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| About the Kerala-Recipe.com Privacy Policy |
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At Kerala-Recipe (“Kerala-Recipe.com”), we recognize the importance of your privacy. That said, it’s understandable that
you may be concerned with the information you provide to us or that is collected by us and how we use and disclose it. With these
concerns in mind, we’ve developed the Kerala-Recipe.com Privacy Policy, outlined below. This Privacy Policy explains Kerala-Recipe.coms’
privacy practices for visitors to our Web site at Kerala-Recipe.com (the “Web site”). By using our Web site, you consent to the collection, use and
disclosure of your personal information as described in this Privacy Policy. This Privacy Policy is incorporated into and subject to the terms of the
Kerala-Recipe.com Terms and Conditions. We reserve the right to change this Privacy Policy at any time. If you have any questions about our Privacy
Policy, you can contact us at [email protected]
Types of Information We Collect
Personal Information: Personal information is information to specifically identify an individual, such as a customer’s name, address,
telephone number, e-mail address, credit card or other account number, and information about that individual’s activities when directly
linked to that person such as information about his or her purchases. Personal information also includes demographic information, such
as date of birth, gender, geographic area, and preferences, when such information is linked to other personal information that
identifies the individual.
Aggregate Information: Personal information does not include “aggregate” information. Aggregate information is data we collect
about a group or category of products, services or customers, from which individual customer identities have been removed. In other
words, information about how you use a service might be collected and combined with information about how others use the same service,
but no personal information will be included in the resulting data. Likewise, information about the products you purchase might be
collected and combined with information about the products purchased by others. Aggregate data helps us understand trends and customer
needs so that we can better consider new products and services, and tailor existing products and services to customer desires. We might
share aggregate information about our users with third parties for various purposes, such as helping us better understand and improve
our services, and for advertising and marketing purposes.
How We Collect and Use Personal Information
Kerala-Recipe.com collects personal information from you at several different points on our Web site, as set forth below. In general,
we use personal information for the purpose for which it was collected (such as to provide services or complete transactions you have
requested, for billing purposes, and to anticipate and resolve problems with our Web site and our products and services), for our own
internal business operations, to respond to customer support inquiries and for other purposes as described below.
Registration, Purchases; Other Information Submissions
When you register to become a member on our Web site, you are asked to create a unique login and password, and are required to give
certain personal information (such as your name, email address, and zip code). We might also request certain information about your
tastes and preferences (such as your favorite food, purchases or recipes).
Information you provide during registration might be used for some or all of the following:
to provide services you have requested, or to otherwise fulfill your request; and to contact you from time to time
(i) about services on our Web site for which you have expressed interest;
(ii) with news,
(iii) for internal marketing, informational, and promotional purposes; or
(iv) for any other lawful purpose related to your use of the Web site.
Additionally, your registration information might be used, together with other information you submit to us in conjunction with your
use of the Web site, for the following purposes:
for editorial purposes, such as when you submit a recipe to us (e.g., to attribute your submitted recipe to you);
to contact you for any reason regarding content you have submitted to the Web site (e.g., to ask you a question about a recipe you
have submitted); and
to identify you by name when posting content you submit to us on the Web site (e.g., when you request a recipe on the Web site, to post
your name and a description of the recipe you are requesting).
Any information that is not personally identifiable information but is publicly displayed on the Web site (such as user name and photos)
might appear in the results of searches conducted on Internet search engines while you are a member of the Web site and potentially for
some time period after your membership is terminated, depending upon the search engine’s indexing practices.
Communication
As an Kerala-Recipe.com member, you will receive our transactional business communications (e.g. e-mail address confirmation,
administrative messages, etc.) at your e-mail address or street address. In addition you might be automatically enrolled in one or
more of our e-mail subscription programs. While we reserve the right to send you our transactional business communications without
offering you the opportunity to opt-out of receiving them, we do provide you with the opportunity to select whether or not you wish
to continue to receive our subscription-based e-mails. You will also be given the opportunity to select whether to receive promotional
offerings, such as renewal notifications and new product offerings.
E-mail and Newsletters
When you submit your e-mail address to us to initiate a subscription to one of our newsletters we ask for personal information such as
your name and e-mail address. This personal information is only used to send you the newsletter(s) you have requested. You might opt-out
of such follow-up contacts by following the instructions in the newsletter. Please also note that we use a “double opt-in” process to confirm
your subscription to our newsletters. When you initiate a subscription to one of our e-mail newsletters, we send a confirmation e-mail message to the
e-mail address. We only subscribe your e-mail address to the newsletter after you follow the steps in the confirmation e-mail message. We do not use a
double opt-in confirmation process for alerts.
E-mail-A-Friend
When you elect to use our referral service for e-mailing a recipe or other content to a friend, we ask you for your friend’s name and e-mail address.
Kerala-Recipe.com will automatically send your friend a one-time e-mail on your behalf which contains the recipe or other content, and which invites
your friend to visit the Web site. Kerala-Recipe.com uses your friend’s name and e-mail address only to send this one-time e-mail, and
does not store this information. If your friend does not wish to receive “e-mail-a-friend” messages to be sent on your behalf, he or
she must contact you directly. Kerala-Recipe.com users may not use our referral service to send unwanted spam to others.
