The Pantry Online Privacy Statement
Last Revised February 18, 2010
Privacy Statement:
The Pantry is committed to protecting the privacy
of information you provide through The Pantry’s website, located at www.thepantry.com, and through the
Kangaroo Careers website, located at www.kangaroocareers.com
(each website is referred to as the “Site” in this Privacy Statement). We are providing this online Privacy
Statement (“Statement”) so you know what information we collect through the
Site and how we use it. By
using our Site, you consent to the information collection and use practices
described in this Privacy Statement. The
Pantry reserves the right to change the provisions of this Privacy Statement at
any time, but will alert you that changes have been made by indicating on the Privacy
Statement the date it was last updated.
Your use may also be subject to additional terms with respect to
specific services or materials offered. This
posting constitutes The Pantry’s notice of any changes to this Privacy
Statement.
THE INFORMATION WE COLLECT
In general, you can visit the Site
without telling us who you are or revealing any personal information about
yourself. The personal information you
provide us enables us to provide you with better service generally. We may use this information to contact you to
respond to an inquiry or comment that you send to us through the Site. We do not collect any personal information on
this Site unless you voluntarily provide it to us. Personal information may include your name,
address, e-mail address, telephone number, or other information that identifies
you personally. Some of the ways we may
collect personal information on this Site include:
- When you provide comments to us through this Site
- When you provide job application information through www.kangaroocareers.com
HOW WE USE
YOUR INFORMATION
We may use personal information to
customize and optimize products, services and information that you request from
us or that we provide to you. Personal
information that you provide to the Site may also be used in the following
ways:
- To contact you about your use of the Site or about our products and services;
- To request feedback and enable us to develop and improve the Site and our products and services;
- For internal and marketing/promotional purposes;
- For the specific purpose for which the information was provided.
In some instances, we remove
individual identifiers from the personal information you provide through this
Site and use it to create aggregated information. We use this information to improve the design
of and develop new features for this Site, and to monitor usage of this
Site. For example, we may create this
information to determine the most and least frequently requested pages, or the
number of Site visitors by region.
We may use job information from you
that you provided through the Kangaroo Careers website at www.kangaroocareers.com for purposes
of hiring and employment-related purposes in compliance with applicable law.
HOW WE SHARE INFORMATION
The Pantry will not sell, rent or
otherwise provide personal information you provide through this Site to outside
marketers without your prior consent except as otherwise provided in this
Policy. Personal information collected
on this Site may be shared with third party contractors and other service
providers whom we have retained to perform various functions on our
behalf. These third parties are required
by us to use or disclose this information only as necessary to carry out the
services they are performing on our behalf, or as otherwise authorized by law.
We also use or disclose information
as necessary to:
- Correct technical problems and malfunctions on this
Site and to technically process your information;
- Protect the security and integrity of our Site;
- Protect our rights and property as well as the rights
and property of other users of this Site;
- Take precautions against liability;
- Meet legal requirements as determined by law or to
respond to judicial processes;
- Provide information to law enforcement agencies for
investigations on matters related to public safety, as applicable, to the
extent required under other provisions of law.
SECURITY
We employ reasonable security
measures to protect the information stored on our systems from loss, misuse and
unauthorized access, alteration or destruction. The information you provide while on this Site
may be archived and stored for backup purposes.
The
Pantry uses cookies to manage our website and e-mail programs. We do not use
cookies or web beacons to collect or store personal information.
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A cookie
is a small file placed on your computer when you visit a website. Cookies are
used to store non-personal information used to manage your website experience
such as your type of web browser. A cookie can also store preference
information to customize your website experience.
Cookies
help us understand how consumers use our websites and emails so we can design
better services in the future.
Most
browsers automatically accept cookies. To learn more about cookies, including
how to refuse cookies on your computer, click these links:
For Microsoft Internet Explorer: http://www.microsoft.com/info/cookies.htm
For Netscape Navigator: http://wp.netscape.com/legal_notices/cookies.html
All about cookies: http://www.allaboutcookies.org/cookies/
LINKS TO OTHER WEB SITES
For your convenience, our Site may
contain links to other websites not maintained by The Pantry. If
you use these links, you will leave The Pantry site. We have not reviewed these third-party sites
and do not control them. The Pantry does not assume responsibility for any of
these sites, their content, or their privacy policies. The Pantry does not
endorse or make any representations about them or any information, software or
other products or materials found there, or any results that may be obtained
from using them. If you decide to access any of the third-party sites linked to
The Pantry site, you do so at your own risk.
You should carefully review the privacy statements of these websites.
NOTIFICATION OF CHANGES
If we should make material changes
to this online Privacy Statement, we will provide notice of any such changes on
the Site and provide the effective date of those changes. The Pantry reserves the right to change this Privacy
Statement at any time. If we decide to
make material changes to our Privacy Statement, we will post those changes in
an updated Privacy Statement so our users are always aware of what information
we collect, how we use it, and under circumstances, if any, we disclose
it. The effective date of the last
revision is always posted at the top of the Privacy Statement. This posting constitutes The Pantry’s notice
of any changes to this Privacy Statement.
We encourage you to review our Privacy Statement whenever you visit our
Site to make sure that you understand how any personal information you provide
will be used.
HOW TO CONTACT US
If you have any questions or
comments about this Statement, this Site or The Pantry’s privacy practices
generally, you may email us at privacy@thepantry.com.
Effective Date: April 20, 2010