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 May 18, 2022. 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 personally identifiable 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.

Information we collect

The Website collects information that identifies, relates to, describes, is capable of being associated with, or could reasonably be linked, directly or indirectly, with a particular consumer or household (“Personal Information”). This Website has collected the following categories of Personal Information from you:

Identifiers:

This category includes your: real name, alias, postal address, unique personal identifier, online identifier, Internet Protocol (“IP”) address, email address, account name, social security number, driver’s license number, passport number, or other similar identifiers.

This Website does collect information in this category.

This Website has disclosed information in this category in the past twelve months for a business purpose.

We have used the following information when voluntarily entered: name and email address.

We have used the following information, which has been automatically collected or obtained through cookies: IP address.

Personal information as described in California Customer Records Statute (CA Code 1798.80):

This includes your: name, signature, social security number, passport number, driver’s license or state identification card number, insurance policy number, education, employment, employment history, bank account number, credit card number, debit card number, or any other financial information, medical information, or health insurance information.

This Website does collect information in this category.

This Website has disclosed information in this category in the past twelve months for a business purpose.

We have used the following information in the past twelve months when voluntarily entered: name.

Protected classification characteristics (under California or federal law).

This includes: Age (over age 40), race, colour, ancestry, national origin, citizenship, religion or creed, marital status, medical condition, physical or mental health disability, sex (including gender, gender identity, gender expression, pregnancy or childbirth and related medical conditions), sexual orientation, veteran or military status, or genetic information.

This Website does not collect information in this category.

Commercial information:

This includes records of personal property, products, or services purchased, obtained, or considered, or other purchasing or consuming histories or tendencies.

This Website does not collect information in this category.

Biometric information:

This includes: an individual’s physiological, biological or behavioral characteristics, including an individual’s DNA, that can be used, singly or in combination with each other or with other identifying data, to establish individual identity.

This Website does not collect information in this category.

Internet or other electronic network activity information:

This includes, but is not limited to, browsing history, search history, and information regarding a consumer’s interaction with this Website, application, or advertisement.

This Website does collect information in this category.

This Website has used information in this category in the past twelve months for a business purpose.

We have used information collected or obtained through cookies; browsing history; and information regarding your interaction with this Website and its newsletters.

Geolocation data:

This includes your physical location or movements.

This Website does not collect information in this category.

Audio, electronic, visual, thermal, olfactory, or other similar information:

This Website does not collect information in this category.

This may include your current or past employment history or other information related thereto.

This Website does not collect information in this category.

Education information:

This is defined as information that is not publicly available personally identifiable information as defined in the Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act, which includes: records directly related to a student maintained by an educational institution or party acting on its behalf, such as grades, transcripts, class lists, schedule, student identification codes, student financial information, or student disciplinary records.

This Website does not collect information in this category.

Inferences drawn from personal information:

This includes inferences drawn from the Personal Information collected by the Website to create a profile about a consumer reflecting the consumer’s preferences, characteristics, psychological trends, predispositions, behavior, attitudes, intelligence, abilities, and aptitudes.

This Website does not collect information in this category.

How we collect information about you

Information you voluntarily submit to this Website: We may collect personal information from you such as your name or email address. For example, you may voluntarily submit information to this Website by leaving a comment or subscribing to our newsletter.
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 this Website. For example, when you use this Website, we will log your IP address, operating system type, browser type, referring website, pages you viewed, and the dates/times when you accessed this Website. We may also collect information about actions you take when using this 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 this Website.

How your information may be used

We may use the information collected in the following ways:

To operate and maintain this 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 market products through display or affiliate advertisements;
To market to you on third-party platforms, such as Facebook;
To provide you with user support;
To track and measure advertising on this 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

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:

