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INTRODUCTION
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This statement sets out
Rembrant's Coffee House
's policies relating to the collection
and use of your personal information. Before disclosing your personal information
to any third party sites that are linked with
Rembrant's Coffee House you should read
their respective privacy policy and/or terms of service.
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1. Your personal information
is important to us
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Rembrant's Coffee House recognises that your
privacy is very important to you and thus you have the right to control
all information that pertains to you. We understand your willingness
to give out your personal information requires trust and that is extremely
important to us. Unless we are given explicit permission to do otherwise
all information given to Rembrant's Coffee House remains private and you have the choice
who that information is given to and how it is used.
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2. Collecting your personal
information
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Whenever you visit the site, the servers automatically record non-personal
information about your usage the pages you visited and the time
spent viewing the site. This is to help us understand what interests
you and enables us to provide information that is most relevant
to you.
If you do not want us to retain any information at all, even in
an anonymous form, you can use the Preferences on your browser program
to remove all cookies and set the browser not to accept cookies
in the future.
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3. Preserving your privacy
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Surveys show that most internet
users are concerned about their privacy, want to keep control of their
personal information, and do not trust many of the web sites which
they visit. In fact, research shows around a third of internet users
give false information online rather than saying who they really are.
We neither provide information to third party people nor do we use it without your express permission to do so.
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4. Our use of cookies and
IP Addresses
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Use of Cookies
A cookie is a piece of data stored on the user's hard drive containing
information about the user. Usage of a cookie is in no way linked
to any personally identifiable information while on our site. Cookies
are files that your Web browser places on your computer's hard drive
for record-keeping purposes. Rembrant's Coffee House creates and then uses these cookie
files to track your clicks as you go through the site. The use of
cookies is an industry standard and you will find them at most major
Web sites. The information we retrieve from the cookie files helps
us track user trends and patterns. We use the information from cookies
to provide services that better fit our users' needs.
Use of IP Addresses
Rembrant's Coffee House uses IP addresses to analyse trends, administer the site, track
user's movement, and gather broad demographic information for aggregate
use. IP addresses are not linked to personally identifiable information.
Rembrant's Coffee House uses internet analysis software that provides
information from across the community site and gives the following
information.
* The number of page views (or page impressions) that occur on the
site;
* The number of unique visitors to the site;
* How long these unique visitors (on average) spend on the site when
they do visit; and
* Common entry and exit points into the site.
This information is collated by and used to analyse the usage of the
site and provide non-personal information to enable the community
to grow and change.
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5. Using and disclosing
your personal information
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Rembrant's Coffee House will not use or disclose
any information about you without your consent, unless:
* Required by law.
* To implement our terms of use.
* To protect the rights or property of Rembrant's Coffee House, any Rembrant's Coffee House user, or any
member of the public.
* To lessen a serious threat to a person's health or safety.
We will not give any of your personal information to advertisers or
any other organisation without your express consent.
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6. "Spam"
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We will not send you "spam"
(advertising information) without first asking you whether you wish
to have promotional information sent to you.
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7. Security of your personal
information
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Rembrant's Coffee House
We take every precaution
to protect our users' information. When users submit sensitive information
via the website, your information is protected both online and off-line.
When our registration/order form asks users to enter sensitive information
(such as credit card number), that information is encrypted and is
protected with the best encryption software in the industry - SSL.
While on a secure page, such as our order form, the lock icon on the
bottom of Web browsers such as Netscape Navigator and Microsoft Internet
Explorer becomes locked, as opposed to un-locked, or open, when you
are just 'surfing'.
While we use SSL encryption to protect sensitive information online,
we also do everything in our power to protect user-information off-line.
All of our users' information, not just the sensitive information
mentioned above, is restricted in our offices. Only employees who
need the information to perform a specific job (for example, our billing
clerk or a customer service representative) are granted access to
personally identifiable information. Furthermore, ALL employees are
kept up-to-date on our security and privacy practices. Finally, the
servers that we store personally identifiable information on are kept
in a secure environment.
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8. Links to other websites
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Rembrant's Coffee House
We provide links to third
party websites. These linked sites are not under the control of
Rembrant's Coffee House,
and we cannot accept responsibility for the conduct of any company
or group linked to our website. Before disclosing your personal information
on any other website, we advise you to examine the terms and conditions
of the respective sites.
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12. Future upgrades to
the site
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Our commitment to make Rembrant's Coffee House
the best site possible we will endeavour to add new features to the
site regularly. We reserve the right to make changes to the Terms
of Service and Privacy Policy at any stage so it is recommended you
view the Terms & Privacy Policy regularly.
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