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The Spice House Privacy Policy

Effective as of February 27, 2025

Please click here to view the previous version of our Privacy Policy.

This Privacy Policy describes how The Spice House, LLC ("The Spice House," "we", “us” or "our") handles personal information that we collect through our website at www.thespicehouse.com (the “Website”), as well as through social media, our marketing activities, and other activities described in this Privacy Policy.

This Privacy Policy does not cover information that we may collect from our business contacts nor information that we may collect in an employment context, such as from our employees or job applicants.

Interpretation and Definitions

Interpretation

  • The words of which the initial letter is capitalized have meanings defined under the following conditions. The following definitions shall have the same meaning regardless of whether they appear in singular or in plural.

Definitions

For the purposes of this Privacy Policy:

  • Account means a unique account created for You to access our Service or parts of our Service.

  • Affiliate means an entity that controls, is controlled by or is under common control with a party, where "control" means ownership of 50% or more of the shares, equity interest or other securities entitled to vote for election of directors or other managing authority.

  • Company (referred to as either "the Company", "We", "Us" or "Our" in this Agreement) refers to The Spice House, LLC, 1941 Central St., Evanston, IL 60201.

  • Cookies are small files that are placed on Your computer, mobile device or any other device by a website, containing the details of Your browsing history on that website among its many uses.

  • Country refers to: Illinois, United States

  • Device means any device that can access the Service such as a computer, a cellphone or a digital tablet.

  • Personal Data is any information that relates to an identified or identifiable individual.

  • Service refers to the Website.

  • Service Provider means any natural or legal person who processes the data on behalf of the Company. It refers to third-party companies or individuals employed by the Company to facilitate the Service, to provide the Service on behalf of the Company, to perform services related to the Service or to assist the Company in analyzing how the Service is used.

  • Usage Data refers to data collected automatically, either generated by the use of the Service or from the Service infrastructure itself (for example, the duration of a page visit).

  • Website refers to The Spice House, accessible from https://www.thespicehouse.com/

  • You means the individual accessing or using the Service, or the company, or other legal entity on behalf of which such individual is accessing or using the Service, as applicable.


Index

  • Personal information we collect

  • How we use your personal information

  • How we share your personal information

  • Your choices

  • Other sites and services

  • Security

  • International data transfer

  • Children

  • Changes to this Privacy Policy

  • How to contact us

 

Personal Information We Collect

Information you provide to us. Personal information you may provide to us through the Website or otherwise includes:

  • Contact data, such as your first and last name, email address, billing and mailing addresses, and phone number.

  • Profile data, such as the username or email address and password that you may set to establish an online account on the Website, links to your profiles on social networks, preferences, favorite items, reviewed items, and any other information that you add to your account profile.

  • Communications that we exchange with you, including when you contact us through the Website (such as through live chat, email, phone, responses to surveys or site feedback), social media, or otherwise.

  • Transactional data, such as information relating to or needed to complete your orders on or through the Website, including order numbers, transaction history, and items in your cart.

  • Marketing data, such as your preferences for receiving our marketing communications and details about your engagement with them.

  • User-generated content, such as questions, messages, reviews, blog posts, and other content or information that you generate, transmit, or otherwise make available on the Website, as well as associated metadata. Metadata includes information on how, when, where and by whom a piece of content was collected and how that content has been formatted or edited. Metadata also includes information that users can add or can have added to their content, such as keywords, geographical or location information, and other similar data.

  • Payment information needed to complete transactions, including payment card information, that is collected and processed directly by our payment processors (e.g., PayPal, ShopPay, Google Pay), as described further below. We do not store any payment card information ourselves.

  • Promotional information, including information you share when you enter a competition, promotion or complete a survey. Please note that if you participate in a sweepstakes, contest or giveaway through the Website, we may ask you for your contact data to notify you if you win or not, to verify your identity and/or to send you prizes. In some situations, we may need additional information as a part of the entry process, such as a prize selection choice. These sweepstakes and contests are voluntary. We recommend that you read the rules and other relevant information for each sweepstakes and contest that you enter.

  • Other data not specifically listed here, which we will use as described in this Privacy Policy or as otherwise disclosed at the time of collection.

Third-party sources. We may combine personal information we receive from you with personal information we obtain from other sources, such as:

  • Public sources, such as government agencies, public records, social media platforms, and other publicly available sources.

  • Data providers, such as information services and data licensors that provide demographic information, mailing addresses, and other information.

  • Our affiliate partners, such as our affiliate network provider and publishers, influencers, and promoters who participate in our paid affiliate programs.

  • Marketing partners, such as joint marketing partners and event co-sponsors.


