Privacy Policy

Effective July 19, 2020

If you require any more information or have any questions about this Privacy Policy, please feel free to email us at Contact@PlantPoweredCooking.com.

Introduction

Plant-Powered Cooking (“us”, “we”, or “our”) operates the Plant-Powered Cooking website. As the owner of this website (plantpoweredcooking.com, referred to as the “Site”), we understand that user (“you”, “your”, or “visitor”) privacy is of extreme importance. This Privacy Policy describes the information that we collect from you, and about you, through this Site. This Policy also describes how we use and disclose such information.

Use of plantpoweredcooking.com is subject to this Privacy Policy, which applies to all users and site visitors. By using this Site, you acknowledge and agree to the collection and use of your information in accordance with this Privacy Policy. If you do not agree with the terms of this policy, please do not access this Site.

Personal Data Collection

This Site collects personally identifiable information, “Personal Information”, which is used to deliver content and improve the Site. While using this Site, for example, you may provide us with certain information that can be used to contact or identify you. Such Personal Information includes, but is not limited to, the following:

• Name
• Internet alias or username
• Email address

We also collect information from your browser whenever you visit our Site, collectively called “Log Data”. This Log Data may include information such as your computer’s Internet Protocol (“IP”) address, online identifier, browser type, browser version, device type, the pages of our Site that you visit, the products that you view, the website or search term that referred you to the Site, the time and date of your visit, the time spent on specific pages, and other statistics. We may also collect information about actions you take when using this Site, such as specific links clicked.

In addition to the Personal Information and Log Data detailed above, we will also collect other data that you provide voluntarily during your visits to this Site, collectively called “Voluntary Information”. Such information may include comments that you post, messages you send through our contact page, recipe ratings and reviews that you submit, and emails that you send to us directly.

Personal Information, Log Data, and Voluntary Information will be referred to collectively as “Personal Data” throughout this Privacy Policy.

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 is 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. We use both session cookies and persistent cookies on this Site to provide you with a more personalized experience. Cookies do not typically contain any information that personally identifies a user, but Personal Data that we store about you may be linked to the information stored in and obtained from cookies.

Our Use of Cookies

We use cookies to collect information. You can instruct your browser to refuse all cookies or to indicate when a cookie is being sent. However, if you do not accept/allow cookies, you may not be able to use some portions of our Site. You may also, for example, be asked to sign up for our newsletter repeatedly because you have not allowed us to store your preferences in your browser. 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;
• Fulfillment – we use cookies to help us to send relevant emails and periodic newsletters 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.

Refusing Cookies

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 may find more information about how to delete cookies from various browsers here. You may find information about blocking cookies, setting cookie preferences, and deleting cookies by following the below, browser-specific help pages.

• Chrome
  • https://support.google.com/chrome/answer/95647?hl=en
• Firefox
  • https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/cookies-information-websites-store-on-your-computer
• Opera
  • https://help.opera.com/en/latest/web-preferences/
• Internet Explorer
  • https://support.microsoft.com/en-gb/help/17442/windows-internet-explorer-delete-manage-cookies
• Safari:
  • https://support.apple.com/guide/safari/manage-cookies-and-website-data-sfri11471/mac
• Edge:
  • https://privacy.microsoft.com/en-us/windows-10-microsoft-edge-and-privacy

You should note that blocking cookies may have a negative impact on the functions of many websites, including this Site. If you do not allow cookies, some features on this Site may become unavailable to you and you may see the same newsletter/cookie pop-ups repeatedly.

Third-Party Service Providers

This Site engages in third-party, information-sharing activities. We use third-party companies, individuals, and other service providers to help facilitate our Site, to ensure the Site’s functionality and ease of use, and to assist us in analyzing how the Site is used. Some of these third parties may use cookies, web beacons (pixels), or other tracking technologies on our Site. (In particular, please note this link: How Google uses data when you use their partners’ sites or apps.)

Please note that these third parties are not governed by this Privacy Policy. We have no control over and assume no responsibility for, the actions of these third parties. Each third-party service provider’s use of your information is dictated by their respective privacy policies, which are included here for your review.

Google Analytics

We use Google Analytics to analyze the use of our Site. Google Analytics gathers information about website usage by means of cookies and web beacons (pixels) on this Site and many others. These tracking technologies collect your information and report site usage statistics without personally identifying individual visitors to Google. The information gathered relating to our Site is used to create reports about the use of plantpoweredcooking.com.

