Welcome to Food Quality.Com´s web site (the "Site"). Food Quality.Com magazine is committed to protecting your privacy and trust. This Privacy Policy applies to all portions of our Site. This Privacy Policy explains how we collect information from you and what we do with it.

Your visit to this Site serves as your consent to Food Quality.Com´s collection and use of information, including Personal Information (defined below), as described in this Policy. If you do not want Food Quality.Com magazine to collect and use your Personal Information in the manner described in this Policy, please do not provide the information to us.

Food Quality.Com magazine may at any time change this Policy. You should periodically visit this page to review the then-current Privacy Policy. If at any time you choose not to accept the terms and conditions herein, please do not use this Site.

Food Quality.Com magazine is not responsible for the content or the privacy policies of Web sites to which it may link.

Disclaimers

While Food Quality.Com magazine has taken reasonable steps to limit the uses of information provided by you, we cannot guarantee that the information will remain permanently secure. Food Quality.Com magazine is not responsible for any such loss or theft or any other unanticipated security breach.

Aggregate Information Collection and Use

We collect and use non-identifying and aggregate information to improve the content of our web pages. This information may be shared with other organizations for commercial purposes and with Food Quality.Com magazine affiliates. This kind of information includes which pages you visit, how many pages you visit, the search engine and key words you may have used, and how long you stay on our site.

Personal Information Collection and Use

We also collect any information that you volunteer, such as your name, email address, mailing address, telephone number, or credit card information ("Personal Information"). We request this information when you subscribe to Food Quality.Com magazine or an affiliated publication, sign-up for, send a letter to the editor, or otherwise contact Food Quality.Com magazine. To prevent unauthorized access, maintain data accuracy, and ensure the correct use of information, we have put in place appropriate physical, electronic, and managerial procedures to safeguard and secure the information we collect online.

We reserve the right to share both aggregate and personal information collected from you with third parties if we are authorized to do so, if the law requires it, to protect the rights of Food Quality.Com magazine, or as part of a sale or other disposition of our assets (including our membership and/or customer records). We may also use and disclose Personal Information to prevent or trace abuses of the Site, including but not limited to use of a Forum. We may also use and disclose Personal Information to comply with any court order or government investigation or inquiry, or as otherwise required by law, or to protect the rights, property or personal safety of Food Quality.Com magazine, users of the Site, or the public. In addition, in our letters to the editor section, we typically disclose the city or town in which the letter-writer resides.

Food Quality.Com magazine may use your Personal Information to personalize and enhance your use of this Site, including the marketing and promotion of products and services that might be of interest to you. Food Quality.Com magazine may also use your Personal Information to address technical problems and communicate with you about customer service issues.

Promotions and Contests

Food Quality.Com magazine may from time to time sponsor sweepstakes, contests, or other events ("Promotions") which require the collection, processing, and storage of individual contact information plus demographic information. These Promotions may also ask registrants to answer survey questions. Any personally identifiable information collected through promotions will be treated as "Personal Information," as defined above. No purchase is ever necessary to enter a Food Quality.Com magazine Promotion. Please see the official rules of each Promotion for more information.

Food Quality.Com magazine may co-sponsor Promotions with other companies, in which case any information collected is likely to be shared with other participating sponsors, who may use this information as they wish. A registrant's personal contact and demographic information will not be released to any third-party organization other than named sponsors without the registrant's consent.

Surveys and Polls

Food Quality.Com magazine will from time to time conduct anonymous surveys and polls of users to the Site to obtain aggregate demographic information about them. Such information may be compiled and shared in the aggregate with advertisers and other third parties, but no personal details will be traceable or associated with specific individuals unless otherwise disclosed in the survey rules.

Cookies

Food Quality.Com magazine does not use Cookies at the present time. In the future, however, users to this Site may be issued a "cookie," a small text file placed on the user's hard drive to track usage of the Site. Cookies help to prevent you from having to register or re-enter your information every time you visit the Site. Cookies are also used to authenticate your identity. Cookies from our Site provide us with certain information about your computer, but will not interfere with the operation of your computer.

Hyperlinks

We may post hyperlinks to the Web sites of third-party advertisers, service providers, and others. We cannot control the actions of such third parties or be held responsible for their use of any information that you provide directly to them. We advise you to take the time to educate yourself about the privacy policy and terms of use of any Web site that you visit.

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