Shipping Information

• Orders are shipped from San Diego, CA Monday-Thursday. 
• In an effort to avoid possible heat damage associated with shipments in transit over the weekend, we do not ship Friday-Sunday.
• We only ship within the 48 continental states.
• Please note that shipping charges are per recipient. 
• All packages will be shipped via UPS or US Postal Service.

Daily Order Cut Off Times

• Orders placed after 10 am PST on Monday, Tuesday or Wednesday, will be processed on the following business day. 
• Orders placed after 10 am PST on Thursdays will be processed on Friday and shipped on Monday.
• Orders placed anytime on Friday, Saturday or Sunday will be processed on Monday.

Shipping Alcohol:

• Due to shipping laws, we are not able to ship products containing alcohol to the following states: Alabama, Arkansas, Delaware, Kentucky, Maryland, Massachusetts, Mississippi, Montana, New Hampshire, New Jersey, Oklahoma, Rhode Island, South Dakota, Utah, and Vermont.
• UPS will make up to 3 delivery attempts and requires an adult signature (with id) for any delivery containing alcohol

Warm Weather Shipping

• If the weather is 72 degrees or higher between our factory and the delivery location, we cannot guarantee the integrity of the product if Ground, 3 Day Select or 2 Day Air shipping are selected. 
• In this case, Overnight shipping may be required in order to prevent the chocolate from melting.
• We do provide ice packs with our shipments during warm weather. They will protect the chocolate for 24 hours.
• Weather permitting, Ground, 3 Day Select, or 2 Day Air are usually acceptable shipping options from November to March.

Out of Stock Products:

• If a product is not in stock, or if your order requires a large quantity of products to be produced, you will be contacted to establish a new ship date.

Saturday Delivery

• We do not offer Saturday deliveries through our website. If Saturday delivery is required for your order, please call 888.635.1444 and a Chocolate Concierge will be happy to assist you.

Shipping to Post Office Boxes

• In order to ship to a Post Office Box, you must spell out “Post Office Box” in the shipping address section and you must provide a street address for the Post Office Box.  Ship “P.O. Box”.
• We cannot ship alcohol to a Post Office Box.

Returns & Exchanges

We offer a satisfaction guarantee for any products purchased at a Chuao Chocolatier boutique & café or on chuaochocolatier.com. For returns or exchanges, please contact a Chocolate Concierge at 888.635.1444 or [email protected].

Personal information

If you choose to provide your personal information, it will be stored and protected appropriately. Some parts of our website let you voluntarily provide personal information, such as your name or e-mail address. For example, you can provide us with your contact information to sign up for e-mail alerts or to post comments to our blog. We do not collect this information when you visit our website unless you choose to provide it to us. When you provide it to us, we only use it for the purposes of communicating with you and/or furthering our consumer protection activities.

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Legal Information

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