Disclaimer:
This is a personal blog – all opinions, recipes, techniques and writing are purely based on my personal experience. I am not responsible for any actions you might take as a result of the information I provide, please use your good judgement. All reviews and comments are of my own personal opinion and no compensation will sway my opinion.
Disclosure Policy
Because we value our readers we would like to be 100% honest about how we generate income at www.onceuponapan.com .
This website contains affiliate links. This means we may get a small commission if you purchase something through the links and banners on our site. However, we only post things that we find useful for our and your success in the kitchen.
The compensation received will never influence the content, topics or posts made on this website. Most advertising is in the form of advertisements generated by a third-party ad network. Those advertisements will be identified as paid advertisements.
Rest assured that our first and foremost priority is to share with you great recipes and other information that we think are useful to you, and the advertising revenue we make from this website helps us do that.
Thank you again for your support.
Privacy Policy
All the visitors of our blog onceuponapan.com are very important to us. We understand and respect the importance of all our readers 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 our Website – www.onceuponapan.com
This Privacy Policy governs the manner in which Once Upon a Pan collects, uses, maintains and discloses information collected from users (each, a “User”) of the www.onceuponapan.com website (“Site”). This privacy policy applies to the Site and all products and services offered by Once Upon a Pan.
Personal identification information
We may collect personal identification information, such as name or email address, from Users in a variety of ways, including, but not limited to, when Users visit our site, subscribe to the newsletter, leave a comment, submit a contact form and in connection with other activities, services, features or resources we make available on our Site. Users may visit our Site anonymously. We will collect personal identification information from Users only if they voluntarily submit such information to us. Users can always refuse to supply personally identification information, except that it may prevent them from engaging in certain Site related activities.
Non-personal identification information
We may collect non-personal identification information about Users whenever they interact with our Site. Non-personal identification information may include the browser name, the type of computer, demographic information such as postcode, preferences and interest and technical information about Users means of connection to our Site, such as the operating system and the Internet service providers utilized and other similar information.
Sensitive Personal Information
At no time should you submit sensitive personal information to the Website. This includes your Id/passport details, 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.
How we use collected information
Once Upon a Pan may collect and use Users personal information for the following purposes:
- – To improve customer service
The information you provide helps us respond to your customer service requests and support needs more efficiently. - – To improve our Site
We may use feedback you provide to improve our products and services. - – To send periodic emails
If User decides to opt-in to our mailing list, they will receive emails that may include company news, updates, related product or service information, etc.
How we protect your information
We adopt appropriate data collection, storage and processing practices and security measures to protect against unauthorized access, alteration, disclosure or destruction of your personal information, username, password, transaction information and data stored on our Site.
Sharing your personal information
We do not sell, trade, or rent Users personal identification information to others. We may share generic aggregated demographic information not linked to any personal identification information regarding visitors and users with our business partners, trusted affiliates and advertisers for the purposes outlined above.
Our Use of Cookies
Our Site may use “cookies” to enhance User experience. User’s web browser places cookies on their hard drive for record-keeping purposes and sometimes to track information about them. 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:
- (a) Authentication: We use cookies to identify you when you visit our website and as you navigate our website;
- (b) Email: We use cookies to help us to send relevant emails to users who have subscribed to our email list;
- (c) 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;
- (d) Advertising: We use cookies to help us to display advertisements that will be relevant to you; and
- (e) 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:
(a) https://support.google.com/chrome/answer/95647?hl=en (Chrome);
(b) https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/enable-and-disable-cookies-website-preferences (Firefox);
(c) http://www.opera.com/help/tutorials/security/cookies/ (Opera);
(d) https://support.microsoft.com/en-gb/help/17442/windows-internet-explorer-delete-manage-cookies (Internet Explorer);
(e) https://support.apple.com/kb/PH21411 (Safari); and
(f) 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.
Advertising
Advertising privacy statement
This Site is affiliated with Adsense (Google) for the purposes of placing advertising on the Site. We publish interest-based advertisements on the Site; that is, ads that are tailored to reflect your interests. To help understand your interests Google and our other advertising partners will track your behaviour on our website and on other websites across the Internet using cookies.
