Our Commitment to Privacy
Our Privacy Policy was developed as an extension of our commitment to combine the highest quality
services with the highest level of integrity in dealing with our members and guests. The Policy is
designed to assist you in understanding how we collect, use and safeguard
the personal information you provide to us and to assist you in making informed decisions when
using our site and services. This statement will be continuously assessed
against new technologies, business practices and our members' needs.
What Information Do We Collect?
When you visit our Web site you may provide us with two types of information: personal
information you knowingly choose to disclose that is collected on an individual basis and Web
site use information collected on an aggregate basis as you and others browse our Web site.
1. Personal Information You Choose to Provide
Email Information
If you choose to correspond further with us through email, we may retain the content of your
email messages together with your email address and our responses. We provide the same protections
for these electronic communications that we employ in the maintenance of information received by mail and
telephone.
2. Web Site Use Information
Similar to other commercial Web sites, our Web site utilizes a standard technology called
“cookies” (see explanation below, “What Are Cookies?”) and Web server logs to collect
information about how our Web site is used. Information gathered through cookies and Web
server logs may include the date and time of visits, the pages viewed, time spent at our Web site,
and the Web sites visited just before and just after our Web site. This information is collected on
an aggregate basis. None of this information is associated with you as an individual.
How Do We Use the Information That You Provide to Us?
Broadly speaking, we use personal information for purposes of administering our business
activities, providing customer service and making available other products and services to our
customers and prospective customers. Occasionally, we may also use the information we collect
to notify you about important changes to our Web site, new services and special offers we think
you will find valuable. The lists used to send you product and service offers are developed and
managed under our traditional corporate standards designed to safeguard the security and privacy
of our customers’ personal information. As a customer, you will be given the opportunity, at
least once annually, to notify us of your desire not to receive these offers.
What Are Cookies?
Cookies are a feature of Web browser software that allows Web servers to
recognize the computer used to access a Web site. Cookies are small pieces of data that are stored
by a user’s Web browser on the user’s hard drive. Cookies can remember what information a user
accesses on one Web page to simplify subsequent interactions with that Web site by the same
user or to use the information to streamline the user’s transactions on related Web pages. This
makes it easier for a user to move from Web page to Web page and to complete commercial
transactions over the Internet. Cookies should make your online experience easier and more
personalized.
How Do We Use Information We Collect from Cookies?
We use Web site browser software tools such as cookies and Web server logs to gather
information about our Web site users’ browsing activities, in order to constantly improve our
Web site and better serve our customers. This information assists us to design and arrange our
Web pages in the most user-friendly manner and to continually improve our Web site to better
meet the needs of our customers and prospective customers.
Cookies help us collect important business and technical statistics. The information in the
cookies lets us trace the paths followed by users to our Web site as they move from one page to
another. Web server logs allow us to count how many people visit our Web site and evaluate our
Web site’s visitor capacity.
How Do We Secure Information Transmissions?
When you send confidential personal credit card information to us on our Web site, a secure
server software which we have licensed encrypts all information you input before it is sent to us.
The information is scrambled en route and decoded once it reaches our Web site.
Other email that you may send to us may not be secure unless we advise you that security
measures will be in place prior to your transmitting the information. For that reason, we ask that
you do not send confidential information such as Social Security or account numbers to us
through an unsecured email.
How Do We Protect Your Information?
Information Security.
We utilize encryption/security software to safeguard the confidentiality
of personal information we collect from unauthorized access or disclosure and accidental loss,
alteration or destruction.
Evaluation of Information Protection Practices.
Periodically, our operations and business
practices are reviewed for compliance with corporate policies and procedures governing the
security, confidentiality and quality of our information.
Employee Access, Training and Expectations.
Our corporate values, ethical standards, policies
and practices are committed to the protection of customer information. In general, our business
practices limit employee access to confidential information, and limit the use and disclosure of
such information to authorized persons, processes and transactions.
How Can You Access and Correct Your Information?
You may request access to all your personally identifiable information that we collect online and
maintain in our database by emailing splastiras@internationalbanquets.com.
What About Legally Compelled Disclosure of Information?
We may disclose information when legally compelled to do so, in other words, when we, in good
faith, believe that the law requires it or for the protection of our legal rights.
What About Other Web Sites Linked to Our Web Site?
We are not responsible for the practices employed by Web sites linked to or from our Web site
nor the information or content contained therein. Often links to other Web sites are provided
solely as pointers to information on topics that may be useful to the users of our Web site.
Please remember that when you use a link to go from our Web site to another Web site, our
Privacy Policy is no longer in effect. Your browsing and interaction on any other Web site,
including Web sites which have a link on our Web site, is subject to that Web site’s own rules and
policies. Please read over those rules and policies before proceeding.
Your Consent
By using our Web site you consent to our collection and use of your personal information as
described in this Privacy Policy. If we change our privacy policies and procedures, we will post
those changes on our Web site to keep you aware of what information we collect, how we use it
and under what circumstances we may disclose it.