Here's our privacy policy in plain, simple English. We respect your privacy. We strongly dislike unsolicited email. We think we need to ask your permission before we use any information you give us for any other purpose than to improve the product, and improve our service to you. This means we don't sell or rent your information to any party.
We provide a simple opt-out screen for you to use to shut off all contact from us at any time.
If you elect to sign up for access to our recipe archive, we need your email address. This is so we (or other users) can contact you in the event that your posted recipes or comments have problems.
If you purchase the product, or provide additional optional information to us, we keep it private. You can always opt-in or opt-out of our newsletter at any time.
The email address that you give us will be used to send you any newsletters that you signed up for.
We refer to it to improve the service and product we deliver to you. Over time, we will be customizing BigOven further to make it even more focused on your individual needs, and this information may be used in that effort.
BigOven's recipe software and unique method of retrieving, posting, rating and sharing recipes is proprietary. The recipe archive at BigOven.com is a mechanism for other users to share, discuss and swap recipes, in conjunction with our proprietary, copyrighted software. Users are not permitted to access our electronically hosted archive through any other means than via BigOven for Windows or manually, via an internet browser without the expressed written consent of Lakefront Software, Inc. The starting content resident on it is a collection of recipes that have been posted or shared in public newsgroups, forums or bulletin boards by a number of people from around the world over many years, but it has gone through substantial editing by Lakefront Software, Inc. and that editing and improvement process is ongoing. Neither the edited and formatted content, nor the method to access it, search and post recipes and user ratings have been placed in the public domain, and are copyright Lakefront Software, Inc. The recipe archive allows other users to swap and share recipes more easily; we do not claim copyright ownership of the recipes themselves. Except as explicitly noted in each individual recipe itself, the recipes are deemed purely instructional content and thus in the public domain. Many of the recipes have been modified for categorization, spelling and/or accuracy by BigOven editors, but we do not claim copyright ownership on the content itself. Since we have employed an automated process to initially populate the archive, we have instituted a speedy manual resolution process if you are the legitimate copyright owner of recipes presently being shared in our archive and would like to contest their publication. We'd be happy to quickly investigate and respond. To do so, please note the recipe ID or IDs of those particular recipes and a statement and/or proof of your copyright on that work, and inform us via email (support @ bigoven.com), and we will initiate a resolution process that may (a) add appropriate copyright designation or (b) remove some or all of those recipes from the shared online archive in a timely manner.