PRIVACY AND SECURITY POLICIES
General
PRIVACY & SECURITY POLICIES
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INA MEDIA INC DBA INA KITCHENS. PRIVACY AND SECURITY POLICIES
(Please also visit our Terms of Use section that explains other
terms governing use of our website)
Privacy
Your privacy is important to us. INA Media INC dba INA Kitchens. (“INA Media INC dba INA Kitchens.”) has prepared these privacy and security policies (“Privacy Policy”) so you may better understand how INA Kitchens.com (“our Site”) may use your personal information in connection with our Site and services, as well as how it protects your information against unauthorized use. Please take the time to review this Privacy Policy and contact us with any questions or concerns.
Your privacy is important to us. INA Media INC dba INA Kitchens. (“INA Media INC dba INA Kitchens.”) has prepared these privacy and security policies (“Privacy Policy”) so you may better understand how INA Kitchens.com (“our Site”) may use your personal information in connection with our Site and services, as well as how it protects your information against unauthorized use. Please take the time to review this Privacy Policy and contact us with any questions or concerns.
COLLECTION OF INFORMATION
Personal Information
Our Site may ask you to register and provide personal information
in certain instances, such as when you choose to personalize your use of our
Site for environmental interest, when you ask a question of our experts, or
when you contact our customer support group. Personally identifiable
information that we may collect includes your name, e-mail address, and
address. INA Media INC dba INA Kitchens. may also collect demographic
information such as your age, gender, zip code, and interests.
If you choose not to register, you can still use most of our Site,
but you won’t have full access to our user-generated video and blogging
channels.
Children’s Personal Information
INA Media INC dba INA Kitchens. does not knowingly collect
personally identifiable information from users under the age of 13. If we find
out that we have such personal information, we will take reasonable steps to
delete it.
Website Usage Information
INA Media INC dba INA Kitchens. tracks navigational data (log
files, server logs, click-stream) and information about how our Site is used by
you (through cookies, Internet tags, or web beacons). We also collect
information such as the URL of the websites you previously visited and the time
of day that you use our Site. INA Media INC dba INA Kitchens. also keeps track
of the pages you visit within our Site as well as any transaction details
(downloads, orders, requests, or referrals). You can set your browser to notify
you when a cookie is sent, or to refuse or delete cookies altogether, but in
such cases certain features of our Site might not function as expected.
Third-Party Ad-Serving Companies
On our Site, we will display third-party advertisements. While
many of these advertisements are displayed by our site, we may allow
third-party ad-serving companies or ad networks to display advertisements on
our Site. Some of these ad networks may place a persistent cookie in order to
recognize your computer each time they send you an online advertisement. Thus,
third party ad-serving companies or ad networks may compile information about
where you are using your computer, where you saw their advertisements, and
which ads are clicked on. This information allows the third party to deliver
targeted advertisements that they believe will be of most interest to you. INA
Media INC dba INA Kitchens. does not have access to the cookies that may be
placed by the third-party ad-serving companies or ad networks. We will not
share information that will specifically identify you to an ad-serving company
or ad.
HOW WE USE YOUR INFORMATION
Personal Information
INA Media INC dba INA Kitchens. collects, integrates, and uses
your personal information to help enhance and personalize your use of our Site
and the products and services that we may offer. This information also allows
us to provide you with targeted content, information, and advertising (on our
Site, in newsletters, via e-mail, etc.). We also use anonymous and aggregated
data to create statistics and reports for various business purposes. We may
aggregate anonymous data and share it with our advertisers or our partners in
order to offer you potentially desirable products and services.
INA Media INC dba INA Kitchens. may also use your information to
communicate via our newsletters, but only after you give your express
permission for such communication. The exception is the case of “service
e-mails,” which we use to communicate with you regarding the system itself or
your use of the system. Examples include: Communication around system
downtimes, announcements regarding the launch of new services, responses to customer
service enquires, and messages regarding the completion of transactions you
have initiated.
Website Usage Information
The website usage information we collect (e.g., cookies, Internet
tags, web beacons, etc.) is used by INA Media INC dba INA Kitchens. to monitor
the operation, technical functions, and quality of our Site and services. This
information is also used to provide general statistics regarding use of our
Site. We may also use such information for research or improvements of our Site
and the services we offer you. This data is also used by INA Media INC dba INA
Kitchens. to deliver customized content and advertising to you when your online
behavior indicates that you are interested in a particular subject area (i.e.
you’ve communicated to us that you are particularly interested in recycling).
