Gluten Free Easily https://glutenfreeeasily.com is committed to maintaining the privacy and protection of your personal information. This privacy policy tells you about the information we collect on our website and how we use that information according to US/EU Privacy Guidelines. By using the Gluten Free Easily website, you are consenting to the information collection and use practices described in this privacy policy, which may be modified from time to time.
About Gluten Free Easily
Gluten Free Easily is an informational site that empowers gluten-free individuals via education, support, and sharing gluten-free recipes.
Gluten Free Easily primarily focuses on content for U.S.-based readers as the site owner is based in the U.S., which means U.S. sources are primarily used and recipes are developed using U.S. products, standards, and measurements.
Children Under 13:
We care about protecting the privacy of children. We won’t knowingly allow anyone under 13 to provide us any personally identifying information. Children should always get permission from their parents before sending any information about themselves (such as their names, email addresses, and phone numbers) over the Internet, to us or to anyone else. If you’re under 13, please do not provide us with any personally identifying information (such as your name, your email address or your phone number).
Information Collected:
The information we gather falls into two categories: (1) information you supply when you register to receive emails or comment on the website, and (2) tracking information collected as you navigate through our website.
Personally Identifying Information
In operating the website, Gluten Free Easily may include registration (“subscribing” to this blog), comment forms, contests/giveaways, and other online forms that ask users to provide their names, e-mail addresses, and other contact information.
Email Collection
My subscription service provider is Feedblitz. If you choose to subscribe to Gluten Free Easily, your email address will be stored on their servers. They do not share your information with third parties. For more on how they manage your information and your settings, view their Privacy Policy, Cookies page, and Cookie Management page.
You can access your subscription options any time by using the subscription preference links at the bottom of any email you receive.
Your email address will never be shared with any person or entity (platform, app, etc.) for marketing purposes.
Tracking Information
Cookies. From time to time, we may use the standard “cookies” feature of major browser applications that allows us to store a small piece of data on your computer about your visit to our website. We do not set any personally identifiable information in cookies, nor do we employ any data capture mechanisms on our website other than cookies. Cookies help us learn which areas of our website are useful and which areas need improvement. You can choose whether to accept cookies by changing the settings on your browser. However, if you choose to disable this function, your experience at our website may be diminished and some features may not work as they were intended.
Click Tracking. As is true of most websites, Gluten Free Easily gathers certain information automatically and stores it in log files. This information includes internet protocol (IP) addresses, browser type, internet service provider (ISP), referring/exit pages, operating system, date/time stamp, and clickstream data. We use this information to analyze trends, administer the website, track users’ movements around the website and gather demographic information about our user base as a whole. Except as noted herein, we do not link this automatically-collected data to personal information.
IP Addresses. Each user’s IP address is logged with each visit and each action performed on Gluten Free Easily. This information is never provided to the third parties, except as otherwise stated in this Privacy Policy, and is logged only for a temporary period of time. IP address information is linked to personal information and may be used in an effort to block a “banned” user from accessing the website.
Advertising. We use third-party advertising companies to serve ads when you visit our website. These companies may use information (not including your name, address, email address, or telephone number) about your visits to this and other websites in order to provide advertisements about goods and services of interest to you. For more information about this practice and to understand your opt-out choices, please click here: http://www.networkadvertising.org/choices/.
Google, as a third-party vendor, uses cookies to serve ads on this website. Google’s use of the DART cookie enables it to serve ads based on your visit to this website and other websites on the Internet. You may opt out of the use of the DART cookie by visiting the Google ad and content network privacy policy.
Participation on a Public Website. You should be aware that any personal information you submit on Gluten Free Easily in the comments may be read, collected, or used by other users of this website, including anonymous visitors.
How Your Information Will Be Used:
Personal Information We will not share your personal information with any third parties without your consent, except as necessary to provide you with the services offered by us or to comply with the law. We may use your personal information to verify your identity, to check your qualifications, or to follow up with transactions initiated on the website. We may also use your contact information to inform you of any changes to Gluten Free Easily, or to send you additional information about Gluten Free Easily.
Anonymous Information We use anonymous information to analyze our website traffic, but we do not examine this information for individually identifying information. In addition, we may use anonymous IP addresses to help diagnose problems with our server, to administer our website, or to display the content according to your preferences. Traffic and transaction information may also be shared with business partners and advertisers on an aggregate and anonymous basis.
The privacy policy of each entity that collects this anonymous information is linked below if you would like to learn more about them.
Google Analytics ~ allows me to discover the type of content you prefer so I can remind you about that content and create more of it. Google Analytics may capture your IP address but no other personal information is captured by Google Analytics.
A2 Hosting ~ information housed in server logs (IP addresses only) allows my host to identify and stop bot attacks.
Cloudflare ~ information collected (IP addresses only) allows this content delivery network (CDN) to identify and stop bot attacks.
Use of Cookies We may use cookies to deliver content specific to your interests. Promotions or advertisements displayed on our website may contain cookies. We do not have access to or control over information collected by outside advertisers on our website.
Disclosure of Personal Information We may disclose personal information if required to do so by law or in the good-faith belief that such action is necessary to (1) conform to the edicts of the law or comply with legal process served on Gluten Free Easily, (2) protect and defend the rights or property of Gluten Free Easily or the users of this website, or (3) act under circumstances to protect the safety of the public or users of this website.
Security
Gluten Free Easily has security measures in place to prevent the loss, misuse, and alteration of the information that we obtain from you, but we make no assurances about our ability to prevent any such loss, misuse, to you or to any third party arising out of any such loss, misuse, or alteration.
Comments
Gluten Free Easily may include interactive forms such as comments. Please remember that any information that is disclosed in these areas becomes public information and you should exercise caution when deciding to disclose your personal information.
Disclaimer and Limitation of Liability in Regard to Third-Party Websites
Gluten Free Easily may contain links to other websites. If you choose to visit other websites, we are not responsible for the privacy practices or content of those other websites, and it is your responsibility to review the privacy policies at those websites to confirm that you understand and agree with their policies.
Contacting Us
If you have any questions about our privacy policy and your info that is collected through our website, please contact me directly at glutenfreeeasily @ gmail.com.
Updates and Changes
We reserve the right, at any time, to add to, change, update, or modify this privacy policy, by posting such change, update, or modification on Gluten Free Easily and without any other notice to you. Any such change, update, or modification will be effective immediately upon posting on the website. It is your responsibility to review this privacy policy from time to time to ensure that you continue to agree with all of its terms.
This policy was last updated on May 30, 2018.