Privacy Statement of Connexions Trading International Inc. o/a Tea Connexions

Modern information and communication technologies play a fundamental role in the activities of an organisation like Connexions Trading International Inc. o/a Tea Connexions. We are based in Canada.

Our principal activities are: Import/Export, Tea Distribution, Web Design, and Graphic Design.

Our privacy policy covers Connexions Trading International Inc. o/a Tea Connexions and its Web sites.

Organisation Name:
Connexions Trading International Inc. o/a Tea Connexions
Address: P.O. Box 580 STN Main
City, Zip: Kingston , K7L 4X1
State: ON
Country: Canada
Controller: Sanjay Gupta
Web Sites(s): www.teaconnexions.com; www.leaftea.com; www.healthycup.com; www.tea4free.com; and www.leafteabiz.com

You can access our Web sites home page and browse our sites without disclosing your personal data. Disclosure is voluntary and only used to request information, enter contests, or to purchase products or services.

ORDER

To complete an order, our visitors must share with us contact information (name, e-mail and shipping address) and billing information (credit card number and expiration date). This information is used to to process and ship your orders.

CONTESTS AND NEWSLETTERS

We invite visitors to enter the Tea4Free Contest (www.tea4free.com) and Healthy Cup (www.healthycup.com) contest, and ask for e-mail contact information to assist in announcing winners and the distribution of our newsletter.

ORGANIC TEA CLUB (www.healthycup.com)

We offer the organic tea club at www.healthycup.com and may offer more clubs in the near future. The club allows our customers to receive teas automatically over a period of time. These are processed as any other order. Again, all information gathered is for the sole purpose of fulfilling an order, and is not used for any other purpose or shared with any third parties.

SPECIAL OFFERS

Our customers will occasionally receive information on products, services, special deals, and a newsletter. Out of respect for the privacy of our customers we present the option to not receive these types of communications. Please see the Choice/Opt-out section below.

On rare occasions it may be necessary to send out a strictly service-related announcement. For instance, if our service is temporarily suspended for maintenance we might send you an email. Generally, users may not opt-out of these communications. However, these communications are not promotional in nature, and are extremely infrequent.

COOKIES

A cookie is a piece of personal information only used to facilitate the processing of orders on www.healthycup.com and www.leaftea.com.

LOG FILES

Logs are the information created and stored by the server and include such data as a visitor's IP (internet protocol) address, browser type, ISP (internet service provider), referring/exit pages, platform type, and date/time stamp. This information is used to analyze macro traffic trends, administer the site, and gather broad demographic information for aggregate use. None of the information collected in this matter may be used to ascertain the personal identity of any of our visitors.

WITH WHOM THIS INFORMATION IS SHARED

Tea Connexions is the sole owner of any information collected. We do not sell or rent this information to any third party. The only companies with whom some information is shared are the companies we use to ship goods and Pay Pal.

Pay Pal enables us to bill users for goods and services. The shipping companies and Pay Pal do not retain, share, store or use personally identifiable information for any secondary purposes.

HOW YOU MAY AFFECT THE COLLECTION, USED AND DISTRIBUTION OF YOUR INFORMATION

CORRECTION/UPDATING INFORMATION

If your personal information changes or if you no longer desire our service, send and e-mail to orders@teaconnexions.com.

CHOICE/OPT OUT

We respect your privacy and give you an opportunity to opt-out of receiving our periodic announcements of sales, promotions and newsletter publication. The unsubscribe links are contained in every e-mail you receive from us.

WHAT SECURITY PROCEDURES ARE IN PLACE TO PROTECT THE LOSS, MISUSE OR ALTERATION OF YOUR PERSONAL INFORMATION

Tea Connexions takes every precaution to protect our customers' and visitors' information. When customers submit sensitive information via our site, your information is protected both on and off line.

All sensitive information (such as credit card numbers) submitted on our site is encrypted and is protected with the best encryption software in the industry - SSL. You may visually verify that the site is secure by looking for the closed lock icon at the bottom or top of your browser.

While we use SSL encryption to protect sensitive information online, we also do everything in our power to protect user-information off-line. All of our visitors' information, not just the sensitive information mentioned above, is restricted in our offices. Only employees who need the information to perform a specific job are granted access to personally identifiable information. And these employees are kept up-to-date on our security and privacy practices.

If you have any questions about the security at our site, please send an email to orders@teaconnexions.com. We will be happy to answer your questions.

NOTIFICATION OF CHANGES

If we decide to change our privacy policy, we will promptly post those changes on this page. We want our visitors to be aware of what information we collect, how we use it, and under what circumstances, if any, we disclose it. If at any point we decide to use personally identifiable information in a manner different from that stated at the time it was collected, we will notify users by way of an email. Users will have a choice as to whether or not we use their information in this different manner. However, if you have deactivated your account information, you will not be contacted, nor will your information be used in this new manner. We will use information in accordance with the privacy policy under which the information was collected.