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to us. We don't loan, sell, or otherwise provide your personal information to anyone,
ever. We do NOT spam or send out unsolicited mail to anyone, ever. Now, if you'd
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Where you go and what you do.
Data about your activity while here on this site is automatically provided to
gourmetsleuth.com™ when you sign on. For each visitor, our Web server automatically
recognizes only your domain name, but not your e-mail address. We collect aggregate
information on what pages consumers access or visit, how many visits we get, and
information such as where visitors arrived from as far as other sites on the Internet or
if they directly typed our web site address into their browser. It is used by us for
internal review in aggregate and non-personally-identifiable form.
Cookies.
When you come to gourmetsleuth.com™ or when you register with gourmetsleuth.com™, we
create your personal profile, assign a personal identification number, then send this
personal identification number back to your hard drive in the form of a
“cookie,” which is a very small bit of code. This code is uniquely yours. It
enables us to know more about you, allows you to utilize some of our web site’s
functionality, and correspond with us about your personal profile without having to fill
out registration forms with information you've already provided. Cookies make Web-surfing
easier for you by saving your preferences while you're at our site. We never save
passwords or credit card information in cookies. The use of cookies is an industry
standard -- you'll find them at most major Web sites. We use cookies to record session
information, such as items that you added to your shopping cart and to conduct marketing
tests on our Web pages. By showing how and when you use the site, cookies help us see
which areas and products are popular and which are not. Many improvements and updates to
the site are based on such data as total number of visitors and pages viewed. This
information is most easily tracked with cookies. We use the information from cookies to
provide services better tailored to our visitors’ needs.
A “cookie” is very small text
file placed on your hard drive by a Web Page server. It serves as your personal
identification card, and cannot be executed as code or deliver viruses. It is uniquely
yours and can only be read by the server that gave it to you. The purpose of a
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you never register or leave personal information with gourmetsleuth.com™, then the server
only knows that someone with your cookie has returned to the Web site. You are in charge
of deciding whether we know anything about you. But the more you tell us about yourself,
the more we can help you find information or products you want. You can always edit any
personal information you give gourmetsleuth.com™ by writing to us at: info@gourmetsleuth.com.
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E-mail addresses.
E-mail addresses and other personally identifying data about you is known to
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collect your e-mail addresses only if you post a message to us, if you communicate with us
via e-mail, or if you volunteer it for any reason, such as survey information and/or site
registration. We do not share this information with any other source or company.
Personal Information Other Than E-mail Addresses.
We do not collect or preserve any information about you other than that information you
provide to us when you fill in our membership form. That information is not shared with
any other source or comany.
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please forward such request to us at: info@gourmetsleuth.com
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You can always edit any personal information you give gourmetsleuth.com™ by writing to us
at: info@gourmetsleuth.com
Disclaimer.
The Privacy Policy adopted by gourmetsleuth.com and all statements contained on this site
about privacy and how we deal with data supplied by visitors to this site are not intended
to be a contractual obligation of any kind and any such obligation is hereby disclaimed.
These statements constitute the present policy of gourmetsleuth.com™ as to which it will
take reasonable measures to implement. Similarly this Privacy Policy is not intended to be
"advertising" or "advertising claims." Rather it is intended to set
forth our policy, including our practices and intentions about how we conduct our
business.
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liability for any injury you experience while you are in such Linked Site.
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OF THE MATERIALS IN THIS SITE OR IN LINKED SITES IN TERMS OF THEIR CORRECTNESS, ACCURACY,
TIMELINESS, RELIABILITY, OR OTHERWISE.
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gourmetsleuth.com™, at any time, without notice. gourmetsleuth.com™ may terminate your
right to use this site immediately without notice to you if, in gourmetsleuth.com™' sole
discretion, you fail to comply with any of these Terms of Use. In the event of
termination, you are no longer authorized to access the gourmetsleuth.com™ site, and the
restrictions imposed upon you with respect to material copied or downloaded, and the
disclaimers and limitations of liabilities set forth in these Terms of Use, shall survive
the termination of this agreement. These Terms of Use constitute the entire agreement
between you and gourmetsleuth.com™ relating to the subject matter addressed herein.
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This agreement is governed by and shall be construed in accordance with the laws of the
State of California, the principal place of business of gourmetsleuth.com™, without
giving effect to any principles of conflicts of law. You agree to bring any claims against
gourmetsleuth.com™, exclusively in the state or federal courts of California. If any
provision of these Terms of Use shall be unlawful, void, or for any reason unenforceable,
then that provision shall be deemed severable from this agreement and shall not affect the
validity and enforceability of any remaining provisions.
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