Privacy Policy

Last Updated: March 15, 2010

ThirstMonger.com values your trust and understands that you may be concerned about how your personal information is used and shared. This Statement describes our privacy practices surrounding the use of your personal information collected on the Site. By visiting ThirstMonger.com (the “Site”), you consent to the collection, use, and disclosure of information in accordance with the terms of this privacy policy.

ThirstMonger is a Licensee of the TRUSTe Privacy Program. TRUSTe is an independent organization whose mission is to build users’ trust and confidence in the internet by promoting the use of fair information practices. Because ThirstMonger wants to demonstrate its commitment to your privacy, it has agreed to disclose its information practices and have its privacy practices reviewed for compliance by TRUSTe.

If you have questions or concerns regarding this statement, you should first contact ThirstMonger at thirstmonger@gtgbeverages.com. If you do not receive acknowledgment of your inquiry or your inquiry has not been satisfactorily address, you should contact TRUSTe at http://watchdog.truste.com/pvr.php?page=complaint&url=. TRUSTe shall then serve as a liaison with us to resolve your concerns.

What Personal Information Does ThirstMonger.com Collect?
What Are Cookies?
Emails and Other Electronic Communications
How Do We Share Information with Third Parties?
How is Information Protected by ThirstMonger?
Links
Children
Choice/Opt-Out
Site Terms and Conditions of Use
Changes to This Privacy Policy
Your Comments

What Personal Information Does ThirstMonger.com collect?

Information You Provide

It is possible to visit ThirstMonger anonymously. When you select to register an account with the Site, you are no longer anonymous. We collect your name, email address, phone number, billing and shipping address to register your account. We also collect your sensitive information such as your credit card number. All the collected information above is used to facilitate your shopping cart as well as process payment, and deliver your purchased products to you. We also utilize your email address to send you updates and promotions on the Site should you opt to receive these.

When you select to email a friend about our Site or products, we collect your friends email address to send out this one time email on your behalf.

Automatic Information

We automatically receive and store certain information whenever you visit this Site. For example, like many web sites, we use "cookies" (described below) and obtain certain information whenever your Web browser accesses this Site. This information includes the Internet protocol (IP) address of your computer, your browser software and operating system, your web server, the date and time you access our site, session information (such as download errors and page response times), information about your viewing, search and purchase history and information about the referring URL and the URL clickstream to, through, and from this Site. We use this information to monitor the usage and performance of this Site, to enhance your experiences and to determine aggregate information about our user base and usage patterns.

What Are Cookies?
To personalize and enhance your experience, we use a feature on your Internet browser called a cookie. Cookies are small files that your web browser places on your computer's hard drive. We use cookies to let us know that you are a prior customer and to retrieve certain information previously provided by you to us, so that you do not need to re-enter this information every time you visit this Site. We tie your account information to these cookies. The help tab on the toolbar of most browsers will tell you how to prevent your browser from accepting cookies, how to make the browser tell you when it receives a new cookie, or how to disable all cookies.

Third Party Cookies: We may from time to time engage third parties to track and analyze non-personally identifiable usage and volume statistical information from visitors to the Site, to help us administer and improve its quality. Such third parties may use cookies to help track visitor behavior. Such cookies will not be used to associate individual website visitors to any personally identifiable information.

Emails and Other Electronic Communications
ThirstMonger may send confirmation emails, promotional emails, or other electronic communications to our customers and other users. If you do not wish to receive promotional emails from us, you may opt out of receiving these communications. Please see Choice/Opt-Out below.

How Do We Share Information With Third Parties?
We protect all of your information against unauthorized access or release. We share your personal information with third parties as follows:

Manufacturers and Freight Partners: We will share your name, shipping address and email address with our manufacturers and/or freight partners from whom your order will be shipped. This allows them to better serve you. For example, we provide this information to a manufacturer whose products you order so that they are able to fulfill your order and email you an order confirmation and/or shipment details. We do not share your personal information with any company that is not involved in processing and/or delivering your order.

Market Research: We may aggregate website visitor information for market research purposes. For example, we may use this information to identify the fastest-selling beverage category in a particular state. We may share the results of this analysis with our partners, however, your personally identifiable information will not be revealed, other than as described in this policy

We use a third party payment processor to facilitate payment for purchases on the Site.

We may be legally required to disclose information to the government or to third parties under certain circumstances, such as illegal activity on our Site. ThirstMonger reserves the right to release personal information to its service providers, law enforcement or other government officials or in response to a formal request in a civil action, Court order or judicial proceeding as ThirstMonger, in our sole and absolute discretion, deems necessary or appropriate.

In the event of an acquisition, merger or sale by ThirstMonger of some, or all of its assets, customer information could be a part of the transferred assets. We shall place a notice on our Site denoting such an event, should it occur along with a notice on the information practices governing the information henceforth.

When you select to review a product, please be advised that any personal information you place within this public forum may be read and used to send you unsolicited messages, by other users’ of the forum. ThirstMonger is not responsible for the personal information you select to disclose in a public forum.

How is Information Protected by ThirstMonger?
We protect your information by using Secured Sockets Layer (SSL) software, which encrypts the sensitive information that you submit via the Site. For example, when our registration/order form prompts you to enter sensitive information (such as address or credit card number), that information is encrypted by the SSL software. Read more about our site security. We employ industry accepted standards in ensuring that your information is not only secured during transmission, but also protected by storage in a secure server, that can only be accessed by employees who need access to information to perform their job

Links
This Site may contain links to and from other sites operated and maintained by third parties. We have no responsibility for linked sites and provide these links solely for the convenience of our visitors. We encourage you to read the privacy policies of each web site linked to this Site to determine whether and to what extent it collects and uses personally identifiable information. This privacy policy applies solely to information collected by this Site.

Children
ThirstMonger does not market or provide products or provide services to children. If you are under 13 years of age, you may not use this Site.

Choice/Opt-Out
Website registrants who no longer wish to receive our promotional materials may opt-out of receiving these communications by following the unsubscribe instructions in our e-mail communications, or by logging into Your Account and selecting "No" next to "Ok to Email" under the section "Account & Contact Info".

To update or change any of the information you have submitted on the Site, access your account and modify your preferences accordingly.

Site Terms and Conditions of Use
If you visit this Site, your visit and any dispute over privacy is subject to this Privacy Policy and the Site Terms and Conditions of Use, including, without limitations, its provisions relating to limitations on damages, arbitration of disputes, and governing law. If you are concerned about our privacy practices, please contact us, and we will work to resolve your concerns.

Changes to This Privacy Policy
We reserve the right to modify or amend this policy at any time. We will post any material changes to our practices on this page so that you are always aware of the information that we collect, how we use it, and under what circumstances we disclose it. Unless we state otherwise, the changes to our privacy policy will affect only the information we collect after the effective date of the change.

Your Comments
We welcome your feedback. If you have questions or comments about our privacy practices, feel free to send us an e-mail at thirstmonger@gtgbeverages.com or write us:

      ThirstMonger
      Attn: Privacy
      1000 Gamma Drive
      Suite 500
      Pittsburgh, PA 15238

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