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PRIVACY POLICY

 

Touring Coffee Roasters, LLC Privacy Policy

Effective Date: January 1, 2024

 

Thank you for accessing the Touring Coffee Roasters, LLC website (“Site”) operated by Touring Coffee Roasters, LLC. We respect your privacy and want to protect your personal information. To learn more, please read this Privacy Policy.

The quick version is this: Any information we collect is used to improve our ability to give you an easy and enjoyable customer service experience, whether you are browsing or making a purchase. The manner in which we collect information is through forms and cookies, and we never sell your information to another company or third party. For more detailed information, please see below.

 

This Privacy Policy explains how we collect, use and (under certain conditions) disclose your personal information. This Privacy Policy also explains the steps we have taken to secure your personal information. Finally, this Privacy Policy explains your options regarding the collection, use and disclosure of your personal information. By visiting the Site directly or through another website, or accessing the Site on any computer, mobile phone, tablet, or other device (collectively, “Device”), you agree to the terms of this Privacy Policy and consent to the collection and use of information as discussed in this Privacy Policy. If you do not agree to the terms of this Privacy Policy, do not access this Site.

 

This Privacy Policy applies to the Site. This Privacy Policy does not necessarily apply to any offline collection of your personal information. Please see below for details. We are not responsible for the content or privacy practices on any web site not operated by Touring Coffee Roasters, LLC. to which the Site links or that links to the Site.

 

We may modify this Privacy Policy at any time and will post the current version on the Site. We encourage you to periodically review our Privacy Policy to stay informed about how we are using the information we collect.

 

Information Collection and Use

Information Collection.

We collect information from you in several different ways on this Site. We may collect any content, record, or electronic communication of any kind, including without limitation your (1) contact information, (2) financial information, (3) Facebook pixel to monitor the effectiveness of our advertising and more clearly define our customer behavior purely for marketing purposes. (4) demographic information, and (5) other personal information required to process your application to request services from us, so that we may provide you with the information or services that you request, and so that we may communicate with you and send you information and materials for marketing and other purposes, subject to applicable laws and the terms of this Privacy Policy.

One goal in collecting personal information from you is to provide an efficient, meaningful, and customized experience. For example, we may use your personal information to:

help make the Site easier for you to use by not having to enter information more than once.

help you quickly find information, products, and services.

help us create content that is most relevant to you.

alert you to new information, products, and services that we offer.

 

Registration and Ordering. Before using certain parts of any Site or ordering products, you must complete an online registration form. During registration, you will be prompted to provide to us certain personal information, including but not limited to your name, shipping and billing address(es), phone number(s), email address, and credit card number. These kinds of personal information are used for billing purposes, to fulfill your orders, to communicate with you about your order and the Site, and for internal marketing purposes. If we encounter a problem when processing your order, your personal information may be used to contact you.

(b) Email Addresses. Several locations of the Site permit you to enter your email address for purposes including but not limited to: to register for a contest or sweepstakes; to request us to notify you of new products; and to sign up for email newsletters and special offers, or to place an order. Your participation in a contest or sweepstakes is completely voluntary, so you have a choice whether to participate and disclose information to us. We use this information to notify contest and sweepstakes winners and to award prizes. By entering a contest or sweepstakes, you may be opting in to receive our email newsletter and special offers and this will be disclosed in the official rules governing the contest or sweepstakes

