PRIVACY POLICY

Effective Date: February 28, 2021

 

This Privacy Policy of Rwanda Bean Company LLC. d/b/a Rwanda Bean applies to information that Rwanda Bean obtains from its websites, including the Rwanda Bean site located at www.rwandabean.com (the “Site”) and its featured services (collectively, the “Service”), as well as the information you may provide to us via other means of communication.

We respect your privacy and will strive to protect your personal information. This Privacy Policy describes how Rwanda Bean collects, uses, shares, and secures the information you provide. It also describes choices you may make regarding the use, access, and correction of your personal information. Please note that this Privacy Policy is incorporated into our Terms of Service (“Terms”) for Rwanda Bean and, unless we otherwise define a term in this Privacy Policy, a capitalized term used in this Privacy Policy has the meaning set forth in the Terms.

You agree that by using the Service you acknowledge that you have read and consent to the collection, use, and sharing of your information in accordance with this Privacy Policy. If you do not agree with the terms of this Privacy Policy, you are not permitted to access and/or use the service. This Privacy Policy does not apply to websites not operated by Rwanda Bean, including any to which the Service provides a link or which link to the Service.

Users with disabilities who wish to access this Privacy Policy in an alternative format can contact us by emailing us at: SALES@RWANDABEAN.COM; by calling us at: (207) 536-1312; or sending us U.S. mail to: Rwanda Bean Company LLC, 185 Cottage Road, South Portland, Maine 04103

 

Information We Collection From or About You

We may collect or process the following data about you:

• Information you may provide by filling in forms on our site or other electronic means; by telephone or by visiting our stores or attending our events. This includes information provided at the time of registering to use our site, subscribing to our service, or requesting further services, or searching for a product. We may also request your information when you enter a competition, giveaway, or promotion sponsored by us, and when you report a problem with our site. The information you give us, as well as other information, including your name, address, e-mail address, phone number, financial, and credit card information.
• If you email us, we may keep a record of that correspondence or communication.
• Details of transactions you carry throughout our site, at our store, or by other means, the fulfillment of your orders and any subsequent communication regarding your purchase
• Details of your visit to our site including, but not limited to traffic data, location data, weblogs, and other communication data whether this is required for our own billing purposes or otherwise, and the resources that you request.

 

Comments

When visitors leave comments on the site we collect the data shown in the comments form, and also the visitor’s IP address and browser user agent string to help spam detection.

An anonymized string created from your email address (also called a hash) may be provided to the Gravatar service to see if you are using it. The Gravatar service privacy policy is available here: https://automattic.com/privacy/. After approval of your comment, your profile picture is visible to the public in the context of your comment.

 

Media

If you upload images to the website, you should avoid uploading images with embedded location data (EXIF GPS) included. Visitors to the website can download and extract any location data from images on the website.

 

Contact Forms

Any information submitted by customers through contact forms will be stored for use by Rwanda Bean Company LLC.

 

Cookies

If you leave a comment on our site you may opt-in to saving your name, email address, and website in cookies. These are for your convenience so that you do not have to fill in your details again when you leave another comment. These cookies will last for one year.

If you visit our login page, we will set a temporary cookie to determine if your browser accepts cookies. This cookie contains no personal data and is discarded when you close your browser.

When you log in, we will also set up several cookies to save your login information and your screen display choices. Login cookies last for two days, and screen options cookies last for a year. If you select "Remember Me", your login will persist for two weeks. If you log out of your account, the login cookies will be removed.

If you edit or publish an article, an additional cookie will be saved in your browser. This cookie includes no personal data and simply indicates the post ID of the article you just edited. It expires after 1 day.

 

Embedded content from other websites

Articles on this site may include embedded content (e.g. videos, images, articles, etc.). Embedded content from other websites behaves in the exact same way as if the visitor has visited the other website.

These websites may collect data about you, use cookies, embed additional third-party tracking, and monitor your interaction with that embedded content, including tracking your interaction with the embedded content if you have an account and are logged in to that website.

 

Who we share your data with

We respect your privacy. We do not share confidential information with businesses outside Rwanda Bean Company LLC and third-party integration on our website.

 

How long we retain your data

If you leave a comment, the comment and its metadata are retained indefinitely. This is so we can recognize and approve any follow-up comments automatically instead of holding them in a moderation queue.

For users that register on our website (if any), we also store the personal information they provide in their user profile. All users can see, edit, or delete their personal information at any time (except they cannot change their username). Website administrators can also see and edit that information.

 

What rights you have over your data

If you have an account on this site or have left comments, you can request to receive an exported file of the personal data we hold about you, including any data you have provided to us. You can also request that we erase any personal data we hold about you. This does not include any data we are obliged to keep for administrative, legal, or security purposes.

 

Where we send your data

Visitor comments may be checked through an automated spam detection service.