Privacy Policy

Privacy Privacy
May 11, 2018

Please read this Privacy Policy ("Policy") carefully before using the http://www.totkitchen.com Website (the "Service", “Site, “Website”, or "Services") operated by Tot KitchenTM  ("us", "Us", "we", “We”, “Tot Kitchen”, “Our” or "our").  Your access to and use of the Service is conditioned on your acceptance of and compliance with the Terms of Service ("Terms", "Terms of Service") found on this Website. This Policy applies to all visitors, users and others who access or use the Service.  BY JOINING OR EACH TIME YOU ACCESS AND USE THE SERVICES, YOU SIGNIFY THAT YOU HAVE READ AND UNDERSTAND, AND AGREE TO BE BOUND BY, THIS POLICY. If you disagree with any part of the Policy then you may not access the Service.

We are concerned about privacy issues and want you to be familiar with how we collect, use, and disclose information.  This Policy has been compiled to better serve visitors to the Site with how their 'Personally identifiable information (“PII”) is being used online. PII, as used in United States privacy law and information security, is information that can be used on its own or with other information to identify, contact, or locate a single person, or to identify an individual in context. Data that does not allow identification of you, for example anonymized and/or de-identified data, is not considered personally identifiable information.  Please read our Privacy Policy carefully to get a clear understanding of how we collect, use, protect or otherwise handle your PII in accordance with our Website.

What personal information do we collect from the people that visit our blog, website or app?
When visiting our Website, ordering, making a payment, and/or registering on our Site, as appropriate, you may be asked to enter your name or other details to help you with your experience.

When do we collect information?
We collect information from you when you register on our Site, visit our Website, subscribe to a newsletter, respond to a survey, fill out a form, Use Live Chat or enter information on our Site.

How do we use your information?
We may use the information we collect from you when you interact with our Website, including but not limited to when you: register, make a purchase, sign up for our newsletter, respond to a survey or marketing communication, surf the Website, or use certain other Site features in the following ways:
 To personalize user's experience and to allow us to deliver the type of content and product offerings in which you are most interested.
 To improve our Website in order to better serve you.
 To allow us to better service you in responding to your customer service requests.
 To ask for ratings and reviews of services or products
 To follow up with them after correspondence (live chat, email, mail and/or phone inquiries)

How do we protect visitor information?
We do not use vulnerability scanning and/or scanning to PCI standards, as we only provide articles and information, but our webhost may utilize such tools. We never ask for personal or private information like email addresses or credit card numbers.  We do not personally use regular Malware Scanning, but our webhost and/or other third-parties may use regular Malware Scanning.
We do not use an SSL certificate
       We only provide articles and information. We never ask for personal or private information like email addresses, or credit card numbers.
No method of transmission over the Internet, or method of electronic storage, is 100% secure, however.  Therefore, we cannot guarantee its absolute security. If you have any questions about the security of your personal information, you can contact us at neha [at] totkitchen [dot] com.   We may retain your information indefinitely as needed to provide you services, comply with our legal obligations, resolve disputes and enforce our agreements.  

Do we use 'cookies'?
Yes. Cookies are small files that a site or its service provider transfers to your computer's hard drive through your Web browser (if you allow) that enables the site's or service provider's systems to recognize your browser and capture and remember certain information. For instance, we use cookies to help us remember and process the items in your shopping cart. They are also used to help us understand your preferences based on previous or current Site activity, which enables us to provide you with improved services. We also use cookies to help us compile aggregate data about Site traffic and Site interaction so that we can offer better Site experiences and tools in the future.

We use cookies to:
 Keep track of advertisements, if any are implemented.
 Compile aggregate data about Site traffic and Site interactions in order to offer better Site experiences and tools in the future. We may also use trusted third-party services that track this information on our behalf.

You can choose to have your computer warn you each time a cookie is being sent, or you can choose to turn off all cookies. You do this through your browser (like Internet Explorer) settings. Each browser is a little different, so look at your browser's Help menu to learn the correct way to modify your cookies.

If users disable cookies in their browser:
If you disable cookies, some features will be disabled.  It will turn off some of the features that make your Site experience more efficient and some of our services will not function properly, such as: Facebook likes, Google+ "+1s", and/or Pinterest “Pins”.  "Facebook", "Likes", "Google", "+1s", "Instagram", "Pinterest", and "Pins" are registered copyrights, trademarks, and/or service marks of their respective companies.

Third-party disclosure
We do not sell, trade, or otherwise transfer to outside parties your PII unless we provide users with advance notice, which will be found in this Policy online. This does not include Website hosting partners and other parties who assist us in operating our Website, conducting our business, or serving our users, so long as those parties agree to keep this information confidential. We may also release information when its release is appropriate to comply with the law, enforce our Site policies, or protect Our or others' rights, property, or safety.

However, non-personally identifiable visitor information may be provided to other parties for marketing, advertising, to improve our Site and/or Services, or other uses as described herein.

Third-party links
Occasionally, at our discretion, we may include or offer third-party products or services on our Website. These third-party sites have separate and independent privacy policies. We therefore have no responsibility or liability for the content and activities of these linked sites. Nonetheless, we seek to protect the integrity of our Site and welcome any feedback about these sites.

Google
Google's advertising requirements can be summed up by Google's Advertising Principles. They are put in place to provide a positive experience for users at https://support.google.com/adwordspolicy/answer/1316548?hl=en 

We use Google Analytics and may use Google AdWords and Google AdSense on our Website.

