PRIVACY POLICY

We at Boston Common Press (and related brands including: Cook’s Illustrated, Cook’s Country, and America’s Test Kitchen) are committed to respecting your privacy. We recognize the need for appropriate protection of personally identifiable information (any information by which you can be identified, including name, address, e-mail address, or credit card information). The purpose of this privacy policy is to inform you of what personally identifiable information or personal information we may collect from you when you visit our Web sites, and how we use such information. This policy applies only to users accessing our Web site from the United States.

To protect your privacy, we have adopted the following principles, and assure you that we take reasonable steps to see that it is followed within our company:

INFORMATION ABOUT YOU
There are times when we may collect personal information from you. For example, when you register with Boston Common Press for one of our electronic newsletters, product giveaways, surveys, or other services, personal information is requested. If you choose not to provide the information we request, you can still visit most of our Web site, but you may be unable to access certain options, offers, and services.

USE OF INFORMATION ABOUT YOU
From time to time, we are approached by companies or organizations that have a product or service that we believe might be of interest to you. We may share some your information with these companies so that they can communicate their products or services to you (we never share telephone or credit card numbers with any third party).

Your e-mail address is added to our electronic mailing list so that, from time to time, we can send you our newsletter or information about additions and special promotions from Boston Common Press’s family of Web sites (CooksIllustrated.com, AmericasTestKitchen.com and CooksCountry.com).

E-mail addresses submitted to AmericasTestKitchen.com are sometimes shared with third party underwriters of our television show, America’s Test Kitchen. Registrants have the opportunity to opt-out of these third party communications at the time of submission. E-mail addresses submitted to CooksIllustrated.com or CooksCountry.com are not shared with third parties.

ACCURACY
We do our best to maintain the accuracy of the personal information you supply to us.

PUBLIC FORUMS
This site makes chat rooms, forums, message boards, and/or news groups available to its users. Please remember that any information that is disclosed in these areas becomes public information and you should exercise caution when deciding to disclose your personal information.

Content posted in these public forums becomes the sole property of Boston Common Press (and all its related brands). Boston Common Press reserves the right to use content posted in these public forums for business purposes including, but not limited to, inclusion in publications and marketing.

SECURITY
This site has security measures in place to protect the loss, misuse and alteration of the information under our control. All orders are communicated to us via a secure server. Any version 3.0 or greater of Netscape Navigator or Microsoft Internet Explorer can process secure transactions over our secure server.

CONTACTING COOKSILLUSTRATED.COM
If you have any questions about this privacy statement, the practices of this site, or your dealings with this Web site, you can contact:

Boston Common Press
Customer Service
17 Station St.
Brookline, MA 02143
617-232-1000

YOUR CALIFORNIA PRIVACY RIGHTS
Beginning on January 1, 2005, California Civil Code Section 1798.83 permits our customers who are California residents to request certain information regarding our disclosure of personal information to third parties for their direct marketing purposes. To make such a request, please send an email to caprivacy@bcpress.com.

COMMITMENT
We are committed to privacy, and we are actively involved in and support current industry initiatives to preserve individual privacy rights on the Internet. Personal data privacy is a new and evolving area, and Boston Common Press is committed to respecting your right to privacy. If you have any comments or questions regarding our privacy policy, please contact us at webmaster@bcpress.com. We will address any issue to the best of our abilities.