Cookies and Other Technology. Like many sites, the Site employs cookies and web beacons (also known as clear GIF technology or “action tags”) to speed your navigation of the Site, recognize you and your access privileges, and track your Site usage. 
(i) Cookies are small pieces of information that are stored as text files by your Internet browser on your computer's hard drive. Most Internet browsers are initially set to accept cookies. You can set your browser to refuse cookies from web sites or to remove cookies from your hard drive, but if you do, you will not be able to access or use portions of the Site. We have to use cookies to enable you to select products, place them in an online shopping cart, and to purchase those products. If you do this, we keep a record of your browsing activity and purchase. The site's cookies do not and cannot infiltrate a user's hard drive to gather a user's confidential information. Our cookies are not “spyware.”
(ii) Web beacons assist in delivering cookies and help us determine whether a web page on the Site has been viewed and, if so, how many times. For example, any electronic image on the Site, such as an ad banner, can function as a web beacon.
(iii) We may use third-party advertising companies to help tailor site content to users or to serve ads on our behalf. These companies may employ cookies and web beacons to measure advertising effectiveness (such as which web pages are visited or what products are purchased and in what amount). Any information that these third parties collect via cookies and web beacons is not linked to any personal information collected by us.
(iv) As an example, Facebook collects certain information via cookies and web beacons to determine which web pages are visited or what products are purchased. Please note that any information collected by Facebook via cookies and web beacons is not linked to any customer's personal information collected by us. We may combine the information we collect through cookies and web beacons with other information we have collected from you or information from other sources. We may combine the information we collect from you with information we receive about you from other sources, such as address update services.

Log Files. As is true of most web sites, the Site server automatically recognizes the Internet URL from which you access the Site. We may also log your Internet protocol (“IP”) address, Internet service provider, and date/time stamp for system administration, order verification, internal marketing, and system troubleshooting purposes (An IP address may indicate the location of your computer on the Internet). IP addresses are not used to track a user's session. This information only helps us determine how often different areas of our Site are visited. We do not link IP address to any information that is personally identifiable. In some jurisdictions, individuals may have the right to provide opt-in consent or withdraw consent for certain uses. If you reside in such jurisdictions, you may have additional rights which are detailed below, “Access, Correction and Deletion.”

 

Information Use and Disclosure.

Internal Use. We may use your personal information to process your order and provide you with customer service. We may internally use your personal information to improve the Site's content and layout, to improve outreach and for our own marketing efforts (including marketing our services and products to you), to provide interest-based advertising to you based on the way you browse and shop on the Site and other platforms, and to determine general marketplace information about visitors to the Site. In order to facilitate such use and the other uses described in this Section 2, we may share your information with affiliates under Touring Coffee Roasters, LLC's control.

Communications with You. We may use your personal information to communicate with you about the Site and your orders and deliveries. Also, we may send you a confirmation email when you register with us. Consistent with applicable law, which may require express consent, we may send you a service-related announcement on the rare occasions when it is necessary (for example, if we must temporarily suspend our service for maintenance). Also, you may submit your email address for reasons such as to register for a contest or sweepstakes; to request us to notify you of products; and to sign up for email newsletters and special offers. If you submit your email address, we may use it to deliver information to you. We always permit you to unsubscribe or opt-out of future emails (see the “Opt Out” section, below, for more details). Because we have to communicate with you about orders that you choose to place, you cannot opt-out of receiving emails related to your orders.

External Use. We want to provide you with excellent service and to offer you a great selection of coffee and other products. We do not sell, rent, trade, license or otherwise disclose your specific personal information or financial information to anyone other than to affiliates under Touring Coffee Roasters, LLC’s control, except that:

 

As do most Internet retailers, we sometimes use others to perform specific functions on our behalf. When we disclose information to these service providers, we disclose information to help them to perform their service. For example, in order to deliver products to you, we must share some information. We partner with third parties (such as the U.S. Postal Service and United Parcel Service) to ship products, to ensure delivery, and so that we can obtain feedback, improve the quality of our service, and measure and improve the quality of the service of the third party. In the example of shippers, we provide them some personally identifiable information such as your name, shipping address, email, and phone number.

Similarly, to help you buy products and provide customer service to you, we must provide your credit card number to financial-services corporations such as credit-card processors and issuers. When we submit your credit card number for authorization, we use state-of-the-art data encryption to protect your information. (More on this below in “Data Security.”)

We may disclose such information in response to requests from law enforcement officials conducting investigations; subpoenas; a court order; or if we are otherwise required to disclose such information by law. We also will release personal information where disclosure is necessary to protect our legal rights, to enforce our Terms of Service or other agreements, and to operate the Site or to protect ourselves or others. For example, we may share information to reduce the risk of fraud or if someone uses or attempts to use the Site for illegal reasons or to commit fraud.

