Privacy Policy
Last Revised August 9, 2022
At The Pampered Chef®, including its affiliates, (The Pampered Chef) (referred to as "we" or "us" or "our"), we are committed to protecting your personal information and privacy. This Privacy Policy applies to the information that we collect about you from online, offline and third party sources, including but not limited to, our official corporate website (pamperedchef.com), authorized Independent Consultant websites, the Consultant–only part of our Website (known as "Consultant's Corner"), and any personal information you provide to a Pampered Chef host or Independent Consultant that is shared with us (we collectively refer to these sources as the "Website"). We respect the privacy of our independent consultants, our customers and those who visit our web-site and this Privacy Policy is incorporated into our Terms of Use.
Our Privacy Policy explains how we collect, use and share data and the steps we take to secure the data we collect.
Please review this Privacy Policy carefully to understand how we treat the information you provide through the Website. By accessing or using this Website, you agree to this privacy policy. This policy may change from time to time (see Changes to Our Privacy Policy). If you do not agree with its terms, please do not access or use the Website or provide information to a Pampered Chef host or Independent Consultant. Your continued use of this Website after we make changes is deemed to be acceptance of those changes, so please check the policy periodically for updates.
THE INFORMATION WE COLLECT
Without limitation, any of the following information may be collected, used and/or shared: information which you may be personally identified such as name; date of birth; age; addresses; email address; gender; telephone number; job title; profession; education level; income; payment information (including credit or debit card number, expiration date and any other associated payment information); as well as other information such as order details; name of your independent consultant; communication preferences; username; password; security questions and answers; and any other information that you provide to us. If you are a consultant we may also ask for your social security number, your banking information and, if applicable, your tax identification number. Some of the above information we collect may be considered Personal Identifiable Information and other information may not.
If you do not provide a piece of the information we request, we may not be able to complete your transaction and may try to contact you.
We collect this information: (a) directly from you when you provide it to us, (b) automatically as you navigate through the site, and (c) From third parties, for example, our consultants. Information collected automatically may include but is not limited to, usage details, IP addresses, and information collected through cookies, web beacons, and other tracking technologies.
HOW WE USE YOUR INFORMATION
We may use or share the information we collect or you provide to help us create, develop, operate, deliver and improve our products, services, content and marketing. From time to time, we may use the information to send notices, such as communications about purchases, promotional material changes to our terms, conditions and policies. We may also use the information for purposes such as auditing, data analysis, and research to improve our products, services and customer communications. Additionally, we may use the information you provide to create and verify your account profile; fulfill your order; process or fulfill the terms of a consultant agreement or your work as a consultant; provide you with information and customer service in response to your specific request or respond to any of your other inquiries; to communicate with individuals, including via email, social media, text message, and telephone calls, for both transactional and commercial purposes, including to provide you with security alerts and shipping updates or offer you information and updates on products or services we think that you may be interested in; provide you with information on the Company's or a consultant's services (either on a personalized or aggregate basis); improve the content and navigation on the Website; support and better understand consultant and consumer preferences and perform data analytics; provide offers or information relating to the Company, your business and business opportunity; enforce our Terms of Use; resolve disputes; prevent and detect fraud; and otherwise help us to comply with the law, regulation and/or legal process. Moreover, if you enter into a sweepstake, contest or similar promotion we may use the information you provide to administer those programs.
Please note that we may release the information as is reasonably necessary to comply with the law or protect our rights or the rights of others'.
SMS Text Messaging
We may use personal information we collect to communicate with individuals via text message, including (with your consent) to market to you or offer you information and updates on products or services we think you may be interested in. Text messages may be sent using an automatic telephone dialing system or other technology. For more information, please see our Terms of Use.
THIRD PARTIES
At times, we may use or share certain information with third parties including, but not limited to, (a) our affiliates,) contractors, service providers (e.g. text messaging service providers) and other third parties including, without limitation, a Pampered Chef host or Independent Consultant, (c) data analytics services, (d) to fulfill orders or deliver products and/or services to you or your gift recipient; (e) product ratings and reviews; (f) to conduct research and satisfaction type surveys, (g) fulfill the purpose you provided it, and (h) others for any other purpose disclosed by us when you provide the information or with your consent.
