This blog is a personal blog written and edited by Debbie Gibson. For questions about this blog, please contact me at debbie@ProperFoodie.com
Disclosure Statement
Who we are
This blog is a personal blog written and edited by Debbie Jones. The website address for this blog is www.properfoodie.com
This blog accepts forms of cash advertising, sponsorship, paid insertions or other forms of compensation. This shouldn’t be taken as an endorsement for any product advertised.
The compensation received will never influence the content, topics or posts made in this blog. All advertising is in the form of advertisements generated by a third party ad network. Those advertisements will be identified as paid advertisements.
The owner of this blog may be compensated to provide opinion on products, services, websites and various other topics. The views and opinions expressed on this blog are purely the bloggers own opinion. If I claim or appear to be an expert on a certain topic or product or service area, I will only endorse products or services that I believe, based on my expertise, are worthy of such endorsement. Any product claim, statistic, quote or other representation about a product or service should be verified with the manufacturer or provider.
This blog does not contain any content which might present a conflict of interest.
Paid product reviews
I may be compensated to provide an opinion on a product, service, website or other topic. Even though I receive compensation for these posts, I will always give my honest opinions, findings, beliefs or experiences on those topics or products. All opinions expressed on this blog are my own. I will also write reviews for which I’ve not received any compensation (just because I want to!) so where I have received compensation for writing a post it will be made clear.
Affiliate Sales
I do link with affiliate programmes, this means if you follow a link I have provided to a product and then go on to purchase from that site, I will receive a percentage of the cost. I will never provide a link to a product just because it’s part of an affiliate programme.
Privacy Policy
This privacy policy sets out how I use and protect any information that you give while using www.properfoodie.com
Should I ask you to provide certain information by which you can be identified when using this website, you can be assured that it will only be used in accordance with this privacy statement.
I may change this policy from time to time by updating this page. You should check this page from time to time to ensure that you are happy with any changes. This policy is effective from 30th September 2016 and was lasted updated September 2018.
What information do I collect?
Information You Voluntarily Submit to the website
We may collect personal information from you such as your name or email address. For example, you may voluntarily submit information to the website by leaving a comment, subscribing to a newsletter, or submitting a contact form.
Automatically-Collected Information
We automatically collect certain information about you and the device with which you access the website. For example, when you use the website, we will log your IP address, operating system type, browser type, referring website, pages you viewed, and the dates/times when you accessed the website. We may also collect information about actions you take when using the website, such as links clicked.
What I do with the information gathered?
Information gathered for newsletter sign up will be transferred and stored in my personal account with MailChimp.com
All newsletters and emails will be sent to subscribers via my MailChimp account.
Voluntary and automatically collected data will be used to:
- Send newsletter emails relating to new posts and recipes on ProperFoodie. You will only be subscribed to the newsletter mailing list if you specifically sign up to the email list. Email addresses supplied for other reasons, for example; when commenting on a post, will not be used for this purpose. You can opt out of receiving email newsletters at any time by simply clicking the unsubscribe link at the bottom of any ProperFoodie email.
- To send you administrative communications, such as administrative emails, confirmation emails, technical notices, updates on policies, or security alerts;
- To respond to your comments or inquiries;
- To provide you with user support;
- To track and measure advertising on the website;
- To protect, investigate, and deter against unauthorised or illegal activity.
- From time to time I may use the information to improve or make changes to the website.
Security
ProperFoodie is committed to ensuring that your information is secure. In order to prevent unauthorised access or disclosure, I have put in place suitable physical, electronic and managerial procedures to safeguard and secure the information collected online.
If you have previously signed up to my email list and wish to unsubscribe, you can do so at any time by clicking unsubscribe on one of the emails I have sent to you or please email me at Debbie@properfoodie.com to be deleted from the list.
Personal data may also be generated from technical processes such as comments, cookies, analytics and content embedded from other sites. See relevant sections below for further details.
How I use cookies
A cookie is a small file which asks permission to be placed on your computer’s hard drive. Once you agree, the file is added and the cookie helps analyse web traffic or lets you know when you visit a particular site. Cookies allow web applications to respond to you as an individual. The web application can tailor its operations to your needs, likes and dislikes by gathering and remembering information about your preferences.
ProperFoodie use traffic log cookies to identify which pages are being used. This helps me to analyse data about web page traffic and improve the ProperFoodie website in order to tailor it to audience needs. I only use this information for statistical analysis purposes and then the data is removed from the system.
Overall, cookies help provide you with a better website, by enabling me to monitor which pages you find useful and which you do not. A cookie in no way gives access to your computer or any information about you, other than the data you choose to share with ProperFoodie.
