Tuesday, March 19, 2024

Privacy Statement

What's The Scoop Ice Cream is committed to protecting your privacy and developing technology that gives you the most powerful and safe online experience. This Statement of Privacy applies to the What's The Scoop Ice Cream site and governs data collection and usage. By using the What's The Scoop Ice Cream site, you consent to the data practices described in this statement.

Collection of your Personal Information

What's The Scoop Ice Cream collects personally identifiable information, such as your email address, name, home or work address or telephone number. What's The Scoop Ice Cream also collects anonymous demographic information, which is not unique to you, such as your ZIP code, age, gender, preferences, interests and favorites.

There is also information about your computer hardware and software that is automatically collected by What's The Scoop Ice Cream. This information can include: your IP address, browser type, domain names, access times and referring website addresses. This information is used by What's The Scoop Ice Cream for the operation of the service, to maintain quality of the service, and to provide general statistics regarding use of the What's The Scoop Ice Cream site.

Please keep in mind that if you directly disclose personally identifiable information or personally sensitive data through What's The Scoop Ice Cream public message boards, this information may be collected and used by others. Note: What's The Scoop Ice Cream does not read any of your private online communications.

What's The Scoop Ice Cream encourages you to review the privacy statements of Web sites you choose to link to from What's The Scoop Ice Cream so that you can understand how those Web sites collect, use and share your information. What's The Scoop Ice Cream is not responsible for the privacy statements or other content on Web sites outside of the What's The Scoop Ice Cream and What's The Scoop Ice Cream family of Web sites.

Use of your Personal Information

What's The Scoop Ice Cream collects and uses your personal information to operate the What's The Scoop Ice Cream Web site and deliver the services you have requested. What's The Scoop Ice Cream also uses your personally identifiable information to inform you of other products or services available from What's The Scoop Ice Cream and its affiliates. What's The Scoop Ice Cream may also contact you via surveys to conduct research about your opinion of current services or of potential new services that may be offered.

What's The Scoop Ice Cream does not sell, rent or lease its customer lists to third parties. What's The Scoop Ice Cream 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 not transferred to the third party. In addition, What's The Scoop Ice Cream may share data with trusted partners to help us 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 What's The Scoop Ice Cream, and they are required to maintain the confidentiality of your information.

What's The Scoop Ice Cream does not use or disclose sensitive personal information, such as race, religion, or political affiliations, without your explicit consent.

What's The Scoop Ice Cream keeps track of the Web sites and pages our customers visit within What's The Scoop Ice Cream, in order to determine what What's The Scoop Ice Cream services are the most popular. This data is used to deliver customized content and advertising within What's The Scoop Ice Cream to customers whose behavior indicates that they are interested in a particular subject area.

What's The Scoop Ice Cream Web sites will disclose your personal information, without notice, only 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 What's The Scoop Ice Cream or the site; (b) protect and defend the rights or property of What's The Scoop Ice Cream; and, (c) act under exigent circumstances to protect the personal safety of users of What's The Scoop Ice Cream, or the public.

Use of Cookies

The What's The Scoop Ice Cream Web site 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 What's The Scoop Ice Cream pages, or register with What's The Scoop Ice Cream site or services, a cookie helps What's The Scoop Ice Cream 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 What's The Scoop Ice Cream Web site, the information you previously provided can be retrieved, so you can easily use the What's The Scoop Ice Cream 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 What's The Scoop Ice Cream services or Web sites you visit.

Security of your Personal Information

What's The Scoop Ice Cream secures your personal information from unauthorized access, use or disclosure. What's The Scoop Ice Cream secures the personally identifiable information you provide on computer servers in a controlled, secure environment, protected from unauthorized access, use or disclosure. When personal information (such as a credit card number) is transmitted to other Web sites, it is protected through the use of encryption, such as the Secure Socket Layer (SSL) protocol.

Changes to this Statement

What's The Scoop Ice Cream will occasionally update this Statement of Privacy to reflect company and customer feedback. What's The Scoop Ice Cream encourages you to periodically review this Statement to be informed of how What's The Scoop Ice Cream is protecting your information.

Contact Information

What's The Scoop Ice Cream welcomes your comments regarding this Statement of Privacy. If you believe that What's The Scoop Ice Cream has not adhered to this Statement, please contact What's The Scoop Ice Cream at webmaster@gibs.net. We will use commercially reasonable efforts to promptly determine and remedy the problem.