PRIVACY POLICY

Riggs Distributing, Inc. (“Riggs Distributing”, “us”, or “we”) takes the privacy and protection of your personal information very seriously. By visiting the Riggs Distributing website, located at http://www.riggsdistributing.com (the “Website”), you acknowledge that you accept the practices and policies outlined in this privacy policy (“Privacy Policy”).

What This Privacy Policy Covers

This Privacy Policy describes Riggs Distributing’s use of Personal Information and Anonymous Information that we collect when you visit and use our Website. This Privacy Policy does not apply to the use of your Personal Information by third parties that the Riggs Distributing does not own or control, or to individuals that we do not control or manage.

“Personal Information” is information about you that is personally identifiable to you like your name, address, e-mail address, or phone number, as well as other non-public information that is associated with the foregoing.

“Anonymous Information” means information that is not associated with or linked to your Personal Information; Anonymous Information does not permit the identification of individual persons.

We collect and use Personal Information and Anonymous Information as described in this Privacy Policy from the visitors of our Website.

BY USING THE WEBSITE OR SUBMITTING PERSONAL INFORMATION THROUGH THE WEBSITE, YOU AGREE TO THE TERMS OF THIS PRIVACY POLICY AND YOU EXPRESSLY CONSENT TO THE PROCESSING OF YOUR PERSONAL INFORMATION ACCORDING TO THIS PRIVACY POLICY.

YOUR PERSONAL INFORMATION MAY BE PROCESSED BY US IN THE COUNTRY WHERE IT WAS COLLECTED AS WELL AS OTHER COUNTRIES (INCLUDING THE UNITED STATES) WHERE LAWS REGARDING PROCESSING OF PERSONAL INFORMATION MAY BE LESS STRINGENT THAN THE LAWS IN YOUR COUNTRY.

Personal Information We Collect

The Personal Information we gather from you helps us learn more about the visitors of our Website and our customers. We collect the following Personal Information that you submit to us voluntarily:

• If you register on our Website to receive our newsletter and receive product information and other information, we collect your e-mail address, your full name, your mailing address, and telephone number and in which role you are interested in receiving information from us.
• When you contact us by sending us an e-mail, we will collect any information that is contained in your e-mail, including, without limitation, any attachments that you sent us.

You can choose not to provide us with certain information, but this may limit the features of the Website you are able to use.

Personal Information Collected Via Technology

As you use the Website, certain information may also be collected passively, including your Internet protocol (IP) address, browser type, and operation system. Riggs Distributing also stores a small text file called a “Cookie” on your computer to store your login information. Riggs Distributing may use both session Cookies (which expire once you close your web browser) and persistent Cookies (which stay on your computer until you delete them). You must have Cookies enabled in your web browser to use the Website.

We may also contract with advertisers in order to promote third party products and/or services by placing advertisements on the Website. Clicking on such advertisements will direct you to the website of a third party and the advertiser and/or third party may also use Cookies in connection with these advertisements. This Privacy Policy covers the use of Cookies by Riggs Distributing only and does not cover the use of cookies by any advertisers. Any advertisements appearing in conjunction with the Website are delivered by third parties. For information about our advertising partners, please visit their websites through the links included in the presentation of the advertisements.

Riggs Distributing also uses Cookies and other navigational data that is passively collected, to gather information about your visit to the Website and the information which you searched and viewed on the Website. Riggs Distributing may store this information as Personal Information.

Personal Information From Other Sources

We may receive Personal Information about you from other sources like telephone, fax, letter, or from third parties that provide services for us in connection with the Website. We may add this information to the information we have already collected from you via our Website.

Use Of Information We Collect

In general, Personal Information you submit to us is used by us either to register you, if you have requested to receive our newsletter, product information, tips, recipes, and news from dealers, kitchen designers, and kitchen builders in your area, to improve our Website and to better tailor the features, performance and support of the Website, and to offer you additional information, opportunities, and functionality.

We may create Anonymous Information records from Personal Information by excluding information (such as your name) that makes the information personally identifiable to you. We may use this Anonymous Information to analyze usage patterns so that we may enhance our Website. We reserve the right to use and disclose Anonymous Information to third parties in our discretion.
Feedback
If you provide feedback to us, we may use and disclose such feedback for any purpose, provided we do not associate such feedback with your Personal Information. We will collect any information contained in such feedback and will treat the Personal Information in it in accordance with this Privacy Policy.
Disclosure of Personal Information
Except as otherwise stated in this Privacy Policy, we do not trade, rent, or share your Personal Information with third parties, unless you ask or authorize us to do so.

We may provide your Personal Information to third party service providers who work on behalf of or with us to provide some of the services and features of the Website and to help us communicate with the visitors of the Website and our customers. Examples of such services include sending e-mail, providing marketing assistance, and providing customer service. However, these service providers do not have any independent right to share this information (except pursuant to a legal requirement such as a subpoena or warrant).

We may share Anonymous Information about the visitors of the Website and our customers with our partners and advertisers. This Anonymous Information may include, but is not limited to, browser type, URLs visited, and search terms entered.

Although we currently do not have a parent company, any subsidiaries, joint ventures, or other companies under a common control (collectively, “Affiliates”), we may in the future. We may share some or all of your Personal Information with these Affiliates, in which case we will require our Affiliates to honor this Privacy Policy.

In the event Riggs Distributing goes through a business transition such as a merger, acquisition by another company, or sale of all or a portion of its assets, your Personal Information will likely be among the assets transferred. You acknowledge that such transfers may occur, and that any acquirer of Riggs Distributing or its assets may continue to use your Personal Information as set forth in this Privacy Policy. You hereby consent to Riggs Distributing sharing your Personal Information under the above circumstances.

We may disclose your Personal Information if we believe in good faith that such disclosure is necessary to (a) comply with relevant laws or to respond to subpoenas or warrants served on us; or (b) to protect and defend the rights or property of us, the visitors of the Website, our customers, or third parties.

Choices Regarding Personal Information

Unsubscribe instructions will accompany each newsletter or promotional communication you receive from us.

We may send you strictly service-related announcements (such as, but not limited to, notices of any updates to our Website and services, Terms of Service or Privacy Policy) when it is necessary to do so. You may not opt-out of these communications, which are not promotional in nature, but if you do not wish to receive these announcements, you have the option to deactivate your registration with us by contacting us.

When we delete information about you, it will be deleted from our active databases but may remain in our archives.

Links to Other Sites

The Website contains links to other websites that are not owned or controlled by Riggs Distributing. The provision of such links is for your convenience and does not signify our endorsement of such websites or location or its contents. We have no control over, do not review and are not responsible for the privacy policies of or content displayed on such other websites. Please be aware that the terms of our Privacy Policy do not apply to any outside websites.

Privacy of Minors

We do not intentionally collect or maintain information from those visitors of our Website who are under 13 years old.

Security and Confidentiality

Riggs Distributing has put in place commercially reasonable and appropriate physical, electronic, and managerial procedures to safeguard and secure the information we collect online. However, no company, including Riggs Distributing, can fully eliminate security risks associated with Personal Information.

Changes in this Privacy Statement

This Privacy Statement is a living document. We reserve the right to modify this Privacy Policy at any time. If we make material changes to it we will post those changes to this Privacy Policy, the Website, and other places we deem appropriate so that you are aware of what Personal Information we collect, how we use it, and under what circumstances, if any, we disclose it.

Contact Us

If you have any questions or suggestions regarding our Privacy Policy please email us at info@riggsdistributing.com.

This Privacy Policy was last updated in March 2008.