Disclosure of Personal Information
Kerala-Recipe.com will not sell, rent, or share personal information with third parties without your prior consent except in the
limited circumstances described in this Privacy Policy.
Consent: With your consent, we might disclose your personal information to third parties in order to provide you with products
and services that you have requested.
During or immediately following registration, you have the option to view and select offers from various third party companies that
may be of interest to you, such as retailers and consumer products manufacturers. These offers are made available to you by our
Co-Registration Vendors. If you choose to view these offers we will make information you provide during registration available to
these vendors. The vendors will forward this information, along with any other information you provide in conjunction with your
request, to companies you have selected in order to fulfill, or facilitate fulfillment of, your request(s). Our Co-Registration Vendors
are contractually obligated to keep all such information confidential and to only use it for the purposes for which it was provided.
If you do not select any of the available offers, the vendors will delete your information which they have been provided. Please note,
however, that any information that is passed on by these vendors to third party companies that you select is subject to those third
parties’ privacy practices.
With your consent, we might disclose information you provide to us during registration to third parties in conjunction with
(i) your entry into a contest or promotion,
(ii) your request of an offer, or
(iii) your participation in a survey or similar activity on the Web site.
You might be asked for additional information in order to enter the contest or promotion, request an offer, or participate
in a survey. The third parties will use the information we provide to them, along with any information you provide during your entry,
request, or participation, in order to
(i) notify you if you have won a prize in a contest or sweepstakes, and
(ii) to fulfill, or facilitate fulfillment of, requests for products or services you may make in connection with your entry, request,
or participation.
These third parties are contractually obligated to keep all such information confidential and to only use it for the purposes for
which it was provided. When we provide information collected during a contest, promotion, offer, or survey on the Web site to third
parties, we always disclose this to you at the time of collection.
Kerala-Recipe.com Own Business Purposes:
We use and disclose information about you for our own internal statistical, design, or operational purposes, such as to estimate our
audience size, measure aggregate traffic patterns, and understand demographic, user interest, purchasing and other trends among our
users. We might outsource these tasks and disclose personal information about you to third parties, provided the use and disclosure of
your personal information by these third parties is restricted to performance of such tasks. We might also share personal information
with third-party vendors who assist us in performing internal functions necessary to operate our business. We require our third party
vendors to keep such information confidential and to only use the information for the purpose it was provided.
Protection of Kerala-Recipe.com and Others: We disclose personal information when we believe it is appropriate to comply with the
law (e.g., a lawful subpoena, warrant or court order); to enforce or apply this privacy policy or our other policies or agreements;
to initiate, render, bill, and collect for amounts owed to us; to protect our or our users’ rights, property or safety; or to protect
our users from fraudulent, abusive, or unlawful use of our Web site; or if we reasonably believe that an emergency involving immediate
danger of death or serious physical injury to any person requires disclosure of communications or justifies disclosure of personal
information without delay.
Business Transfers: Information about our users, including personal information, might be disclosed as part of any merger,
acquisition, debt financing, sale of company assets, as well as in the event of an insolvency, bankruptcy or receivership in which
personally identifiable information could be transferred to third parties as one of the business assets of the company.
Children: We do not intend, and the Website is not designed, to collect personal information from children under the age of 13.
If you are under 13 years old, you should not register for our services or otherwise provide information on our Website and should ask
your parent to do so for you.
Third Party Web site Advertising – General
We use one or more third-party advertising companies to serve ads when you visit our Web site. We do not share personal information
about you with any third party advertiser unless you give us permission to do so, separate from any permission you provide during the
registration process. These advertisers might seek to use cookies and Web beacons to track session data about the ads you have seen and
types of things in which you appear interested. These advertisers might also use combined information about your visits to our Web site
and other Web sites in order to provide advertisements about related goods and services of interest to you. 3rd party advertising
networks may place a cookie on your computer to tailor ad content both on Kerala-Recipe.com and on sites within the third party network
that you visit in the future. If you would like more information about this practice and how to opt-out of having this information used
by Network Advertising Initiative (NAI) companies, please click here.
Correcting/Updating Personal Information
We give you the opportunity to opt-out of receiving commercial e-mail from us by following the opt-out instructions provided in the
message. Even if you opt-out in this manner, however, you will still receive account-related messages from us. To get placed on our
“DO NOT E-MAIL” list, send a request to [email protected]. If your e-mail address is added to the “DO NOT E-MAIL”
list, you will not receive any newsletters or other opt-in e-mail messages. Please note, however, that your e-mail address being placed
on the “DO NOT E-MAIL” list does not prevent you from receiving “send-to-a-friend” e-mail messages, or email messages from third parties
from which you requested information, products, or services from during or immediately after registration. To opt-out from messages from
these third parties, or from any other communications that you receive directly from third parties, you must contact them directly in order
to opt-out.
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