PRIVACY POLICY
Last Updated Nov. 18, 2013
WHAT INFORMATION DO WE COLLECT?
Original Murdick’s Fudge collects information from you when you register on our website, place an order, sign up to receive our emails or newsletters, call us on the phone, respond to a survey, fill out a form, or register at our stores.
When ordering or registering on Murdick’s website, as appropriate, you may be asked to enter your name, email address, mailing address, ZIP Code, phone number, payment information, product preferences, demographic information, and any other information you choose to provide. You may, however, visit our site anonymously.
Murdick’s Fudge of Mackinac Island may also obtain information about you from other sources and combine that with information we collect about you. For example, we collect information from the U.S. Postal Service’s Change of Address database to verify and correct mailing addresses.
Google, as a third party vendor, uses cookies to serve ads on our site. Google’s use of the DART cookie enables it to serve ads to our users based on their visit to our sites and other sites on the Internet. Users may opt out of the use of the DART cookie by visiting the Google ad and content network privacy policy.
WHAT DO WE USE YOUR INFORMATION FOR?
Any of the information Mackinac Island’s original fudge maker collects from you may be used in one of the following ways:
To personalize your experience. Your information helps us to better respond to your individual needs.
To improve our website. Original Murdick’s Fudge continually strives to improve our website offerings based on the information and feedback we receive from you.
To improve customer service. Your information helps us to more effectively respond to your customer service requests and support needs.
To process transactions. Your information, whether public or private, will not be sold, exchanged, transferred, or given to any other company for any reason whatsoever, without your consent, other
than for the express purpose of delivering the purchased product or service requested.
To administer a contest, promotion, survey or other site feature.
To send periodic emails. The email address you provide for order processing or for other communications with Original Murdick’s Fudge, may be used to send you information and updates pertaining to your order, in addition to receiving occasional company news, updates, related product or service information, etc.
HOW DO WE PROTECT YOUR INFORMATION?
We implement a variety of security measures to maintain the safety of your personal information when you place an order.
Murdick’s of Mackinac Island offers the use of a secure server. All supplied sensitive/credit information is transmitted via Secure Socket Layer (SSL) technology and then encrypted into our Payment gateway providers database only to be accessible by those authorized with special access rights to such systems, and are required to keep the information confidential.
After a transaction, your private information (credit cards, financials, etc.) will not be kept on file for more than 60 days.
DO WE USE COOKIES?
Yes. Cookies are small files that a site or its service provider transfers to your computer’s hard drive through your web browser (if you allow) that enables the sites or service providers systems to recognize your browser and capture and remember certain information.
Murdick’s of Mackinac uses cookies to help us remember and process the items in your shopping cart, understand and save your preferences for future visits, and compile aggregate data about site traffic and site interaction so that we can offer better site experiences and tools in the future. We may contract with third-party service providers to assist us in better understanding our site visitors. These service providers are not permitted to use the information collected on our behalf except to help us conduct and improve our business.
DO WE DISCLOSE ANY INFORMATION TO OUTSIDE PARTIES?
Original Murdick’s Fudge does not sell, trade, or otherwise transfer to outside parties your personally identifiable information. This does not include trusted third parties who assist us in operating our website, conducting our business, or servicing you, so long as those parties agree to keep this information confidential. We may also release your information when we believe release is appropriate to comply with the law, enforce our site policies, or protect ours or others rights, property, or safety. However, non-personally identifiable visitor information may be provided to other parties for marketing, advertising, or other uses.
THIRD PARTY LINKS
Occasionally, at our discretion, we may include or offer third party products or services on our website. These third party sites have separate and independent privacy policies. We therefore have no responsibility or liability for the content and activities of these linked sites. Nonetheless, we seek to protect the integrity of our site and welcome any feedback about these sites.
California Online Privacy Protection Act Compliance
Because we value your privacy we have taken the necessary precautions to be in compliance with the California Online Privacy Protection Act. We therefore will not distribute your personal information to outside parties without your consent.
CHILDREN’S ONLINE PRIVACY PROTECTION ACT COMPLIANCE
We are in compliance with the requirements of COPPA (Children’s Online Privacy Protection Act). We do not collect any information from anyone under 13 years of age. Our website, products and services are all directed to people who are at least 13 years old or older.
YOUR CONSENT
By using our site, you consent to our online privacy policy.
CHANGES TO OUR PRIVACY POLICY
If we decide to change our privacy policy, Original Murdick’s Fudge will post those changes on this page.
CONTACTING US
If there are any questions regarding this privacy policy, you may contact Original Murdick’s Fudge of Mackinac Island, Original Murdick’s Fudge of Mackinaw City and Original Murdick’s Fudge of St. Ignace by using the information below.
www.originalmurdicksfudge.com
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7363 Main St.
Mackinac Island, Michigan 49757 • USA
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customerservice@originalmurdicksfudge.com