We use the payment services provided by PayPal, Inc. and all companies in which PayPal or its successor directly or indirectly from time to time owns or controls ("PayPal"). The European operating company of PayPal is PayPal (Europe) S.à.r.l. & Cie. S.C.A., 22-24 Boulevard Royal, 2449 Luxembourg, Luxembourg
PayPal is an online payment service provider. Payments are processed via so-called PayPal accounts, which represent virtual private or business accounts. PayPal is also able to process virtual payments through credit cards when a user does not have a PayPal account. A PayPal account is managed via an e-mail address, which is why there are no classic account numbers. PayPal makes it possible to trigger online payments to third parties or to receive payments. PayPal also accepts trustee functions and offers buyer protection services.
If you choose "PayPal" as payment option, we automatically transmit your data to PayPal. By selecting PayPal as payment option, you agree to the transfer of personal data required for payment processing. The data transmitted to PayPal is usually first name, last name, address, email address, IP address, telephone number, mobile phone number, and other data if this is necessary for the payment processing.
PayPal is an independent controller and it processes personal data on its own behalf. To learn more about PayPal's data collection and use with respect to its payment services, please read the privacy notice at https://www.braintreepayments.com/de/legal/data-protection-addendum.
You may exercise your data subject rights in connection with the payment processing services with PayPal according to the instructions described in the Privacy Statement available at www.paypal.com.
With respect to the processing of payments and depending on the payment method chosen and available, we may also share your personal data with PayPal or any other involved payment provider.
AUTOMATICALLY COLLECTED INFORMATION
We also automatically collect the following non-personal information: the name of the domain and host from which you access the internet; the internet protocol (IP) address of the computer you are using; the browser software you use and your operating system; the date and time you access our site; and the internet address of the website from which you linked directly to our website. We use this information to monitor usage of our website. We also may collect certain information through cookies and similar tools as further described in the section below titled "Cookies."
CONSENT
By accessing the Website and/or providing your information, you acknowledge and agree that your information will be collected and used pursuant to the guidelines of this policy. You acknowledge that we may combine the information we collect from you with information we collect from other sources, both offline and online.
Any communications that you submit or post to an interactive feature such as a blog or message board may be viewable by other users of the Website. While we may remove the information about you, we assume no obligation to do so. We are not responsible for, nor can we guarantee protection of, any information you submit or post to the interactive features of the Website. Therefore, you acknowledge and understand you have no expectation of privacy in the content you submit to the Website's, whether or not it contains your private information.
When you create an account or log into our Website through a social media service or similar tool, such as through Facebook® or Twitter®, any information that these third party social media sites collect as a result of your use of those sign-in tools is subject to those respective entities' own privacy policies. If you sign-in to our Website using such third party sign-in tools, certain information from those third party websites or services will be shared with us. We will treat this information shared with us in accordance with this Privacy Policy.
CHILDREN UNDER THE AGE OF 13
This Website is a general audience website and we do not knowingly collect information from children under 13 years of age. If you are under 13, do not use or provide any information on the Website. If we learn that we have information of a child under the age of 13 without verification of parental consent, we will delete that information. If you believe we might have any information from or about a child under 13, please contact us at [email protected].
SECURITY
Whether you place an order, create a profile or enter into a consultant agreement, we recognize the importance of maintaining the security of our customers' personal information. We use reasonable security measures, including physical, administrative, and technical safeguards to protect your personal information. Here are some examples of security measures we use to protect your personal information:
- Passwords are required to access your online account and help to protect your account information. Please keep this password confidential.
- Encryption technology, called Transport Layer Security (TLS), helps to protect personal information in certain areas of our websites during transport across the Internet. The presence of TLS encryption may be indicated by https in the browser URL or the image of a closed lock or solid key in the browser window. These indications may not be present in mobile services that use TLS.
- For payment card information, we use secured networks, encryption or other protection of cardholder data, physical and technical access controls, monitoring and tests of security systems, and other information security practices to help to protect your information.
In addition, we use commercially reasonable measures to protect the customer data against unauthorized access. Unfortunately, however, no data transmission over the internet can be guaranteed to be 100% secure. As a result, while we strive to protect your information, to the extent required by law, we do not guarantee or warrant the security of any information you transmit to or from our website, and you do so at your own risk. We are not responsible for the actions of unaffiliated third parties.
