Privacy Policy

This Privacy Policy is effective from November 1, 2021.

As the owner of ouramericancuisine.com (referred to as the “Website” or “Site”), Our American Cuisine LLC (“we” or “us”) understand that your privacy is of critical importance. This Privacy Policy describes what information we collect from you via the Site, along with how we use and disclose such information.

AGREEMENT TO PRIVACY POLICY

Your use of the Site will constitute your agreement to this privacy policy. If you do not agree with the terms and conditions outlined here, then you must discontinue use of the Site.

REVISIONS TO PRIVACY POLICY

We may modify this Privacy Policy from time to time. The most recent revisions will appear on this page, along with the date that the policy was last revised. It is your responsibility to review this Privacy Policy. Your continued use of this Website constitutes your acceptance of any changes or revisions to the Privacy Policy. If you do not agree with the Privacy Policy, then you must discontinue use of the Site.

COOKIES, ANALYTICS, AND VISITOR DATA

Cookies

A cookie is a file containing an identifier (a string of letters and numbers) that is sent by a web server to a web browser and is stored by the browser. The identifier is then sent back to the server each time the browser requests a page from the server. Cookies may be either "persistent" cookies or "session" cookies: a persistent cookie will be stored by a web browser and will remain valid until its set expiry date, unless deleted by the user before the expiry date; a session cookie, on the other hand, will expire at the end of the user session, when the web browser is closed. Cookies do not typically contain any information that personally identifies a user, but personal information that we store about you may be linked to the information stored in and obtained from cookies.

We may use cookies for the following purposes:

(a) authentication – we use cookies to identify you when you visit our website and as you navigate our website;

(b) status – we use cookies to help us to determine if you are logged into our website;

(d) security – we use cookies as an element of the security measures used to protect user accounts, including preventing fraudulent use of login credentials, and to protect our website and services generally;

(e) advertising – we use cookies to help us to display advertisements that will be relevant to you; and

(f) analysis – we use cookies to help us to analyze the use and performance of our website and services.

Most browsers allow you to refuse to accept cookies and to delete cookies. The methods for doing so vary from browser to browser, and from version to version. You can obtain up-to-date information about blocking and deleting cookies via the following links:

(a) https://support.google.com/chrome/answer/95647?hl=en (Chrome);

(b) https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/enable-and-disable-cookies-website-preferences (Firefox);

(d) https://support.microsoft.com/en-gb/help/17442/windows-internet-explorer-delete-manage-cookies (Internet Explorer);

(e) https://support.apple.com/en-gb/guide/safari/sfri11471/mac (Safari); and

(f) https://privacy.microsoft.com/en-us/windows-10-microsoft-edge-and-privacy (Edge).

Blocking cookies may have a negative impact on the functions of many websites. Blocking cookies may also cause certain features on the Site to cease to be available to you.

Squarespace

This website is hosted by Squarespace. Squarespace collects personal data when you visit this website, including:

Information about your browser, network and device
Web pages you visited prior to coming to this website
Web pages you view while on this website
Your IP address

We also share some information with Squarespace to learn about Site traffic and activity. Squarespace needs data to run this website and to protect and improve its platform and services. Squarespace analyzes data in a depersonalized form.

For information about the cookies Squarespace uses, visit: https://support.squarespace.com/hc/articles/360001264507#toc-check-your-cookies

Certain functional and required cookies are always used. These allow Squarespace to securely serve this Site to you. For information on these cookies, visit: https://support.squarespace.com/hc/articles/360001264507#toc-functional-and-required-cookies

Certain analytics and performance cookies are used on this website only when you acknowledge our cookie banner. For information on these cookies, visit: https://support.squarespace.com/hc/articles/360001264507#toc-analytics-and-performance-cookies

You can visit Squarespace’s Privacy Policy and Terms of Service.

Google Analytics

We use Google Analytics to analyze the use of our Site. Google Analytics gathers information about website use by means of cookie with a randomly generated Client ID on your browser. Google uses your personal information such as your IP address in order to capture the reporting for the Website regarding the usage.

You may opt out of Google Analytics with a browser add-on, which is available here: https://tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout

Google’s privacy policy is available at: https://policies.google.com/privacy?hl=en-US

Email

We may collect your email address, but only if you voluntarily provide it to us. This may occur, for example, if you sign up to receive an email newsletter. We will use your email address for the purposes for which you provided it to us and also, from time to time, to send you emails regarding the Site or other products or services that we believe may be of interest to you.

You may opt out of such email communications at any time by clicking the “unsubscribe” button in the email.

Substack

We use Substack to distribute our email newsletters.

Please refer to Substack’s Privacy Policy and Terms of Use for more information on the data that Substack uses.

REGISTRATION AND ACCOUNT DATA

We may collect other information from you when you register with our Site in order to use various features. Such information could include your name, birthday, postal code, screen name, and password (if applicable). As you use the Site, we could collect other data that you provide voluntarily (such as comments that you post).

We may also collect information about you through other methods, including research surveys, social media platforms, verification services, data services, as well as public sources. We may combine this data with your registration data in order to maintain a more thorough profile.

We may use third parties to provide the functionality to allow you to register for the Site, in which case the third party will also have access to your information. Otherwise, we will not provide any personally-identifying information about you to third parties, except if required by law.

We may use your personally-identifying information for a variety of our internal business purposes, such as creating a better user experience for the Site, diagnosing and troubleshooting malfunctions on the Site, better understanding how the Site is used, and making personalized recommendations to you.

Comments

If you leave a comment, the Site will record your name as provided.

For more information about acceptable comments, refer to our Comment Policy.

