Privacy policy.

This Privacy Policy describes how your personal information is collected, used, and shared when you visit or make a purchase from chocolicioususa.com (the “Site”). By visiting chocolicioususa.com, whether as a registered user or otherwise, you acknowledge, understand and hereby agree that you are giving us your consent to track your use of the site through these tracking technologies.

The term “Chocolicious” or “we” or “us” or “our” refers to Chocolicious whose registered office is in San Francisco. The term “you” refers to the user of our website.

PERSONAL INFORMATION WE COLLECT

When you visit the Site, we automatically collect certain information about your device, including information about your web browser, IP address, time zone, and some of the cookies that are installed on your device. Additionally, as you browse the Site, we collect information about the individual web pages or products that you view, what websites or search terms referred you to the Site, and information about how you interact with the Site. We refer to this automatically-collected information as “Device Information”.

We collect Device Information using the following technologies:

– “Cookies” are data files that are placed on your device or computer and often include an anonymous unique identifier. For more information about cookies, and how to disable cookies, visit http://www.allaboutcookies.org.

This website uses cookies and similar technologies, which are small files or pieces of text that download to a device when a visitor accesses a website or app. For information about viewing the cookies dropped on your device, visit The cookies Squarespace uses.

These functional and required cookies are always used, which allow Squarespace, our hosting platform, to securely serve this website to you.

These analytics and performance cookies are used on this website, as described below, only when you acknowledge our cookie banner. This website uses analytics and performance cookies to view site traffic, activity, and other data.

– “Log files” track actions occurring on the Site, and collect data including your IP address, browser type, Internet service provider, referring/exit pages, and date/time stamps.

– “Web beacons”, “tags”, and “pixels” are electronic files used to record information about how you browse the Site.

-“Sign up” for our newsletters, mailing list or choose to be notified of any special offer or contest that we may be running. To unsubscribe from these notifications email contact@chocolicious.com.

Additionally, when you make a purchase or attempt to make a purchase through the Site, we collect certain information from you, including your name, billing address, shipping address, payment information (including credit card numbers or Amazon purchase information), email address, and phone number. We refer to this information as “Order Information”.

We also have the right to collection offline data. Offline data consist of information form off source and include contact information, loyalty card data, purchases and customer care cases, subscriptions and even demographic data.

When we talk about “Personal Information” in this Privacy Policy, we are talking both about Device Information and Order Information.

HOW DO WE USE YOUR PERSONAL INFORMATION?

We use the Order Information that we collect generally to fulfill any orders placed through the Site (including processing your payment information, arranging for shipping, and providing you with invoices and/or order confirmations). Additionally, we use this Order Information to:

– Communicate with you;

– Screen our orders for potential risk or fraud; and

– When in line with the preferences you have shared with us, provide you with information or advertising relating to our products or services.

– retarget advertising

We use the Device Information that we collect to help us screen for potential risk and fraud (in particular, your IP address), and more generally to improve and optimize our Site (for example, by generating analytics about how our customers browse and interact with the Site, and to assess the success of our marketing and advertising campaigns).

SHARING YOUR PERSONAL INFORMATION

We share your Personal Information with third parties to help us use your Personal Information, as described above. For example, we use Squarespace to power our online store–you can read more about how Squarespace uses your Personal Information here: https://www.squarespace.com/privacy. We also use Google Analytics to help us understand how our customers use the Site — you can read more about how Google uses your Personal Information here: https://www.google.com/intl/en/policies/privacy/. You can also opt-out of Google Analytics here: https://tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout.

Finally, we may also share your Personal Information to comply with applicable laws and regulations, to respond to a subpoena, search warrant or other lawful request for information we receive, or to otherwise protect our rights.

BEHAVIOURAL ADVERTISING

As described above, we use your Personal Information to provide you with targeted advertisements or marketing communications we believe may be of interest to you. For more information about how targeted advertising works, you can visit the Network Advertising Initiative’s (“NAI”) educational page at http://www.networkadvertising.org/understanding-online-advertising/how-does-it-work.

