The Gluten-Free Mall® Privacy Notice
We at The Gluten-Free Mall® understand
just how much you care about the personal information that we collect from you
while doing business together. We assure you that all information will be used
prudently and sensibly, and will be protected with the highest level of Internet
security. This notice describes our privacy policy. By visiting The Gluten-Free Mall®, you are accepting the practices described in this Privacy Notice.
Information about our customers
is an important part of our business, and we are not in the business of selling
it to others. We do not sell, rent or give away our mail lists or e-mail lists
to anyone. Your personal information will only be shared with third parties
for the following reasons:
- Agents: We employ other companies
and individuals to perform functions on our behalf. Examples include order
fulfillment, delivering packages, sending postal mail and e-mail, removing
repetitive information from customer lists, analyzing data, providing marketing
assistance, processing credit card payments, and providing customer service.
They have access to personal information needed to perform their functions,
but may not use it for any other purposes.
- With Your Consent: Other
than as set out above, you will receive notice when information about you
might go to third parties, and you will have an opportunity to choose not
to share the information.
How Secure Is The Information That We Collect From You?
- We work to protect the security
of your information during transmission by using Secure Sockets Layer (SSL)
software, which encrypts information you input.
- Using encryption technology, we
transmit the entire credit card number to the appropriate credit card company
during order processing when you order from the Gluten-Free Mall®.
- It is important for you to protect
against unauthorized access to your password and to your computer. Be sure
to sign off when finished using a shared computer.
The Gluten-Free Mall® Disclaimer
For the safety of all Gluten-Free Mall® customers we do not re-sell returned food items, regardless of their
condition, therefore all sales at The Gluten-Free Mall® are final.
The Gluten-Free Mall® only
accepts pre-authorized returns for the following reasons:
- The item was damaged during shipment;
- The item's expiration date lapsed by the time it was received;
- The item has spoiled or is otherwise defective.
Ingredients for all foods sold
at The Gluten-Free Mall® are posted on each product's page, and it is
a customer's responsibility to read and understand them, and to select only
those items that are safe for their specific diet. The gluten-free status and
any other claim regarding the ingredients of any product sold at The Gluten-Free Mall® are made solely by the manufacturer.
Warranty Disclaimer. THIS
WEB SITE AND ALL OF THE INFORMATION IT CONTAINS ARE PROVIDED "AS IS"
WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY KIND, WHETHER EXPRESS OR IMPLIED. INFORMATION IS BEING
SUPPLIED ONLY AS OF THE DATE ENTERED. IT MAY CONTAIN GENERALIZATIONS, TECHNICAL
INACCURACIES, OR TYPOGRAPHICAL ERRORS. UPDATES, PRICE CHANGES AND CORRECTIONS
MAY BE MADE FROM TIME TO TIME WITHOUT NOTICE. THE GLUTEN-FREE MALL® DISCLAIMS
ALL IMPLIED WARRANTIES, INCLUDING, WITHOUT LIMITATIONS, IMPLIED WARRANTIES OF
MERCHANTABILITY, FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE, AND NON-INFRINGEMENT.
Limitation of Liabilities.
UNDER NO CIRCUMSTANCES WILL GLUTEN-FREE MALL® BE LIABLE TO ANY PARTY FOR
ANY DIRECT, INDIRECT, SPECIAL, INCIDENTAL, CONSEQUENTIAL, OR OTHER DAMAGES BASED
ON ANY USE OF THIS WEB SITE OR ANY OTHER WEB SITE TO WHICH THIS SITE IS LINKED,
INCLUDING, WITHOUT LIMITATION, ANY LOST PROFITS, BUSINESS INTERRUPTION, OR LOSS
OF PROGRAMS OR INFORMATION, EVEN IF GLUTEN-FREE MALL® HAS BEEN SPECIFICALLY
ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF SUCH DAMAGES.
No Rights or License. INFORMATION
PROVIDED HEREIN IS FOR THE CONVENIENCE OF OUR WEB SITE VISITORS, AND IS NOT
BEING PUBLISHED FOR COMMERCIAL USE. NO RIGHTS ARE GRANTED TO USERS IN ANY GLUTEN-FREE
MALL® TRADEMARKS, COPYRIGHTS OR OTHER INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY OR TECHNICAL
DATA. USE OF THE GLUTEN-FREE MALL® WEB SITE OR ANY INFORMATION IT CONTAINS
IS AT THE SOLE RISK OF THE USER.
Regarding the Gluten-Free Status of Products Sold at the Gluten-Free Mall®
There is not a consensus between
the major support groups in the USA, Canada and Europe as to which grains/ingredients
are safe for people with celiac disease, and which are not. The Gluten-Free
Mall® has chosen to follow the most broadly accepted gluten-free standards,
which are contained in the Codex
Alimentarius. Codex Alimentarius is a Geneva-based international organization
jointly run by the World Health Organization (WHO) and the Food and Agriculture
Organization (FAO) of the United Nations. Its aim is to establish worldwide
standards for foods in the broadest sense. Food legislation in many countries,
including in the United States, is based on Codex Standards. The Joint FAO/WHO
Food Standards Program Codex Committee on Nutrition and Foods for Special Dietary
Uses at their twenty first session in Berlin, Germany in September 1998 drafted
a revised standard for gluten-free foods. This statement has served at the guideline
defining which foods may declared “gluten-free.”
Section 1.1: “This standard applies to foodstuffs and
ingredients which have been especially processed or prepared to meet the dietary
needs of persons intolerant to gluten".
It goes on in section 2.1 to state that “Gluten-Free”
foods are food stuffs so described:
- a) consisting of or made only from
ingredients which do not contain any prolamins from wheat or all Triticum
species such as spelt, kamut, or durum, wheat, barley, oats, spelt or their
crossbred varieties with a gluten level not exceeding 20 parts per million
(ppm): or
- b) consisting of ingredients from
wheat, rye, barley, oats, spelt or their crossbred varieties, which have
been rendered “gluten-free”; with a gluten level not exceeding
200ppm: or
- c) any mixture of the two ingredients
as in a) and b) with a gluten level not exceeding 200ppm.
In section 3.1 of the report it states:
“For the purpose of this
standard ‘gluten-free’ means that the total content of gluten in
products defined in 2.1a) shall not exceed 20ppm, that the total content of
gluten from wheat, rye, barley, oats or crossbred varieties of these does not
exceed 200ppm in these food stuffs or ingredients defined in 2.1b) and c) on
a dry matter basis. The prolamin content of liquid food products is in the same
way expressed in ppm of the original product."
All products sold at The Gluten-Free
Mall® fit into category "a" and are not made from wheat or any
gluten containing grains. It is the customers sole responsibility to
read and understand the ingredients in each product that they purchase on our
site, and to know what is safe for their diets.
We hope you enjoy shopping at the
Gluten-Free Mall®! |
