The Comfy Cow operates a website at http://www.thecomfycow.com. It is The Comfy Cow’s policy to respect your privacy regarding any information we may collect while operating our website.
Website Visitors
Like most website operators, The Comfy Cow collects non-personally-identifying information of the sort that web browsers and servers typically make available, such as the browser type, language preference, referring site, and the date and time of each visitor request. The Comfy Cow’s purpose in collecting non-personally identifying information is to better understand how The Comfy Cow’s visitors use its website. From time to time, The Comfy Cow may release non-personally-identifying information in the aggregate, e.g., by publishing a report on trends in the usage of its website.
The Comfy Cow also collects potentially personally-identifying information like Internet Protocol (IP) addresses. The Comfy Cow does not use such information to identify its visitors, however, and does not disclose such information, other than under the same circumstances that it uses and discloses personally-identifying information, as described below.
Gathering of Personally-Identifying Information
Certain visitors to The Comfy Cow’s website choose to interact with The Comfy Cow in ways that require The Comfy Cow to gather personally-identifying information. The amount and type of information that The Comfy Cow gathers depends on the nature of the interaction. For example, we ask visitors who sign up for our E-mail newsletter to provide first and last name, email address, mailing address and birthday. Those who engage in transactions with The Comfy Cow – by purchasing products, for example – are asked to provide additional information, including as necessary the personal and financial information required to process those transactions. In each case, The Comfy Cow collects such information only insofar as is necessary or appropriate to fulfill the purpose of the visitor’s interaction with The Comfy Cow. The Comfy Cow does not disclose personally-identifying information other than as described below. And visitors can always refuse to supply personally-identifying information, with the caveat that it may prevent them from engaging in certain website-related activities.
Aggregated Statistics
The Comfy Cow may collect statistics about the behavior of visitors to its websites. For instance, The Comfy Cow may monitor the most popular pages on the thecomfycow.com site or use spam screened by the Akismet service to help identify spam. The Comfy Cow may display this information publicly or provide it to others. However, The Comfy Cow does not disclose personally-identifying information other than as described below.
Protection of Certain Personally-Identifying Information
The Comfy Cow discloses potentially personally-identifying and personally-identifying information only to those of its employees, contractors and affiliated organizations that (i) need to know that information in order to process it on The Comfy Cow’s behalf or to provide services available at The Comfy Cow’s website, and (ii) that have agreed not to disclose it to others. Some of those employees, contractors and affiliated organizations may be located outside of your home country; by using The Comfy Cow’s website, you consent to the transfer of such information to them. The Comfy Cow will not rent or sell potentially personally-identifying and personally-identifying information to anyone. Other than to its employees, contractors and affiliated organizations, as described above, The Comfy Cow discloses potentially personally-identifying and personally-identifying information only when required to do so by law, or when The Comfy Cow believes in good faith that disclosure is reasonably necessary to protect the property or rights of The Comfy Cow, third parties or the public at large. If you are a registered user of The Comfy Cow website and have supplied your email address, The Comfy Cow may occasionally send you an email to tell you about new features, solicit your feedback, or just keep you up to date with what’s going on with The Comfy Cow and our products. If you send us a request (for example via a support email or via one of our feedback mechanisms), we reserve the right to publish it in order to help us clarify or respond to your request or to help us support other users. The Comfy Cow takes all measures reasonably necessary to protect against the unauthorized access, use, alteration or destruction of potentially personally-identifying and personally-identifying information.
Cookies
A cookie is a string of information that a website stores on a visitor’s computer, and that the visitor’s browser provides to the website each time the visitor returns. The Comfy Cow uses cookies to help The Comfy Cow identify and track visitors, their usage of The Comfy Cow website, and their website access preferences. The Comfy Cow visitors who do not wish to have cookies placed on their computers should set their browsers to refuse cookies before using The Comfy Cow’s website, with the drawback that certain features of The Comfy Cow’s website may not function properly without the aid of cookies.
Privacy Policy Changes
Although most changes are likely to be minor, The Comfy Cow may change its Privacy Policy from time to time, and in The Comfy Cow’s sole discretion. The Comfy Cow encourages visitors to frequently check this page for any changes to its Privacy Policy. Your continued use of this site after any change in this Privacy Policy will constitute your acceptance of such change.