Disclosure of Data
INA Media INC dba INA Kitchens. keeps your personally identifiable
information confidential. We do not disclose it to third parties or others that
do not have a need to know such information, except under certain
circumstances. Set forth below are various circumstances under which INA Media
INC dba INA Kitchens. may share your personal information:
Certain of our employees and independent contractors have access
to your personally identifiable information for the sole purpose of helping us
run our business. These employees and contractors have confidentiality and
security obligations.
We may disclose your personally identifiable information in the
event that we sell this Site or substantial parts of our business, provided
that the buyer agrees to comply with this Privacy Policy.
We may share your information with affiliated companies or
strategic alliance partners, provided they comply with this Privacy Policy.
Although we do not provide your personally identifiable
information to our advertising customers and ad networks, we do aggregate and
supply them with anonymous data (for example, “5,000 members of INA Media INC
dba INA Kitchens. say that global warming is their top environmental concern”).
If you post any information in public areas of our Site, such as
blogs or article-commenting, it will be available to the public and we may
reuse and republish such information at our discretion and in accordance with
our Terms of Use.
We may also share your personally identifiable information to
respond to law enforcement requests, court orders, or other legal processes; or
if we believe that such disclosure is necessary to investigate, prevent, or
respond to illegal activities, fraud, physical threats to you or others; or as
otherwise required by any applicable law or regulation.
Before we disclose your personally identifiable information for
other reasons, we will first obtain your consent, via e-mail, click-through, an
online opportunity to enter your preference, or some other manner.
In the event that we disclose your personally identifiable
information as set forth above, we will require third party organizations to
protect and maintain your personally identifiable information in compliance
with the terms and conditions of this Privacy Policy.
Prohibited Disclosures
Except as set forth above, INA Media INC dba INA Kitchens. will
not disclose your personally identifiable information to any third party,
including advertisers, without your explicit consent. In addition, INA Media
INC dba INA Kitchens. will not sell, rent, or otherwise disclose INA Media INC
dba INA Kitchens’s e-mail list or address list except as explicitly set forth
in this Privacy Policy.
CONTROL OF YOUR PERSONAL INFORMATION
INA Media INC dba INA Kitchens. offers its users choices for the
collection, use, and sharing of personally identifiable information at the time
a user decides to register. In addition, users may stop the delivery of future
communications from INA Media INC dba INA Kitchens. by unsubscribing at any
time. For instance, each e-mail you receive (aside from “service e-mails”)
contains instructions explaining how to stop receiving such e-mails.
If your personally identifiable information changes (such as zip
code, phone, or e-mail or postal address), or if you no longer desire our
service, we provide a way for you to correct, update, or delete/deactivate your
personally identifiable information. This can be done by visiting your account
page on our Site or by e-mailing our Customer Support service at info@inakitchens.com
PROTECTION OF INFORMATION — SECURITY
INA Media INC dba INA Kitchens. is committed to protecting the
security of your personal information. We use a variety of up-to date security
technologies and procedures to help protect your personal information from
unauthorized access, use, or disclosure. For example, we store any personal
information you provide on computer systems with limited access. These systems
are located in controlled facilities. When we transmit highly confidential information
over the Internet, we protect it through the use of encryption, such as the
Secure Socket Layer (SSL) protocol.
You should keep in mind that no Internet communication is ever
completely secure or error-free.
HANGES TO THIS PRIVACY POLICY
We may periodically update this Privacy Policy to reflect changes
in our services and policies. When we post changes to this Privacy Policy, we
will revise the “last updated” date at the top of this Privacy Policy. If there
are material changes to the Privacy Policy or in how INA Media INC dba INA
Kitchens. will use your personal information, we will notify you either by
posting a prominent notice prior to implementing the change or by sending you a
direct notification. We encourage you to periodically review this Privacy
Policy to be informed of how we are protecting your information.
CONTACT INFORMATION
If you have questions or complaints regarding this Privacy Policy,
you should first write us at info@inakitchens.com with
any questions or concerns. All customer requests will be formally reviewed by
our staff.
Chief Privacy
INA Media INC dba INA Kitchens.
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