PRIVACY POLICY
Protecting your private information is our priority. This Privacy Policy applies to www.carobme.org, and carobme and governs data collection and usage. For the purposes of this Privacy Policy, unless otherwise noted, all references to carobme include www.carobme.com and carobme. The carobme website is a e-commerce site. By using the carobme website, you consent to the data practices described in this statement.
Additional information for residents of California and individuals located in Europe can be found below.
Collection of your Personal Information
In order to better provide you with products and services offered, carobme may collect personally identifiable information, such as your:
- First and Last Name
- Mailing Address
- E-mail Address
If you purchase carobme's products and services, we collect billing and credit card information. This information is used to complete the purchase transaction.
Please keep in mind that if you directly disclose personally identifiable information or personally sensitive data through carobme's public message boards, this information may be collected and used by other third parties.
We do not collect any personal information about you unless you voluntarily provide it to us. However, you may be required to provide certain personal information to us when you elect to use certain products or services. These may include: (a) registering for an account; (b) entering a sweepstakes or contest sponsored by us or one of our partners; (c) signing up for special offers from selected third parties; (d) sending us an email message; (e) submitting your credit card or other payment information when ordering and purchasing products and services. To wit, we will use your information for, but not limited to, communicating with you in relation to services and/or products you have requested from us. We also may gather additional personal or non-personal information in the future.
Use of your Personal Information
carobme collects and uses your personal information to operate and deliver the services you have requested.
carobme may also use your personally identifiable information to inform you of other products or services available from carobme and its affiliates.
Sharing Information with Third Parties
carobme does not sell, rent or lease its customer lists to third parties. carobme may, from time to time, contact you on behalf of external business partners about a particular offering that may be of interest to you. In those cases, your unique personally identifiable information (e-mail, name, address, telephone number) is transferred to the third party. carobme may share data with trusted partners to help perform statistical analysis, send you email or postal mail, provide customer support, or arrange for deliveries. All such third parties are prohibited from using your personal information except to provide these services to carobme, and they are required to maintain the confidentiality of your information.
carobme may disclose your personal information, without notice, 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 carobme or the site; (b) protect and defend the rights or property of carobme; and/or (c) act under exigent circumstances to protect the personal safety of users of carobme, or the public.
Opt-Out of Disclosure of Personal Information to Third Parties
In connection with any personal information we may disclose to a third party for a business purpose, you have the right to know: The categories of personal information that we disclosed about you for a business purpose.
You have the right under the California Consumer Privacy Act of 2018 (CCPA) and certain other privacy and data protection laws, as applicable, to opt-out of the disclosure of your personal information. If you exercise your right to opt-out of the disclosure of your personal information, we will refrain from disclosing your personal information, unless you subsequently provide express authorization for the disclosure of your personal information. To opt-out of the disclosure of your personal information, contact us at info@carobme.com
Tracking User Behavior
carobme may keep track of the websites and pages our users visit within carobme, in order to determine what carobme services are the most popular. This data is used to deliver customized content and advertising within carobme to customers whose behavior indicates that they are interested in a particular subject area.
Automatically Collected Information
Information about your computer hardware and software may be automatically collected by carobme. This information can include: your IP address, browser type, domain names, access times and referring website addresses. This information is used for the operation of the service, to maintain quality of the service, and to provide general statistics regarding use of the carobme website.
Use of Cookies
The carobme website may use "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 carobme pages, or register with carobme site or services, a cookie helps carobme 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 carobme website, the information you previously provided can be retrieved, so you can easily use the carobme 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 carobme services or websites you visit.
Links
This website contains links to other sites. Please be aware that we are not responsible for the content or privacy practices of such other sites. We encourage our users to be aware when they leave our site and to read the privacy statements of any other site that collects personally identifiable information.
Security of your Personal Information
carobme secures your personal information from unauthorized access, use, or disclosure. carobme uses the following methods for this purpose:
- SSL Protocol
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 Sockets Layer (SSL) protocol.
We strive to take appropriate security measures to protect against unauthorized access to or alteration of your personal information. Unfortunately, no data transmission over the Internet or any wireless network can be guaranteed to be 100% secure. As a result, while we strive to protect your personal information, you acknowledge that: (a) there are security and privacy limitations inherent to the Internet which are beyond our control; and (b) security, integrity, and privacy of any and all information and data exchanged between you and us through this Site cannot be guaranteed.
Right to Deletion
Subject to certain exceptions set out below, on receipt of a verifiable request from you, we will:
-- Delete your personal information from our records; and
-- Direct any service providers to delete your personal information from their records. Please note that we may not be able to comply with requests to delete your personal information if it is necessary to:
-- Complete the transaction for which the personal information was collected, fulfill the terms of a written warranty or product recall conducted in accordance with federal law, provide a good or service requested by you, or reasonably anticipated within the context of our ongoing business relationship with you, or otherwise perform a contract between you and us;
-- Detect security incidents, protect against malicious, deceptive, fraudulent, or illegal activity; or prosecute those responsible for that activity;
-- Debug to identify and repair errors that impair existing intended functionality;
-- Exercise free speech, ensure the right of another consumer to exercise his or her right of free speech, or exercise another right provided for by law;
-- Comply with the California Electronic Communications Privacy Act;
-- Engage in public or peer-reviewed scientific, historical, or statistical research in the public interest that adheres to all other applicable ethics and privacy laws, when our deletion of the information is likely to render impossible or seriously impair the achievement of such research, provided we have obtained your informed consent;
-- Enable solely internal uses that are reasonably aligned with your expectations based on your relationship with us;
-- Comply with an existing legal obligation; or
-- Otherwise use your personal information, internally, in a lawful manner that is compatible with the context in which you provided the information.
