At Half Baked Recipes (Website), accessible at https://halfbakedrecipes.com, one of our main priorities is the privacy of our visitors. This Privacy Policy document contains types of information that is collected and recorded by Half Baked Recipes and how we use it.
If you have additional questions or require more information about our Privacy Policy, do not hesitate to contact us through email at jenn@halfbakedmedia.com
What information we collect and how it is used:
Information Submitted Voluntarily to Half Baked Recipes Website: We may collect personal information such as name and email address. For example, you may subscribe to our newsletter, leave a comment, or submit information via our contact form.
Information We Collect from Others:
We may collect information about you from other sources, such as third-party software, through our site, they may transfer your information to us for fulfillment.
Automatically Collected Information:
We automatically collect certain information about you and the devices that you are accessing the website with. For example, we may log your IP address, browser type, operating system, referring websites, which pages you viewed, length of time on the website, dates and times you accessed the website, as well as actions taken while visiting the website, such as links clicked.
Cookies:
We may log information using cookies. Cookies are small data files that are stored on your browser by the website We may use both cookie sessions (expire when closing your browser) and persistent cookies (stay on your browser until deleted). We collect this information to better provide you with a personalized experience while you are visiting the website.
How we use your information:
We use the information we collect in various ways, including to:
- Provide, operate, and maintain our website
- Improve, personalize, and expand our website
- Understand and analyze how you use our website
- Develop new products, services, features, and functionality
- Communicate with you, either directly or through one of our partners, including for customer service, to provide you with updates and other information relating to the website, and for marketing and promotional purposes
- Send you emails
- Find and prevent fraud
Third-party use of personal information:
We may share your information with third parties with whom you authorize us to share your information. Additionally, the website may use third-party service providers to service various aspects of the website. Each third-party service provider’s use of your personal information is dictated on their privacy policies. This website currently uses the following third-party services:.
We use Google Analytics to record information about the pages a user has seen, for example, the URL of the page, time of day, device used, etc. The information that we collect is anonymized and sent to Google Analytics. Google Analytics mainly uses first-party cookies to report on visitor interactions on this website.
Users may disable cookies or delete any individual cookie from your browser settings tab.
In addition, Google Analytics supports an optional browser add-on that – once installed and enabled – disables measurement by Google Analytics for any site a user visits. Note that this add-on only disables Google Analytics measurement.
Google Analytics also collects Internet Protocol (IP) addresses to provide and protect the security of the service, and to give website owners a sense of which country, state, or city in the world their users come from (also known as “IP geolocation”). See this page for Google Analytics security and usage of data: https://support.google.com/analytics/answer/6004245
Mail Chimp
Mail Chip allows us to deliver email updates and newsletters. We store name and email address for communication purposes.
As of now, the personal information is not shared with any other third party applications. However, we may amend this from time to time in the websites sole discretion.
We do not sell, distribute, or reveal your personal information without consent unless required by law. However, we may disclose or transfer personal information collected through the website to third parties who acquire all or a portion of our business. This may be the result of a merger, consolidation, or purchase of all or a portion of assets, or in connection with any bankruptcy or reorganization proceedings brought by or against us.
Anonymous Data
We may use anonymous data which does not identify alone or when combined with data from other parties. This data may be provided to other parties for advertising, marketing, or other uses. Examples of this may include analytics or information collected from cookies.
Publicly visible information
If you create a user profile on the website or leave a comment, certain information may be publicly visible.
Cookies
This website does use cookies to store a visitor’s preferences and collect user specific information about what pages were accessed or visited to help ensure visitors are not sent the same banner ads, and customize website content based on the visitor’s browser type or other information the visitor sends. Cookies may also be sued by third-party services, for example, Google Analytics.
Users may, at any time, prevent the setting of cookies, by the website by using a corresponding setting of their internet browser and may thus permanently deny the setting of cookies. Furthermore, already set cookies may be deleted at any time via an Internet browser or other software programs. This is possible in all popular Internet browsers. However, if users deactivate the setting of cookies in their Internet browser, not all functions of our Website may be entirely usable.
ADVERTISING
Display Ads
We may use third-party advertising companies to serve content and advertisements when you visit the Website, which may use cookies. No personally identifiable information is shared with the Website’s ad providers.
Retargeting Ads
From time to time, the Website may engage in remarketing efforts with third-party companies, such as Google, Facebook, or Instagram, in order to market the Website. These companies use cookies to serve ads based on someone’s past visits to the Website.
Sponsored Content Tracking Pixels
This Website may engage in sponsored campaigns with various influencer networks, brands, and agencies. All sponsored content is duly disclosed in accordance with the FTC’s requirements. From time to time, these sponsored campaigns utilize tracking pixels (aka web beacons), which may contain cookies to collect data regarding usage and audience. This information is collected by the sponsoring company to track the results of the campaign. No personally identifiable information collected by the Website is used in conjunction with these tracking pixels.
