Website Privacy Statement
Chiquita and Fresh Express (We or Us) respect the privacy of every individual
who visits our web sites. This privacy statement covers all sites promulgated by
Chiquita or Fresh Express, as well as its subsidiaries and affiliates, and outlines
the information that we may collect and how we will use that information. We reserve
the right to change this privacy statement at any time by posting a new privacy
statement at this location. We will put a notice of any change on our homepage.
Therefore, you are responsible for periodically checking the privacy statement for
changes.
Information Collection and Use
We will not collect any personally identifiable information about you such as
your name, address, telephone number or e-mail address unless you provide it to
us voluntarily and approve its use.
If you do not want your personally identifiable information collected, please do
not submit it to us. When you do provide us with personally identifiable information,
we may use that information to better understand your needs and how we can improve
our products and services. We may also use that information to contact you, for
example, to answer a question or respond to a comment you have submitted. In the
case of requests for employment, we will use your information to assess your application,
to contact references, and for any other reasonable purposes in connection with
your application. However, we will not provide your information to third parties
without your consent, except as required by law, as explained in the Information
Sharing section below.
To conduct transactions through our online store (available on some web sites),
we may collect certain billing and financial information. Such information may include,
without limitation, credit card information. We do not share your financial information
with any third party without your consent, except to a court or governmental agency
if permitted by law, as authorized by a court of competent jurisdiction or to the
limited extent described below under Certain Third Party Transactions.
In some cases, we may collect information that is not personally identifiable. Examples
of this type of information include the type of Internet browser or computer operating
system you use, the date and time you visited our web site, the pages you accessed,
and the name of the web site from which you linked to our web site. We use this
information to analyze trends and gather broad demographic information for aggregate
use. This information is not linked to any personally identifiable information.
Please note that if you disable cookies (see next paragraph) you may not be able
to access all of the pages or services on the web site.
Cookies
We may use cookies pieces of data stored on your computer tied to information
about you on any one of our websites. This information will be in the form of
a cookie or similar file and will help us enhance your web experience by saving
time on the web site. With most Internet browsers, you can erase cookies from your
computer hard drive, block all cookies or receive a warning before a cookie is stored.
Please refer to your browser instructions or help screen to learn more about these
functions.
Information Sharing
Though we make every effort to preserve user privacy, we may need to disclose information
when required by law or to cooperate with law enforcement officials. In such cases,
we will have a good faith belief that such action is necessary to comply with a
current judicial proceeding, a court order or legal process served on our company
or that it is in the best interests of us and/or our users to cooperate with such
a request.
Certain Third Party Transactions
We may disclose personal information to third parties we engage to provide services
that involve data processing on our behalf. Also, if some or all of the assets of
our company, including your personally identifiable information, are sold to a third
party, such third party will be entitled to use the personal information disclosed
by users of this web site, but only in accordance with the terms of this privacy
statement.
Security
Our web sites have security measures in place to protect against the loss, misuse
and alteration of the information under our control. However, it is not possible
to guarantee the security or integrity of information you disclose online since
a sufficiently powerful attack from an unauthorized third party could compromise
your personally identifiable information.
The nature of our business and the reach of the internet is global. You agree, by
submitting your personally identifiable information to us, that we may transfer,
process or store it anywhere in the world in accordance with the terms of this privacy
statement.
Childrens Online Privacy Protection Act
We do not offer or provide products and services for children. If you are under
13, you may use our site only with involvement of a parent or guardian. We do not
intend to collect personal information from children. If your child has submitted
personal information and you would like to request that such information be removed,
you may contact us in one of the ways indicated below, and we will honor your request.
Links to Non-Chiquita Sites
This web site contains links to other web sites hosted and controlled by third parties
which we do not control. Please be aware that we are not responsible for the privacy
practices of such third party web sites. We encourage you to be aware when you leave
our web site and to read the privacy statements of every web site that collects
personally identifiable information. This privacy statement applies solely to information
collected by our web sites.
How to Contact Us
If you have any questions regarding our privacy statement, or if you have submitted
personally identifiable information through one of our web sites and would like
access to such information or to have that information corrected, please contact
our Corporate Compliance Officer at:
Postal address:
Corporate Compliance Officer
Chiquita Brands International, Inc.
250 East Fifth Street
Cincinnati, OH 45202 USA
Main switchboard:
+513-784-8000
E-mail: corporatecompliance@chiquita.com