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sentences:  It is Pepperplates policy to respect and protect the privacy of visitors to this website and associated services.
Accordingly, Pepperplate DOES NOT extract, without permission, Personal Information (as defined below) about its visitors or their computer at any time while on Pepperplates website, except for Personal Information that is actively provided by such visitors through registration, logging in and out, online forms or other means.
Pepperplate will, however, analyze information about our visitors as a group to make our website and apps better, but visitors are not individually identified when we do this.
 When dealing with children who we have knowledge are under the age of 13, Pepperplate follows stringent guidelines that prohibit the sharing of Personal Information with any third parties, except in limited circumstances such as our service providers who use such information on our behalf.
Our privacy policies regarding children are outlined in Pepperplates Parental Consent Policy section below.
 This Privacy Policy does not apply to information that you may provide to us, or that we may obtain, other than through our website, such as by phone, through postal mail and through other live and print media.
 This website is intended for users who are located in the United States of America.
This Privacy Policy shall be interpreted under the laws of the United States, regardless of the location of individual users.
 Pepperplate may collect a variety of statistical data about its website visitors.
This data includes the source IP address of the visitor, the time of visit, the areas of the site visited and information about browser, operating system and other system parameters.
As of the date of this Privacy Policy, none of this information is used to personally identify any individual visitor, and is used solely for the purposes of analyzing overall traffic and usage patterns.
However, Pepperplate reserves the right to begin matching such usage data with an individuals Personal Information subsequent to the date of this Privacy Policy.
 In order to make your visits to our website and use of the services available on or through our website as worthwhile as possible, Pepperplate may also collect Personal Information about its visitors, but only when a visitor provides such Personal Information to us in the process of ordering subscriptions, entering contests or sweepstakes, signing up for our newsletter(s), using our "Feedback" feature, registering with the website or using other services available on or through our Website.
The information that you give us and information about your order, purchases or other activities on the website may be combined with other Personal Information (such as demographic information and past purchase history) available from our records and other sources.
"Personal Information" includes, for example, names, postal addresses, email addresses, wireless addresses, age, credit card and other payment information, demographic information, purchase history, subscription information and/or other information that may identify you as an individual or allow online or offline contact with you as an individual.
This information is used by Pepperplate to fulfill your requests and for marketing and research purposes.
This information may also be shared with other marketers to bring you offers of interest.
If you prefer that we do not share your name and address with other marketers, please see the "Right to Opt Out" section below.
Certain areas of Pepperplates Website will require user registration in order to gain access; once you register with the Pepperplate website to use that content, you will no longer be anonymous to us.
 Pepperplate may use "cookie" technology to enhance a visitor's online experience by making it easier to navigate through our Website or to make an activity work better.
 Cookies are small pieces of information or data files that are sent through your browser or related software from a Web server and are stored on your computers hard drive.
Cookies may be used to track where you travel on our website and what you look at and purchase, and they allow a computer to "remember" information from our Website for future use.
The use of cookies is an industry standard and is practiced by most major websites.
Cookies alone tell us nothing about who you are, but they may enable us to relate your use of our website to other information, including your Personal Information, which you have provided to us when you registered or performed other activities while visiting our website.
All of these purposes serve to enhance your experience while using our services in the ways described below.
 Most Web browsers can be set to inform you when a cookie has been sent to you and provide you with the opportunity to refuse that cookie.
Additionally, if you have a Flash player installed on your computer, your Flash player can be set to reject or delete Flash cookies.
However, refusing a cookie may, in some cases, preclude you from using, or negatively impact the display or function of, the website or certain areas or features of the website.
 We may use cookies and other tracking technologies in a variety of ways, including:
Keeping count of return visits to our website or our advertisers or partners sites
Accumulating and reporting anonymous, aggregate (data collected in mass), statistical information on website and advertisement usage
Determining which features our customers like best
Saving your password so you dont have to re-enter it each time you visit our Web Site
 Personal Information is used to enhance and custom-tailor each user's experience on the website.