Automatic data collection. We, our service providers, and our business partners may automatically log information about you, your computer or mobile device, and your interaction over time with the Website, our communications and other online services, such as:

  • Device data, such as your computer’s or mobile device’s operating system type and version, manufacturer and model, browser type, screen resolution, RAM and disk size, CPU usage, device type (e.g., phone, tablet), IP address, unique identifiers (including identifiers used for advertising purposes), language settings, mobile device carrier, radio/network information (e.g., Wi-Fi, LTE, 3G), and general location information such as city, state or geographic area.

  • Online activity data, such as pages or screens you viewed, how long you spent on a page or screen, the website you visited before browsing to the Website, navigation paths between pages or screens, information about your activity on a page or screen, access times and duration of access, and whether you have opened our emails or clicked links within them.

Google API. Our use of information received from Google APIs will adhere to Google API Services User Data Policy, including the Limited Use requirements.

Cookies and Similar Technologies. 

Some of the automatic collection described above is facilitated by the following technologies:

  • Cookies, which are small text files that websites store on user devices and that allow web servers to record users’ web browsing activities and remember their submissions, preferences, and login status as they navigate a site. Cookies used on our sites include both “session cookies” that are deleted when a session ends, “persistent cookies” that remain longer, “first party” cookies that we place and “third party” cookies that our third-party business partners and service providers place. 

  • Local storage technologies, like HTML5, that provide cookie-equivalent functionality but can store larger amounts of data on your device outside of your browser in connection with specific applications.

  • Web beacons, also known as pixel tags or clear GIFs, which are used to demonstrate that a webpage or email was accessed or opened, or that certain content was viewed or clicked.

  • Session Replay Technologies. We use third party services provided by Hotjar that employ software code to record users’ interactions with the Website in a manner that allows us to watch DVR-like replays of those user sessions. The replays include users’ clicks, mobile app touches, mouse movements, scrolls [and keystrokes/key touches] during those sessions. These replays help us diagnose usability problems and identify areas for improvement. You can learn more about Hotjar at https://www.hotjar.com/legal/privacy-policy/ and you can learn how to opt-out from Hotjar’s collection at https://www.hotjar.com/policies/do-not-track/.

How We Use Your Personal Information

We may use your personal information for the following purposes or as otherwise described at the time of collection:

Website and service delivery. We may use your personal information to:

  • provide, operate and improve the Website, our services and our business, including to fulfill any orders placed through the Website;

  • establish and maintain your user profile on the Website;

  • enable security features of the Website, such as by remembering devices from which you have previously logged in;

  • communicate with you about the Website, our products and services, and your orders, including by sending announcements, catalogs, updates, security alerts, and support and administrative messages;

  • understand your needs and interests, and personalize your experience with the Website and our communications; and

  • provide support for the Website, and respond to your requests, questions and feedback.

Research and development and business promotion. We may use your personal information for research and development purposes, including to analyze and improve the Website and our business, and for business promotion purposes. As part of these activities, we may create aggregated, de-identified or other anonymous data from personal information we collect. We make personal information into anonymous data by removing information that makes the data personally identifiable to you. We may use this anonymous data and share it with third parties for our lawful business purposes, including to analyze and improve the Website and promote our business.

Marketing and advertising. We, our service providers and our third-party advertising partners may collect and use your personal information for marketing and advertising purposes:

  • Direct marketing. We may send you direct marketing communications. You may opt-out of our marketing communications as described in the Opt-out of marketing section below. We will not share your opt-in to an SMS campaign with any third party for purposes unrelated to providing you with the services of that campaign. We may share your Personal Data, including your SMS opt-in or consent status, with third parties that help us provide our messaging services, including but not limited to platform providers, phone companies, and any other vendors who assist us in the delivery of text messages.

  • Interest-based advertising. Our third-party advertising partners may use cookies and similar technologies to collect information about your interaction (including the data described in the automatic data collection section above) with the Website, our communications and other online services over time, and use that information to serve online ads that they think will interest you. This is called interest-based advertising. We may also share information about our users with these companies to facilitate interest-based advertising to those or similar users on other online platforms.

Compliance and protection. We may use your personal information to:

  • comply with applicable laws, lawful requests, and legal process, such as to respond to subpoenas or requests from government authorities;

  • protect our, your or others’ rights, privacy, safety or property (including by making and defending legal claims);

  • audit our internal processes for compliance with legal and contractual requirements or our internal policies;

  • enforce the terms and conditions that govern the Website; and

  • prevent, identify, investigate and deter fraudulent, harmful, unauthorized, unethical or illegal activity, including cyberattacks and identity theft.

With your consent. In some cases, we may specifically ask for your consent to collect, use or share your personal information, such as when required by law.

