Privacy Policy - The Mountain Kitchen

As fellow Internet users, we completely respect your online privacy. We are fully committed to safeguarding your online privacy while you’re here at The Mountain Kitchen website.

This privacy policy document describes in detail the types of personal information is collected and recorded by https://www.themountainkitchen.com and how we use it.

Effective May 25, 2018

As the owner of this website (TheMountainKitchen.com, referred to as the “Site”), The Mountain Kitchen, LLC understands that your privacy is of critical importance. This Privacy Policy describes what information we collect from you via the Site and how we use and disclose such information.

OUR USE OF COOKIES

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 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.

We use cookies for the following purposes:

Authentication: We use cookies to identify you when you visit our website and as you navigate our website;
Email: We use cookies to help us to send relevant emails to users who have subscribed to our email list;
Personalization: we use cookies [to store information about your preferences and to personalize the website for you;
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;
Advertising: We use cookies to help us to display advertisements that will be relevant to you; and
Analysis: We use cookies to help us to analyze the use and performance of our website and services;

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.

Google’s privacy policy is available at https://www.google.com/policies/privacy/.

Most browsers allow you to refuse to accept cookies and to delete cookies. The methods for doing so vary from browser to browser, and from version to version. You can, however, obtain up-to-date information about blocking and deleting cookies via these links:

https://support.google.com/chrome/answer/95647?hl=en (Chrome);
https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/enable-and-disable-cookies-website-preferences (Firefox);
https://www.opera.com/help/tutorials/security/cookies/ (Opera);
https://support.microsoft.com/en-gb/help/17442/windows-internet-explorer-delete-manage-cookies (Internet Explorer);
https://support.apple.com/safari (Safari); and
https://privacy.microsoft.com/en-us/windows–10-microsoft-edge-and-privacy(Edge).

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 cease to be available to you.

COMMENTS

If you leave a comment on our site, you may opt-in to save your name, email address, and website in cookies. These are for your convenience so you do not have to fill in your details again when you leave another comment. These cookies will last for one year.

When visitors leave comments on the site, we collect the data shown in the comments form and the visitor’s IP address and browser user agent string to help with spam detection.

An anonymized string created from your email address (also called a hash) may be provided to the Gravatar service to see if you are using it. The Gravatar service privacy policy is available here: https://automattic.com/privacy/. After approval of your comment, your profile picture is visible to the public in the context of your comment.

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

INTERNET-BASED ADVERTISING

Advertising Privacy Statement

This Site is affiliated with CMI Marketing, Inc., d/b/a CafeMedia (“CafeMedia”) for the purposes of placing advertising on the Site, and CafeMedia will collect and use certain data for advertising purposes. To learn more about CafeMedia’s data usage, click here: www.cafemedia.com/publisher-advertising-privacy-policy

EMAIL ADDRESSES

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, from time to time 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.

If you are a resident of a country in the European Economic Area (EEA), please refer to the section below entitled “Additional Rights of EEA Residents.”

REGISTRATION OR ACCOUNT DATA

We may collect other information from you when you register with our Site in order to use various features. Such information could include your name, birthday, postal code, screen name, and password (if applicable). As you use the Site, we could collect other data that you provide voluntarily (such as comments that you post).

We may also collect information about you through other methods, including research surveys, social media platforms, verification services, data services, as well as public sources. We may combine this data with your registration data in order to maintain a more thorough profile.

We may use your personally-identifying information for a variety of our internal business purposes, such as creating a better user experience for the Site, diagnosing and troubleshooting malfunctions on the Site, better understanding how the Site is used, and making personalized recommendations to you.

If you are a resident of a country in the European Economic Area (EEA), please refer to the section below entitled “Additional Rights of EEA Residents.”

TRANSACTIONAL DATA

We may process information relating to transactions, including purchases of goods and services, that you enter into with us and/or through our Site] (“Transactional Data“). The Transactional Data may include your contact details, your card details, and the transaction details. The transaction data may be processed for the purpose of supplying the purchased goods and services and keeping proper records of those transactions. [Payment processing on our Site is handled by our payment services providers, Paypal. We will share transaction data with our payment services providers only to the extent necessary for the purposes of processing your payments, refunding such payments and dealing with complaints and queries relating to such payments and refunds. You can find information about the payment services providers’ privacy policies and practices at https://www.paypal.com/us/webapps/mpp/ua/privacy-full.

AFFILIATE PROGRAM PARTICIPATION

The Site may engage in affiliate marketing, which is done by embedding tracking links into the Site. If you click on a link to an affiliate partnership, a cookie will be placed on your browser to track any sales for purposes of commissions.

The Site 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 site 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.

The Site is a participant in the Thermoworks Affiliate Program, an affiliate advertising program designed to provide a means for sites to earn advertising fees by advertising and links to Thermoworks.com. As part of the Thermoworks affiliate program, the site will post customized links, provided by Thermoworks, to track the referrals to their website. This program utilizes cookies to track visits for the purposes of assigning commission on these sales.

