Privacy Policy
Privacy Policy
Effective Date: April 1, 2020
Your privacy is important to us.
We have a few fundamental principles that we follow:
- We don’t ask you for personal information unless we truly need it.
- We don’t share your personal information with anyone except to comply with the law, develop our products, or protect our rights.
- We don’t store personal information on our servers unless required for the on-going operation of our site.
Who we are
This website https://posustainableseafood.com is owned and operated by Port Orford Sustainable Seafood, LLC, and our brands and subsidiaries (“Port Orford Sustainable Seafood”, “we”, “our” or “us”).
Acceptance of these terms
By using the Site, you signify your acceptance of this policy and any changes to this policy. If you do not agree to this policy, please do not use our website. Your continued use of the website following the posting of changes to this policy will be deemed your acceptance of those changes.
What personal data we collect and why we collect it
We may use personal information for various purposes, including to: (i) facilitate and improve your online shopping experience; (ii) provide the products and services you request, process transactions and send you related information, including confirmations and receipts; (iii) respond to your comments, questions and requests and provide customer service; (iv) communicate with you about products, services, offers, promotions, rewards and events and provide news and information we think will be of interest to you; (v) manage your online account(s) and send you technical notices, updates, security alerts and support and administrative messages; (vi) personalize your online experience and provide advertisements, content or features that match your profile and interests; (vii) monitor and analyze trends, usage and activities; (viii) process and deliver contest, promotion and sweepstakes entries and rewards; (ix) link or combine with information we get from others to help understand your needs and provide you with better service; and (x) carry out any other purpose for which the information was collected.
Comments
When visitors leave comments on the site we collect the data shown in the comments form, and also the visitor’s IP address and browser user agent string to help spam detection.
An anonymized string created from your email address (also called a hash) may be provided to the Gravatar service to see if you are using it. The Gravatar service privacy policy is available here: https://automattic.com/privacy/. After approval of your comment, your profile picture is visible to the public in the context of your comment.
Media
If you upload images to the website, you should avoid uploading images with embedded location data (EXIF GPS) included. Visitors to the website can download and extract any location data from images on the website.
Contact forms
If you use a contact form on this website, your email address, name, and message content will be collected for the purposes of direct communication only.
Cookies
If you leave a comment on our site you may opt-in to saving your name, email address and website in cookies. These are for your convenience so that you do not have to fill in your details again when you leave another comment. These cookies will last for one year.
If you visit our login page, we will set a temporary cookie to determine if your browser accepts cookies. This cookie contains no personal data and is discarded when you close your browser.
When you log in, we will also set up several cookies to save your login information and your screen display choices. Login cookies last for two days, and screen options cookies last for a year. If you select “Remember Me”, your login will persist for two weeks. If you log out of your account, the login cookies will be removed.
If you edit or publish an article, an additional cookie will be saved in your browser. This cookie includes no personal data and simply indicates the post ID of the article you just edited. It expires after 1 day.
Embedded content from other websites
Articles on this site may include embedded content (e.g. videos, images, articles, etc.). Embedded content from other websites behaves in the exact same way as if the visitor has visited the other website.
These websites may collect data about you, use cookies, embed additional third-party tracking, and monitor your interaction with that embedded content, including tracking your interaction with the embedded content if you have an account and are logged in to that website. We are not responsible for the content or actions of these other websites and you should refer to their respective privacy policies.
Analytics
Port Orford Sustainable Seafood may collect statistics about the behavior of visitors to its websites.
Protection of Certain Personally-Identifying Information
Port Orford Sustainable Seafood discloses potentially personally-identifying and personally-identifying information only to those of its employees, contractors and affiliated organizations that (i) need to know that information in order to process it on Port Orford Sustainable Seafood’s behalf or to provide services available at Port Orford Sustainable Seafood’s websites, and (ii) that have agreed not to disclose it to others. Some of those employees, contractors and affiliated organizations may be located outside of your home country, including the United States; by using Port Orford Sustainable Seafood’s websites, you consent to the transfer of such information to them. Port Orford Sustainable Seafood will not rent or sell potentially personally-identifying and personally-identifying information to anyone. Other than to its employees, contractors and affiliated organizations, as described above, Port Orford Sustainable Seafood discloses potentially personally-identifying and personally-identifying information only in response to a subpoena, court order or other governmental request, or when Port Orford Sustainable Seafood believes in good faith that disclosure is reasonably necessary to protect the property or rights of Awesome Motive, third parties or the public at large. If you are a registered user of an Port Orford Sustainable Seafood website and have supplied your email address, Port Orford Sustainable Seafood may occasionally send you an email to tell you about new features, solicit your feedback, or just keep you up to date with what’s going on with Port Orford Sustainable Seafood and our products. Port Orford Sustainable Seafood takes all measures reasonably necessary to protect against the unauthorized access, use, alteration or destruction of potentially personally-identifying and personally-identifying information.
Privacy and the WooCommerce Marketplace
Port Orford Sustainable Seafood uses WooCommerce to sell products directly to customers whether they are a member or not (members use a separate portal which has its own privacy policy).
Port Orford Sustainable Seafood may use extensions offered through the WooCommerce marketplace to enhance your experience in our shop. These extensions may be:
- Collecting additional personal data, such as city and zip code to calculate shipping rates
- Sharing data with external services, such as billing address to process a payment
Payments
Port Orford Sustainable Seafood uses a gateway for payments called Stripe and may add other payment options in the future. Some of your data will be passed to the respective third party, including information required to process or support the payment, such as the purchase total and your customer’s billing information and such data is subject to Stripe’s privacy policy found here https://stripe.com/privacy.
Shipping
To take advantage of the real-time shipping rates, fulfill orders and track shipments, certain information about you (as it relates to shipping), shopping carts, orders will be passed to the respective mailing service.
How long we retain your data
If you leave a comment, the comment and its metadata are retained indefinitely. This is so we can recognize and approve any follow-up comments automatically instead of holding them in a moderation queue.
For users that register on our website (if any), we also store the personal information they provide in their user profile. All users can see, edit, or delete their personal information at any time (except they cannot change their username). Website administrators can also see and edit that information.
What rights you have over your data
If you have an account on this site, or have left comments, you can request to receive an exported file of the personal data we hold about you, including any data you have provided to us. You can also request that we erase any personal data we hold about you. This does not include any data we are obliged to keep for administrative, legal, or security purposes.
Security
We take reasonable measures to help protect information about you from loss, theft, misuse and unauthorized access, disclosure, alteration and destruction. We use organizational, procedural, and technical safeguards to secure data in our possession, consistent with the sensitivity level of such data. When sensitive information (such as a credit card data) is collected on our websites it is protected through the use of encryption, such as the Secure Socket Layer (SSL) protocol and may be processed by third parties using similar or greater levels of protection. Regardless of the precautions we take, no transmission of data over the internet is guaranteed to be completely secure. It may be possible for third parties not under our control to intercept or access transmissions or private communications unlawfully. While we strive to protect personal information, we cannot ensure or warrant the security of any information you transmit to us.
Children
The website is designed for adults, not children under the age of 13. As such, we do not intend to collect personal information from children under the age of 13, and our website is not designed to manage such information. If we learn we have collected or received personal information from a child under 13 without verification of parental consent, we will delete that information. If you believe we might have any information from or about a child under 13, please contact us at csfmanager@posustainableseafood.com.
Our Contact Info
Port Orford Sustainable Seafood
PO BOX 407
Port Orford, Oregon 97465
(541) 671-0704