Contact Form

We may keep contact form submissions for a certain period of time to improve user experience.

TRANSACTIONAL DATA

We may process information relating to transactions, including purchases of goods and services, that you enter into with us and/or through our Site ("Transactional Data"). The Transactional Data may include your contact details, your card details and the transaction details. The transaction data may be processed for the purpose of supplying the purchased goods and services and keeping proper records of those transactions.

Payment processing on our Site is handled by our payment services providers, Stripe and/or Coinbase, depending on the transaction. We will share transaction data with our payment services providers only to the extent necessary for the purposes of processing your payments, refunding such payments and dealing with complaints and queries relating to such payments and refunds. You can find information about the payment services providers' privacy policies and practices at the following:

https://stripe.com/privacy (Stripe); and

https://www.coinbase.com/legal/privacy (Coinbase).

THIRD PARTY LINKS

The Site contains links to third party websites and resources. These third party sites have separate and independent privacy policies. We therefore have no responsibility or liability for the content and activities of these linked sites.

SHARE BUTTONS

We use AddThis website marketing tools to make our content easily shareable across various social media platforms. When you enter the Site, Oracle and Oracle Partners may set a cookie and track your use of the Site (e.g., the web search that landed you on a particular page or categories of your interests), including allowing Oracle Partners to incorporate cookies and pixels to enable the synchronization of internal unique identifiers between Oracle and their third party partners to facilitate online behavioral advertising.

Oracle maintains a Privacy Policy which discloses how it handles our Site data (under what they call “Publisher Data”). Oracle uses Publisher Data to create data products and services such as targeted advertising services and for the other purposes described in their Privacy Policy.

You may opt-out of the collection and sharing of personal information with Oracle as permitted by their terms by visiting the following:

(a) In the US, visit the DAA opt-out program (currently available at http://www.aboutads.info/choices/) or the NAI opt out program (currently available at http://optout.networkadvertising.org);

(b) In the EU/EEA, visit the EDAA opt-out program (currently available at http://www.youronlinechoices.eu); and

AFFILIATE PROGRAM PARTICIPATION

We may engage in affiliate marketing, which includes embedding tracking links into the Site. If you click on such a link to an affiliate partner’s website, a cookie may be placed on your browser to track any sales for purposes of commissions.

Our American Cuisine LLC is a participant in the Amazon Services LLC Associates Program, an affiliate advertising program designed to provide a means for sites to earn advertising fees by advertising and links to Amazon.com.

As an Amazon Associate, the Site earns from qualifying purchases.

As part of this Amazon Associates program, the Site will post customized links, provided by Amazon, to track the referrals to their website. This program utilizes cookies to track visits for the purposes of assigning commission on these sales.

ADVERTISEMENTS

We do not have control over cookies that advertisers place on the Site.

We have no responsibility or liability for the content and activities of any linked sites.

Google Adsense

We use Google Adsense for the purposes of placing advertising on the Site. Google Adsense collects and uses certain data for advertising purposes.

Google uses cookies to help serve the ads it displays on the websites of its partners, such as websites displaying Google ads or participating in Google certified ad networks. When you visit a Google partner's website, a cookie may be dropped on your browser.

Third party vendors, including Google, use cookies to serve ads based on a user's prior visits to our Site and/or other websites.

Google's use of advertising cookies enables it and its partners to serve ads based on your visit to the Site and/or other websites on the Internet.

You may opt out of personalized advertising by visiting Ads Settings. You also can opt out of a third-party vendor's use of cookies for personalized advertising by visiting www.aboutads.info.

FONTS

This website uses font files from Google Fonts and Adobe Fonts. To properly display this site to you, servers where the font files are stored may receive personal information about you, including:

Information about your browser, network, or device
Your IP address

SALE AND TRANSFER OF PERSONAL INFORMATION

In general, all personal information submitted to us is used to either respond to a request you make or to aid us in serving you better. Your personal data will not knowingly be sold to a third party, except in the event of a sale, transfer, merger or acquisition (in whole or part) of the Site, or in the event of an insolvency, bankruptcy or receivership, in which case you hereby give the consent to your personal data transferred to the subsequent owner or controller of the Site.

ADDITIONAL RIGHTS OF EEA (EUROPEAN ECONOMIC AREA) RESIDENTS

If you are a resident of a country in the European Economic Area (EEA), you have the rights, among others, to:

(a) access your personal data;

(b) ensure the accuracy of your personal data;

(d) the right to restrict further processing of your personal data; and

(e) the right to complain to a supervisory authority in your country of residence in the event that data is misused.

If you believe that our processing of your personal information infringes data protection laws, you have a legal right to lodge a complaint with a supervisory authority responsible for data protection. You may do so in the EU member state of your residence, your place of work or the place of the alleged infringement.

You may exercise any of your rights in relation to your personal data by written notice to us through the Contact Form on the Site.

ADDITIONAL RIGHTS OF CALIFORNIA RESIDENTS

California law gives residents the right to opt out of the “sale” of their personal information to third parties, including for advertising purposes. Under California law, the sharing of your information with a service provider for advertising purposes could be considered a “sale.” To opt out of our placement of cookies on your device, click the opt out button (“Decline”) provided in the footer when you enter the Site.

Please note that you will need to opt out again if you visit the Site from a different device or browser or if you clear your cookies.

You have the right to request from us the categories of personal information that we have shared and the categories of third parties to whom the information was provided.

USER AGE

This Website is intended for use of people over the age of 16 years old. We do not intentionally collect information from and/or on children, and we do not knowingly sell the personal data of minors under 16 years of age.

CONTACT INFORMATION

Please use our Contact Form if you have any questions about the Privacy Policy.