This Privacy Policy governs the way Scrummy Lane (found at https://scrummylane.com) collects and uses information from its users. It applies to the site and all services offered by Scrummy Lane. Your privacy is extremely important to us, and we are committed to making sure your personal information is protected.
What personal information do we collect?
We may collect personal information from you such as your name or email address in a variety of ways, for example when you subscribe to receive regular recipes by email, leave a comment on a recipe post, or in connection with other features we make available on our site. You may, however, visit our site anonymously.
What other information do we collect?
Like many other websites, we may also collect information about you such as the browser name, Internet Protocol (IP) address, the type of computer and technical information such as the operating system and the Internet service providers used, pages you viewed, the dates/times you accessed the site, what links on the site you clicked, and other similar information.
Do we use web browser cookies, and how?
Our site may use “cookies” which are small data files stored on your browser by the Website. Your web browser places cookies on your hard drive for record-keeping purposes and sometimes to track information about you so that we can offer a better experience in the future. We may use both session cookies, which expire when you close your browser, and persistent cookies, which stay on your browser until deleted. Cookies may also be used by third-party services, such as Google Analytics, Mediavine, Stay22, WP Recipe Maker and social-sharing tools such as Hubbub Pro, as described in this Privacy Policy. You may however choose to set your web browser to refuse cookies, or to alert you when cookies are being sent. If you do so, note that some parts of Scrummy Lane may not function properly.
How do we use collected information?
Scrummy Lane may collect and use the information collected for the following purposes:
- to run a promotion, contest, survey or other site feature
- to send you recipe posts you agreed to receive via email. Each email will provide information on how to opt-out of future emails.
- to respond to your inquiries and/or questions. If you decide to opt-in to our mailing list, you will receive emails that may include updates, related product or service information, etc. If at any time you would like to unsubscribe from receiving future emails, we include unsubscribe instructions at the bottom of each email.
- to track and measure advertising on the Website.
- to protect, investigate, and deter against unauthorized or illegal activity.
We do not sell or rent your personal information. We may share information with trusted service providers and advertising partners where necessary to operate the Website, provide our services and display advertising, as described in this Privacy Policy.
How do we store your personal information and how is it protected?
If you submit a comment to a blog post published on this website, some personal information will be stored within this website’s database, including your name, email address, IP address and the date and time of your comment.
Information submitted through certain other features of the Website, such as recipe ratings, may also be stored in the Website’s database, as described in the relevant sections of this Privacy Policy.
Personal information stored by the Website is held in an identifiable form where necessary to provide these features. The Website is built on WordPress, which stores this information in its database.
International transfers
Some of the third-party service providers we use are located outside Australia, or may store or process personal information outside Australia. These providers include Google, Flodesk, Mediavine and other service providers described in this Privacy Policy.
Where required by applicable privacy law, we take reasonable steps to ensure that personal information disclosed to overseas recipients is handled in accordance with applicable privacy requirements.
Third party websites
Users may find advertising or other content on our site that link to the sites and services of our partners, advertisers, sponsors, and other third parties. We do not control the content or links that appear on these sites and are not responsible for the practices employed by websites linked to or from our site. Browsing and interaction on any other website, including websites which have a link to our site, is subject to that website’s own terms and policies.
The Website currently uses the following third-party service providers:
Google Analytics 4 (GA4) – This website uses Google Analytics 4 (GA4), a web analytics service provided by Google, to help us understand how visitors use the Website. We use this information to understand things such as how many people visit the Website, which pages are viewed, how visitors arrive at the Website and how they interact with its content. This information helps us improve the Website and its content.
GA4 may collect information such as your IP address, approximate geographic location, device type, operating system, browser type, pages visited and interactions with the Website. Google may also use cookies and similar technologies to collect this information. We do not use Google Analytics to collect information that directly identifies you, such as your name or email address.
Google may process information collected through GA4 on our behalf and may use it in accordance with its own privacy policies. Google Analytics data may also be processed on servers located outside Australia.
For more information about how Google collects and processes data, please refer to Google’s Privacy Policy.
You can control or disable cookies through your browser settings. You can also opt out of Google Analytics tracking by installing the Google Analytics Opt-out Browser Add-on.
Flodesk – We use Flodesk to deliver email updates and newsletters. If you subscribe to receive emails from Scrummy Lane, your name and email address are stored by Flodesk on our behalf.
