Privacy Policy

November 25, 2013

At RealCajunRecipes.com we recognize the importance of your privacy. That said, it’s understandable that you may be concerned with the information you provide to us or that is collected by us and how we use it. With these concerns in mind, we’ve developed the RealCajunRecipes.com Privacy Policy outlined below. We may update this Policy from time to time, so please check back occasionally. If you have any questions about our Privacy Policy, you can contact us at [email protected].

Note to children under the age of 13
If you’re under 13, have your parents register for you until you are of age.

Information collected and how it is used
RealCajunRecipes.com will use reasonable efforts to prevent the disclosure or use of your personal information. We will not sell, share, or rent your information in any way different from what is disclosed in this statement. RealCajunRecipes.com collects information from you at several different points on our website. This information is used to enhance your experience on RealCajunRecipes.com and as described below.

We collect information in the following areas:

I. Registration
RealCajunRecipes.com does not collect your personal identifiable information unless you provide it to us voluntarily and knowingly. This means we don’t require you to register or provide personally identifiable information to us in order to view our site. However, you must register if you wish to use certain features on our site.

In order to sign up for the following features you must first complete an online registration form.

  • Guestbook
  • Recipe Submission
  • My Recipe Box
  • Newsletter subscriptions
  • Tell-a-Friend
  • Contest, Promotions and Surveys

During registration you are required to give contact information (such as your name and email address). This information is used to provide the services that you have requested, or to contact you about the service on our site for which you have expressed interest. We may contact you from time to time with news as well as for internal marketing and promotional purposes.

Recipe submission
Your personally identifying information may be used for editorial purposes (such as attributing your submitted recipe to you). We may also use this information to contact you should we have any complications with your recipe.

My Recipe Box
Your recipe box helps us to determine “People who like this recipe also liked…”. No additional information is gathered from your recipe box.

Newsletters
When you subscribe to one of our newsletters, we ask for contact information such as your name and email address. If you have subscribed to a newsletter, we may contact you periodically with news and promotional information. You always have the ability to change your preference for follow-up contacts by e-mailing us at [email protected] or contacting us using the web forms provided on the website.

Tell-a-Friend
When you elect to use our referral service for emailing a recipe to a friend, we ask you for your friend’s name and email address. RealCajunRecipes.com will automatically send your friend an email inviting them to visit the site. We may also add both parties (you and the recipient) to our newsletter. WE WILL NEVER SELL THIS INFORMATION TO EMAIL MARKETING COMPANIES.

Contest, Promotions and Surveys
You must be a registered user in order to enter contests and promotions on RealCajunRecipes.com. Participation in these events is completely voluntary and we do not require you to disclose this information. Information requested may include contact information (such as your name and shipping address) and demographic information. Your contact information will be used to notify you if you’ve won and to award prizes.

From time to time our site requests information from you via surveys. This information will be used for purposes of monitoring or improving the use and satisfaction of this site and participation is completely at your discretion.

Cookies
Like most web sites, we use “cookie” technology on our web site. Basically, we use cookies because it makes programming alot easier and faster, allowing us to provide you a better experience. The “cookie” does not extract any information off your computer.

If your browser rejects cookies, you may still use our site. The only drawback to this is that you will be limited from accessing certain areas of our site, such as recipe submissions, your recipe box, etc.

Log Files
Each time an RealCajunRecipes.com page is requested from your browser, we log your computer’s IP address into our log files. Your computer has been pre-assigned a 12-digit number. This number is the IP address. We use your IP addresses to analyze trends, administer the site, track your movements on the site, and gather broad demographic information for aggregate use. IP addresses are not linked to any other personally identifiable information by RealCajunRecipes.com. RealCajunRecipes.com does not control or monitor whether third parties linked on the RealCajunRecipes.com Web site have the same policy.

Other Sites
From time to time we may have links to other websites from our site. We do not control, and therefore cannot be responsible for, the collection, use or disclosure of your information by any such third party site. Please carefully review the privacy policy of any third party site that you link to from our site.

Security
To prevent unauthorized access, maintain data accuracy, and ensure the correct use of your information, RealCajunRecipes.com has put into place physical, electronic, and managerial procedures to help safeguard and secure the information we collect online.

Correction/updating Personal Information:
At any time, you can update your information by sending an email request to us at:[email protected].

In addition, you may notify us if you wish to cease the use of any of your information by sending an email request to the same address and we will use reasonable efforts to comply with your request.

Our policies may change.
By using our Websites, you consent to the collection and use of your information, as described above, by RealCajunRecipes.com. If we make any changes to our privacy policy, we will post the changes on this page so that you are always aware of what information we collect, how we use it, and under what circumstances we disclose it. Any changes to our privacy policy will extend to any and all information we may collect or may have collected, regardless of whether the policy was different at the time the information was collected.

Please contact us with any questions or comments.

If you have any questions about this privacy statement, the practices of this site, or your dealings with RealCajunRecipes.com, please contact us at [email protected].

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