California Tortilla’s Privacy Statement
California Tortilla takes the privacy and security of our clients and their customers very seriously. California Tortilla provides this Internet Privacy Statement because our clients and their customers have a right to know what information we collect, how it is used, and how it is protected.
Information Collection and Use
Registration for California Tortilla Client Customers
In order receive emails sent by California Tortilla; you must first complete a signup form online through www.californiatortilla.com During registration, you are required to give contact information (such as first and last name, month and day of birth, and email address). California Tortilla collects personally identifiable information from our users during the initial signup process as well as during surveys or preference requests. We use this information to contact you with offers, newsletters and special promotions which you have expressed interest in receiving.
You may also be given the opportunity to provide your cell phone number during the sign-up process or through a separate email from a California Tortilla client. By providing your cell phone number, you are agreeing to receive text (SMS) messages on your cell phone.
You have the option to provide demographic information (such as gender and zip code) to us; we encourage you to submit this information so we can provide you a more personalized experience. If you elect not to provide such demographic information, you may still participate in the client’s program offerings.
Communications may include offers, newsletters, updates, special promotions, surveys and unsubscribe confirmations.
In compliance with the Children’s Online Privacy Protection Act, California Tortilla requires all children under age thirteen (13) to obtain parental consent to join any of our lists. All terms of our privacy policy apply to children under 13.
Uses of Customer Information
Your email addresses is used only to send email that was requested. California Tortilla follows an opt-in permission-based email and text message (SMS) enrollment policy. California Tortilla will not send unsolicited, bulk or commercial offers or advertisements. California Tortilla will NOT rent, sell, trade or loan our clients’ lists to anyone. All emails contain links on how to unsubscribe from the client list. All SMS messages contain information on how to unsubscribe from the client list. You may leave our client’s lists at any time for any reason. If you have any questions or feel that you received unsolicited email or an unsolicited SMS message please contact us at tscott@CaliforniaTortilla.com.
California Tortilla will use personally identifiable information to contact you when responding to email support requests and other direct requests for information from California Tortilla. To protect your privacy and security, we will take reasonable steps to verify your identity before granting access or making corrections.
Surveys or Contests
From time to time we may provide you the opportunity to participate in web-based contests or surveys. If you participate, we will request certain personally identifiable information from you. Participation in these surveys or contests is completely voluntary and you therefore have a choice whether or not to disclose this information. The requested information typically includes contact information (such as name address and phone number(s)), demographic information (such as zip code) and personal preference information (such as your opinions). This information is used by our clients to better understand their customers.
California Tortilla may use a third-party service provider to conduct these surveys or contests; that company is prohibited from using your personally identifiable information for any other purpose. We will not share the personally identifiable information you provide through a contest or survey with any third party except with the client unless we give you prior notice and you elect to permit the provision of that information to the third party.
Forward to a Friend
If you choose to use our referral service to tell a friend about our e-mail club to which you subscribe, we will ask you for your friend’s name and email address. This process will automatically send your friend a one-time email inviting him or her to join the client email list. California Tortilla stores this information for the sole purpose of sending this one-time email and tracking the success of our referral program, after which the names collected are removed from the database.
Information Sharing and Disclosure
California Tortilla retains sole management of your data and we will not rent, sell or otherwise provide to third parties.
If California Tortilla merges or is combined with any other organization, or if California Tortilla transfers all or substantially all of its assets or operations to another organization, it may disclose information it collects from you to the other organization so that the other organization can continue to provide services to you. The other organization will be bound by this policy.
Service Providers
We use third parties to provide data entry for our client list member enrollment. When you sign up for an email club, we will share your enrollment information with our data entry company so that the third party can provide the service. Such third parties are prohibited from using your personally identifiable information for any other purpose.
Legal Disclaimer
We reserve the right to disclose your personally identifiable information as required by law and when we believe that disclosure is necessary to (a) protect our rights and/or to comply with a judicial proceeding, court order, or legal process served on our Company; (b) protect and defend California Tortilla’s rights or property or the users our services, and (c) act under exigent circumstances to protect the personal safety of users of our services or the public.
