Truffle Food & Wine is committed to protecting your privacy and developing technology that gives you a safe online experience. This Statement of Privacy applies to the Truffle Food & Wine website and governs data collection and usage. By using the Truffle Food & Wine website, you consent to the data practices described in this statement.
Collection of your Personal Information
Please know that Truffle Food & Wine will never sell, rent or lease its customer lists to third parties. Truffle Food & Wine will however collect personally identifiable information, such as your e-mail address, name, home or work address or telephone number by your provision.
We also collect information about your computer, which can include: your IP address, browser type, domain names, access times and referring website addresses. This information is used by Truffle Food & Wine for the operation of its web service, to maintain a high quality of service, and to provide general statistics regarding use of the Truffle Food & Wine website.
Please keep in mind that if you directly disclose personally identifiable information or personally sensitive data through the Truffle Food & Wine public review section, this information may be collected and used by others.
Use of your Personal Information
Truffle Food & Wine might use your personally identifiable information to inform you of other products or services available from Truffle Food & Wine and its affiliates. Truffle Food & Wine may also contact you via surveys to conduct research about your opinion of current services or of potential new services that may be offered.
All third parties - couriers etc are prohibited from using your personal information except to provide these services to Truffle Food & Wine, and they are required to maintain the confidentiality of your information. The Truffle Food & Wine website will disclose your personal information, without notice, only if required to do so by law or in the good faith belief that such action is necessary to: (a) conform to the edicts of the law or comply with legal process served on Truffle Food & Wine or the site; (b) protect and defend the rights or property of Truffle Food & Wine; and, (c) act under exigent circumstances to protect the personal safety of users of Truffle Food & Wine, or the public.
Use of Cookies
The Truffle Food & Wine website uses "cookies" to help you personalize your online experience. A cookie is a text file that is placed on your hard disk by a Web page server. Cookies cannot be used to run programs or deliver viruses to your computer. Cookies are uniquely assigned to you, and can only be read by a web server in the domain that issued the cookie to you.
One of the primary purposes of cookies is to provide a convenience feature to save you time. The purpose of a cookie is to tell the Web server that you have returned to a specific page. For example, if you personalize Truffle Food & Wine pages, or register with Truffle Food & Wine site or services, a cookie helps Truffle Food & Wine to recall your specific information on subsequent visits. This simplifies the process of recording your personal information, such as billing addresses, shipping addresses, and so on. When you return to the same Truffle Food & Wine website, the information you previously provided can be retrieved, so you can easily use the Truffle Food & Wine features that you customized.
You have the ability to accept or decline cookies. Most Web browsers automatically accept cookies, but you can usually modify your browser setting to decline cookies if you prefer. If you choose to decline cookies, you may not be able to fully experience the interactive features of the Truffle Food & Wine services or websites you visit.
Security of your Personal Information
Truffle Food & Wine secures your personal information from unauthorized access, use or disclosure. Truffle Food & Wine secures the personally identifiable information you provide on computer servers in a controlled, secure environment, protected from unauthorized access, use or disclosure. When personal information (such as a credit card number) is transmitted to other websites, it is protected through the use of encryption, such as the Secure Socket Layer (SSL) protocol. Credit card numbers are never stored in their entirety in one place and are manually assembled by Truffle Food & Wine in-store only when the order is processed.
Changes to this Statement
Truffle Food & Wine will occasionally update this Statement of Privacy to reflect company and customer feedback. Truffle Food & Wine encourages you to periodically review this Statement to be informed of how Truffle Food & Wine is protecting your information.