Maria Teresa's Kitchen appreciates and respects our customers' right to privacy and we have posted this Privacy Policy to describe our practices regarding the collection and use of information. Maria Teresas Kitchen does not collect personally identifiable information from individuals on this website unless they provide it to us voluntarily and knowingly.

We collect the following information about you if order from us via this website: name, address, phone number, email address, billing information including credit card number and expiration date, as well as the names, addresses and phone numbers of gift recipients. We use your name, address, phone number, billing information/credit card information to process your order or in accordance with this Privacy Policy. If we have trouble processing an order, we will use this information to contact you. The email address you provide is used for internal purposes, such as confirming and tracking your order or otherwise as described in this Privacy Policy. We may also contact you and gift recipients via email or regular mail from time to time to provide our latest news and product information. Please let us know by sending an email to tciccarini@yahoo.com if you do not wish to be contacted via email or regular mail.

We share personally identifiable information only as described below:

We use an outside company to ship orders and a credit card processing company to bill users for goods and services. To our knowledge, these companies do not retain, share, store or use personally identifiable information for any other purposes.

We may employ other companies and individuals to perform functions on our behalf, including, but not limited to fulfilling orders, delivering packages, sending mail and email, analyzing data, providing marketing assistance, providing website and software development and support, providing search results and links, processing credit card payments, and providing customer service. Such companies and individuals may have access to personally identifiable information needed to perform their functions, but may not use it for other purposes.

In certain instances we may disclose your personally identifiable information when we have reason to believe that it is necessary to identify, contact or bring legal action against persons or entities who may be causing injury to you, Maria Teresas Kitchen , or others. We may also disclose your personally identifiable information when we believe the law requires it. In the event of a merger, consolidation, or sale or transfer of all or substantially all of our company or its assets, it is possible that all personally identifiable information collected by our website will be transferred to the purchaser or the new company.

Other than as set out above, you will receive notice when personally identifiable information about you might go to third parties, and you will have an opportunity to choose not to share the information.

Maria Teresas Kitchen does not sell products for purchase by children. Individuals under the age of 18 may only use this website with the involvement of a parent or guardian.

If we decide to change our privacy policy, we will post those changes to the Privacy Policy on this web page. We reserve the right to modify this Privacy Policy at any time, so please review it frequently. If we make material changes to this Privacy Policy, we will notify you on this web page, by email, or by means of a notice on our home page. All changes will go into effect on the date that is posted in our Privacy Policy. The new Privacy Policy will apply to all past and current users of this website and will replace any prior Privacy Policy.

If you have any questions regarding our Privacy Policy or if your personally identifiable information changes, please contact us at tciccarini@yahoo.com.

This Privacy Policy is effective as of January 20, 2009.