Happy Eats!

As you can see from looking around Happy Eats! - this site is all about seriously good food. I don’t offer a newsletter (yet), so naturally I don’t ask you for your email address or any other personal information here on Happy Eats. But everybody worries about privacy online - I know I do - so here is the official Happy Eats Privacy Policy:

Tracking

Like most other sites on the Internet, Happy Eats automatically tracks general information about your visit. That way I can see how many people visit, the browsers you’re using, how you found me, and what pages are visited most often. This information helps me to monitor traffic and usage so I do not run up a big bill with my hosting company, and so I don’t waste web pages on recipes for eels (eels are not a big draw here at Happy Eats).

My hosting company gathers this basic information by following and tracking things like domain names (www.google.com, for example), but they don’t and can’t do it using your e-mail address or some secret code on your computer. The bottom line is, none of this tracking or usage information can identify you personally.

Cookies (no, not the kind made with butter and chocolate chips!)

Also, when you visit Happy Eats, you are not tracked with any sort of “cookies.” (To me, cookies should be the kind that you can EAT). However, some of the companies and web sites I link to may use cookies to track the fact that you clicked on their link when you were at my site. Well, there’s nothing I can do about that, except to say that none of the places I link to are scary or weird!

Security

Reasonable precautions are taken to make sure your email address won’t be abused when you write to me. (For example, I do not let the little kids in the family play with my computer!) To prevent bad things like unauthorized access and tampering with data, my web host uses all kinds of wonderful and mysterious physical, electronic, and managerial procedures that are designed to safeguard your emails. Wow.

Links

Happy Eats contains links to other sites. Some of them are to shopping sites, some of them are to sites I like, and some of them are (gasp!) advertisements. Naturally, I have no control over the content or privacy practices of those other sites. When you click on most of the links on Happy Eats, they will open a new browser window. That way you KNOW you are no longer on Happy Eats.

So if you stay up late at night, worrying about what happens when you click a link on Happy Eats, here’s a tip: read the privacy policy of any other site you visit! That way you’ll either know for sure that they are not sinister snoops, or you will be so confused by their long-winded explanation you won’t care.

Feedback

You know what? I already get too much email! So if you write to me, remember that the more time I spend at the computer, the less time I can spend in the kitchen, developing and testing seriously happy things to eat! But if for some reason you need to contact me about this privacy policy, send an email to the address below. (It wouldn’t hurt to include your favorite recipe - I’ll even link to you if I publish it on Happy Eats!).

Remember, if you send me an e-mail, I obviously need to use your return email address to answer. But please understand that I won’t add your address to any kind of mailing list. I don’t sell or rent or share or barter email addresses with any outside parties. I will not send you stupid spammy emails. Basically the only reason I would use your email is to write back to you!

Email address:
Emi AT happyeats.com