You can opt out of targeted advertising by using the links below:

– Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/settings/?tab=ads

– Google: https://www.google.com/settings/ads/anonymous

– Bing: https://advertise.bingads.microsoft.com/en-us/resources/policies/personalized-ads

– to opt out of emails please email contact@chocolicioususa.com [[When you send an email to us, you consent to receive email communications from us in response. Chocolicious, llc may communicate with you by email, or by posting notices on our website. You also agree that all agreements, notices, and all other communications provided to you by us satisfy any legal requirement that the communication be in writing. In addition, all communications with us become the property of Chocolicious, llc.]]

Additionally, you can opt out of some of these services by visiting the Digital Advertising Alliance’s opt-out portal at: http://optout.aboutads.info/.

DO NOT TRACK

Please note that we do not alter our Site’s data collection and use practices when we see a Do Not Track signal from your browser.

YOUR RIGHTS

The site is designed and targeted to U.S. audiences and is governed by and operated in accordance with the laws of the U.S. We make no representation that this Site is operated in accordance with the laws or regulations of, or governed by, other nations.

If you are located outside of the U.S. you use this site at your own risk and initiative and you, not Chocolicious, llc, are responsible for compliance with any applicable local and national laws. Please be aware that Personal Information and Other Information you provide to us or we obtain as a result of your use of this Site will be collected in the U.S. and/or transferred to the U.S. and subject to U.S law. By using this Site indicates that you are agreeing to the collections, use and disclosure, management, and storage of your Information as described in this Privacy Policy.

If you are located outside of the U.S. you use this Site at your own risk and initiative and you, not Chocolicious, llc, are responsible for compliance with any applicable local and national laws. Please be aware that any Personal Information and Other Information you provide to us or we obtain as a result of your use of this Site will be collect in the U.S. and/or transferred to the U.S and subject to U.S law. By using this Site and/or providing us with your Personal Information and Other Information, you (a) consent to the transfer may provide a lower stand of protection for personal data than the laws your location and (c) understand that we collect, transfer, store, process and/or deal with your Information in accordance with this Privacy Policy and U.S. law. Consequently, to the full extent permitted by law, you hereby waive ay claims relating to the processing of your Personal Information or Other Information in accordance with this Privacy Policy that may arise under the law and regulations that apply to you in or of any other country or jurisdiction.

To delete all record of your Personal Information from the site, please send an email to the Privacy Officer at contact@chocolicioususa.com. If the burden or expense of providing access to your Information is disproportionate to the risk to your privacy or if the legitimate rights of other would be violated, we may decide not to provide access to such information. In such cases, we will provide you an explanation of why access cannot be provided and contact information for further inquiries.

DATA RETENTION

When you place an order through the Site, we will maintain your Order Information for our records unless and until you ask us to delete this information.

When you buy something on this website, we collect personal information from you to fulfill the order. We may collect information like your:

Billing and shipping address

Details relating to your purchase (for example, your shirt size)

Email address

Name

Phone number

We share this information with Squarespace, our online store hosting provider, so that they can provide website services to us.

As you go through checkout, this site may auto-complete your shipping and billing address by sharing what you type with the Google Places API and returning suggestions to you to improve your checkout experience.

CHANGES

We may update this privacy policy from time to time in order to reflect, for example, changes to our practices or for other operational, legal or regulatory reasons.

The Site is not intended for individuals under the age of 18. If you do not meet the age and other eligibility requirements, if any, please discontinue using the site immediately as your continued use of the site indicates that you are agreeing to the collection, use, disclosure, management and storage of your information as described in this Privacy Policy.

CONTACT US

For more information about our privacy practices, if you have questions, or if you would like to make a complaint, please contact us by e‑mail at contact@chocolicioususa.com or by mail using the details provided below:

Privacy Compliance Officer

22318 Clarksburg Rd, Boyds, MD 20841, United States