Such information may be used to determine what site content is of interest to which users, what types of email newsletters and other communications are appropriate for individual users, and to identify user-generated content such as message board postings, votes in online polls and participation in online games.
Such information will also be used, for example, to process your orders, respond to your requests and inquiries and provide you with the services and features offered on or through our Website.
At any time, you may opt-out of receiving notifications and other messages from Pepperplate by going to the profile tab on Pepperplate.com (https://www.pepperplate.com/profile.aspx) and deselect the Receive Pepperplate News option.
This option is deselected by default.
You can also choose to disable or selectively turn off cookies or third-party cookies in your web browser settings.
It is important to note that different devices (i.e.
mobile, tablet and desktop) use different identifiers and different technologies, so that you must opt out separately from each web browser and each device that you would like to be opted out.
If you opt-out of targeted advertising, we will no longer collect User Information described within this policy.
Pepperplate may also use Personal Information to maintain our internal record keeping.
We reserve the right to match information collected from you through different means or at different times, including both Personal Information and website usage information, and use such information along with information obtained from other sources.
In addition, we may send you notices (for example, in the form of e-mails, mailings, and the like), and otherwise correspond with you, about products, services, companies and events, sponsored by us and others, that we think might interest you.
You may opt-out of receiving such notices from us by following the instructions in the Right to Opt Out section above.
     In addition, Pepperplate may use Personal Information to generate aggregate data about our websites visitors.
 Visitors to the website can forward information about areas and/or services available on or through the website, to their friends.
In order to do this, visitors are asked to provide only their first name and their friend's first name and e-mail address, all of which are deleted once the postcard is sent.
 Pepperplate may request feedback from visitors to the website regarding an activity or piece of content on the website.
Such feedback is used for internal purposes only.
 Pepperplate uses automated email systems to e-mail newsletters and to collect and answer correspondence from our visitors.
Pepperplate tries to make it easy for visitors to contact us and we provide easy instructions on our website on how you can either edit Personal Information previously given (such as your address) or opt out of receiving any automated messages generated by Pepperplate.
For more information on opting out, please see the Right to Opt Out section above.
Should you have a technical problem doing this please contact support@pepperplate.com.
 When you contribute to a public area or feature of our website, such as a chat room, bulletin board, list serve, blog, wiki or other open forum that we may make available on or through our website, the information that you submit will be made available to the general public.
For this reason, we recommend that you do not submit any sensitive information, including your full name, home address, phone number, other information that would enable other users to locate you, or financial information on these areas of our website.
Instead, you should make up a username that does not disclose your personal identity.
 In the event that Pepperplate, or substantially all of its assets, are acquired by one or more third parties as a result of an acquisition, merger, sale, reorganization, consolidation or liquidation, Personal Information may be one of the transferred assets.
 Pepperplate uses GourmetAds, a third party advertising provider, to serve advertisements on the Pepperplate.com website.
This companies may use information about your visits to this and other Websites in order to provide advertisements about goods and services of interest to you.
These companies may employ cookies and clear gifs to measure advertising effectiveness.
Any information that these third parties collect via cookies and clear gifs is generally not personally identifiable (unless, for example, you provide personally identifiable information to them through an ad or email message).
We encourage you to read these businesses' privacy policies if you should have any concerns about how they will care for your Personal Information.
 Pepperplate may include advertisements and/or links to websites operated by third parties that are not sponsors and are not affiliated with Pepperplate.
Pepperplate tries to make sure that when there are links away from the website, they are working and lead visitors to interesting, fun and informative areas.
However, it is hard to guarantee what exactly is presented on other websites or where links elsewhere may lead.
Pepperplate is not responsible for the content, practices, or information provided or requested on websites operated by third parties.
Further, advertisements on and links to or from Pepperplate.com do not constitute sponsorship, endorsement, or approval by Pepperplate of the content, policies, practices or products or services offered on these websites.
