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CookShow SARL, is privately owned and based in Neuilly-sur-Seine, France. Cookshow SARL is a French company. In using the CookShow website and/or software and/or any services and/or prodcts provided by CookShow, you agree to comply with the CookShow Privacy Notice, including any amendment or update hereto. This Privacy Notice details important information regarding the use and disclosure of User information collected on the CookShow Sites. CookShow provides this Privacy Notice to help you make an informed decision about whether to use or continue using the CookShow Sites.

Please note that any video, image, or other content posted at the direction of Users onto the CookShow Sites becomes published content and is not considered personally identifiable information subject to this Privacy Notice.

How do we collect information
•    Information on the ‘cooks’: You provide certain personally identifiable information (such as your name and email address) to Cookshow when choosing to participate in various activities or using some functionalities on the Cookshow website such as uploading recipes or tips, creating groups, creating a shopping list, creating a menu, posting messages to other users in our forums or in the video comments section, or subscribing to newsletters or other mailing lists.
•    Cookies Information: Cookshow may use cookies or similar technologies to enhance and personalize your experience of the Website, including to operate and improve offerings through the Website
o    to help authenticate your identity when you visit and use the Website
o    to remember your preferences and registration information
o    to present and help measure and research the effectiveness of the various offerings, advertisements, and e-mail communications
o    and to customize the content and advertisements provided to you.
You can reset your web browser to refuse all cookies or to indicate when a cookie is being sent. However, some features of the CookShow Sites may not function properly if the ability to accept cookies is disabled.

How do we use these information
Personal information collected is for internal purposes (statistics), to display adapted contents when visiting the site, and to provide you with promotional offers from our partners.

Any personal information or video content that you voluntarily disclose online (on discussion boards, in messages and chat areas, within your public profile page, etc.) becomes publicly available and can be collected and used by others. Your account name on CookShow (not your email address) is displayed to other Users when you upload videos or send messages through the CookShow Sites and other Users can contact you through messages and comments. Any videos that you submit to the CookShow Sites may be redistributed through the internet and other media channels, and may be viewed by the general public.
We use cookies, clear gifs, and log file information to: (a) remember information so that you will not have to re-enter it during your visit or the next time you visit the CookShow Sites; (b) provide custom, personalized content and information; (c) monitor the effectiveness of our marketing campaigns; (d) monitor aggregate metrics such as total number of visitors, pages viewed, etc.; and (e) track your entries, submissions, groups creations…

CookShow is a website provider and must comply with article 6 of “Loi pour la confiance dans l’Economie Numérique »  The user is informed that CookShow must :
•    Keep data aimed at identifying any person who posts any content on the CookShow website. The User is informed that CookShow will transfer to the French legal authorities any such information regarding the User if asked for through a French judge or police officer.
•    Remove any content on the website or keep it inaccessible as soon as CookShow is aware that such a content is illicit.

However, the User is informed that CookShow does not have an obligation to check that the content provided by Users is illicit.
Access to Your data is limited to our authorized staff and restricted by password protection mechanisms. However, please note that this is not a guarantee that such information may not be accessed, disclosed, altered, or destroyed by breach of any of our physical, technical, or managerial safeguards.

According to article 34 of the French law ‘Informatique et Libertés’ (computer and freedom), any User is granted to have access to its personal data stocked in the CookShow system, and has a specific right to ask for its modification or its deletion. In order to do so, you can contact Cookshow at 40 rue Madeleine Michelis, 92200 Neuilly sur Seine, France. Contact.

How do we disclose Information
We may release personally identifiable information and/or non-personally-identifiable information if required to do so by law, or upon a judge notification (“Commission Rogatoire”).

CookShow also reserves the right to disclose personally identifiable information and/or non-personally-identifiable information that CookShow believes, in good faith, is appropriate or necessary to enforce its Terms of Use, to take precautions against liability, to investigate and defend itself against any third-party claims or allegations, to assist legal or government enforcement agencies, to protect the security or integrity of the CookShow web site, and to protect the rights, property, or personal safety of CookShow, its Users or others.

What are your Choices
You may decline to submit personally identifiable information through the CookShow Sites, in which case CookShow may not be able to provide certain services to you. All your personal information contained in your profile, such as e-mail, tastes and specialities,  may be updated or corrected at any time by visiting your Profile page. Please note that media files uploaded by Users to the CookShow sites cannot be removed and remain subject to the CookShow Terms of Use.

Please contact CookShow with any questions or comments about this Privacy Notice, your personal information, your consent, or your opt-in or opt-out choices.

Third-party Ad Servers
Cookshow or its advertisers may allow other companies known as “third party ad servers or ad networks” to help present advertisements online in connection with the Website. These third party ad servers or ad networks may use cookies or similar technologies to help present such advertisements, and to help measure and research the advertisements' effectiveness. The use of these technologies by these third party ad servers or ad networks is subject to their own privacy policies, not Cookshow’s.

Children protection
Cookshow is not directed to children under the age of 13. We do not permit registration by, and will not knowingly collect or use personally identifiable information from, anyone under 13 years of age. If CookShow learns that personally identifiable information of persons less than 13 years of age has been collected on the CookShow Sites without verified parental consent, then CookShow will take the appropriate steps to delete this information.

In case of Merger, Sale, or Bankruptcy
We are always seeking to improve our website and our business. In accomplishing these objectives, we may sell Cookshow. We therefore may transfer some or all of your information as a part of the sale in order that the service being provided to you may continue or for other business purposes.

In what we think is the unlikely event of our bankruptcy, insolvency, reorganization, receivership, or assignment for the benefit of creditors, we may not be able to control how your personal information is treated, transferred, or used.

Copyright Infringement
If you have any issue concerning copyright infringement, please contact us by mail or email: Cookshow, 40 rue Madeleine Michelis, 92200 Neuilly sur Seine, France. Contact.
Should any recipe, video or any submission displayed be specifically protected by a copyright, we will remove it. Cookshow SARL shall not be liable for any direct or indirect copyright problem. Cookshow.com take no responsibility and assumes no liability that may infringe any copyright, brand, trademark or other intellectual or proprietary person ,company or other party. By submitting any content you warrant that you have the lawful right to distribute and reproduce it.
You will need to provide the identification of the copyrighted work claimed to have been infringed.

Changes in the Privacy Notice
Cookshow reserves the right to change or modify the Policy at any time, without prior notice, by posting the modified Policy on the Website. Your continued use of the Website indicates your acceptance of any revised Policy. 

August 27th, 2007