Cookies and similar technologies. In addition to the other uses included in this section, we may use the Cookies and similar technologies described above for the following purposes:

  • Technical operation. To allow the technical operation of the Website, such as by remembering your selections and preferences as you navigate the Website.

  • Functionality. To enhance the performance and functionality of our Website.

  • Advertising. The Spice House's website uses cookies to help keep track of items you put into your shopping cart, including, but not limited to when you have abandoned your cart. This information is used to determine when to send cart reminder messages via SMS and email. Cookies may also be used to help our third-party advertising partners collect information about how you use the Website and other online services over time, which they use to show you ads on other online services they believe will interest you and measure how the ads perform.

  • Analytics. To help us understand user activity on the Website, including which pages are most and least visited and how visitors move around the Website, as well as user interactions with our emails. For example, we use Google Analytics for this purpose. You can learn more about Google Analytics and how to prevent the use of Google Analytics relating to your use of our sites here: https://tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout?hl=en.

How We Share Your Personal Information

We may share your personal information with the following parties and as otherwise described in this Privacy Policy or at the time of collection.

Service providers. Third parties that provide services on our behalf or help us operate the Website or our business (such as hosting, information technology, customer support, email delivery, marketing, consumer research and website analytics). For example, we use Shopify to power our online store — you can read more about Shopify’s privacy practices here: https://www.shopify.com/legal/privacy.

Payment processors. Any payment card information you use to make a purchase on the Website is collected and processed directly by our payment processors, such as Apple Pay, PayPal, Shopify’s ShopPay and Google Pay. Each of these payment processors may use your payment data in accordance with their own privacy policies. For example, PayPal may use your payment data in accordance with its privacy policy at https://www.paypal.com/us/webapps/mpp/ua/privacy-full, Shopify may use your payment data in accordance with its privacy policy at https://www.shopify.com/legal/privacy/app-users, Apple Pay may use your payment data in accordance with its privacy policy at www.apple.com/privacy, and Google Pay may use your payment data in accordance with its privacy policy at https://policies.google.com/privacy.

Advertising partners. Third-party advertising companies for the interest-based advertising purposes described above.

Third parties designated by you. We may share your personal information with third parties where you have instructed us or provided your consent to do so. We will share personal information that is needed for these other companies to provide the services that you have requested.

Business and marketing partners. Third parties with whom we co-sponsor events or promotions, with whom we jointly offer products or services, or whose products or services may be of interest to you.

Professional advisors. Professional advisors, such as lawyers, auditors, bankers and insurers, where necessary in the course of the professional services that they render to us.

Authorities and others. Law enforcement, government authorities, and private parties, as we believe in good faith to be necessary or appropriate for the compliance and protection purposes described above.

Business transferees. Acquirers and other relevant participants in business transactions (or negotiations of or due diligence for such transactions) involving a corporate divestiture, merger, consolidation, acquisition, reorganization, sale or other disposition of all or any portion of the business or assets of, or equity interests in, The Spice House or our affiliates (including, in connection with a bankruptcy or similar proceedings).

Other users and the public. Your user-generated content may be visible to other users of the Website and the public. For example, other users of the Website or the public may have access to your information if you provide comments, reviews, blog posts, messages or share other content. This information can be seen, collected and used by others, including being cached, copied, screen captured or stored elsewhere by others (e.g., search engines), and we are not responsible for any such use of this information.

Retention of Your Personal Data

The Company will retain Your Personal Data only for as long as is necessary for the purposes set out in this Privacy Policy. We will retain and use Your Personal Data to the extent necessary to comply with our legal obligations (for example, if we are required to retain your data to comply with applicable laws), resolve disputes, and enforce our legal agreements and policies.

The Company will also retain Usage Data for internal analysis purposes. Usage Data is generally retained for a shorter period of time, except when this data is used to strengthen the security or to improve the functionality of Our Service, or We are legally obligated to retain this data for longer time periods.

Transfer of Your Personal Data

Your information, including Personal Data, is processed at the Company's operating offices and in any other places where the parties involved in the processing are located. It means that this information may be transferred to — and maintained on — computers located outside of Your state, province, country or other governmental jurisdiction where the data protection laws may differ than those from Your jurisdiction.

Your consent to this Privacy Policy followed by Your submission of such information represents Your agreement to that transfer.

The Company will take all steps reasonably necessary to ensure that Your data is treated securely and in accordance with this Privacy Policy and no transfer of Your Personal Data will take place to an organization or a country unless there are adequate controls in place including the security of Your data and other personal information.

Your Choices

In this section, we describe the rights and choices available to all users.

Access or update your information. If you have registered for an account with us through the Website, you may review and update certain account information by logging into your account.

