Our privacy policy
The Tasteful Life dot com Privacy Policy is designed to help you understand how The Tasteful Life collects and uses the personal information you decide to share, and help you make informed decisions when using the features and services located at the Tasteful Life website.
By using or accessing The Tasteful Life, you are accepting the practices and terms described in this Privacy Policy. If you have questions or concerns regarding this policy, you should contact us at privacy at The Tasteful Life dot com.
Our Privacy Commitment to You
The Tasteful Life was created to share recipes, travel plans and party plans as well as join in conversations around those topics and everyday life. It was specifically designed to be a social network that inspires and motivates visitors, members, users to live a more cultured and inspired life through food, parties and travel.
The Tasteful Life Community Privacy Principles
You decide what information you wish to share with other members. Just like any other community of women, The Tasteful Life functions around the sharing of information and ideas. However, you are given the ability to restrict what information of yours other members can and cannot access.
We will take a “zero-tolerance” approach to any Privacy Policy or Terms of Use violations we discover. We built The Tasteful Life with our members’ safety and security in mind, and we intend to keep our online “neighborhood” as safe and secure as possible for our members. Rest assured that we will enforce a zero-tolerance policy towards any and all privacy violations we discover in our community.
About the Information We Collect
When you initially register with The Tasteful Life, you provide us with certain “Personal Information”, such as your name, your gender, certain family data, email address, telephone number, address, and certain other personal or preference information. This information is required by us to:
1. Confirm your eligibility to use The Tasteful Life
2. Customize your The Tasteful Life experience to your locality and preferences
3. Send you welcome information, The Tasteful Life rewards or other items as necessary. As part of the registration process, each new The Tasteful Life member completes her individual profile, which contains some personal information, family and demographic data, and preferences. From this profile input is derived the information that the member chooses to include (”Profile Information”). Your basic Profile Information will be disclosed to other Members only and will not be viewable by unregistered visitors. However, but the amount of other information that is disclosed to other Members will depend upon:
1. The relationship between the other Member(s) and yourself
3. The type of information or data (i.e. some types of personal information cannot be shared)
4. Your other preferences and choices regarding disclosure
You should be aware that any information you disclose can be read, collected, or used by Members to whom it is disclosed, and could be used improperly to send you unsolicited messages. The Tasteful Life is not responsible for the personally identifiable information you choose to disclose or for others’ misuse of such information. Any misuse or improper collection of Member Information provided is a violation of the The Tasteful Life Terms of Use and should be reported immediately to abuse@TheTastefulLife.com.
The Tasteful Life also logs non-personally-identifiable information including IP address, aggregate user data, and browser type from Members and visitors to the site. These data are used to manage the website, track usage and improve the website services. This non-personally-identifiable information, as well as other non-personally-identifiable demographic and geographic information, may be shared with third-parties to provide more relevant services and advertisements to members. User IP addresses are recorded for security and monitoring purposes.
Profile Information, including a Member’s user name, shared pictures, and other shared information, are displayed to registered Members in order to facilitate user interaction in the The Tasteful Life social networking community. Email addresses are used for the purposes of inviting new friends to join The Tasteful Life, administering and adding members to groups, and to send notifications related to the service. With the exception of the aforementioned instances, a Member’s email address is not shared or displayed to people, even within a Member’s personal network. Members within a personal network communicate with each other on The Tasteful Life through the The Tasteful Life message system, and without having to disclose their email addresses. To facilitate finding old friends and meeting new ones in our community, The Tasteful Life allows Members to search for other moms using first and last name, email address, geographic location, general family information as well as personal interests and preferences.
We may also use a Member’s email address to send updates, a newsletter or news regarding The Tasteful Life. Members may choose not to receive email of this type by changing their account settings at any time.
How We Use The Information You Disclose
We use your Personal Information to help us efficiently operate the Web Site and to contact you in connection with your transactions and other activities on the Web Site. We also use Personal Information to send you notifications regarding new services offered by The Tasteful Life or promotions of services that The Tasteful Life is undertaking with third parties that we think you may find valuable.
We do not provide Personal Information to third party marketers without your permission. We may, however, share aggregated demographic information about our user base with our partners and advertisers. This could include third parties with whom we choose to offer joint promotions or services. This information does not identify individual users.
We share your information with third parties only in limited circumstances where we believe such sharing is (1) legally required to comply with Federal or State laws and/or regulations, (2) reasonably necessary to offer the The Tasteful Life service, or (3) expressly permitted by you.
We may be required to disclose user information pursuant to lawful requests, such as subpoenas or court orders, or in compliance with applicable laws. We do not reveal information until we have a good faith belief that an information request by law enforcement or private litigants meets applicable legal standards. Additionally, we may share account or other information when we believe it is necessary to comply with law, to protect our interests or property, to prevent fraud or other illegal activity perpetrated through the The Tasteful Life service, or to prevent imminent bodily harm. This may include sharing information with other companies, lawyers, agents or government agencies.
