Privacy Policy
Last updated: March 13, 2020
Welcome and thank you for visiting our website located at www.pizzuti.com (the “Website”); we appreciate your interest in our company. We take the protection of your personal information very seriously. This privacy policy provides comprehensive information relating to how we collect, use, and share your personal information at The Pizzuti Companies.
Our Website collects information that identifies, relates to, describes, references, is capable of being associated with, or could reasonably be linked, directly or indirectly, with a particular consumer or device (“personal information”).
1. Contact Information
The Pizzuti Companies
629 N High Street, Suite 500
Columbus, OH 43215
1.877.PIZZUTI
Phone: 614.280.4000
E-Mail: website@pizzuti.com
2. Geographic and other Restrictions
The owner of the Website is based in the State of Ohio in the United States. We provide this Website for use only by persons located in the United States. We make no claims that the Website or any of its content is accessible or appropriate outside of the United States. If you access the Website from outside the United States, you do so on your own initiative and are responsible for compliance with local laws.
3. Categories of personal information we collect
The data we process is determined by the context in question, e.g., it may vary depending on whether you have, e.g., submitted an inquiry via our contact form or otherwise.
We obtain the categories of personal information listed below from the following categories of sources:
directly from you; for example, from forms you complete on our Website (if applicable)
indirectly from you; for example, from observing your actions on our Website
When you visit our Website, we collect and process the following data:
name of the Internet service provider
information on the Website you have visited us from
web browser and operating system used
the IP address assigned by your Internet service provider
requested files, amount of data transferred, downloads/file export
information on the pages of our Website(s) that you visit, including date and time
When you send us a “Contact Us” request, we may collect and process the following data:
last name, first name
company name
title
contact data (email address and telephone number)
subject of your message
method of contact
details about your inquiry
We keep track of how you use and interact with our Website through the use of cookies and other tracking technologies as listed below.
a. Cookies
Our Website use what are known as cookies at multiple points. These are used to make our offering more user-friendly, effective and more secure. Cookies are small text files that are placed on your computer and stored by your browser (locally on your hard disk).
These cookies enable us to analyze how users use our Website. This means we can design the Website content according to our visitors’ needs.
We use both “session cookies” and permanent cookies. The session cookies are automatically deleted after your visit. Permanent cookies are automatically deleted from your computer when their expiry date is reached or when you delete them yourself before the expiry date.
Most web browsers accept cookies automatically. You can usually change your browser's settings if you would prefer not to send the information.
b. Google Analytics
We use Google Analytics, a web analysis service provided by Google Inc. ("Google"). Google uses cookies. The information generated by the cookie on the use of our content by the users are usually transmitted to a Google server in the USA and stored there.
Google will use this information on our behalf to evaluate the use of our Website and content by users, to compile reports on the activities within the Website and to provide us with other services related to the use of our Website content and internet usage. In this case, pseudonymous usage profiles of the users may be created from the processed data.
We only use Google Analytics with activated IP anonymization. The full IP address is sent to a Google server in the US and shortened there. The IP address sent by the user's browser will not be merged with other data provided by Google.
Users may prevent the collection by Google of the data generated by the cookie and related to their use of the content and the processing of such data by Google by downloading and installing the browser plug-in available at the following link: https://tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout?hl=en
If your browser does not support the link to the Browser Add-On from Google (e.g. when using our Website from your smartphone), you can also opt-out of data collection by Google Analytics by clicking on the link below. An opt-out cookie is then stored that prevents the future collection of your data when visiting this Website.
Click here to opt-out of Google Analytics measurements.
4. How we use your personal information
We may use or disclose the personal information we collect for one or more of the following purposes:
To fulfill or meet the reason you provided the information. For example, if you share your name and contact information to ask a question about our services, we will use that personal information to respond to your inquiry.
To provide you with support and to respond to your inquiries, including to investigate and address your concerns and monitor and improve our responses.
