Privacy Policy

Welcome to HACCP Assurance Services. We are committed to protecting your privacy in all aspects of our business, from websites to food safety. This privacy statement discloses what information we collect and how we use it. By using our websites, products or services you agree to be bound by this policy. We welcome your feedback, and can be reached in the ways described below.

 

Security

This website takes considerable precaution to protect visitors’ information.

Registration forms and order forms on this website that require sensitive information (such as credit card number and/or social security number), are protected with Secure Socket Layer (SSL) encryption.

While we use SSL encryption to protect sensitive information online, we also do everything in our power to protect visitor information off-line. All of our visitors’ information – not just the sensitive information mentioned above – is restricted in our offices.

Furthermore, ALL employees are kept up-to-date on our security and privacy practices. Our employees are notified and/or reminded about the importance we place on privacy and what they can do to ensure our customers’ information is protected. Finally, the servers where we store personally identifiable information on are kept in a secure environment.

If you have any questions about the security of our website, you can send an email to [email protected].

 

Information Collection and Use

When you visit our website, we collect your computer’s IP address. We also collect identifying information (such as your name, company name, phone number, and e-mail addresses) that you knowingly provide to us – during, for example, the contact form submission.

At HACCP Assurance Services, we understand that children’s privacy is important. We do not monitor the age of our visitor audience. However, if you are under age 16, you should not submit personal identifying information to any HACCP Assurance Services website without the consent of your parent or guardian.

When you provide HACCP Assurance Services with information about yourself, we use that information internally to improve our products and services, to tell you about information on upcoming events and to contact you in response to contact form submissions. In addition, some of our audit bureaus may use some of this information to verify cumulative demographic statistics.

We use your e-mail address to tell you about information on upcoming events and to contact you in response to contact form submissions. If you do not wish to receive information from us via e-mail, please let us know. Information on how to contact us is provided below.

 

Information Disclosure to Third Parties

HACCP Assurance Services may disclose certain identifying information about you to third parties under the circumstances described below.

 

Private information: We treat your e-mail address and fax number as private information that might not ordinarily be known to others and we do not share this information with third parties except in the following cases: (1) We need to send the information to companies who work on behalf of HACCP Assurance Services to provide a product or service to you. Unless we tell you differently, these companies do not have any right to use the personally identifiable information we provide to them beyond what is necessary to assist us. (2) You have consented to such disclosure. When you as a customer have given us permission, we may make your e-mail address available to other companies and organizations whose products or services we think might be of interest to you. If, subsequently, you do not want us to use your e-mail address for communications concerning HACCP Assurance Services products and services, and/or be shared with other companies or organizations, please let us know. Information on how to contact us is provided below. (3) Disclosure is necessary to (a) comply with the law or with legal process; (b) protect and defend our rights and property; (c) protect our subscribers or customers from misuse or unauthorized use of the HACCP Assurance Services site; or (d) protect the personal safety or property of our subscribers, customers, or the public.

Personal information: We consider other personal identifying information you provide (such as your name, mailing address and telephone number), any optional information you provide, and your computer’s IP address to be personal information but also a type of information that would generally be available to others. Unless you tell us otherwise, we may provide this information to our business partners and to certain select third parties. From time to time, we may make our customer addresses and telephone number lists available to other companies and organizations whose products or services we think you might find interesting. If you do not wish to receive information from other companies or organizations, please let us know. Information on how to contact us is provided below. As with private information, personal information also may be disclosed if disclosure is necessary to (1) comply with the law or with legal process; (2) protect and defend our rights and property; (3) protect our subscribers or customers from misuse or unauthorized use of the HACCP Assurance Services site; or (4) protect the personal safety or property of our subscribers, customers, or the public. (Among other things, this means that if you provide false subscription or contact information, or if you attempt to pose as someone else, both private and personal information about you — including your computer’s IP address — may be disclosed as part of any investigation into your actions.)

Aggregate information: HACCP Assurance Services sometimes provides aggregate usage or tracking information to third parties. This aggregate information does not contain visitor-specific information that reveals the identity of a subscriber or registrant. We may share this information with anyone since it does not personally identify you and is not correlated to your personal identifying information.

Information you choose to disclose to third parties: From time to time, HACCP Assurance Services may allow third parties to advertise on our web sites, or may provide links to sites we think may be of interest to you. If you choose to disclose personal identifying information directly to one of our advertisers or to a web site to which we have linked, the information you disclose will be subject to that advertiser’s or that web site’s privacy policy, if any. We also may allow third parties to sponsor or co-sponsor events, contests, promotions or surveys on our web sites. In order to enter a contest, promotion or survey, you may be asked to provide personal identifying information, and by doing so you agree that such information may be disclosed to the sponsor of the event, promotion or survey. Any information you choose to submit will be subject to the sponsor’s privacy policy, if one exists. Although HACCP Assurance Services encourages third parties to adhere to appropriate privacy standards and policies, we are not responsible for the actions or policies of such parties.

 

Cookies

A cookie is a piece of data stored on the user’s hard drive containing information about the user. Some portions of HACCP Assurance Services use non-persistent cookies, which expire when the browser closes. Most browsers are initially set to accept cookies. If you’d prefer, you can set your browser to refuse cookies or to alert you when cookies are being sent. However, it is possible that some parts of the site will not function properly if you do so.

 

Choice/Opt-out

If you want to stop receiving particular kinds of communications, you can do any of the following:

• E-mail us at [email protected]
• Call us at 1-(800)-265-0456 (between 9 am and 5 pm EST)

Write to us at:

HACCP Assurance Services

25 Naus Way

Bloomsburg, PA 17815

Be sure to indicate the following:

Specific website/event/newsletter you have registered with and/or subscribed to (if available)

What types of communication you do not wish to receive (mail, fax and/or e-mail)

Your name
Company name, address
Your current e-mail address
Once we receive your request we will suppress your address, fax number, and/or e-mail address when sending future communications.

 

Notification of Changes

If we decide to change our privacy policy, we will post those changes so our visitors are always aware of what information we collect, how we use it, and under what circumstances, if any, we disclose it. If at any point we decide to use personally identifiable information in a manner different from that stated at the time it was collected, we will notify visitors by way of a change in this privacy policy.

 

Last updated: September 10, 2020