 Parents/guardians should check each website's privacy policy and terms of use in order to understand their policies and practices regarding the collection and use of personally identifiable information.
Pepperplate also suggests that parents/guardians review the privacy policies of all websites that their children visit, including those websites linking to or from the Pepperplate website.
Information provided to those websites will be subject to the privacy policy posted at that website.
 The importance of security for all Personal Information associated with visitors to our website is of utmost concern to us.
Pepperplate exercises great care and implements a variety of technologies in an effort to help make the Pepperplate website secure against unauthorized access and to protect the Personal Information visitors choose to provide to us.
Pepperplate periodically reviews and updates these measures.
Unfortunately, due to the inherent nature of the Internet as an open global communications vehicle, no data transmission over the Internet can be guaranteed to be secure, and Pepperplate cannot guarantee that information, during transmission through the Internet or while stored on our system or otherwise in our care, will be absolutely safe from intrusion by others, such as hackers.
As a result, while Pepperplate strives to protect a visitor's Personal Information, Pepperplate cannot ensure or warrant the security of any information transmitted to us or from our online products or services, and a visitor does so at his/her own risk.
Pepperplate uses the industry standard, SSL (secure socket layer) encryption when credit card information is transmitted to us.
 If you contact us by email or a "contact us" or similar feature on our website, you should be aware that your transmission might not be secure.
A third party could view information you send by these methods in transit.
 You may be able to create an account on our website with a username and password.
If so, you are responsible for maintaining the strict confidentiality of your account password, and you shall be responsible for any access to or use of the website by you or any person or entity using your password, whether or not such access or use has been authorized by or on behalf of you, and whether or not such person or entity is your employee or agent.
You agree to (a) immediately notify Pepperplate of any unauthorized use of your password or account or any other breach of security, and (b) ensure that you exit from your account at the end of each session.
It is your sole responsibility to control the dissemination and use of your password, control access to and use of your account, and notify Pepperplate when you desire to cancel your account on this website.
We will not be responsible or liable for any loss or damage arising from your failure to comply with this provision.
 We will have no liability for disclosure of your information due to errors or unauthorized acts of third parties during or after transmission.
 In the unlikely event that we believe that the security of your Personal Information in our possession or control may have been compromised, we may seek to notify you of that development.
If a notification is appropriate, we would endeavor to do so as promptly as possible under the circumstances, and, to the extent we have your email address, we may notify you by email.
You consent to our use of e-mail as a means of such notification.
If you prefer for us to use another method to notify you in this situation, please email us at support@Pepperplate.com with the alternative contact information you wish to be used.
 With identity theft a continuing problem, it has become increasingly common for unauthorized individuals to send e-mail messages to consumers, purporting to represent a legitimate company such as a bank or online merchant, requesting that the consumer provide personal, often sensitive information.
Sometimes, the domain name of the e-mail address from which the email appears to have been sent, and the domain name of the website requesting such information, appears to be the domain name of a legitimate, trusted company.
In reality, such sensitive information is received by an unauthorized individual to be used for purposes of identity theft.
This illegal activity has come to be known as "phishing."
 If you receive an e-mail or other correspondence requesting that you provide any sensitive information (including your website password or credit card information) via e-mail or to a Website that does not seem to be affiliated with our website, or that otherwise seems suspicious to you, please do not provide such information, and report such request to us at support@Pepperplate.com.
 By providing Personal Information to this website, you understand and consent to the collection, maintenance, processing and transfer of such information in and to the United States and other countries and territories.
 Pepperplate reserves the right to change or update this Privacy Policy, or any other of our policies or practices, at any time, and will notify users of this website by posting such changed or updated Privacy Policy on this page.
Any changes or updates will be effective immediately upon posting to this website.
Under certain circumstances, we may also elect to notify you of changes or updates to our Privacy Policy by additional means, such as posting a notice on the front page of our website to sending you an email.