Personal Information Collected by DineDrinkBellingham: Whenever you register for a product, sign-up for member services, send us an email, purchase products, enter a contest, sweepstakes, participate in other promotions, subscribe to one of our newsletters, or otherwise transmit information through DineDrinkBellingham, DineDrinkBellingham may obtain and collect personally identifiable contact information your name, email address, payment information (i.e. credit card number/expiration date), and/or mailing address (“personal information”).
Personal Information Maintenance & Opt-Out:
Unless you choose to affirmatively opt-out, you hereby give DineDrinkBellingham permission to use your personal information. Whenever you submit personal information through the website, you will be given the opportunity to opt-out of having your personal information disclosed. If you join the member services area, your disclosure preferences will be stored and can be changed or deleted at any time through DineDrinkBellingham. If you have not joined member services (and even if you have), you may amend or delete any personal information you have previously provided without opting-out by sending an email to editor@ddbham.com. If you wish to stop receiving push communications from DineDrinkBellingham, simply follow the “unsubscribe” instructions at the end of the push communication.
Personal Information Use:
DineDrinkBellingham may use your personal information in a number ways including but not limited to: communicate with you and respond to information requests; complete product orders requested by you; perform services requested by you; compile and distribute aggregate DineDrinkBellingham user statistics; improve the DineDrinkBellingham website experience base on your preferences; support of DineDrinkBellingham marketing
Third Party Disclosure of Personal Information:
Unless you affirmatively opt-out of our use and disclosure of your personal information, DineDrinkBellingham may use personal information for marketing and survey purposes. DineDrinkBellingham may employ third parties in connection with such marketing and survey efforts and may disclose aggregate information to third parties for marketing purposes.
If you have opted-out, DineDrinkBellingham will only use or disclose your personal information only (1) when legally ordered to do so by a lawful subpoena or court order, (2) if you violate or breach an agreement with DineDrinkBellingham, (3) if we believe you will harm the property or rights of DineDrinkBellingham, (4) under urgent circumstances to protect the physical safety of DineDrinkBellingham, its employees, users or the general public, or (5) to validate credit card numbers for charging for fee services.
Aggregate Information:
DineDrinkBellingham may share aggregate website usage information with third parties. This data includes no personnel information or information that could uniquely identify DineDrinkBellingham website users.
Unsolicited Emails:
DineDrinkBellingham will not send unsolicited product information, newsletters, and other product material to registered users of this website. A registered user must request the receipt of this type of material by taking affirmative action in their profile section of the DineDrinkBellingham website.
If you are registered user and you received a unsolicited communication from DineDrinkBellingham, or if you simply wish to stop receiving them, please follow the “unsubscribe” instructions contained in the user profile section of the website or send a request to be unsubscribe to unsubscribe.
If you are not a registered user and would not like to receive communications from DineDrinkBellingham, please follow the instructions to unsubscribe on the communication you received or type “unsubscribe” in the subject line of the email to unsubscribe@DineDrinkBellingham.
Chat Rooms and Forums:
This website may include forums, blogs, message boards, and other user generated content. Any information or content disclosed in these areas becomes public information. You should not disclose personnel information in these public areas. DineDrinkBellingham does not safeguard information disclosed in these areas nor takes any responsibility for unsolicited communications as a result of information disclosed in these public areas.
Our Cookies:
Your browser software includes a feature called “cookies.” If enabled, cookies may store small amounts of data on your computer regarding your visit to DineDrinkBellingham’s website. Cookies assist us in tracking which of our features you like best, what content you may have viewed during visits, and offer the convenience of saving passwords. You can also disable cookies. By modifying your browser preferences, you can accept or reject all cookies, or request a notification when a cookie is set.
IP Addresses:
DineDrinkBellingham may store the Internet Protocol (“IP”) addresses of visitors to the Website An IP address is a number assigned to your computer whenever you access the Internet. An Internet Service Providers (“ISP”) typically assigns a random IP addresses at the time of your dial-up. For local area network (“LAN”), DSL, or cable modem users, an IP address may be permanently assigned to a particular computer. We cannot determine your identity solely based upon your IP address. Your IP address can, however, reveal what geographic area you are connecting from, or which ISP you are using. Finally, other websites you visit have IP addresses, and we may collect the IP addresses of those websites and their pages, but these IP addresses are never associated with Internet users.
Use of Web Beacons:
DineDrinkBellingham contains electronic images (called “pixels”, “transparent GIF files”, or “web beacons”) that allow us and our advertising partners to view and access cookies. In general, any electronic image viewed as part of a web page, including an ad banner, can act as a web beacon. These files enable our online management partner to recognize a unique cookie on your web browser, which in turn enables us to learn which advertisements bring users to our website. The cookie was placed by us or by another advertiser that works with our online management partner. We may also include web beacons in HTML-formatted newsletters containing graphics that we send to opt-in subscribers, so we may count the number of newsletters that have been opened and read. We may also use the web beacon and cookies to monitor your online behavior and interests. With both cookies and web beacons, the information that we collect and share is anonymous and not personally identifiable. It does not contain your name, address, telephone number, or email address.
Security:
DineDrinkBellingham uses Secure Socket Layer (“SSL”) connections with 128-bit encryption for certain transactions and confidential data. When you use a secure browser, all information you submit comes to us over the Internet in an encrypted form. Every secure page uses a digital certificate issued by a third-party certification authority. A “site certificate” sits on all secure pages. To view this certificate, click on the image of the closed lock or the solid key on the bottom bar of your browser window. While DineDrinkBellingham make it best effort to protect your Personal Information, no data transmission over the Internet or any wireless network can be guaranteed to be 100% secure. As a result, we cannot ensure or warrant the security of any information you transmit, and you do so at your own risk.
Children’s Online Privacy Protection:
DineDrinkBellingham is designed for use by individuals over the age of 13. As such, DineDrinkBellingham does not knowingly collect information from children under the age of 13. However, it is possible that DineDrinkBellingham has collected information relating to individuals under the age of 13 through misrepresentation. If we are notified of this, as soon as we verify the information, we will obtain parental consent or otherwise delete the information from our servers.
European Union and Swiss Residents
If you choose to provide DineDrinkBellingham with your information via DineDrinkBellingham, you consent to the transfer and storage of that information on third party servers located in the United States.
