Privacy Policy

AlansKitchen.com respects your privacy of the personal information that you provide us. To that end, unless you designate otherwise or we state otherwise in this policy or at the time information is collected, any personal information you provide to AlansKitchen.com will be known only to two parties: you and AlansKitchen.com. We intend to explain our policy and how we treat your personal information. Personal information includes your name, street and e-mail addresses, billing information, click-through activity and any other personal information you may provide here.

Traffic data

Each time a visitor comes to a AlansKitchen.com Web site, our servers -- like most on the Web -- collect some basic technical information, including, for example, the visitor's domain name (e.g., whether the user is logged on from aol.com or whitehouse.gov), referral data (e.g., we record the address of the last URL a user visited prior to clicking through to a AlansKitchen.com Web site) and browser and platform type (e.g., a Netscape browser on a Macintosh platform).

We also count, track and aggregate the visitor's activity into our analysis of general traffic flows at our sites (e.g. tracking where traffic comes from, how traffic flows within the AlansKitchen.com sites, etc.). To these ends, we may merge information about visitors and visits into group data, which may then be shared on an aggregated basis with our advertisers; but we will not disclose your individual identity or personally identifiable data without your permission. When we do present aggregated information to outside companies, no one will be able to identify you or contact you.

Use of AlansKitchen.com cookies

A cookie is a small amount of data that is sent to your browser from a Web server and stored on your computer's hard drive. We may use cookies in a limited way to help deliver advertisements, to identify unique browsers that visit us and to track usage throughout our site. We use cookies on our e-store shopping site to make the ordering process more convenient for users.

Other companies which place advertising on our site also have the ability to assign their cookies to you in a process that AlansKitchen.com does not control. However, cookies cannot be used to identify individuals, only machines, so these advertisers will not know who you are.

Newsletters and later our "e-mail to a friend" features

After signing up to receive a AlansKitchen.com newsletter by e-mail, users will start receiving a newsletter, as well as infrequent other announcements from AlansKitchen.com. We collect subscribers' e-mail addresses in order to distribute those newsletters and announcements and do not otherwise share them with other companies or partners. Users can choose to unsubscribe from AlansKitchen.com newsletters at any time by following the unsubscribe instructions found in each e-mail or visiting the newsletter subscription page.

AlansKitchen.com plans to offer an "e-mail a friend about this story" feature, allowing site visitors to send e-mail to friends to inform them about an article they might be interested in reading. In order for this feature to function, we ask for e-mail addresses from the sender and for the recipient. We do not store or save these addresses and you will not receive e-mailings or other communications from AlansKitchen or its partners as a result of having used this feature.

Promotion

AlansKitchen.com may sponsor sweepstakes, contests or other events which require the collection, processing and storage of individual contact and demographic information (e.g., your age and state of residence) to be used for the event. AlansKitchen.com may also co-sponsor these events along with other companies, in which case the user's individual contact and demographic information is likely to be shared with other participating sponsors, who may use this information as they wish. A registrant's personal contact and demographic information will not be released to any third-party organization other than named sponsors without the user's consent, and AlansKitchen.com will request that such named sponsors uphold the privacy of the registrants' information by not distributing or sharing such information with any other businesses or organizations.

Surveys

AlansKitchen.com will from time to time conduct voluntary surveys of visitors to the site to obtain aggregate demographic information about them. Such information may be compiled and shared in the aggregate with advertisers and other third parties, but no personal details will be traceable or associated with specific individuals.

Our commitment to children's privacy

Protecting the privacy of the very young is important to us. For that reason, we do not collect or maintain information at our Web sites from those we actually know are under 13, and no part of our Web site is structured to attract anyone under 13.

Other disclosure of personal information

AlansKitchen.com will not otherwise use or disclose your personal information without your consent except (i) as described in this privacy policy, or (ii) as required by law, court order or as requested by other government or law enforcement authority. This policy does not protect information you post to any on-line bulletin board, chat room, newsgroup or other public forum within our Web sites.

Unsubscribe and data removal policies

If you would like to unsubscribe from a AlansKitchen.com newsletter, please follow the instructions at the bottom of the newsletter itself or visit our newsletter page.

Other sites

AlansKitchen.com contains many links to other sites on the Web. We cannot control and are not responsible for the privacy practices or content of such other Web sites.

Who can I ask if I have any additional questions?

If you have any further questions or concerns about AlansKitchen privacy policies and use of personal information, please send them to mailto:privacy@AlansKitchen.com

Advertising

We use third-party advertising companies to serve ads when you visit our website. These companies may use information (not including your name, address, email address, or telephone number) about your visits to this and other websites in order to provide advertisements about goods and services 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, click here.