Privacy Statement
At The Food Experience™, we respect and protect
the privacy of our customers and those who use our websites.
The following Privacy Statement provides details about how
your personal information is collected and used. This privacy
statement applies to the network of The Food Experience™ websites,
stores, products and services that are located in, but not
limited to, the thefoodexperience.net domain.
Information Collection and Use
The Food Experience™ is the sole owner of information collected on this
site. We will not sell, share or rent this information to others in ways different
from what is disclosed in this statement. The Food Experience™ collects
information from our users at several different points on our website.
Our websites offer several opportunities for visitors to
register for promotional and informational mailings, online
information and resources, and for assistance in evaluating
our sessions and services. These registration forms are often
linked to The Food Experience™ mailing lists and require
users to give contact information (such as name and email
address). We use this contact information to send users information
about our company and its products and services if requested
or necessary. Users may opt out of receiving future mailings
at any time (see the choice/opt out section below).
Sharing and Usage
We will never share, sell or rent your personal information with third parties
for their promotional use. Occasionally, we enter into contracts with third
parties so that they can assist us in servicing you (for example, providing
customer service). The contracts prohibit them from using any of your personal
information for their own purposes, and they are required to maintain the
confidentiality of the information we provide to them. We may disclose or
report personal information in limited circumstances where we believe in
good faith that disclosure is required under the law. For example, we may
be required to disclose personal information to cooperate with regulators
or law enforcement authorities, to comply with a legal process such as a
court order, subpoena, search warrant, or law enforcement request.
Use of Web Technologies
We use a variety of technologies on our sites. Among these are cookies, a piece
of information that our websites provide to your browser when you visit our
sites. Cookies allow us to verify the login status of customers using products
or services linked directly with our website, track point of entry to point
of registration for those users participating in our affiliate signup programs,
and to track and measure the success of a particular marketing campaign.
Cookies also allow us to track overall site usage and determine areas users
prefer, enabling us to make your visit to our websites easier by recognizing
you when you return and helping to provide you with a customized experience.
Usage of a cookie is in no way linked to any personally identifiable information
while on our site. If you choose to disable cookies, you may still use our
site; however, you may have limited access to some areas within our websites.
We may access and set cookies using web beacons, also known
as single-pixel GIFs, which are invisible graphic images.
These web beacons provide us useful information regarding
our site, such as which pages users access. When we send
you emails, we may include a single-pixel GIF to allow us
to determine the number of people who open our emails. When
you click on a link in an email, we record this individual
response to allow us to customize our offerings to you.
We also keep track of activity on our website via log files
stored on our web servers. We collect information such as
IP address, browser type and version and the pages you view.
We also keep track of how you got to our site and any links
you click on to leave our site. Once you leave our site,
we do not track you. We use your website activity to assist
us in offering you a personalized web experience, assist
you with technical support, diagnose problems with our server,
administer our websites and tailor our product and service
offerings to you.
Links
Some of our sites provide links to third-party websites, such as those of our
business partners and online advertisers. While on these sites, The Food
Experience™ or its partners may collect information about you. Because
The Food Experience™ does not control the information policies or practices
of these third parties, you should review their privacy policies to learn
more about how they collect and use personally identifiable information.
Security
We take every precaution to protect the confidentiality and security of your
personal information by using industry-recognized security safeguards such
as firewalls, coupled with carefully developed security procedures to protect
your information from loss, misuse or unauthorized alteration. When we ask
for sensitive information, such as credit card numbers, we protect it through
the use of encryption during transmission, such as the Secure Socket Layer
(SSL) protocol.
The Food Experience™ takes care to reinforce the importance
of our website visitors' security and privacy among our employees.
Our employees are trained and required to safeguard your
information and, using physical, electronic and procedural
safeguards, we restrict access to personal information to
those employees and agents for business purposes only. Additionally,
we use internal and external resources to review the adequacy
of our security procedures.
Choice/OptOut
The Food Experience™ provides users the opportunity to opt in, opt out or
change preferences via a link in the footer of most email messages. These
options are made available when you sign up for our email lists and in email
messages delivered from our company. Alternatively, you may email us at support@thefoodexperience.net.
Some communications (e.g., important account notifications
and billing information) are necessary for all The Food Experience™ customers. You must cancel your The Food Experience™ account to unsubscribe from these communications. To cancel
your The Food Experience™ account, please email us at support@thefoodexperience.net.
Notification of Changes
If we decide to change our privacy policy, we will post those changes on www.thefoodexperience.net so
our users are always aware of what information we collect, how we use it and
under what circumstances, if any, we disclose it.
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