This privacy policy and cookies’ document set’s out how Bake Then Eat uses and protects any information that you give while using https://baketheneat.com. Should we 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.
Bake Then Eat 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 was updated and is effective from 02 January 2020.
What we may collect.
We may collect the following information.
- Contact information including email address.
- Demographic information such as zip code, postcodes, preferences and interests.
- Other information relevant to customer surveys and/or offers.
What we do with the information we gather.
We require this information to understand your needs and provide you with a better service. In particular for the following reasons.
- We may use the information to improve our products and services.
- We send out a weekly email updates that coincide with our blog updates. Most of the time these are new recipes.
- Periodically we may send promotional emails about new products and special offers. Or other information which we think you may find interesting using the email address which you have provided.
- From time to time, we may also use your information to contact you for market research purposes. We may contact you by email. We may use the information to customise the website according to your interests.
Security.
We are committed to ensuring that your information is secure. In order to prevent unauthorised access or disclosure, we have put in place suitable physical, electronic and managerial procedures to safeguard and secure the information we collect online.
If you submit a comment to a blog post published on this website some personal information will be stored in this website’s database. This is currently the only occasion where personal data will be stored on this website. This data is currently stored in an identifiable fashion. A limitation of the content management system that this website is built on (WordPress).
Pseudonymisation is a recent requirement of the GDPR which many web application developers are currently working to fully implement. We are committed to keeping it as a high priority and will implement it on this website as soon as we are able to.
This website is hosted by SiteGround within a UK data center located in London. SiteGround can be contacted at. ‘SiteGround Hosting Ltd. 3rd Floor, 11-12 St. James’s Square, London SW1Y 4LB’. This site also uses an SSL Certificate to help information given safe and secure along with daily scans by SG Site Scanner. Which searches for security breaches and malware among other issues.
How we 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. 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. We use traffic log cookies to identify which pages are being used. This helps us analyse data about web page traffic and improve our website in order to tailor it to customer needs.
We only use this information for statistical analysis purposes and then the data is removed from the system. Overall, cookies help us provide you with a better website, by enabling us to monitor which pages you find useful and which you do not. A cookie in no way gives us access to your computer or any information about you. Other than the data you choose to share with us. You can choose to accept or decline cookies. Most web browsers automatically accept cookies, but you can usually modify your browser setting to decline cookies if you prefer. This may prevent you from taking full advantage of the website.
Advertising.
Some of our advertisers occasionally serve you cookies as well. We do not have control over cookies placed by advertisers. We may use advertising service vendors to help present advertisements on the website. 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 to duplicate advertisements.
In doing so, these vendors may collect non-personal data such as your browser type and your operating system. Web pages visited, time of visits, content viewed, ads viewed, and other click-stream 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.
- Google Ads – Google Ads provide several of the ads on Bake Then Eat. Third-party vendors, including Google, use cookies to serve ads based on a user’s prior visits to your website. Google’s use of the Double-click cookie enables it and its partners to serve ads to your users based on their visit to your sites and/or other sites on the Internet. Users may opt out of the use of the Double-click cookie for interest-based advertising by visiting Ads Settings. (Alternatively, you can direct users to opt out of a third-party vendor’s use of cookies for interest-based advertising by visiting aboutads.info.)
- Amazon Associates – As an Amazon Associate, I earn from qualifying purchases. I have amazon banners on my site in various places to promote products I have used and recommend for making my recipes. By following a link to Amazon you may have cookies placed on your site. Please read Amazon’s own Cookie Policy and Privacy Notice for further information.
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.
Your personal information.
Should you choose to add a comment to any of the posts that we have published on our blog. The name and email address you enter with your comment will be saved to this website’s database. Along with your computer’s IP address and the time and date that you submitted the comment. This information is only used to identify you as a contributor to the comment section of the respective blog post. And is not passed on to any of the third party data processors detailed in this document. Only your name and website address if added will be shown on the public-facing website. If the supplied email address is linked to a Gravatar account, your Gravatar photo will also be displayed.