Opt-out of marketing communications and text messages. You may opt-out of marketing-related emails by following the opt-out or unsubscribe instructions at the bottom of the email, or by contacting us. Please note that if you choose to opt-out of marketing-related emails, you may continue to receive service-related and other non-marketing emails.

If you signed up for marketing text messages from us, you may receive messages related to The Spice House’s products and promotions. You may opt out of receiving further marketing text messages from us by replying STOP, END, CANCEL, UNSUBSCRIBE, or QUIT to our marketing message or to (833) 262-7177. Please note that this will only opt you out of the specific text messaging program associated with that number. For more information, please review The Spice House’s messaging terms and conditions here: https://attnl.tv/t/kVY , and The Spice House’s messaging privacy policy here: https://attnl.tv/p/kVY .

Advertising choices. You can limit use of your information for interest-based advertising by:

  • Browser settings. Blocking third-party cookies in your browser settings.

  • Privacy browsers/plug-ins. By using privacy browsers or ad-blocking browser plug-ins that let you block tracking technologies.

 Mobile settings. Using your mobile device settings to limit use of the advertising ID associated with your mobile device for interest-based advertising purposes.

You will need to apply these opt-out settings on each device from which you wish to opt-out.

We cannot offer any assurances as to whether the companies we work with participate in the opt-out programs described above.

Do Not Track. Some Internet browsers may be configured to send “Do Not Track” signals to the online services that you visit. We currently do not respond to “Do Not Track” or similar signals. To find out more about “Do Not Track,” please visit https://www.allaboutdnt.com.

Declining to provide information. We need to collect personal information to provide certain services. If you do not provide the information we identify as required or mandatory, we may not be able to provide those services.

Delete your personal data. You have the right to delete or request that We assist in deleting the Personal Data that We have collected about You.

Our Service may give You the ability to delete certain information about You from within the Service.

You may update, amend, or delete Your information at any time by signing in to Your Account, if you have one, and visiting the account settings section that allows you to manage Your personal information. You may also contact Us to request access to, correct, or delete any personal information that You have provided to Us.

Please note, however, that We may need to retain certain information when we have a legal obligation or lawful basis to do so.

Disclosure of Your Personal Data

Business Transactions

If the Company is involved in a merger, acquisition or asset sale, Your Personal Data may be transferred. We will provide notice before Your Personal Data is transferred and becomes subject to a different Privacy Policy.


Law Enforcement

Under certain circumstances, the Company may be required to disclose Your Personal Data if required to do so by law or in response to valid requests by public authorities (e.g. a court or a government agency).

Other Legal Requirements

The Company may disclose Your Personal Data in the good faith belief that such action is necessary to:

Comply with a legal obligation

Protect and defend the rights or property of the Company

Prevent or investigate possible wrongdoing in connection with the Service

Protect the personal safety of Users of the Service or the public

Protect against legal liability

Security of Your Personal Data

The security of Your Personal Data is important to Us, but remember that no method of transmission over the Internet, or method of electronic storage is 100% secure. While We strive to use commercially acceptable means to protect Your Personal Data, We cannot guarantee its absolute security.

Other Sites and Services

The Website may contain links to websites, mobile applications, and other online services operated by third parties. In addition, our content may be integrated into web pages or other online services that are not associated with us. These links and integrations are not an endorsement of, or representation that we are affiliated with, any third party. We do not control websites, mobile applications or online services operated by third parties, and we are not responsible for their actions. We encourage you to read the privacy policies of the other websites, mobile applications and online services you use.

Security

We employ a number of technical, organizational and physical safeguards designed to protect the personal information we collect. However, security risk is inherent in all internet and information technologies and we cannot guarantee the security of your personal information.

International Data Transfer

We are headquartered in the United States and may use service providers that operate in other countries. Your personal information may be transferred to the United States or other locations where privacy laws may not be as protective as those in your state, province, or country.

Children

The Website is not intended for use by anyone under 13 years of age. If you are a parent or guardian of a child from whom you believe we have collected personal information in a manner prohibited by law, please contact us. If we learn that we have collected personal information through the Website from a child without the consent of the child’s parent or guardian as required by law, we will comply with applicable legal requirements to delete the information.

Changes to this Privacy Policy

We reserve the right to modify this Privacy Policy at any time. If we make material changes to this Privacy Policy, we will notify you by updating the date of this Privacy Policy and posting it on the Website or other appropriate means. Any modifications to this Privacy Policy will be effective upon our posting the modified version (or as otherwise indicated at the time of posting). In all cases, your use of the Website after the effective date of any modified Privacy Policy indicates your acceptance of the modified Privacy Policy.

How to Contact Us

  • Email: support@thespicehouse.com

  • Mail: The Spice House 212 W. Superior St., Suite 600 Chicago, IL 60654

  • Phone: (312) 676-2414

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