In addition to reporting site usage statistics, data collected by Google Analytics may also be used, together with some of their advertising cookies described below, to show you more relevant ads across the web and to measure interactions with ads you are shown.

• Google’s Privacy Policy is available at: https://www.google.com/policies/privacy.
• To opt out of analysis by Google Analytics on this Site and others, please visit: https://tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout.
• Please note that we have elected to anonymize IP addresses in Google Analytics.

Google AdSense & Advertising Cookies

This Site uses Google AdSense, an advertising service that allows Google to display ads on some of our pages. Google, as a third-party vendor, uses cookies and web beacons to collect information about you and how you use this Site, in order to serve ads. Such collected data may include your IP address, browsing history, website preferences, device location, and device preferences. Information collected by Google is protected by privacy laws.

Please note that we include interest-based advertisements on this Site. In an effort to understand your interests, Google and other, future advertising partners may track your behavior on our website and on other websites across the Internet using advertising cookies and identifiers, including the DoubleClick DART cookie.

• Google’s Advertising Policy is available at: https://policies.google.com/technologies/ads.
• Information about Google’s use of cookies can be found here: https://policies.google.com/technologies/types?hl=en-US.
• You may opt out of personalized ads by visiting this link: https://adssettings.google.com/.

At this time, no additional Google Advertising Features are being utilized.

Mailchimp

We use Mailchimp for delivery of email updates and newsletters. When you voluntarily submit your name and email address, your Personal Information is stored for purposes of delivering such communications. You may opt out of email communications at any time by clicking the “unsubscribe” button in any of our emails.

Mailchimp may use cookies and web beacons to record your newsletter subscription preferences, to track whether email updates and newsletters have been opened, and to track which links within those emails were clicked. This type of information allows us to provide tailored content that is of interest to you. Please refer to Mailchimp’s policies for further information: https://mailchimp.com/legal/.

Jetpack

We use Jetpack, an Automattic product, to enhance this Site. Jetpack powers many features on this Site, including our Contact Form, our Comments fields, our Email Notifications sign-up, and our Social Media sharing buttons. Jetpack collects data from users when they voluntarily provide information (such as their names, email addresses, and comments) through these Site features. Additional information about select Jetpack features employed on this site, and the information that these features collect from our Site users, is included below. Please read Automattic’s Privacy Policy for full information: https://automattic.com/privacy/.

Jetpack Contact Form

Jetpack will sync the post and post meta data associated with your contact form submission. When Akismet is enabled, your contact form submission data — IP address, user agent, name, email address, website, and message — is submitted to the Akismet service (also owned by Automattic) for the sole purpose of spam checking. Your actual submission data is stored in the plantpoweredcooking.com database and is emailed directly to us. This email will include your IP address, timestamp, name, email address, website, and message. If Akismet is enabled, your IP address and the user agent originally submitted with the comment are also synced, and are stored in post meta.

Jetpack Comments

Your name, email address, and site URL (if provided via the comment form), the timestamp, and your IP address are collected if you post a comment. Additionally, a jetpack.wordpress.com IFrame receives the following data: WordPress.com blog ID attached to the site, ID of the post on which the comment is being submitted, commenter’s local user ID (if available), commenter’s local username (if available), commenter’s site URL (if available), MD5 hash of the commenter’s email address (if available), and the comment content. If Akismet (also owned by Automattic) is enabled on the site, the following information is sent to the service for the sole purpose of spam checking: commenter’s name, email address, site URL, IP address, and user agent.

If you leave a comment on our Site, your submission information is stored in cookies via Jetpack. You may also opt in to saving your name, email address, and website (if applicable) by clicking the appropriate check box during comment submission. The associated cookies are for your convenience so that you do not have to fill in your details again when you leave another comment.

Jetpack Repeat Visitors Counter

The Repeat Visitor block records page views by setting a cookie named “jp-visit-counter” in your browser, which is incremented on each visit. This cookie is stored only in your browser and is not recorded in Jetpack’s databases.

