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Privacy Policy
Last updated: Sep 29, 2026 10:49 AM
We value your privacy very highly. Please read this Privacy Policy carefully before using the https://www.gilbertchocolates.com/ website (the “Website”) operated by Gilbert Chocolates, a(n) Corporation formed in Michigan, United States (“us, we, our”) as this Privacy Policy contains important information regarding your privacy and how we may use the information we collect about you.
Your access to or use of the Website is conditional upon your acceptance of and compliance with this Privacy Policy. This Privacy Policy applies to everyone, including but not limited to visitors, users and others, who wish to access or use the Website.
By accessing or using the Website, you agree to be bound by this Privacy Policy. If you disagree with any part of this Privacy Policy, you do not have our permission to access or use the Website.
What information we collect and store
We collect and store any and all information that you enter on this Website. We collect and store the following information about you:
Identifying information - Name
Specific piece of information
How we use this information
- Enforcing our Terms of Service
- Marketing and advertising
- Performing services
- Processing or fulfilling orders or transactions
- Processing payments
- Providing customer service
- Resolving disputes
- Responding to consumer messages
- Shipping purchases
- Verifying customer information
- Counting ad impressions to unique visitors
- Targeted advertising
- Verifying position and quality of ad impressions
Identifying information - Postal / Shipping address
Specific piece of information
How we use this information
- Performing services
- Processing or fulfilling orders or transactions
- Processing payments
- Providing customer service
- Resolving disputes
- Responding to consumer messages
- Shipping purchases
- Verifying customer information
- Enforcing our Terms of Service
- Marketing and advertising
Identifying information - Billing address
Specific piece of information
How we use this information
- Performing services
- Processing or fulfilling orders or transactions
- Processing payments
- Providing customer service
- Resolving disputes
- Responding to consumer messages
- Shipping purchases
- Verifying customer information
- Enforcing our Terms of Service
Identifying information - Phone number
Specific piece of information
How we use this information
- Performing services
- Processing or fulfilling orders or transactions
- Processing payments
- Providing customer service
- Resolving disputes
- Responding to consumer messages
- Shipping purchases
- Verifying customer information
- Counting ad impressions to unique visitors
- Enforcing our Terms of Service
- Marketing and advertising
- Targeted advertising
- Verifying position and quality of ad impressions
Identifying information - IP address
Specific piece of information
How we use this information
- Analytics
- Counting ad impressions to unique visitors
- Detecting security incidents
- Displaying embedded maps and tracking and analyzing interactions with such maps
- Enforcing our Terms of Service
- Marketing and advertising
- Performing services
- Processing or fulfilling orders or transactions
- Processing payments
- Protecting against malicious, deceptive, fraudulent or illegal activity, and prosecuting those responsible for such activities
- Providing customer service
- Resolving disputes
- Responding to consumer messages
- Shipping purchases
- Targeted advertising
- Verifying position and quality of ad impressions
- Providing videos and tracking user interactions with such videos
Identifying information - Email address
Specific piece of information
How we use this information
- Performing services
- Processing or fulfilling orders or transactions
- Processing payments
- Providing customer service
- Resolving disputes
- Responding to consumer messages
- Shipping purchases
- Verifying customer information
- Enforcing our Terms of Service
- Counting ad impressions to unique visitors
- Marketing and advertising
- Targeted advertising
- Verifying position and quality of ad impressions
Identifying information - Device identifier
Specific piece of information
How we use this information
- Analytics
- Counting ad impressions to unique visitors
- Detecting security incidents
- Displaying embedded maps and tracking and analyzing interactions with such maps
- Enforcing our Terms of Service
- Marketing and advertising
- Protecting against malicious, deceptive, fraudulent or illegal activity, and prosecuting those responsible for such activities
- Resolving disputes
- Targeted advertising
- Verifying position and quality of ad impressions
- Providing videos and tracking user interactions with such videos
Identifying information - Online identifier
Specific piece of information
How we use this information
- Analytics
- Counting ad impressions to unique visitors
- Detecting security incidents
- Displaying embedded maps and tracking and analyzing interactions with such maps
- Enforcing our Terms of Service
- Marketing and advertising
- Protecting against malicious, deceptive, fraudulent or illegal activity, and prosecuting those responsible for such activities
- Resolving disputes
- Targeted advertising
- Verifying position and quality of ad impressions
- Providing videos and tracking user interactions with such videos
Commercial information - Products or services purchased, obtained or considered
Specific piece of information
How we use this information
- Enforcing our Terms of Service
- Performing services
- Processing or fulfilling orders or transactions
- Processing payments
- Resolving disputes
- Shipping purchases
