How To Cook (“How To Cook“) operates HowToCook.com and may operate other websites. It is How To Cook’s policy to respect your privacy regarding any information we may collect while operating our websites.

Website Visitors

Like most website operators, How To Cook collects non-personally identifying information of the sort that web browsers and servers typically make available, such as the browser type, language preference, referring site, and the date and time of each visitor request. How To Cook purpose in collecting non-personally identifying information is to understand better how How To Cook visitors use its website. From time to time, How To Cook may release non-personally identifying information in the aggregate, e.g., by publishing a report on trends in the usage of its website.

How To Cook also collects potentially personally identifying information like Internet Protocol (IP) addresses for logged-in users and for users leaving comments on HowToCook.com blogs/sites. Ho, To Cook only discloses logged-in user and commenter IP addresses under the same circumstances that it uses and discloses personally identifying information as described below, except that commenter IP addresses and email addresses are visible and disclosed to the administrators of the blog/site where the comment was left.

Gathering of Personally-Identifying Information

Certain visitors to How To Cook websites choose to interact with How To Cook in ways that require How To Cook to gather personally identifying information. The amount and type of information that How To Cook gathers depends on the nature of the interaction. For example, we ask visitors who sign up at HoToCook.com to provide a username and email address. Those who engage in transactions with How To Cook are asked to provide additional information, including as necessary the personal and financial information required to process those transactions. In each case, How To Cook collects such information only insofar as is necessary or appropriate to fulfill the purpose of the visitor’s interaction with How To Cook. How To Cook does not disclose personally identifying information other than as described below. Visitors can always refuse to supply personally identifying information, with the caveat that it may prevent them from engaging in certain website-related activities.

Aggregated Statistics

How To Cook may collect statistics about the behavior of visitors to its websites. How To Cook may display this information publicly or provide it to others. However, How To Cook does not disclose personally identifying information other than as described below.

Protection of Certain Personally-Identifying Information

How To Cook discloses potentially personally identifying and personally-identifying information only to those of its employees, contractors, and affiliated organizations that (i) need to know that information to process it on How To Cook’s behalf or to provide services available at How To Cook websites, and (ii) that have agreed not to disclose it to others. Some of those employees, contractors, and affiliated organizations may be located outside of your home country; by using How To Cook websites, you consent to the transfer of such information to them. How To Cook will not rent or sell potentially personally identifying and personally-identifying information to anyone. Other than to its employees, contractors, and affiliated organizations, as described above, How To Cook discloses potentially personally identifying and personally-identifying information only in response to a subpoena, court order, or other governmental request, or when How To Cook believes in good faith that disclosure is reasonably necessary to protect the property or rights of How To Cook, third parties or the public at large. If you are a registered user of a How To Cook website and have supplied your email address, How To Cook may occasionally send you an email to tell you about new features, solicit your feedback, or just keep you up to date with what’s going on with How To Cook and our products. If you send us a request (for example via email or one of our feedback mechanisms), we reserve the right to publish it to help us clarify or respond to your request or to help us support other users. How To Cook takes all measures reasonably necessary to protect against the unauthorized access, use, alteration, or destruction of potentially personally identifying and personally-identifying information.

Cookies

A cookie is a string of information that a website stores on a visitor’s computer, and that the visitor’s browser provides to the website each time the visitor returns. How To Cook uses cookies to help How To Cook identify and track visitors, their usage of the How To Cook website, and their website access preferences. How To Cook visitors who do not wish to have cookies placed on their computers should set their browsers to refuse cookies before using How To Cook websites, with the drawback that certain features of How To Cook websites may not function properly without the aid of cookies.

Business Transfers

If How To Cook, or substantially all of its assets, were acquired, or in the unlikely event that How To Cook goes out of business or enters bankruptcy, user information would be one of the assets that is transferred or acquired by a third party. You acknowledge that such transfers may occur and that any acquirer of How To Cook may continue to use your personal information as outlined in this policy.

Ads

Ads appearing on any of our websites may be delivered to users by advertising partners, who may set cookies. These cookies allow the ad server to recognize your computer each time they send you an online advertisement to compile information about you or others who use your computer. This information allows ad networks to, among other things, deliver targeted advertisements that they believe will be of most interest to you. This Privacy Policy covers the use of cookies by How To Cook and does not cover the use of cookies by any advertisers.

Changes

Although most changes are likely to be minor, How To Cook may change them from time to time, and at How To Cook’s sole discretion. How To Cook encourages visitors to frequently check this page for any changes to its. If you have a HoToCook.com account, you might also receive an alert informing you of these changes. Your continued use of this site after any change in this will constitute your acceptance of such change.