Privacy Policy

 What This Privacy Policy Covers

• This policy covers how The Hot Sauce Source treats personal information that The Hot Sauce Source collects and receives, including information related to your past use of The Hot Sauce Source products and services. Personal information is information about you that is personally identifiable like your name, address, email address, or phone number, and that is not otherwise publicly available.
• This policy does not apply to the practices of companies that The Hot Sauce Source does not own or control, or to people that The Hot Sauce Source does not employ or manage.

Information Collection and Use : General

The Hot Sauce Source collects personal information when you register with hotsaucesource.com, and when you purchase The Hot Sauce Source products or services. The Hot Sauce Source may combine information about you that we have with information we obtain from business partners or other companies.
• When you register we ask for information such as your name, email address, birth date, gender, zip code, occupation, industry, and personal interests. When purchasing The Hot Sauce Source products and services we may also ask for your address and information about your credit cards. Once you register with The Hot Sauce Source and sign in to our services, you are not anonymous to us.
• The Hot Sauce Source collects information about your transactions with us, including information about your history of products and services purchased.
• The Hot Sauce Source automatically receives and records information on our server logs from your browser, including your IP address, and the pages you request.
• The Hot Sauce Source uses information for the following general purposes: to customize the advertising and content you see, fulfill your requests for products and services, improve our services, contact you, conduct research, and provide anonymous reporting for internal and external clients.

Children

• When a child under age 18 attempts to register with The Hot Sauce Source, we ask that he or she have a parent or guardian create an account to obtain parental permission.
• The Hot Sauce Source will not knowingly contact children under age 18 about special offers or for marketing purposes without a parent's permission.
• The Hot Sauce Source does not ask a child under age 18 for more personal information, as a condition of participation, than is reasonably necessary to participate in a given activity or promotion.

Information Sharing and Disclosure

• The Hot Sauce Source does not rent, sell, or share personal information about you with other people or non-affiliated companies except to provide products or services you've requested, when we have your permission, or under the following circumstances:
• We provide the information to trusted partners who work on behalf of or with The Hot Sauce Source under confidentiality agreements. These companies may use your personal information to help The Hot Sauce Source communicate with you about offers from The Hot Sauce Source and our marketing partners. However, these companies do not have any independent right to share this information.
• We have a parent's permission to share the information if the user is a child under age 18. Parents have the option of allowing The Hot Sauce Source to collect and use their child's information without consenting to The Hot Sauce Source sharing of this information with people and companies who may use this information for their own purposes;
• We respond to subpoenas, court orders, or legal process, or to establish or exercise our legal rights or defend against legal claims;
• We believe it is necessary to share information in order to investigate, prevent, or take action regarding illegal activities, suspected fraud, situations involving potential threats to the physical safety of any person, violations of The Hot Sauce Source terms of use, or as otherwise required by law.
• We transfer information about you if The Hot Sauce Source is acquired by or merged with another company. In this event, The Hot Sauce Source will notify you before information about you is transferred and becomes subject to a different privacy policy.
• The Hot Sauce Source displays targeted advertisements based on personal information. Advertisers (including ad serving companies) may assume that people who interact with, view, or click on targeted ads meet the targeting criteria - for example, women ages 18-24 from a particular geographic area.
• The Hot Sauce Source does not provide any personal information to the advertiser when you interact with or view a targeted ad. However, by interacting with or viewing an ad you are consenting to the possibility that the advertiser will make the assumption that you meet the targeting criteria used to display the ad.
• The Hot Sauce Source advertisers include financial service providers (such as banks, insurance agents, stock brokers and mortgage lenders) and non-financial companies (such as stores, airlines, and software companies).
• The Hot Sauce Source works with vendors, partners, advertisers, and other service providers in different industries and categories of business.

Your Ability to Edit and Delete Your Account Information: General

• You can edit your The Hot Sauce Source account information at any time by logging into your account or by contacting our customer service.
• New categories of marketing communications may be added from time to time. Users who visit this page can opt out of receiving future marketing communications from these new categories or they can unsubscribe by following instructions contained in the messages they receive.
• We reserve the right to send you certain communications relating to The Hot Sauce Source products and service updates, such as service announcements, administrative messages and The Hot Sauce Source Newsletter, that are considered part of your hotsaucesource.com account, without offering you the opportunity to opt-out of receiving them.
• There is a possibility that order information might possibly remain in our archived records after your account has been deleted.
 
Confidentiality and Security

• The Hot Sauce Source limits access to personal information about you to employees who we believe reasonably need to come into contact with that information to provide products or services to you or in order to do their jobs
• The Hot Sauce Source has physical, electronic, and procedural safeguards that comply with federal regulations to protect personal information about you.

Changes to this Privacy Policy

• The Hot Sauce Source may update this policy. 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 hotsaucesource.com account or by placing a prominent notice on our site.

Questions and Suggestions

• If you have questions or suggestions, please Contact Us.

NOTICE: For important information about safe surfing from the Federal Trade Commission please see their website at ftc.gov.

Effective Date: July 1, 2010

 

The Hot Sauce Source® is a wholly owned subsidiary of RSW Enterprises, Inc.