Akismet – is a service this Website uses to check comments against a global database of spam to help prevent this Website from publishing malicious content. Please refer to Akismet’s privacy policy for more information.
Cloudfare – is a service used by this Website for security and caching. This service provider may collect user IP addresses, system configuration information, and other information about traffic to and from this Website in order to detect new threats, identify malicious third parties, and provide security protection. Refer to Cloudfare’s privacy policy for more information.
Google Analytics – is a service that tracks Website usage and provides information such as referring websites and user actions on the Website. In order to track usage, Google Analytics places a cookie with a randomly generated Client ID on your browser. Google does use your personal information such as your IP address in order to capture reporting for the Website regarding usage. Users can completely block Google Analytics tracking by using Google’s opt-out browser add-on. For further information, please refer to Google’s privacy and security policies.
Grow by Mediavine – 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. Refer to Mediavine’s privacy policy for more information.
Grow.me – is a service that allows users to sign in and then save, share and search for content across websites that use Grow.me. Refer to Mediavine’s privacy policy for more information.
Mail Chimp – is a service used for delivery of email updates and newsletters. We store your name and email address for purposes of delivering such communications. Please refer to Mail Chimp’s privacy policy for more information.
MonsterInsights – is a service that allows this Website to easily add, customize, and manage its Google Analytics. Please refer to MonsterInsights’ privacy policy for more information.
Rafflecopter – is a service used to manage giveaways on this Website. When individuals enter 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
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. Please refer to Wordfence’s privacy policy for more information
WPopt – is a service that provides web hosting for this Website. Information stored on this Website is stored on WPopt’s servers. Please refer to WPopt’s privacy policy for more information.
WP Rocket – is a service that helps optimize site speed. It’s a plugin that performs caching and performance optimization to improve loading speed of this Website. Please refer to WP Rocket’s privacy policy for more information.
Vault Press – is a service that provides daily backups of all information on this Website. Please refer to Vault Press’s privacy policy for more information

This list may be amended from time to time at the Website’s sole discretion.

We may disclose or transfer personal information collected through this 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 this Website or leave a comment, certain information may be publicly visible, such as name, avatar and website information.

Cookies

This 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 this 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

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 AddressOperating System typeOperating System versionDevice TypeLanguage of the websiteWeb browser typeEmail (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.

Retargeting ads

From time to time, this Website may engage in remarketing efforts with third-party companies, such as Google, Pinterest, 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. This means, after visiting the Website, you may see an ad for our services. However, your personally identifiable information is not used by any remarketing service other than to present you offers from the Website. We use the following third-party service providers for remarketing:

Facebook: Opt-out of Facebook remarketing here
Google: Opt-out of Google remarketing here
Pinterest: Opt-out of Pinterest remarketing here

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

Sensitive personal information

At no time should you submit sensitive personal information to this 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

This Website does not knowingly collect any personally identifiable information from children under the age of 16. If a parent or guardian believes that this Website has personally identifiable information of a child under the age of 16 in its database, please contact us immediately at [email protected] and we will use our best efforts to promptly remove such information from our records.

If you are within the European Union, you are entitled to certain information and have certain rights under the General Data Protection Regulation (“GDPR”). Throughout this policy, we have disclosed what information we collect and how it is used. Under GDPR, you also have the following rights:

Right to opt-out – You may opt-out of future email communications by following the unsubscribe links in our emails. You may also contact us at the email below to be removed from our mailing list.

Right to access – You may access the personal information we have about you by submitting a request.

Right to amend – You may contact us to amend or update your personal information.

Right to be forgotten – In certain situations, you may request that we erase or forget your personal data.

You may exercise any of these rights by emailing [email protected].

Please note that we may need to retain certain information for record keeping purposes or to complete transactions, or when required by law. Unless you exercise such rights, we reserve the right to retain your data.

If you are a resident of California, you are entitled to certain information and have certain rights under the California Consumer Protection Act (“CCPA”). Throughout this policy, we have disclosed what information we collect, how it is used, and the types of third parties that may receive your information. Under CCPA, you also have the following rights:

Right to access – You have the right to request that we disclose certain information to you about the personal information we collect and how it has been used over the past 12 months. After we receive and confirm your verifiable consumer request, we will disclose the following:

The categories of your personal information we collected;
The categories of your personal information we sold;
The categories of any third parties to whom we have sold your personal information;
A list of which categories of your personal information we sold to each party; and,
The categories of your personal information we disclose for business purposes.

Right to deletion – You have the right to request that we delete your personal information.

Please note that this right does not apply when we need to retain your personal information in order to do the following:

Provide goods or services to you;
Detect or resolve security or functionality-related issues;
Comply with the law;
Conduct research in the public interest;
Safeguard the right to free speech; or,
Carry out any actions for internal purposes that you might reasonably expect.

Right to non-discrimination – You have the right not to be discriminated against for exercising your rights under CCPA. In particular, we may not:

Deny you goods or services;
Charge you different prices for goods or services, whether through denying benefits or imposing penalties;
Provide you with a different level or quality of goods or services; or,
Threaten you with any of the above.

