PRIVACY POLICY

This website is owned and operated by Black Market Butcher Shoppe. Your privacy on the Internet is of the utmost importance to us. At Black Market Butcher Shoppe we want to make your experience online satisfying and safe. Because we gather certain types of information about our customers, we feel you should fully understand the terms and conditions surrounding the capture and use of that information. This privacy statement discloses what information we gather and how we use it.

INFORMATION BLACK MARKET BUTCHER SHOPPE GATHERS AND TRACKS

Black Market Butcher Shoppe gathers the following information about customers:

1. Information customers provide through optional, voluntary submissions. These are voluntary submissions to receive additional information regarding our products and services.
2. Information gathered through aggregated tracking information derived mainly by tallying page views throughout our websites. This information allows us to better tailor our content to readers’ needs and to help us better understand the demographics of our audience. Under no circumstances does Black Market Butcher Shoppe divulge information about an individual user to a third party.

Black Market Butcher Shoppe gathers user information via the following processes which require some type of voluntary submission of personal information by customers:

1. Additional product information — We will offer free product information to interested parties via postal mail, e-mail, and phone. Black Market Butcher Shoppe gathers email and mailing addresses and phone numbers of customers who voluntarily submit said information. Customers may remove themselves from this service by simply requesting either verbally or in writing that no additional information is sent to their attention.
2. Surveys — Black Market Butcher Shoppe may occasionally conduct customer surveys to better target our website content to our audience. Under no circumstances does Black Market Butcher Shoppe divulge information about an individual user to a third party.

ADDITIONAL POLICIES

CHILDREN: Consistent with the Federal Children’s Online Privacy Protection Act of 1998 (COPPA), we will never knowingly request personally identifiable information from anyone under the age of 13 without requesting parental consent.

USAGE TRACKING: Black Market Butcher Shoppe monitors user traffic patterns throughout our website. However, we do not correlate this information with data about individual customers. Black Market Butcher Shoppe does break down overall usage statistics according to a user’s domain name, browser type, and MIME type by reading this information from the browser string (information contained in every user’s browser). Black Market Butcher Shoppe uses tracking information to determine which areas of our website customers like and don’t like based on traffic to those areas. We do not track what individual customers read but rather how well each page performs overall. Doing so helps us continue to build a better service for our customers.

COOKIES: Black Market Butcher Shoppe may place a text file called a “cookie” in the browser files of your computer. The cookie itself does not contain personal information, although it will enable us to relate your use of this website to information that you have specifically and knowingly provided. The only personal information a cookie can contain is information you supply yourself. A cookie can’t read data off your hard disk or read cookie files created by other websites. Black Market Butcher Shoppe uses cookies to track user traffic patterns (as described above). You can refuse cookies by turning them off in your browser. If you have set your browser to warn you before accepting cookies, you will receive the warning message with each cookie. You do not need to have cookies turned on to use this website.

USE OF INFORMATION

Black Market Butcher Shoppe uses any information voluntarily given by our customers to enhance their experience on our website, whether to provide interactive or personalized elements on the website or to prepare better future content based on the interests of our customers.

As stated above, we use information that customers voluntarily provide to send out electronic correspondence. Black Market Butcher Shoppe never shares mailing lists with any third parties. We use tracking information to determine which areas of our website customers like and don’t like based on traffic to those areas. We do not track what individual customers read but rather how well each page performs overall. Doing so helps us continue to build a better service for our customers.

SHARING OF INFORMATION

Black Market Butcher Shoppe uses the above-described information to tailor our website content to suit your needs and help us better understand our audience’s demographics. We will not share information about individual customers with any third party except to comply with applicable law or valid legal process or to protect the personal safety of our customers or the public.

SECURITY

Black Market Butcher Shoppe operates secure data networks protected by industry-standard firewall and password protection systems. Our security and privacy policies are periodically reviewed and enhanced as necessary, and only authorized individuals have access to the information provided by our customers.

OPT-OUT POLICY

We give customers options wherever necessary and practical. Such choices include:

1. Opting not to register to receive additional product information.
2. Opting not to participate in certain interactive areas (e.g., QuickLook) completely alleviates the need to gather any personally identifiable information from our customers.

YOUR CONSENT

By using this website, you consent to the collection and use of this information by Black Market Butcher Shoppe. If we decide to change our privacy policy, we will post those changes on this page so that you are always aware of what information we collect, how we use it, and under what circumstances we disclose it.