Frankford Online Privacy Policy
Frankford Candy and Chocolate Company, Inc., Inc. is committed to protecting your online privacy when visiting a website operated by us. We do not collect and keep any personal information online from you unless you volunteer it and you are 13 or older. We also do not collect and keep personal information online from children under the age of 13 without consent of a parent or legal guardian, except in limited circumstances authorized by law and described in this policy. Please review the information below to familiarize yourself with our policies on website privacy, so that you can take full advantage of all the fun activities available at our sites for you and your family. Please remember that this site and the servers that make this site available are located in the U.S. By using this site you agree to the transfer, collection, processing and use of data by this site.
A SPECIAL NOTE FOR PARENTS AND LEGAL GUARDIANS:Frankford Candy and Chocolate Company, Inc. adheres to the Children's Online Privacy Protection Act of 1998 and the guidelines of the Children's Advertising Review Unit (CARU) of the Council of Better Business Bureaus, Inc. in each of our websites for children. You can help by spending time online with your children and monitoring your children's online use. Please help us protect your child's privacy by instructing them never to provide personal information on this site or any other without your permission.
If you are under 18, please be sure to read this policy with
your parents or legal guardians and ask questions about things you do
not understand.
Children under 13 should get your parent's or legal
guardian’s
permission before giving out your e-mail address or
any personal information to Frankford Candy and Chocolate Company, Inc. or to anyone else on the Internet.
Frankford Candy and Chocolate Company, Inc. doesn't require anyone to share any personal information about themselves in order to enjoy any of our website. That means you can visit our site without any need to register with us. We do not collect personal information online from children under 13 without consent of a parent or legal guardian except in special, limited circumstances. If your child is under 13 and wants to use our sites with special activities, like scavenger hunts, personalized pages, games or clubs, we might ask your child to “register.” They can often do so anonymously by just providing a user name and password, but sometimes we need their first name and e-mail address. When we ask for your child's first name, your child is encouraged to use a "screen name" (not their real name) that only they know. Sometimes we will ask your child to make up a special password so that only they can see their customized areas on the site. With your verifiable consent, we may collect personal information from your child such as a last name, address or e-mail address when the information is necessary for a particular activity. If we need more than just your child's first name (or screen name) and e-mail address for your child to participate in a particular online activity, we will ask your child for your e-mail or mailing address so that we can notify you of your child's request and get your permission. When we ask for your permission, we will tell you what we will do with the information you or your child provides us, and we will tell you how you can review your child's information and ask us to delete the information. We don't keep your (or your child's) e-mail address unless you tell us it is okay.
Frankford Candy and Chocolate Company, Inc. might collect an e-mail address and first name (or screen name) from your child under 13 without your consent, but only in the following special cases:
- If a child under 13 sends a request to us, we keep their e-mail
address for long enough to respond to them. Frankford Candy and Chocolate Company, Inc. deletes this information
from our system after we answer their question.
- If a child under 13 signs up for an e-mail newsletter, or other activity
that requires multiple online contact with the child, we also ask the
child for a parent's or legal guardian’s e-mail address so we
can notify you and give you an opportunity to opt out.
- Occasionally, Frankford Candy and Chocolate Company, Inc. has special site activities or promotions like sweepstakes or contests that are open to children even if they are under 13. In these activities, we are not allowed to ask for more information from your child than what is necessary for your child to participate in the activity.
In the latter situation we require your child to give us your e-mail address, too, so that we can tell you that they have registered in a promotion or for a service. If we need more than an e-mail address and first name (or screen name) to enter your child in the promotion or offer the service, we will notify you, explain what information we need and why, and generally ask that you (not your child) provide it. For instance, we might ask you for your mailing address so that we can send to you, for your child, any prizes your child wins, or for your telephone number so that we can tell you when your child has won. Any information you or your child give us in the above special circumstances will be deleted from our database once the promotion, program or activity is concluded, and after any legally required period for keeping such information is complete.
About Cookies
A "cookie" is a small file that we save on your computer’s hard drive that contains non-personal information. Our cookies help to give you faster access to pages you have already visited; they allow you to personalize your pages and us to customize our offerings; and they help you to participate in some activities or events on the site. For instance, if we have have scavenger or treasure hunts, and we need to use cookies to keep track of your progress. If you leave the site and then return, cookies will tell us what things you have already collected so that you do not have to start all over again. Cookies keep track of items in your shopping cart and wish list in our online stores. We also use cookies to help us figure out how many people visit our sites, which of our Web pages they stop at and how long they stay there. This information helps us figure out which of our Web features are successes and what sites might need improvement. For administrative purposes, we collect IP addresses, which is the automatic number assigned to your computer when you surf the Web. Certain Internet Service Providers may assign the same IP address to many users. The IP address allows us to count the total number of "hits" on our sites. However, your IP address and cookie are not connected to any personally identifiable or online contact information like a name and address, so you and your family remain anonymous. We also use other technology, called clear GIFs, to provide us with other important anonymous information, such as when an e-mail has been opened.
Frankford Candy and Chocolate Company, Inc. does not collect information passively through cookies or other tracking mechanisms except in the circumstances described above. Cookies DON'T contain any personal information about a specific user. We don't use cookies or other non-consensual methods to take personally identifiable or online contact information about you or your family off of your computer. Except for certain activities like treasure hunts, which we talked about above, Frankford Candy and Chocolate Company, Inc. doesn't use cookies for direct marketing or promotional purposes. Cookies are also not used to collect information specifically about you or your family for sharing with third parties.
And Finally...
We want you and your family to have fun surfing all
our sites and urge you and your family to follow common sense whenever
disclosing personal information - on this site or anywhere on the Internet.
Thanks for reading our privacy policy. We hope you
have a better understanding of the many activities offered on our websites
and the ways in which we really are committed to safeguarding online
privacy. Remember, we may change our policy from time to time. When this
happens we will notify you of the new policy by posting it on our sites.
If you have any questions, please don't hesitate to contact us!
Frankford Candy and Chocolate Company, Inc.
9300 Ashton Road
Philadelphia, PA 19114-5200
Updated October 2005.
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