Privacy Policy

Zestuous LLC and Girls Can Grill (“Girls Can Grill“) operates GirlsCanGrill.com and may operate other websites. It is Girls Can Grill’s policy to respect your privacy regarding any information we may collect while operating our websites.

Website Visitors

Like most website operators, Girls Can Grill 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. Girls Can Grill’s purpose in collecting non-personally identifying information is to better understand how Girls Can Grill’s visitors use its website. From time to time, Girls Can Grill may release non-personally-identifying information in the aggregate, e.g., by publishing a report on trends in the usage of its website.

Girls Can Grill also collects potentially personally-identifying information like Internet Protocol (IP) addresses for logged in users and for users leaving comments on GirlsCanGrill.com blogs/sites. Girls Can Grill only discloses logged in user and commenter IP addresses under the same circumstances that it uses and discloses personally-identifying information as described below, except that commenter IP addresses and email addresses are visible and disclosed to the administrators of the blog/site where the comment was left.

Gathering of Personally-Identifying Information

Certain visitors to Girls Can Grill’s websites choose to interact with Girls Can Grill in ways that require Girls Can Grill to gather personally-identifying information. The amount and type of information that Girls Can Grill gathers depends on the nature of the interaction. For example, we ask visitors who sign up at GirlsCanGrill.com to provide a username and email address. Those who engage in transactions with Girls Can Grill are asked to provide additional information, including as necessary the personal and financial information required to process those transactions. In each case, Girls Can Grill collects such information only insofar as is necessary or appropriate to fulfill the purpose of the visitor’s interaction with Girls Can Grill. Girls Can Grill 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

Girls Can Grill may collect statistics about the behavior of visitors to its websites. Girls Can Grill may display this information publicly or provide it to others. However, Girls Can Grill does not disclose personally-identifying information other than as described below.

Protection of Certain Personally-Identifying Information

Girls Can Grill 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 Girls Can Grill’s behalf or to provide services available at Girls Can Grill’s websites, 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 Girls Can Grill’s websites, you consent to the transfer of such information to them. Girls Can Grill 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, Girls Can Grill discloses potentially personally-identifying and personally-identifying information only in response to a subpoena, court order or other governmental request, or when Girls Can Grill believes in good faith that disclosure is reasonably necessary to protect the property or rights of Girls Can Grill, third parties or the public at large. If you are a registered user of an Girls Can Grill website and have supplied your email address, Girls Can Grill 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 Girls Can Grill and our products. If you send us a request (for example via 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. Girls Can Grill 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. Girls Can Grill uses cookies to help Girls Can Grill identify and track visitors, their usage of Girls Can Grill website, and their website access preferences. Girls Can Grill visitors who do not wish to have cookies placed on their computers should set their browsers to refuse cookies before using Girls Can Grill’s websites, with the drawback that certain features of Girls Can Grill’s websites may not function properly without the aid of cookies.

We use Google Analytics to analyze the use of our website. Google Analytics gathers information about website use by means of cookies. The information gathered relating to our website is used to create reports about the use of our website. Google’s privacy policy is available at:   https://www.google.com/policies/privacy/

Business Transfers

If Girls Can Grill, or substantially all of its assets, were acquired, or in the unlikely event that Girls Can Grill goes out of business or enters bankruptcy, user information would be one of the assets that is transferred or acquired by a third party. You acknowledge that such transfers may occur, and that any acquirer of Girls Can Grill may continue to use your personal information as set forth in this policy.

Embedded content from other websites

Articles or pages on this site may include embedded content (e.g. videos, images, articles, etc.). Embedded content from other websites behaves in the exact same way as if the visitor has visited the other website.

These websites may collect data about you, use cookies, embed additional third-party tracking and monitor your interaction with that embedded content, including tracing your interaction with the embedded content if you have an account and are logged in to that website.

Ads

Ads appearing on any of our websites may be delivered to users by advertising partners, who may set cookies. These cookies allow the ad server to recognize your computer each time they send you an online advertisement to compile information about you or others who use your computer. This information allows ad networks to, among other things, deliver targeted advertisements that they believe will be of most interest to you. This Privacy Policy covers the use of cookies by Girls Can Grill and does not cover the use of cookies by any advertisers.

Changes

Although most changes are likely to be minor, Girls Can Grill may change from time to time, and in Girls Can Grill’s sole discretion. Girls Can Grill encourages visitors to frequently check this page for any changes. If you have a GirlsCanGrill.com account, you might also receive an alert informing you of these changes. Your continued use of this site after any change will constitute your acceptance of such change.

Google Analytics Advertising

Google Analytics will collect visitation information and associate it with Google information from accounts of signed-in users who have consented to this association for the purpose of ads personalization. This Google information may include end user location, search history, YouTube history and data from sites that partner with Google—and is used to provide aggregated and anonymized insights into users’ cross device behaviors. 

If you want to opt-out, download and install the add-on for your web browser. The Google Analytics opt-out add-on is designed to be compatible with Chrome, Safari, Firefox and Microsoft Edge. In order to function, the opt-out add-on must be able to load and execute properly on your browser. Learn more about about the Google Analytics’ currently available opt-outs for the web.

Advertising

This Site is affiliated with CMI Marketing, Inc., d/b/a Raptive (“Raptive”) for the purposes of placing advertising on the Site, and Raptive will collect and use certain data for advertising purposes. To learn more about Raptive’s data usage, click here: https://raptive.com/creator-advertising-privacy-statement/