Our website address is: http://sassylittlebites.com.
By writing this privacy policy. Your privacy is important to us and maintaining your trust and confidence is one of our highest priorities. We respect your right to keep your personal information confidential and understand your desire to avoid unwanted solicitations. For this reason, please take a moment to look over our Privacy Policy.
Who we are
This privacy policy sets out how Sassy Little Bites uses and protects any information that you give while using https://sassylittlebites.com (i.e. “Website”).
Should we ask you to provide certain information by which they can identify you when using this website, it will only use it under this privacy statement.
Sassy Little Bites 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 April 27, 2020. For questions or help, please Sassy Little Bites at Ruby @ sassylittlebites.com.
What personal data we collect and why we collect it
Information You Voluntarily Submit to the Website:
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.
Contact forms
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.
Analytics
Who we share your data with
Google Analytics - this service tracks Website usage and provides us information such as referring websites and user actions on the Website. Google Analytics may capture your IP address, but no other personal information is captured by Google Analytics.
Mailerlite - this service is used to deliver email updates and newsletters. We store your name and email address for purposes of sending you such communications. Please refer to Mailerlite's privacy policy for further information.
At this time, your personal information is not shared with any other third-party applications. This may be amended from time to time at the Website's sole discretion.
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.
IP Address
When recipe user ratings are enabled we store the IP address upon voting. This is used as one of the measures to prevent rating spam. Our cookies are stored for 30 days.
Affiliate Programs
We are monetary affiliates with various stores and websites such as Coupons.com, Redplum and Amazon. Each of these track a cookie from our Website to theirs to ensure we get paid a small portion of any sales for items we recommended to you. This is at no cost to you. This is necessary as this is how we keep our Website up and running without membership fees.
Recipe Submission
With the Recipe Submission feature personal data can be collected, depending on the fields that were added to the form. This can include the users email and name. When using the reCAPTCHA feature you will agree to their terms and use of privacy policy. User submitted data is stored indefinitely in the local database.
Display Ads
We may use third-party advertising companies to serve content and advertisements when you visit our Website, which may use cookies, as noted above.
Retargeting Ads
From time to time, the Website may engage in remarking efforts with third-party companies like Google, Facebook, Instagram or Tik-Tok, in order to market the Website. These companies use cookies to serve ads based on someone's past visits to the Website.
Your Rights 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 Ruby @sassylittlebites.com to be removed from our mailing list.
Access - You may access your personal information we have about you buy submitting a request to Ruby @sassylittlebites.com
Amend - You may contact us at Ruby @sassylittlebites.com to amend or update your personal information.
Erase - In some circumstances you may request that we erase or forget your personal data. To do so, please submit a request to Ruby @sassylittlebites.com.
Please note that we may need to retain certain information for record keeping purposes or to complete transactions, or when required by law.
Children's Information
This Website does not knowingly collect any perosonally identifiable information from children under the age of 18. If a parent or guardian believes that the Website has personally identifiable information of a child under the age of 18 in it's database, please contact us immediately at Ruby @sassylittlebites.com and we will use our best efforts to promptly remove such information from our records.
Contact Information
At any time, please contact us at Ruby @sassylittlebites.com for questions related to this privacy policy.
Updated: April 26, 2020.