ChineseFoodDIY.com
Online Privacy Policy
(Last updated on April 14, 2011)
ChineseFoodDIY.com has established this Privacy
Policy to explain how it protects and manages
the personal information that it collects from
you (the customer) online.
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Consent for Collection, Use and Disclosure |
Your use of the ChineseFoodDIY.com site and/or
your registration for ChineseFoodDIY.com
products and services constitute your consent to
the terms of this Privacy Policy.
If you do not agree to the terms of this Privacy
Policy, please do not use the ChineseFoodDIY.com
site.
ChineseFoodDIY.com may occasionally update this
Privacy Policy. When it does,
ChineseFoodDIY.com will also revise the “last
update” date at the top of this Privacy Policy.
In addition, ChineseFoodDIY.com will seek a
customer’s prior consent, by email, for any new
uses or proposed disclosures of information
collected from the customer prior to the change.
ChineseFoodDIY.com will notify customers by
email of changes to this policy that will
affect information collected from them in the
future.
In certain circumstances, however,
ChineseFoodDIY.com will not inform and obtain
the consent of the customer, such as in
connection with an investigation of a breach of
an agreement, contravention of laws, an
emergency where the life, health or security of
an individual is threatened, the collection of a
debt or in compliance with the request of a law
enforcement agency or a court order.
A customer may withdraw his or her consent for
collection, use and disclosure at any time by
sending an email to
 . Please note that, if you do,
ChineseFoodDIY.com may suspend its provision of
products and services to you.
When
you unsubscribe, if you fall within the
guarantee period for any ChineseFoodDIY.com
product and you request a refund, the guarantee
will be honored.
ChineseFoodDIY.com collects, at the time of your
registration and your sign-on to its web site,
certain “personal information” (information that
personally identifies you) including but not
limited to your name, email address, home or
work address, telephone number, and information
about your computer hardware and software (e.g.,
IP address, operating system, browser type,
domain name, URL, access times, and referring
web site addresses).
ChineseFoodDIY.com has implemented this Privacy
Policy to protect personal information received
from its customers, and to respond to any
inquiries.
The Privacy Policy also provides that
ChineseFoodDIY.com will use appropriate
contractual means to establish a comparable
level of protection for personal information
which is sent for processing by third parties on
ChineseFoodDIY.com’s behalf.
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Purposes for Collecting Personal Information |
ChineseFoodDIY.com collects and uses personal
information for the following Identified
Purposes:
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(a) |
to understand customer needs regarding
ChineseFoodDIY.com’s services; |
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(b) |
to develop and provide our web site and our
products and services for our customers; |
(c) to fulfill your
requests for products, services or information;
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(d) |
to communicate with customers and site
visitors, when necessary, and to inform
customers of upgrades, as well as of other
products and services available from
ChineseFoodDIY.com, its affiliates and third
parties; |
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to allow customers to access limited-entry
areas of ChineseFoodDIY.com’s site; |
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(f) |
to personalize some of our services and
products for you and to deliver targeted
advertisements and offers from
ChineseFoodDIY.com and third parties; |
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(g) |
to bill accounts and maintain payment
records; |
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(h) |
to comply with any applicable law,
regulation, legal process or government
request; |
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(i) |
to respond to a legitimate claim, or to
address our reasonable belief, that you are
violating the rights of any third party or
any of the agreements or policies that
govern your use of the ChineseFoodDIY.com
site or any ChineseFoodDIY.com product or
service; |
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(j) |
to protect the services, products or rights
of ChineseFoodDIY.com, including but not
limited to the security or integrity of the
ChineseFoodDIY.com site; and |
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(k) |
to
identify and resolve technical problems
concerning ChineseFoodDIY.com’s site,
products and services. |
ChineseFoodDIY.com also uses personal
information in an aggregate form (i.e.,
not individually attributable to you) for its
business analysis, operational, marketing and
other promotional purposes.
If we hire other companies to provide some
products or services on our behalf, then we will
only provide those companies the personal
information they need for the Identified
Purposes, and we will limit their rights to use
and further disclose your personal information
as appropriate in the course of their work for
us.
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Limiting the Collection of Personal
Information |
ChineseFoodDIY.com limits its collection of
personal information to only that information
which is necessary for the Identified Purposes.
ChineseFoodDIY.com does not direct its site to,
nor does it knowingly collect any personal
information from children under the age of
thirteen.
When you visit the ChineseFoodDIY.com web site,
a cookie may be placed on your computer or the
cookie may be read if you have visited the
ChineseFoodDIY.com site previously.
ChineseFoodDIY.com uses cookies to allow
ChineseFoodDIY.com to determine which products
and services you have already purchased so that
ChineseFoodDIY.com does not provide redundant
information to you, and, if you are an
ChineseFoodDIY.com affiliate, to track
ChineseFoodDIY.com sales made to customers
referred by you so that you can receive
compensation under our affiliate program. If
you choose to not have your browser accept
cookies from the ChineseFoodDIY.com web site,
you may not be able to view all the text on the
screens, or to experience a personalised visit,
or to subscribe to certain service and product
offerings on the ChineseFoodDIY.com site.
