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Privacy Policy - Our commitment to your privacy.
This is the privacy policy of
Desserts-Recipes.com
Desserts-Recipes.com strongly believes in a
consumer's right to privacy. Desserts-Recipes.com does not engage in the
collection, distribution, sale or use of personally identifiable
information about web users, such as name, phone number and street
address. Desserts-Recipes.com does not conduct individual web user
"profiling".
Usage tracking
For the web user to
Desserts-Recipes.com's
website, our web server automatically collects information on your domain
type, browser used and your IP address for statistical purposes only,
which will be used to improve the content of our web page and not sold to
other organizations for any purpose. And since we gather certain types of
information about our users, we feel you should fully understand our
policy and the terms and conditions on the capture and use of those
information.
Cookies
With respect to
cookies, we do 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 the information you supply yourself. Desserts-Recipes.com
uses cookies to track user traffic patterns and our advertising system
delivers a one-time cookie to better track ad impressions and click rates.
Besides, third parties ad server companies may also be placing and reading
cookies in your browser, or using web beacons to collect information, in
the course of ads being served on Desserts-Recipes.com. 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.
Third Party Advertisements
We also use third party advertisements on
Desserts-Recipes.com to support our site. Some of these advertisers
may use technology such as cookies and web beacons when they advertise on
our site, which will also send these advertisers information including
your IP address, your ISP, the browser you used to visit our site, and in
some cases, whether you have Flash installed. This is generally used for geotargeting purposes or showing certain ads based on specific sites
visited (such as showing cooking ads to someone who frequents cooking and
recipes sites).
Processing and Storing Your Data
Data Processing
The European Union ("EU") maintains strict
privacy laws. These rules differ significantly from the laws of the United
States of America ("US"). To reconcile these differences, the US and the
EU have created a safe harbor ("Safe Harbor") that defines mutually
acceptable privacy operations. For more information see
www.export.gov/safeharbor.
By providing information to us, you
acknowledge that we operate in the US and you agree to (i) permit us to
transmit and use your user Information anywhere necessary, including
across international boundaries, to better improve the services and
transactions provided by Desserts-Recipes.com; and (ii) that such use
by us shall be subject to the terms and conditions stated in this Privacy
Policy and the Terms of Use.
Network Advertising Initiative ("NAI")
Desserts-Recipes.com may also display advertisements from ValueClick
who is a member of the Network Advertising Initiative ("NAI"). The NAI is
a cooperative of online marketing and analytics companies committed to
building consumer awareness and establishing responsible business and data
management practices and standards. For more information, please visit
www.networkadvertising.org.
You may also opt-out from accepting the
cookies at
www.networkadvertising.org/managing/opt_out.asp
DoubleClick DART Cookies
Desserts-Recipes.com may also use DART
cookies for ad serving through Google's DoubleClick, which places a cookie
on your computer when you are browsing the web and visit using DoubleClick
advertising (including some Google Adsense advertisements). This cookie is
used to serve ads specific to you and your interests which is also known
as "interest based targeting". The ads served will be targeted based on
your previous browsing history (for example, if you have been viewing
sites about food, you may see advertisements related to recipes, food, and
cooking utensils when viewing a non-related site, such as a site about
travel). DART uses non personally identifiable information. It does not
track personal information about you, such as your name, email address,
physical address, telephone number, social security numbers, bank account
numbers or credit card numbers. You can opt-out of this ad serving on all
sites using this advertising by visiting
http://www.doubleclick.com/privacy/dart_adserving.aspx
You can always choose to disable or
selectively turn off our cookies or third-party cookies in your browser
settings, or by managing preferences in programs such as Norton Internet
Security. However, this can affect how you are able to interact with our
site as well as other websites. This could include the inability to login
to services or programs, such as logging into forums or accounts.
Deleting cookies does not mean you are
permanently opted out of any advertising program. Unless you have settings
that disallow cookies, the next time you visit a website running the
advertisements, a new cookie will automatically be added again.
Log Files
As with most other websites, we collect and
use the data contained in log files. The information in the log files
include your IP (internet protocol) address, your ISP (internet service
provider), the browser you used to visit our site, your screen resolutions
and number of colors, the time you visited our site and which pages you
have visited throughout our site.
Children
To be 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.
Electronic Newsletters Policy
We may offer a free electronic newsletters
to users who subscribe voluntarily by providing their name and email
addresses. Subscribers may remove themselves from the mailing list by
following an unsubscribe link provided in every newsletters.
All email addresses submitted to Desserts-Recipes.com in regard to our newsletters or for any other
reason will be kept strictly confidential and private. You can be assured
our mailing list will NEVER be shared or sold as a whole or in part.
Website Advertisements
With respect to Ad Servers, in order to
bring you offers that are of interest to you, we have relationships with
other companies that we allow to place ads on our web pages. As a result
of your visit to our site, ad server companies may collect information
such as your domain type, your IP address, clickstream information, and
other details.
These third parties may
also be placing and reading cookies in your browser, or using web beacons
to collect information, in the course of ads being served. For further
information, please consult the privacy policies of the individual
advertisers.
Any Changes in the Privacy Policy
In the event if
Desserts-Recipes.com's policy on information practices change at some
time in the future, we will use only the data collected from the time of
our policy change forward.
External Links
With regards to outside links, this website
contains links to other websites. Please be aware that Desserts-Recipes.com
is not responsible for the privacy practices of such other websites. We
encourage our users to be aware when they leave our website, and to read
the privacy statements of each and every website that collects personally
identifiable information.
This privacy statement
applies solely to information collected by this website.
Use of Information
Desserts-Recipes.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 poll, surveys, message boards, and
forums. We send out newsletters to subscribers on a regular schedule
(depending on the newsletter), and occasionally send out special editions
when we think subscribers might be particularly interested in something we
are doing. Desserts-Recipes.com never shares newsletter mailing lists
with any third party, including advertisers, sponsors or partners.
When 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 to continue to
build a better service to you. We track search terms entered in Search
function as one of the many measures of what interests our users. But we
don't track which terms a particular user enters.
Desserts-Recipes.com creates aggregate
reports on user demographics and traffic patterns for advertisers,
sponsors and partners. This allow our advertisers to advertise more
effectively, and allows our users to receive advertisements that are
pertinent to their needs. Because we don't track the usage patterns of
individual users, an advertiser or sponsors will never know that a
specific user clicked their ad. We will not disclose any information about
any individual user except to comply with applicable law or valid legal
process or to protect the personal safety of our users or the public.
Sharing of the Information
Desserts-Recipes.com uses the
above-described information to tailor our content to suit your needs and
help our advertisers 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.
Opt-Out Policy
We give users options whenever necessary and
practical. Such choices include: Opting not to register to receive our
electronic newsletters and 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 agree and consent to
the collection and use of this information by Desserts-Recipes.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.
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