Privacy Policy - Our commitment to your
privacy
This site
is owned and operated by The Well Dressed Food Company. Your
privacy on the Internet is of the utmost importance to us. At The Well
Dressed Food Company, we want to make your experience online satisfying
and safe.
Because we gather certain types of
information about our users, we feel you should fully understand our
policy and the terms and conditions surrounding the capture and use of
that information. This privacy statement discloses what information we
gather and how we use it.
Information the Well Dressed Food
company gathers and tracks
We gather information that users
provide through optional, voluntary submissions. These are voluntary
submissions to receive our electronic newsletters, to participate in our
message boards or forums, to email a friend, and from participation in
polls and surveys. We offer the following free services, which
require some type of voluntary submission of personal information by
users:
1. Electronic newsletters policy
(Dispatches)
We will offer a free electronic
newsletter to users. The Well Dressed Food Company gathers the email
addresses of users who voluntarily subscribe. Users may remove
themselves from this mailing list by following the link provided in
every newsletter that points users to the subscription management page.
Users can also subscribe to the newsletters at the time of registration.
2. Message boards/forums policy
Users of the site's Message Boards
and Forums must register separately for these services (both are free of
charge) in order to post messages, although they needn't register to
visit the site. During registration the user is required to supply a
username, password, and email address.
3. "E-mail this to a friend"
policy
Our site users can choose to
electronically forward a link, page, or documents to someone else by
clicking "e-mail this to a friend". The user must provide their email
address, as well as that of the recipient. This information is used only
in the case of transmission errors and, of course, to let the recipient
know who sent the email. The information is not used for any other
purpose.
Children
Consistent with the Federal
Children's Online Privacy Protection Act of 1998 (COPPA), we will never
knowingly request personally identifiable information from anyone under
the age of 13 without requesting parental consent.
Usage tracking
We may track user traffic patterns
throughout our site. However, we do not correlate this information with
data about individual users.
We sometimes track and catalog the
search terms that users enter in our Search function, but this tracking
is never associated with individual users. We use tracking information
to determine which areas of our sites users like and don't like based on
traffic to those areas. We do not track what individual users read, but
rather how well each page performs overall. This helps us continue to
build a better service for you.
Cookies
We may place a text file called a
"cookie" in the browser files of your computer. The cookie itself does
not contain Personal Information although it will enable us to relate
your use of this site to information that you have specifically and
knowingly provided. But the only personal information a cookie can
contain is information you supply yourself. A cookie can't read data off
your hard disk or read cookie files created by other sites. We use
cookies to track user traffic patterns (as described above).
You can refuse cookies by turning
them off in your browser. If you've set your browser to warn you before
accepting cookies, you will receive the warning message with each
cookie. You do not need to have cookies turned on to use this site.
However, you do need cookies to participate actively in message boards,
forums, polling and surveys.
Use of Information
The Well Dressed Food Company uses
any information voluntarily given by our users to enhance their
experience while using our site, whether to provide interactive or
personalized elements on the sites or to better prepare future content
based on the interests of our users.
As stated above, we use
information that users voluntarily provide in order to send out
electronic newsletters and to enable users to participate in polls,
surveys, message boards, and forums. We send out newsletters to
subscribers on a regular schedule (depending on the newsletter), and
occasionally send out special editions when we think subscribers might
be particularly interested in something we are doing. The Well Dressed
Food Company never shares newsletter mailing lists with any third
parties, including advertisers, sponsors or partners.
When we use tracking information
to determine which areas of our sites users like and don't like based on
traffic to those areas. We do not track what individual users read, but
rather how well each page performs overall. This helps us continue to
build a better service for you. We track search terms entered in Search
function as one of many measures of what interests our users. But we
don't track which terms a particular user enters.
Security
The Well Dressed Food Company
utilizes secure data networks protected by industry standard firewall
and password protection systems. Our security and privacy policies are
periodically reviewed and enhanced as necessary and only authorized
individuals have access to the information provided by our customers.
Opt-out policy
We give users options wherever
necessary and practical. Such choices include:
- Opting not to register to
receive our electronic newsletters.
- Opting not to participate in
certain interactive areas, which completely alleviates the need to
gather any personally identifiable information from our users
Your Consent
By using this site, you consent to
the collection and use of this information by The Well Dressed Food
Company. If we decide to change our privacy policy, we will post those
changes on this page so that you are always aware of what information we
collect, how we use it, and under what circumstances we disclose it.