By using this Site, you consent to the use of such cookies and the sharing of data captured by such cookies with Google, and our other third-party partners. You can view, delete or add interest categories associated with your browser by visiting: https://adssettings.google.com. You can also opt out of the network cookie using those settings or using the Network Advertising Initiative’s multi-cookie opt-out mechanism at: http://optout.networkadvertising.org. However, these opt-out mechanisms themselves use cookies, and if you clear the cookies from your browser your opt-out will not be maintained.
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.co.uk. 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.
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.
Facebook: Opt-out of Facebook remarketing here
Google: Opt-out of Google remarketing here
Some of the plugins we use:
WP Recipe maker – What personal data it collects and why it collects it
Bootstrapped Ventures, the developer of WP Recipe Maker, does not have access to any of the data collected by the plugin. This is all stored in the Site local database and not communicated back to the developer.
Comments – When comment ratings are enabled WP Recipe Maker stores the rating a user has given to a recipe along with the personal data WordPress core stores.
Cookies – When user ratings are enabled WP Recipe Maker 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.
IP Address – When user ratings are enabled WP Recipe Maker stores 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.
How long WP Recipe Maker retain your data – their cookies are stored for 30 days. User submitted data is stored indefinitely in the local database.
UpdraftPlus + Dropbox
We use UpdraftPlus to performs complete manual or scheduled backups of all our WordPress files, databases, plugins and themes which we store on our Dropbox account.
UpdraftPlus’ privacy policy is available here
Dropbox’s Terms of Use & Privacy Policy is available here
Email Marketing
We use MailerLite to manage our email marketing subscriber list and to send emails to our subscribers. MailerLite is a third-party provider, which may process your data using industry standard technologies to help us monitor and improve our newsletter.
MailerLite’s privacy policy is available at https://www.mailerlite.com/privacy-policy.
All newsletters sent may contain tracking pixels. The pixel is embedded in emails and allow 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 interest of the User. This behaviour will not be passed on to third parties.
You can unsubscribe from our newsletter by clicking on the unsubscribe link provided at the end of each newsletter.
Comments
When visitors leave comments on the site we collect the data shown in the comments form, and also the visitor’s IP address and browser user agent string to help 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.
If you leave a comment, the comment and its metadata are retained indefinitely. This is so we can recognise and approve any follow-up comments automatically instead of holding them in a moderation queue.
We use Akismet (anti-spam) which collects information about visitors who comment on our Site. The information this service collects depends on how the User sets up Akismet for the Site, but 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).
By leaving a comment on our Site, visitors d so with the knowledge that their details (name, gravatar, comment) will be seen by any other visitor.
Contact Forms
Personal data such as name or email address may be captured when someone submits a contact form. We may keep contact form submissions for a certain period for customer service purposes, but we do not use the information submitted through them for marketing purposes.
Third party websites
Users may find advertising or other content on our Site that link to the sites and services of our partners, suppliers, advertisers, sponsors, licensors 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. In addition, these sites or services, including their content and links, may be constantly changing. These sites and services may have their own privacy policies and customer service policies. 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.
You should consult the respective privacy policies of these third-party ad servers for more detailed information on their practices as well as for instructions about how to opt-out of certain practices. As mentioned above, www.onceuponapan.com’s privacy policy does not apply to, and we cannot control the activities of, such other advertisers or 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.
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 onceuponapan@hotmail.com to be removed from our mailing list.
Access – You may access the personal information we have about you by submitting a request to onceuponapan@hotmail.com.
Amend – You may contact us at onceuponapan@hotmail.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 onceuponapan@hotmail.com.
Please note that we may need to retain certain information for recordkeeping purposes or to complete transactions, or when required by law.
Compliance with children’s online privacy protection act
Protecting the privacy of the very young is especially important. For that reason, we never collect or maintain information at our Site from those we actually know are under 13, and no part of our website is structured to attract anyone under 13.
Changes to this privacy policy
Once Upon a Pan has the discretion to update this privacy policy at any time. When we do, we will post a notification on the main page of our Site, revise the updated date at the bottom of this page and send you an email. We encourage Users to frequently check this page for any changes to stay informed about how we are helping to protect the personal information we collect. 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.
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:
Once Upon a Pan – www.onceuponapan.com
Email – onceuponapan@hotmail.com
This document was last updated on May 22, 2018