PRIVACY POLICY

At Maria’s Last Diet, we respect your privacy and take our obligation seriously to protect it.

Collection and Use of Personal Information

If you buy an e-Booklet, you are giving us permission to collect your name and email address in the confirmation of your purchase that we receive from Google Checkout. Google Checkout does not, however, give us your credit card information.

If you subscribe to the newsletter, you are giving us permission to have access to your email address so we can email you the newsletter.

We will not sell, trade, rent, or otherwise disclose your name, your email address, and any other personally identifiable information to third parties for any purpose. We will not use this information to contact you without first getting your permission. Your information and your privacy are safe with us.

Like most other websites, though, we collect statistics about how many people are visiting and using MariasLastDiet.com and where they come from on the internet. The statistics are meant to be used collectively as an aggregate.

Nevertheless, the statistics do give some non-personal, individually identifiable information like the IP address or domain name which you use to access the internet, the internet address of the website you use to connect to MariasLastDiet.com, and what operating system and browser you’re using to access our website.

We gather this individual information only as part of our collective statistics. These statistics help us improve the functionality and usefulness of our website, and let us know how best to reach people who are looking for what we have to offer. The statistics we accumulate are not used in any way to track you personally.

Private Communications

We will not disclose any private communications you have with us whether they are by email, mail, phone, or in person. We will keep these communications just between us.

Ensuring Secure Billing Transactions
If you purchase anything from this site, we will make sure that your financial information is safe and secure.

If you decide to purchase the e-Booklet, for example, you will pay for it on the secure Google Checkout site. While we ourselves can't certify your privacy and security on the Google Checkout site, we can certainly assure you that Google Checkout may not use your information for any purpose other than that for which they have been retained by us. We selected Google Checkout as our online payment company because they are widely known and have an excellent reputation for maintaining privacy and security.

How is Your Information Protected?
Maria's Last Diet uses commercially reasonable computer security safeguards to protect its database and server against unauthorized access, misuse, modification, risk of loss, and improper or inadvertent disclosure of data. These risks cannot be completely eliminated and we, or no other website, can guarantee complete security. As new technologies emerge, we will revise our policies and implement additional security features.

Public Information
Information you disclose in public areas on Maria's Last Diet (e.g., the Dear Maria blog) is accessible to others. Please remember to use discretion and appropriate caution when deciding to reveal personal information. We prefer that you identify yourself with your initials, your first name only, or even a pseudonym to protect your identity.

If we use your information over again in any way, we will provide authorship credit by listing your first name, initials, or pseudonym to protect your identity.

Children
We do not encourage visitation or participation by children. Visitors who are known to be under the age of 13 are not supposed to be using this website. While the information on this website is not harmful to children 13 and under, we do not intend the information and activities on this site for children at these ages. By using the website, you affirm that you are above the age of thirteen.

Parents or guardians of children over the age of thirteen should be aware that the information on this site is designed to appeal to a broad audience. It is the parent's or guardian's responsibility to determine whether any portion of this website is inappropriate for their child.

Spam Policy
We do not participate in spamming and we do not want this site used for spamming.

TERMS OF SERVICE AND USE

Copyrighted and Protected Material
The content you submit to Maria's Last Diet must be your own and not be subject to any copyright, trademark, and other intellectual and proprietary rights. We reserve the right to edit and/or not to post any submitted material.

By submitting content, which may or may not include your first name or your first and last name, to any public area of the website (e.g., the Dear Maria blog), you grant Maria's Last Diet and Symmetry Press LLC a royalty-free, perpetual, irrevocable, non-exclusive right (including any moral rights) and license to use, reproduce, modify, adapt, publish, translate, create derivative works from, distribute, derive revenue or other remuneration from, communicate to the public, perform and display the content (in whole or in part) worldwide and/or to incorporate it in other works in any form, media, or technology now known or later developed, for the full term of any rights that may exist in such content. You also permit any other visitor to Maria's Last Diet to access, display, view, store and reproduce such content for personal use.

Maria's Last Diet is for your personal use only. You are responsible for the content of your messages and any consequences of such messages when you communicate publicly or privately on the website.

You agree not to use Maria's Last Diet to post or place any message or material that is unlawful, harassing, libelous, defamatory, abusive, threatening, harmful, vulgar, obscene, and profane (masked or actual), sexually oriented (unless it is within the scope of the topic), racially offensive, inaccurate, otherwise objectionable, that encourages conduct that could constitute a criminal offense, lead to civil liability, or violate local, state, national, or international laws or regulations. Maria's Last Diet reserves the right to delete any such material from the website.

Repercussions
In the event that Maria's Last Diet and Symmetry Press LLC determine that you have breached any portion of these Terms of Service, or otherwise demonstrated conduct inappropriate for the website, we reserve the right to warn you via email, delete any or all content provided by you, discontinue your access and subscription to any content or service through Maria's Last Diet, cooperate with law enforcement for further action, and/or take any other appropriate action.

Website Content
The content on Maria's Last Diet is protected by copyrights, trademarks, and other intellectual and proprietary rights issued to Maria's Last Diet and/or Symmetry Press LLC. The applicable copyright, trademark and other laws govern your use of this content. Unauthorized access, reproduction, copying, retransmission, distribution, publication, sale, exploitation (commercial or otherwise), or any other form of transfer of any portion of Maria's Last Diet website, including but not limited to all services, digital products, and content is prohibited.

Jurisdiction
By accessing information found at this site, you agree and consent to the exclusive jurisdiction of the courts, tribunals, agencies and other dispute resolution organizations in Connecticut, specifically the United States District Court, District of Connecticut Hartford, Connecticut and the Litchfield Judicial District Superior Court Litchfield, Connecticut. Any final judgment rendered in this jurisdiction shall be conclusive and may be enforced in other jurisdictions in any manner provided by law.

Modifications
These terms of service may be modified from time to time, and the new terms of service will be posted in place of these current terms.