Privacy Policy and Terms of Use

Crumb Top Baking (“Website”) is governed by the following Privacy Policy and Terms of Use.

Changes to the Privacy Policy and Terms of Use

The Privacy Policy and Terms of Use were last updated on March 24, 2019. Crumb Top Baking reserves the right to change these policies at anytime. Please refer back to this page periodically for updates.

Privacy Policy

We respect your privacy and are committed to protecting it. The purpose of this Privacy Policy is to inform you what information we may collect and how it may be used. This statement only applies to this Website. By using this Website, you agree to use your personal information in accordance with this policy.

WHAT INFORMATION DO WE COLLECT AND HOW IS IT USED?

Information You Voluntarily Submit to the Website: We may collect personal information from you such as your name or email address. For example, you may voluntarily submit information to the Website by leaving a comment, subscribing to a newsletter, or submitting a contact form.

Information We Collect from Others: We may receive information about you from other sources. For example, if you use a third-party software through the site, they may transfer information to us for fulfillment.

Automatically-Collected Information: We automatically collect certain information about you and the device with which you access the Website. For example, when you use the Website, we will log your IP address, operating system type, browser type, referring website, pages you viewed, and the dates/times when you accessed the Website. We may also collect information about actions you take when using the Website, such as links clicked.

Cookies: We may log information using cookies, which are small data files stored on your browser by the Website. We may use both session cookies, which expire when you close your browser, and persistent cookies, which stay on your browser until deleted, to provide you with a more personalized experience on the Website.

HOW YOUR INFORMATION MAY BE USED

We may use the information collected in the following ways:

To operate and maintain the Website;
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 Website.
To protect, investigate, and deter against unauthorized or illegal activity; or
To run a promotion, contest, giveaway, survey or other Website feature.

THIRD-PARTY USE OF PERSONAL INFORMATION

We may share your information with third parties when you explicitly authorize us to share your information.

Additionally, this Website uses third-party service providers to service various aspects of the Website. Each third-party service provider’s use of your personal information is dictated by their respective privacy policies, and you are encouraged to visit those websites for additional information. This Website currently uses the following third-party service providers:

Google Analytics – this service tracks Website usage and provides information such as referring websites and user actions on the Website. Google Analytics may capture your IP address, but no other personal information is captured by Google Analytics. In fact, this Website has activated the option to anonymize IP addresses, which prevents the collection of personal data from our Google Analytics tracking code. Users can completely block Google Analytics tracking by using Google’s opt-out browser add-on.
Monster Insights – is a service that allows this Website to easily add, customize, and manage its Google Analytics website tracking services. This Website has activated the option to anonymize IP addresses.
Mail Chimp – this service is used for delivery of email updates and newsletters. We store your name and email address for purposes of delivering such communications.
WPopt – is a service that provides web hosting for Crumb Top Baking. Information stored on this Website is stored on WPopt’s servers.
Wordfence Security – is a security service that provides this Website with firewall and malware protection. It scans for hacked files and monitors the access of visitors to this Website in order to identify potential attacks from malicious IP addresses.
Vault Press – is a service that provides daily backups of all information on this Website.
Akismet – is a service this Website uses to check comments and contact form submissions against a global database of spam to help prevent this Website from publishing malicious content.
Social Pug – is a service used to facilitate the social sharing of this Website’s blog posts. Readers may use the social sharing buttons to share particular blog posts to their social sharing networks. Once a reader clicks a social sharing button, his or her social network login is sent to the appropriate network to enable the share to happen. Readers should use their own discretion when providing any login information or sharing to any social network site. While Social Pug tracks the share count on this Website, it does not collect any personal information from readers.
Rafflecopter – is a service used to manage giveaways on this Website. When an individual enters a Rafflecopter giveaway, they can log into the entry form in two ways – through Facebook Connect and through their name and email address combination. Entrant information is collected and presented to the giveaway administrator to help manage and moderate the giveaway, including the determination of eligibility to enter the giveaway and to contact an entrant in the event he/she is the winner. Please refer to Rafflecopter’s privacy policy for more information

At this time, your personal information is not shared with any other third-party applications. This list may be amended from time to time at the Website’s sole discretion.

Except when required by law, we will not sell, distribute, or reveal your email addresses or other personal information without your consent; however, we may disclose or transfer personal information collected through the Website to third parties who acquire all or a portion of our business, which may be the result of a merger, consolidation, or purchase of all or a portion of our assets, or in connection with any bankruptcy or reorganization proceeding brought by or against us.

ANONYMOUS DATA

From time to time, we may use anonymous data, which does not identify you alone, or when combined with data from other parties. This type of anonymous data may be provided to other parties for marketing, advertising, or other uses. Examples of this anonymous data may include analytics or information collected from cookies.

