Privacy Policy
At CookingZines.com, protecting your privacy and making your online experience safe and satisfying is of utmost important to us.
Because we gather certain types of information about our users, we feel you should fully understand the terms and conditions surrounding the capture and use of that information. This privacy statement discloses what information we gather and how we use it.
Definition of the Information CookingZines.com gathers
CookingZines.com gathers the following types of information about users:
· Information that users provide through optional, voluntary submissions. These are voluntary submissions in which the information is used to fulfill your request. This includes requests to receive electronic newsletters, post reviews, or to communicate with us.
· Information CookingZines.com gathers through aggregated tracking information derived mainly by tallying page views throughout our sites. This information allows us to better tailor our content to readers' needs.
CookingZines.com May Gather User Information In The Following Processes:
Optional Voluntary Information
We offer the following which require some type of voluntary submission of personal information by users:
1. Electronic newsletters
We will offer a free electronic newsletter to users. CookingZines.com gathers the names and email addresses of users who voluntarily subscribe. Users may remove themselves from this mailing list by following a link provided in the newsletters.
2. "E-mail to a friend" Service
Our site users can choose to electronically forward a link, page, or documents to someone else by clicking "e-mail to a friend". The user must provide their email address, as well as that of the recipient. This information is used only in the case of transmission errors and, of course, to let the recipient know who sent the email. The information is not used for any other purpose.
3. Polling
We may offer interactive polls to users so they can easily share their opinions with other users and see what our audience thinks about specific types of content. Opinions or other responses to polls are aggregated and are not identifiable to any particular user. CookingZines.com may use a system to "tag" users after they have voted, so they can vote only once on a particular question. This tag is not correlated with information about individual users.
4. Surveys
CookingZines.com may occasionally conduct user surveys to better target our content to our audience. We sometimes share the aggregated demographic information in these surveys with our sponsors, advertisers and partners. We never share any of this information about specific individuals with any third party.
5. Magazine Reviews
Users may chose to submit their own magazine review. The information collected is used to display their review on the website along with the reviewer’s name and location.
CHILDREN
Consistent with the Federal Children's Online Privacy Protection Act of 1998 (COPPA), we will never knowingly request personally identifiable information from anyone under the age of 13 without requesting parental consent.
USAGE TRACKING
CookingZines.com tracks user traffic patterns throughout our site. However, we do not correlate this information with data about individual users. CookingZines.com does break down overall usage statistics according to a user's domain name, browser type, and MIME type by reading this information from the browser string (information contained in every user's browser).
We use tracking information to determine which areas of our sites users like and don't like based on traffic to those areas. We do not track what individual users read, but rather how well each page performs overall. This helps us continue to build a better service for you.
COOKIES
We may place a text file called a "cookie" in the browser files of your computer. The cookie itself does not contain personal information although it will enable us to relate your use of this site to information that you have specifically and knowingly provided. But the only personal information a cookie can contain is information you supply yourself. A cookie can't read data off your hard disk or read cookie files created by other sites. CookingZines.com uses cookies to track user traffic patterns (as described above).
You can refuse cookies by turning them off in your browser. If you've set your browser to warn you before accepting cookies, you will receive the warning message with each cookie. You do not need to have cookies turned on to use this site. However, you may not be able to participate in certain interactive features of the site.
USE OF INFORMATION
CookingZines.com uses any information voluntarily given by our users to enhance their experience in our network of sites, whether to provide interactive or personalized elements on the sites or to better prepare future content based on the interests of our users.
As stated above, we use information that users voluntarily provide in order to send out electronic newsletters and to enable users to participate in magazine reviews, polls, and surveys. We send out newsletters to subscribers on an infrequent basis (depending on the newsletter), and occasionally send out special editions when we think subscribers might be particularly interested in something we are doing.
CookingZines.com does not sell, rent or lease its customer lists to third parties. CookingZines.com may, from time to time, contact you on behalf of external business partners about a particular offering that may be of interest to you. In those cases, your unique personally identifiable information (name and email) is not transferred to the third party.
We use tracking information to determine which areas of our site users like and don't like based on traffic to those areas. We do not track what individual users read, but rather how well each page performs overall. This helps us continue to build a better service for you.
SHARING OF THE INFORMATION
CookingZines.com uses the above-described information to tailor our content to suit your needs and to help better understand our audience's demographics. This is essential to keeping our service free. We will not share information about individual users with any third party, except to comply with applicable law or valid legal process or to protect the personal safety of our users or the public.
SECURITY
CookingZines.com operates secure data networks protected by industry standard firewall and password protection systems. Our security and privacy policies are periodically reviewed and enhanced as necessary and only authorized ndividuals have access to the information provided by our customers.
OPT-OUT POLICY
We give users options wherever necessary and practical. Such choices include:
· Opting not to register to receive our electronic newsletters.
· Opting not to participate in certain interactive areas, which completely alleviates the need to gather any personally identifiable information from our users
YOUR CONSENT
By using this site, you consent to the collection and use of this information by CookingZines.com. If we decide to change our privacy policy, we will post those changes on this page so that you are always aware of what information we collect, how we use it, and under what circumstances we disclose it.
Contact Information
CookingZines.com welcomes your comments regarding this Statement of Privacy. If you believe that CookingZines.com has not adhered to this Statement, please contact CookingZines.com at editor@CookingZines.com.