Our newsletters may contain tracking pixels and similar technologies that allow us to see whether an email has been opened and whether links within the email have been clicked. We use this information to understand how our newsletters are performing and to improve future communications. We do not use this information to identify you personally or pass it on to third parties for their own marketing purposes.
Your email address is not stored in Scrummy Lane’s own website database or internal computer systems. It remains in Flodesk’s database while you remain subscribed to our mailing list, or until you request its removal. You can unsubscribe using the unsubscribe link in any newsletter or by contacting us at helen[at]scrummylane.com.
If you are under 16 years of age, you must obtain parental consent before subscribing to our email newsletter.
For more information about how Flodesk handles personal information, please refer to Flodesk’s Privacy Policy.
WP Recipe Maker – WP Recipe Maker is a recipe plugin developed by Bootstrapped Ventures and is used on this Website to display and manage our recipes.
When recipe ratings are enabled, the rating a user gives to a recipe is stored along with the personal data that WordPress stores when a comment is submitted.
When user ratings are enabled, WP Recipe Maker stores a WPRM_User_Voted_%recipe% cookie containing the rating a user has given to a particular recipe. This cookie is used, in part, to help prevent rating spam. The IP address is also stored when a user submits a rating, for the same purpose.
Cookies are stored for 30 days, and user-submitted data is stored indefinitely in the Website’s local database.
Bootstrapped Ventures, the developer of WP Recipe Maker, does not have access to the data collected by the plugin on this Website.
Antispam Bee – This Website uses Antispam Bee to help detect and prevent spam comments. Antispam Bee processes comment and technical information within the Website to identify potential spam.
Antispam Bee does not send personal data to external third-party spam detection services as part of its standard spam-filtering functionality.
Mediavine Grow – This website uses Mediavine Grow to provide reader engagement features, such as saving and favoriting content and, where enabled, subscribing to features or content. If you choose to create or use a Grow account, Mediavine may collect information such as your email address and information associated with your Grow account and your interactions with Grow features. Mediavine’s processing of this information is subject to its own privacy policy.
Stay22 – This Website uses Stay22’s Link Monetizer (LMA) service to manage and monetize certain accommodation links. Stay22 automatically converts eligible accommodation links on the Website into affiliate links and uses tracking technologies to attribute clicks and bookings to those links. This may involve cookies or similar technologies and information about interactions with the links, such as clicks and booking activity.
For more information about how Stay22 collects and uses information, please refer to Stay22’s Privacy Policy.
Comments
Should you choose to add a comment to any posts that we have published on Scrummy Lane 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 used to manage and display your comment, help prevent spam and maintain the security of the Website. Only your name will be shown on the public-facing website although if the supplied email address is linked to a Gravatar your Gravatar photo will also be displayed.
Your comment and its associated personal data will remain on this site until we see fit to either 1.) remove the comment or 2.) remove the blog post. Should you wish to have the comment and its associated personal data deleted, please email helen[at]scrummylane.com using the email address that you commented with.
Visitor comments may be checked by Antispam Bee, an anti-spam plugin installed on this Website, to help identify and prevent spam.
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 are under 16 years of age you MUST obtain parental consent before posting a comment on our blog.
Emailing us
If you contact us at helen[at]scrummylane.com, the information you provide will be used to respond to your enquiry. Your email and any information you provide may be stored in our email account and on the devices or systems we use to manage our business communications.
Email is not a completely secure means of communication, so please avoid sending sensitive personal information by email.
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 tracing your interaction with the embedded content if you have an account and are logged in to that website.
Display Ads
We may use third-party advertising companies to serve content and advertisements when you visit the Website, which may use cookies, as noted above. These cookies allow the ad server to recognize your computer each time they send you an online advertisement to compile non personal identification information about you or others who use your computer. This information allows ad networks to, among other things, deliver targeted advertisements that they believe will be of most interest to you.
Affiliate Program Participation
The Website may engage in affiliate marketing, which is done by embedding tracking links into the Website. 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.
Scrummy Lane is a participant in the Amazon Services LLC Associates Program, an affiliate advertising program designed to provide a means for sites to earn advertising fees by advertising and links to Amazon.com. As part of this Amazon Associates program, the Website will post customized links, provided by Amazon, to track the referrals to their website. This program utilizes cookies to track visits for the purposes of assigning commission on these sales.
To learn more about these advertising practices and opting out you can visit the NAI at https://www.networkadvertising.org/choices/ or visit https://www.aboutads.info/choices.
