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PRIVACY POLICY

The Mix It Up Recipe Contest Sponsors and Brandfan (the “Sponsors”) will treat your privacy with the utmost care. Here’s our commitment:
•We never sell or your information – we are only using it to award the prize.
•Your entry form is protected by the most stringent security certification available.
•We never spam.

PRIVACY POLICY

The Mix It Up Recipe Contest Sponsors know that you care about your privacy rights and how your personal information is treated by us. This Privacy Policy (“Privacy Policy”) explains how we will use your personal information (“Personal Information”). It applies to all entrants of the Mix It Up Recipe Contest (“The Contest”). If you do not agree to this Policy, please do not use any of our services or offerings and do not continue to visit this website (collectively, the “Site”). From time to time, we may update this Privacy Policy to clarify our practices or to reflect new or different privacy practices, such as when we add new features to our Site. If we make any material changes we will notify you by means of notice on the Site prior to the change becoming effective. We encourage you to periodically review this page for the latest information about our privacy practices. The Effective Date of this Privacy Policy is October 1, 2013.

Types of personal information we collect

Personal Information is information that can be used to identify, locate, or contact an individual. It also includes other information that may be associated with Personal Information. We may ask you to provide to us and/or collect from you the following types of Personal Information:
•Contact Information that allows us to communicate with you, such as your name and email addresses.

How The Mix It Up Recipe Contest collects personal information

We may ask you for Personal Information including Contact Information when you submit an Entry. We will aggregate and analyze general data during the contest, for example, how many visitors viewed the Mix It Up Recipe Contest pages. If you have questions about the security and privacy settings of your mobile device, please refer to instructions from your mobile service provider or the manufacturer of your device to learn how to adjust your settings. We may also receive additional Personal Information from third parties. We may use this Personal Information to enhance other information we have about you to help us better understand you and to otherwise enhance the Site or the Contest.
How The Mix It Up Recipe Contest uses personal information
The Mix It Up Recipe Contest will only use Personal Information to:
•Operate and improve our Site;
•Determine eligibility of entrants for the Prize;
•Provide customer support, including to our other users, advertisers (if any) and business partners;
•Administer promotions such as this Contest;
•Manage our Site administration, analytics, fraud prevention, and Terms of Use, or to comply with the law.

When and why The Mix It Up Recipe Contest discloses personal information

We will not disclose your Personal Information to third parties except to:
•Our service providers that provide services for us such as sending emails on our behalf. Our service providers are bound by law or contract to protect the Personal Information and are only allowed to use the Personal Information in accordance with the terms of our service agreements with them.
•Effect a merger, acquisition, or otherwise; to support the sale or transfer of business assets; to enforce our rights or protect our property; to protect the rights, property or safety of others, investigate fraud, respond to a government request; or as needed to support auditing, compliance, and corporate governance functions. If any of the Sponsors are involved in a merger, acquisition, or sale of all or a portion of its assets, you will be notified via email and/or prominent notice on our Site of any change in ownership or uses of your Personal Information, as well as any choices you may have regarding your Personal Information
•We may also disclose Personal Information when required or advised to do so by law, such as in the context of litigation, response to a subpoena, or similar legal process, including to law enforcement agencies, regulators, and courts in the United States and other countries where we operate.
•Please know that the use of your Personal Information by third parties’ sites even when linked to from the Contest site is governed by the privacy policies of such parties and is not subject to our control.
•We may also disclose information about you that is not personally identifiable. For example, we may provide our business partners, or other third parties with reports that contain aggregated and statistical data about our users.
Cookies and related technologies

Our server logs also record the Internet Protocol (“IP”) addresses of the devices you use to interact with the Site. An IP address is a unique identifier that devices use to identify and communicate with each other on the Internet. We may also collect information about the website you were visiting before you came to our Site and the website you visit after you leave our Site, if this information is supplied to us by your browser. Additionally, if the settings on your location-aware device allow us to receive Location Information, we will collect that automatically. If we associate Location Information with other Personal Information, this Privacy Policy governs how we would use that information too.

The Sponsors have relationships with third party advertising companies to place advertisements on our behalf onto other websites, and to perform tracking and reporting functions for our Site and our advertisements. We do not share Personal Information with third party advertising companies; however, these third parties may automatically collect information about your visit to our Site and other websites, your IP address, your ISP and the browser you use to visit this Site. They do this by using cookies, clear gifs and other technologies. Information collected may be used, among other things, to deliver advertising targeted to your interests and to better understand the usage and visitation of our Site and the other websites tracked by these third parties. The Mix It Up Recipe Contest Page may contain links to other web sites. Please be aware that we are not responsible for the privacy practices or the content of such third-party web sites.

Opting in or out

You may manage how your browser handles cookies and related technologies by adjusting its privacy and security settings. Browsers are different, so refer to instructions related to your browser to learn about cookie-related and other privacy and security settings that may be available.

You may manage how your mobile device and mobile browser share Location Information with the Mix It Up Recipe Contest, as well as how your mobile browser handles cookies and related technologies by adjusting your mobile device privacy and security settings. Please refer to instructions provided by your mobile service provider or the manufacturer of your device to learn how to adjust your settings. You may also manage the sharing of certain Personal Information with us when you connect with us through a social media platform or application, such as through Facebook Connect. Please refer to the privacy settings of the social media website or application to determine how you may adjust our permissions and manage the interactivity between the Mix It Up Recipe Contest and your social media account or your mobile device.

Accessing and correcting personal information

Keeping Personal Information about you current helps ensure that we can contact you should you win the contest. You can do several things to help keep Personal Information about you current. You can access, update and delete your Contact Information, and the other information you provided by sending us an email at privacy@brandfanetwork.com. If you have other questions or requests, please contact us. While we are ready to assist you in managing your Mix It Up Recipe Contest Communications, we cannot always delete records of past interactions. We will retain and use your information as necessary to comply with our legal obligations, resolve disputes, and enforce our agreements.
Security of personal information

Children

Children under the age of 18are not permitted to use The Mix It Up Recipe Contest and we do not intentionally collect or maintain Personal Information from those who are under 13 years old. Protecting the privacy of children is very important to us. If we obtain actual knowledge that a user is under 13, we will take steps to remove that user’s Personal Information from our databases.

Contact us with questions

Please contact us if you have any questions or comments about our privacy practices or this Privacy Policy. You can reach us online at privacy@brandfannetwork.com or you can reach us via postal mail at the following address:

Brandfan, Inc
151 E. Post Road, Suite 110
White Plains, NY 10601