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 non-personal 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. IP addresses, and other similar information are not linked to any information that is personally identifiable.
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, as described herein. 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, trade or rent your personal identification information to others. We may share generic aggregated demographic information not linked to any personal identification information regarding visitors to our site with our business partners, trusted affiliates and advertisers for the purposes outlined above.
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. 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 build on (WordPress).
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 – Like most websites, this site uses Google Analytics (GA) 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. GA also records your computer’s IP address which could be used to personally identify you but Google do not grant us access to this.
GA makes use of cookies, details of which can be found on Google’s developer guides.
You can block Google Analytics tracking completely using Google’s Analytics Opt-out browser add-on.
Flodesk – This service is used for delivery of email updates and newsletters. On the Website, you may subscribe to receive regular updates via email. 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 Website to adapt the content of future newsletters to the interests of the user. We will not pass this information on to third parties.
The email address that you submit will not be stored within Scrummy Lane’s own database or in any of our internal computer systems.
Your email address will remain within Flodesk’s database for as long as we continue to use Flodesk’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 emailing us at helen[at]scrummylane.com. 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 consent before joining our email newsletter.
Please refer to Flodesk’s privacy policy for further information.
WP Recipe Maker – Bootstrapped Ventures, the developer of WP Recipe Maker, does not have access to any of the data collected by the plugin.
When comment ratings are enabled the rating a user has given to a recipe is stored along with the personal data WordPress core stores.
When user ratings are enabled a WPRM_User_Voted_%recipe% cookie (with %recipe% the ID of the recipe) that contains the rating this user has given to a particular recipe is stored. This cookie is used as (one of the) measures to prevent rating spam. The IP address is also stored, also to prevent rating spam. Cookies are stored for 30 days. User submitted data is stored indefinitely in the local database.
Akismet (spam protected for WordPress) – Akismet collects information about visitors who comment on Sites using Akismet’s anti-spam service. The information typically includes the commenter’s IP address, user agent, referrer, and Site URL (along with other information directly provided by the commenter such as their name, username, email address, and the comment itself).
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 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 above. 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 through an automated spam detection service.
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
Should you choose to contact us at helen[at]scrummylane.com none of the data that you supply will be stored by this website or passed to / be processed by any third parties. Instead the data will be sent to us over the Simple Mail Transfer Protocol (SMTP). Our own SMTP servers are protected by SSL meaning that the email content is encrypted using SHA-2, 256-bit cryptography before being sent across the internet. The email content is then decrypted by our local computers and devices. However, not all mail servers are secured in such a way. Therefore, we would suggest that you always consider email as an insecure medium and not include personal, confidential or otherwise sensitive information within an 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.
Advertising
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.
Retargeting Ads
From time to time, the Website may engage in remarketing efforts with third-party companies, such as Google, Facebook, or Instagram, in order to market the Website. These companies use cookies to serve ads based on someone’s past visits to the Website.
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 http://www.networkadvertising.org/choices/ or visit http://www.aboutads.info/choices.
Our advertising partners include:
Mediavine
Mediavine Programmatic Advertising (Ver 1.0)
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 https://www.allaboutcookies.org/manage-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 Opt Out – NAI: Network Advertising Initiative. You may also visit http://optout.aboutads.info/#/ and http://optout.networkadvertising.org/# to learn more information about interest-based advertising. You may download the AppChoices app at YourAdChoices.com | AppChoices 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 click here.
Amazon
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.
Forget – In certain situations, you may request that we erase or forget 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.
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 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 at helen[at]scrummylane.com and we will use our best efforts to promptly remove such information from our records.
Changes to this privacy policy
Scrummy Lane has the discretion to update this privacy policy at any time. When we do, we will revise the updated date at the bottom of this page. You acknowledge and agree that it is your responsibility to review this privacy policy periodically and become aware of modifications.
Your acceptance of these terms
By using this site, you signify your acceptance of this policy. If you do not agree to this policy, please do not use our site. Your continued use of the site following the posting of changes to this policy will be deemed your acceptance of those changes.
Data breaches
We will report any unlawful data breach of this website’s database or the database(s) 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.
Contacting us
If you have any questions about this Privacy Policy, the practices of this site, or your dealings with this site, please contact us at:
helen[at]scrummylane.com
This document was last updated on June 4, 2020
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