We occasionally provide demonstration accounts to allow non-Members to view and experience the The Tasteful Life community. Such accounts have only limited capabilities (most communications features are disabled) and passwords are changed regularly to limit possible misuse.
If the ownership of all or substantially all of the TheTastefulLife.com business interest owned by TriTaur, LLC were to change, your user information may be transferred to the new owner so the service can continue operations. In any such transfer of information, your user information would remain subject to the promises made in any pre-existing privacy policy.
Children Under Age 13
The Tasteful Life is a website and service for women and has set a minimum user age of 13 for Membership at our site. Therefore in accordance with our Terms of Use no one under age 13 is allowed to register as a primary user or provide any personal information to or on The Tasteful Life. The Children’s Online Privacy Protection Act of 1998 (which is available at http://www.ftc.gov/ogc/coppa1.htm), dictates that no one under the age of 13 be allowed to register at our site. If you believe that we might have any inappropriate information from or about a child under the age of 13, please contact us at privacy@TheTastefulLife.com.
The Tasteful Life recommends caution in posting information about your own minor children in publicly accessible site areas such as profiles, blogs, and forums. Please also remember that you are not allowed to post information regarding other people’s minor children without their express written parental consent. By publicly posting information on your own children you are providing parental consent for such information to be displayed on The Tasteful Life.
Shared User Content
The Tasteful Life is about sharing the ideas and information with each other to make mom life a little easier, and our community gets better with every recipe, travel log, service provider referral, insight or support you can offer the community. When you choose to publish information to The Tasteful Life you acknowledge that this information is for public consumption by the Members and may be utilized, reproduced and retransmitted as desired for their personal use. Per our Terms of Use, any commercial use of The Tasteful Life user generated information by our Members is strictly prohibited.
Voluntary Posting of Personal Information
Please exercise prudence and caution whenever you voluntarily post personal information to your Profile, or any other public area within the The Tasteful Life environment. Although we work diligently to protect misuse of private information, please be aware that such information can be used by others to send you unsolicited (and potentially unwanted) communications or solicitations.
Links & Third Party Services
The Tasteful Life contains links to other websites and integrates certain third party services into the The Tasteful Life environment. We are not responsible for the privacy practices of other web sites and online services. We encourage our users to be aware when they leave our site to read the privacy statements of each and every web site that collects personally identifiable information.
Cookies
TheTastefulLife.com uses small information tags stored on your computer (commonly called “cookies”) to store your preferences and to record session information, for purposes including ensuring that Members are not repeatedly offered the same advertisements and to customize content based on browser type and user profile information. We do not link the information we store in cookies to any personally identifiable information you submit while on our site. You may be able to configure your browser to accept or reject all or some cookies, or notify you when a cookie is set — each browser is different, so check the “Help” menu of your browser to learn how to change your cookie preferences — however, you must enable cookies from The Tasteful Life.COM in order to use most functions on the site. Please note that The Tasteful Life allows third party advertisers that are presenting advertisements on some of our pages to set and access their cookies on your computer. Advertisers’ use of cookies is subject to their own privacy policies, not the The Tasteful Life Privacy Policy.
Invite a Friend
If a Member elects to use our “Invite Friend” feature to invite a friend to become a registered Member of The Tasteful Life, we ask them to provide the friend’s email address, and The Tasteful Life will automatically provide an email inviting the mom to join the site. The Tasteful Life stores this email address for the purpose of automatically adding the respondent to the friends list of the Member sending the invitation, and also to send reminders of the invitation. The Tasteful Life does not sell these email addresses or use them to send any other communication besides invitations and invitation reminders.
Changing or Removing Information
Access and control over most personal information on The Tasteful Life is readily available through the profile editing tools. Information will be updated immediately. Removed personal information may persist in backup copies on our servers for a reasonable period of time but will not be generally available to other Members of The Tasteful Life.
Security
The The Tasteful Life account of every Member is password-protected. The Tasteful Life takes appropriate precautions to protect our Members’ information. Your account information is located on a secured server behind a firewall. Unfortunately, perfect security does not exist on the Internet, and therefore, The Tasteful Life makes no representations or warranties with regard to the sufficiency of these security measures. The Tasteful Life shall not be responsible for any damages that result from a lapse in compliance with this Privacy Policy because of a security breach, technical malfunction, acts of God or similar problems. Always be careful and responsible regarding your personal information.
Because email and instant messaging are not recognized as secure communications, we request that you not send private information to us or other Members by email or instant messaging services.
Changes in the The Tasteful Life.com Privacy Policy
From time to time, we may make changes to our privacy policy. If we make changes, we will post those changes on the Web Site so Members and other users of the The Tasteful Life Web Site are always aware of what information we collect, how we use it, and under what circumstances, if any, we disclose it. Non-material changes and clarifications will take effect immediately. If we are decide to change our policy about how we use Members’ personally identifiable information, we will notify Members by posting a notice on our Web Site 30 days prior to implementing such change.
Contacting Us Regarding Privacy
If you have any questions about this privacy policy, please contact us at privacy@TheTastefulLife.com.