- Providing customer service
Commercial information - Purchasing or consuming histories or tendencies
Specific piece of information
How we use this information
- Enforcing our Terms of Service
- Performing services
- Processing or fulfilling orders or transactions
- Processing payments
- Resolving disputes
- Shipping purchases
- Providing customer service
Internet or other electronic activity - Browsing history
Specific piece of information
How we use this information
- Counting ad impressions to unique visitors
- Detecting security incidents
- Enforcing our Terms of Service
- Marketing and advertising
- Protecting against malicious, deceptive, fraudulent or illegal activity, and prosecuting those responsible for such activities
- Resolving disputes
- Targeted advertising
- Verifying position and quality of ad impressions
Internet or other electronic activity - Search history
Specific piece of information
How we use this information
- Counting ad impressions to unique visitors
- Detecting security incidents
- Enforcing our Terms of Service
- Marketing and advertising
- Protecting against malicious, deceptive, fraudulent or illegal activity, and prosecuting those responsible for such activities
- Resolving disputes
- Targeted advertising
- Verifying position and quality of ad impressions
Internet or other electronic activity - Information regarding your interaction with our website or application
Specific piece of information
How we use this information
- Analytics
- Counting ad impressions to unique visitors
- Detecting security incidents
- Enforcing our Terms of Service
- Marketing and advertising
- Protecting against malicious, deceptive, fraudulent or illegal activity, and prosecuting those responsible for such activities
- Resolving disputes
- Targeted advertising
- Verifying position and quality of ad impressions
- Providing videos and tracking user interactions with such videos
Internet or other electronic activity - Information regarding your interactions with advertisements
Specific piece of information
How we use this information
- Counting ad impressions to unique visitors
- Marketing and advertising
- Targeted advertising
- Verifying position and quality of ad impressions
Identifying information - Social media user ID
Specific piece of information
How we use this information
- Counting ad impressions to unique visitors
- Marketing and advertising
- Targeted advertising
- Verifying position and quality of ad impressions
Internet or other electronic activity - Information regarding your interaction with embedded videos
Specific piece of information
How we use this information
- Providing videos and tracking user interactions with such videos
- Analytics
Note that we do not use your personal information for the purpose of profiling. Please see the “Your Rights” section below for more information about exercising your privacy rights related to profiling.
We do not collect nor use your personal information to train large language models.
With whom we share your personal information
We share the following personal information with the following categories of third parties:
Identifying information - Name
Specific piece of personal information shared
Categories of third parties with whom personal information is/was shared
- Advertising networks
- Content management systems
- Customer management systems
- Data linking platforms
- Email marketing vendors
- Email service providers
- Financial transactions processors
- Fraud prevention services vendors
- Government or law enforcement entities
- Hosting providers
- Shipping companies
- Social networks
- Website or application development and design vendors
Identifying information - Postal / Shipping address
Specific piece of personal information shared
Categories of third parties with whom personal information is/was shared
- Content management systems
- Customer management systems
- Data linking platforms
- Email marketing vendors
- Email service providers
- Financial transactions processors
- Fraud prevention services vendors
- Government or law enforcement entities
- Hosting providers
- Shipping companies
- Website or application development and design vendors
Identifying information - Billing address
Specific piece of personal information shared
Categories of third parties with whom personal information is/was shared
- Content management systems
- Customer management systems
- Data linking platforms
- Email marketing vendors
- Email service providers
- Financial transactions processors
- Fraud prevention services vendors
- Government or law enforcement entities
- Hosting providers
- Shipping companies
- Website or application development and design vendors
Identifying information - Phone number
Specific piece of personal information shared
Categories of third parties with whom personal information is/was shared
- Content management systems
- Customer management systems
- Data linking platforms
- Email marketing vendors
- Email service providers
- Financial transactions processors
- Fraud prevention services vendors
- Government or law enforcement entities
- Hosting providers
- Shipping companies
- Website or application development and design vendors
- Advertising networks
- Social networks
Identifying information - IP address
Specific piece of personal information shared
Categories of third parties with whom personal information is/was shared
- Advertising networks
- Content management systems
- Customer management systems
- Data analytics providers
- Data linking platforms
- Email marketing vendors
- Email service providers
- Financial transactions processors
- Fraud prevention services vendors
- Government or law enforcement entities
- Hosting providers
- Map vendors
- Security services vendors
