The Chowbaby.com Website is committed to bringing you information that is tailored to your individual needs and, at the same time, to protecting your privacy. The following is a summary of the various ways we treat the information you provide us while using Chowbaby.com Website.
The Chowbaby.com Website does not collect personally identifying information except with your specific knowledge and consent. We do not share such information with any outside party, so there is no need for you to "opt out" to get off mailing lists.
In a few cases, if you e-mail a question or some feedback to us, we require your e-mail address so that we can, for example, e-mail you with a personal reply. If you choose to supply this information we will use it only for the specific purpose for which you supply it - unless we tell you otherwise at the time of collection, in which case you'll have an option to forbid other uses by us.
In other cases, we may require certain personal information: When using the "Send recipe to a friend" function, for example, you must enter your return e-mail address. Again, we will use such information only for the specific purpose for which you supply it - unless we tell you otherwise at the time of collection, in which case you'll have an option to forbid other uses by us.
We will never share any of your personally identifying data with any other party without your explicit permission, nor use it for unapproved commercial purposes.
A few special cases are worth noting. From time to time we may run competitions or request material we can publish; to participate, you must usually supply us with your identity, which you agree to have publicly associated with your submission. The exact rules vary from case to case, and will be noted clearly on the relevant pages. Your participation will always be voluntary and knowing.
We may offer to send you information or updates from Chowbaby.com Website via e-mail or otherwise; obviously, signing up will put you on a specific mailing list. We will not put you on any other mailing lists, from us or anyone else, without your permission.
In addition, your postings to our forums, chat and any other public discussion areas are not private. These postings are governed by the User Agreement, which is accessible at any time from the bottom of any page on Chowbaby.com Website.
You should be aware that any information you post in our public areas may be seen, collected and used by others, and may result in unsolicited messages from other posters or parties. We can't control this; you post at your own risk.
You may have read about "cookies," nuggets of information that are placed by a Web site in a storage place on your own computer. Chowbaby.com Website uses cookies to control the display of ads - to ensure that you don't see the same ad too many times in a single session, for example - and to track usage patterns on our site.
While using Chowbaby.com Website you may notice that our advertisers occasionally serve you cookies, either directly or when you link to their sites. We cannot directly control what our advertisers or these cookies do, but it's our policy that advertisers on Chowbaby.com Website should use cookies the same way we do.
Your Web browser likely includes an option that allows you not to accept them. We don't recommend using this option, though: It makes browsing our site a less enjoyable experience. In fact, some feautures(chat, forums, glossaries,and 'find it' searches) require at the very least, cookies for sessions.
Finally, while your individual information is protected as outlined above, we reserve the right to use aggregated, anonymous data about our users as a group. For instance, we might report to potential advertisers that a certain percentage of our users appear to be vegetarians, based on their recipe requests.
Third Party Advertising We use MaxOnline and other third-party advertising companies to serve ads when you visit our Web site. These companies may use information (not including your name, address, email address or telephone number) about your visits to this and other Web sites in order to provide advertisements on this site and other sites about goods and services that may be of interest to you. If you would like more information about this practice and to know your choices about not having this information used by these companies, please click here.
Third Party Cookies In the course of serving advertisements to this site, our third-party advertiser may place or recognize a unique “cookie” on your browser.
THIS PRIVACY POLICY MAY BE MODIFIED FROM TIME TO TIME; NOTICE OF CHANGES WILL APPEAR ON THIS PAGE, SO CHECK BACK OFTEN. If you have concerns or questions about any aspect of this policy, please send us e-mail. We welcome your feedback. You can also send us regular mail at the following address:
Privacy Policy Coordinator
Chowbaby.com Website
P.O. Box 2094
Newport Beach, CA 92663
