Welcome to the website of Woodlands Market (“Woodlands” or “We”). At Woodlands, we understand that your privacy is important to you, and we are committed to safeguarding your personally identifiable information. This policy describes the personally identifiable information that we collect through woodlandsmarket.com, and any other site that we operate (collectively, the “Site”), and explains how we use that information. If you do not agree with the terms of the policy, please do not use the Site.
Information Acquired
When you sign-up to receive our news, weekly events or specials through your email, we store your personally-identifiable information (name, mailing address and/or email) in an electronic database, which is for Woodlands’ use only. If at any time you do not want to receive this information, please use the link on our website to unsubscribe or contact us at info@woodlandsmarket.com.
Woodlands does not collect any personally identifiable information about you, the visitor to the Site, without your knowledge. The only personally identifiable information that Woodlands collects through the Site is what you voluntarily choose to supply.
We do not intend to or knowingly collect personal information online from children under the age of 13 and we encourage parents or guardians to participate in and monitor their children’s online activity. If a child under 13 has provided personal information, a parent or guardian may inform us of that fact by contacting us using one of the methods listed under the caption “How to Contact Us” that appears below, and we will then delete the information from our database. If you are under the age of 13, do not provide us with any personal information either directly, on any website bulletin boards, or by other means.
Site Navigation
Woodlands may collect, store and accumulate certain non-personally identifiable information concerning your use of our websites. This would include information regarding which of our pages, contests or promotions you access the most often and are most popular among our users. We collect this information to learn how we can better enhance our offerings to and communications with you.
Use of Cookies
To facilitate your use of our Site, Woodlands uses “cookies” to keep track of you as you move through our Site. “Cookies” are small pieces of information that your browser stores on your computer on behalf of a Web site that you have visited. Only the site that sets up cookies can access them. Some of the pages on our Site may use cookies. We do not and cannot use cookies to retrieve personal information from your computer, nor do we use cookies to examine your behavior before or after leaving the Site. Rather, we use cookies to enhance your experience at the Site, and to give you better, more personalized service when you return to the Site. We use the information from cookies for internal purposes only, and we don’t share it with others.
Updates to Your Personally Identifiable Information
With regard to our weekly informational emails, you may change the e-mail address to which we send the newsletter by unsubscribing under your current e-mail address and signing up under another address. Our customers will always have the opportunity to opt-out of receiving unwanted emails from us.
Otherwise, if you would like to request changes to the personally identifiable information that you have provided, please contact us at info@woodlandsmarket.com.
Transfer/Disclosure of Information
Access to customer information is limited to employees who need it in order to serve customers or maintain our information systems. All employees are committed to following our Privacy Practices. That means employees will only use customer information to better serve you and will NEVER sell your personal information. We may release your information ONLY if you request or authorize us to do so. We may also release customer information when we believe it is necessary to comply with the law, enforce our legal rights; or to protect our customers or us. We will NOT sell your personal information to anyone, for any reason, at any time. Woodlands does reserve the right to disclose your personally identifiable information when we believe that such disclosure is reasonably necessary to comply with law, regulation or other governmental authority.
Security Measures
Woodlands employs procedural and technological measures, consistent with legal requirements and the demands of customer service, reasonably designed to protect your personally identifiable information from loss, misuse or unauthorized access, disclosure, alteration or destruction. Where reasonably practical, Woodlands uses encryption, firewalls and other security technology to help prevent unauthorized access to your personally identifiable information.
Web Site Links
Woodlands is proud of the many small artisan vendors that create the products that we sell in our stores. As part of our mission, we seek to educate our customers about these vendors and their products, and our website often includes stories about our vendors and the products they make, and may include links to web sites not operated by Woodlands. We are not responsible for the content or the privacy policies of such other sites, nor are we responsible for personally identifiable information collected directly or indirectly by third parties including Woodlands’ business partners. These Privacy Practices apply to our site only, and is not intended to describe the privacy policies of any third party sites.
Policy Changes
Woodlands may update this Privacy Policy from time to time. Updates will be posted on the Site and may take effect immediately. Your continued use of the Site constitutes your acceptance of the revised terms. We encourage you to review this Privacy Policy regularly for any changes.
Consent to Privacy Policy
By using our website, you are consenting to the collection and use of the information described in this statement of Practices & Commitments. We appreciate your trust in us and we promise to protect it fervently.
Questions
We welcome your questions regarding this policy or the Site. Please contact us by sending an email to info@woodlandsmarket.com.