- Shipping companies
- Social networks
- Spam prevention vendors
- Website or application development and design vendors
- Video embedding vendors
Identifying information - Email address
Specific piece of personal information shared
Categories of third parties with whom personal information is/was shared
- Content management systems
- Customer management systems
- Data linking platforms
- Email marketing vendors
- Email service providers
- Financial transactions processors
- Fraud prevention services vendors
- Government or law enforcement entities
- Hosting providers
- Shipping companies
- Website or application development and design vendors
- Advertising networks
- Social networks
Identifying information - Device identifier
Specific piece of personal information shared
Categories of third parties with whom personal information is/was shared
- Advertising networks
- Content management systems
- Data analytics providers
- Hosting providers
- Map vendors
- Security services vendors
- Social networks
- Spam prevention vendors
- Website or application development and design vendors
- Video embedding vendors
Identifying information - Online identifier
Specific piece of personal information shared
Categories of third parties with whom personal information is/was shared
- Advertising networks
- Content management systems
- Data analytics providers
- Hosting providers
- Map vendors
- Security services vendors
- Social networks
- Spam prevention vendors
- Website or application development and design vendors
- Video embedding vendors
Commercial information - Products or services purchased, obtained or considered
Specific piece of personal information shared
Categories of third parties with whom personal information is/was shared
- Content management systems
- Email service providers
- Financial transactions processors
- Fraud prevention services vendors
- Government or law enforcement entities
- Hosting providers
- Shipping companies
- Website or application development and design vendors
Commercial information - Purchasing or consuming histories or tendencies
Specific piece of personal information shared
Categories of third parties with whom personal information is/was shared
- Content management systems
- Email service providers
- Financial transactions processors
- Fraud prevention services vendors
- Government or law enforcement entities
- Hosting providers
- Shipping companies
- Website or application development and design vendors
Internet or other electronic activity - Browsing history
Specific piece of personal information shared
Categories of third parties with whom personal information is/was shared
- Advertising networks
- Content management systems
- Hosting providers
- Security services vendors
- Social networks
- Spam prevention vendors
- Website or application development and design vendors
Internet or other electronic activity - Search history
Specific piece of personal information shared
Categories of third parties with whom personal information is/was shared
- Advertising networks
- Content management systems
- Hosting providers
- Security services vendors
- Social networks
- Spam prevention vendors
- Website or application development and design vendors
Internet or other electronic activity - Information regarding your interaction with our website or application
Specific piece of personal information shared
Categories of third parties with whom personal information is/was shared
- Advertising networks
- Content management systems
- Data analytics providers
- Hosting providers
- Security services vendors
- Social networks
- Spam prevention vendors
- Website or application development and design vendors
- Video embedding vendors
Internet or other electronic activity - Information regarding your interactions with advertisements
Specific piece of personal information shared
Categories of third parties with whom personal information is/was shared
- Advertising networks
- Content management systems
- Hosting providers
- Social networks
- Website or application development and design vendors
Identifying information - Social media user ID
Specific piece of personal information shared
Categories of third parties with whom personal information is/was shared
- Advertising networks
- Content management systems
- Hosting providers
- Social networks
- Website or application development and design vendors
Internet or other electronic activity - Information regarding your interaction with embedded videos
Specific piece of personal information shared
Categories of third parties with whom personal information is/was shared
- Content management systems
- Hosting providers
- Video embedding vendors
- Website or application development and design vendors
Sale of your information
We do not sell your personal information.
Please see the “Your Rights” section below for more information about exercising your privacy rights regarding sales of your personal information.
Cookies
A cookie is a small piece of data sent from a website and stored on your device by your browser. This Website sets cookies. Please visit our Cookie Policy to learn more about what cookies we set, why we set them, and how to change your cookie settings.
Children's privacy
This Website is intended for use by a general audience and does not offer services to children. Should a child whom we know to be under 18 send personal information to us, we will use that information only to respond to that child to inform them that they cannot use this Website.
Analytics programs
This Website uses Google Analytics to collect information about you and your behaviors. If you would like to opt-out of Google Analytics, please visit https://tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout/.
