ABOUTKASHA.COM Website Privacy Statement

This document was last updated on 02/21/2007

1. Acknowledgement and acceptance of terms 

ABOUTKASHA.COM is committed to protecting your privacy. This Privacy Statement sets forth our current privacy practices with regard to the information we collect when you or your computer interact with ABOUTKASHA.COM website ("This Website"). By accessing This Website, you acknowledge and fully understand This Website's Privacy Statement and freely consent to the information collection and use practices described in This Website's Privacy Statement.

2. Participating Merchant Policies 

Related services and offerings with links from this website, including vendor sites, have their own privacy statements that can be viewed by clicking on the corresponding links within each respective website. Online merchants and others who participate in This Website services are encouraged to participate in industry privacy initiatives and to take a responsible attitude towards consumer privacy. However, since we do not have direct control over the policies or practices of participating merchants and other third parties, we are not responsible for the privacy practices or contents of those sites. We recommend and encourage that you always review the privacy policies of merchants and other third parties before you provide any personal information or complete any transaction with such parties.

3. Information We Collect and How We Use It 

We may collect certain information from and about This Website users three ways: directly from our Web Server logs, the user, and with cookies.

a. Web Server Logs

When you visit our Website, we may track information to administer the site and analyze its usage. Examples of information we may track include:

Your Internet protocol address. 
The kind of browser or computer you use. 
Number of links you click within the site. 
State or country from which you accessed the site. 
Date and time of your visit. 
Name of your Internet service provider. 
Web page you linked to our site from. 
Pages you viewed on the site. 

b. Use of Cookies

This Website may use cookies to personalize or enhance your user experience. A cookie is a small text file that is placed on your hard disk by a Web page server. Cookies cannot be used to run programs or deliver viruses to your computer. Cookies are uniquely assigned to you, and can only be read by a Web Server in the domain that issued the cookie to you. 

One of the primary purposes of cookies is to provide a convenience feature to save you time. For example, if you personalize a web page, or navigate within a site, a cookie helps the site to recall your specific information on subsequent visits. Hence, this simplifies the process of delivering relevant content and eases site navigation by providing and saving your preferences as well as providing personalized functionality.

We reserve the right to share aggregated site statistics with partner companies. In the course of placing advertisements on this Website, our third-party advertisers may place or recognize a unique cookie on your browser.

You have the ability to accept or decline cookies. Most Web browsers automatically accept cookies, but you can usually modify your browser setting to decline cookies. If you reject cookies by changing your browser settings then be aware that this may disable some of the functionality on our Website.

c. Collecting and Use of Personal Information

When you initiate a subscription to our newsletter we ask for personal information such as email address. The email address is only used to send you the newsletter you have requested. Information about your email address will be saved in our database and as a cookie on your computer.
We may ask you to give certain personal information (such as your name, email address) when you submit any item (e.g. recipe). This information may be used 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 Website;
- to identify you by name when posting content you submit to us on the Website
Only your name and NOT your email address will be display if we decide to publish your submitted recipe.

4. Use of Web Beacons or GIF files

This Website's Web pages as well as news letter emails may contain electronic images known as Web beacons – sometimes also called single-pixel gifs – that allow us to count users who have visited those pages and to deliver co-branded services. This Website and news letter emails may include Web beacons in promotional e-mail messages or newsletters in order to determine whether messages have been opened and acted upon. 

Some of these Web beacons may be placed by third party service providers to help determine the effectiveness of our advertising campaigns or email communications. These Web beacons may be used by these service providers to place a persistent cookie on your computer. This allows the service provider to recognize your computer each time you visit certain pages or emails and compile anonymous information in relation to those page views, which in turn enables us and our service providers to learn which advertisements and emails bring you to our website and how you use the site. We prohibit Web beacons from being used to collect or access your personal information.

5. Children

We do not intend, and This Website is not designed, to collect personal information from children under the age of 18. If you are under 18 years old, you should not subscribe for our newsletter and should ask your parent to do so for you. 

6. Personal Information Disclosure

ABOUTKASHA.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

7. Protection of ABOUTKASHA.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 This Website; 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. 

8. Security

We use reasonable security measures to store and maintain personally identifying information so as to protect it from loss, misuse, alteration or destruction by unauthorized parties while it is under our control. 

9. Updating Personal Information

We give you the opportunity to opt-out of receiving news letter emails from us. You can un-subscribe by following the instructions in the news letter email, by using unsubscribe@ABOUTKASHA.COM web page or by sending the email to unsubscribe@ABOUTKASHA.COM with the email subject "UNSUBSCRIBE". 

10. E-mail-A-Friend

When you elect to use our referral service for suggesting our website and  the newsletter to a friend, we ask you for your name, yours and your friend's email addresses. AboutKasha.com will automatically send your friend a one-time email on your behalf with suggestion to your friend to visit the Website. It also contains the links to the web site and  Newsletter Subscribe Page. AboutKasha.com uses your name and email address as well as your friend's email address only to send this one-time email, and does not store this information. If your friend does not wish to receive “email-a-friend” messages to be sent on your behalf, he or she must contact you directly. AboutKasha.com users may not use our referral service to send unwanted spam to others.

11. Changes to this Statement 

We have the discretion to occasionally update this privacy statement. When we do, we will also revise the “updated” date at the top of this Privacy page. We encourage you to periodically review this privacy statement to stay informed about how we are helping to protect the personal information we collect. Your continued use of the service constitutes your agreement to this privacy statement and any updates.

12. Contacting Us 

If you have questions regarding our Privacy Statement, its implementation, failure to adhere to this Privacy Statement and/or our general practices, please contact us at webmaster@ABOUTKASHA.COM

We will use commercially reasonable efforts to promptly respond and resolve any problem or question.