privacy policy

Soma Beverage Company (Metroelectro/Metromint) recognizes the importance of protecting the privacy of personal information collected from users of our Web site. By accessing our Web site, you are assenting to the terms of this Privacy Statement and the terms of the user agreement.

INFORMATION COLLECTION AND USE

Metroelectro collects personally identifiable information, such as name, zip code, and email address from numerous areas on our Web site. We collect personal information in order to respond and fulfill your requests for our products and to better meet customer needs. Currently, we do not sell, share, or rent personal information collected from our users to third parties. However, we reserve our right to do so in the future. In addition, we may share your personal information with business partners that we have contracted with to help process orders and deliver products and services that you have requested.

Financial Information:

When you purchase a product on our Web site, we need you to provide your name, email, address, billing address, shipping address, telephone number and credit card information. This information is used for billing purposes and to fill your orders.

Metroelectro will use your financial information to bill you for products and services or otherwise process your transaction. By making a purchase on the Metroelectro site, you consent to our providing your financial information to our service providers and to such third parties as we determine is necessary to process your transactions. These third parties may include the credit card companies and banking institutions used to process the transaction.

Contests and Promotions:

When entering a contest or other promotional feature, Metroelectro may ask for the user's contact information (such as name, address and email address) and demographic information (such as zip code). The contact information will be used so we are able to administer the contest and promotions and to notify winners. The demographic information will be used for purposes of monitoring or improving the Web site. Participation in these contests and promotions is completely voluntary.

Newsletters:

If a user wishes to subscribe to our newsletter, we ask for contact information, such as name and email address. Users who no longer wish to receive our newsletter may indicate their preference by replying "unsubscribe" in the subject line and sending it back to us. Or, a user may email us directly at web@metromint.com and ask to be removed from the newsletter mailing list.

Photo Submissions:

Metroelectro provides users with an opportunity to submit their ideas, photos and other artwork for display on the Web site. The submission of any items to Metroelectro will be used at the discretion of Metroelectro and submission is a consent of unlimited useage.

SECURITY

Metroelectro takes precautions to protect the personal information we collect from our users. For example, sensitive information, such as credit card numbers, are collected on a Web page enhanced with secure sockets layer protocol to protect the confidentiality of the data. However, no transmission of data over the Internet or any other public network can be guaranteed to be 100% secure. Although we make reasonable efforts to safeguard your personal information once we receive it, we cannot warrant the security of information you transmit to us.

LINKS

This Web site contains links to other sites. Please be aware that we are not responsible for the privacy practices of other Web sites that you may link to from the metroelectro.com Web site. We ask our users to be aware that when they enter other Web sites they will be subject to privacy practices that may differ from ours. We encourage you to read the privacy statement of each Web site that you link to and that collects personally identifiable information.

CONSENT AND NOTIFICATION OF CHANGES

By using our Web site, you consent to the collection and use of personal information as described above by Metroelectro.

FEEDBACK

Metroelectro welcomes your questions, comments, and concerns about privacy. Please send any and all feedback pertaining to this, or any other issue to web@metromint.com.