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Privacy Policy
At Solanica Inc. we recognize that privacy is important.
This Policy applies to all of the products, services and websites
offered by Solanica Inc., thai-food.com or its subsidiaries or
affiliated companies (collectively, Solanica Inc.'s "services").
If you have any questions about
this Policy, please feel free to contact us through our website
or write to us at Solanica Inc. 429 South Palm Avenue, Alhambra,
CA 91803 USA.
Information we collect
and how we use it:
We offer a number of services that do not require you to register
for an account or provide any personal information to us, such
as our Restaurant Directory, Recipes, Market Directory, etc..
In order to provide our full range of services, we may collect
the following types of information:
• Information you provide
- When you sign up for a thai-food.com Account or other Solanica
Inc. service or promotion that requires registration, we ask you
for personal information (such as your name, email address and
an account password). For certain services, such as our advertising
programs, we also request credit card or other payment account
information which we maintain in encrypted form on secure servers.
We may combine the information you submit under your account with
information from other Solanica Inc. services or third parties
in order to provide you with a better experience and to improve
the quality of our services. For certain services, we may give
you the opportunity to opt out of combining such information.
• thai-food.com cookies -
When you visit thai-food.com, we send one or more cookies - a
small file containing a string of characters - to your computer
that uniquely identifies your browser. We use cookies to improve
the quality of our service by storing user preferences and tracking
user trends, such as how people search. Most browsers are initially
set up to accept cookies, but you can reset your browser to refuse
all cookies or to indicate when a cookie is being sent. However,
some thai-food.com features and services may not function properly
if your cookies are disabled.
• Log information - When
you use Solanica Inc. services, our servers automatically record
information that your browser sends whenever you visit a website.
These server logs may include information such as your web request,
Internet Protocol address, browser type, browser language, the
date and time of your request and one or more cookies that may
uniquely identify your browser.
• User communications - When
you send email, forum postings or other communication to thai-food.com,
we may retain those communications in order to process your inquiries,
respond to your requests and improve our services.
• Affiliated sites - We offer
some of our services in connection with other web sites. Personal
information that you provide to those sites may be sent to Solanica
Inc. in order to deliver the service. We process such information
in accordance with this Policy. The affiliated sites may have
different privacy practices and we encourage you to read their
privacy policies.
• Links - Solanica Inc. may
present links in a format that enables us to keep track of whether
these links have been followed. We use this information to improve
the quality of our search technology, customized content and advertising.
• Other sites - This Privacy
Policy applies to web sites and services that are owned and operated
by Solanica Inc.. We do not exercise control over the sites displayed
as search results or links from within our various services. These
other sites may place their own cookies or other files on your
computer, collect data or solicit personal information from you.
Solanica Inc. only processes personal
information for the purposes described in the applicable Privacy
Policy and/or privacy notice for specific services. In addition
to the above, such purposes include:
• Providing our products
and services to users, including the display of customized content
and advertising;
• Auditing, research and
analysis in order to maintain, protect and improve our services;
• Ensuring the technical
functioning of our network; and Developing new services.
You can find more information about
how we process personal information by referring to the privacy
notices for particular services.
Solanica Inc. processes personal information on our servers in
the United States of America. We may process personal information
to provide our own services. In some cases, we may process personal
information on behalf of and according to the instructions of
a third party, such as our advertising partners.
Choices for personal information
When you sign up for a particular service that requires registration,
we ask you to provide personal information. If we use this information
in a manner different than the purpose for which it was collected,
then we will ask for your consent prior to such use.
If we propose to use personal information
for any purposes other than those described in this Policy and/or
in the specific service notices, we will offer you an effective
way to opt out of the use of personal information for those other
purposes. We will not collect or use sensitive information for
purposes other than those described in this Policy and/or in the
specific service notices, unless we have obtained your prior consent.
You can decline to submit personal
information to any of our services, in which case Solanica Inc.
may not be able to provide those services to you.
Information sharing
Solanica Inc. only shares personal information with other companies
or individuals outside of Solanica Inc. in the following limited
circumstances:
We have your consent. We require opt-in consent for the sharing
of any sensitive personal information.
We provide such information to
our subsidiaries, affiliated companies or other trusted businesses
or persons for the purpose of processing personal information
on our behalf. We require that these parties agree to process
such information based on our instructions and in compliance with
this Policy and any other appropriate confidentiality and security
measures.
We have a good faith belief that
access, use, preservation or disclosure of such information is
reasonably necessary to (a) satisfy any applicable law, regulation,
legal process or enforceable governmental request, (b) enforce
applicable Terms of Service, including investigation of potential
violations thereof, (c) detect, prevent, or otherwise address
fraud, security or technical issues, or (d) protect against imminent
harm to the rights, property or safety of Solanica Inc., its users
or the public as required or permitted by law.
If Solanica Inc. becomes involved
in a merger, acquisition, or any form of sale of some or all of
its assets, we will provide notice before personal information
is transferred and becomes subject to a different privacy policy.
We may share with third parties
certain pieces of aggregated, non-personal information, such as
the number of users who searched for a particular term, for example,
or how many users clicked on a particular advertisement. Such
information does not identify you individually.
Please contact us at the address
below for any additional questions about the management or use
of personal data.
Information security
We take appropriate security measures to protect against unauthorized
access to or unauthorized alteration, disclosure or destruction
of data. These include internal reviews of our data collection,
storage and processing practices and security measures, as well
as physical security measures to guard against unauthorized access
to systems where we store personal data.
We restrict access to personal
information to Solanica Inc. employees, contractors and agents
who need to know that information in order to operate, develop
or improve our services. These individuals are bound by confidentiality
obligations and may be subject to discipline, including termination
and criminal prosecution, if they fail to meet these obligations.
Data integrity
Solanica Inc. processes personal information only for the purposes
for which it was collected and in accordance with this Policy
or any applicable service-specific privacy notice. We review our
data collection, storage and processing practices to ensure that
we only collect, store and process the personal information needed
to provide or improve our services. We take reasonable steps to
ensure that the personal information we process is accurate, complete,
and current, but we depend on our users to update or correct their
personal information whenever necessary.
Changes to this policy
Please note that this Privacy Policy may change from time to time.
We will not reduce your rights under this Policy without your
explicit consent, and we expect most such changes will be minor.
Regardless, we will post any Policy changes on this page and,
if the changes are significant, we will provide a more prominent
notice (including, for certain services, email notification of
Policy changes). Each version of this Policy will be identified
at the top of the page by its effective date, and we will also
keep prior versions of this Privacy Policy in an archive for your
review.
If you have any additional questions
or concerns about this Policy, please feel free to contact us
any time through this web site or at Solanica Inc. 429 South Palm
Avenue, Alhambra, CA 91803 USA.
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