Our advertising partners include:
Mediavine Programmatic Advertising (Ver 1.1)
The Website works with Mediavine to manage third-party interest-based advertising appearing on the Website. Mediavine serves content and advertisements when you visit the Website, which may use first and third-party cookies. A cookie is a small text file which is sent to your computer or mobile device (referred to in this policy as a “device”) by the web server so that a website can remember some information about your browsing activity on the Website.
First party cookies are created by the website that you are visiting. A third-party cookie is frequently used in behavioral advertising and analytics and is created by a domain other than the website you are visiting. Third-party cookies, tags, pixels, beacons and other similar technologies (collectively, “Tags”) may be placed on the Website to monitor interaction with advertising content and to target and optimize advertising. Each internet browser has functionality so that you can block both first and third-party cookies and clear your browser’s cache. The “help” feature of the menu bar on most browsers will tell you how to stop accepting new cookies, how to receive notification of new cookies, how to disable existing cookies and how to clear your browser’s cache. For more information about cookies and how to disable them, you can consult the information at All About Cookies.
Without cookies you may not be able to take full advantage of the Website content and features. Please note that rejecting cookies does not mean that you will no longer see ads when you visit our Site. In the event you opt-out, you will still see non-personalized advertisements on the Website.
The Website collects the following data using a cookie when serving personalized ads:
- IP Address
- Operating System type
- Operating System version
- Device Type
- Language of the website
- Web browser type
- Email (in hashed form)
Mediavine Partners (companies listed below with whom Mediavine shares data) may also use this data to link to other end user information the partner has independently collected to deliver targeted advertisements. Mediavine Partners may also separately collect data about end users from other sources, such as advertising IDs or pixels, and link that data to data collected from Mediavine publishers in order to provide interest-based advertising across your online experience, including devices, browsers and apps. This data includes usage data, cookie information, device information, information about interactions between users and advertisements and websites, geolocation data, traffic data, and information about a visitor’s referral source to a particular website. Mediavine Partners may also create unique IDs to create audience segments, which are used to provide targeted advertising.
If you would like more information about this practice and to know your choices to opt-in or opt-out of this data collection, please visit National Advertising Initiative opt out page. You may also visit Digital Advertising Alliance website and Network Advertising Initiative website to learn more information about interest-based advertising. You may download the AppChoices app at Digital Advertising Alliance’s AppChoices app to opt out in connection with mobile apps, or use the platform controls on your mobile device to opt out.
For specific information about Mediavine Partners, the data each collects and their data collection and privacy policies, please visit Mediavine Partners.
Rights related 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 helen[at]scrummylane.com to be removed from our mailing list.
Access – You may access the personal information we have about you by submitting a request to helen[at]scrummylane.com
Amend – You may contact us at helen[at]scrummylane.com to amend or update your personal information.
Delete – In certain situations, you may request that we delete your personal data. To do so, please submit a request to helen[at]scrummylane.com
Please note that we may need to retain certain information for recordkeeping purposes or to complete transactions, or when required by law.
US state privacy rights
If you are a resident of a US state with applicable privacy legislation, you may have additional rights relating to your personal information, depending on the law that applies to you. These may include rights to access, correct or delete personal information and to opt out of certain processing, including certain targeted advertising or the sale or sharing of personal information where applicable.
Mediavine provides privacy controls for applicable US state privacy laws in connection with its advertising services, including a “Do Not Sell or Share My Personal Information” option where required. These controls are provided through Mediavine and may not apply to other services used by Scrummy Lane.
Sensitive personal information
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 decide to submit such information to us, it will be subject to this Privacy Policy.
Children’s information
The Website is not directed at children, and we do not knowingly collect personal information from children for the purpose of providing services or marketing. If you believe that we have collected personal information from a child without appropriate consent, please contact us at helen[at]scrummylane.com and we will take reasonable steps to address the issue.
Changes to this privacy policy
We may update this Privacy Policy from time to time to reflect changes to the Website, the services we use, or applicable privacy requirements. When we make changes, we will update the date at the bottom of this page.
Data breaches
If we become aware of a data breach involving personal information that requires notification under applicable law, we will notify affected individuals and/or the relevant regulatory authorities as required by law.
Contacting us
If you have any questions about this Privacy Policy, or believe that we have not handled your personal information appropriately, please contact us at helen[at]scrummylane.com. We will consider and respond to privacy complaints within a reasonable period.
This document was last updated on October 6, 2026
