Culinary Culture respects the privacy of its visitors and Registered users, and this Privacy Policy governs collection and use of personally identifiable information by Culinary Culture through the website www.culinaryculture.com (“Website”).
1. What information is collected?
As detailed below, Culinary Culture collects certain information from visitors and Registered Users of the Website.
During the registration process for Registered Users, we may collect any of the following information: name, date of birth, email address, city, state/province, country, password, photograph, personal description, favorites, quotes, and other information regarding restaurants, venues, bars, lounges, stores, festivals, foods, and recipes. We do not recommend providing other personal or financial information about yourself, such as Social Security numbers, financial accounts, etc. The definition of personally identifiable information is limited to information or details that can identify you personally and has not been publicly disclosed or shared on the Website. Culinary Culture also uses cookies and other technologies to track usage and trends and to improve the Website and user experience.
In addition, Culinary Culture collects information about your computer, including but not limited to the configuration of your computer; your computer’s Internet Protocol address; the URL of the website that sent you to our Website; the URL of the website that you went to after leaving our Website; and search terms that directed you to our Website.
The Culinary Culture website is directed at individuals over the age of 21, and does not collect any information from children under the age of thirteen
2. How is the information used?
Culinary Culture, its agents, network hosts, and third parties working on its behalf, use the collected information for the following reasons:
Improve the Website;
Track usage and trends;
Evaluate and monitor traffic patterns;
Conduct diagnostic tests;
Customize the user experience;
Assess and improve Website Security;
Track registration information;
Administer your registration; and
Allow you to share information and communicate with others.
3. How is the information shared?
Culinary Culture does not rent, sell, or otherwise provide your personally identifiable information to third parties for marketing or solicitation purposes. Certain information provided by you will be published on the Website, and viewable by both Registered Users and visitors. Culinary Culture also may collect, share, and use information in aggregate form, but such information does not include personally identifiable information.
Culinary Culture may need to disclose personally identifiable information to government or law enforcement authorities or required by law. Under such circumstances, we will disclose the information upon a good faith belief that is necessary to comply with the order, request, form of legal process, or otherwise defend or exercise Culinary Culture’s rights.
4. How does Culinary Culture protect information collected?
To protect your personal information, your account is password protected and protected by ____ (encryption). (Identify other methods of security). You are responsible for protecting the security of your login information, and we cannot protect or secure any information that you send to other users of the Website.
Please note that links to third party websites are not governed by this Privacy Policy, and their practices may differ from those stated in this Privacy Policy. Culinary Culture does not endorse, sponsor or represent these third party websites. It is your sole responsibility to review and understand the privacy policies of these third parties before submitting any personal information.
5. How can I change my personally identifiable information?
All Registered Users can access their profile by visiting ( ), and edit their profile at anytime. For information on terminating your profile, please visit ( ). .
6. What happens when the account is terminated?
If you are a Registered User and your account is terminated, for any reason, then any Culinary Culture will take steps to deactivate your account and remove any personally identifiable information within a commercially reasonable period of time. Notwithstanding the foregoing, Culinary Culture may keep historical or archival records of the registration information or other information in order to address security concerns, conduct investigations, enforce the Terms of Use, or address disputes. Moreover, Culinary Culture maintains a back up data storage, which may result in archival storage of your information for a longer period of time.
7. How will we update this Privacy Policy?
Culinary Culture reserves the right to update, modify or alter this Privacy Policy at any time without prior notice. If the Privacy Policy is changed, we will place a notice on the home page and alter the terms in this Privacy Policy indicating the Privacy Policy has changed. In addition, we may send a notice to the email address provided during the registration process. It is your responsibility to review the Privacy Policy regularly to be familiar with its terms.
8. How to contact Culinary Culture?
If you have any questions or concerns regarding this Privacy Policy, please send us an email at: terms@culinaryculture.com or send a written notice to:
Culinary Culture LLC
555 W. Jackson Blvd., Fourth Floor
Chicago, Illinois 60661
