Effective September 21, 2020

As the owner of this website (also referred to as fortheloveofoods.com, I, the website, or the site), is committed to maintaining the privacy and protection of your personal identification information. This Privacy Policy describes what information we collect from you via the Site and how we use and disclose such information.

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INFORMATION COLLECTED ON LOGIN AND/OR REGISTRATION

Undertaking a number of activities on the site requires you to register and/or login on the site, which gives Fortheloveofoods.com access to individually relevant information. These activities include but are not limited to contributing, sharing, liking, commenting, and appreciating recipes and partaking in contests. Individually relevant information collected may for example include but is not limited to your name, user name, password, location, IP address, other optional information provided by you in your profile, and information based on your browsing behavior on the platform. Providing additional information beyond what we require at registration and/or login is optional, but provides a more wholesome browsing experience on the platform.

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You may request that your account be deactivated and your individually relevant information removed from our database by emailing us. In case you do so we will remove your individually relevant information as soon as reasonably possible subject to applicable law and our deactivation policy. This may result in us retaining information that we require to resolve disputes, enforce our Terms of Service Agreement, or resolve troubleshooting problems. Please note that it is not possible to completely and comprehensively delete all of your information and remove it from our databases due to technical and legal constraints including backup storage.

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OTHER INFORMATION COLLECTED

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Recipes, photos, and videos you decide to post on Fortheloveofoods.com are made public to all users of Fortheloveofoods.com and we are not required to keep of this content private. All information you submit will be subject to this Privacy Policy. Visiting Fortheloveofoods.com could result in us collecting information regarding your IP address and browser type, which is stored through cookies. It is possible for you to set your browser to not allow cookies or to notify you when cookies are being sent.

 

How Your Information May Be Used?

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We may use the information collected in the following ways:

 

• To operate and maintain the Site;

• To send you promotional information, such as newsletters. Each email promotion will provide information on how to opt-out of future mailings;

• To send you administrative communications, such as administrative emails, confirmation emails, technical notices, updates on policies, or security alerts;

• To respond to your comments or inquiries;

• To provide you with user support;

• To track and measure advertising on the Site;

• To protect, investigate, and deter against unauthorized or illegal activity.

 

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

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.

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Our Use of Cookies

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A cookie is a file containing an identifier (a string of letters and numbers) that is sent by a web server to a web browser and is stored by the browser. The identifier is then sent back to the server each time the browser requests a page from the server. Cookies may be either “persistent” cookies or “session” cookies: a persistent cookie will be stored by a web browser and will remain valid until its set expiry date unless deleted by the user before the expiry date; a session cookie, on the other hand, will expire at the end of the user session, when the web browser is closed. Cookies do not typically contain any information that personally identifies a user, but personal information that we store about you may be linked to the information stored in and obtained from cookies.

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We use cookies for the following purposes:

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(a) Authentication: We use cookies to identify you when you visit our website and as you navigate our website;

(b) Status: We use cookies to help us to determine if you are logged into our website;

(c) Personalization: We use cookies to store information about your preferences and to personalize the website for you;

(d) Security: We use cookies as an element of the security measures used to protect user accounts, including preventing fraudulent use of login credentials, and to protect our website and services generally;

(e) Analysis: We use cookies to help us to analyze the use and performance of our website and services;

 

Most browsers allow you to refuse to accept cookies and to delete cookies.

Please note that blocking cookies may have a negative impact on the functions of many websites, including our Site. Some features of the Site may not be available to you.

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Embedded Content from Other Websites

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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.

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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.

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Google Analytics

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We use Google Analytics to analyze the use of our website. Google Analytics gathers information about website use by means of cookies. The information gathered relating to our website is used to create reports about the use of our website.

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Whom We Share Your Data With

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We will not sell, distribute, or lease your personal information to third parties unless we have your permission or are required by law to do so.

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How Long We Retain Your Data For

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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.

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Media

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If you want us to 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.

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Comments

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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.

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Email Addresses

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We may collect your email address, but only if you voluntarily provide it to us. This may occur, for example, if you sign up to receive an email newsletter, or enter a promotion. We will use your email address for the purposes for which you provided it to us, and also from time to time to send you emails regarding the Site or other products or services that we believe may be of interest to you. You may opt-out of such email communications at any time by clicking the “unsubscribe” button in the email.

We will not share your email address with any third parties.

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Newsletters

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On the Site, you may subscribe to our newsletter, which may be used for advertising purposes. All newsletters sent may contain tracking pixels. The pixel is embedded in emails and allows an analysis of the success of online marketing campaigns. Because of these tracking pixels, we may see if and when you open an email and which links within the email you click. Also, this allows the Site to adapt the content of future newsletters to the interests of the user. This behavior will not be passed on to third parties

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SENSITIVE PERSONAL INFORMATION

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At no time should you submit sensitive personal information to the Website. This includes your social security number, information regarding race or ethnic origin, political opinions, religious beliefs, health information, criminal background, or trade union memberships. If you elect to submit such information to us, it will be subject to this Privacy Policy.

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CHILDREN’S INFORMATION

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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 atfortheloveofood.flof@gmail.com and we will use our best efforts to promptly remove such information from our records.

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Affiliate Program Participation

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The Site may engage in affiliate marketing, which is done by embedding tracking links into the Site. 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.

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Amazon Affiliate Links

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Our website is a participant in the Amazon Associates Program, an affiliate advertising program designed to provide a means for sites to earn advertising fees by advertising and linking to Amazon.co.sa.  

 

On our website, there are links to products on the Amazon website which we have recommended or profiled. When you click through to the Amazon website from one of these product links we make a small amount of commission if you go on to purchase the product.  However, the price you pay will be exactly the same as if you had gone directly to the Amazon website.

 

We, along with third-party vendors such as Google use first-party cookies (such as the Google Analytics cookies) and third-party cookies (such as the DoubleClick cookie) or other third-party identifiers together to compile data regarding user interactions with ad impressions and other ad service functions as they relate to our website.

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Opting out:

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Users can set preferences for how Google advertises to you using the Google Ad Settings page. Alternatively, you can opt-out by visiting the Network Advertising Initiative Opt Out page or by using the Google Analytics Opt Out Browser add on.

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Changes to the Privacy Policy

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We may change this Privacy Policy from time to time. The most recent version of the Privacy Policy will always be posted on the Site, with the “Effective Date” posted at the top of the Policy. We may revise and update this Privacy Policy if our practices change, as technology changes, or as we add new services or change existing ones. If we make any material changes to our Privacy Policy or how we handle your personal information, or we are going to use any personal information in a manner that is materially different from that stated in our Privacy Policy at the time we collected such information, we will give you a reasonable opportunity to consent to the change. If you do not consent, your personal information will be used as agreed to under the terms of the privacy policy in effect at the time we obtained that information. By using our Site or services after the Effective Date, you are deemed to consent to our then-current privacy policy. We will use information previously obtained in accordance with the Privacy Policy in effect when the information was obtained from you.

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Contacting Us

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

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