How to submit a verifiable consumer request

To exercise these rights, you must submit a verifiable consumer request to us by:

Contacting us at [email protected].

Please note that only you, or a person registered with the California Secretary of State that you authorize to act on your behalf, may make a verifiable consumer request related to your personal information. You may also make a request on behalf of a minor child.

You may only make a request under these rights twice in a twelve-month period. Your verifiable consumer request must:

Provide sufficient information that allows us to reasonably verify you are the person about whom we collected personal information (or that it is an authorized representative acting on your behalf);
Describe your request with sufficient detail that allows us to properly understand and respond to it.

Nevada Privacy of Information Collected on the Internet from Consumers Act

Pursuant to the Nevada Privacy of Information Collected on the Internet from Consumers Act (“NPICICA”), Nevada residents may opt out of the sale of any personal information. As described above, your personal information may be shared with third-party service providers/operators in order to fulfill purchased products or to communicate with you. We do not sell (which is defined in the NPICICA as “the exchange of covered information for monetary consideration by the operator to a person for the person to license or sell the covered information to additional persons”) your covered information, which includes:

Your first and last name;
Your address;
Your email address;
Your phone number;
Your social security number;
Any identifier that would allow you to be contacted either physically or online; or,
Any other information concerning you, collected from you by the Website and maintained by us, in combination with an identifier in a form that makes the information personally identifiable.

If you have any questions regarding our usage of your personal information, please email [email protected].

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, dietitian 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.

All recipes have been tried and used successfully, but results may vary from person to person. Consult your medical professional before using any recipe if you have concerns about how you may individually react to the use of any particular recipe or ingredient. By voluntarily creating and using any recipe provided here, you assume the risk of any potential injury that may result.

Copyright and attribution

All images and content on Crumb Top Baking are COPYRIGHT PROTECTED. Unauthorized use or reproduction of the text and/or photographs on this Website 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. If you would like to share a recipe, do so by providing a link directly back to the recipe post on Crumb Top Baking. One photograph 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 this Website, you are responsible for the protection and privacy of the information you provide on those websites. Third party websites are not covered by the above Privacy Policy and this Website 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 this Website 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 provides 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 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 [email protected].

Last updated: May 18, 2022

Privacy Policy and Terms of Use

Changes to the privacy policy and terms of use

Privacy policy

Information we collect

Identifiers:

Personal information as described in California Customer Records Statute (CA Code 1798.80):

Protected classification characteristics (under California or federal law).

Commercial information:

Biometric information:

Internet or other electronic network activity information:

Geolocation data:

Audio, electronic, visual, thermal, olfactory, or other similar information:

Education information:

Inferences drawn from personal information:

How we collect information about you

How your information may be used

Third-party use of personal information

Anonymous data

Publicly visible information

Cookies

Advertising

Mediavine Programmatic Advertising (Ver 1.1)

Retargeting ads

Sponsored content tracking pixels

Affiliate program participation

Newsletters

Sensitive personal information

Children’s information

Nevada Privacy of Information Collected on the Internet from Consumers Act

Terms of use

Advice disclaimer

Sponsored posts

Copyright and attribution

Third-party websites

Comment policy

Giveaway policy

Nutritional information

Acceptance of terms

Contact information

Changes to the privacy policy and terms of use

Privacy policy

Information we collect

Identifiers:

Personal information as described in California Customer Records Statute (CA Code 1798.80):

Protected classification characteristics (under California or federal law).

Commercial information:

Biometric information:

Internet or other electronic network activity information:

Geolocation data:

Audio, electronic, visual, thermal, olfactory, or other similar information:

Professional or employment-related information:

Education information:

Inferences drawn from personal information:

How we collect information about you

How your information may be used

Third-party use of personal information

Anonymous data

Publicly visible information

Cookies

Advertising

Mediavine Programmatic Advertising (Ver 1.1)

Retargeting ads

Sponsored content tracking pixels

Affiliate program participation

Newsletters

Sensitive personal information

Children’s information

GDPR – rights related to your personal information

CCPA – rights related to your personal information

Nevada Privacy of Information Collected on the Internet from Consumers Act

Terms of use

Advice disclaimer

Sponsored posts

Copyright and attribution

Third-party websites

Comment policy

Giveaway policy

Nutritional information

Acceptance of terms

Contact information