Privacy Policy

Last modified: 29, July 2009

At Abbondanza! we recognize that privacy is important. This Privacy Policy applies to all of the products and services offered by Abbondanza! Magazine and TD Publishing. In addition, where more detailed information is needed to explain our privacy practices, we post supplementary privacy notices to describe how particular services process personal information.

Bottomline: We don’t sell, share or make available any personal information about our visitors.

If you have any additional questions or concerns about this Privacy Policy, please feel free to contact us any time through this web site or via email (customercare AT inabbondanza DOT com).

Information we collect and how we use it

We offer a number of services that do not require you to register for an account or provide any personal information to us, such as Abbondanza! news and event postings. In order to provide our full range of services and features (Custom News and Event Feeds, My Abbondanza!, etc.), we may collect the following types of information:

* Information you provide – When you sign up for a Abbondanza! Account or other Abbondanza! service or promotion that requires registration, we ask you for personal information (such as your name, email address and an account password). For certain services, such as our e-commerce shopping, we also request credit card or other payment account information which we maintain in encrypted form on secure servers. We may combine the information you submit under your account with information from other Abbondanza! services or third parties in order to provide you with a better experience and to improve the quality of our services. For certain services, we may give you the opportunity to opt out of combining such information.
* Cookies – When you visit Abbondanza!, we send one or more cookies – a small file containing a string of characters – to your computer or other device that uniquely identifies your browser. We use cookies to improve the quality of our service, including for storing user preferences, improving search results and ad selection, and tracking user trends, such as how people search. Abbondanza! also uses cookies in its advertising services to help advertisers and publishers serve and manage ads across the web. We may set one or more cookies in your browser when you visit a website, including Abbondanza! sites that use our advertising cookies, and view or click on an ad supported by Abbondanza!’s advertising services.
* Log information – When you access Abbondanza! services, our servers automatically record information that your browser sends whenever you visit a website. These server logs may include information such as your web request, Internet Protocol address, browser type, browser language, the date and time of your request and one or more cookies that may uniquely identify your browser.
* User communications – When you send email or other communications to Abbondanza!, we may retain those communications in order to process your inquiries, respond to your requests and improve our services.
* Affiliated Abbondanza! Services on other sites – We offer some of our services on or through other web sites. Personal information that you provide to those sites may be sent to Abbondanza! in order to deliver the service. We process such information under this Privacy Policy. The affiliated sites through which our services are offered may have different privacy practices and we encourage you to read their privacy policies.
* Gadgets – Abbondanza! may make available third party applications through its services. The information collected by Abbondanza! when you enable a gadget or other application is processed under this Privacy Policy. Information collected by the application or gadget provider is governed by their privacy policies.
* Location data – Abbondanza! offers location-enabled services, such as Abbondanza! Maps for mobile. If you use those services, Abbondanza! may receive information about your actual location (such as GPS signals sent by a mobile device) or information that can be used to approximate a location (such as a cell ID).
* Links – Abbondanza! may present links in a format that enables us to keep track of whether these links have been followed. We use this information to improve the quality of our search technology, customized content and advertising.
* Other sites – This Privacy Policy applies to Abbondanza! services only. We do not exercise control over the sites displayed as search results, sites that include Abbondanza! applications, products or services, or links from within our various services. These other sites may place their own cookies or other files on your computer, collect data or solicit personal information from you.

Abbondanza! only processes personal information for the purposes described in this Privacy Policy and/or the supplementary privacy notices for specific services. In addition to the above, such purposes include:

* Providing our services, including the display of customized content and advertising;
* Auditing, research and analysis in order to maintain, protect and improve our services;
* Ensuring the technical functioning of our network;
* Protecting the rights or property of Abbondanza! or our users; and
* Developing new services.

You can decline to submit personal information to any of our services, in which case Abbondanza! may not be able to provide those services to you.

Information sharing

Abbondanza! only shares personal information with other companies or individuals outside of Abbondanza! in the following limited circumstances:

* ONLY when we have your consent. We require opt-in consent for the sharing of any sensitive personal information.
* We provide such information to our subsidiaries, affiliated companies or other trusted businesses or persons for the purpose of processing personal information on our behalf. We require that these parties agree to process such information based on our instructions and in compliance with this Privacy Policy and any other appropriate confidentiality and security measures.
* We have a good faith belief that access, use, preservation or disclosure of such information is reasonably necessary to (a) satisfy any applicable law, regulation, legal process or enforceable governmental request, (b) enforce applicable Terms of Service, including investigation of potential violations thereof, (c) detect, prevent, or otherwise address fraud, security or technical issues, or (d) protect against harm to the rights, property or safety of Abbondanza!, its users or the public as required or permitted by law.

If Abbondanza! becomes involved in a merger, acquisition, or any form of sale of some or all of its assets, we will ensure the confidentiality of any personal information involved in such transactions and provide notice before personal information is transferred and becomes subject to a different privacy policy.

We may share with third parties certain pieces of aggregated, non-personal information, such as the number of users who searched for a particular term, for example, or how many users clicked on a particular advertisement. Such information does not identify you individually.

Please contact us for any additional questions about the management or use of personal data.

Information security

We take appropriate security measures to protect against unauthorized access to or unauthorized alteration, disclosure or destruction of data. These include internal reviews of our data collection, storage and processing practices and security measures, as well as physical security measures to guard against unauthorized access to systems where we store personal data.

We restrict access to personal information to Abbondanza! employees, contributors and agents who need to know that information in order to operate, develop or improve our services. These individuals are bound by confidentiality obligations and may be subject to discipline, including termination and criminal prosecution, if they fail to meet these obligations.

Enforcement

Abbondanza! regularly reviews its compliance with this Privacy Policy. Please feel free to direct any questions or concerns regarding this Privacy Policy or Abbondanza!’s treatment of personal information by contacting us through this web site.

When we receive formal written complaints at this address, it is Abbondanza!’s policy to contact the complaining user regarding his or her concerns. We will cooperate with the appropriate regulatory authorities, including local data protection authorities, to resolve any complaints regarding the transfer of personal data that cannot be resolved between Abbondanza! and an individual.

Changes to this Privacy Policy

Please note that this Privacy Policy may change from time to time. We will not reduce your rights under this Privacy Policy without your explicit consent, and we expect most such changes will be minor. Regardless, we will post any Privacy Policy changes on this page and, if the changes are significant, we will provide a more prominent notice (including, for certain services, email notification of Privacy Policy changes). Each version of this Privacy Policy will be identified at the top of the page by its effective date, and we will also keep prior versions of this Privacy Policy in an archive for your review.

If you have any additional questions or concerns about this Privacy Policy, please feel free to contact us any time through this web site or via email (customercare AT inabbondanza DOT com).