Privacy Policy and Terms of Service

Good Things Long Island, Inc. has established this policy on the collection and dissemination of personal contact information. This policy applies to all personal contact information collected to fulfill a legitimate public purpose whether obtained through an online visit, a phone call placed to our office, a phone call or visit to our shop at 44 Main Street, Sayville, New York. Good Things Long Island, Inc. may share your personal contact information with our partners for the intention of distributing requested information. Guarding the privacy and safety of your data is very important to us. This page details the things we do to secure your privacy and security on our website.

Privacy

We take your privacy seriously. Below we provide details about how we do that. Basically, we will not sell or redistribute your information without your permission unless required to do so by law (please see the disclosure paragraph below), We keep your information in a physically secure location. We have invested in high levels of computer and Internet security. This includes daily 3rd party monitoring of our security protection. We welcome your input and will be glad to alter how we handle any of your specific information to meet your requests.

Children’s Privacy
Our Site is not directed at children. The Children's Online Privacy Protection Act took effect on April 21, 2000, and pertains to websites directed toward children less than 13 years of age. We do not collect information on any person under 13 years of age. We do not solicit or knowingly collect personally identifiable information from children under age 13 without the verifiable permission of a parent or guardian.

We do not sell, trade, or otherwise transfer to outside parties your personal identifiable information. This does not include trusted third parties who assist us in operating our website, conducting our business, or servicing you, so long as those parties agree to keep this information confidential. We may also release your information when we believe release is appropriate to comply with the law, enforce our site policies, or protect ours or others rights, property, or safety. However, non-personally identifiable visitor information may be provided to other parties for marketing, advertising, or other uses.

Disclosure

If required by law, we may share your Personal Information to comply with applicable laws and regulations, by court order, to respond to a subpoena, search warrant or other lawful request for information we receive, or to otherwise protect our rights.

Your Consent

By using our site, you consent to our website privacy policy.This website, goodthingslongisland.com, is regularly tested and certified to meet requirements including the Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard (PCI DSS).

We also use industry standard Secure Sockets Layer (SSL) to protect your data. SSL protects data submitted over the Internet from being intercepted and viewed by unintended recipients and as used by hundreds of thousands of web sites in the protection of their online transactions with their customers, SSL is the de-facto industry standard Internet transaction security technology. It is used in the shopping cart section of our website. When you connect to an SSL part of sayvillegeneralstore.com, you will see that the URL in the address bar begins with https:// rather than the usual http:// and also a small padlock will show in your browser.*Secure Socket Layer (SSL) is a technology used by vendors to ensure the security of online business. It negotiates and employs the essential functions of mutual authentication, data encryption and data integrity for secure transactions. 

Please note that e-mail is not encrypted and is not considered a secure means of transmitting credit card numbers. We will never ask for sensitive personal Information via e-mail. 

What Information Do We Collect?

We collect information from you when you register on our site, place an order and contact you about it or subscribe to our newsletter. When ordering or registering on our site, as appropriate, you may be asked to enter your: name, e-mail address, mailing address, phone number, or credit card information. You may, however, visit our site anonymously.

We also collect standard information on your IP address, browser type, and Refer URL data. We use this data to prevent hacking attempts, help us know what web browsers people are using, and find out where our visitors are coming from so that we can improve our marketing.

We also use Google Analytics to help us understand how our customers use the Site -- you can read more about how Google uses your Personal Information here: https://www.google.com/intl/en/policies/privacy/. You can also opt-out of Google Analytics here: https://tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout.

Do we use cookies?

Yes. Cookies are small files that a site or its service provider transfers to your computers hard drive through your Web browser (if you allow) that enables the sites or service providers systems to recognize your browser and capture and remember certain information.

We use cookies to help us remember and process the items in your shopping cart and compile aggregate data about site traffic and site interaction so that we can offer better site experiences and tools in the future. We may contract with third-party service providers to assist us in better understanding our site visitors. These service providers are not permitted to use the information collected on our behalf except to help us conduct and improve our business.

Who gets this information?

Your information is only used by the Good Things Long Island, Inc. staff in New York. We do not sell or redistribute your information without your permission. All our staff are taught about privacy and confidentiality.

Any of the information we collect from you may be used in one of the following ways:

  1. To personalize your experience (your information helps us to better respond to your individual needs)

  2. To improve our website (we continually strive to improve our website offerings based on the information and feedback we receive from you)

  3. To improve customer service (your information helps us to more effectively respond to your customer service requests and support needs)

  4. To process transactions
    Your information, whether public or private, will not be sold, exchanged, transferred, or given to any other company for any reason whatsoever, without your consent, other than for the express purpose of delivering the purchased product or service requested.

Links to Non Good Things Long Island, Inc websites

We provide links to other websites on goodthinglongisland.com. These sites operate independently of goodthingslongisland.com and have established their own privacy and security policies. For the best online experience, we encourage you to review these policies before submitting any personal Information through these sites. Good Things Long Island, Inc. has no control over the content exhibited on these other sites, or the administration of them. Use of such sites is subject to each site’s unique privacy policy and terms of service policy. Good Things Long Island, Inc (goodthingslongisland.com) is not responsible for any of the content or opinions on other websites linked to goodthingslongisland.com

Good Things Long Island, Inc. will be happy to remove any linked website(s); please contact us by email at info@goodthingslongisland.com and we will immediately remove any links.

Your Consent

By using our site, you consent to our website privacy policy and terms of service.

Updates to this Statement

We will update this Statement from time to time to reflect changes in our business. If we change how we use your Personal Information or the purposes or entities for and to which we disclose your Personal Information we will post the policy change notification on our website.