Privacy Clause
WEB SITE INFORMATION COLLECTION
For each visitor to our Web page, our Web server automatically recognizes only the consumer's domain name or IP address, but not the e-mail address. Unless otherwise stated on our web site, we collect only the domain name or IP address of visitors to our Web page, the e-mail addresses of those who communicate with us via e-mail, aggregate information on what pages consumers access or visit, user-specific information on what pages consumers access or visit, information volunteered by the consumer, such as survey information and registrations to events on the site and their related services or when requesting information via online email. We use SSL (secure socket layer) encryption for online payment collection for purchases of our own proprietary products and services, and Jillprescott.com mailing lists, We rely on third party providers for some of our products and services which may be featured on Jillprescott.com--the privacy policies of those sites govern the method by which they collect and use such information.
SERVICE PROVIDERS
We use other third parties as follows. We use dreamhost.com's announcement list services to provide blast emailing services on our site. When you sign up for the mailing list we will share your name, address and email address as necessary for dreamhost.com to provide that service. We use Cybersource to provide shopping cart services for purchasers of events and other items in our Events. When you purchase an event for yourself and others from the Events we will share your name, address, email address, phone number and credit card information as necessary for Cybersource.com to provide that service. We use Cybersource.com to provide secure credit card processing services on our site. When you sign up for an Jillprescott.com event or make any purchase on our site we will share your name, credit card number and expiration date as necessary for them to provide that service. In the case of Cybersource.com this third party service provided on our site is set in a user interface that frames the third party's site to “look and feel” as the Jillprescott.com site. Some users may come to the site from the url ecoledecuisine.com or creatingculinaryexperiences.com. All provisions of this privacy policy apply to users who visit this site by typing in that url.
USE OF WEB SITE INFORMATION COLLECTED
The information we collect from users of our event signups, mailing list, or contact page is used to create an aggregate demographic profile of our user base so that we can improve the content and services of our Web site and provide aggregate information to potential affiliates (no individual information is provided to any third-party without your consent). In addition, the personally identifiable information we collect from users of these Memberships and of our email newsletter, is used to customize the content and/or layout of our page for each individual visitor, for marketing communications via email including, notifications to consumers about updates to our Web site and services, to send visitors our opt-in e-mail newsletter(s) (if requested by the user), to provide users with the products and/or services for which they signed-up or registered which may include sending service disruption notices or other service- or product-related information via e-mail, and is not shared with other organizations for commercial purposes without the visitor's consent. We may share collected information with another company in the event that we merge with or are acquired by another company. Users will be notified via email if such a business transition occurs.
E-MAIL AND DIRECT RESPONSE CONTACT
All of our direct response methods are opt-in. If you subscribed to our e-mail newsletter(s) but do not want to receive it in the future, please follow the "unsubscribe" instructions contained in the newsletter(s). If you requested other communications from jillprescott.com but do not want to receive them in the future, please follow the "unsubscribe" instructions contained in those communications.
POSTAL ADDRESS COLLECTION AND USE
If you supply us with your postal address on-line, we will use it to send you the information for which you provided us your address, e.g., to mail your an events brochure, or advertising for our services. If you supply us with your telephone number on-line, we will use it to contact you with information regarding your purchase, events you have taken, or with information regarding your inquiry. We may send you information about additional services that we offer, but we will not rent or sell your contact information to any third parties without your permission.
COOKIES
We, and some of our partners who provide some of the services and products on our site, use cookies to record session information, record user-specific information on what pages users access or visit, record past activity at a site in order to provide better service when visitors return to our site, customize Web page content based on visitors' browser type or other information that the visitor sends, and to enable access to specific areas on the web site.
AD SERVERS AND OTHER PARTNERS
To try and bring you offers that may be of interest to you, we have relationships with other companies that we allow to place ads or provide other services or products on our Web pages, our e-mail newsletter(s), and other services. As a result of your visit to our site, these companies may collect non-personally-identifiable information such as your domain type, your IP address and clickstream information.
CHILDREN'S GUIDELINES
This website is directed at adults, not children, and we do not seek to collect from children online contact information or distribution to third parties any personally identifiable information from children or entice children to divulge information to us.
SECURITY
When we transfer and receive certain types of sensitive information such as financial information, we redirect visitors to a secure server which is skinned with the “look and feel” of jillprescott.com. We strive to maintain appropriate security measures in our physical facilities to protect against the loss, misuse or alteration of information that we have collected from you at our site. Although we take reasonable measures to secure our data, we cannot guarantee that the measures we take are or will remain adequate. Some portions of our sites and services link to other companies' web sites. Please refer to the privacy policies of those sites for information on how they handle security for information they collect.Though we make every effort to preserve user privacy, we may need to disclose personal information when required by law wherein we have a good-faith belief that such action is necessary to comply with a current judicial proceeding, a court order or legal process served on our Web site.
CHANGES TO PRIVACY POLICY
From time to time, we may use customer information for new, unanticipated uses not previously disclosed in this Privacy Policy notice. If our information practices undergo a material change at some time in the future, we will post the policy changes to our Web site's Privacy Policy page and email all users to notify you of these changes and provide you with the ability to opt out of these new uses. For the purposes of this section, a material change means a change that relates to Jillprescott.com, creatingculinaryexperiences.com, or ecoledecuisine.com websites:
Practices regarding notice, disclosure, and use of Personally Identifiable Information and/or Third Party Personally Identifiable Information. Practices regarding user choice and consent to how Personally Identifiable Information and/or Third Party Personally Identifiable Information is used and shared, or Measures for data security, integrity, or access.
Effective Date
January 1, 2006
CONTACT ADDRESS
Jill Prescott
PO Box 3404
Napa Valley, CA 94558