Easy Recipe Kitchen PRIVACY STATEMENT
Easy Recipe
Kitchen,recognizes the importance of maintaining privacy of our members, and share
your concerns regarding the use of fair information practices. Easy Recipe Kitchen, will
make every effort to protect your privacy. This privacy statement discloses the privacy
practices for Nancyskitchen.com
Information Collection and Use
Easy Recipe Kitchen, is the sole owner of the information collected on this site. We will
not sell, share, or rent this information to others in ways different from what is
disclosed in this statement. We collect information from our users at several different
points on our website.
Registration
In order to use this website, a user must first complete the registration form. During
registration a user is required to give their contact information (such as name and email
address). This information is used to contact the user about the services on our site for
which they have expressed interest. It is optional for the user to provide demographic
information (such as income level and gender), and unique identifiers (such as social
security number), but encouraged so we can provide a more personalized experience on our
site.
Order
We request information from the user on our order form. Here a user must provide contact
information (like name and shipping address) and financial information (like credit card
number, expiration date). This information is used for billing purposes and to fill
customer's orders. If we have trouble processing an order, this contact information is
used to get in touch with the user.
Cookies
A cookie is a piece of data stored on the user's hard drive containing information about
the user. Usage of a cookie is in no way linked to any personally identifiable information
while on our site. Once the user closes their browser, the cookie simply terminates. For
instance, by setting a cookie on our site, the user would not have to log in a password
more than once, thereby saving time while on our site. If a user rejects the cookie, they
may still use our site. The only drawback to this is that the user will be limited in some
areas of our site. For example, the user will not be able to participate in any of our
Sweepstakes, Contests or monthly Drawings that take place. Cookies can also enable us to
track and target the interests of our users to enhance the experience on our site.
Some of our
business partners use cookies on our site (for example, advertisers). However, we have no
access to or control over these cookies.
Log Files
We use IP addresses to analyze trends, administer the site, track user's movement, and
gather broad demographic information for aggregate use. IP addresses are not linked to
personally identifiable information.
Sharing
We will share aggregated demographic information with our partners and advertisers. This
is not linked to any personal information that can identify any individual person.
We use an outside
shipping company to ship orders, and a credit card processing company to bill users for
goods and services. These companies do not retain, share, store or use personally
identifiable information for any secondary purposes.
We partner with
another party to provide specific services. When the user signs up for these services, we
will share names, or other contact information that is necessary for the third party to
provide these services.
These parties are not allowed to use personally identifiable information except for the
purpose of providing these services.
Links
This web site contains links to other sites. Please be aware that we, Easy Recipe Kitchen,
LLC., are not responsible for the privacy practices of such other sites. We encourage our
users to be aware when they leave our site and to read the privacy statements of each and
every web site that collects personally identifiable information. This privacy statement
applies solely to information collected by this Web site.
Recipes
If a user wishes to subscribe to our newsletter, we ask for contact information such as
name and email address.
Surveys &
Contests
From time-to-time our site requests information from users via surveys or contests.
Participation in these surveys or contests is completely voluntary and the user therefore
has a choice whether or not to disclose this information. Information requested may
include contact information (such as name and shipping address), and demographic
information (such as zip code, age level). Contact information will be used to notify the
winners and award prizes. Survey information will be used for purposes of monitoring or
improving the use and satisfaction of this site.
Tell-A-Friend
If a user elects to use our referral service for informing a friend about our site, we ask
them for the friend's name and email address. Easy Recipe Kitchen, LLC. will automatically
send the friend a one-time email inviting them to visit the site. Easy Recipe Kitchen, LLC.
stores this information for the sole purpose of sending this one-time email. The friend
may contact Easy Recipe Kitchen, LLC. at Nancy@NancysKitchen.com to request the removal of
this information from their database.
Security
This website takes every precaution to protect our users' information. When users submit
sensitive information via the website, your information is protected both online and
off-line.
When our
registration/order form asks users to enter sensitive information (such as credit card
number and/or social security number), that information is encrypted and is protected with
the best encryption software in the industry - SSL. While on a secure page, such as our
order form, the lock icon on the bottom of Web browsers such as Netscape Navigator and
Microsoft Internet Explorer becomes locked, as opposed to un-locked, or open, when you are
just 'surfing'.
While we use SSL
encryption to protect sensitive information online, we also do everything in our power to
protect user-information off-line. All of our users' information, not just the sensitive
information mentioned above, is restricted in our offices. Only employees who need the
information to perform a specific job (for example, our billing clerk or a customer
service representative) are granted access to personally identifiable information. Our
employees must use password-protected screen-savers when they leave their desk. When they
return, they must re-enter their password to re-gain access to your information.
Furthermore, ALL employees are kept up-to-date on our security and privacy practices.
Every quarter, as well as any time new policies are added, our employees are notified
and/or reminded about the importance we place on privacy, and what they can do to ensure
our customers' information is protected. Finally, the servers that we store personally
identifiable information on are kept in a secure environment, behind a locked cage.
If you have any
questions about the security at any of our websites, you can send an email to security at
nancy@nancyskitchen.com.
Supplementation of Information
In order for this website to properly fulfill its obligation to our customers, it is
necessary for us to supplement the information we receive with information from 3rd party
sources.
For example, to
determine if our customers qualify for one of our credit cards, we use their name and
social security number to request a credit report. Once we determine a user's
credit-worthiness, this document is destroyed.
(or)
In order for this website to enhance its ability to tailor the site to an individual's
preference, we combine information about the purchasing habits of users with similar
information from our affiliate partners, to create a personalized user profile. When a
user makes a purchase from our affiliate partners, these companies collect and share that
purchase information with us so we can tailor the site to our users' preferences.
Special Offers
We send all new members a welcoming email to verify password and username. Established
members will occasionally receive information on products, services, special deals, and a
newsletter. Out of respect for the privacy of our users we present the option to not
receive these types of communications. Please see our choice and opt-out below.
Site and Service
Updates
We also send the user site and service announcement updates. Members are not able to
un-subscribe from service announcements, which contain important information about the
service. We communicate with the user to provide requested services and in regards to
issues relating to their account via email or phone.
Correction/Updating
Personal Information:
If a user's personally identifiable information changes (such as your zip code), or if a
user no longer desires our service, we will endeavor to provide a way to correct, update
or remove that user's personal data provided to us. This can usually be done at the member
information page or by emailing our Customer Support. [Some sites may also provide
telephone or postal mail options for updating or correcting personal information].
Choice/Opt-out
Our users are given the opportunity to 'opt-out' of having their information used for
purposes not directly related to our site at the point where we ask for the information.
For example, our order form has an 'opt-out' mechanism so users who buy a product from us,
but don't want any marketing material, can keep their email address off of our lists.
Users who no
longer wish to receive our newsletter or promotional materials from our partners may
opt-out of receiving these communications by replying to unsubscribe in the subject line
in the email or email us at nancy@nancyskitchen.com.
Users of our site
are always notified when their information is being collected by any outside parties. We
do this so our users can make an informed choice as to whether they should proceed with
services that require an outside party, or not.
Notification of
Changes
If we decide to change our privacy policy, we will post those changes on our Homepage so
our users are always aware of what information we collect, how we use it, and under
circumstances, if any, we disclose it. If at any point we decide to use personally
identifiable information in a manner different from that stated at the time it was
collected, we will notify users by way of an email. Users will have a choice as to whether
or not we use their information in this different manner. We will use information in
accordance with the privacy policy under which the information was collected.
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