General

ChefTalk.Com, producer of ChefTalk.Com and its related content and service sites, believes that electronic privacy is crucial for the ongoing success of the Internet as a service, commercial, and entertainment medium. On occasion, ChefTalk.Com will make available to potential advertisers, research firms, and business partners aggregated results from research it has conducted on its viewer base. ChefTalk.Com will only provide such demographic information on an aggregated basis and does not disclose individual viewer information.

E-mail

Any and all e-mail addresses sent to us as the result of correspondence with the consumers of ChefTalk.Com. will not be used or collected for the purposes of reselling to a third party and will not be added to a bulk e-mailing list. Joining of the ChefTalk.Com mailing list is the sole choice of the end user. Membership on the ChefTalk.Com mailing list can be terminated at any time by the user, the listserv hosting service, and/or the list manager.

Cookies

The use of advertising cookies sent by ChefTalk.Com servers and/or third-party servers is standard in the Internet industry. You may occasionally get cookies from our advertisers. ChefTalk.com cannot and does not control these cookies.

Traffic Data

Each time a visitor comes to a ChefTalk.Com site, information is collected to improve the overall quality of our sites. ChefTalk.Com collects the visitor's domain name/IP Address (e.g., whether the user is logged on from microsoft.com or yale.edu or 255.255.255.0), referral data (e.g., we record the address of the last URL a user visited prior to clicking through to a ChefTalk.Com site), and browser/platform type (e.g., a Netscape browser on a Macintosh platform).

In addition to collecting these types of information, ChefTalk.Com advertisement delivery system collects aggregate search terms for internal reporting and targeted advertising. ChefTalk.Com's advertisement delivery system collects visitor information for purposes of product monitoring, product improvement, and targeted advertising.

ChefTalk.Com also counts, tracks, and aggregates the visitor's activity into our analysis of general traffic flows at ChefTalk.Com sites (e.g., tracking where traffic comes from and how traffic flows within the ChefTalk.Com site). ChefTalk.Com may merge this information into group data, which may then be shared on an aggregated basis with potential advertisers, research firms, and business partners. ChefTalk.Com will not disclose your individual identity or personal data. When ChefTalk.Com does present aggregated information to potential advertisers, research firms and business partners, no one will be able to identify you or contact you.

For any questions or clarifications regarding this statement, please contact us at privacymanager@cheftalk.com