We will not sell (or trade or rent) personally identifiable information to other companies as part of our regular course of business. However, it's possible that we might acquire or merge with or be acquired by another company or that we might dispose of some or all of our assets. If that happens, your personal information may be disclosed to another company, but that disclosure will be subject to the Privacy Policy then in effect.

We may share non-personal information (such as the number of daily visitors to a particular web page, or the size of an order placed on a certain date) with third parties such as advertising partners. This information does not directly personally identify you or any user.

We may publicly disclose the name, city, and state of the contest and sweepstakes winners.

In addition, we may use and share aggregated information that does not uniquely identify you when it enables us to improve and enrich our services and the Site's content. We maintain full rights to any information collected on this website, and may freely collect, use and disclose such information unless prohibited by this Privacy Policy or applicable law.

 

Please note that if you voluntarily submit any personal information for posting on the Site, such as a review or a blog post, the information becomes publicly available and can be collected and used by others, so you should use care before posting information about yourself online.

 

Interest-Based Advertising

We may use third-party advertising companies that use tracking technologies to serve our advertisements across the Internet. These companies may collect information about your visits to the Site and other websites and your interaction with our advertising and other communications. These advertising companies serve ads on behalf of us and others on non-affiliated sites, and some of those ads may be personalized, meaning that they are intended to be relevant to you based on information collected about your visits to this Site and elsewhere over time. Other companies may also use such technology to advertise on our Site.

If you would like more information about this practice and to know your choices concerning interest-based ads, visit:

http://www.networkadvertising.org/choices/

www.aboutads.info/choices

In Canada, please visit: http://youradchoices.ca/choices/

In the EU, please visit: http://www.youronlinechoices.eu/

 

Access, Correction & Deletion

We respect your right to access and correct your personal information. You may also request that we update your personal information or correct any factual errors that you believe may exist regarding this information. You may also exercise your rights, subject to applicable laws, to request that we delete or restrict access to your personal data. We may need to retain it for legally permitted purposes, and this will be explained to you if necessary. If you need assistance correcting or updating your personal information, or would like to request that we delete your personal information, please contact us with your request at touringcoffeeroasters@gmail.com

Retention of Personal Information

We retain personal information where we have an ongoing legitimate business or legal need to do so. Our retention periods will vary depending on the type of data involved, but, generally, we will refer to the following criteria in order to determine retention period:

    •    Whether we have a legal or contractual need to retain the data.

    •    Whether the data is necessary to provide our products, services or programs.

    •    Whether our visitors have the ability to access and delete the data within their accounts.

    •    Whether our visitors would reasonably expect that we would retain the data until they remove it or until their Touring Coffee Roasters, LLC accounts are closed or terminated.

 

When we have no ongoing legitimate business need to process your personal information, we will either delete or anonymize it or, if this is not possible (for example, because your personal information has been stored in backup archives), then we will securely store your personal information and isolate it from any further processing until deletion is possible.

Data Security

The Site incorporates reasonable and appropriate physical, electronic, and administrative procedures to safeguard the confidentiality of your personal information, including Secure Sockets Layer (“SSL”) for all financial transactions through the Site. We use SSL encryption to protect your personal information online, and we also take several steps to protect your personal information in our facilities. Access to your personal information is restricted. Only employees who need access to your personal information to perform a specific job are granted access to your personal information. Finally, we rely on third-party service providers for the physical security of some of our computer hardware. We believe that their security procedures are adequate. For example, when you visit the Site, you access servers that are kept in a secure physical environment, behind a locked cage and an electronic firewall.

While we use industry-standard precautions to safeguard your personal information, we cannot guarantee complete security. 100% complete security does not presently exist anywhere online or offline.

 

Opt Out

Upon your request, we will (a) stop sending emails to your email address; and/or (b) disable your account to prevent any future purchases through that account. You can make these requests at the “Contact” page of the Site or by emailing your request to Touring Coffee Roaster’s Customer Service Department at touringcoffeeroasters@gmail.com

Please do not email your credit-card number or other sensitive information.

