Privacy Policy

Effective July 26, 2020

Website address is: loveandladles.com

Loveandladles.com is a personal blog written and edited by Leda. Your privacy is important. This privacy policy describes what information loveandladles.com (Site) collects from you via the Site and how it uses and discloses that information.  The practices described in this privacy policy may be modified from time to time and will be updated on this page. 

What personal data is collected and why

Information can be collected from you through your use of the Site.

The Site will automatically collect certain information about you and the device with which you are accessing the Site.  For example, when you access the Site, the Site will log the IP address, geographic location, pages viewed, operating system, browsers, visit date, time and duration of your visit.

In addition, you may also provide information voluntarily such as your name or email address by leaving a comment or submitting a contact form.

Comments

When visitors leave comments on the Site, the Site collects 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.

Comment ratings:  The rating a user has given to a recipe along with the personal data WordPress core stores is stored.

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

As you utilize the Site, it may collect other data that you provide voluntarily.  For example, if you contact the Site through the Contact Form, the Site will collect the data you provide in the contact form. This information will be kept for our internal purposes such as responding to your inquiry, improving the user experience, troubleshooting or diagnosing Site concerns.  The Site will not use this information for marketing purposes.

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.

User ratings:  The Site stores 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.  The IP address is stored upon voting. This is used as (one of the) measures to prevent rating spam.  Our cookies are stored for 30 days.

Most browsers allow you to refuse to accept cookies and to delete cookies. The methods for doing so vary from browser to browser, and from version to version. You can however obtain up-to-date information about blocking and deleting cookies via these links:

Please note that blocking cookies may have a negative impact on the functions of many websites, including this Site. Some features of the Site may cease to be available to you.

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.

How long is your data retained

If you leave a comment, the comment and its metadata are retained indefinitely. This is so the site can recognize and approve any follow-up comments automatically instead of holding them in a moderation queue.

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 the Site holds about you, including any data you have provided. You can also request that any personal data held about you be erased. This does not include any data the Site is obliged to keep for administrative, legal, or security purposes.

Where is your data sent

Visitor comments may be checked through an automated spam detection service.

Responsibility for external sites

This Site may contain links to other websites. Some of those websites may be operated by third parties. The links are provided your convenience, this site does not review, control, or monitor the privacy practices of websites operated by others.  This Site is not responsible for the performance of websites operated by third parties or for your business dealings with them. Therefore, whenever you leave this Site it is recommended that you review each website’s privacy practices and make your own conclusions regarding the adequacy of these practices.

Privacy Policy revisions

This Privacy Policy was last revised on July 26, 2020. This Privacy Policy may change at any time and for any reason. It is recommended that you review this Privacy Policy each time you visit the Site.

If significant changes are made to the Privacy Policy, a notice will be posted on the homepage of the Site for a period of time after the change is made. 

Contact information

If you have any questions about this Privacy Policy, or the practices of this Site, please contact us at info@loveandladles.com