Privacy Policy
Date of Last Revision: December 28, 2012
Privacy Policy
ItsMyKitchen.com ("ItsMyKitchen", "IMK") understands the importance of protecting data that personally identifies our users. It is our commitment to keep you informed about how we use the information to improve the ItsMyKitchen product(s) and service(s) and your experience. Our privacy policy is to help you understand what data is collected, how the data is collected, how it is used, and how to stay informed about policy updates.
As our Privacy Policy changes, you will be informed here within the Privacy Policy. The "Date of Last Revision" will be revised when changes to the Privacy Policy have been made.
ItsMyKitchen may contain links to third-party websites, products and services. This privacy policy only applies to ItsMyKitchen and our collection and use of your information. IMK 'SITES' product(s) and service(s) and their collection and use of your information, are governed by their privacy policies. We encourage you to learn about the privacy policies and practices of all third party websites that you visit.
Definitions
- "IMK", "ItsMyKitchen" references are exclusively referring to the products and services offered exclusively within ItsMyKitchen.com and not the products or service offerings of any linked site, affiliate or advertiser.
- Advertisement "Click-Through's" are an action taken when a IMK user clicks on an advertisement that is displayed and is then presented with a new web page with the advertisement information.
- "IMK 'SITES'" represents IMK affiliates, advertisers, and/or links from IMK to other websites.
- "IMK Affiliates" represents IMK 'SITES' and third-parties (for example promotional firms) that will assist in research, promotional, trend and other activities and analysis to improve ItsMyKitchen service/product offerings.
- "Forums", "Forum" represents blog(s), message board(s) or other social opportunitie(s) of IMK and/or IMK Affiliates.
Information We Collect
Personally identifiable information is any information or combination of information collected that can be used to identify, contact, or locate a discrete Individual. ItsMyKitchen requires email address, name, postal/mailing address, gender, birthdate. This information is used to associate the Individual user to their IMK account and to information such as store items, shopping list, store information that the user chooses to enter into IMK for use of the site's products and services.
You may also have the option to provide us other information such as phone number and with demographic information such as number of household members, household income, etc. You will always have the option to decide whether or not to provide personally identifiable information. Election to not provide personally identifiable information may prevent use of IMK products and services because IMK functionality requires the ability to discretely associate products and services to the user.
There may be other occasions not detailed in this Privacy Policy when we may ask you to provide additional personally identifiable information. There are multiple ways IMK may collect information when you interact with our site. Many are discussed below:
- Register with us or our IMK Affiliates.
- Use our site to create store information, store items, shopping lists, and recipes.
- Interact with advertisements on our Site.
- Communicate with our customer service team for support.
- in certain programs, offers and promotions.
- Register a retailer loyalty account or similar retailer identifier with us.
- Register or interact with us via Facebook Connect or other social media provider(s).
While you are allowing us to use the information we receive about you to provide IMK products, services and other opportunities, you always own all of your information. Your trust is very important to us, which is why we don't share information received about you with others unless we have:
- secured your permission
- provided advance notice, such as by telling you about it in this policy; or
- removed your name or any other personally identifying information from the data collected.
- been required to provide your information due to legal proceedings.
Cookie & Web Beacon Information
ItsMyKitchen requires the use of cookies, and cookies must be enabled on your browser for IMK to work. When you visit ItsMyKitchen and/or IMK 'SITES' one or more cookies may be sent to your computer. A cookie is a small text file containing a string of alphanumeric characters. IMK and/or IMK 'SITES' may use session cookies and/or persistent cookies to manage your interaction with the site. A persistent cookie remains after you close your browser and may be used by your browser on subsequent visits to IMK and/or IMK 'SITES'. These persistent cookies can be removed by you. Please review your browser's Help menu to learn how to modify your cookies setup. IMK and/or IMK 'SITES' may also use web beacons (also known as clear gifs or pixel tags), which are tiny graphics with a unique identifier that are placed in the code of a webpage.
When you use IMK and IMK and/or IMK 'SITES' or open one of IMK and/or IMK 'SITES' emails, we may use technology (including web beacons and cookies, unique device IDs, IP addresses, log files, and user IDs) to automatically collect non-personally identifiable information including:
- Application activity (such as features accessed and order, frequency of features accessed).
- Web browser type, operating system type, screen size.
- The web pages you viewed on IMK and/or IMK 'SITES'.
- The website that referred you to us.
- The advertisements you viewed and clicked on.
- The dates and times that you visited IMK and/or IMK 'SITES'.
Non-personally identifiable information may be linked automatically to personally identifiable information you submit while using IMK and/or IMK 'SITES' when you are logged in or in connection with a service you have requested. For example, we may associate your userid (email address) with an affiliate you visited to further define service or product preferences you may indicate through your activity. This information may help IMK and/or IMK 'SITES' to provide other product, service suggestions or offerings.
Promotions, Sweepstakes, Contests
Periodically, IMK and/or IMK 'SITES' may offer sponsor contests, promotions and/or surveys for your elective participation. Personal information may be required as a condition of participation for purposes of verifying an entrant's identity, notifying winners, and fulfilling prizes. Your information will not be used or disclosed unless we receive your consent to do so. Should we engage a third party to assist in administering a promotion or fulfilling prizes, this information will be disclosed to that third party.
