About Use of Photos Found on This Website:

Photos from the Personal Collection of Donna Pierce may not be copied or used without expressed permission.

Contact:

Donna Pierce

dpierce@soul2keep

312-464-9112

for permission to reproduce any photo or use any content.

Scrolling Photo Credits Above with Julia
Child, Marcus

Samuelsson,
Art Smith,
Leah Chase

and more...:

Counter-Clockwise Beginning with Wedding:

1. Donna's parents (Muriel & Eliot Batte) w/ Mobile, Alabama wedding party, June 28, 1950. Click to see Eliot Battle & flower girl, Peggy Cooper Caffritz. in 2009.)

2. Donna with Art Smith.

3. Donna's paternal great aunts (c.1890)

Wilson, North Carolina.

4. Donna with Julia Child, Greenbrier Hotel, 1997.

5. From private photo collection, unknown Boone County Missouri

Couple/WW1.

6. Donna, her Dad, Chef Marcus Samuelsson.

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Black America Cooks

Privacy Policy

Black America Cooks Privacy Statement

August 15, 2009

Privacy Policy

BlackAmericaCooks.com and Soul2Keep regards the protection and privacy of your personal information very seriously. We know you care about how your personal information is used and shared, and that you trust us to exercise the utmost care with it. This Privacy Policy explains how we collect and use that personal information you provide to us or which is collected in connection with your use of BlackAmericaCooks.com. If you have any questions or feedback, please feel free to contact us at dp@soul2keep any time.
Information We Collect
We collect “personally identifiable information,” meaning information that could be used to identify you individually (such as your email address or IP address), to provide you with products and services we make available through BlackAmericaCooks.com; Soul2Keep.
Additional Information.
Recipes, photos and videos you decide to post on BlackAmericaCooks.com are displayed to all visitors of BlackAmericaCooks.com, and we are not required to keep any such content private. ALL information you submit will be subject to this Privacy Policy.
Browser and IP Information; Cookies.
Each time you visit BlackAmericaCooks.com, we may collect information regarding your browser type and Internet Protocol (“IP”) address and store such information through use of “cookies.” A cookie is a piece of data stored on your computer that is tied to information about you. The type of information collected includes the URL you came from and go to, your browser information and your IP address. Cookies enable BlackAmericaCooks.com to confirm that a user is logged in and to improve the Website. We do NOT use cookies to collect information that could be used to identify you personally, such as your email address. If you wish, you can set your browser, by editing its options, to accept or reject all cookies, or notify you when a cookie is set.
Use of Information We Collect
We may use your personal account information to operate, maintain, customize and personalize your experience with BlackAmericaCooks.com based on your individual usage habits, improve our marketing and promotional efforts, analyze site usage, improve our content and product offerings, and customize our site’s content, layout and the website. We also use the information we collect about you to resolve disputes, troubleshoot problems, and enforce our Terms of Service Agreement.
We may engage certain trusted third parties to perform functions and provide services to us, including without limitation hosting and maintenance, customer relationship, database storage and management, and marketing. We may share your personal account information with them, but only to the extent necessary to perform these functions and provide such services, and only pursuant to binding contractual obligations requiring such third parties to maintain the privacy and security of your information. We may use your email address to send you notifications regarding the Web Site and new services we think you may find valuable.
Without your affirmative consent, BlackAmericaCooks.com (Soul2Keep) does not sell, rent or otherwise share your personally identifiable information with its advertisers or other their parties, except in the case of a required disclosure or under the preceding paragraph. We share with our partners and advertisers only aggregated or otherwise non-personally identifiable information.
If we obtain IP addresses, usage data and browser information from our users, we may use such information for the following purposes: (a) to diagnose and prevent service or technology problems that are associated with the IP addresses; (b) to help us provide you with customized content and promotions that match your stated preferences; (c) to prepare geographical or other statistical data to help us better serve our users; (d) to create new features, promotions and services in connection with the Platform; and (e) to monitor the use of the website.
However, BlackAmericaCooks.com may need to disclose personally identifiable information (“Required Disclosure”) when required by law or if we have a good faith belief that such action is necessary to (a) comply with a current judicial proceeding, a court order or legal process, (b) enforce this privacy policy or the Terms of Service Agreement, (c) respond to claims that your Personal Information violates the rights of third parties, (d) protect the rights, safety or property of Black America Cooks or its users or others, or if (e) BlackAmericaCooks.com (Black America Cooks; Soul2Keep) becomes involved in a merger, acquisition, or other transaction resulting in a change of control of BlackAmericaCooks.com (Black America Cooks; Soul2Keep), in which case you will have the opportunity to opt out of any such transfer if the new entity’s planned processing of your information differs materially from that set forth in this privacy policy.
Third Party Advertising
In order to continue to offer our services at reasonable charges to our users, BlackAmericaCooks.com (Soul2Keep) permits third party advertisers to provide advertisements to you through the Web Site. BlackAmericaCooks.com (Soul2Keep) DOES NOT provide any personal account information to such advertisers; however, BlackAmericaCooks.com (Soul2Keep) may provide personal preference information to these advertisers in order that we may serve you better. In addition, such advertisers may download cookies onto your computer, which would enable them to recognize your computer each time they send you an advertisement. As a result, the advertising network would have the ability to deliver targeted advertisements that they believe would be of most interest to you. BlackAmericaCooks.com (Soul2Keep) does not have access to or control of the cookies that may be placed by third party advertisers.
Security
BlackAmericaCooks.com (Soul2Keep) is very concerned about safeguarding the confidentiality of your personally identifiable information. To do that, we employ administrative, physical and electronic measures designed to protect your information from unauthorized access. In the event any of our security measures are breached, which we of course cannot guarantee against, we will make any legally-required disclosures of any breach of security, confidentiality, or integrity of your unencrypted electronically stored personal data to you via email or conspicuous posting on this Web Site in the most expeditious time possible, consistent with the reasonable needs of law enforcement or any measures necessary to determine the scope of the breach and restore the reasonable integrity of the data system.
Other sites
This privacy policy applies only to BlackAmericaCooks.com. We may include links to other websites, which we do not control. These other websites may place their own cookies or other files on your computer, collect data or solicit personally identifiable information from you. BlackAmericaCooks.com (Soul2Keep) expressly disclaims responsibility for the privacy practices of such other websites. When you leave our Web Site and enter other sites, we encourage you to read their privacy practices.
Changes to this Privacy Policy
BlackAmericaCooks.com (Soul2Keep) may update its privacy policy from time to time at our sole discretion. Any such changes will be posted on this page and the revision date thereof will be indicated at the top of the page. We will use information in accordance with the Privacy Policy under which the information was collected.
If we make material changes in our privacy practices, we will post a prominent notice on our Website notifying you of the change. If the change affects how your personally identifiable information is treated, then that change will not apply to you without your affirmative consent, and if after a period of 30 days you have not consented, your account will be automatically suspended, and your personally identifiable information continue to be treated according to the earlier privacy policy in force, until such time as you may choose to consent to that change.
Dispute Resolution
Any dispute, claim or controversy relating to this or any previous privacy policy shall be resolved as provided in our Terms of Service Agreement.
Questions
Should you have any questions or suggestions regarding our privacy policy, please feel free to contact us at dp@soul2keep or by mail: Donna Pierce, BlackAmericaCooks, 535 N. Michigan Ave. Suite 3105, Chicago, IL 60611
This privacy policy is governed by the terms of the BlackAmericaCooks.com (Soul2Keep) Terms of Service Agreement, available for review here.