Respecting Your Privacy

Chocolate Fashion’s website and mobile applications are owned and operated by Chocolate Fashion (“C.F.”, “us”, “we”), a Florida company. We recognize that visitors to our site may be concerned about the information they provide to us, online or otherwise, and how we treat that information. This Privacy Policy addresses those concerns. C.F. respects the privacy of all our supporters, subscribers, members of our mailing lists, or visitors to our website. All information concerning subscribers or prospective subscribers, providing their names, addresses and telephone numbers, the names of their emergency contacts, etc., shall be kept strictly confidential by C.F., its staff and administration, unless permission is obtained from subscribers to release such information. C.F. will not sell, rent or trade our subscribers’ names, postal addresses, email addresses or phone numbers with any other entity. Should you have questions regarding our privacy policy, you may contact us at info@chocolatefashiononline.com, Subject: Privacy Policy.

Information Collected by Us

On our website we do not collect personally identifiable information from individuals unless they provide it to us voluntarily and knowingly. This means we do not require you to register or provide information to us to view our site download our applications. C.F. only gathers personally identifiable information, such as photos, names, addresses, zip/postal codes, email addresses, medical information etc., when voluntarily submitted by a subscriber. For example, personally identifiable information may be collected to process membership applications, profile updates, respond to a stated desire to apply for a position, or sign up to be part of C.F.’s mailing list. This information is available to C.F. and other service providers involved in the operation of our site and mobile applications. C.F. requires that all third-party service providers hold personal information in strict confidence. While we do not own or control these companies, we believe they are upstanding and will treat your personal information responsibly. As with most other Internet sites, our web server automatically logs headers your browser sends us and connection information, such as IP address, user-agent string, referring URL, and dates/times of access. We use the information we record to help diagnose problems with our server, and to improve the content of our website and mobile application.

Opt-out Policy

If you supply us with your postal address, email address or phone number, you may receive periodic communications from us with information on our programs, services or about products, services or offers from our marketing partners. If you do not want to receive postal mail, email or phone calls from us in the future, please let us know by sending your request via email to info@chocolatefashiononline.com (with Subject: Opt-Out) or by removing your agreement to our Terms of Use via our mobile applications or website. Choosing to opt-out may permanently prohibit you from receiving any ongoing benefits from your C.F. enrollments but not limited to any and all services provided by our website and mobile applications. At any time, you have the right to delete all your information from our website and mobile application databases.  Choosing to delete your information will result in you being permanently dropped from receiving all benefits from your C.F. enrollments but not limited to any and all services provided by us.

Exceptions to Privacy Policy

C.F. may disclose personal information if compelled by law or a regulatory authority. In addition, we may need to disclose personal information in special cases when we have reason to believe that disclosing this information is necessary to identify, contact or bring legal action against someone who may be causing injury or interfering (either intentionally or unintentionally) with C.F.’s rights or property, C.F.’s members, subscribers, or anyone else that could be harmed by such activities.

How We Use “Cookies”

Visitors should be aware that non-personal information and data may be automatically collected by C.F.’s website through the use of “cookies.” Cookies are small text files that a website can use to recognize repeat visitors, facilitate visitors’ ongoing access to and use of the site, and allow a site to track usage behavior and compile aggregate data that will facilitate content improvements. Cookies are not programs that come onto a visitor’s system and damage files. Generally, cookies work by assigning to the visitor unique data that has no meaning outside the assigning site. If a visitor does not want information collected through the use of cookies, there is a simple procedure in most browsers that allows the visitor to deny or accept the cookie feature. For more information about how to disable cookies, refer to the “help” or “customer support” section of your specific browser application. C.F. uses cookie technology to improve visitors’ online experience, track, understand, facilitate and personalize their visit within our site, and for research and marketing purposes.

