obtained consent from each such individual to the submission, transfer and processing of the information. Although personal information collected by us through the Web Site, emails, mail, fax, and telephone is used by us in accordance with this Privacy Policy, laws generally applicable to the protection of personal data in the U.S. may not be as stringent as those in other countries. Links to Other Web Sites The Planters Peanut Center wants you to be aware that when you click on links and/or ad banners that take you to affiliated or third-party web sites, you will be subject to the privacy policies and terms of use of those web sites, not ours. We encourage you to read the posted privacy statement and user terms whenever using, and prior to providing any personal information to, any other web site. Security and Passwords We use Authorize.net to process credit card purchases. If you place an order for peanuts or other product on our Web site, you will be directed to the Authorize.net web site. Authorize.net's technology encrypts the credit card number you submit prior to transmission over the Internet using secure socket layer (SSL) encryption technology. This technology works best when the Web Site is viewed using Microsoft's Internet Explorer® or Netscape Navigator®. We use Authorize.net because we believe it is the safest, most reliable way to purchase online. However, no transmission of data over the Internet or any other network can be guaranteed to be 100% secure. Although we make reasonable efforts to safeguard personal information once we receive it, we cannot warrant the security of information we receive. Portions of the Web Site (such as our Member registration and Address Book) may require registration and log-in processes in which you will select a user ID and password (collectively, the "Password"). You are responsible for maintaining the confidentiality of any Password and for all activities that occur using your Password, whether or not authorized by you. You agree to immediately notify us of any unauthorized use of your Password or accounts. Third Parties We do not share personal information you provide with third parties except when it is required to process and ship your order.