We want to process as little personal information as possible when you use our Website and thus we use Fathom Analytics for our analytics provider. We use Fathom Analytics to track and analyze your interactions with our Website. Fathom Analytics does not use cookies and is a privacy-friendly analytics software that only briefly processes your IP address. By using Fathom Analytics, your personal information is de-identified. Fathom Analytics does not store personal information over time. You can learn more about the privacy practices of Fathom Analytics by reading their Privacy Policy. You can also opt out of cookies by using our cookie consent banner.
Advertising and remarketing
This Website uses the Meta Pixel, which is an analytics tool that allows us to measure the effectiveness of our advertising by understanding your interactions with this Website and our advertisements. The personal information collected by the Meta Pixel is anonymized to us but is processed and stored by Meta Platforms, Inc. You can opt out of this practice by visiting Meta̛s Ad Practices Page. You can also opt out of cookies by using our cookie consent banner.
Security and spam prevention
This Website uses CleanTalk. CleanTalk is a service from CleanTalk, Inc. that protects our Website from bots and spam by collecting IP addresses, emails, browser information and other information to help prevent bots and spam. Please see the CleanTalk Privacy Policy to learn more about your privacy.
This Website uses Cloudflare Turnstile. Cloudflare Turnstile is a service from Cloudflare, Inc. that helps distinguish between humans and bots, thereby helping prevent spam. Cloudflare Turnstile works by collecting IP addresses, user agent, browser information and behavioral data to help prevent bots and spam. Please read the Cloudflare Turnstile Privacy Policy to learn more about your privacy when using this tool.
Your rights
Depending upon where you reside‚ you may have the following rights with regard to your personal information:
The right to access the personal information that we hold about you.
Applies To
The right to obtain a list of the specific third parties to whom we have sold your personal information.
Applies To
The right to receive the personal information that we hold about you in a portable and, to the extent feasible, a readily usable format that allows you to transmit this information to another entity.
Applies To
The right to request that we amend any of the information that we have collected about you.
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The right to request that we delete some or all of the personal information that we have collected about you.
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The right to opt out of sales of your personal information.
Applies To
The right to opt out of the use of your personal information for the purposes of profiling in furtherance of decisions that could produce legal or similarly significant effects concerning you.
Applies To
The right to opt out of the use of your personal information for purposes of targeted advertising.
Applies To
The right to not be discriminated against based upon your exercise of your privacy rights.
Applies To
The right to limit the use and disclosure of your sensitive personal information.
Applies To
Exercising your rights
You may exercise the rights specified above by submitting a consumer request to:
Brian Krichbaum
Owner
brian@gilbertchocolates.com
517-764-3141
233 N. Jackson St. Jackson MI 49201
USA
https://www.gilbertchocolates.com/
We may need to verify your identity prior to effectuating your request. To verify your identity, you will need to provide us with the following information with your request:
- Name
- Phone number
- Email address
- Products or services purchased, obtained or considered
Please note that we may be unable to process your request if you do not provide us with the above information.
You may also designate an authorized agent to exercise your rights on your behalf. You may designate an agent via any of the ways used to submit requests on your behalf. We may request the agent to verify that they have the authority to submit requests on your behalf. We will do so by asking the agent to submit the following information:
- Valid power of attorney
Please note that we may not be able to process your request if your designated agent and/or you do not provide us with the above information.
We will respond to most consumer requests within 45 days of receipt. However, some requests may take longer. We will notify you in writing if we need more time to respond (up to 90 days total). We have the ability to deny your request(s) if certain exceptions in the law apply. If we deny your request, we will provide you with reasons for such denial.
You have the right to appeal a refusal to take action on a rights request. You may file an appeal to us at the contact information provided above. We will respond to most appeal requests within 60 days of receipt. In our response to your appeal, we will inform you of any actions taken or not taken and the reason(s) as to why. Normally, we do not charge a fee to process or respond to consumer requests. However, we may charge a fee for subsequent requests in a 12-month period as allowed by law.
Do Not Track
Do Not Track (“DNT”) is a preference you can set on your browser to inform websites that you do not want to be tracked. We do not support DNT. You can either enable or disable Do Not Track by visiting the Preferences or Settings page of your browser.
Questions
If you have any questions about this Privacy Policy, please contact us at info@gilbertchocolates.com.
Changes to Privacy Policy
We reserve the right to amend this Privacy Policy at any time. We will notify you of any changes to this Privacy Policy by posting the updated Privacy Policy to this website.