Updated Friday, 2nd July 2010

About the cookdinner Privacy Policy

cookdinner fully supports protecting user privacy and details. However, it's understandable that you may be concerned about the information you provide to us, how we collect it and how we use and disclose it. With these concerns in mind, we've developed the cookdinner Privacy Policy outlined below. This Privacy Policy explains cookdinner's privacy practices for visitors to our Website at www.cookdinner.com (the "Website"). By using our Website, you consent to the collection, use and disclosure of your personal information as described in this Privacy Policy. We reserve the right to change this Privacy Policy at any time. If we make any material to changes to the Privacy Policy, we will post a new policy on the Website and update the "date" set forth above. Therefore, we encourage you to check our Privacy Policy wherever you visit the Website to see if it has been update since your last visit. If you have any questions about our Privacy Policy, you can contact us at info@cookdinner.com.

Types of Information We Collect

1. Personal Information
   
   Personal information is information that specifically identifies an individual, such as a customer's name, address, telephone number, email address, credit card or other account number, and information about that individual's activities when directly linked to that person such as information about his or her purchases. Personal information also includes demographic information, such as date of birth, gender, geographic area and preferences, when such information is linked to other personal information that identifies the individual.


2. Aggregate Information
   
   Personal Information does not include "aggregate" information. Aggregate information is data we collect about a group or category of products, services or customers, from which individual customer identities have been removed. In other words, information about how you use a service may be collected and combined with information about how others use the same service, but no personal information will be included in the resulting data. Likewise, information about the products you purchase be collected and combined with information about the products purchased by others. Aggregate data assists us to understand trends and customer needs so that we can better develop new products and services, and tailor existing products and services to customer desires. We may share aggregate information about our users with third parties for various purposes, such as helping us better understand and improve our services, and for advertising and marketing purposes.

How We Collect and Use Personal Information

cookdinner collects Personal Information from you at several different points on our Website, as set forth below. In general, we use personal information for the purpose for which it was collected (such as to provide services or complete transactions you have requested, for billing purposes, and to anticipate and resolve problems with our Website and our products and services), for our own internal business operations, to respond to customer support enquiries and for other purposes described below.

Registration, Purchases; Other Information Submissions

1. When you register to become a member on our Website, you are asked to create a unique login and password, and are required to certain personal information (such as your name, email address and post code). We may also request certain information about your tastes and preferences (such as your favourite ingredients, recipes and places to shop).


2. Information you provide during registration may be used for some or all of the following:
   1. To provide services you have requested, or to otherwise fulfil your request; and
   2. To contact you from to time (i) about services on our Website for which you have expressed interest; (ii) with news, (iii) for internal marketing, informational and promotional purposes; or (it) for any other lawful purpose related to your use of the Website.


3. Additionally, your registration information may be used, together with other information you submit to us in conjunction with your use of the Website, for the following purposes:
   1. For editorial purposes, such as when you submit a recipe to use (e.g., to attribute a recipe to you)
   2. To contact you for any reason regarding content you have submitted to the Website (e.g., to ask you a question about a recipe you have submitted); and
   3. To identify you by name when posting content you submit to use on the Website (e.g., when you request a recipe on the Website, to pose your name and a description of the recipe you are requesting).


4. If, during or immediately following registration, you choose to view offers for goods and services that are available from selected third party companies ("Co-Registration Vendors"), we will make certain contact and demographic information you provide during registration (e.g., name, age, and/or email address) available to these vendors. If you request goods or services from a Co-Registration Vendor, you may be asked to submit additional demographic and other personal information. The Co-Registration Vendor may use your registration information which we provide to it, along with any information you submit directly to it, to fulfil, or secure fulfilment of, your request. For additional information about disclose of your personal information to our Co-Registration Vendors, and their use thereafter, please see the "Disclosure of Personal Information" section below.


5. We collect personal information such as your credit card, credit card billing address, and related billing information if you purchase products or services on our Website. We use this information to fulfil your orders and bill you for them.

