Privacy Policy
Spatulatta LLC respects the privacy of our users and the concerns
of parents for their children visiting our site.
Spatulatta is designed for family use. We encourage parents and
children to cook together. We always include adult help as one of
the ingredient in our recipes. We want you to be actively involved
in your child's cooking experiments and their on-line experience.
In keeping with the Children's Online Privacy Protection Act (COPPA)
we have created this privacy policy to demonstrate our firm commitment
to our users' privacy and to explain information gathering and dissemination
practices.
If you are interested in reading more about COPPA you can visit
the FTC web site at http://www.ftc.gov/bcp/conline/edcams/kidzprivacy/
PERSONALLY IDENTIFIABLE INFORMATION
What We Collect And How We Use It
Anybody can access Spatulatta. Both children and adults can surf
to this site and view content without any personally identifiable
information being collected. However, some activities may require
that a person provide personally identifiable information. We do
not collect more personally identifiable information than necessary
to participate in any of the site's activities.
We do not ask for any personal information that can be
used by to locate your child. We only ask for first name, age
and e-mail address.
We urge parents to instruct their children never to give out their
last names, addresses, phone numbers, school name or social security
numbers when using the Internet.
We do not sell or transfer any personally identifiable information
collected at this site to third parties without consent.
We do not actively solicit, request, or re-use any information
from visitors except in the following instances:
Requests For Information and
Feedback
We offer a “Contact Us” page so users can communicate
with us. There is a text box for users to send us recipes and write
whatever they want to tell us. Real names need not be used to request
e-mail replies.
Our contact forms includes a request for parental e-mail address
and we copy the parent on every response. If we get a contact with
only the child’s e-mail address, we let them know that we
can only reply once without their parent’s consent.
If a user signs up to receive newsletters or updates from Spatulatta,
they need to provide a valid e-mail address. Real names need not
be used to request newsletters.
When we e-mail our newsletter, it includes instructions on how
to unsubscribe from the newsletter. If your child subscribes to
the Spatulatta newsletter without your knowledge, simply follow
the instructions, and unsubscribe immediately.
In addition, parents can request to have their child's information
deleted and refuse to permit further collection of information by
us. In order to do that, simply contact us - info@spatulatta.com.
Contests, Promotions and Electronic
Mailing
During contests we request name, age and e-mail address on the
contest or sweepstakes entry form. These e-mail addresses will only
be used for contacting the winner.
When entering, children under the age of 13 are required to provide
the email address of a parent/guardian. Spatulatta will send an
email to the parent giving them the option of removing their child
from the contest if they so choose.
Should a user under the age of 13 be selected as the winner (depending
on eligibility and legal requirements per the contest rules and
regulations), Spatulatta will notify that child and their parent/guardian
that the child has won and request the parent or guardian complete
a release and waiver form so that we may award the prize.
Also, if permission is granted by a parent/guardian, we may post
the winner's first name, age and home state/province. Once the prize
is awarded, only information related to the winner(s) will be maintained
for internal administrative purposes.
NON-PERSONAL
INFORMATION COLLECTION
Polls and Surveys
From time to time we ask our site visitors to answer survey questions.
Surveys generally deal with the site or our audience preferences.
We may ask for age ranges, gender, and other non-personally identifiable
information. No personally identifiable information is requested
and the information collected from a child is not tied to any personally
identifiable information that may have been previously provided.
Information gathered from polls and surveys are for internal use
by Spatulatta, but aggregate information may be shared with others.
SHARING INFORMATION
Spatulatta does not share your personal information with anyone.
Spatulatta may share "general" information about our
site visitors with our advertisers, potential partners, or other
third parties. This information will only be provided in the aggregate.
LINKS
The content of Spatulatta is designed for family use. In addition
to our own content, we also provide links to companies and organizations
that share our healthy eating/healthy living policy. We make every
effort to link only to sites with content suitable for all ages,
but we cannot be responsible for what appears on other sites. Additionally,
we cannot be responsible for the privacy policies and information
gathering practices of those other sites.
SECURITY, REVIEW AND DELETION
OF INFORMATION
Spatulatta uses industry standard security measures to protect
against the loss, misuse and alteration of the information under
our control. While there is no such thing as "perfect security" on
the Internet, we try our best to make sure that your transmissions
to and from the Site are kept secure. The limited personally identifiable
information collected from a child is password protected.
You may request at any time that the information collected about
your child be deleted. Parents may contact us at info@spatulatta.com about
reviewing or deleting the information collected. You may also use
this email address to contact us about any questions you may have
about this policy or our practices.
CONTACTING US
If you have any questions about this privacy statement, the practices
of this site you can contact us at:
Spatulatta LLC
1419 Elmwood Ave.
Evanston, IL 60201
Telephone: 847-864-3553
or at info@spatulatta.com
Protecting the privacy of our visitors is vitally important to
us. When Spatulatta makes any changes to its Privacy Statement,
the updated Privacy Statement will be posted on this page. We encourage
you to periodically review this Privacy Statement.
Spatulatta LLC, All Rights Reserved
The policies came into effect on August 23, 2007