If you leave a comment on our site you may opt-in to saving your name, email address and website in cookies. These are for your convenience so that you do not have to fill in your details again when you leave another comment. These cookies will last for one year.
You can turn off cookies in your browser to prevent this. Please note that this may impact your used experience whilst on the site and some functions may not work correctly.
If you would like to turn off cookies then visit aboutcookies.org for instructions
Comments
When visitors leave comments on the site we collect the data shown in the comments form, and also the visitor’s IP address and browser user agent string to help spam detection.
An anonymized string created from your email address (also called a hash) may be provided to the Gravatar service to see if you are using it. The Gravatar service privacy policy is available here: https://automattic.com/privacy/. After approval of your comment, your profile picture is visible to the public in the context of your comment.
Embedded content from other websites
Articles on this site may include embedded content (e.g. videos, images, articles, etc.). Embedded content from other websites behaves in the exact same way as if the visitor has visited the other website.
These websites may collect data about you, use cookies, embed additional third-party tracking, and monitor your interaction with that embedded content, including tracking your interaction with the embedded content if you have an account and are logged in to that website.
Analytics
Cokies and usage data can be collected for the purposes of analytics. Google Analytics is used on this website. Google Analytics is a web analysis service provided by Google Inc. (“Google”). Google utilises the data collected to track and examine the use of this website, to prepare reports on its activities and share them with other Google services.
Google may use the data collected to contextualise and personalise the ads of its own advertising network. Data for this is processed in the US for further details please see the Google analytics Privacy Policy You may also Opt Out if you wish to do so.
Advertising
Some of my advertisers occasionally serve you cookies as well. I do not have control over cookies placed by advertisers. I may use advertising service vendors to help present advertisements on the website, including Google and Gourmet Ads. These vendors may use cookies, web beacons, or similar technologies to serve you advertisements tailored to interests you have shown by browsing on this and other sites you have visited, to determine whether you have seen a particular advertisement before and to avoid sending you duplicate advertisements. In doing so, these vendors may collect non-personal data such as your browser type, your operating system, web pages visited, time of visits, content viewed, ads viewed, and other clickstream data. The use of cookies, web beacons, or similar technologies by these advertising service vendors is subject to their own privacy policies, not ours, and Service Provider disclaims all liability in connection therewith.
Opt out of ads
For information about opting out of Google and Gourmet Ads and ad serving partners please visit Ads Settings or Gourmet Ads Privacy (Alternatively, you can opt out of third-party vendor’s use of cookies for personalised advertising by visiting www.aboutads.info
Links to other websites
Our website may contain links to other websites of interest. However, once you have used these links to leave our site, you should note that we do not have any control over that other website. Therefore, we cannot be responsible for the protection and privacy of any information which you provide whilst visiting such sites and such sites are not governed by this privacy statement. You should exercise caution and look at the privacy statement applicable to the website in question.
WP Recipe Maker
Bootstrapped Ventures, the developer of WP Recipe Maker, does not have access to any of the data collected by the plugin. This is all stored in your local database and not communicated back to us. Take note of the following topics for your own privacy policy.
Personal data collected by WP Recipe Maker collect and why it is collected:
Comments:
When comment ratings are enabled we store the rating a user has given to a recipe along with the personal data WordPress core stores.
Cookies:
When user ratings are enabled we store a WPRM_User_Voted_%recipe% cookie (with %recipe% the ID of the recipe) that contains the rating this user has given to a particular recipe. This cookie is used as (one of the) measures to prevent rating spam.
IP Address:
When user ratings are enabled we store the IP address upon voting. This is used as (one of the) measures to prevent rating spam.
Their own manually input information:
With the Recipe Submission feature personal data can be collected, depending on the fields that were added to the form. This can include the user email and name. When using the reCAPTCHA feature you will be agreeing to their terms of use and privacy policy.
How long wp recipe maker retains your data:
Cookies are stored for 30 days. User submitted data is stored indefinitely in the local database.
iThemes Security
Security Logs:
The IP address of visitors, user ID of logged in users, and username of login attempts are conditionally logged to check for malicious activity and to protect the site from specific kinds of attacks. Examples of conditions when logging occurs include login attempts, log out requests, requests for suspicious URLs, changes to site content, and password updates. This information is retained for 14 days.
Who we share your data with:
This site is scanned for potential malware and vulnerabilities by Sucuri’s SiteCheck. We do not send personal information to Sucuri; however, Sucuri could find personal information posted publicly (such as in comments) during their scan. For more details, please see Sucuri’s privacy policy.
How long we retain your data:
Security logs are retained for 14 days.
Akismet
If you believe that any information I am holding on you is incorrect or incomplete, please contact me.
To get your own disclosure policy, go to http://www.disclosurepolicy.org
