Privacy Policy

The Recipe Guide, ("Company") understands the importance of online privacy. The following Policy outlines how we do business, what information we collect and how, under what circumstances the information is shared with third parties, and your options to control what communications you receive from us and from our marketing partners. If you have any questions or concerns about this Privacy Policy, please contact us at the postal address below.

We Will Not Sell, Rent or Share Any Identifiable Information provided by you to any 3rd party email list managers, and/email service providers.

Information We Collect

In order to participate, you must first complete the registration information requested. We ask for an email address so that we may contact you if necessary.

We request a limited amount of personally identifiable information from users who participate on this site. This information includes, but is not limited to the following:

  • email address
  • name
  • address, city, state, zip
  • phone number

 

We create internal reports on user demographics and traffic patterns to measure the effectiveness of our marketing campaigns and promotions, and to report results to our marketing partners. We do not use any personally identifiable information to compile these reports.

How We Collect Information

The Company gathers information in the following ways:

Cookies

A cookie is a small text file stored on a user's computer for record-keeping purposes. The Company uses cookies only to enable users to be routed properly through our site. We also provide links to external advertisers and marketing Partner companies; these sites may choose to use cookies to better promote their products and services. These advertisers and marketing partner companies have their own privacy procedures and policies that are not controlled by the Company. We encourage our users to be aware of the individual privacy policies of every web site that the user contacts.

Clear GIFs (Web Beacons/Web Bugs)

The Company may also use a software technology called clear GIFs (Web Beacons or Web Bugs), that help us determine what content on our site is most effective. Clear GIFs are tiny graphics with a unique identifier, similar in function to cookies, and are used to track the online movements of Web users. We do not tie the information gathered by clear GIFs to our customers' personally identifiable information. We also use clear GIFs in our HTML-based emails so that we know which emails have been opened. We use this information to monitor the effectiveness of our email campaigns and to validate our results to our marketing partners.

Log Files

Log files are also used to track and monitor traffic patterns on our site. They are not used to track or monitor personally identifiable information.

Tell-A-Friend

Users may forward the email address of another person who may also be interested in this site’s content. The information is used only to forward the information to that person and is not retained for any other purpose.

User Feedback/Inquiries

Users may contact the Company with any feedback, questions or comments. The Company uses contact information only to respond to the feedback.

Other Circumstances

The Company may sponsor sweepstakes, contests or other events for which we need to collect and retain personally identifiable information. The Company may co-sponsor such events with other companies. In such cases, no personally identifiable information will be released to such third parties without the user's consent. We endeavor at all times to do business only with other companies similarly committed to our users' privacy.

Information We Share

This Privacy Policy applies to consumers that have signed up on The Recipe Guide. The Company collects minimal demographic and personally identifiable information from many users. This information is aggregated and analyzed to help us tailor the Company’s site content.

All information provided to the Company by the users of this site may be used to support our suppression, validation and enhancement services to other marketing companies, advertising agencies, compilers and data companies.

As an example, opt-out information may be shared with other marketing partners so that those users opting out of further emails are suppressed from the partner's mailings or promotions, as well as our own. In addition to complying with our users' preferences, it simply makes good business sense to mail only to those customers who have indicated a desire to receive such mailings.

The Company as a rule will not intentionally disclose personally identifiable information about its users to any third party without first receiving the user's permission.

However, the Company may disclose personally identifiable information if required to do so by law, or in the good-faith belief that such action is necessary to (a) conform to edicts of law of comply with legal processes; (b) protect and defend the rights or property of the Company's advertising service, and (c) act under exigent circumstances to protect the personal safety of any user of the Company's advertising service.

We Will Not Sell, Rent or Share Any Identifiable Information provided by you to any 3rd party email list managers, and/email service providers.

Use of Information

This Privacy Policy applies to consumers that have signed up on The Recipe Guide web site, and or have submitted their email address through our affiliate network program and other co-marketing partnerships to promote our site. We may use the personal information that you supply to us and work with other third party businesses to bring selected retail opportunities to our members via direct mail, email and telemarketing. These businesses may include providers of direct marketing services and applications, including lookup and reference, data enhancement, suppression and validation and email marketing. Delete/Deactivate Policy Users at any time may unsubscribe to our electronic mailings by following the instructions that we include at the end of every mailing. To correct, update or request that we delete information you provided, please contact us via email, or by writing:

The Recipe Guide
223 N Guadalupe, #167
Santa Fe, NM 87501
contact@therecipeguide.com

Notification of Changes to Privacy Policy

From time to time, we may use customer information for new, unanticipated uses not previously disclosed in our privacy notice. If our information practices change at some time in the future we will post these policy changes to our web site to notify you and provide you with the opportunity to opt out of these new uses. If you are concerned about how your information is used, you should check back at our web site periodically.

General Security Policy

The Company endeavors at all times to meet and exceed standards of online privacy protection. When you submit information, your information is protected both on-line and off-line in accordance with applicable laws, regulations and industry standards. For example, without limitation, the company uses a full-time Network Administrator, SSL servers, pgp and 128-bit encryption to protect the confidentiality of the information you provide.

For additional information or specific questions, please contact us.

Last Updated: September 2009