 

Offline Collection, Use & Disclosure of Information 

As you might expect from us, the majority of information that we collect is obtained through the Site, and this Privacy Policy applies only to that online collection of personal information. We also may collect information offline, where we also try to protect the privacy of your personal information. One example involves someone calling us to place an order or to ask questions. When someone calls, we will ask only for the personal information we need in order to place the order or to answer the question. When we need to store information (such as order information), we will enter it into our database through SSL encryption (see the “Data Security” section above for more information). Another example involves faxes. If you fax something to us, we will act upon the fax and then either store it in a locked repository or we will shred the fax if there is no need to retain the information. There are other ways we could learn of personal information offline (for example, we suppose someone could send us a letter including some return address information), and this Privacy Policy doesn't discuss or try to predict all of those methods or uses. As we mentioned, we will try to treat offline collection, uses, and disclosures consistently with our relevant online practices.

 

Access by Children

This website is not directed toward children under 13 years of age and Touring Coffee Roasters, LLC does not knowingly collect or use information from children under 13 without verifiable parental consent. If you believe that a child has provided personal information to us, please contact us promptly as described below, and we will endeavor to investigate and delete such information from our systems.

 

Third-Party Websites

This Site may link to, or be linked to, other websites not maintained by or related to Touring Coffee Roasters, LLC. Touring Coffee Roasters, LLC is not responsible for the privacy policies or practices of any third parties or third-party websites, including any linked or linking websites. To the extent that you disclose personally identifiable information to any such third parties, different rules may apply to their use and disclosure of personal information that you disclose to them. We encourage you to review the privacy policies of such websites before disclosing your personal information to them.

Updates to this Policy

The effective date of this Privacy Policy is January 1, 2024. We reserve the right to modify or amend this Privacy Policy at any time. All changes will be effective immediately upon posting to this Site. Material changes will be conspicuously posted on this website. We encourage you to review this Privacy Policy from time to time so you will know if the Privacy Policy has been changed or updated. By accessing or using this Site after such changes are posted you agree and consent to all such changes.

 

Your California Privacy Rights

California law permits our customers who are California residents to request certain information about our disclosure of personal information to third parties for their own direct marketing purposes during the preceding calendar year. This request is free and may be made once a year. To make such a request, please email us:  at the following address: 

touringcoffeeroasters@gmail.com

 

Right to Removal of Personal Information—California 

If you are under 18 years of age, reside in California, and have a registered account with us, you have the right to request the removal of unwanted information that you publicly post on the Site. To request the removal of such information, you can contact us as provided below. Upon receiving such a request, we will make sure that the information is not publicly available on the Site, but the information may not be completely or comprehensively removed from our systems and databases.

 

Visitors from Outside the United States—Cross-Border Transfer

The Site is hosted in the United States. If you are visiting the Site from outside the United States, your information may be transferred to, stored and processed in the United States or other countries in accordance with this Privacy Policy. The data protection and other applicable laws of the United States or other countries may not be as comprehensive as those laws or regulations in your country or may otherwise differ from the data protection or consumer protection laws in your country. Your information may be available to government authorities under lawful orders and law applicable in such jurisdictions. By using the Site and/or providing personal information to us, you consent to transfer of your information to our facilities as described in this Privacy Policy.

 

Right to Lodge Complaints

We are transparent about the ways in which we collect and use personal information, and welcome your questions and concerns. If you have any concern or complaint about the way we handle your personal information, please contact us as described below. To the extent you believe we have not addressed your concerns or otherwise choose to do so, you have the right to lodge a complaint with a supervisory authority in the country where you reside and/or the United States. You may contact the US Federal Trade Commission regarding your concerns. For more information, please see https://www.ftc.gov/faq/consumer-protection/submit-consumer-complaint-ftc.

 

Contact Us

If you have questions or concerns about this Privacy Policy or how we collect and use the information of our customers, you can contact us by emailing us at touringcoffeeroasters@gmail.com

If we need or are required, to contact you concerning any event that involves your information, we may do so by email, telephone, or mail.

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