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Effective Date:
01/01/2010
Cork & Platter respects the privacy of visitors to our site. This
Privacy Policy governs the use and collection of information from you by
Cork & Platter ("we" or "us") through your use of this site. This
Privacy Policy does not apply to any information you may provide to us
through other means; for example, at a live event, via mail, or via
telephone.
Please read this Privacy Policy carefully so that you understand our
online privacy practices. By visiting this site, you agree that your
visit, and any dispute over our online privacy practices, is governed by
this Privacy Policy and our Visitor Agreement. Questions regarding
privacy issues should be directed to:
maria@corkandplatter.com
TYPES OF INFORMATION WE COLLECT
The information we gather falls into two categories: (1) information
(for example, your name and address) that you voluntarily supply (for
example, when you register as a visitor to the site, or customize our
service to provide you services specific to your neighborhood), and (2)
information gathered on usage patterns and preferences as visitors
navigate through our sites. In some cases, it is an agent or affiliate
of ours that collects the information on our behalf. Third-party
providers featured on or linked to by our site, such as vendors of
products and services offered through our site, may be gathering the
same kinds of information. We may use your registration information to
contact you for customer service purposes, to inform you about the
services offered over our site or of important changes or additions to
our site, and to send you newsletters, offers and information that you
request or that we think may interest you.
Contests and Other Promotions.
From time to time, we may offer contests, sweepstakes or other
promotions on our site. If you enter one of these promotions, you'll
have to provide information about yourself (such as your name, address,
telephone number and email address) so that we can contact you if you
win. We may share this information with any wholly or majority-owned
subsidiary of Cork & Platter and any co-sponsor of the promotion (we
will identify any co-sponsor in the official rules for the promotion).
If you don't want us to collect the information requested in the
registration form or to provide it to any wholly or majority-owned
subsidiary of Cork & Platter or contest co-sponsors, please do not enter
the contest or sweepstakes.
Email Newsletters.
We may offer you the opportunity to subscribe to email newsletters on
topics that we believe are of interest to our visitors. If you have
opted to receive a particular newsletter, you may always unsubscribe
later if you decide not to receive further mailings of the newsletter
from us. Each newsletter will include instructions on how to unsubscribe
from future issues by using either a designated reply email address or
hyperlink.
Cookies.
To help make our sites more responsive to the needs of our visitors, we
use a standard feature of browser software, called a "cookie," to assign
each visitor a unique, random number, a sort of user ID, if you will,
that resides on your computer. The cookie doesn't actually identify the
visitor, just the computer that a visitor uses to access our site. The
only personal information a cookie can contain is information you
supply. A cookie can't read unrelated data off your hard drive. Our
advertisers and the third parties that provide products or services
through our site may also assign their own cookies to your browser, a
process that we don't control. We use cookies to help us tailor our site
to your needs, to deliver a better, more personalized service. For
example, we may use cookies to allow you to search for those businesses
closest to your home. In addition, we may use cookies to track the pages
on our site visited by our users. We can build a better site if we know
which pages our users are visiting and how often. Of course, you can set
your browser not to accept cookies, but if you do, you may not be able
to take advantage of the personalized features enjoyed by other visitors
to our site.
Other Methods of Collecting Information.
Our web pages may contain electronic images (called "single-pixel GIFs"
or "web beacons") that allow us and our vendors to count users who have
visited particular pages or to access certain cookies. We may use these
tools and other technologies to recognize which pages users visit, and
which links they click on. These features may also be included in our
email newsletters so that we can learn which messages have been opened
and acted upon. We may also be able to verify your online purchases from
us or from third party sites that have agreed to share such information
with us.
Browser Level Information and IP Addresses.
Our web servers automatically collect limited information about your
computer configuration when you visit our site, including the type of
browser software you use, the operating system you're running, the
resolution of your computer monitor, the Web site that referred you, and
your IP address. (Your IP address is a numerical address that is used by
computers connected to the Internet to identify your computer so that
data such as the web pages you want to view can be transmitted to you.)
We also use IP address information for systems administration and
troubleshooting purposes. Your IP address does not tell us who you are.
We use this information to deliver web pages to you upon request, to
tailor our site to the interests of our users, and to measure traffic
within our site.
DISCLOSURE OF INFORMATION
Why we want to know.
We collect information in order to make the Web site more useful and
relevant to you. For example, we may ask you for an address so that you
can map a route from your work or home address to that of a service
provider, or so you can narrow your search to businesses that serve your
neighborhood.
Third Parties.
We will not share the personally-identifiable information you provide
when registering on our site with third parties. We may, however, take
the information you provide and aggregate it with data from all the
other people that use this site and associated services. Then we would
use that pool of information to inform third parties about our audience
without identifying you personally. For example, we'll be able to say to
a third party: "We have 3,470 site visitors in this ZIP code," which
happens to be your location.
Vendors and Provider Partners.
To make our sites more valuable to our visitors, we may offer some
features in conjunction with other providers ("Provider Partners"). Our
email newsletters, email services and online classifieds for example,
may be made available through cooperative arrangements with providers
that specialize in operating such services. In some instances, our
Provider Partners will have the same access to your information as we
do. Their use of the information will be subject to the terms of their
respective privacy policies, which you can find on their Web sites. We
may also use vendors and third-party contractors to help us operate our
site, analyze or process data on our behalf, or improve the services
that we offer to you. We may provide these vendors and contractors with
information about our visitors that is necessary for them to perform the
services that we request.
Statistical Information.
Much of the information we collect is in the form of aggregated
statistics, such as the traffic that visits various pages within our
sites, and the habits and preferences of our audience. Such aggregated
information does not include any information that would identify you
personally. We may use such aggregated information and disclose it to
third parties as we see fit.
Sites to Which We Link.
Our site includes links to plenty of other Web sites, and provides
access to services offered by third parties, whose privacy policies we
don't control. When you access another site or purchase products or
services or conduct other transactions through our sites, use of any
information you provide is governed by the privacy policy of the
operator of the site you're visiting or the provider of such products or
services.
Other Disclosures.
We may occasionally release information about our visitors when release
is appropriate to comply with law, to enforce our Visitor Agreement, or
to protect the rights, property or safety of visitors to our sites, the
public, our customers, or our company and its employees, agents,
partners and affiliates. As our business grows, we may buy or sell
various assets. In the unlikely event that our company, or the bulk of
our assets relating to this site, is acquired by another company,
information on our visitors would be among the transferred assets.
CHILDREN'S PRIVACY
Children should always get permission from their parents before sending
any information about themselves (such as their names, email addresses,
and phone numbers) over the Internet, to us or to anyone else. We won't
knowingly allow anyone under 18 to register with our site, to provide
business information to our site, or to provide any other personally
identifying information. If you're under 18, please do not provide us
with any personally identifying information about yourself (such as your
name, your email address or your phone number).
STORAGE OF INFORMATION
All information gathered on our site is stored within a database
operated by us or by a contractor on our behalf. Sensitive information,
such as password or information, is encoded (not encrypted) for storage.
We cannot guarantee the security of our database, nor can we guarantee
that information you supply won't be intercepted while being transmitted
to us over the Internet.
CHANGES TO THIS PRIVACY POLICY
A final note: The Web is an evolving medium. If we need to change our
privacy policy at some point in the future, we'll post the changes
before they take effect.
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