(last updated: September, 2004)

Bullen Tea is committed to protecting your privacy. This Bullen Tea Privacy Statement applies to data collection and usage on Bullen Tea sites and services; it does not apply to other online or offline sites, products or services. Please read the Bullen Tea Privacy Statement below.

Bullen Tea is a general audience web site, intended for users of all ages. Personal information of all users is collected, used and disclosed as described in this Privacy Statement.

Collection of your Personal Information

At some sites, Bullen Tea collects personal information, such as your e-mail address, name, home or work address or telephone number. Bullen Tea may also collect demographic information, such as your ZIP code, age, gender, preferences, interests and favorites.

If you choose to sign up for a paid subscription service, we will collect additional personal information, including your credit card number and billing address, in order to create a Bullen Tea billing account.

Bullen Tea may collect information about your visit, including the pages you view, the links you click and other actions taken within Bullen Tea. We also collect certain standard information that your browser sends to every web site you visit, such as your IP address, browser type and language, access times and referring Web site addresses.

Certain Bullen Tea services may be co-branded and offered in conjunction with another company. If you register for or use such services, both Bullen Tea and the other company may receive information collected in conjunction with the co-branded services.

Use of your Personal Information

Bullen Tea collects and uses your personal information to operate and deliver the services you have requested. These services may include the display of customized content and advertising based upon the information Bullen Tea has collected.

Bullen Tea also uses your personal information to inform you of other products or services available from Bullen Tea and its affiliates. Bullen Tea may also send you surveys regarding current services or potential new services that may be offered.

Bullen Tea does not sell, rent or lease its customer lists to third parties. Bullen Tea may, from time to time, contact you on behalf of external business partners about a particular offering that may be of interest to you. In those cases, your personal information (e-mail, name, address, telephone number) is not transferred to the third party. Bullen Tea does not use or disclose sensitive personal information, such as race, religion, or political affiliations, without your explicit consent.

We may occasionally hire other companies to provide limited services on our behalf, such as handling the processing and delivery of mailings, providing customer support, processing transactions, or performing statistical analysis of our services. We will only provide those companies the personal information they need to deliver the service. They are required to maintain the confidentiality of your information and are prohibited from using that information for any other purpose.

Bullen Tea may access and/or disclose your personal information if required to do so by law or in the good faith belief that such action is necessary to: (a) conform to the edicts of the law or comply with legal process served on Bullen Tea or the site; (b) protect and defend the rights or property of Bullen Tea; or (c) act in urgent circumstances to protect the personal safety of users of Bullen Tea services or members of the public.

Personal information collected on this site may be stored and processed in the United States or any other country in which Bullen Tea or its affiliates, subsidiaries or agents maintain facilities, and by using this site, you consent to any such transfer of information outside of your country. Bullen Tea abides by the safe harbor framework as set forth by the U.S. Department of Commerce regarding the collection, use, and retention of data from the European Union.

Control of your Personal Information

Bullen Tea offers its customers choices for the collection, use and sharing of personal information. You may go to the Bullen Tea Email Settings page to make choices about the use of your personal information. You may choose not to receive marketing material from Bullen Tea or on behalf of external third party business partners. You may also stop the delivery of future promotional e-mail from Bullen Tea by following the specific instructions in the e-mail you receive. The instructions explain how to stop receiving such e-mails.

Bullen Tea may send out periodic e-mails informing you of technical service issues, product surveys, new feature announcements and news about Bullen Tea products and services. You will not be able to unsubscribe to these mailings, as they are considered a part of the service Bullen Tea offers.

You may subscribe and unsubscribe to Bullen Tea Newsletters by going to Bullen Tea Email Settings. In addition, each Bullen Tea newsletter you receive will have instructions on how to unsubscribe prominently mentioned in it.

You may have the ability to view or edit your personal information:

Security of your Personal Information

Bullen Tea is committed to protecting the security of your personal information. We use a variety of security technologies and procedures to help protect your personal information from unauthorized access, use, or disclosure. When we transmit highly confidential information (such as a credit card number) over the Internet, we protect it through the use of encryption, such as the Secure Socket Layer (SSL) protocol.

Use of Cookies

Bullen Tea uses "cookies" to help you personalize your online experience. A cookie is a text file that is placed on your hard disk by a Web page server. Cookies cannot be used to run programs or deliver viruses to your computer. Cookies are uniquely assigned to you, and can only be read by a web server in the domain that issued the cookie to you.

One of the primary purposes of cookies is to provide a convenience feature to save you time. For example, if you personalize Bullen Tea's pages, or register with Bullen Tea sites or services, a cookie helps Bullen Tea to recall your specific information on subsequent visits. This simplifies the process of recording your personal information, such as billing addresses, preferred email address, and so on. When you return to Bullen Tea, the information you previously provided can be retrieved, so you can easily use the Bullen Tea features that you customized.

You have the ability to accept or decline cookies. Most Web browsers automatically accept cookies, but you can usually modify your browser setting to decline cookies if you prefer. If you choose to decline cookies, you may not be able to fully experience the interactive features of the Bullen Tea services or Web sites you visit.

Changes to this Statement

Bullen Tea will occasionally update this Privacy Statement to reflect company and customer feedback. When Bullen Tea posts changes to this Statement, you will see the word "updated" next to the Privacy Statement link on the front page of Bullen Tea. If there are material changes to this Statement or in how Bullen Tea will use your personal information, Bullen Tea will prominently post such changes prior to implementing the change. Bullen Tea encourages you to periodically review this Statement to be informed of how your information is being protected.

Contact Information

Bullen Tea welcomes your comments regarding this Privacy Statement. If you believe that Bullen Tea has not adhered to this Statement, please contact Bullen Tea by e-mail or postal mail.