Privacy Policy

MyCookingBlog.com is concerned about your privacy. We do our very best not to infringe upon your freedom to surf the internet. The only information we collect from your surfing is to monitor traffic flow on our sites (which pages are viewed and how often), to maintain security (in case of hacking), and to keep our sites up to date (when broken links are found). IP address is used solely for traffic flow patterns (if there was another way we'd use it - sorry!), browser type/platform is used so we can design our sites so the majority of our visitors can use all of our features - we hate to leave anyone out.

If you sign up for an account, when you log in to the website we will set a session-based cookie. This cookie is used so the website can remember who you are when you try to post to your blog. Session-based means that when you close your browser or shut down your computer, the cookie is erased (but not the data you added to your recipEbox!). This is why you have to log in each time you visit the site. Session-based cookies are safer since the data isn't stored any longer than necessary.

We use third-party advertising companies to serve ads when you visit our Web site. These companies may use aggregated information (NOT including your name, address, email address or telephone number) about your visits to this and other Web sites in order to provide advertisements about goods and services of interest to you. If you would like more information about this practice and to know your choices about not having this information used by these companies, click here http://www.networkadvertising.org/managing/opt_out.asp

Any information given voluntarily, such as an email address used to sign up for our mailing lists, is used for internal purposes only and is NEVER, EVER sold or given to anyone outside of MyCookingBlog. Voluntarily submitted addresses may be used for correspondence from MyCookingBlog regarding your blog, important changes to the website, or other messages. You may easily opt out of this correspondence by cancelling the service you requested (recipEbox, mailing list, etc). Publicly posted email addresses (such as in any open forum, reviews, comments) on the site are not recommended as we cannot provide protection of those addresses.

Email addresses entered by visitors to send recipes from the website are NOT stored or recorded by MyCookingBlog.

MyCookingBlog does maintain relationships with outside companies and websites but your only contact with them is if you click on a banner or link and are redirected to their site (which we hope you'll do to keep this site free and minimize our need for advertising!). We can not control their use of information and urge you to be aware that you will be subject to their privacy policy once leaving our site. While we try to partner with the most reputable companies, we are not responsible for actions. Please feel free to report any misuse of information from outside companies so we can evaluate our partnerships with them.

If you feel that your privacy has been violated in any way by this website, please use our contact form and let us know.