Cheese Chick Privacy Policy

 

Website Visitors
Like most website operators, Cheese Chick collects non-personally-identifying information of the sort that web browsers and servers typically make available, such as the browser type, language preference, referring site, and the date and time of each visitor request. Cheese Chick’s purpose in collecting non-personally identifying information is to better understand how Cheese Chick’s visitors use its website. From time to time, Cheese Chick may release non-personally-identifying information in the aggregate, e.g., by publishing a report on trends in the usage of its website.

Cheese Chick also collects potentially personally-identifying information like Internet Protocol (IP) addresses. Cheese Chick does not use such information to identify its visitors, however, and does not disclose such information, other than under the same circumstances that it uses and discloses personally-identifying information, as described below.

Gathering of Personally-Identifying Information
Certain visitors to Cheese Chick’s websites choose to interact with Cheese Chick in ways that require Cheese Chick to gather personally-identifying information. The amount and type of information that Cheese Chick gathers depends on the nature of the interaction. For example, we ask visitors who contact us through our contact form or sign up for our newsletter to provide an email address. In each case, Cheese Chick collects such information only insofar as is necessary or appropriate to fulfill the purpose of the visitor’s interaction with Cheese Chick. Cheese Chick does not disclose personally-identifying information other than as described below. And visitors can always refuse to supply personally-identifying information, with the caveat that it may prevent them from engaging in certain website-related activities.

Aggregated Statistics
Cheese Chick may collect statistics about the behavior of visitors to its websites. For instance, Cheese Chick may monitor the most popular content on the Cheese-Chick.Com site or spam screened by a service to help identify spam. Cheese Chick may display this information publicly or provide it to others. However, Cheese Chick does not disclose personally-identifying information other than as described below.

Protection of Certain Personally-Identifying Information
Cheese Chick discloses potentially personally-identifying and personally-identifying information only to those of its employees, contractors and affiliated organizations that (i) need to know that information in order to process it on Cheese Chick’s behalf or to provide services available at Cheese Chick’s websites, and (ii) that have agreed not to disclose it to others. Some of those employees, contractors and affiliated organizations may be located outside of your home country; by using Cheese Chick’s websites, you consent to the transfer of such information to them. Cheese Chick will not rent or sell potentially personally-identifying and personally-identifying information to anyone. Other than to its employees, contractors and affiliated organizations, as described above, Cheese Chick discloses potentially personally-identifying and personally-identifying information only when required to do so by law, or when Cheese Chick believes in good faith that disclosure is reasonably necessary to protect the property or rights of Cheese Chick, third parties or the public at large. If you are a registered user of an Cheese Chick website and have supplied your email address, Cheese Chick may occasionally send you an email to tell you about new features, solicit your feedback, or just keep you up to date with what’s going on with Cheese Chick and our products. We primarily use our various content articles and blogs to communicate this type of information, so we expect to keep this type of email to a minimum. If you send us a request (for example via a support email or via one of our feedback mechanisms), we reserve the right to publish it in order to help us clarify or respond to your request or to help us support other users. Cheese Chick takes all measures reasonably necessary to protect against the unauthorized access, use, alteration or destruction of potentially personally-identifying and personally-identifying information.

Cookies
A cookie is a string of information that a website stores on a visitor’s computer, and that the visitor’s browser provides to the website each time the visitor returns. Cheese Chick uses cookies to help Cheese Chick identify and track visitors, their usage of Cheese Chick website, and their website access preferences. Cheese Chick visitors who do not wish to have cookies placed on their computers should set their browsers to refuse cookies before using Cheese Chick’s websites, with the drawback that certain features of Cheese Chick’s websites may not function properly without the aid of cookies.

Ads
Ads appearing on any of our websites may be delivered to users by advertising partners, who may set cookies. These cookies allow the ad server to recognize your computer each time they send you an online advertisement to compile information about you or others who use your computer. This information allows ad networks to, among other things, deliver targeted advertisements that they believe will be of most interest to you. This Privacy Policy covers the use of cookies by Cheese Chick and does not cover the use of cookies by any advertisers.

Privacy Policy Changes
Although most changes are likely to be minor, Cheese Chick may change its Privacy Policy from time to time, and in Cheese Chick’s sole discretion. Cheese Chick encourages visitors to frequently check this page for any changes to its Privacy Policy. Your continued use of this site after any change in this Privacy Policy will constitute your acceptance of such change.