Analytics
We use analytical tools to help us better understand who is using IMK and/or IMK 'SITES' and how they are using services and/or products in order to provide users with the best IMK experience possible. These tools utilize cookies to collect information such as time of visit, pages visited, time spent on a page of the website, IP address, and type of operating system used to access IMK and/or IMK 'SITES'. We use this information to manage and improve IMK and our associations with advertisers, IMK Affiliates, other service, and promotional providers.
How Information is Used
Information collected from your use of ItsMyKitchen and/or IMK 'SITES' and information provided by third parties will be used for the purposes described below:
- Help us measure the effectiveness of IMK products and services.
- Help us measure the effectiveness of IMK Affiliates.
- Process IMK service offerings. For example, creation of shopping list with use of store and recipe information.
- Communicate to you coupons, advertisements and other offerings from IMK and/or IMK 'SITES'.
- Keep record of coupon request and redemption activities.
- Provide customized coupons based on your IMK user activity and/or preferences.
- Monitor and be knowledgeable of usage trends and preferences.
- Monitor the effectiveness of marketing campaigns.
- Aggregate usage metrics so that we have knowledge of facts such as total number of visitors for a particular time frame, pages that were viewed by a demographic user group, number of click-through's to advertisements, etc.
- Personalize your user experience to help with time saving options such as remembering information to be used for future visits to IMK.
- Creating new services, features and functionality.
- Improve the way IMK looks and functions.
- Gather device information to further service product offerings customized to your usage.
- Improve promotional opportunities.
- Provide customer service.
Sharing Information
Your personally identifiable information will only be shared with IMK 'SITES' and promotional or marketing third parties when you have provided us with consent. Participation will be requested of you for each specific service, program, promotion or feature. For example, IMK may present a survey opportunity that results in entry of a sweepstakes or giveaway. If you choose to participate, information will be provided to the promotional provider of the survey.
Non-personally identifiable information will be shared (such as aggregate store and store item preferences, coupon usage) with IMK Affiliates to achieve improved product/service offerings. For example, promotional opportunities, surveys, new or improved affiliate opportunities. An Affiliate may match non-personally identifiable information that we share to personally identifiable information that they have about you through other use of Affiliate products/services.
Exceptions to Privacy Policy
Information may be shared as required by law or in good-faith effort to support local, state or federal law, respond to a court order, bankruptcy proceedings, or subpoena or warrant. We reserve the right to share information in good-faith to protect IMK and/or Affiliates against liability, fraudulent activities, abuse, unlawful practices, and to investigate or defend IMK and/or IMK Affiliates.
If ItsMyKitchen is acquired by or merged with a third party, we reserve the right to transfer information we have collected from you as part of such acquisition, sale, merger, or other change of control.
Control of Your Information
You have the ability to edit/update your personally identifiable information and preferences by going to the "Settings" page on our website or by contacting us using the "Contact Us" link at the bottom of the page on our website. You will be required to enter your email address and password to access your account.
ItsMyKitchen will provide opt-out opportunities where you have the opportunity to receive products, services or emails based on your election of such. Opt-out opportunities will be provided on the "Settings" page on our website or by contacting us using the "Contact Us" link at the bottom of the page on our website.
ItsMyKitchen cannot control your elections with IMK Affiliates. Please refer to the third party for instructions on how to opt-out of their offerings (for example, advertisements, emails, service).
Social Forum
ItsMyKitchen may offer social, interactive blogs, message boards, or other social opportunities "Forums" within IMK and/or with IMK Affiliates, and may use a third party to manage, and/or a host to provide such services. Use of such sites will be governed by the relative Forum's rules posted. Please be advised that any personally identifiable information provided by you and posted to any Forum may be used based on the goals and objectives of the Forum with which you participate.
Data Security Commitment
ItsMyKitchen incorporates electronic, administrative and physical procedures to safeguard confidentiality of your personally identifiable information. IMK uses Secure Sockets Layer (SSL) to support our security commitment to you. Security measures and commitments with IMK Affiliates will be based on processes and procedures defined and managed by them. No security measure is impenetrable or exact to ensure absolute protection against those who wish to secure personally identifiable information of others. We cannot guarantee the security of information you provide to us.
Commitment to Children's Security
We do not or will not knowingly collect information from persons under 13 years of age. If you are under the age of 13, please do not access or use ItsMyKitchen or IMK Affiliate sites in any manner. If we determine a user is less than 13 years of age, IMK will take steps to remove information provided by the individual and disable or remove the user's account.
International Users Statement
ItsMyKitchen is hosted in the United States and is primarily intended for use by users in the United States. As such, our site is governed by U.S. law and Privacy Policy.
Your use and continued use of ItsMykitchen is your consent to our use and transfer of your personal information as is stated in this policy.
Contact Information
Our privacy policy is shared with you because we want to demonstrate our commitment to your privacy. If you have any questions regarding our privacy policy, please contact us using the "Contact Us" link at the bottom of the page on our website.
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