Affiliate Program Participation
The Website may engage in affiliate marketing, which is done by embedding tracking links into the Website. If you click on a link for an affiliate partnership, a cookie will be placed on your browser to track any sales for purposes of commissions.
Half Baked Recipes is a participant in the Amazon Services LLC Associates Program, an affiliate advertising program designed to provide a means for sites to earn advertising fees by advertising and links to Amazon.com. As part of this Amazon Associates program, the Website will post customized links, provided by Amazon, to track the referrals to their website. This program utilizes cookies to track visits for the purposes of assigning commissions on these sales.
We are also a participant in other affiliate marking programs such as Shop Her Media and Mavely.
Newsletters
On the Website, you may subscribe to our newsletter, which may be used for advertising purposes. All newsletters sent may contain tracking pixels. The pixel is embedded in emails and allows an analysis of the success of online marketing campaigns. Because of these tracking pixels, we may see if and when you open an email and which links within the email you click. Also, this allows the Website to adapt the content of future newsletters to the interests of the user. This behavior will not be passed on to third parties.
RIGHTS RELATED TO YOUR PERSONAL INFORMATION
Opt-out – You may opt-out of future email communications by following the unsubscribe links in our emails. You may also notify us at jenn@halfbakedmedia.com to be removed from our mailing list.
Access – You may access the personal information we have about you by submitting a request to jenn@halfbakedmedia.com.
Amend – You may contact us at jenn@halfbakedmedia.com to amend or update your personal information.
Forget – In certain situations, you may request that we erase or forget your personal data. To do so, please submit a request to jenn@halfbakedmedia.com.
Please note that we may need to retain certain information for recordkeeping purposes or to complete transactions, or when required by law.
SENSITIVE PERSONAL INFORMATION
At no time should you submit sensitive personal information to the Website. This includes your social security number, information regarding race or ethnic origin, political opinions, religious beliefs, health information, criminal background, or trade union memberships. If you elect to submit such information to us, it will be subject to this Privacy Policy.
CHILDREN’S INFORMATION
The Website does not knowingly collect any personally identifiable information from children under the age of 16. If a parent or guardian believes that the Website has personally identifiable information of a child under the age of 16 in its database, please contact us immediately at jenn@halfbakedmedia.com and we will use our best efforts to promptly remove such information from our records.
Advertising.
Google AdSense
This Site is affiliated with Google AdSense for the purposes of placing advertising on the Site, and they will collect and use certain data for advertising purposes. To learn more about Google AdSense data usage, click here: https://policies.google.com/privacy
Google Analytics
We use Google Analytics to analyze the use of our website. Google Analytics gathers information about website use by means of cookies. The information gathered relating to our website is used to create reports about the use of our website. Google’s privacy policy is available at: https://policies.google.com/privacy
Where your data is sent
Visitor comments may be checked through an automated spam detection service.
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.
Media
If you upload images to the website, you should avoid uploading images with embedded location data (EXIF GPS) included. Visitors to the website can download and extract any location data from images on the website.
Cookies
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.
If you visit our login page, we will set a temporary cookie to determine if your browser accepts cookies. This cookie contains no personal data and is discarded when you close your browser.
When you log in, we will also set up several cookies to save your login information and your screen display choices. Login cookies last for two days, and screen options cookies last for a year. If you select “Remember Me”, your login will persist for two weeks. If you log out of your account, the login cookies will be removed.
If you edit or publish an article, an additional cookie will be saved in your browser. This cookie includes no personal data and simply indicates the post ID of the article you just edited. It expires after 1 day.
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.
Who we share your data with
If you request a password reset, your IP address will be included in the reset email.
How long we retain your data
If you leave a comment, the comment and its metadata are retained indefinitely. This is so we can recognize and approve any follow-up comments automatically instead of holding them in a moderation queue.
For users that register on our website (if any), we also store the personal information they provide in their user profile. All users can see, edit, or delete their personal information at any time (except they cannot change their username). Website administrators can also see and edit that information.
What rights you have over your data
If you have an account on this site, or have left comments, you can request to receive an exported file of the personal data we hold about you, including any data you have provided to us. You can also request that we erase any personal data we hold about you. This does not include any data we are obliged to keep for administrative, legal, or security purposes.
Affilite Relationships
We do use affiliate links, which means if you click on a link located on our blog and it takes you to another website where you register and/or make a purchase, we may receive compensation for that click, purchase, and/or registration.
CONTACT INFORMATION
At any time, please contact us at jenn@halfbakedmedia.com for questions related to this Privacy Policy.
Last updated: August 29, 2024