Newsletters

When you submit your email address to us to initiate a subscription to news and information receipts, we ask for personal information such as your name and email address. This personal information is only used to send you the newsletter(s) you have requested. You may opt-out of such follow-up contacts by following the instructions in the newsletter.

Invite A Friend For Dinner

When you elect to use our referral service for emailing a recipe or other content to a friend, we ask you for your friend's name and email address. cookdinner will automatically send your friend a one-time email on your behalf which contains the recipe or other content, and which invites your friend to visit the website. cookdinner uses your friend's name and email address only to send this one-time email, and does not store this information. If your friend does not wish to receive "invite a friend for dinner" messages, he or she must contact you directly. cookdinner users must not use our referral service to send unwanted spam to others.

Promotions, Offers and Surveys

From time to time our Website requests personal information from users via promotions offers and surveys. Participation in these promotions, offers and surveys is completely voluntary and you therefore may choose whether to disclose personal information in connection with these activities. Personal Information requested in these activities may include contact information (e.g., your name, and postal address) and demographic information (e.g., you postcode or age). We use this information to notify you if you've won and to award prizes. We use information we collect in surveys for internal purposes, such as to ascertain the use of this Website and improve its usefulness to you. We may also provide third parties with this information, and may combine it with some or all of your registration information. Third parties may use the information we provide them to contact you regarding products or services that may be of interest to you. These disclosures are discussed in greater detail below in the "Disclosure of Personal Information" section. When we provide information collected during a promotion, offer or survey on the Website to third parties, we always disclose this to you at the time of collection.

Customer Service

We collect personal information when you submit comments, questions or suggestions to our customer service department. We use the information you provide to respond to your submission.

Cookies and Log Files

Cookies

We use "cookie" technology on our Website. We may place on or more cookies in the browser file of your computer. Although such cookies do not contain any personally identifying information about you, we may link this information to personal information about you. If we do, we will treat it as personal information under this Privacy Policy. We use cookies to provide functional information about your browser, which is recorded in the Website's logs and which allows us to provide a better experience on our Website. We also use cookies to gather broad demographic information and general usage patterns about you and other users of our Website. In the course of placing advertisements on this Website, our third-party advertisers may place or recognise a unique cookie on your browser.

Log Files

We track log files on our Website (i.e., we log your computer's IP address into our log files when you visit a page on our Website) and use them to analyse trends, administer the Website, track your movements on the Website, and gather broad demographic information for aggregate use. We may link some or all of this information to personally identifiable information that is stored on a cookie in your computer. We only use information gathered from these activities for our internal marketing and operational purposes.

Disclosure of Personal Information

cookdinner will not sell, rent or share personal information with third parties without your prior consent in the limited circumstances described in this Privacy Policy.

1. Consent
   
   With your consent, we may disclose your personal information to third parties in order to provide you with products and services that you have requested.
   
   • During or immediately following registration, you have the option to view and select offers from third party companies that may be of interest to you, such as retailers and consumer products manufacturers. These offers are made available to you by out Co-Registration Vendors. If you choose to view these offers we will make information you provide during registration available to these vendors. The vendors will forward this information, along with any other information you provide in conjunction with your request, to companies you have selected in order to fulfil, or facilitate fulfilment of, your request(s). Our Co-Registration Vendors are contractually obligated to keep all such information confidential and to only use it for the purposes for which it was provided. If you do not select any of the available offers, the vendors will delete your information which they have been provided. Please note, however, that any information that is passed on by these vendors to third party companies that you select is subject to those third parties' privacy practices.
   
   
   • With you consent we may disclose information you provide to use during registration to third parties in conjunction with (i) your entry into a promotion, (ii) your request of an offer, or (ii) your participation in a survey or similar activity on the Website. You may be asked for additional information in order to enter the promotion, request an offer, or participate in a survey. The third parties will use the information we provide to them, along with any information you provide during your entry, request, or participation, in order to (i) notify you if you have won a prize in a contest, and (ii) to fulfil, or facilitate fulfilment of, requests for products or services you may make in connection with your entry, request or participation. These third parties are contractually obligated to keep all such information confidential and to only use it for the purposes for which it was provided. When we provide information collected during a promotion, offer, or survey on the Website to third parties, we always disclose this to you at the time of collection.