COOKIES, WEB BEACONS AND OTHER TECHNOLOGIES BY ADVERTISERS
"Cookies" are small pieces of information that are stored by your Web browser on your computer when you visit. Our cookies enable us to personalize your visits to your interests and preferences. Most Web browsers automatically accept cookies. However, you can usually change the Web browser to disable cookies. Each Web browser is different, so you will need to check your specific browser's "Help" menu to learn how to change the cookie preferences. Please note that if you disable all cookies, the functionality of the Website may be impaired.
We may use third party advertising companies to serve advertisements on our behalf. These companies may use cookies or other technologies (such as a 1x1 pixel .gif file, also known as a web beacon), to tailor advertisements you see on the Website and third party websites, to track your response to advertisements, report on visitor interaction and to measure the effectiveness of advertisements. We may provide third party advertising companies with some information to help them provide more relevant advertisements for our products. These companies may combine information they learn about your visit to our Website with data about your web activities at third party websites or with demographic information to identify your likely interests so that they can provide you with more useful and relevant advertisements when you visit websites within their networks. This is often called behavioral advertising.
The information practices of these third party advertising companies are governed by their own privacy policies and are not covered by this privacy policy. Some of these advertising companies may be members of the Network Advertising Initiative ("NAI"), a cooperative of online marketing companies that offers a centralized tool for opting out of behavioral advertising delivered by each of its member companies. If you would like to obtain more information about the NAI and make choices about their members' use of your information, please visit the NAI website at http://www.networkadvertising.org/consumer/opt_out.asp. Also, through the Digital Advertising Alliance ("DAA"), several media and marketing associations have developed an industry self-regulatory program to give consumers a better understanding of and greater control over ads that are customized based on their online behavior across different websites. To make choices about interest-based ads from third parties participating in the DAA, please visit the DAA consumer opt out page at http://www.aboutads.info/choices/.
LINKING
Links to third party websites may be provided on this Website. We have not reviewed all linked third party sites. We do not control and are not responsible for any of these websites and their content. We do not endorse or make any representations about such sites or any information or materials found there or any results that may be obtained from using them. Since we do not control these websites, we assume no responsibility for the privacy practices of such websites. We encourage you to review the privacy policies and Terms of Use posted on those, and all, third party websites.
EMPLOYMENT OPPORTUNITIES
We may post employment opportunities on the Website and/or invite users to submit resumes to it. If you choose to submit your name, contact information, resume and/or other personal information to us, you are authorizing us to use this information for all lawful and legitimate hiring and employment purposes. We also reserve the right, at our sole discretion, to forward the information you submit to any parents, subsidiaries and affiliates for legitimate business purposes. Nothing in this Privacy Policy, our Terms of Use or contained in the Website shall constitute a promise by us to interview, hire or employ any individual who submits information to us, nor shall anything in this Privacy Policy, the Terms of Use or contained in the Website constitute a promise that we will review any or all of the information submitted to us by users. We may combine employment application data with research tools and information from other sources.
We comply with the requirements of all applicable laws concerning equal employment opportunity. In the recruitment of employment there will be no unlawful discrimination on the basis of race, color, religion, sex (unless sex is a bona fide occupational requirement), age, national origin, disability, or any other basis prohibited by applicable law. We encourage all qualified applicants to apply.
SPECIAL NOTIFICATION FOR CALIFORNIA RESIDENTS REGARDING CALIFORNIA PRIVACY RIGHTS
Users who reside in California and have provided their personal information to us may request information about our disclosures of certain categories of personal information to third parties for their direct marketing purposes under California's "Shine the Light" law. Such requests must be submitted to us in writing at either the electronic mail address below or by mailing a request to: The Pampered Chef, Ltd. Attn: General Counsel, One Pampered Chef Lane Addison, Il. 60101. In your request, kindly advise us where we should send our response to. Please be aware that not all information sharing is covered by the "Shine the Light" requirements and only information on covered sharing will be included in our response. If applicable, this information would include the categories of customer information and the names and addresses of those businesses with which we shared customer information for the immediately prior calendar year (e.g. requests made in 2016 will receive information regarding 2015 sharing activities).
