Sokol and Company (“Solo”) cares about personal privacy and recognizes its obligation to its customers, community and online visitors to adhere to the highest standards of decency, fairness, and integrity in all its operations. As in our other business operations, Solo approaches our communications on the Internet with respect for, and commitment to, individual privacy rights, and concern and respect for the different sensibilities of our child consumers.  We support active self-regulation of this online environment to ensure that responsible marketers can maintain the right to use all communication media to interact with its consumers. This privacy policy discloses how Solo, its affiliates and agents (agents are defined as contractors, and other organizations acting on behalf of, and with authorization by, Sokol and Company) collect, protect, use and share information gathered about you on our website. We hope that this disclosure will help increase your confidence in our sites and enhance your experience on the Internet.  In reviewing this policy, please remember that this site and the servers that make this site available are located in the U.S.  By using this site you agree to the transfer, collection, processing and use of data by this site in the U.S.

We provide a variety of content at our site.  We may offer games, product information, recipes, entertainment, advertising, surveys, promotions, sweepstakes and contests, as well as information about our company and special services.  We hope you enjoy our site and the various features and opportunities we offer.

This site’s content and features may be updated, revised, modified and supplemented. Solo reserves the right to change the information, features, products, policies, promotions, disclosures and disclaimers at any time without notice. Changes to this Online Privacy Policy will be posted on our site so please check our Policy periodically for changes. At the end of this Policy we indicate the date of an update to the Policy. Your continued use of the Solo site following the posting of changes to this Online Privacy Policy signifies your acceptance of these changes. Unless there is a material change in our data collection, use or disclosure practices, in which case we will obtain a new consent, any consent, including a parent or guardian’s consent on behalf of a child under 13, provided to Solo will apply to the revised Online Privacy Policy and any new or modified features.

We collect certain information automatically, like IP addresses, browser types, referring websites, and access times, when consumers visit our site.  This “web log” information is not personally identifiable, but provides important information on the number of visitors, and what areas or features they like best.  Our visitors can review our site and participate in many features without disclosing any personally identifiable information.

Solo collects personally identifiable information including, but not limited to, name, home address, email address, and telephone number, from our visitors on a voluntary basis.  We do not require this information for customers to access any of our sites.  However, to participate in some of the programs or features we offer, customers may have to provide personally identifiable information.  We request only the personally identifiable information we feel we need to offer the service or feature or to fulfill requests.  For example, we need your name and e-mail address to add you to an e-mail update list.  We may require a home address and telephone number to enter you in a contest or sweepstakes so that we can send prize notifications and prizes. We may request feedback from our visitors in the form of surveys, questionnaires or our feedback forms on their preferences and reaction to our products, including demographic information, like age, gender and interests, to help us better serve you.  In the future, we may ask for credit card information where we offer online shopping opportunities.

We use Yerasoft Technology hosted software to provide us with data collection and reporting information regarding our customers’ activities on our websites. When you visit our websites, Yerasoft may set cookies (i.e., small data files that a site sends to your computer to make your access easier and/or faster) on our behalf and may receive information about your browsing activity (e.g., pages viewed, etc).

Personally  identifiable information shared with Solo will only be used to fulfill your requests, to improve our site and our products, to provide customized features and offerings, and for other internal marketing purposes, and will not be sold or provided to third parties.  If you decide to provide personally identifiable information in order to participate in a special area of our site, such as registering for e-mail updates or for a special program or contest, we will use the information you provide for that purpose.  We may also ask if you would like to receive information about other products available from members of our family of companies. Only those visitors that ask to receive this information will receive it.  We also offer visitors an opt-out option in each of our promotional emails that allows you, at any time, to cease receiving such information.

Anonymous, aggregate data about site usage and other features may be shared with third parties.  Solo reserves the right to use or disclose any information as needed to satisfy any law, regulation or legal request, to conduct investigations of consumer complaints or possible breaches of law, to protect our site, our property, or the safety or rights of any visitor or third party, to fulfill your requests, to cooperate in a legal investigation, or in connection with the sale of our business or one of our brands without notice or consent.

On sites owned exclusively by Solo, personally identifiable information received from any visitor will only be used for the purpose for which it was provided or for internal marketing purposes and will not be sold or provided to third parties, except for our technical and fulfillment agents who help us make the site available and provide the services and products on our site.

Solo uses “Session Cookies,” small data files that a site sends to your computer.  Our cookies allow our site to remember important information that will make your use of the site more enjoyable, efficient and useful; they do not contain personally identifiable information. We use cookies and IP addresses to obtain non-personal information from online visitors and also to provide registered users with a customized, personalized, online experience. They can, for example, help to give you faster access to pages you have already visited, allow you to personalize your pages, and help you to participate in some activities or events on the site. We also use cookies to determine how many people visit our site, and which features are most useful and popular and which may need improvement. We may also use session cookies to age-screen visitors for COPPA compliance purposes. We may also use another technology, called clear GIFs or web beacons, to provide us with other important anonymous information, such as when an email has been opened.

If you don’t want cookies, you can turn off all cookies or have your computer notify you when cookies are being sent by following the instructions for your particular web browser, such as Netscape, Safari, Firefox or Internet Explorer.

Solo uses its best efforts to make sure all information received from our online visitors is secure from unauthorized access and use. All personally identifiable information from our customers is protected by our security measures, which are periodically reviewed. Solo also requires agents used by Solo for fulfillment and technical services to sign confidentiality agreements protecting your information.

The Solo site may contain links to other sites. We make every effort only to link to websites that share our high standards of decency, fairness, and integrity. We try our best to ensure that these links are safe for children, but the privacy and data collection practices on any linked websites are entirely separate from Solo and are not covered by this Online Privacy Policy. Solo shall not be responsible for any failure on the part of any linked websites to comply with any privacy policy posted on the website, or any contractual or other legal obligations to which the operators of such website may be subject. In addition, other websites, which may contain material not suitable for children, may also link to the Solo websites without Solo’s knowledge or consent. Solo has no responsibility for the content, policies or actions of these websites. Children should always check with a parent, guardian or other adult before linking to any new sites.