Privacy Policy

Thank you for visiting the Cook’s Direct website and reviewing our privacy policy. Our privacy policy is simple: we will collect no personal information about you when you visit our website unless you choose to provide that information to us.  Cook’s does not rent, sell or exchange information about its customers.

Information Collected and Stored Automatically: 

The Cook’s web server collects and saves only the default information customarily logged by World Wide Web server software. Specifically, for each http request received, the date and time, the originating IP address, the object requested, and the completion status of the request is collected and saved. 

We may analyze these logs to determine the traffic through the server in hits, the number of pages served, and the level of demand for pages of interest during a limited period of time. We may also review access to particular pages to determine any statistics that may be of value to Cook’s in establishing priorities and updating the site or it's contents to better accomplish our mission and provide quality services and products to our customers.

E-mail Inquiries to Cook’s:

All e-mail correspondence submitted to Cook’s is saved for the express purposes of maintaining a documented history of our ability to fulfill your request. We do not collect personal information for any purpose other than to respond to you.  Cook’s does not rent, sell or exchange information about its customers. We only share the information you give us with third parties when input from that individual or organization is needed to respond to your inquiry. We do however analyze information collected in email inquiries to determine areas of interest to our customers or topics for discussion in the News & Specials section that would be of value to add to the website and enhance the user experience. 

Accuracy and Security of Customer Information

Cook’s makes all reasonable efforts to ensure that the customer information it maintains is accurate, timely and secure. Cook’s will monitor and adopt, as appropriate, new technological developments that are designed to aid in ensuring the accuracy and security of customer information. Cook’s enforces its policies in regard to gathering, access and use of personal customer information by its employees and authorized third parties. 

Links to Other Sites

Cook’s has links to other web sites. Once you link to another site, you are subject to the privacy policy of the new site. 

Use of Cookies

Cook’s uses "cookies" to help personalize your online experience with us. A cookie is a text file that is placed on your hard disk by a Web page server. Cookies cannot be used to run programs or deliver viruses to your computer. Cookies are uniquely assigned to you, and can only be read by a web server in the domain that issued the cookie to you.

One of the primary purposes of cookies is to provide a convenience feature to save you time. A cookie will tell the Web server that you have returned to a specific page. You have the ability to accept or decline cookies. Most Web browsers automatically accept cookies, but you can usually modify your browser setting to decline cookies if you prefer. If you choose to decline cookies, you may not be able to fully experience the certain website features.