Derstine’s Food Service Inc. cares about your right to privacy. This policy explains how we intend to handle any personally identifying information you provide to us online, including via the website at www.derstines.com, and via Derstine’s Facebook® page and other social networking accounts (Twitter®, Instagram®, etc.). Please note that to the extent you provide Derstine’s with personally identifying information via a social networking page or account, you may also be subject to the terms and conditions of such social networking provider’s Privacy Policy and Terms and Conditions, over which Derstine’s has no control. Personally identifying information is information that enables us to identify you, for example, your e-mail address, first and last name, home phone number, home address, etc.
Children’s Online Privacy Protection Act
Dertine’s complies with the Children’s Online Privacy Protection Act of 1998 (“COPPA”) and its related amendments. COPPA requires that website operators never knowingly request personally identifiable information from anyone under the age of 13 without requesting verifiable parental consent. In accordance with COPPA, we do not knowingly collect any personally identifiable information from children under the age of 13. We recommend that no one under the age of 18 submit personally identifying information to Derstine’s via this website or otherwise. In the event that we determine that a user of this Site is under the age of 13, we will not maintain or use his or her personally identifying information.
How We Collect and Use Personally Identifying Information
You are welcome to visit derstines.com while remaining anonymous and not revealing or otherwise providing to Derstines any personally identifying information. Moreover, subject to the privacy policies of third party social network providers (such as Facebook® and Twitter®), you are welcome to visit and view Derstine’s publicly available social networking account pages without providing Derstine’s with your personally identifying information.
What Personally Identifying Information We Collect
Categories of personally identifiable information that Derstine’s may collect in each of the foregoing instances include the following:
- Your first, middle and last name (including title and any suffixes);
- Your home address, including street address, city, state and zip code;
- Your phone number(s);
- Your email address(es); and
- Social networking user account information, such as Facebook® user names, Twitter® handles and the like.
How We Collect and Use Non-Personal Information
We also collect certain anonymous information that cannot be associated with you personally, such as the domains from which you visit us, the number of visitors to our websites, browsing patterns and areas of interest. We analyze this data to help us improve our websites, products and better serve our customers. Derstine’s may sell, lend, share or disclose this non-personal information with others.
Cookies, Web Beacons, Clear Gifs, and IP Addresses
Derstine’s may also use a feature of your browser called a “cookie,” which automatically identifies your computer, but not you, to our servers when you visit the website and allows us to correlate your computer with certain usage patterns which are stored in our log files. Cookies are used to gather general information about the website, such as usage statistics. Derstine’s may also use session cookies to keep a user logged into the system and aid in the exchange of information between pages without loss of data. Session cookies are deleted once a user completely exits a web browser. Derstine’s can also only read cookies from the website. Please note that if your browser is set to reject all cookies, Derstine’s website may not function properly.
Derstine’s may also use IP address information to count and track aggregate visits to the website, to assist in identifying problems with our server, and to administer the website. Derstine’s does not link IP addresses to anything personally identifiable to you.
Moreover, Derstine’s may collect information through the use of clear gifs, which are also known as web beacons web bugs, in email messages that we send to you or are sent to you on Derstine’s behalf. These are small files that are included in certain emails that inform us as to which emails we send are opened. Clear gifs may also see or read cookies on your computer. When authorized by Derstine’s, certain contracted third parties, may use cookies, our web log files, clear gifs, and other similar monitoring technologies to compile and analyze anonymous aggregate data.
Use of Google Analytics and Google Tag Manager
We use Google Analytics and Google Tag Manager, web analytics services provided by Google Inc., which use cookies and similar technologies to collect and analyze information about use of the Services and report on activities and trends. These services may also collect information regarding the use of other websites, apps and online resources. You can learn about Google’s practices by going to www.google.com/policies/privacy/partners/, and opt out of them by downloading the Google Analytics opt-out browser add-on, available at https://tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout.
