The Pendleton Popcorn Factory®, recognizes and respects the importance of maintaining the privacy of our customers, registered members ("Members") and users, and has established this Privacy Policy as a result. The purpose of this Privacy Policy is to inform you of:

This Privacy Policy is part of the Terms of Use, which governs your use of our web site located at www.popcorntreat.com (The Pendleton Popcorn Factory"). The Web Site is owned by The Pendleton Popcorn Factory, Inc. (the "Company"). .

Note: You must be 18 years or older to use, subscribe or register as a member of The Pendleton Popcorn Factory®. The Web Site is a general audience site and we do not knowingly collect, maintain or disclose personal information from or about children.

Why do we gather information?

The Pendleton Popcorn Factory® gathers personal information to help improve our products and customer service, to communicate with you, to process your popcorn orders, to provide an enhanced and more personalized shopping experience and to inform you, and your gift and message recipients, of special offers and discounts from us.

What information do we gather?

We collect information through our Web Site, emails, mail, fax, and telephone, including when you:

Depending on how you interact with us, we collect some or all of the following types of information:

Information you provide to us may be collected by us even if an order, registration, or other process is started but not completed or otherwise cancelled. Members may also add to their Address Book the name, address and telephone number of friends or other persons to whom they may wish to send gifts or expressions. Only Members have the right to view and edit their Address Book entries.

How we use "Cookies"

A "cookie" is a small data file sent to your browser from a web server and stored on your computer. We use cookies to let us know that you are a prior customer, user or Member and to provide certain features to you. Most web browsers allow you to instruct the browser to prevent the use of cookies. However, if you disable this feature, certain aspects of The Pendleton Popcorn Factory® Web Site, such as the shopping basket, may not function properly.

How we use the information we collect

We use information we collect to communicate with you, to process your orders, to provide an enhanced and more personalized shopping experience, to inform you and your gift and message recipients of offers and discounts from The Pendleton Popcorn Factory® and our affiliated brands and to enable you to receive credits for purchases under loyalty or buying programs which you have joined. We do not share any of your information we gather when you are ordering our gourmet popcorn with anyone else except when it is required to process and ship your order.

We reserve the right to disclose information you provide to us as required by law, in response to legal process and law enforcement requests and as necessary or appropriate, in our view, to operate the Web Site, process orders or registrations, to conduct promotions, contests, and sweepstakes you participate in, and to protect the rights or property of the Company, its Affiliates, users, customers, recipients, Members, Sponsors, Providers, Licensors, Merchants and Associates (as these terms are defined in the Terms of Use).

Please note that any personal information you reveal or post on one our public forums (as defined in the Terms of Use), such as a message board, chat room, discussion group, folder, survey, contest, sweepstakes, user review and rate forum, and all User Submissions, are not protected by this Privacy Policy and may be collected, shared and used by us or with third parties, including to contact you. Information you give out or post on our public forums you disclose at your own risk.

Consent to Transfer and Submission

The Pendleton Popcorn Factory® is operated in the United States. If you are located outside the United States, please be aware that any information you provide to us will be transferred to the United States. By using the Web Site or otherwise providing us with information, you hereby consent to this transfer.

In addition, if you submit data to us about other individuals (such as your message and gift recipients when you order our flavored popcorn), you agree that you have obtained consent from each such individual to the submission, transfer and processing of the information. Although personal information collected by us through the Web Site, emails, mail, fax, and telephone is used by us in accordance with this Privacy Policy, laws generally applicable to the protection of personal data in the U.S. may not be as stringent as those in other countries.

Links to Other Web Sites

The Pendleton Popcorn Factory® wants you to be aware that when you click on links and/or ad banners that take you to affiliated or third-party web sites, you will be subject to the privacy policies and terms of use of those web sites, not ours. We encourage you to read the posted privacy statement and user terms whenever using, and prior to providing any personal information to, any other web site.

Security and Passwords

We use Paypal to process credit card purchases. If you place an order for flavored popcorn or other product on our Web site, you will be directed to the PAYPAL web site. Paypal's technology encrypts the credit card number you submit prior to transmission over the Internet using secure socket layer (SSL) encryption technology. This technology works best when the Web Site is viewed using Microsoft's Internet Explorer® or Netscape Navigator®. We use Paypal because we believe it is the safest, most reliable way to purchase online. However, no transmission of data over the Internet or any other network can be guaranteed to be 100% secure. Although we make reasonable efforts to safeguard personal information once we receive it, we cannot warrant the security of information we receive.

Portions of the Web Site (such as our Member registration and Address Book) may require registration and log-in processes in which you will select a user ID and password (collectively, the "Password"). You are responsible for maintaining the confidentiality of any Password and for all activities that occur using your Password, whether or not authorized by you. You agree to immediately notify us of any unauthorized use of your Password or accounts.

Third Parties

We do not share personal information you provide with third parties except when it is required to process and ship your order.