To help maintain the safety, security, and integrity of our Website, products and services, databases and other technology assets, and business.
To respond to law enforcement requests and as required by applicable law, court order, or governmental regulations.
We will not collect additional categories of personal information or use the personal information we collected for materially different, unrelated, or incompatible purposes without providing you notice.
5. How we share your personal information
We will only share your data with third parties within the scope of the statutory provisions or with the appropriate consent. Otherwise, it will not be shared with third parties unless we are obliged to do so due to mandatory legal regulations (disclosure to external bodies such as law enforcement authorities in the United States).
a. Within our organization
Within our organization, we ensure that only the individuals receive data who require that data to fulfill their contractual and legal obligations.
In many cases, our specialist departments are supported by Service Providers (defined below) to fulfill their tasks.
b. With our Service Providers
We work with various organizations and individuals to help provide our services to you ("Service Providers"), such as Website and data hosting companies and companies providing analytics information. We need to engage such third-party Service Providers to help us operate, provide, and market our services. These third parties have only limited access to your information and may use your information only to perform these tasks on our behalf. Information we share with our Service Providers may include both information you provide to us and information we collect about you, including personal information and information from data collection tools like cookies.
We take reasonable steps to ensure that our Service Providers are obligated to reasonably protect your information on our behalf. If we become aware that a Service Provider is using or disclosing information improperly, we will take commercially reasonable steps to end or correct such improper use or disclosure.
We share personal information with our Service Providers on the legal basis of our legitimate interests in providing you with our services. Our engagement of Service Providers is often necessary for us to provide the services to you, particularly where such companies play important roles like helping us keep our services operating and secure. In some other cases, these Service Providers aren’t strictly necessary for us to provide our services, but help us make it better, like by helping us conduct research into how we could better serve our users. In these latter cases, we have a legitimate interest in working with service providers to make our services better.
c. To conduct business transactions
We may purchase other businesses or their assets, sell our business assets, or be involved in a bankruptcy, merger, acquisition, reorganization or sale of assets. Your information, including personal information, may be among assets sold or transferred as part of a business transaction. In some cases, we may choose to buy or sell assets. Such transactions may be necessary and in our legitimate interests, particularly our interest in making decisions that enable our organization to develop over the long term.
d. To respond to safety and lawful requests
We may be required to disclose your information pursuant to lawful requests, such as subpoenas or court orders, or in compliance with applicable laws. We generally do not disclose user information unless we have a good faith belief that an information request by law enforcement or private litigants meets applicable legal standards. We may share your information when we believe it is necessary to comply with applicable laws, to protect our interests or property, to prevent fraud or other illegal activity perpetrated through the services or using our name, or to protect the safety of any person. This may include sharing information with other companies, lawyers, agents, or government agencies. Nothing in this privacy policy is intended to limit any legal defenses or objections that you may have to a third party’s, including a government’s, request to disclose your information.
6. Data retention period
We store your data as long as it is necessary for the processing purpose in question. Please note that a number of legally imposed retention periods require data to be stored for extended periods. This relates in particular to commercial or fiscal retention obligations. Unless there are further retention requirements, the data will be routinely deleted after use.
In addition, we may retain the information if you have given us your permission to do so, or in the event of legal disputes and we use evidence within the statutory limitation periods.
7. Links to other providers
Our Website also contains links to the websites of other companies. Where links to websites of other providers are available, we have no influence as to their content. As a result, no guarantee and liability can be assumed for this content. The content of these pages is always the responsibility of the respective provider or operator of the pages.
8. Online offerings for children
We do not collect any information from children. Persons under the age of 16 are not permitted to submit any personal information to us without the consent of the legal guardian or a declaration of consent. We encourage parents and guardians to actively participate in the online activities and interests of their children.
9. Changes to our privacy policy
We may modify this privacy policy from time to time. We will notify you of material changes to this policy by posting a notice at the Website or by emailing you at an email address associated with you, if applicable, and provide an “at a glance” overview of any changes.