Your comment and it’s associated personal data will remain on Bake Then Eat until we see fit to either 1.) remove the comment or 2.) remove the blog post. Should you wish to have the comment and it’s associated personal data deleted, please email us using the email address that you commented with.
If you are under 16 years of age you MUST obtain Parental or Legal Guardian’s consent before posting a comment on our blog.
In line with GDPR compliance, an acceptance checkbox has been added to the comment section of this website. So explicit consent can be given for this site to hold your details in relation to comments made. Important: You should avoid entering personally identifiable information into the comment field of any blog post comments that you submit on this website.
You may choose to have your personal information deleted or audited at any time.
We will not sell, distribute or lease your personal information unless we are required by law to do so. We may use your personal information to send you promotional information about third parties which we think you may find interesting if you tell us that you wish this to happen.
Information found on BakeThenEat.com
The information contained in this website is for general information purposes only. Information is provided by Bake Then Eat and while we endeavour to keep the information up to date and correct. We make no representations or warranties of any kind, express or implied. About the completeness, accuracy, reliability, suitability or availability with respect to the website or the information, products, services, or related graphics contained on the website for any purpose.
Any reliance you place on such information is therefore strictly at your own risk. In no event will we be liable for any loss or damage including without limitation, indirect or consequential loss or damage. Or any loss or damage whatsoever arising from loss of data or profits arising out of, or in connection with, the use of this website.
Every effort is made to keep the website up and running smoothly. However, Bake Then Eat takes no responsibility for, and will not be liable for, the website being temporarily unavailable due to technical issues beyond our control.
Third Party Data Processors.
We use a number of third parties to process personal data on our behalf. These third parties have been carefully chosen and all of them comply with the current international legislation laws.
- MailChimp – If you choose to join our email newsletter, the email address that you submit to us will be sent on to MailChimp who provide us with email marketing services. The email address that you submit will not be stored in BakeThenEat.com’s own database. Your email address will remain within MailChimp’s database for as long as we continue to use MailChimp’s services for email marketing. Or until you specifically request removal from the list. You can do this by unsubscribing using the unsubscribe links contained in any email newsletters that we send you or by requesting removal via email. When requesting removal via email, please send your email to us using the email account that is subscribed to the mailing list.
- If you are under 16 years of age you MUST obtain Parental or Legal Guardian’s consent before joining our email newsletter.
- While your email address remains within the MailChimp database, you will receive (approximately once a week) newsletter-style emails from us.
- Google Analytics – Like most websites, this site uses Google Analytics to track user interaction. We use this data to determine the number of people using our site, to better understand how they find and use our web pages and to see their journey through the website. Although GA records data such as your geographical location, device, internet browser and operating system, none of this information personally identifies you to us. Google Analytics also records your computer’s IP address which could be used to personally identify you but Google does not grant us access to this. Google Analytics makes use of cookies, details of which can be found on Google’s developer guides. Disabling cookies on your internet browser will stop Google Analytics from tracking any part of your visit to pages on BakeThenEat.com.
Copyright.
This website and its content is copyright of Bake Then Eat – © BakeThenEat 2020. All rights reserved. Any redistribution or reproduction of part or all of the contents in any form is prohibited other than the following.
- You may print or download to local hard disk, extracts for your personal and non-commercial use only.
- Copying the content to individual third parties for their personal use, but only if you acknowledge the website as the source of the material.
You may not, except with our express written permission, distribute or commercially exploit the content. Nor may you transmit it or store it in any other website or other forms of any electronic retrieval system.
Data Breaches.
We will report any unlawful data breach of this website’s database or of any of our third party data processors to any and all relevant persons and authorities within 72 hours of the breach if it is apparent that personal data stored in an identifiable manner has been stolen
Contact Us.
If anyone has any questions for us about anything on this page, please feel free to get in contact with us via the ‘Contact Me‘ page. We are not lawyers but we will try our best to answer anything you need to ask about the content on this page. Email me
