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Privacy Policy for ciakids.com |
The Culinary Institute of America has created this privacy statement in order to demonstrate our firm commitment to the privacy of visitors to our ciakids.com Web Site. The following discloses the information gathering and dissemination practices for our website: www.ciakids.com (the "Website").
The Culinary Institute of America gathers visitor information on the ciakids.com Website in the following two ways (described more fully below):
A. Optional Voluntary Information
The Culinary Institute of America may occasionally conduct visitor surveys to
better target content to our audience.
The Culinary Institute of America offers online registration for events and courses
which ask the Website visitor to voluntarily provide personal information. The
Website's registration forms may ask Website visitors for contact information
(like their name and email address), a unique identifying number (for use as passwords
in our record system), and/or financial information.
The Culinary Institute of America uses information request forms that ask the Web Site visitor to voluntarily provide personal information such as names and addresses.
The Culinary Institute of America will never voluntarily sell or disclose your personal information gathered through the Website without your permission.
B. Aggregated Tracking Information
The Culinary Institute of America may track Website visitor traffic patterns throughout our Website. However, we do not correlate this information with data about individual visitors. The Culinary Institute of America does break down overall usage statistics according to a visitor’s domain name, browser type, and Multipurpose Internet Mail Extension (MIME) type by reading this information from the browser string (information contained in every Website visitor’s browser).
A text file called a "cookie" may be placed in the browser files of a visitor’s computer. Although the cookie file itself does not contain personal information, it provides information about a particular visitor’s use of a website. A cookie file can not read data off a hard disk or read cookie files created by other websites.
The placement of cookies can be blocked by changing the browser setting pertaining to cookies. This setting can also be changed to provide notification when a cookie file is placed. Note that our Website does not require cookies to be accepted in order to function.
The Culinary Institute of America may also track and catalog some Website visitor data, including the search terms that visitors enter in our Website's search function, but this tracking information is not associated with individual visitors.
The Culinary Institute of America uses aggregated tracking information to determine which areas of the Website is preferred by visitors and to tailor our content to visitors’ needs. For example, we do not track what individual visitors read, but rather the utilization rates for each page overall.
The Culinary Institute of America may use the aggregated tracking information we collect from our Website visitors individually or aggregated with other information in order to improve and customize our online content. We do not share such aggregated tracking information about individual users with any third party, except in order to comply with applicable law or valid legal process or to protect the personal safety of our visitors or the public.
C. Related Issues
The Website provides its visitors the opportunity to "opt-out" of receiving communications from us and our partners both at the time voluntary information is requested from the visitor (and at any time pursuant to the procedures outlined below). Upon receipt of such an opt-out request, we will update our records as promptly as practical. Note, however, that visitors may receive additional communications after requesting removal while we process the request. Additionally, a visitor’s information may exist in multiple lists within our system and our technology limits the processing of opt-out requests to the specific list source. We will continuously assess our responsiveness to opt-out requests with respect to new technologies, business practices and our visitors’ needs.
The procedure for requesting the above opt-out status is as follows:
[For www.ciakids.com]
The Website makes forums, message boards, and/or news groups available to its visitors. Please remember that any information that is disclosed in these areas becomes public information and you should exercise caution when deciding to disclose your personal information.
The ciakids.com Website contains links to other sites. The Culinary Institute of America is not responsible for the privacy practices or the contents of such other websites. Use these linking features at your own discretion.
Consistent with the Children’s Online Privacy Protection Action of 1998, the Culinary Institute of America will not knowingly request personally identifiable information from anyone under the age of thirteen without first requesting parental consent.
The Culinary Institute of America operates secure data networks protected by industry standard firewall and password protection systems [specifically Secure Socket Layer (SSL), other server authentication or data encryption products]. Although our security and privacy policies are periodically reviewed and enhanced as necessary and only authorized individuals are given access to the information provided by our visitors, perfect security does not exist on the Internet. We cannot guarantee that any visitor information will remain secure and therefor you should use extreme caution when revealing information on the web site.
By using this site, each Website visitor hereby consents to the collection and use of information as disclosed herein by The Culinary Institute of America.
This privacy statement will be continuously assessed with respect to new
technologies, business practices and our visitors’ changing needs. The Culinary
Institute of America may change its privacy practices from time to time.
If we make any changes, we will update this privacy statement accordingly
(the date of the most recent change is displayed at the bottom of this statement).
If you have any questions about this privacy statement, the practices of the Website, or your dealings with the Website, you can contact:
Webmaster
The Culinary Institute of America
1946 Campus Drive
Hyde Park, NY 12538-1499
webmaster@culinary.edu
[ Last updated on September 18, 2001]