How We Use Information

We use information we collect for a variety of business purposes, including to: provide and improve C.F.’s services; administrative purposes such as the maintenance and operation of C.F. or to respond to requests that you make; provide you with a personalized experience on and off the site, including advertising and promotions; and create and utilize metrics, analytics and data related to C.F.. We also use information to comply with legal obligations, resolve disputes, prevent fraud.

We may combine data we collect from different sources, including information obtained from third parties, across Services and devices. We may use information collected to provide you with a personalized experience on the Services, such as providing you with coupons or other offers based on your interests and using information from your past usage of the Services in order to present or send you notifications of new offers and/or services that may be relevant to you.

Your IP address may be used to identify or customize promotions for you by geographic location. In addition, we may also use information to help our clients, partners and vendors improve their services, communicate with you about promotions that may be of interest to you, prevent fraud and for other promotional and business purposes in accordance with this Privacy Policy.

Personal Information

The General Data Protection Regulation (‘GDPR’) is a European Union regulation concerning the use and processing of personal information. GDPR is effective as of May 25, 2018.

We will use reasonable efforts to securely process all personal information in line with the rights specified under the GDPR. We will hold your information and use it as described in this Privacy Policy. We consider that C.F. has a legitimate interest in collecting and processing your information. C.F.’s mission is to save and protect lives by sharing information during our members’ moments of need. This provides our lawful basis to use your personal information, within the limitations set forth herein.

This website is published in the United States and is subject to laws of the United States. If you are in a country outside the United States and voluntarily submit personal information to us, you thereby consent to the general use of such information as provided in this Privacy Policy and to the transfer of that information to, and/or storage of that information in, the United States. C.F. shall not be liable under any circumstances for damages resulting from use of information collected from visitors to this website. We note that you are under no obligation to disclose any personal information to C.F. if you do not want to.

Links to Third-Party Sites

To provide certain services and materials, our website may allow you to “click” over to other websites. This Privacy Policy only applies to C.F..me. This Privacy Policy does not apply to any third-party sites. C.F. is not responsible for the privacy practices or content of such other websites, even if our name and logo appear on the screen. We recommend that you review the privacy policies on third-party sites before you use any services or programs they offer.

Information Collected by Third-Parties

Information, including Personal Information, may be collected by our vendors and provided to us in conjunction with our Services. This information may include the location, business name, date, and/or time the promotion was redeemed, in addition to other online and offline transaction details. We also allow third-party companies to use cookies, pixels or other similar technologies on our Services to collect and use non-personally identifiable information, including cookie identifiers, hashed information, browser and clickstream data. These third parties include service providers with whom we partner. These third parties may use technologies to provide you with promotions, track offline transactions and to assist us in providing and improving the Services. These third parties may combine the data they collect from these technologies with other data they collect.

We may use proprietary and third-party tracking analytics and tools to better understand how C.F. is being used and by whom. One service provider, Google Analytics, places persistent cookies on your computer to analyze your behavior on your visit to this website as well as on other websites, enabling us to improve your experience on the Services. To opt out of the Google Analytics collection of information, use this link: https://tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout.

Children’s Privacy

C.F. believes every measure of precaution should be taken to protect children online and does not knowingly ask children ages 13 and under for any information. Visitors 13 and under should ask their parent or legal guardian for assistance when using C.F. and should not submit any personally identifiable information to C.F..

Changes to Privacy Policy

C.F. may revise this Privacy Policy from time to time without advance notice. Accordingly, we recommend that you check for updates to this Privacy Policy on an ongoing basis. Changes were last made to this Privacy Policy on July 20, 2020.

If you have any questions about this Privacy Policy, please contact:

Email: info@chocolatefashiononline.com
Subject: Privacy Policy

By using C.F.’s website or applications, you signify your agreement to this Privacy Policy. Further, your continued use of our website following the posting of changes to this Privacy Policy will mean you accept those changes.

However, you are under no obligation to disclose any personal information to C.F. if you do not want to. If you are not comfortable with C.F.’s uses of your personal information, you may always choose to opt out or decide not to use those website and mobile application services or features that require your personal information.