The Merrie Chef Privacy Policy
The Merrie Chef (“The Merrie Chef”) provides
www.themerriechef.com (the “Website”) and related services for your personal
non-commercial use only and subject to your compliance with this Privacy Policy
Statement and Terms The Merrie Chef Use Agreement (collectively the
“Agreement”). Please read this Agreement carefully before using this Website. Your use
of this Website constitutes your acceptance to be bound by this Agreement without
limitation, qualification or change. If at any time you do not accept all the terms and
conditions of this Agreement, you must immediately discontinue use of this Website.
This Agreement sets forth The Merrie Chef’s policies with respect to its
operation of this Website.
The Merrie Chef is the owner of this Website and retains all ownership rights
to the information collected at this Website. The Merrie Chef reserves the
right to change, modify, add, or remove provisions of this Privacy Statement. Any
changes to this Privacy Statement will be posted here, and we encourage you to check
back from time to time.
Privacy Statement
This website collects personal data to power our site analytics, including:
Information about your browser, network, and device, web pages you visited prior to
coming to this website, and your IP address.
This information may also include details about your use of this website, including:
Clicks, Internal links, Pages visited, Scrolling, Searches and Timestamps.
We share this information with Squarespace, our website analytics provider, to learn
about site traffic and activity.
Understanding Cookies or Tracking Information
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 necessary 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.
When you buy something on this website, we collect personal information from you to
fulfill the order. We may collect information such as your:
Billing and shipping address
Details relating to your purchase
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.
Our payment processor Stripe will also collect payment information from you. You can
read their privacy policy at https://stripe.com/legal/connect-account
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.
You can disable these cookies by using a cookie banner to opt out. This is offered to
you upon joining the site.
Financial Information
This Website may offer shopping services, which may be offered by us or by a firm that
operates a store under contract with us. If our Website offers shopping or other
commercial services, you will use a customer order form to request information,
products, and services. The order form will ask you to give us contact information (like
name or email address), financial information (like account or credit card numbers), and
demographic information (like zip code)
We will use the financial information that you provide to bill you for products and
services. By giving our website your credit card and related personal information, you
are authorizing our store to give that information to the merchant and credit card
company in order to confirm and fulfill your order.
We will use contact information from the order form to fulfill your orders. We may also
use contact data to get in touch with you when necessary. We will not otherwise use or
distribute your financial information without your prior approval.
Order and Account Emails
We may email you with messages about your order or account activity. For example, we
may email you to tell you that:
You’ve created a customer account
Your customer account password has been reset or updated
You’ve made a purchase
Your order is being delivered
It’s not possible to unsubscribe from these messages.
We share your contact information with Squarespace, our website hosting provider, so
they can send these emails to you on our behalf.
Payments When you make a purchase from us on this website, we use Squarespace Payments as
our payment solution. Squarespace Payments is a fully integrated, native payment
solution provided to us by our online store service provider Squarespace. Squarespace
Payments makes use of the following third-party service providers which will also
receive your personal information and process it in accordance with their privacy
policies:
Stripe - payment processing services. You can read Stripe’s privacy policy at
https://stripe.com/privacy
Sift - fraud monitoring and detection services. You can read Sift’s privacy policy at
https://sift.com/service-privacy
Web Hosting by Squarespace
This website is hosted by Squarespace. Squarespace collects personal data when you
visit this website, including:
Information about your browser, network and device
Web pages you visited prior to coming to this website
Web pages you view while on this website
Your IP address
Squarespace requires these data to run this website, and to protect and improve its
platform and services. Squarespace analyzes the data in a de-personalized form.
Fonts
This website serves font files from and renders fonts using Google Fonts and Adobe
Fonts. To properly display this site to you, these third parties may receive personal
information about you, including:
Information about your browser, network, or device
Information about this site and the page you’re viewing on it
Your IP address
Security of Your Personal Information
The Merrie Chef employs reasonable security measures consistent with
standard industry practice, for information collected through this Website. We believe
that we have adequate security measures in place in our physical facilities to protect
against the loss, misuse, or alteration of the information we collect on our website. We
also use internal protection to limit access to users’ personal information to only those
employees who need the information to perform a specific job.
Personal Information on Children
The Children’s Online Privacy Protection Act of 1998 (“COPPA”), 15 U.S.C. §§ 6501-
6505, governs information collected online from or about children under the age of 13.
We do not knowingly collect such information without obtaining parental permission. COPPA requires parental permission before collecting personal information about
children under the age of 13.
European Union and other Foreign Countries
This Website is governed by and operated in accordance with the laws of United States
of America and is intended for enjoyment of residents of the United States. The Merrie Chef makes no representation that this Website is governed by or
operated in accordance with the laws of other nations. By using this Website and
submitting any personal information, visitors from outside of the United States
acknowledge this Website is subject to U.S. law, consent to the transfer of personal
data to the U.S. and waive any claims that may arise under their own national laws.
Indemnification
You hereby agree to defend, indemnify and hold The Merrie Chef, its
parent, subsidiaries and affiliated companies and its respective licensees, successors
and assigns, harmless from and against any and all third-party claims, actions or
proceedings of any kind and from any and all damages, liabilities, costs and expenses,
including reasonable attorney’s fees, relating to or arising out of your use of the
Website, including, without limitation, any use of your Submission by The Merrie Chef
and any breach or alleged breach of any of your warranties, representations or
agreements hereunder.
Terms and Conditions
These Terms and Conditions constitute the entire agreement between you and The Merrie Chef.
These Terms and Conditions and the relationship between you and
The Merrie Chef shall be governed by the laws of the Pennsylvania without
regard to its conflict of law provisions.
The Merrie Chef’s failure to exercise or enforce any right or provision of the
Terms and Conditions shall not constitute a waiver of such right or provision.
If any provision of these Terms and Conditions is found by a court of competent
jurisdiction to be invalid, the parties nevertheless agree that the court should endeavor
to give effect to the parties’ intentions as reflected in the provision, and the other
provisions of the Terms and Conditions remain in full force and effect.
Questions
If you have any questions about this Privacy Statement, the practices of this Website, or
your dealings with this Website, please contact us at this email:
themerriechef@gmail.com