ABOUT US PEPPER VARIETIES RECIPES CONTACT US SHOP NOW Louisiana Pepper Exchange LLC. (“we” “us” or “our”) respect your privacy and are committed to protecting it through our compliance with this policy. This Privacy Policy (this “Policy”) describes how your Personal Information (as defined in Section 1) is collected, used, and shared when you visit www.lapepperexchange.com (the “Site”). By accessing or using this Site, you are consenting to the collection of Personal Information and use practices described in this Policy, as modified from time to time by us in our sole discretion. SECTION 1 – WHAT DO WE COLLECT? WHAT DO WE DO WITH YOUR INFORMATION? When you visit the Site, we automatically collect certain information about your device, including information about your web browser, operating system, IP address, time zone, and some of the Cookies that are installed on your device. Additionally, as you browse the Site, we collect information about the individual web pages or products that you view, what websites or search terms referred you to the Site, and information about how you interact with the Site. We refer to this automatically-collected information as “Device Information.” We collect Device Information using the following technologies: “Cookies” are data files that are placed on your device or computer and often include an anonymous unique identifier. You may refuse to accept browser cookies by activating the appropriate setting on your browser. For more information about Cookies, and how to disable Cookies, visit http://www.allaboutcookies.org. “Log files” track actions occurring on the Site, and collect data including your IP address, browser type, Internet service provider, referring/exit pages, and date/time stamps. “Web beacons” “tags,” and “pixels” are electronic files used to record information about how you browse the Site. We use the Device Information that we collect to help us screen for potential risk and fraud (in particular, your IP address), and more generally to improve and optimize our Site (for example, by generating analytics about how our customers browse and interact with the Site), and to assess the success of our marketing and advertising campaigns. The information we collect on or through our Site may also include information that you provide by filling in forms on our Site. This includes information provided at the time of subscribing to our services or contacting us, such as your name, address, email address and phone number. We refer to this information as “Contact Information.” When we talk about “Personal Information” in this Privacy Policy, we are talking about both Device Information and Contact Information. In addition to the uses set forth elsewhere in this Policy, we may use Personal Information about you for various purposes, including to: Provide, maintain and improve the Site and our products; Respond to your comments, questions and requests and provide customer service; Communicate with you about the Site, products, offers, surveys, events and other news and information we think may be of interest to you; Monitor and analyze trends, usage and activities in connection with the Site; Detect, investigate and prevent illegal activities and protect our rights and property; Personalize and improve the Site and provide advertisements, content and features that match your interests; Facilitate contests, sweepstakes and promotions and process and deliver entries and rewards; Link or combine with information we get from others to help understand your needs and provide you with a better experience; and Carry out any other purpose for which the information was collected. SECTION 2 – CONSENT How do you get my consent? You consent to our collection and use of Device Information by using or accessing the Site. You consent to our collection and use of Subscription Information when you provide us with personal information to subscribe to our services. How do I withdraw my consent? You may withdraw your consent for us to contact you, or for the continued collection, use or disclosure of your information, at any time, by writing to us at Louisiana Pepper Exchange LLC., 1755 Tchoupitoulas, New Orleans, LA 70125 or calling us at 1-225-665-0006 or emailing us at customerservice@lapepperexchange.com If you decide you don’t want to receive marketing emails from us, you can opt out of marketing emails by clicking the “Unsubscribe” link in our emails, or email us at customerservice@lapepperexchange.com SECTION 3 – DISCLOSURE Subject to the terms of this Policy, we shall never sell, rent, share or otherwise distribute or make available your Personal Information to third parties outside of our group of companies without your consent, except that we may access, use, preserve, and disclose your Personal Information to third parties if we believe in good faith that it is reasonably necessary to: Comply with applicable laws, regulations, legal processes, and governmental requests; Protect the safety of any person including to prevent death or imminent bodily harm; Detect, prevent, and address fraud, security, or technical issues; Further process your Personal Information in accordance with the purposes for which it was originally collected; or Protect our rights or property. California Privacy Rights If you are a California resident, California law may provide you with additional rights regarding our use of your Personal Information, including under the California Consumer Privacy Act of 2018 (“CCPA”). To learn more about your California privacy rights under the CCPA, visit https://oag.ca.gov/privacy/ccpa. We will not discriminate against you for exercising any of your CCPA rights. Unless permitted by the CCPA, we will not: Deny you goods or services. Charge you different prices or rates for goods or services, including through granting discounts or other benefits, or imposing penalties. Provide you a different level or quality of goods or services. Suggest that you may receive a different price or rate for goods or services or a different level or quality of goods or services. However, we may offer you certain financial incentives permitted by the CCPA that can result in different prices, rates, or quality levels. Any CCPA-permitted financial incentive we offer will reasonably relate to your Personal Information’s value and contain written terms that describe the program’s