2. cookdinner's Own Business Purposes
   
   We use and disclose information about you for our own internal statistical, design or operational purposes, such as to estimate our audience size, measure aggregate traffic patterns, and understand demographic, user interest, purchasing and other trends among our users. We may outsource these tasks and disclose personal information about you to third parties, provided the use and disclosure of your personal information by these third parties is restricted to performance of such tasks. We may also share personal information with third-party vendors who assist use in performing internal functions necessary to operate our business. We require our third party vendors to keep such information confidential and to only use the information for the purpose it was provided.


3. Protection of cookdinner and Others
   
   We disclose personal information when we believe it is appropriate to comply with the law (e.g., a warrant or court order); to enforce or apply this privacy policy or our other policies or agreements; to initiate, render, bill and collect for amounts owed to us; to protect our or our user's rights, property or safety; or to protect our users from fraudulent, abusive, or unlawful use of our Website; of if we reasonably believe that an emergency involving immediate danger of death or serious physical injury to any person requires disclosure of communications or justifies disclosure of personal information without delay.


4. Business Transfers
   
   Information about our users, including personal information, may be disclosed as part of any merger, acquisition, debt financing, sale of company assets, as wel as in the event of an insolvency, bankruptcy, or receivership in which personally identifiable information could be transferred to third parties as one of the business assets of the company.

Children

We do not intend, and the Website is not designed, to collect personal information from children under the age of 15. If you are under 15 years of age, you should not register for our services or otherwise provide information on our Website and should ask your parent to do so for you.

Third Party Website Advertising - General

We use one or more third party advertising companies to serve ads when you visit our Website. We do not share personal information about you with any third party advertiser unless you give us permission to do so, separate from any permission you provide during the registration process. These advertisers may seek to use cookers and web beacons to track session data about the ads you have seen and types of things in which you appear interested. These advertisers may also use combined information about your visits to our Website and other Web sites in order to provide advertisements about related goods and services that may be of interest to you.

Third Party Links

From time to time we may have links to other Web sites from our Website. We do not control, and therefore cannot be held responsible for, the collection, use or disclosure of your information by any such third party Web site. Please carefully review the privacy policy of any third party Web site that you link to from our Website. The privacy policies of such sites may differ from that of our Website; therefore, we encourage you to review and understand the privacy policies of such Web sites before providing them with any information.

Third Party Sources

cookdinner may also obtain information about you from third parties, such as demographic marketing information, address verification, or third party mailing lists, and add such information to, or combine it with, your personal information. Should we ever obtain this information and link it to you, we will treat it all as personal information under this Privacy Policy.

Security

We use reasonable security measure to store and maintain personally identifying information so as to protect it from loss, misuse, alteration or destruction by unauthorised parties while it is under our control. We use secure socket layer ("SSL") encryption when transmitting certain kinds of information, such as payment information, over the Internet.

Correcting / Updating Personal Information

We give you the opportunity to opt-out of receiving commercial email from us by following the opt-out instructions provided in the message. Even if you opt-out in this manner, however, you will still receive account-related and non-commercial messages from us. To get place on our "DO NOT EMAIL" list, send a request to info@cookdinner.com. If you email address is added to the "DO NOT EMAIL" list, you will receive any newsletters or other opt-in email messages. Please note, however, that your email address being placed on the "DO NOT EMAIL" list does not prevent you from receiving "Invite a Friend for Dinner" email messages, or email messages from third parties from which you requested information, products or services from during or immediately after registration. To opt-out from messages from these third parties, or from any other communications that you receive directly from third parties, you must contract them directly in order to opt-out.

Contact Us

If you have any questions or queries about this Privacy Policy, the privacy practices of this Website, or your dealings with cookdinner, please contact us at info@cookdinner.com or use the following address:

cookdinner
PO Box 7354
St Kilda Rd, Victoria, 8004
Australia