Your Privacy Rights

What are your privacy rights?
Peking Duck House, NYC believes that electronic privacy is crucial to the ongoing success of the Internet as a service and commercial medium. The personal information we receive from our sites is used solely for our own business purposes. Peking Duck House, NYC does not sell, trade, or rent your personal information to others. We do not disclose information about your individual visits to our sites, or personal information that you provide to us, such as your name, address or email address to any outside parties except when we believe, in good faith, (i) that the law requires it, or (ii) that disclosure is necessary to protect the rights and property of Peking Duck House, NYC, our program participants or others.

What are "Internet Cookies" and do we use them on pekingduckhousenyc.com?
The designers of almost every major site use "internet cookies" because it makes it much easier to gather accurate information about the site's visitors. You should be glad to know that Peking Duck House, NYC.com does not use "cookies" on it's site, therefore this site will not collect any information about you without you knowing about it. Any information we collect is by your emails or submissions only.

Your Consent
By using our Web site you consent to the collection and use of any contact information provided by yourself to Peking Duck House, NYC. If we decide to change our privacy policy, we will post these changes on this page. You should visit this page periodically to review the privacy policy.

What Is Personal Information and What Is Aggregate Information?
Personal information is information about you that uniquely identifies you, and is called in this policy "Personally Identifiable Information." Personally Identifiable Information does NOT include aggregated demographical information that cannot uniquely identify you specifically. For instance, your Internet browser, the web pages that appear to be most frequently visited and similar information is not Personally Identifiable Information because we cannot identify you from that information alone.

What Personally Identifiable Information Does pekingduckhousenyc.com Collect, How Does It Use It and When Does It Disclose It?
pekingduckhousenyc.com does not collect personally identifiable information. However, on those the areas of the web site in which users may send 1. a comic or 2. a postcard to someone users are asked to enter their first name as well as the recipient's e-mail address. Users also may submit a message to the recipient of the comic or postcard. The information provided is used by pekingduckhousenyc.com to process the request. We will send an e-mail to the recipient indicating by first name that you have invited them to either view the postcard or comic that you have sent to them. This e-mail will reveal to your friend your first name and direct the friend to a URL, which contains the selected postcard or comic. All information collected to process this one-time request from you is deleted immediately as soon as the request is processed and not permanently stored by pekingduckhousenyc.com. To protect your privacy, you are strongly encouraged not to place any Personal Identifiable Information in the body of the message to your friend, and to only use your first name.

What Aggregate (non-personal information) Does pekingduckhousenyc.com Collect, How Does It Use It and When Does It Disclose It?
pekingduckhousenyc.com does not collect any aggregate information about visitors to this site.

Does pekingduckhousenyc.com Link To Other Web Sites and Does It Control the Information Practices of Those Sites?
pekingduckhousenyc.com links to many third-party web sites. pekingduckhousenyc.com does not share any Personally Identifiable Information with any of those web sites. In each of these instances, the information practices of those third-party sites are NOT controlled or monitored by us. You should be aware that these third parties may have very different information practices than pekingduckhousenyc.com. To understand your privacy options, we strongly recommend that you read those third parties' privacy policies.

Is Your Personal Information Secure?
We use our best efforts to ensure the security of personal information submitted by you. As stated above, we immediately delete from our files the information supplied by you once we have completed your request to send a comic strip or a postcard.

pekingduckhousenyc.com may collect email addresses and other personally identifiable data about visitors when such data is voluntarily submitted to pekingduckhousenyc.com - for example, when visitors send us email. Peking Duck House, NYC does not sell or otherwise disclose such information outside the company. We use such information to better understand visitors' use of pekingduckhousenyc.com and to support the transactions made on pekingduckhousenyc.com. We may use email addresses and other personally-identifiable information to contact visitors who communicate with us. For example, we reply to email questions from visitors via email.

This policy is effective as of November 1, 2004. Any change will be posted at the earliest possible time.

The pekingduckhousenyc.com web site is intended for domestic viewers and is consequently directed towards residents of the United States.