PRIVACY POLICY

Chocolate Savant LLC, an Arizona limited liability company ("Chocolate Savant," "we," "us," or "our"), respects your privacy. This Privacy Policy explains what personal information we collect when you visit www.chocolatesavant.com (the "Website") or use our services, how we use and share it, and the choices you have.

Our services include guided craft chocolate tastings and pairing experiences for private hosts and corporate clients, our free chocolate flavor profile quiz, and our Chocolate Brunch newsletter. This Privacy Policy is part of our Terms of Use. If you do not agree with this Privacy Policy, please do not use the Website or our services.

We collect only the information we need to respond to you and provide our services. Depending on how you interact with us, this may include:

1. a)Contact Information. Your name, email address, telephone number, company or organization, and title, when you request a proposal, schedule a call, contact us, or book an event.
2. b)Event Information. Details about your event, such as the date, location or venue, guest count, the experience you are interested in, and the shipping address for chocolate sent for an online event.
3. c)Dietary and Allergy Information. Food allergies or dietary restrictions of you or your guests, if you choose to tell us so we can plan the tasting. Please share only what we need to accommodate your guests.
4. d)Quiz Information. Your answers to the flavor profile quiz, your email address, and the flavor profile and recommendations we prepare for you.
5. e)Newsletter Information. Your email address and, through our email provider, whether you open or click on our newsletter.
6. f)Communications and Submissions. The content of your emails and messages to us, and any testimonial, review, or photograph you send us.
7. g)Payment Information. Billing details needed to invoice and collect payment for events. Card and bank payments are processed by Stripe. We do not store full card numbers.
8. h)Usage Information. Information collected automatically when you visit the Website, such as your IP address, browser and device type, pages viewed, the date and time of your visit, and the site that referred you.

We do not knowingly collect sensitive information such as government identification numbers, and we ask that you not send it to us.

1. a)Directly From You. When you complete our proposal or inquiry form, schedule a call, take the quiz, subscribe to our newsletter, email or call us, or sign an event agreement.
2. b)From Event Hosts. When a company or host books an event, the host may give us information about the event and its guests, such as the guest count and any dietary or allergy needs. Guests who take the flavor profile quiz provide their own answers directly.
3. c)Automatically. Through cookies and similar technologies when you use the Website, as described in Section 8.

We use personal information to:

1. a)Respond to your inquiries, prepare proposals, and schedule calls;
2. b)Plan, deliver, and follow up on events, including shipping chocolate for online events and accommodating dietary needs;
3. c)Prepare and send your flavor profile and chocolate recommendations;
4. d)Send Chocolate Brunch and information about our events, if you have subscribed or asked to hear from us;
5. e)Invoice and collect payment;
6. f)Operate, maintain, secure, and improve the Website and our services, including improving our quiz and recommendations;
7. g)Comply with legal, tax, and accounting obligations; and
8. h)Enforce our Terms of Use and event agreements, and protect our rights and the rights of others.

We do not sell your personal information. We share it only as described below:

1. a)With Event Hosts. If you take the flavor profile quiz as a guest of an event, your answers and your flavor profile may be shared with the host or company that booked the event, so the profiles can be used at the event.
2. b)With Venues and Makers. We may share event details, and dietary or allergy information without guest names where possible, with the event venue or caterer to prepare the tasting. For online events, we share the client's shipping name, address, and telephone number with the chocolate maker that ships the chocolate.
3. c)With Service Providers. We use trusted providers to run our business, including Google (scheduling, video calls, email, and website analytics), Fillout (our quiz and inquiry forms), beehiiv (our newsletter), GoDaddy (website hosting), and Stripe (payments). They may use your information only to provide services to us.
4. d)Chocolate Makers Through Links. When you follow a link to a chocolate maker's website, the maker may learn that you came from Chocolate Savant, for example to credit us with a referral. Your use of the maker's website is governed by the maker's own privacy policy.
5. e)For Legal Reasons. When required by law or legal process, or when we believe in good faith that disclosure is needed to protect our rights, property, or safety, or that of others.
6. f)In a Business Transfer. In connection with a merger, sale of assets, or other transfer of our business, subject to this Privacy Policy.
7. g)With Your Consent. In any other case where you ask us or agree to share your information.

