Privacy Policy

We at America's Test Kitchen (and related brands including Cook's Illustrated and Cook's Country) 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 websites, and how we use such information. This policy applies only to users accessing our websites 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 America's Test Kitchen for one of our websites, 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 parts of our websites, but you may be unable to access certain content, 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 America's Test Kitchen.

E-mail addresses registered to our TV show websites are sometimes shared with third party underwriters of our television shows. Registrants have the opportunity to opt-out of these third party communications at the time that they register. 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 America's Test Kitchen (and all its related brands). America's Test Kitchen 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 AMERICASTESTKITCHEN.COM

If you have any questions about this privacy statement, the practices of this site, or your dealings with this website, please contact:

America's Test Kitchen
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. If you have any comments or questions regarding our privacy policy, please contact us at customerservice@americastestkitchen.com. We will address any issue to the best of our abilities.