Privacy Policy

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Mama Says takes the private nature of your personal information very seriously. This Privacy Policy describes how we treat the information we collect when you visit our Web site and/or register for periodic emails from us.

Personal Information

In order to send you your Mama Says info we need your e-mail address. So that we may provide you with additional services, we may also request your name, geographical coordinates, and telephone number. Mama Says does not collect any other personal information that you do not expressly provide. Mama Says will not disclose your personal information to any third party without your consent, except to a third party as required to help us send your information to you.

Non-Personal Information

We may also request non-personally identifiable information, such as [annual income, buying preferences, or age], also known as demographic and profile data, though this information is optional. We may use this data to improve our site and/or tailor your experience at our site, showing you content that we think you might be interested in, and displaying content according to your preferences. We may also share this information with others, such as advertisers interested in advertising with Mama Says or our site, in aggregate, anonymous form, which means that the information will not contain any personally identifiable information about you or any other person.

Usage Information

In addition to collecting personal and non-personal information, Mama Says may also collect non-personal, aggregated information about subscribers' use of our site. This information is not personally identifiable and will only be used to find out how subscribers use our service and site. For example, this information will tell us how much time users spend on our site, from which other sites subscribers came, and to what other sites subscribers go. The collection of this information allows us to, among other things, prepare for traffic load demands and to efficiently deliver content to you.

Review and Access

Upon your request, we will provide you with a summary of the information we collect about you. You will have an opportunity to correct, update or modify this information.

Choice/Opt-Out

If we ever send you information by e-mail concerning new products or services that you did not expressly request, we will provide you with an e-mail address by which you may request no future notices.

Cookies

Like most sites Mama Says makes use of browser "cookies." Cookies are small text files placed on your computer's hard disk by our server. They allow us to quickly check your status as a subscriber and facilitate access to your preferences. Mama Says will never use cookies to retrieve information from a computer that is unrelated to our site or services.

Links to Other Sites

Mama Says may create links allowing you to access third party sites. Mama Says is not responsible for the content that appears on those sites and does not endorse these sites. Please consult those sites' individual privacy policies in order to determine how they treat user information.

Google Adsense and the DoubleClick DART Cookies

Google, as a third party advertisement vendor, uses cookies to serve ads on this site. The use of DART cookies by Google enables them to serve adverts to visitors that are based on their visits to this website as well as other sites on the Internet.

To opt out of the DART cookies you may visit the Google ad and content network privacy policy at the following URL http://www.google.com/privacy_ads.html. Tracking of users through the DART cookie mechanisms is subject to Google’s own privacy policies.

Other Third Party ad servers or ad networks may also use cookies to track users activities on this website to measure advertisement effectiveness and other reasons that will be provided in their own privacy policies, http://www.somuchmorethanamom.com has no access or control over these cookies that may be used by third party advertisers.

Security

All information described above is stored on restricted database servers.

Modification to this Policy

Mama Says may change this policy, but we'll post any changes here. Check back to read them.

Contact Us

If you have any questions about this policy or our site in general, please contact us.

Last Updated: 11/17/09

Disclosure Statement

We have signed the Blog With Integrity Pledge.

This blog is a collaborative blog written by two individuals. This blog does not accept any form of cash advertising, sponsorship, or paid topic insertions. However, we might accept and keep free products, services, travel, event tickets, and other forms of compensation from companies and organizations. For transparency, we may let readers know that we’ve received a sample, or not. We believe that an honest opinion is really what people want, not to know how we ended up with a particular kitchen tool, cookbook or cleaning product. We are committed to sharing our experiences in an honest and authentic manner — and are opinion only.

This blog features musings from the Mama Says. LCC team — including recipes, favorite things, gift ideas, travelogues, restaurant and product reviews, aspects of our lives, along with posts from friends, guest writers and bloggers. Twitter is an extension of our blog (@Mama_Says). We tweet about a lot of aspects of our lives, cooking, travel, and business, et al.

The owners of this blog are not compensated to provide opinion on products, services, websites and various other topics. The views and opinions expressed on this blog are purely the blog owners. If we claim or appear to be experts on a certain topic or product or service area, we will only endorse products or services that we believe, based on our expertise, are worthy of such endorsement. Any product claim, statistic, quote or other representation about a product or service should be verified with the manufacturer or provider.

The compensation received will never influence the content, topics or posts made in this blog. All advertising is in the form of advertisements generated by a third party ad network. Those advertisements will be identified as paid advertisements.

The comments section of the blog is for our readers to add to the conversation, share their experience and ideas and/or express their point of view. A comment is not a place for ads, spam or to contact the authors directly. Those who use the comments section in this manner will have their comment deleted or edited. We will take down any comments that defame, abuse, harass, threaten, or otherwise violate the legal right of others.

The owners of this blog would like to disclose the following existing relationships. These are companies, organizations or individuals that may have a significant impact on the content of this blog. We have a financial interest in Mama Says, LCC that is relevant to our blogging and use of social media.

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