material aspects. Participation in a financial incentive program requires your prior opt-in consent, which you may revoke at any time. In addition, California’s “Shine the Light” law (Civil Code Section § 1798.83) permits users of our website that are California residents to request certain information regarding our disclosure of personal information to third parties for their direct marketing purposes. To make such a request, please write to us at Louisiana Pepper Exchange LLC., 1755 Tchoupitoulas, New Orleans, LA 70125 or calling us at 1-225-665-0006 or emailing us at customerservice@lapepperexchange.com. SECTION 4 – RETENTION OF PERSONAL INFORMATION We will only retain your Personal Information for as long as necessary to fulfill the purpose we collected it for, including for the purposes of satisfying any legal, accounting, or reporting requirements. We retain Personal Information for the duration of any actively engaged user of our Site and services and for a period after this time as necessary and relevant to our legitimate operations and in accordance with applicable law obligations. This may include retention necessary to identify, issue or resolve legal proceedings. We may also retain aggregate information beyond this time for research purposes and to help us develop and improve our services. You cannot be identified from aggregate information retained or used for these purposes. SECTION 5 – INTERNATIONAL USERS Our Site is based in the United States. If you are visiting from the European Union or other region with laws governing data collection and use, please note that you are agreeing to the transfer of your information to the United States and processing globally. By providing your information, you expressly consent to any transfer and processing in accordance with this Policy while acknowledging that privacy laws in the United States may be different, and in some cases, less protective, than those in effect in your jurisdiction. Users in the European Economic Area (the “EEA”) and Switzerland. If you are a resident of the EEA or Switzerland, the following information applies. Purposes of processing and legal basis for processing: As explained above, we process personal data in various ways depending upon your use of our Site. We process Personal Information on the following legal bases: (1) with your consent; (2) as necessary to perform our agreement to provide services; and (3) as necessary for our legitimate interests in providing the services where those interests do not override your fundamental rights and freedom related to data privacy. Right to lodge a complaint: Users that reside in the EEA or Switzerland have the right pursuant to the General Data Protection Regulation (“GDPR”) to lodge a complaint about our data collection and processing actions with the supervisory authority concerned. Contact details for data protection authorities are available here: link: https://edpb.europa.eu/about-edpb/board/members_en. Transfers: Information we collect may be transferred to, and stored and processed in, the United States or any other country in which we or our affiliates or subcontractors maintain facilities. We will ensure that transfers of personal data to a third country or an international organization are subject to appropriate safeguards as described in Article 46 of the GDPR. Individual Rights: If you are a resident of the EEA or Switzerland, you are entitled to the following rights. Please note: In order to verify your identity, we may require you to provide us with personal data prior to accessing any records containing information about you. 1. The right to request data erasure. You have the right to have your data erased from our Site if the data is no longer necessary for the purpose for which it was collected, you withdraw consent and no other legal basis for processing exists, or you believe your fundamental rights to data privacy and protection outweigh our legitimate interest in continuing the processing. 2. The right to restrict or object to our processing. You have the right to restrict or object to our processing if we are processing your data based on legitimate interests or the performance of a task in the public interest as an exercise of official authority (including profiling); using your data for direct marketing (including profiling); or processing your data for purposes of scientific or historical research and statistics. SECTION 6 – THIRD-PARTY SERVICES In general, the third-party service providers used by us will only collect, use and disclose your information to the extent necessary to allow them to perform the services they provide to us. However, certain third-party service providers, such as payment gateways and other payment transaction processors, have their own privacy policies with respect to the information we are required to provide to them for your purchase-related transactions. For those providers, we recommend that you read their privacy policies so you can understand the manner in which your personal information will be handled by those providers. In particular, remember that certain providers may be located in or have facilities that are located in a different jurisdiction than either you or us. So, if you elect to proceed with a transaction that involves the services of a third-party service provider, your information may become subject to the laws of the jurisdiction(s) in which that service provider or its facilities are located. As an example, if you are located in Canada and your transaction is processed by a payment gateway located in the United States, then your personal information used in completing that transaction may be subject to disclosure under United States legislation, including the Patriot Act. Once you leave our store’s website or are redirected to a third-party website or application, you are no longer governed by this Policy. Third-Party Links When you click on links on our store, they may direct you away from our Site. We are not responsible for the privacy practices of other sites and encourage you to read their privacy statements. SECTION 7 – SECURITY To protect your personal information, we take reasonable precautions and follow industry best practices to make sure it is not inappropriately lost, misused, accessed, disclosed, altered or destroyed. Although we have tried to create secure, reliable