PUBLICLY VISIBLE INFORMATION

If you create a user profile on the Website or leave a comment, certain information may be publicly visible, such as name, avatar and website information.

COOKIES

The Website uses cookies to store visitors’ preferences, record user-specific information on what pages users access or visit, ensure that visitors are not repeatedly sent the same banner ads, customize Website content based on visitors’ browser type or other information that the visitor sends. Cookies may also be used by third-party services, such as Google Analytics, as described herein.

Users may, at any time, prevent the setting of cookies, by the Website, by using a corresponding setting of your internet browser and may thus permanently deny the setting of cookies. Furthermore, already set cookies may be deleted at any time via an Internet browser or other software programs. This is possible in all popular Internet browsers. However, if users deactivate the setting of cookies in your Internet browser, not all functions of our Website may be entirely usable.

ADVERTISING

Display Ads

We may use third-party advertising companies to serve content and advertisements when you visit the Website, which may use cookies. No personally identifiable information is shared with the Website’s ad providers.

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.

Newsletters

On the Website, 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 Website to adapt the content of future newsletters to the interests of the user. This behaviour will not be passed on to third parties.

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 leanne@crumbtopbaking.com to be removed from our mailing list.

Access – You may access the personal information we have about you by submitting a request to leanne@crumbtopbaking.com.

Amend – You may contact us at leanne@crumbtopbaking.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 leanne@crumbtopbaking.com

Please note that we may need to retain certain information for record keeping 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 elect 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 leanne@crumbtopbaking.com and we will use our best efforts to promptly remove such information from our records.

Terms of Use

Advice Disclaimer

Crumb Top Baking is the personal blog of Leanne Combden. All blog posts are based on my personal opinion, and all content is of my own creation, unless I state otherwise. I am not a trained chef, baker, nutritionist, dietician or medical expert. Crumb Top Baking offers personal experiences and opinions and, as such, will not be held liable for any loss or damages arising from the use of this Website.

Copyright and Attribution

Unauthorized use or reproduction of the text and/or photographs on Crumb Top Baking is prohibited, unless consent is provided. This means that the text of blog posts and recipes may not be copied and pasted and republished elsewhere without consent. Blog posts and recipes may be profiled on other websites by providing a link directly back to the recipe post on Crumb Top Baking. Photographs may be shared by providing credit to Crumb Top Baking at crumbtopbaking.com and by linking directly to the recipe post on Crumb Top Baking.

Third-Party Websites

This Website may contain links to third-party websites. If you access third-party websites through Crumb Top Baking, you are responsible for the protection and privacy of the information you provide on those websites. Third party websites are not covered by this privacy policy and Crumb Top Baking accepts no responsibility or liability regarding your activity on, or the content of, third-party sites.

Comment Policy

Crumb Top Baking appreciates comments and feedback from readers, but please note that this Website reserves the right to delete comments that are negative, inappropriate or identified as spam.

Any comments posted on Crumb Top Baking may be used as promotional material on this Website or on Crumb Top Baking’s social media channels.

Any comments readers leave on this Website are public and may be read, collected or used by anyone. Your name, website (if applicable) and date/time of comment will be displayed. Your email address will not be displayed. If you have a gravatar associated with your email address it may be displayed when you leave a comment on this Website.

Readers accept these conditions when providing personal information and posting comments on this Website.

Giveaway Policy

From time to time, this Website may host giveaways. These events may be self-sponsored by this Website or may be sponsored by another individual, website or business. These giveaways will also require entrants to provide a certain level of personal information such as name, email address and location. This is captured in order to determine entrants’ eligibility to win the giveaway, and contact them in the event they are the winner. These giveaways may also be operated through third-party websites, such as Rafflecopter. These third-party sites will collect entrants’ personal information on behalf of this Website or the giveaway administrator. Readers are encouraged to read the privacy policies of these third-party websites before entering any giveaway.

Nutritional Information

This Website may provide nutritional information for the recipes it shares by inputting the ingredients into an online calculator. The accuracy of this information is not guaranteed, and is only provided as a guide for Crumb Top Baking readers.

Acceptance of Terms

This Privacy Policy and Terms of Use may be amended periodically. Please refer to this page for updates. By using this Website, you signify your acceptance of the Privacy Policy and Terms of Use. If you do not agree with the Privacy Policy and Terms of Use, please do not use this Website. Your continued use of this Website following the posting of changes to the Privacy Policy and Terms of Use will be deemed your acceptance of those changes.

Contact Information

If you have any questions regarding this Privacy Policy and Terms of Use, please contact Crumb Top Baking at leanne@crumbtopbaking.com.

Last updated: March 24, 2019