Please read the following policy to under stand how your personal information will be treated as you make full use of our many offerings. This policy may change from time to time so please check back periodically.
Described below is our privacy policy in these areas:

· Gathering Information

· Cookies

· Use of Information

· Sharing Information

· Updating Personal Information

· Financial and Personal Information Security

GATHERING INFORMATION
Taste and See Austin collects information in several ways. Some personal information may be gathered when you register. Taste and See Austin may ask for your name, email address, home address, state, city, country, zip code, occupation, industry, personal interests, etc. The more information you volunteer, the better we are able to customize your experience. After you register, you are no longer anonymous to Taste and See Austin. You are given a Taste and See Austin account and are able to take full advantage of Taste and See Austin's many offerings.

In addition to registration we may ask you for personal information at other times, including (but not limited to) when you enter a sweepstakes, contest or promotion sponsored by Taste and See Austin and/or our many partners; when you make a purchase using Taste and See Austin; and when you report a problem with our sites or services. If you contact Taste and See Austin we may keep a record of that correspondence. Taste and See Austin also occasionally asks customers to complete surveys that we use for research purposes.

COOKIES
As part of offering and providing personalized services, Taste and See Austin uses cookies to store and sometimes track information about you. A cookie is a small amount of data that is sent to your browser from a web server and stored on your computer's hard drive. Some of Taste and See Austin web pages will require that you accept cookies.

Generally, we use cookies to:

· Track visits and to process the items in your shopping basket.

· Track your progress and number of entries in some of our promotions, sweepstakes and contests.

· Measure certain traffic patterns, which areas of Taste and See Austin's web pages you have visited and your visiting patterns in the aggregate. We use this research to understand how our customers' habits are similar or different from one another so that we can make each new experience on Taste and See Austin a better one. We may use this information to better personalize the content and promotions that you and other customers will see on our sites.

Taste and See Austin also collects IP adresses for system administration and to report aggregate information to our information technology department.

USE OF INFORMATION

Taste and See Austin's primary goal in collecting personal information is to provide you, the user, with our personalization products and services, interactive communications, and online shopping.

Taste and See Austin does research on our customers' demographics, interests, and behavior based on the information provided to us upon registration, during a sales transaction, from our server log files or from surveys. We do this to better understand and serve our customers. This research is compiled and analyzed on an aggregated basis. Taste and See Austin may share this aggregated data with advertisers or business partners.

Taste and See Austin may, from time to time, send you email regarding products and services. In addition, if you indicated upon registration that you are interested in receiving offers or information from Taste and See Austin, we may occasionally send you direct mail about products and services that we feel may be of interest to you. If you do not want to receive such mailings, simply tell us when you give us your personal information. Or, at any time you can easily edit your Taste and See Austin preferences and account information to no longer receive such offers and mailings. You will need your Taste and See Austin account number and password in order to access your Taste and See Austin preferences and account information.

SHARING INFORMATION

When you are on Taste and See Austin web site and registered, made a purchase, entered a sweepstake or contest, you are sharing that information with Taste and See Austin, business partners and sponsors.

UPDATING PERSONAL INFORMATION
You may edit your Taste and See Austin preference and acount information at any time by using your Taste and See Austin username and password to access your account details.

FINANCIAL AND PERSONAL INFORMATION SECURITY
Any time we ask for a credit card number, we transmit that credit card number in an encrypted format. We use industry-standard, SSL (secure socket layer) encryption.

Your Taste and See Austin preference and account information are password-protected so that you and only you have access to this personal information. You may edit your Taste and See Austin preference and account information by using your Taste and See Austin username and password to access your account. We strongly recommend that you do not divulge your password to anyone. Taste and See Austin will never ask you for your password in an unsolicited phone call or in an unsolicited email.

Note: no data transmission over the Internet can be guaranteed to be 100% secure. As a result, while we strive to protect your personal information, Taste and See Austin cannot ensure or warrant the security of any information you transmit to us or from our online products or services, and you do so at your own risk. Once we receive your transmission, we make our best effort to ensure its security on our systems.

No credit card information is stored after your transaction has been processed.