Policy

BarkAtYourFood brings you opinions, insights, and rants about everything and anything. We are not affiliated with any particular political party, religion, or philosophy. However, we do strive to bring accuracy, precision, logic, and clarity to an often unclear and illogical world. We also realize this is an impossible and thankless task. So if you don’t like what you read here, too bad. But if you feel you must contact us, send email to:

TopDog@barkatyourfood.com
and we’ll get back to you.

Our trademark, copyright, and privacy policies follow.

Trademark and Copyright

“BarkAtYourFood” is a trademark of this site. This site may also contain third-party trademarks and service marks. All trademarks and service marks remain the property of their respective owners and may not be used inappropriately.

All content on this site is protected by copyright law. Unauthorized use of any content, including text, photos, videos, or other material is prohibited. This means you cannot copy, store, reproduce, distribute, display, publish or create derivative works from the content on this site without express authorization from BarkAtYourFood.

Privacy

We may collect anonymous information from your visits to BarkAtYourFood by using the IP addresses from server log files. We keep track of domain names but not the e-mail address, of anyone who visits our web site. We may use the page sharing services of both “Share This” and the RSS feed sharing by e-mail provided by “Feed Burner” and so we can view the e-mail address of both the viewer and sender of the form. These e-mail addresses are not used for any purpose except to complete the sending of the forms as requested by the site visitors.

The information we collect is used for internal review and use by the editors of BarkAtYourFood. Unless otherwise stated, all information collected is used solely to improve the content of our web site and services.

We share aggregate information with advertisers regarding the demographics of our visitors. This is not linked to any personal information that can identify any individual person.

We may disclose any information we have when required by law or in the good-faith belief that such action is necessary in order to conform to the requirements of the law or to comply with legal process served on BarkAtYourFood.

If as a result of publishing an article on BarkAtYourFood, we are contacted by individuals seeking personal identifiable information about a subject of the published article, we will only disclose information to specific third parties if we have received explicit permission from the subject of the query granting the release of that information.

BarkAtYourFood may provide links to other web sites. Please be aware that when you click on one of these links, you will be entering another website. We encourage you to read the privacy statements of these linked web sites as their privacy policy may differ from ours. BarkAtYourFood is not responsible for the privacy policies or the content of these linked web sites.

BarkAtYourFood may use third party companies to deliver banner advertisements and other on-line communication. These companies may collect and use information about the customers who clicked or viewed these banners. The information they collect is aggregated so as to protect the privacy of our readers, but BarkAtYourFood does not bear any responsibility for any actions or policies of any third parties.

One of the online advertisers may be Google.com, and Google.com as a third party vendor uses the DoubleClick DART cookie. A DART cookie is used to observe and track how a user views this site and other sites on the Internet. More information about the DART cookie system, including how to opt-out of this system can be viewed here. Additional information about how Google.com uses this information may be found here.

This privacy statement was last updated on April 7, 2009. A notice will be posted on the BarkAtYourFood home page for thirty (30) days whenever this privacy statement is changed.