Privacy Policy

Last updated on: November 9, 2015

Indian Simmer LLC (“we”, “us”, “our”), owner and operator of www.indiansimmer.com, mobile application(s), and widgets available via third party sites (the “Service”), regards the protection and privacy of your personal information very seriously. We know you care about how your personal information is used and shared, and that you trust us to exercise the utmost care with it. This Privacy Policy explains how we collect and use that personal information you provide to us or which is collected in connection with your use of the Service. If you have any questions or feedback, please feel free to contact us at support@indiansimmer.com any time.

Information We Collect

We collect “personally identifiable information”, meaning information that could be used to identify you individually (such as your email address or IP address), to provide you with products and services we make available through the Service, to communicate with you, and to manage your registered account.

Information Collected Upon Registration

If you would like to contribute any content to our Web Site, you will be required to become a registered member, as well as submit personally identifiable information to the Service. This happens in a number of instances, such as when you sign up as a registered member, or if you desire to receive marketing materials and information. Personally identifiable information that we collect in such instances may include your IP address, email address, user name, password and other optional information you elect to provide to us in your profile. Providing additional information beyond what is required at registration is entirely optional, but enables you a fuller experience on the Service.

If you use a third party service, such as Facebook Connect, for signing into the Service, we may collect personal data, such as your user ID, name, e-mail address, profile picture/avatar that are available in your public profile with the third party service you use for signing into the Service. We may also share, with your approval, the information that you “liked” an item or started following a blog on your Facebook timeline. The Service may also include a “Find friends from Facebook” feature which enables you to find other users of the Service that you have as Facebook friends.

You may access your profile on the Service to update or correct information you have provided us, or request that we deactivate your account and remove your personally identifiable information from our active databases by emailing us to deactivate account. In the case of deactivation, we will remove your personally identifiable information as soon as is reasonably possible in accordance with our deactivation policy and applicable law. We retain in our files information that we deem necessary to resolve disputes, troubleshoot problems or enforce our Terms of Service Agreement. Additionally, your information is never completely removed from our databases due to technical and legal constraints, including backup storage.

Additional Information

Recipes, photos and videos you decide to post on the Service are displayed to all visitors of the Service, and we are not required to keep any such content private. ALL information you submit will be subject to this Privacy Policy.

Other Information

Each time you visit the Service, we may collect information regarding your browser type and Internet Protocol (“IP”) address and store such information through use of “cookies”. A cookie is a piece of data stored on your computer that is tied to information about you. The type of information collected includes the URL you came from and go to, your browser information and your IP address. Cookies enable the Service to confirm that a user is logged in, to provide easier registration, and to improve the Website. We may use cookies to recognize your browser for purposes such as automatically authenticating you and logging you in to the Service, saving your preferences and directing relevant content to you. If you wish, you can set your browser, by editing its options, to accept or reject all cookies, or notify you when a cookie is set.

We may also place tracking pixels in the Service. A tracking pixel is a transparent graphic image that is placed on a web page and, in combination with a cookie, allows for the collection of information regarding the use of the web page that contains the tracking pixel.

We may use API keys of third-party software to authenticate the user to us.

Google Analytics is an element of the Service. By using cookies, Google Analytics collects and stores data such as time of visit, pages visited, time spent on each page of the website, the Internet Protocol address, and the type of operating system used in the devices used to access the Service. By using a browser plugin http://www.google.com/ads/preferences/plugin/ provided by Google, you can opt out of Google Analytics.

We may also use the analytics software service providers to provide us with statistical information related to your use of the Service, including, but not limited to, Mixpanel, Quantcast and comScore.

Use of Information We Collect

We may use your personal account information to operate, maintain, customize and personalize your experience with the Service based on your individual usage habits, improve our marketing and promotional efforts, analyze site usage, improve our content and product offerings, and customize our site’s content, layout and the website. We also use the information we collect about you to resolve disputes, troubleshoot problems, and enforce our Terms of Service Agreement.

We may engage certain trusted third parties to perform functions and provide services to us, including without limitation hosting and maintenance, customer relationship, database storage and management, and marketing. We may share your personal account information with them, but only to the extent necessary to perform these functions and provide such services, and only pursuant to binding contractual obligations requiring such third parties to maintain the privacy and security of your information. We may use your email address to send you notifications regarding the Web Site and new services we think you may find valuable.

