Effective as of 3/6/2011

Our Commitment to Privacy
Who Do We contact
The Information  We Collect
How We Use the Information
Our Commitment to Children’s Privacy
Our Commitment To Data Security(how we protect you)
How To Access and Correct Your Information
Disclaimer
Contact Us

Our Commitment to Privacy

Your Privacy is important to us. We want to provide you with an enjoyable experience while on or website, and understand that a significant part of that is knowing your identity and any data you provide are secure.  In order to provide you with an enjoyable experience we have created this policy to spell out exactly what kinds of data we collect, how we use it, and what choices you can make as to how your information is collected.

To make this notice easy to find we have included it in the footer of every web page and at every point where personally identifiable info may be collected.  

Should you choose to provide personal information you want the peace of mind knowing that it will be secure. 

Who do we contact?

HealthySnackin.com (HS) only contacts individuals who specifically request that we do so or in the event that they have signed up to receive our free newsletters or have purchased one of our products.

What information do we collect?

HS collects information in two categories:

1. Personally Identifiable Information (PII)

· name and e-mail address - provided by you for registration to receive our free newsletters.
· name, postal address, phone and credit card information - provided by you when purchasing our products.

All such information is strictly protected and used only for delivering the content and products the user has signed up for or purchased. **Accurate?Your credit card information is sent through a secure gateway to our merchant provider who securely processes the information.This information is NEVER used for other purposes and is NEVER shared with 3rd parties.

There is a single exception to this. Say you were subscribed to some newsletter such as "modern world fashion" and the editors ran a promotion of our site within it, and you followed over to our site, then subscribed to our newsletter, then at a later date you unsubscribed.

In that case, we have to provide back to "modern world fashion" your email address, so they can exclude you from our future mailings. No other information other than email address is provided and that email address is used ONLY to suppress our future emails to you. This scenario accounts for less than 1% of our newsletter subscribers.

2. Anonymous Usage History (non PII)

This information is strictly limited to the history of activities that the user engaged in while on our site. it does NOT include any personally identifiable information (PII).
For example, the string "sub+customer" in a cookie (see below for what cookies are) might indicate that you are both a subscriber AND a customer.

The purpose of this information is to improve your experience. For example, by storing the fact that you are already a subscriber, we do not need to bother you with an irrelevant subscriber box.

There is a small subset of this history that we use with 3rd parties, such as Google, for the purpose of measuring and improving the efficacy of advertising campaigns.

Some of these third parties, aggregate such information across many websites. This allows them to identify users who are more likely to be interested in specific offerings like fashion, sports, education and so on.

As an Internet user, you may experience the results of such aggregation by noticing how the ads displayed on Yahoo, for example, better match your interests (the optimistic scenario), or at least more closely match a website that you recently visited.

Whether you find this annoying and spooky or helpful and relevant, or perhaps both, you are in good company. This area of Internet advertising is new and controversial. The tradeoff between privacy vs. commercial efficiency has a long history, for example the "Do not call" list.

In any event, it is likely that either the government or the industry will adopt some form of "opt out" capability in the future to address these concerns.
 
What are cookies/clear GIFs and how do we use them?

Cookies: Like many other commercial sites, our site utilizes standard technologies called "cookies" and clear GIFs to collect information about how our Site is used. A cookie is a small data text file, which a website stores on your computer's hard drive (if your web browser permits) that can later be retrieved to identify you to us. Cookies were designed to help a website recognize a user's browser as a previous visitor and thus save and remember any preferences that may have been set while the user was browsing the site. A cookie cannot be read by a website other than the one that set the cookie. A cookie cannot pass on a computer virus or capture any of the Personally Identifiable information.

Clear GIFs: At times, we work with third-party service partners that employ clear GIFs (also known as pixel tags, single pixel GIFs, web beacons or action tags) for our benefit to help us measure advertising effectiveness. Clear GIFs are tiny graphics with a unique identifier, similar in function to cookies, and are used to track the online movements of our users. The main difference between the two is that clear GIFs are invisible on the page and are much smaller, about the size of the period at the end of this sentence. Clear GIFs are not tied to your Personally Identifiable Information and only track the visitor traffic and behavior to and on our Site.

Clear GIFs can "work with" existing cookies on a computer if they are both from the same website or advertising company. That means, for example, that if a person visited "www.companyX.com", which uses an advertising company's clear GIF, the website would match the clear GIFs identifier and the advertising company's cookie ID number, to show the past online behavior for that computer. This collected information can be shared with the advertising company. We do, at times, provide such information to our third-party advertising service partners, but that information never includes personally identifiable information.

How do we store your email information?

Your email information (email address, first name) is stored at the list server that delivers HS newsletters. Your information can only be accessed by those who help manage those lists in order to deliver e-mail to those who would like to receive HS newsletters.
All of the newsletters that are sent to you by HS include an unsubscribe link in them. You can remove yourself at any time from our newsletters by clicking on the unsubscribe link. You can also unsubscribe yourself at any time by clicking here.

How Do We Protect You?

Ordering from our site is as secure as ordering via a catalog or using your credit card at your favorite restaurant. The media has played a large role in accelerating the myth that online shopping subverts your personal information any more than shopping anywhere else. If you shop from trusted merchants with an established brand, your online experience should be worry free.

We are committed to preventing others from unauthorized access to the personal information you provide to us, and we maintain commercially reasonable procedures and technology designed for this purpose. The Website has reasonable technical and organizational security measures in place to protect the loss, misuse or alteration of information under our control. However, we cannot guarantee that unauthorized third parties will never be able to defeat those security measures or use your personal information for improper purposes.

When our registration/order form asks users to enter sensitive information, such as credit card number, that information is encrypted and is protected with the best encryption software in the industry, 128-bit SSL. While on a secure page, such as our order form, the lock icon on the bottom of Web browsers such as Netscape Navigator and Microsoft Internet Explorer becomes locked, as opposed to un-locked, or open, when users are just 'surfing'.
While we use 128-bit SSL encryption to protect sensitive information online, we also do everything in our power to protect user-information off-line. All of our users' information, not just the sensitive information mentioned above, is restricted in our offices. Only employees who need the information to perform a specific job (for example, our billing clerk or a customer service representative) are granted access to personally identifiable information. Finally, the servers that store personally identifiable information are in a secure environment.

How to Access and Correct Your Information

Upon request we provide site visitors with access to unique identifier information (e.g., customer number or password) that we maintain about them, transaction information (e.g., dates on which customers made purchases, amounts and types of purchases) that we maintain about them, contact information (e.g., name, address, phone number) that we maintain about them and a description of information that we maintain about them. Consumers can access this information by emailing us, calling us at 1-800-729-2849, or writing to us at the address below.

Upon request we offer visitors the ability to have inaccuracies corrected in contact information, financial information or transaction information. Consumers can have this information corrected by email, calling us at 1-800-729-2849, or writing to us at the address below.

Disclaimer

This policy may be changed at any time at HS's discretion. If we should update this policy, we will post the updates to this page on our Website. This policy was revised December 13, 2010.

If you have any questions or concerns regarding our privacy policy please send us your question by emailing us or call 1-800-729-2849.       
You may also send a letter to:

Healthy Snackin at Silver Creek Specialty Meats
P.O Box 3307
Oshkosh, WI 54903-3307