The Site participates in the Weber, Inc. Affiliate Program, an affiliate advertising program designed to provide a means for sites to earn advertising fees by advertising and links to Weber.com. As part of the Weber affiliate program, the site will post customized links provided by Weber.com to track the referrals to their website. This program utilizes cookies to track visits for the purpose of assigning commissions on these sales.

The Site is a participant in the Millican Pecan Company Affiliate Program, an affiliate advertising program designed to provide a means for sites to earn advertising fees by advertising and links to MillicanPecan.com. As part of the Millican Pecan Company affiliate program, the site will post customized links, provided by Millican Pecan Company, to track the referrals to their website. This program utilizes cookies to track visits for the purposes of assigning commission on these sales.

NEWSLETTERS

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 user’s interests. This behavior will not be passed on to third parties.

THIRD-PARTY USE OF PERSONAL INFORMATION

This website uses third-party service providers. Each third-party service provider’s use of your personal information is dictated by their respective privacy policies. The website currently uses the following third-party service providers.

Google Analytics: This service is ANONYMIZED and tracks website usage and provides information such as referring websites, user actions on the website, and demographics and interest reporting. This service uses cookies. We use the information provided by this service (such as age, gender, and interests) to better understand our audience, enhance the user experience, and tailor our content to our readers’ interests. Click here to opt out of Google Analytics, here to learn more about Google Analytics privacy standards, and here to view Google’s privacy policy.
MailChimp: This service is used to deliver email updates and newsletters. We store your name and email address for the purposes of delivering such communications. Click here to view the MailChimp privacy policy.
Jetpack: This service provides a contact form on the website for you to communicate with Quite Good Food directly and to capture spam messages through its built-in spam filter called Akismet. The contact form stores your name and email address, as submitted by you on the form, to respond to your messages. When you submit the contact form, Jetpack captures your IP address for security purposes. The spam filter also captures IP addresses for security purposes. Click here to view the Jetpack privacy policy.
UpdraftPlus: This type of service allows the Owner to save and manage backups of this Website on external servers managed by the service provider itself. The backups may include the source code and content as well as the data that the User provides to this Website. Various types of data are collected as specified in the privacy policy of the service.
Wordfence Security: This service provides virus, firewall, and malware scans to protect this Site from hacking.
WP Recipe Maker: Bootstrapped Ventures is the platform we use for sharing recipes on this site. The developer of WP Recipe Maker does not have access to any of the data collected by the plugin. This is all stored in your local database and not communicated back to us. What personal data we collect and why we collect it:
- When comment ratings are enabled we store the rating a user has given to a recipe along with the personal data WordPress core stores.
- When user ratings are enabled we store 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. This cookie is used as (one of the) measures to prevent rating spam.
- When user ratings are enabled we store the IP address upon voting. This is used as (one of the) measures to prevent rating spam.
- With the Recipe Submission feature, personal data can be collected depending on the fields that were added to the form. This can include the user email and name. When using the reCAPTCHA feature you will be agreeing to their terms of use and privacy policy
- Our cookies are stored for 30 days. User-submitted data is stored indefinitely in the local database.
MonsterInsights: We use MonsterInsights for analytics (to give us feedback on how a post is performing such as how many people visit daily/monthly/weekly/yearly)
Smush: We use the plugin, Smush. Smush does not interact with end users on your website. The only input option Smush has is to a newsletter subscription for site admins only. If you would like to notify your users of this in your privacy policy, you can use the information below. Smush sends images to the WPMU DEV servers to optimize them for web use. This includes the transfer of EXIF data. The EXIF data will either be stripped or returned as it is. It is not stored on the WPMU DEV servers. Smush uses a third-party email service (Drip) to send informational emails to the site administrator. The administrator’s email address is sent to Drip and a cookie is set by the service. Only administrator information is collected by Drip.

ADDITIONAL RIGHTS OF EEA (EUROPEAN ECONOMIC AREA) RESIDENTS

If you are a resident of a country in the EEA, you have the rights, among others, to:

(A) access your personal data
(B) ensure the accuracy of your personal data
(C) the right to have us delete your personal data
(D) the right to restrict further processing of your personal data, and
(E) the right to complain to a supervisory authority in your country of residence in the event that data is misused

If you believe that our processing of your personal information infringes data protection laws, you have a legal right to lodge a complaint with a supervisory authority responsible for data protection. You may do so in the EU member state of your residence, your place of work or the place of the alleged infringement.

You may exercise any of your rights in relation to your personal data by written notice to us addressed to the following: TheMountainKitchen@gmail.com

SALE OF BUSINESS OR ASSETS

In the event that the Site or substantially all of its assets is sold or disposed of as a going concern, whether by merger, sale of assets or otherwise, or in the event of an insolvency, bankruptcy or receivership, the information we have collected about you may be one of the assets sold or merged in connection with that transaction.

CHANGES TO THE PRIVACY POLICY

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 by the Privacy Policy in effect when the information was obtained from you.

CONTACTING US

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