and trustworthy websites for our visitors, please be aware that the Internet is generally not regarded as a completely secure environment, and that therefore the confidentiality of your Personal Information provided or transmitted via our Site or by e-mail cannot be guaranteed by us. Thus, we are not responsible or liable for the security of your Personal Information whilst in transit via the Internet to us. By using the Site or providing information to us, you agree that we may communicate with you electronically regarding security, privacy, and administrative issues relating to your use of the Site. If we learn of a security system’s breach, we may attempt to notify you electronically by posting a notice on the Site or sending a message. You may have a legal right to receive this notice in writing. To receive free written notice of a security breach (or to withdraw your consent from receiving electronic notice), please notify us at Louisiana Pepper Exchange LLC., 1755 Tchoupitoulas, New Orleans, LA 70125 or calling us at 1-225-665-0006 or emailing us at customerservice@lapepperexchange.com SECTION 8 – COOKIES By using or accessing the Site, you are consenting to our use of Cookies as follows: We, and third-party vendors (such as Google), use Cookies to analyze user activity in order to improve the Site. For example, by using Cookies we can look at aggregate patterns, like the average number of products that users browse. We can use such analysis to gain insights about how to improve the functionality and experience for all users, as well as serve ads based on past site activity. Google Analytics & Interest-Based Online Advertising As you navigate through and interact with our Site, we may utilize automatic data collection technologies (such as Google Analytics) to collect anonymized information about your Site visit. We do this to help us estimate the size of our audience and their usage patterns in order to improve the user experience for everyone. Data collected may include, but is not limited to, demographic information like age and gender, system details like your browser version and operating system, your mobile device type if accessing the Site on your phone or tablet, onsite behavior like which pages on our Site that you visited and how long you stayed, and whether or not you completed any actions like signing up for our mailing list. Nothing collected is personally identifiable. We may allow others to serve advertisements on our behalf, on other sites across the internet, based on you visiting our Site in the past. These entities may use Cookies, web beacons, or other technologies to function properly and identify the effectiveness of those efforts. You have the right to update, correct, or modify information we may have about you at any time by emailing us at customerservice@lapepperexchange.com You may also adjust your ad personalization settings directly with Google in their “Ad Personalization Settings” link: https://adssettings.google.com/authenticated page. Opt-Out Options We have enabled the following tracking features within Google Analytics: Demographics and Interest Reports, Advertising Reporting Features, and Remarketing. Users who wish to not have their data collected with Google Analytics can install the opt-out browser add-on, which prohibits information from being sent to Google Analytics. To opt out, visit the Google Analytics opt-out page link: https://tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout and install the add-on for your browser. Another option is by visiting the Network Advertising Initiative Opt-Out link: http://optout.networkadvertising.org/ page. SECTION 9 – AGE OF CONSENT Our Site is a general audience site that is not designed nor intended to collect Personal Information from minors under the age of 18. To respect the privacy of children and to comply with the laws designed to protect children, children under the age of 18 should not provide any Personal Information. We will not knowingly collect, use, or disclose Personal Information from a minor under the age of 18, without obtaining prior consent from a person with parental responsibility (parent, guardian). By using this Site, you represent that you are at least the age of majority in your state or province of residence, or that you are the age of majority in your state or province of residence and you have given us your consent to allow any of your minor dependents to use this Site. We ask that parents supervise their children while online. SECTION 10 – CHANGES TO THIS PRIVACY POLICY We reserve the right to modify this Policy at any time, so please review it frequently. Changes and clarifications will take effect immediately upon their posting on the Site. If we make material changes to this Policy, we will notify you here that it has been updated, so that you are aware of what information we collect, how we use it, and under what circumstances, if any, we use and/or disclose it. Your use of the Site signifies your acceptance of this Policy. If you do not agree to the terms of this Policy, please do not use the Site. If the ownership of all or substantially all of our business changes, or we otherwise transfer assets relating to our business or any of the services to a third party (such as by merger, acquisition, bankruptcy proceeding, or other change of control transaction), we may transfer or sell your information to the new owner. In such a case, unless permitted otherwise by applicable law, your information would remain subject to this Policy unless we notify you otherwise. SECTION 11 – TRADEMARK RIGHTS We and our affiliates, licensors and content providers are the owners of all the trademarks used on the Site. Third parties are not allowed to use and apply any of the trademarks, logos and identifying marks without our express written consent. SECTION 12 – QUESTIONS AND CONTACT INFORMATION If you would like to: access, correct, amend or delete any Personal Information we have about you, register a complaint, or simply want more information, contact our team via mail at Louisiana Pepper Exchange LLC., 1755 Tchoupitoulas, New Orleans, LA 70125 or calling us at 1-225-665-0006 or emailing us at customerservice@lapepperexchange.com Effective Date: July 26th, 2021 Copyright © 2021 Louisiana Pepper Exchange | Privacy Page Home About Us Recipes Pepper Varieties Contact Us Shop Now