NON-UNITED STATES USERS
You acknowledge that we are principally located in the United States and, accordingly, your information may be transferred to, processed, analyzed, and stored in the United States. If you are located outside of the United States, the information you provide to us will be transferred to the United States whose laws may not provide the same level of protection for your personal information as your home country. In case you wish to verify which personal data is stored on your behalf, have it modified, corrected, or deleted, please contact us at [email protected] and explicitly describe your request. You may also contact us at the aforesaid email address and advise us not to use the information you shared with us. By using our web-site you consent to the adjudication of any disputes in the federal courts of, and in accordance with the laws of, the State of Illinois.
PRIVACY INQUIRES BY EU CITIZENS
We are committed to responding to your inquires and resolving complaints about this policy. EU citizens with inquiries or complaints regarding this privacy policy should contact us at [email protected], or by mail, Attn: General Counsel, One Pampered Chef Lane Addison, Il. 60101.
COMPLIANCE WITH CANADA'S ANTI-SPAM LEGISLATION ("CASL")
You may be asked to provide your Personal Information to opt-in to receive emails or text messages about our products, promotions, special offers and company updates. This consent is sought by The Pampered Chef, Ltd., One Pampered Chef Lane Addison, Il 60101. You can unsubscribe at any time from these commercial electronic messages by using the "unsubscribe link" located in the email, by replying STOP to the text message, by contacting us at [email protected]or by mail, The Pampered Chef, Ltd. Attn: General Counsel, 1701 Hollis St, Suite 800, Halifax, NS B3J3M8.
TRANSFER IN THE EVENT OF SALE OR CHANGE OF CONTROL
If the ownership of all or substantially all of The Pampered Chef's changes or we otherwise transfer assets relating to our business or from The Pampered Chef to a third party, such as by merger, acquisition, bankruptcy proceeding or otherwise, we may transfer or sell your personal information to the new owner. In such case, unless permitted otherwise by applicable law, your information would remain subject to the promises made in the applicable Privacy Policy unless you agree differently.
CHANGES TO PRIVACY POLICY AND QUESTIONS
This Policy may be amended, from time to time. If we decide to change our Privacy Policy, we will post the revised Policy here and update the "Revised" date at the top of the page. If we make material changes to how we treat your personal information, we will send notice by email to the email address specified in your account and/or post a notice on the website home page. You are responsible for ensuring we have an up to date active and deliverable email address for you and you are responsible to periodically review this Policy to check for any changes.
If you would like to access or modify the information that you provided to us or if you have questions about this Policy, please contact us at [email protected], or by mail addressed to, The Pampered Chef, Ltd. Attn: General Counsel, 1701 Hollis St, Suite 800, Halifax, NS B3J3M8. Kindly provide us with the means in which you would like us to use to respond to your inquiry.
NOTICES AND PROCEDURES FOR MAKING CLAIMS OF COPYRIGHT INFRINGEMENT
We take claims of copyright infringement seriously. We will respond to notices of alleged copyright infringement that comply with applicable law. Pursuant to Title 17, United States Code, Section 512(c)(2) (the "DMCA"), notifications of claimed copyright infringement should be sent to the Service Provider's Designated Agent. Please send such notices to [email protected] or mail said notifications addressed to, Attn: General Counsel, 1701 Hollis St, Suite 800, Halifax, NS B3J3M8. Notices must comply with the Act and include substantially the following: (a) Your physical or electronic signature, (b) Identification of the copyrighted work you believe to have been infringed or, if the claim involves multiple works on the Website, a representative list of such works, (c) Identification of the material you believe to be infringing in a sufficiently precise manner to allow us to locate that material, (d) Adequate information by which we can contact you (including your name, postal address, telephone number, and, if available, email address), (e) A statement that you have a good faith belief that use of the copyrighted material is not authorized by the copyright owner, its agent, or the law, (f) A statement that the information in the written notice is accurate, and (g) A statement, under penalty of perjury, that you are authorized to act on behalf of the copyright owner. If you fail to comply with all of the requirements of Section 512(c)(3) of the DMCA, your notice may not be effective.
Questions
If you have any questions about this policy, please contact us at [email protected].