Children Under Thirteen
carobme does not knowingly collect personally identifiable information from children under the age of thirteen. If you are under the age of thirteen, you must have permission from your parent or guardian to use this website.
Opt-Out & Unsubscribe from Third Party Communications
We respect your privacy and give you an opportunity to opt-out of receiving announcements of certain information. Users may opt-out of receiving any or all communications from third-party partners of carobme by contacting us here:
- Web page: www.carobme.org
- Email: info@carobme.com
- Phone: 509-690-7911
E-mail Communications
From time to time, carobme may contact you via email for the purpose of providing announcements, promotional offers, alerts, confirmations, surveys, and/or other general communication. In order to improve our Services, we may receive a notification when you open an email from carobme or click on a link therein.
If you would like to stop receiving marketing or promotional communications via email from carobme, you may opt out of such communications by contacting the carobme team at info@carobme.com by email with their full name and the email address they signed up with listed in the email request to be removed from all marketing lists.
Changes to this Statement
carobme reserves the right to change this Privacy Policy from time to time. We will notify you about significant changes in the way we treat personal information by sending a notice to the primary email address specified in your account, by placing a prominent notice on our website, and/or by updating any privacy information. Your continued use of the website and/or Services available after such modifications will constitute your: (a) acknowledgment of the modified Privacy Policy; and (b) agreement to abide and be bound by that Policy.
Information for California Residents
This supplementary information is being provided to California residents pursuant to the California Consumer Privacy Act (the “CCPA”). Under the CCPA, as a California resident, you have the following rights:
1. Information. The Privacy Policy listed above describes how carobme uses and shares your collected personal information. carobme has noted the sources through which it collects personal information and the types of personal information. carobme's use and sharing of such information is also described above.
2. Access. You may request a copy of the personal information that we maintain about you.
3. Deletion. You can request that carobme deletes your personal information that it maintains about you.
4. Opt-Out. Although carobme does not monetize your personal information, you can ask us to refrain from sharing your information with third parties to provide you with offers and promotions.
Please note that the CCPA limits rights in certain ways. To learn more about the CCPA and its limitations, please visit https://oag.ca.gov/privacy/ccpa.
You can exercise these rights described above without discrimination by writing into info@carobme.com. carobme may ask you to confirm information it has for verifying your identity.
Notice to Individuals Located in Europe
Personal information. References to “personal information” in this Privacy Policy are equivalent to “personal data” governed by European data protection legislation.
Controller. CAROBOU LLC, is the controller of your personal information covered by this Privacy Policy for purposes of European data protection legislation.
Legal basis for processing. We use your personal information only as permitted by law. Our legal bases for processing the personal information described in this Privacy Policy are described in the bullets below:
--Service delivery: Processing is necessary to perform the contract governing our provision of our services or products or to take steps that you request prior to signing up for the Products. If we have not entered into a contract with you, we process your personal information based on our legitimate interest in providing the services you access and request.
--Research and development, Marketing and advertising, Compliance and protection, Sharing your personal information as described in this Privacy Policy: These activities constitute our legitimate interests. We do not use your personal information for these activities where our interests are overridden by the impact on you (unless we have your consent or are otherwise required or permitted to by law).
--Comply with law: Processing is necessary to comply with our legal obligations.
--With your consent: Processing is based on your consent. Where we rely on your consent you have the right to withdraw it any time in the manner indicated when you consent or in the service.
Use for new purposes. We may use your personal information for reasons not described in this Privacy Policy where permitted by law and where the reason is compatible with the purpose for which we collected it. If we need to use your personal information for an unrelated purpose, we will notify you and explain the applicable legal basis.
Sensitive personal information. We ask you not to provide any sensitive personal information to us because we do not have the ability to identify or offer enhanced protections for sensitive personal information. If you choose to provide us with any sensitive personal information, we will process it as “personal information” in accordance with this Privacy Policy.
Your rights. Data protection laws give you certain rights regarding your personal information. If you are located in Europe, you may ask us to take the following actions in relation to your personal information that we hold:
--Access. Provide you with information about our processing of your personal information and give you access to your personal information.
--Correct. Update or correct inaccuracies in your personal information.
--Delete. Delete your personal information.
--Transfer. Transfer a machine-readable copy of your personal information to you or a third party of your choice.
--Restrict. Restrict the processing of your personal information.
--Object. Object to our reliance on our legitimate interests as the basis of our processing of your personal information that impacts your rights.
You may submit these requests by email or our postal address provided above.
We may request specific information from you to help us confirm your identity and process your request. Applicable law may require or permit us to decline your request. If we decline your request, we will tell you why, subject to legal restrictions. If you would like to submit a complaint about our use of your personal information or our response to your requests regarding your personal information, you may contact us or submit a complaint to the data protection regulator in your jurisdiction. You can find your data protection regulator here.
Data retention. We retain personal information for as long as necessary to fulfill the purposes for which we collected it, including for the purposes of satisfying any legal, accounting, or reporting requirements, to establish or defend legal claims, or for fraud prevention purposes. 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.
Contact Information
If you believe that carobme has not adhered to this Statement, please contact carobme at:
carobme
1250 N. HWY, PMB#250
Colville, Washington 99114
Email Address: info@carobme.com
Telephone number: 509-690-7911
Effective as of February 20, 2024
Questions or Contact Information
For more information about our privacy practices, if you have questions, or if you would like to make a complaint, please contact us by e‑mail at info@carobme.com or by mail using the details provided below:
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