Remarketing Practices
We use remarketing services to advertise on third party websites to previous visitors of our site. This could be in the form of an advertisement on the Google search results page, or a site in the Google Display Network. Third-party vendors, including Google, use cookies to serve ads based on your past visits to our website. Any data collected will be used in accordance with our own privacy policy and Google’s privacy policy. You can set preferences for how Google advertises to you using the Google Ads Settings page. Alternatively, you can opt out by visiting the Network Advertising Initiative Opt Out page or permanently using the Google Analytics Opt Out Browser add-on.
Compliance with Do Not Track
Derstine’s respects your privacy and supports “Do Not Track,” which is a privacy preference available via most web browsers. When you turn on the “Do Not Track” option in your web browser, Derstine’s will refrain from collecting any personal information.
Opt Out of Email Communications
If you choose to receive email communications from Derstine’s Quality Foods, Inc. and later change your mind, you may remove your personal information from our email database by unsubscribing at any time. Simply select the link and follow the unsubscribe instructions. Note, however, that Derstine’s may still maintain your personally identifying information in other databases (such as in connection with a promotion or sweepstakes) unless you contact Derstine’s directly (as provided below) and request that all personally identifying information be deleted.
Other Websites and Links
Derstine’s website or social networking pages (such as its Facebook® page) may contain links to third party websites. These websites have separate data collection and privacy policies unrelated to Derstine’s is not responsible for any third party’s policies or activities, your use of these websites, or such third parties’ collection and storage of your personally identifying information. Please review such third parties’ privacy policies and contact them directly if you have questions about their privacy policies.
International Users
Derstine’s website is accessible throughout the world. Derstine’s stores and processes your personally identifying information in the United States, and its servers may be located outside of the area in which you live and subject to weaker privacy laws and regulations. By accessing or using this website, Derstine’s publically available social networking pages, or otherwise providing Derstine’s with your personally identifying information, you consent to the transfer of your data outside of your country and to the United States, and to agree to be bound by the laws of the United States and the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania with respect to privacy-related matters.
Sharing of Personally Identifying Information With Third Parties
Derstine’s will only disclose your personally identifying information to other Derstine’s affiliates and subsidiaries, such as EZ3PL, Inc. Except as otherwise provided in this Privacy Policy, Derstine’s will not sell, rent or disclose your personally identifying information to any other third party, unless we receive a court order, subpoena, or are otherwise required to do so by law. If Derstine’s or a substantial portion of its assets is sold to another company, or Derstine’s is otherwise merged into another company, your personally identifying information may be included as part of the sale. In such an event, unless you are otherwise notified, your personally identifying information will continue to be subject to this Privacy Policy.
Changing Your Personally Identifying Information
If you would like to change your personally identifying information provided to Derstine’s, such as updating an email address, phone number, street address, or otherwise, please contact us using the via the contact information provided below.
Security Commitment
Derstine’s has in place commercially reasonable physical, electronic, and managerial procedures to safeguard and help prevent unauthorized access, maintain data security, and correctly use the information we collect online. Despite the foregoing, Derstine’s cannot warrant—and expressly disclaims any and all implied or express warranties—that your personally identifying information will not be intercepted, accessed via an unauthorized third party or otherwise taken by a third party. You provide Derstine’s with your personally identifying information at your own risk.
Changes to Privacy Policy and Effective Date
We encourage you to review our Privacy Policy from time to time as we may modify the same. The date of the last update of the Privacy Policy will be posted below:
THIS PRIVACY POLICY WAS LAST REVISED ON AND IS EFFECTIVE AS OF February 27th, 2014
Furthermore, we will notify you that amendments to this Privacy Policy have been made by posting the term “Updated” next to our Privacy Policy link on our website at www.Derstines.com for a period of 30 days after an update has occurred. Your continued use of the website or provision of personally identifying information to Derstine’s after the changes are posted constitutes your agreement to be bound by the Privacy Policy as amended with respect to any and all information that you ever provided to Derstine’s, either before or after such amended Privacy Policy came into effect. If you do not agree to the changes, please discontinue use of the Website.
Contact / California Privacy Rights
If you have questions or comments about this site, please contact us via the contact information below. California residents, please note that California Civil Code 1798.83 permits customers of Derstine’s who are California residents to request certain information regarding its disclosure of personal information to third parties for their direct marketing purposes. To make such a request please contact us using the information below.