- Privacy policy -

This website (“Site”) is owned and operated by Blue Diamond Growers, a California Corporation (“we”, “our,” or “us”). This Privacy Policy discloses our collection of information through any use of the Site by you (“you,” “your,” or “User”) and how we may use the information. By accessing, browsing, or otherwise using the Site, you acknowledge and consent to our collection and use of information as set forth in this Privacy Policy.

PLEASE READ THIS PRIVACY POLICY CAREFULLY. YOUR USE OF THE SITE CONSTITUTES YOUR CONSENT TO THIS PRIVACY POLICY. DO NOT USE THE SITE IF YOU ARE UNWILLING OR UNABLE TO CONSENT TO THIS PRIVACY POLICY.

Please check back periodically as this Privacy Policy may change from time to time.

 

The Information We Collect and How We Use It

The Site is a general-audience website, and we do not knowingly collect personal information from children under the age of 13. If you are under the age of 13, you should not and may not provide any personal information to us through or on the Site.

The Site may allow online orders. When you order online, we may collect your name, shipping and billing addresses, telephone numbers, e-mail address, and preferred shipping methods in order to deliver your orders. When shipment for a gift is made to someone else, we also collect the recipient’s name and address. Your credit card information is used for billing purposes.

The Site may allow you to submit your contact information for the opportunity to receive e-mails or mailings that, for example, introduce new products, notify you of special offers, and announce upcoming promotions. We will always give you the option of whether or not to receive these. If you would prefer not to receive such information in the future, please see the Removal from Mailings section.

The Site may allow you to submit, upload, or link to your comments or other content such as photos or video (individually and collectively, “User Content”). To be eligible to submit any such User Content, you must be at least 18 years old. When you submit User Content, we may collect your name, city, e-mail address, other contact information, and information about the stores at which you buy our products. If we publish User Content, we may publish it along with your first name and last initial, city, and your photo or other likeness that you may have uploaded as part of the User Content. If you have indicated that you would like to receive e-mails from us, we will use your e-mail address to send you e-mails that, for example, introduce new products, notify you of special offers, and announce upcoming promotions. If you would prefer not to receive such information in the future, please see the Removal from Mailings section.

We may release personal information when we believe release is necessary to comply with law. We may also exchange information with third parties for fraud protection and credit risk reduction.

We may use third party organizations that assist us in delivering electronic mail or coupons, providing customer service, or shipping products to you. They may use personal information to perform their functions.

If we acquire or merge with other companies, or were to be acquired, customer information is generally one of the transferred business assets.

 

IP Address

We track IP addresses (the Internet address of your computer) for system administration purposes. IP addresses are logged per the user’s session and help us determine how often areas on our site are visited. In most cases, we view and delete the information immediately. We never link an IP address to a specific customer.

 

Cookies

the cookies we set and why.

This website is owned and operated by Blue Diamond Growers.

When someone visits www.bluediamondalmonds.co.uk, we collect standard internet log information and details of visitor behaviour patterns. We do this to find out such things as the number of visitors to the various parts of the site. We collect this information in a way which does not personally identify anyone.

When we do want to collect personally identifiable information – for things like our newsletters – we will be upfront and honest about this and fully explain what we intent to do with it.

Most web browsers allow some control of most cookies through the browser settings. To find out more about cookies, including how to see what cookies have been set and how to manage and delete them, visit www.allaboutcookies.org.

Cookies from Blue Diamond Almonds

Cookies are widely used to make websites work, or work more efficiently, as well as to provide information to the owners of the site and to help deliver adverts correctly.

The information below explains the cookies we use, why we use them and when they are set.

Cookies set by third parties

Cookies set by Google Analytics and Addthis.com.

Google analytics information allows us to see how people are using the site (how many people visit, how long people spend on each page, where people go and other site usage information). Google has access to that information if you are signed into Google as you browse. We can only see ‘aggregated’ results, that is, we can’t identify individual people from their browsing session.

Cookies set by Google Analytics and their duration:

Utma – 2 years

Utmb – 12 hours

Utmc – When you quit your browser

Utmz – 6 months

We use a component called ‘Addthis’ (www.addthis.com) that allows you to easily add links to our site to your facebook page, twitter feed and other social media websites.

Cookies set by Addthis and their duration:

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This cookie is set in order to make sure the user sees the updated count if they share a page and return to it before our share count cache is updated. No data from that cookie is sent back to AddThis and removing it when disabling cookies would cause unexpected behaviour for users.

Duration: 2 years

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User id and login time tracking set by Addthis. These cookies are used for per-site user preferences and analytics, and are always preceded with an underscore.

Duration: 12 hours

 

Security

The Site has security measures in place intended to protect the loss, misuse, and alteration of the information under our control. We are committed to the protection of your personal and order information. We use the Secure Socket Layer (SSL) to ensure that all the information you provide is encrypted and cannot be read as the information travels over the Internet. SSL is a worldwide industry standard for such sensitive transactions.

 

Removal from Mailings

To be removed from our e-mail or mailing lists, you may respond to the e-mails that we send out with your request for removal, or you may send an e-mail to feedback@bdgrowers.com. There may be some lag time between our receipt of your request and our being able to update our lists. Thank you for your patience in this regard.

 

Links

The Site may include links to other websites owned or operated by third parties. We may do this for the convenience of you and other users of the Site, but we do not have control over the operation of these third-party websites. Please consult those websites’ privacy policies or otherwise with the owners or operators of those websites to learn about any information collection or usage at or by those websites.

 

International Visitors

The information we collect from the Site may be collected by, transferred to and processed by our affiliates located throughout the world, including countries that do not have laws regulating the use and transfer of such data, in particular in countries outside the European Union.  By accessing or using the Site, or by providing any of your information to us through the Site, you understand that your information may be transferred to our facilities in those countries and those third parties with whom we share it as described in this Privacy Policy, and you consent to such transfer and processing.

 

Notification of Changes

If at some point in the future, there is a change to our information usage practices that affect your personal information, we will post these relevant changes on the Site.

Effective Date: June 2012