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Disclosure, Processing and Retention
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ChineseFoodDIY.com does not sell, rent or
disclose your personal information to anyone
else, except:
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(a) |
to someone you have designated to act as
your agent, for one or more of the
Identified Purposes (listed in Section 2,
above); |
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(b) |
to ChineseFoodDIY.com’s employees,
independent contractors, subsidiaries,
affiliates, consultants, business
associates, service providers, suppliers and
agents, acting on
ChineseFoodDIY.com’s behalf for any
of the Identified Purposes; |
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as necessary if ChineseFoodDIY.com has
reason to believe that disclosure is
necessary to identify, contact or bring
legal action against someone who may be
causing injury to or interference (either
intentionally or unintentionally) with
ChineseFoodDIY.com’s rights or property,
other users of ChineseFoodDIY.com’s web
site, products or services, or anyone else
that could be harmed by such activities; and |
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to
respond to judicial process and provide
information to law enforcement agencies or
in connection with an investigation on
matters related to public safety, as
permitted by law, or otherwise as required
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In addition, as we continue to develop our
business, we or our affiliates may sell or buy
other businesses or entities, or we may merge
with another company. In such transactions,
personal information may be one of the
transferred business assets. Also, in the event
that ChineseFoodDIY.com or substantially all of
its assets are acquired, your personal
information may be one of the transferred
assets.
Your information may be stored and processed in
the United States, or in any other country in
which ChineseFoodDIY.com or its affiliates,
subsidiaries or agents maintain facilities. By
using this web site, you consent to any such
transfer of information outside of your
country.
After your account becomes inactive (that is, if
you request to be removed from our database),
ChineseFoodDIY.com will keep your personal
information in its archives. Your information
will then be used only as necessary for tax
reasons or to prove
ChineseFoodDIY.com’s compliance with any
applicable law.
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Accuracy of Personal Information |
ChineseFoodDIY.com will use reasonable efforts
to keep customer personal information accurate
for the Identified Purposes,
and for minimizing the possibility of making
inappropriate customer decisions based on such
information. Customers are responsible for
informing ChineseFoodDIY.com about changes to
their personal information. You can do this by
sending an email to
.
ChineseFoodDIY.com will use new or updated
personal information it receives from customers
to update its own records.
ChineseFoodDIY.com will use reasonable efforts
to protect customers’ personal information.
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Access to Personal Information |
ChineseFoodDIY.com will afford you a reasonable
opportunity to review the personal information
in your file, if you so request by
sending email to
.
If ChineseFoodDIY.com is not able to provide
access to some aspect of a customer’s personal
information, it will provide reasons for denying
access such as; that by doing so would likely
reveal personal information about a third party,
or that it is confidential commercial
information or attorney–client privileged
communications, or that the information relates
to a breach of an agreement or a contravention
of law, or that its disclosure could reasonably
be expected to threaten the life or security of
another individual.
Customers have the right to request that
inaccurate or incomplete information be amended
as appropriate, by contacting ChineseFoodDIY.com
or the Privacy Officer as described above.
ChineseFoodDIY.com will promptly correct such
personal information.
9. Use of Cookies and Web Beacons
We
do use cookies to store information, such as your personal preferences
when you visit our site. This could include only showing you a popup
once in your visit, or the ability to login to some of our features,
such as forums.
We also use third party advertising services to display advertisements,
such as Google through the Google AdSense program. Some or all of those
advertising services may use technology such as cookies and web beacons
when they advertise on our site, which will send these advertisers
information about your visit including your IP address, your ISP, the
browser you used to visit our site, and in some cases, whether you have
Flash installed. This is generally used for geotargeting purposes.
Geo-targeting is sometimes used for the purposes of matching
advertisements with visitors based on certain attributes that visitor
has. An example of this type of geo-targeting would be showing Idaho
movie theatre ads to someone located in Idaho, or showing certain ads
based on specific sites visited, such as showing cooking ads to someone
who frequents cooking sites.
DoubleClick DART cookies
We also may use DART cookies for ad serving through Google.s
DoubleClick service, which places a cookie on your computer when you
are browsing the web and visit a site using DoubleClick advertising
(including some Google AdSense advertisements). This cookie is used to
serve ads specific to you and your interests (.interest based
targeting.). The ads served will be targeted based on your previous
browsing history (For example, if you have been viewing sites about
visiting Miami, you may see Miami hotel advertisements when viewing a
non-related site, such as on a site about hockey). DART uses .non
personally identifiable information.. It does NOT track personal
information about you, such as your name, email address, physical
address, telephone number, social security numbers, bank account
numbers or credit card numbers. You can opt-out of this ad serving on
all sites using this advertising by visiting
http://www.doubleclick.com/privacy/dart_adserving.aspx
You may choose to disable or selectively turn off our cookies or
third-party cookies in your browser settings, or by managing
preferences in programs such as Norton Internet Security. However, this
can affect how you are able to interact with our site as well as other
websites. This could include the inability to login to services or
programs, such as logging into forums or accounts.
Deleting cookies does not mean you are permanently opted out of any
advertising program. Unless you have settings that disallow cookies,
the next time you visit a site running the advertisements, a new cookie
will be added.
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10. Use of Log Files
As with most other websites, we collect and use the data contained in
log files. The information in the log files include your IP (internet
protocol) address, your ISP (internet service provider, such as AOL or
Shaw Cable), the type of browser you used to visit our site (such as
Google Chrome, Internet Explorer or Mozilla Firefox), the time at which
you visited our site and which pages you visited throughout our site.
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