Who we are
Our website address is: https://www.breakingbreadwithashley.com.
The purpose of this Privacy Policy is to inform you on what information we collect and how it may be used. This statement applies solely to this Website. This policy was last updated on June 9, 2018.
BreakingBreadwithAshley.com is the personal blog of Ashley David. All posts and recipes are my own unless otherwise stated. I am not a trained chef, baker, dietician, or medical expert. This blog is based on my own personal experiences and opinions and will not be held liable for any loss or damages arising from use of this Website.
What personal data we collect and why we collect it
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.
If you leave a comment on our site, you may opt-in to save 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 visit and leave another comment. These cookies will last for one year.
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.
Contact forms
When you fill out our contact form, we are only collecting your name and email as you fill it out. No other data or cookies are being collected or stored. This information will not be used for marketing or any other purpose. At anytime you can request that you name and email be erased if it was collected.
Newsletters
If you opt-in to subscribe to our weekly recipe posts or other email notifications, we will collect your email address for the purpose of sending you these notifications from BreakingBreadwithAhsley.com. We use an email marketing service called MailChimp to collect these subscription requests and deliver the emails. Please check out MailChimp’s Privacy Policy for more information.
Newsletters may contain tracking pixels. The pixel is embedded in emails and allows analysis of the success of online marketing campaigns. because of these tracking pixels, we will see if and when you open an email and which, if any, links are clicked through. This information will not be distributed to third parties.
At any point you may opt-out of future email communications by clicking the “unsubscribe” link at bottom of our emails or by sending an email to breakingbreadwithashley@gmail.com. We never provide these emails lists to other organizations or businesses.
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 have an account and you log in to this site, 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 tracing your interaction with the embedded content if you have an account and are logged in to that website.
Analytics
This Website may share your information with third parties when you explicitly authorize us to do so.
Additionally, we automatically collect information from visitors to our website using Google Analytics. Google Analytics may track information such as IP address, they type of browser, the device type used, the date/time site visited, the address of referring website, pages viewed on website, and the links clicked. This data is used to help us understand how to improve our site and to identify the content our users prefer. You can view Google Analytics Privacy Policy for more information.
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.
Where we send your data
Visitor comments may be checked through an automated spam detection service.
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.
Minor’s
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 breakingbreadwithashley@gmail.com and we will use our best efforts to promptly remove such information from our records.
Contact information
If at anytime you you have questions about this privacy policy, please feel free to email us at breakingbreadwithashley@gmail.com.
Additional information
This Website uses a plugin called WP Recipe Maker in order to publish it’s recipes. WP Recipe Maker does not have access to any of the data collected by the plugin.
Personal Data collected by WP Recipe Maker and Why its 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 we retain your data
Our cookies are stored for 30 days. User submitted data is stored indefinitely in the local database.
This website also uses a plugin called Askimet
Askimet collects information about visitors who comment on Sites that use our Akismet anti-spam service. The information we collect depends on how the User sets up Akismet for the Site, but typically includes the commenter’s IP address, user agent, referrer, and Site URL (along with other information directly provided by the commenter such as their name, username, email address, and the comment itself).