Opt-out/Unsubscribe
If you no longer wish to receive our communications, you may opt-out of receiving them by following the instructions included in each communication or by emailing us at burritoelito@California Tortilla.com, please include your email address and/or cell phone number in the message along with the client you wish to unsubscribe from as well as write the word, “unsubscribe” in the subject line. Alternatively, you may contact us at 301-545-0035 or mail the information to California Tortilla Inc, Attention: Privacy Dept., 7825 Tuckerman Lane, Suite 214, Potomac, Maryland 20854.
Clear Gifs
We use clear gifs in our HTML-based emails to let us know which emails have been opened by recipients. This allows us to gauge the effectiveness of certain communications and the effectiveness of our marketing campaigns. If you would like to opt-out of these emails, please see “Opt-out/Unsubscribe”.
Cookies
California Tortilla places a “cookie” on the browser of a California Tortilla.com user’s computer to store and sometimes track information about you. Cookies are information files that your web browser places on the hard drive of your computer when you visit a website. Cookies were designed to help a web site recognize the prior visits to a site made by a user’s browser. Cookies cannot damage user files, pass on computer viruses, capture e-mail addresses or read information from a user’s hard drive.
A cookie can be used to measure certain traffic patterns on California Tortilla’s website. For example, when you sign in to California Tortilla’s website using your user name and password, California Tortilla stores your unique information, and the time you signed in, in a cookie on your hard disk. This cookie allows you to move from page to page at the site without having to sign in again on each page. California Tortilla may also use cookies to track your progress while using California Tortilla’s Services. At California Tortilla, we do not store any personal information into cookies nor do we link or combine information collected through cookies to any personal information that is submitted online when using our Services.
You have the ability to accept or decline cookies. Most Web browsers automatically accept cookies, but you can usually modify your browser setting to decline cookies if you prefer. If you choose to decline cookies, you may not be able to sign in or use some features of California Tortilla’s website and services that depend on cookies.
Links to Other Sites
Emails that we send on a client’s behalf may contain links to other sites that are not owned or controlled by California Tortilla. Please be aware that California Tortilla is not responsible for the privacy practices of such other sites and do not exercise authority over such web sites. California Tortilla therefore assumes no responsibility for the privacy and data collection policies and procedures of such linked web sites, nor for the content or reliability of such web sites. If you choose to access a third party web site, you do so at your own risk.
Access to Personally Identifiable Information
If your personally identifiable information changes, is incorrect, or if you no longer desire our service, you may correct, update, delete or deactivate it by making the change on our member information page or by emailing our Customer Support at burritoelito@CaliforniaTortilla.com or by contacting us by telephone or postal mail at the contact information listed above.
Data Security
California Tortilla has put in place certain technological and procedural security functions in order to protect the personal information it collects, uses or transfers from loss, misuse, alteration or destruction. California Tortilla uses firewalls to help prevent outside parties from accessing our database server through the Internet, and physical access to the database server is restricted to authorized individuals.
When transferring personally identifiable information to and from third parties California Tortilla uses SSL & SFTP (Secure FTP) (which includes MD5 and SHA-1 encryption), as required for Email Sender and Provider Coalition (ESPC) membership.
Changes in this Privacy Statement
We reserve the right to modify this privacy statement at any time, so please review it frequently. If we make material changes to this policy, we will publicize such changes by means of a notice on our home page by providing thirty (30) days notice to you by displaying a prominent notice, in all caps, above the text of the Privacy Statement.
Contact Us
If you have any questions or suggestions regarding our privacy policy, please contact us:
Phone: 301-545-0035
Fax: 301-545-0051
Email: burritoelito@California Tortilla.com
Mail: Privacy Dept., 7825 Tuckerman Lane, Suite 214, Potomac, Maryland 20854.