The Starbucks name and reputation were built on a foundation of trust. Therefore, this online privacy statement tells you about the information Starbucks collects through the services available on our web site, www.starbucks.com.hk (the "Site"), how we use that information and how you can opt out of certain uses of information we may collect. By using our services and accessing our Site, you are consenting to the information collection and use practices described in this statement, as modified from time to time by us. If we decide to change our privacy statement, we will post a new statement on our Site and change the date at the top of the statement. Therefore, we encourage you to check the date of our privacy statement whenever you visit this Site for any updates or changes. Please see our Terms of Use for a more detailed legal explanation of our general online policies.

Information Collection and Use

- Starbucks collects personally identifying information when you register for a Starbucks account, when you use certain Starbucks services, when you visit Starbucks pages, and when you enter promotions or sweepstakes.

- When you register with Starbucks, we ask for your name, email address, birth date, gender, occupation, salary, and personal interests. Once you register with Starbucks and sign in to our services, you are not anonymous to us.

- Our Site may have chat rooms, discussion boards, online forums and other interactive technologies that allow individual comments and messages to be tied to a guest's name or e-mail address. Any information you post in such forums is public information and Starbucks can not control what uses third parties may make of personal information you share in such forums.

- Starbucks also automatically receives and records information on our server logs from your browser including your IP address, Starbucks cookie information and the page you requested.

- Starbucks uses information for three general purposes: to customize the advertising and content you see, based on the details given by you at registration and your activity at Starbucks, to fulfill your requests for certain products and services, and to contact you about specials, new products and for customer feedback.

Information Sharing and Disclosure

- Starbucks will not sell or rent your personally identifiable information to anyone.

- Starbucks may send personally identifiable information about you to other companies or people when:

  • We have your consent to share the information;
  • We need to share your information to provide the product or service you have requested;
  • We need to send the information to companies who work on behalf of Starbucks to provide a product or service to you; (Unless we tell you differently, these companies do not have any right to use the personally identifiable information we provide to them beyond what is necessary to assist us.);
  • We respond to subpoenas, court orders, any legitimate request by authorities with which we must comply or legal process; or
  • We find that your actions on our web sites violate the Starbucks Terms of Use or any of our usage guidelines for specific products or services.

    • - Starbucks may transfer information about you if Starbucks acquires, or is acquired by or merged with, another company. In this event, Starbucks will notify you before information about you is transferred and becomes subject to a different privacy policy.

    Cookies

    - Starbucks may set and access Starbucks cookies on your computer.

    - Starbucks allows other companies that are presenting advertisements on some of our pages to set and access their cookies on your computer. Other companies' use of their cookies is subject to their own privacy policies, not this one. Advertisers or other companies do not have access to Starbucks cookies.

    - Starbucks uses web beacons to access our cookies within our network of web sites, in connection with Starbucks products and services and to track your activities on our advertisers websites.

    Your Ability to Edit and Delete Your Account Information and Preferences

    - Starbucks gives you the ability to edit your Starbucks Account Information and preferences at any time, including whether you want Starbucks to contact you about specials, new products and for customer feedback.

    - You may request deletion of your Starbucks account by visiting our Account Deletion page, verifying your password once more and confirming your choice to terminate the account.

    Security

    - Your Starbucks Account Information is password-protected for your privacy and security.

    - In certain areas Starbucks uses industry-standard SSL-encryption to protect data transmissions.

    Children

    Our Site is a general audience site that is not designed nor intended to collect personal information from children under the age of 13. To respect the privacy of children and to comply with the Children's Online Privacy Protection Act, children under the age of 13 should not provide any personal information on this Site. We ask that parents supervise their children while online.

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