Canine Crostini believes that online privacy is crucial for the ongoing success of the Internet as a service, commercial and entertainment medium. We collect personal information from you primarily to make using the Canine Crostini services easier and more satisfying. In registering for certain services offered by Canine Crostini you may be asked to provide your name, mailing address, e-mail address, zip code, gender and other information about you and what you do and don't like. We request this information from you so that we can provide you with the personalized service necessary to meet our goal of making our sites a valuable service to you! However, unless you designate otherwise, the personally identifiable information you provide will be known only to you and to Canine Crostini. It will always be your choice to provide this information to Canine Crostini affiliates. If others want this information, including your name or your email address, we will provide it only if you give us permission to do so.

From time to time, Canine Crostini may introduce new products and services to our users. To the extent these new products and services affect this policy, this online policy will be updated.

What information does Canine Crostini gather/track and how is it used?

Information gathered online can generally be categorized as either anonymous or personally identifiable. Anonymous information is information that cannot be traced back to a specific individual. For example, Canine Crostini knows how many web surfers have visited our sites on a given day, but we do not know the names, e-mail addresses or gender of the people visiting us.

Personally identifiable information is information you provide that lets us know specific facts about you so that we can deliver to you a specific service or product you have requested. This information can include your name, address, zip code, age, etc.

Gathering and Use of Anonymous Information

Each time a visitor comes to a Canine Crostini web site, we collect some information from the visit to improve the overall quality of the online experience, including product monitoring, product improvement, and targeted advertising. At Canine Crostini web sites, we collect the visitor's domain name (e.g. whether the user is logged on from aol.com or cerfnet.net), referral data (e.g., we record the address of the last URL a user visited prior to clicking through to a Canine Crostini web site), and browser and platform type (e.g., an Internet explorer browser on a NT platform).

In addition to collecting these types of information, Canine Crostini collects aggregate queries for internal reporting and targeted advertising. We also count, track, and aggregate the visitor's activity into our analysis of general traffic flows at our sites (e.g. tracking where traffic comes from, how traffic flows within the Canine Crostini properties, etc.). To these ends, we may merge information about you into group data, which may then be shared on an aggregated basis with our advertisers; but Canine Crostini will not disclose your individual identity or personal data without your permission. When Canine Crostini does present aggregated information to outside companies, no one will be able to identify or contact you.

When appropriate, users will be given the opportunity to receive information from third-party organizations in connection with services or events offered by Canine Crostini. This option may be made available through a Canine Crostini web site registration and/or through registration processes maintained by a participating third party. In all cases, you will be informed before you register for the event or service that a third party will be receiving the registration information you provide and you will have the option not to participate in any service or event that requires third party involvement.

Use Of Canine Crostini Cookies

Canine Crostini web sites use cookies to track traffic flow and patterns of travel within and through the sites. Cookies are a standard Internet technology that allow us to both store and retrieve login information on a user's system. Our Web server automatically asks a new user whether his or her browser will agree to accept a Canine Crostini cookie file. If a visitor accepts, our Web server will identify the user's cookie for Canine Crostini use in internal reporting. If a user accepts a Canine Crostini cookie, but would later like to remove it from his or her computer, he or she can just remove it from their browser.

Demographic Information

When we do present information to our advertisers, it is in the form of grouped statistics compiled from our users' answers to survey questions and on-site behavior. Canine Crostini will not disclose the contact or demographic information of any individual user to advertisers or any other outside organization without the express permission of the individual.

Special Policy With Regard to Information from Children Under Thirteen

In accordance with the Federal Children's Online Privacy Protection Act of 1998 (COPPA), Canine Crostini will never knowingly request personally identifiable information from anyone under the age of 13 without parental consent. When we do receive information (with parental consent) from users under the age of 13, we will never voluntarily share their personally identifiable information with third parties, regardless of their stated preference given at registration.