BelGioioso Cheese, Inc. (“BelGioioso”, “we” and “us”) has created this Privacy Policy (the “Privacy Policy”) in order to demonstrate its firm commitment to its customers’ privacy. The following discloses BelGioioso’s information gathering and dissemination practices for its website (the “Site”): www.belgioioso.com.

 

At BelGioioso, we recognize that visitors to our Site may be concerned about the information they provide to BelGioioso and how we handle that information.  This Privacy Policy describes the types of information BelGioioso collects from and about you when you visit our Site.  This Privacy Policy explains how BelGioioso may use and disclose such information, as well as your ability to control certain uses of it.  By using the Site, you agree to BelGioioso’s collection, use, and disclosure of your personal information as described in this Privacy Policy.  If you do not agree with such collection, use and disclosure of your personal information, please do not use the Site.

 

Personal Information and Data Gathering

BelGioioso uses third-party development partners to assist in its online development, deployment and data collection. These companies are not bound by our Privacy Policy as covered below, nor by any other conventions and business practices of BelGioioso concerning user information and data from online sources. For the purposes of this Privacy Policy, the terms “we,” “us” and “BelGioioso” do not represent these third-party developers.

 

We may collect anonymous information from your visits to our Site to help us understand the usage patterns of the Site and provide better customer service.  Information that we collect in this manner is provided automatically by your system and the systems that you use to connect to our Site.  For example, we keep track of what time people enter our Site, how long they stay on the Site, and what sections of the Site they visit.  This information is kept in aggregate format.  We may also collect IP address, browser, and operating system information. We use this information to better tailor our Site for our visitors and their usage patterns, as well as to gauge performance and other measures of the Site, again in aggregate format.

 

Cookies may sometimes be used to further track usage patterns of the Site by users, in aggregate and anonymous format.  Only a unique identifier is kept on your system that will allow you to access the records stored on our secure, password-protected server(s).  No financial or personal information will ever be left on your system in the form of a cookie.

 

Registration may be required to use certain features of our Site.  We will collect general contact information, such as name, physical address and email address, as well as demographic information, such as age and gender.  Data collected from online user-completed forms is stored on secure password protected server locations.  Demographic information collected is used to help us, or our partners, to analyze our aggregate user base and better tailor our Site, promotions or other features to better serve that user base.  Contact information is also used to better understand our user base.

 

 

Further use of Personal Information and Data Gathered by BelGioioso

BelGioioso will occasionally utilize partners and vendors to assist it in analysis of the data and information collected by its Site. This information is used in aggregate and anonymous format for the purpose of better tailoring our website, promotions, or other company endeavors to better suit our user base. This information is shared with our partners and vendors only on an as-needed basis. Financial information will never be shared with any organization other than those necessary for completing the financial transaction required.

 

Information and data gathered solely by BelGioioso on this Site will never be sold, traded or shared with third-parties for any other reason other than for assisting BelGioioso in its analysis, research, promotional needs, and responses to compliments and complaints.

 

This Site may contain links to other sites. BelGioioso is not responsible for the privacy practices or the content of such websites.

 

Security

This Site has security measures in place to protect the loss, misuse and alteration of the information under our control. All information is stored in secure locations on password-protected servers.

 

Children’s Information

This Privacy Policy is intended for general audiences, and BelGioioso does not direct the Site to collect, or knowingly collect, any personal information from children under the age of thirteen (13).

 

Correct/Update

The Site gives users the option for changing and modifying information previously provided by emailing: privacy@belgioioso.com.

 

Contacting the Website

If you have any questions about this Privacy Policy, the practices of the Site, or your dealings with the Site, you can contact customer service via telephone at 1-877-863-2123 or via email at privacy@belgioioso.com. 

 

Changes to Our Privacy Policy

BelGioioso reserves the right to amend this Privacy Policy at our discretion and at any time. When we make changes to this Privacy Policy, we will post the updated Policy on the Website and update the Policy’s effective date. Your continued use of our Site following the posting of changes constitutes your acceptance of such changes.

 

Copyright Ownership

BelGioioso retains full copyright ownership, rights and protection in all materials contained in this Site.