Google, as a third-party vendor, uses cookies to serve ads on our Site. Google's use of the DART cookie enables it to serve ads to our users based on previous visits to our Site and other sites on the Internet. Users may opt-out of the use of the DART cookie by visiting the Google Ad and Content Network privacy policy.

We have implemented the following:
Google Analytics standard implementation without Data Collection for Advertising Features.

We along with third-party vendors, such as Google, use first-party cookies (such as the Google Analytics cookies) and third-party cookies (such as the DoubleClick cookie) or other third-party identifiers together to compile data regarding user interactions with ad impressions and other ad service functions as they relate to our Website.  We use a tool called “Google Analytics” to collect information about use of this Site, such as how often users visit the Site, what pages they visit when they do so, and what other sites they used prior to coming to this Site.  Google Analytics collects only the IP address assigned to you on the date you visit this Site, rather than your name or other identifying information. Google Analytics plants a permanent cookie on your computer and/or web browser to identify you as a unique user the next time you visit this Site.  This cookie cannot be used by anyone but Google, Inc.  The information generated by the cookie will be transmitted to and stored by Google on servers in the United States.

Opting out
Users can set preferences for how Google advertises to you using the Google Ad Settings page. Google’s ability to use and share information collected by Google Analytics about your visits to this Site is restricted by the 
Google Privacy Policy.  You can prevent Google Analytics from recognizing you on return visits to this Site by disabling the Google Analytics cookie on your browser.  Alternatively, you can opt out by visiting the Network Advertising initiative opt out page or permanently using the Google Analytics Opt Out Browser add on at https://tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout

Transfer of Data Abroad
If you are visiting this Site from a country other than the United States, your communications with us may result in the transfer of information across international boundaries. Furthermore, you acknowledge and agree that in order to best and promptly service our visitor’s requests, inquiries and/or issues, our communication(s) with you, you are communicating with a person or persons located in Texas in the United States and that such information provided will be transferred to the United States.  In any event, your information will be processed in accordance with this Privacy Policy.  By visiting this Site, calling or communicating with Us, or otherwise communicating electronically with Us, you consent to such transfers.

California Online Privacy Protection Act
Users can visit our Site anonymously.
Once this Privacy Policy is created, we will add a link to it on our home page or at a minimum, on the first significant page after entering our Website.
Our Privacy Policy link includes the word 'Privacy' and can be easily be found on www.totkitchen.com.

Users will be notified of any Privacy Policy changes:
 On our Privacy Policy Page
Users are able to change their personal information, if any, via the contact email:
 On our Privacy Policy Page

EU User Consent Policy
For potential end users in the European Union:
This Site is intended for users only in the United States.  Additionally, we use commercially reasonable efforts to disclose clearly and obtain consent to, any data collection, sharing, and usage that takes place on www.totkitchen.com as a consequence of a User's use of Our Site; and We use commercially reasonable efforts to ensure that an end User is provided with clear and comprehensive information about, and consents to, the storing and accessing of cookies or other information on the end User's device where such activity occurs in connection with a product to which this Policy applies, pursuant to our Terms of Service and Privacy Policy, both of which are contained on www.totkitchen.com

How does our Site handle do not track signals?
Due to the inherent de-centralized nature of the internet and the various configurations of computers and web browsers, we cannot guarantee that a “do not track” signal will be honored.  Users can opt-out of the Google Analytics Advertising Features we use, including through Ads Settings, Ad Settings for mobile apps, or any other available means (for example, the NAI's consumer opt-out).  Users may also visit Google Analytics' currently available opt-outs for the web at https://tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout/

Does our Site allow third-party behavioral tracking?
We allow third-party behavioral tracking per our Terms and Privacy Policy--please see "Google"section herein.

COPPA (Children Online Privacy Protection Act)
When it comes to the collection of personal information from children under 13, the Children's Online Privacy Protection Act (COPPA) puts parents in control. The Federal Trade Commission, the nation's consumer protection agency, enforces the COPPA Rule, which spells out what operators of websites and online services must do to protect children's privacy and safety online.  We do not specifically market to children under 13.

Fair Information Practices
In order to be in line with Fair Information Practices we will take the following responsive action, should a data breach occur:
We will notify the users via in-Site notification
 Within 72 hours

CAN-SPAM Act
At this time, we do not collect your email address.  If we ever do collect your email address in the future, we would do so in order to:
• Send information, respond to inquiries, and/or other requests or questions
• Process orders and to send information and updates pertaining to orders.
• Send you additional information related to your product and/or service
• Market to our mailing list or continue to send emails to our clients after the original transaction has occurred.

If we change the Website in the future so that we collect your email address, to be in accordance with the CAN-SPAM Act, we agree to also do the following:
• Not use false or misleading subjects or email addresses.
• Identify the message as an advertisement in some reasonable way, if the message is an advertisement.
• Include the physical address of our business.
• Monitor third-party email marketing services for compliance, if one is used.
• Honor opt-out/unsubscribe requests quickly.
• Allow users to unsubscribe by emailing us at neha [at] totkitchen [dot] com.

If at any time you would like to unsubscribe from receiving future emails, you can email us at neha [at] totkitchen [dot] com.

Contacting Us
If there are any questions regarding this Privacy Policy you may contact Us using the information below:
www.totkitchen.com

[neha] [at] [totkitchen] [dot] [com]