Privacy Policy
Last Revised February 18, 2010
The Pantry is committed to protecting the privacy of information you provide through The Pantry’s website, located at www.thepantry.com, and through the Kangaroo Careers website, located at www.kangaroocareers.com (each website is referred to as the “Site” in this Privacy Statement). We are providing this online Privacy Statement (“Statement”) so you know what information we collect through the Site and how we use it. By using our Site, you consent to the information collection and use practices described in this Privacy Statement. The Pantry reserves the right to change the provisions of this Privacy Statement at any time, but will alert you that changes have been made by indicating on the Privacy Statement the date it was last updated. Your use may also be subject to additional terms with respect to specific services or materials offered. This posting constitutes The Pantry’s notice of any changes to this Privacy Statement.
THE INFORMATION WE COLLECT
In general, you can visit the Site without telling us who you are or revealing any personal information about yourself. The personal information you provide us enables us to provide you with better service generally. We may use this information to contact you to respond to an inquiry or comment that you send to us through the Site. We do not collect any personal information on this Site unless you voluntarily provide it to us. Personal information may include your name, address, e-mail address, telephone number, or other information that identifies you personally. Some of the ways we may collect personal information on this Site include:
- When you provide comments to us through this Site
- When you provide job application information through www.kangaroocareers.com
HOW WE USE YOUR INFORMATION
We may use personal information to customize and optimize products, services and information that you request from us or that we provide to you. Personal information that you provide to the Site may also be used in the following ways:
- To contact you about your use of the Site or about our products and services;
- To request feedback and enable us to develop and improve the Site and our products and services;
- For internal and marketing/promotional purposes;
- For the specific purpose for which the information was provided.
In some instances, we remove individual identifiers from the personal information you provide through this Site and use it to create aggregated information. We use this information to improve the design of and develop new features for this Site, and to monitor usage of this Site. For example, we may create this information to determine the most and least frequently requested pages, or the number of Site visitors by region.
We may use job information from you that you provided through the Kangaroo Careers website at www.kangaroocareers.com for purposes of hiring and employment-related purposes in compliance with applicable law.
HOW WE SHARE INFORMATION
The Pantry will not sell, rent or otherwise provide personal information you provide through this Site to outside marketers without your prior consent except as otherwise provided in this Policy. Personal information collected on this Site may be shared with third party contractors and other service providers whom we have retained to perform various functions on our behalf. These third parties are required by us to use or disclose this information only as necessary to carry out the services they are performing on our behalf, or as otherwise authorized by law.
We also use or disclose information as necessary to:
- Correct technical problems and malfunctions on this Site and to technically process your information;
- Protect the security and integrity of our Site;
- Protect our rights and property as well as the rights and property of other users of this Site;
- Take precautions against liability;
- Meet legal requirements as determined by law or to respond to judicial processes;
- Provide information to law enforcement agencies for investigations on matters related to public safety, as applicable, to the extent required under other provisions of law.
SECURITY
We employ reasonable security measures to protect the information stored on our systems from loss, misuse and unauthorized access, alteration or destruction. The information you provide while on this Site may be archived and stored for backup purposes.
The Pantry uses cookies to manage our website and e-mail programs. We do not use cookies or web beacons to collect or store personal information. style='mso-special-character:line-break'
A cookie is a small file placed on your computer when you visit a website. Cookies are used to store non-personal information used to manage your website experience such as your type of web browser. A cookie can also store preference information to customize your website experience.
Cookies help us understand how consumers use our websites and emails so we can design better services in the future.
Most browsers automatically accept cookies. To learn more about cookies, including how to refuse cookies on your computer, click these links:
- For Microsoft Internet Explorer: http://www.microsoft.com/info/cookies.htm
- For Netscape Navigator: http://wp.netscape.com/legal_notices/cookies.html
- All about cookies: http://www.allaboutcookies.org/cookies/
LINKS TO OTHER WEB SITES
For your convenience, our Site may contain links to other websites not maintained by The Pantry. If you use these links, you will leave The Pantry site. We have not reviewed these third-party sites and do not control them. The Pantry does not assume responsibility for any of these sites, their content, or their privacy policies. The Pantry does not endorse or make any representations about them or any information, software or other products or materials found there, or any results that may be obtained from using them. If you decide to access any of the third-party sites linked to The Pantry site, you do so at your own risk. You should carefully review the privacy statements of these websites.
NOTIFICATION OF CHANGES
If we should make material changes to this online Privacy Statement, we will provide notice of any such changes on the Site and provide the effective date of those changes. The Pantry reserves the right to change this Privacy Statement at any time. If we decide to make material changes to our Privacy Statement, we will post those changes in an updated Privacy Statement so our users are always aware of what information we collect, how we use it, and under circumstances, if any, we disclose it. The effective date of the last revision is always posted at the top of the Privacy Statement. This posting constitutes The Pantry’s notice of any changes to this Privacy Statement. We encourage you to review our Privacy Statement whenever you visit our Site to make sure that you understand how any personal information you provide will be used.
HOW TO CONTACT US
If you have any questions or comments about this Statement, this Site or The Pantry’s privacy practices generally, you may email us at privacy@thepantry.com.
Effective Date: April 20, 2010