 

California Residents

Residents of California are protected by the California Consumer Privacy Act of 2018 (“CCPA”), effective January 1, 2020.  We adopt this Privacy Policy to comply with the CCPA and any terms defined in the CCPA have the same meaning when used in this section of the Privacy Policy.  All information provided in this section below shall apply to California residents.

 

Belgioioso may use or disclose the personal information we collect for one or more of the following business purposes:

• To fulfill or meet the reason you provided the information. For example, if you share your name and contact information to request a price quote or ask a question about our products or services, we will use that personal information to respond to your inquiry. If you provide your personal information to purchase a product or service, we will use that information to process your payment and facilitate delivery. We may also save your information to facilitate new product orders or process returns;
• To provide, support, personalize, and develop our Site, products, and services;
• To create, maintain, customize, and secure your account with us;
• To provide you with support and to respond to your inquiries, including to investigate and address your concerns and monitor and improve our responses;
• To personalize your Site experience and to deliver content and product and service offerings relevant to your interests, including targeted offers and ads through our Site, third-party sites, and via email or text message (with your consent, where required by law);
• To help maintain the safety, security, and integrity of our Site, products and services, databases and other technology assets, and business;
• For testing, research, analysis, and product development, including to develop and improve our Site, products, and services.

 

Belgioioso will not collect additional categories of personal information or use the personal information we collected for materially different, unrelated, or incompatible purposes without providing you notice.

 

The CCPA provides California residents with specific rights regarding their personal information.  You have the right to request that Belgioioso disclose certain information to you about our collection and use of your personal information over the past twelve (12) months. Once we receive and confirm your verifiable consumer request, we will disclose to you:

• The categories of personal information we collected about you;
• The categories of sources for the personal information we collected about you;
• Our business or commercial purpose for collecting or selling that personal information;
• The categories of third parties with whom we share that personal information;
• The specific pieces of personal information we collected about you (also called a data portability request);
• If we sold or disclosed your personal information for a business purpose, two separate lists disclosing:
  • sales, identifying the personal information categories that each category of recipient purchased; and
  • disclosures for a business purpose, identifying the personal information categories that each category of recipient obtained.

 

You have the right to request that Belgioioso delete any of your personal information that we collected from you and retained, subject to certain exceptions. Once we receive and confirm your verifiable consumer request, we will delete (and direct our service providers to delete) your personal information from our records, unless an exception applies.

 

We may deny your deletion request if retaining the information is necessary for us or our service provider(s) to:

1. Complete the transaction for which we collected the personal information, provide a good or service that you requested, take actions reasonably anticipated within the context of our ongoing business relationship with you, or otherwise perform our contract with you;
2. Detect security incidents, protect against malicious, deceptive, fraudulent, or illegal activity, or prosecute those responsible for such activities;
3. Debug products to identify and repair errors that impair existing intended functionality;
4. Exercise free speech, ensure the right of another consumer to exercise their free speech rights, or exercise another right provided for by law;
5. Comply with the California Electronic Communications Privacy Act (Cal. Penal Code § 1546 et. seq.) or the CCPA;
6. Engage in public or peer-reviewed scientific, historical, or statistical research in the public interest that adheres to all other applicable ethics and privacy laws, when the information's deletion may likely render impossible or seriously impair the research's achievement, if you previously provided informed consent;
7. Enable solely internal uses that are reasonably aligned with consumer expectations based on your relationship with us;
8. Comply with a legal obligation;
9. Make other internal and lawful uses of that information that are compatible with the context in which you provided it.

 

To exercise the access, data portability, and deletion rights described above, please submit a verifiable consumer request to us by either:

• Call us at 844-969-0982
• Emailing us as privacy@belgioioso.com

If you are sixteen (16) years of age or older, you have the right to direct us to not sell your personal information at any time (the “right to opt-out”). We do not sell the personal information of consumers we actually know are less than sixteen (16) years of age, unless we receive affirmative authorization (the “right to opt-in”) from either the consumer who is between thirteen (13) and sixteen (16) years of age, or the parent or guardian of a consumer less than thirteen (13) years of age. Consumers who opt-in to personal information sales may opt-out of future sales at any time.  To exercise the right to opt-out, you (or your authorized representative) may submit a request to us by emailing the following address: privacy@belgioioso.com.