We keep personal information only as long as needed for the purposes described in this Privacy Policy:

1. a)Inquiries that do not lead to an event are kept for up to two (2) years;
2. b)Event records, agreements, and invoices are kept as long as needed for tax, accounting, and legal purposes;
3. c)Dietary and allergy information is deleted after the event, unless you ask us to keep it for a future event;
4. d)Quiz answers and flavor profiles are kept so we can respond to questions and improve our recommendations, unless you ask us to delete them; and
5. e)Newsletter subscriber information is kept until you unsubscribe, after which we keep only what is needed to honor your request.

We use reasonable administrative and technical measures to protect personal information. Information submitted through the Website is transmitted using encryption (SSL/TLS). We limit access to personal information to people who need it to provide our services, and we rely on reputable service providers that maintain their own security programs. However, no method of transmission over the Internet or electronic storage is completely secure, and we cannot guarantee absolute security. If a data breach affects your personal information, we will notify you as required by applicable law.

The Website uses cookies and similar technologies. Cookies are small files placed on your device. We use:

1. a)Essential cookies, which the Website needs to function, such as cookies that remember your cookie choices; and
2. b)Performance cookies, which help us understand how visitors use the Website so we can improve it, through Google Analytics 4.

Our service providers, such as our forms, scheduling, and newsletter services, may set their own cookies when you use their features. We do not use cookies for targeted advertising.

You can set your browser to refuse cookies or to alert you when cookies are sent. Some parts of the Website may not work properly if you do. The Website does not currently respond to "Do Not Track" signals.

Visitors in the European Economic Area and the United Kingdom. If you visit the Website from the European Economic Area or the United Kingdom, we set performance cookies, including Google Analytics 4, only after you accept them in our cookie banner. Essential cookies are set without consent, because the Website needs them to function. You may change or withdraw your choice at any time through the cookie settings link in the Website footer.

You may at any time:

1. a)Unsubscribe from Chocolate Brunch or other marketing emails by using the unsubscribe link in any email or by contacting us;
2. b)Ask us for a copy of the personal information we hold about you;
3. c)Ask us to correct personal information that is inaccurate; and
4. d)Ask us to delete your personal information, subject to information we must keep for legal, tax, or contractual reasons.

Depending on where you live, state privacy laws may give you additional rights, such as the right to know the categories of information we collect and share, or to opt out of certain uses. Where such a law applies to us, we will honor those rights.

To make a request, contact us using the information in Section 13. We may need to verify your identity before responding. We will respond within the time required by applicable law, and we will not discriminate against you for exercising any privacy right.

Chocolate Savant is based in the United States, and our service providers process information in the United States. If you visit the Website or attend one of our events from outside the United States, including the European Union, your information will be transferred to and processed in the United States, where data protection laws may differ from those in your country.

If you are in the European Economic Area or the United Kingdom, we process your personal information on the following legal bases: to perform a contract with you or take steps at your request before entering into a contract; with your consent, such as for our newsletter and quiz; to comply with legal obligations; and for our legitimate interests in operating and improving our business, where those interests are not overridden by your rights. You may have the right to access, correct, delete, restrict, or object to the processing of your information, to data portability, and to withdraw consent at any time. You also have the right to lodge a complaint with your local data protection authority.

Dietary and Allergy Information. Information about food allergies or dietary restrictions may reveal information about health. If you are in the European Economic Area or the United Kingdom, we process this information only with your explicit consent, and only to plan and deliver your event. If you provide this information about your guests, you confirm that your guests have agreed to share it with us. You may withdraw your consent at any time by contacting us. Withdrawal does not affect processing that took place before it. However, we may be unable to accommodate dietary needs we do not know about.

The Website and our services are intended for adults at least 18 years of age. We do not knowingly collect personal information from children under 13. If you are a parent or guardian and believe your child has provided personal information to us, please contact us. If we learn that we have collected personal information from a child under 13 without verified parental consent, we will delete it, consistent with the Children's Online Privacy Protection Act, 15 U.S.C. § 6501 et seq.

We may update this Privacy Policy from time to time. We will post the updated policy on this page and change the "Last Updated" date above. If we make a material change, we will post a notice on the Website or email subscribers before the change takes effect. Your continued use of the Website after a change takes effect means you accept the updated policy.

If you have any questions about this Privacy Policy, or wish to make a request about your personal information, please contact us at: