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Privacy Policy

Our customer pledge: coffeeuniverse.com and Bellissimo, Inc. respect your privacy. In order to provide you with the most accurate information and the best customer service, we record a variety of information from your visit to our site. For your protection, we provide this notice explaining our on-line information practices and the choices you can make about the way your information is collected and used.

Information about customers and visitors shared with third parties

  • We do not sell or rent your personal information to third parties.
  • We share information about our customers and visitors with trusted service providers who provide coffeeuniverse.com with specific services and/or administer activities offered on the coffeeuniverse.com site.
  • We also may use non-identifying and aggregate information [as opposed to identifiable individual information] about our customers and/or visitors to better design our website and we may provide it to advertisers and other third parties.

Links to/from other sites

To enhance your experience, the coffeeuniverse.com site may have links to other sites on the Internet that are owned by third party vendors and other third parties [external sites], or you may come to coffeeuniverse.com from a link from an external site. These other web sites will have their own rules on privacy that you should review. Coffeeuniverse.com is not responsible for the privacy policies of external sites.


Cookies
Coffeeuniverse.com uses a feature of your Internet web browser called a cookie to assign an identification code to your computer. Cookies are files that your web browser places on your computer's hard drive. We only use cookies to keep track of classes you register for, to tell us whether you have visited coffeeuniverse.com previously, and to help us determine whether you came to coffeeuniverse.com from a particular Internet link or banner advertisement. We do not and cannot use cookies to retrieve personal information about you from your computer unless such information was knowingly and willingly provided by you to coffeeuniverse.com. Cookies do not provide us with access to any credit card information.

Third-Party Cookies
In the course of serving advertisements to this site, our third-party advertiser may place or recognize a unique "cookie" on your browser.

MyCafé
MyCafé is an online component of CoffeeUniverse that allows users to set up profiles that can be linked to the profiles of others. MyCafé members can view each others' profiles, communicate with old friends and meet new friends on the service, post journals and comments, and describe their interests. We request and display some personal information to other members and visitors, which allows our users to identify each other and expand their network of friends. MyCafé members can change their profile information at any time and can control how other members and the service communicates with them.

Information Collection and Use by MyCafé
MyCafé collects user submitted information such as name, email address, and age to authenticate users and to send notifications to those users relating to the MyCafé service. MyCafé also collects other profile data including but not limited to: personal interests, gender, age, education and occupation in order to assist users in finding and communicating with each other.

MyCafé also logs non-personally-identifiable information including IP address, profile information, aggregate user data, and browser type, from users and visitors to the site, This data is used to manage the website, track usage and improve the website services. User IP addresses are recorded for security and monitoring purposes

User Profile information including members' pictures and first names are displayed to people in order to facilitate user interaction in the MyCafé social networking community. Email addresses are used to send notifications related to the service are not shared or displayed to people within a user's personal network Users within a personal network communicate on MyCafé with each other through the MyCafé service, without disclosing their email addresses. We may also use a user's email address to send updates, a newsletter or news regarding the service. Users may choose not to receive email of this type by contacting info@coffeeuniverse.com

Blogs and Comments
Anything you voluntarily post on a MyCafé Blog or in comments can be seen by the public may be used by advertisers to contact you.

Correcting/Updating or Removing Information
MyCafé users may modify or remove any of their personal information at any time by logging into their account and accessing the editing features.

Security
MyCafé member accounts are secured by member-created passwords. MyCafé takes reasonable measures to protect stored member information. We cannot guarantee the security of member account information. Unauthorized entry or use, hardware or software failure, and other factors may compromise the security of member information at any time For any additional information about the security measures we use on MyCaf, please contact us a info@coffeeuniverse.com.

Sharing and Disclosure of Information MyCafé Collects
Except as otherwise described in this privacy statement, MyCafe will not disclose personal information to any third party unless we believe that disclosure is necessary for legal reasons, to enforce the MyCafe Terms of Use Agreement or to protect our rights; or to protect members of the public and users of the service. MyCafe reserves the right to transfer personal information to a successor in interest that acquires rights to that information as a result of the sale of MyCafe or substantially all of its assets to that successor in interest

Should you have any further questions about our policies feel free to contact us:

Coffee Universe
1028 SE Water Avenue, Suite 275
Portland, Oregon 97214
Email: info@coffeeuniverse.com.