WITHOUT YOUR AFFIRMATIVE CONSENT, INDIAN SIMMER LLC DOES NOT SELL, RENT OR OTHERWISE SHARE YOUR PERSONALLY IDENTIFIABLE INFORMATION WITH ITS ADVERTISERS OR OTHER THIRD PARTIES, EXCEPT IN THE CASE OF A REQUIRED DISCLOSURE OR UNDER THE PRECEDING PARAGRAPH. WE SHARE WITH OUR PARTNERS AND ADVERTISERS ONLY AGGREGATED OR OTHERWISE NON-PERSONALLY IDENTIFIABLE INFORMATION.

If we obtain IP addresses, usage data and browser information from our users, we may use such information for the following purposes: (a) to diagnose and prevent service or technology problems that are associated with the IP addresses; (b) to help us provide you with customized content and promotions that match your stated preferences; (c) to prepare geographical or other statistical data to help us better serve our users; (d) to create new features, promotions and services in connection with the Platform; and (e) to monitor the use of the website.

However, Indian Simmer LLC may need to disclose personally identifiable information (“Required Disclosure”) when required by law or if we have a good faith belief that such action is necessary to (a) comply with a current judicial proceeding, a court order or legal process, (b) enforce this privacy policy or the Terms of Service Agreement, (c) respond to claims that your Personal Information violates the rights of third parties, (d) protect the rights, safety or property of Indian Simmer LLC or its users or others, or if (e) Indian Simmer LLC becomes involved in a merger, acquisition, or other transaction resulting in a change of control of Indian Simmer LLC, in which case you will have the opportunity to opt out of any such transfer if the new entity’s planned processing of your information differs materially from that set forth in this privacy policy.

Third Party Advertising

In order to continue to offer our services at reasonable charges to our users, Indian Simmer LLC permits third party advertisers to provide advertisements to you through the Web Site. Indian Simmer LLC DOES NOT provide any personal account information to such advertisers; however, Indian Simmer LLC may provide personal preference information to these advertisers in order that we may serve you better. In addition, such advertisers may download cookies onto your computer, which would enable them to recognize your computer each time they send you an advertisement. As a result, the advertising network would have the ability to deliver targeted advertisements that they believe would be of most interest to you. Indian Simmer LLC does not have access to or control of the cookies that may be placed by third party advertisers.

Notice Regarding Online behavioural Advertising

We allow third party companies to serve ads and/or collect certain anonymous information when you visit our Web site. These companies may use non-personally identifiable information (e.g. click stream information, browser type, time and date, subject of advertisements clicked or scrolled over) during your visits to this and other Web sites in order to provide advertisements about goods and services likely to be of greater interest to you. These companies typically use a cookie or third party web beacon to collect this information. To learn more about this behavioural advertising practice visit the NAI at http://www.networkadvertising.org. To opt-out of this type of advertising, you can visit http://www.aboutads.info/choices.

Security

Indian Simmer LLC is very concerned about safeguarding the confidentiality of your personally identifiable information. To do that, we employ administrative, physical and electronic measures designed to protect your information from unauthorized access. In the event any of our security measures are breached, which we of course cannot guarantee against, we will make any legally-required disclosures of any breach of security, confidentiality, or integrity of your unencrypted electronically stored personal data to you via email or conspicuous posting on this Web Site in the most expeditious time possible, consistent with the reasonable needs of law enforcement or any measures necessary to determine the scope of the breach and restore the reasonable integrity of the data system.

Other sites

This privacy policy applies only to the Service. We may include links to other websites, which we do not control. These other websites may place their own cookies or other files on your computer, collect data or solicit personally identifiable information from you. Indian Simmer LLC expressly disclaims responsibility for the privacy practices of such other websites. When you leave our Web Site and enter other sites, we encourage you to read their privacy practices.

Changes to this Privacy Policy

Indian Simmer LLC may update its privacy policy from time to time at our sole discretion. Any such changes will be posted on this page and the revision date thereof will be indicated at the top of the page. We will use information in accordance with the Privacy Policy under which the information was collected.

If we make material changes in our privacy practices, we will post a prominent notice on our Website notifying you of the change. If the change affects how your personally identifiable information is treated, then that change will not apply to you without your affirmative consent, and if after a period of 30 days you have not consented, your account will be automatically suspended, and your personally identifiable information continue to be treated according to the earlier privacy policy in force, until such time as you may choose to consent to that change.

Dispute Resolution

Any dispute, claim or controversy relating to this or any previous privacy policy shall be resolved as provided in our Terms of Service Agreement.

Questions

Should you have any questions or suggestions regarding our privacy policy, please feel free to contact us at support@indiansimmer.com.

This privacy policy is governed by the terms of the Indian Simmer LLC Terms of Service Agreement, available for review here.