Jetpack Sharing Buttons

When official sharing buttons are active, each button loads content directly from its social media service in order to display the button, as well as information and tools for users. As a result, each service can in turn collect information about you when you attempt to share to one of these services. When a non-official Facebook or a Pinterest sharing button is active, information such as your IP address and the page URL will be available to each service, so sharing counts can be displayed next to the button. When sharing content via email (this option is only available if Akismet is active on the site), the following information is used: user’s name and email address (if the user is logged in, this information will be pulled directly from their account), IP address (for spam checking), user agent (for spam checking), and email body/content. This content will be sent to Akismet (also owned by Automattic) so that a spam check can be performed.

Jetpack Mobile Theme Preferences

A user’s preference regarding whether to view the mobile version of the Site is recorded. A cookie (akm_mobile) is stored for 3.5 days to remember whether or not a site visitor wishes to view the mobile version. You may learn more about this cookie here: https://jetpack.com/support/cookies/#mobile-theme.

Jetpack Email Subscriptions

To initiate and process subscriptions, the following information is used: user’s email address and the ID of the post or comment (depending on the specific subscription being processed). In the event of a new subscription being initiated, Jetpack also collects some basic server data, including all of the subscribing user’s HTTP request headers, the IP address from which the subscribing user is viewing the page, and the URI which was given in order to access the page (REQUEST_URI and DOCUMENT_URI). This server data is used for the exclusive purpose of monitoring and preventing abuse and spam. Jetpack will set functionality cookies for a duration of 347 days to remember a visitor’s blog and post subscription choices if, in fact, they have an active subscription.

Gravatar

We use Gravatar, another Automattic product, on this Site. An anonymized hash, based on your email address, is sent to Gravatar to see if you are using their service. If so, your Gravatar profile picture will be displayed with your submitted comment. Please read Automattic’s Privacy Policy for more information about this service: https://automattic.com/privacy/.

Advertising Information

Affiliate Program Participation

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

This 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 linking to Amazon.com. As part of the Amazon Associates program, this Site will post customized links, provided by Amazon, to track referrals to their website. This program utilizes cookies to track visits for the purposes of assigning commission on these sales. Please review Amazon’s privacy policy for more information: https://www.amazon.com/gp/help/customer/display.html/ref=help_search_1-6?ie=UTF8&nodeId=201909010&qid=1597114202&sr=1-6.

This Site also participates in the Google AdSense program, discussed in detail above, and hosts affiliate links from Thrive Market. Thrive Market affiliate links function similarly to the Amazon Associates affiliate links. Thrive Market’s privacy policy is available here: https://thrivemarket.com/privacy-policy.

Display Ads

We may use third parties to serve content and advertisements when you visit this Site. These third-party service providers may use cookies, web beacons (pixels), or other tracking technologies on our Site, as noted elsewhere in this Privacy Policy.

Retargeting Ads

At this time, this Site does not engage in remarketing efforts with third-party companies, such as Google, Facebook, or Instagram, in order to market this website. If this changes, we will provide an update here.

Embedded Content from Other Websites

Posts on this Site may occasionally include embedded content, such as videos, images, articles, etc. Content embedded on this Site from other websites, functions in the same way it would if you had visited the other website. For example, these other websites may collect data about you, use their cookies, embed additional third-party tracking, and monitor your interaction with the embedded content. In particular, they may monitor your interaction with the embedded content if you have an account and are logged in to their website.

Anonymous Data

From time to time, we may use anonymous or anonymized data. This data 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 information or information collected from cookies.

Data Rights

If you have left comments on this Site, you may request to receive an exported file of the Personal Data we hold about you, including any data you have provided to us. You may also request that we erase any Personal Data we hold about you. This does not include any data we are obligated to keep for administrative, legal, or security purposes.

Data Retention

If you leave a comment, the comment and its metadata are retained indefinitely. This is so we can recognize and approve any follow-up comments automatically instead of holding them in a moderation queue.

We also retain your name and email address indefinitely, in order to continue servicing emails you may have requested.

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:

1. access your personal data
2. ensure the accuracy of your personal data
3. the right to have us delete your personal data
4. the right to restrict further processing of your personal data, and
5. 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 emailing us at Contact@PlantPoweredCooking.com.

Compliance With Laws

We may share your Personal Data in order to comply with applicable laws and regulations, to respond to a subpoena, search warrant or other lawful request for information we receive, or to otherwise protect our rights.

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.