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LAST UPDATED: June 2004
We care about your privacy. We will not sell your name or
email address to any third party advertisers. Please read our
privacy policy below for further details.
EatinHarlem.com respects the privacy of visitors to our site.
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 when you register or initiate transactions,
and (2) information gathered on usage patterns and preferences
as visitors navigate through our sites, use our services such as
free email, or read our email newsletters. In some cases, it its
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.
Registration Information. To make use of certain features on
our site (such as to receive email newsletters, or post a
classified ad) visitors need to register and to provide certain
information as part of the registration process. We may also ask
for information from those who buy products or services or
conduct other transactions on our site. (We may ask, for
example, for your name, email address, and the like.) The
information you supply will help us to offer you more
personalized features, to tailor our site to your interests and
make them more useful to you, and to process e-commerce
transactions.
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.
Email Newsletters. We may also 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. See "Opting Out" below.
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. Unless you
voluntarily identify yourself (through registration, for
example), we won't know who you are, even if we assign a cookie
to your computer. 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
der a better, more personalized service. For example, we use
cookies to avoid showing you the same ad, repeatedly, during a
single visit. 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 website 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 trouble
shooting purposes. Your IP address does not tell us who you
are.) We use this information to der our 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. As with any business, it's important for
us to know our customers -- their needs, their likes, what they
want and expect from us. Unlike most businesses, however, we
der a valuable product to our customers without asking for
anything in return. It's like prime-time television, only better
for you! Since we make most of this site available without
charge to you, we rely heavily on advertisers to produce the
income necessary to operate our site. Advertisers are like most
people: They expect something in return for the money they
spend. They want to know how many people will see their ad and
how often -- in other words, how effective their ad is likely to
be. So it's important that we be able to tell advertisers who
our audience is.
Advertisers. Without your permission, we will not share the
personally-identifiable information you provide when registering
on our site with advertisers. We will, 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
will use that pool of information to inform our advertisers
about our audience without identifying you personally. For
example, we'll be able to say to an advertiser: "We have 3,470
readers in this ZIP code," which happens to be your location.
Vendors and Service Providers. To make our sites more
valuable to our visitors, we may offer some features in
conjunction with other providers ("Provider Partners"). Our
chat, 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 websites.
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. Of course, our site includes links to
plenty of other websites, and provide access to products and
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.
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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