This website is owned and operated by E.D.SMITH & Sons, Limited, (“ E.D.SMITH”) 944 Hwy # 8, Winona, Ontario, Canada L8E 5S3. You may phone us at 1-800-263-9246 ext. 5605 (English) or 5402 (Français) between 8:30 a.m. and 4:30 p.m. Eastern Standard Time. Our local number is 905-643-1211.
If you have any concerns at all about how we handle your personal information, please contact us at the above address or e-mail privacy@edsmith.com.
This Policy relates to our online information collection and use practices. By accessing and using our website you agree that we may collect, use and disclose information about you as described below in this privacy policy.
PERSONAL INFORMATION
Personal information is information that can personally identify you. Your full name, your e-mail address, and your postal address, are examples of personal information. Information about you that cannot be used to identify who you are is not personal information.
COLLECTION and USE
The information we collect is only that which you explicitly provide us in order to communicate with you regarding your specific request so that we may respond appropriately. We collect and use personal information in the following ways:
- If you contact us to submit recipes, and we choose to post your recipe on our website, we will use your first name only on the website in relation to that recipe. We will not otherwise use or retain your personal information submitted.
- If you contact us to provide feedback on the website or our products, or to make other general enquiries, we will use your personal information in order to respond to your submission/enquiry.
- If you use our “Send to a Friend feature, we will use the personal information that you submit about yourself and your friend to forward the requested recipe to you and your friend. We will not use or retain your friend’s information for any other purpose. We will not otherwise use or retain your information unless you have indicated by checking off a box on the “Send to a Friend” form that you wish to be added to our e-mail list, in which case we will add you to our mailing list.
- If you check off a box on the website or any request form on the website that indicates that you wish to be added to our e-mail list, we will add you to our e-mail list.
Whenever you have indicated that you wish to be added to our mailing list, you may "unsubscribe" at any time by contacting us through the website.
COOKIES
If you log into the clearly identified registration area of this website, we use session based cookies, and your activities on the website are tracked through logs of database transactions and server interactions. This data is used to understand which areas of our website are of most interest to you. These cookies are destroyed when your browser is closed and no personal information is stored in them. If you are only browsing our website or communicating with us through the ‘Contact Us/Question’ page of our site, cookies are not used.
We may collect aggregate information in connection with surveys or other online activities that allow you to give us your feedback, but not in a way that specifically identifies you. We may track internet protocol addresses and/or public server information from website visitors, on an aggregated, anonymous basis in order to assist us with our market research.
DISCLOSURE
We do not provide personal information or release user names or passwords to any person, company or organization outside of E.D.SMITH, except as may be required by law, and except to any companies or organizations that may operate our website for us, in which case, those companies or organizations will be required by us to abide by this privacy policy.
In some other instances, we may use service providers to facilitate some aspects of our website. These service providers may be supplied anonymous information that we collect from you on this website, but only for purposes of analyzing website performance and implementing the website features. We will not provide personally identifiable information to such third party service providers.
SECURITY
We use industry standard measures efforts to ensure the security of information submitted by you. We exercise great care in providing secure transmission of information from your PC to our computers. Unfortunately, no electronic communication over the internet can be completely guaranteed. While we strive to take great care to protect your information, E.D.SMITH cannot warrant the security of any information that you submit to us, and you do so at your own risk. When you send us an e-mail seeking information from us we store your e-mail address in an area to which the general public does not have access.
KIDS
This website is not intended for use of children under the age of 13. We do not intend to collect personal information from children. If you are under age 13, you must request permission from your parents before contacting us.
LINKED SITES
This website may contain links to other websites not operated by E.D.SMITH. These other sites may use cookies, collect data or solicit personal information. We have no control over these practices and strongly recommend that you check the applicable privacy policy of the website sponsor when linking to other websites.
FUTURE
If our information practices change at some time in the future we will post the policy changes to our website to notify you of these changes and provide you with the ability to opt out of these new uses. If you are concerned about how your information is used, you should check back at our website periodically, or contact us at the e-mail address listed above.
THIS PRIVACY POLICY WAS LAST UPDATED ON MAY 13, 2005. We reserve the right to change this policy at any time, and will post any changes to this policy as soon as they go into effect on this website.
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