Privacy Policy

At www.savoringspoon.com, your privacy is important to us. This privacy policy outlines the personal information that is collected by www.savoringspoon.com and how it is used. If you have any questions about the the privacy policy, please do not hesitate to email savoringspoon@gmail.com.

Cookies

A cookie is a small file that asks permission to be put on your computer’s hard drive. If you agree, the file is added, and the cookie helps analyze web traffic or lets you know when you visit a particular site. Cookies help website respond to you as an individual. For example, cookies may help you remember your log-in to a website if you tell that site to remember the log-in. Cookies also help tailor the site to your individual preferences. For example a cookie from www.savoringspoon.com may show you ads from a particular store you like if you frequently visit the website of that store. This is to ensure that the ads you see are relevant. Savoring Spoon also uses traffic log cookies to help me (Sarah here, hello!) identify which pages on this site you visit most. For example, it helps me see that visitors like the mocha espresso cake a lot, and the frappuccino cupcakes. I only use this information to analyze which recipes people enjoy most, and then the data is removed. I can not see who likes each recipe, only the numbers of people reading each recipe.

Overall, cookies help me see which recipes you like, and helps me do easy things like pre-fill the comment box for you if you’ve made many comments here before. However, a cookie in no way gives me access to your computer or any information about you. Even if your comment box information is pre-filled, that is your computer cookie helping you and I actually have no idea what your name or email is unless you submit the comment. Should I see your comments and emails (for example if you did post a comment), I will never share your personal information (i.e. your email).

You can decide if you want to receive or decline cookies. Most web browsers automatically accept cookies, independent of the Savoring Spoon site. If you want to remove cookies, you can do this through your web browser (e.g. chrome, firefox, internet explorer, safari), and directions on how to remove cookies can be found through your web browser.

 Advertising

Savoring Spoon advertises through Gourmet Ads. Savoring Spoon does not have control over cookies or web beacons placed by advertisers from Gourmet Ads. In other words, Savoring Spoon has no control over what ads you see on the site. These cookies and web beacons serve to help you have a better experience at the site. For example, the cookies tailor ads to your interests. If you visit a lot of sites on crafting, Gourmet Ads is likely to show you a commercial related to a crafts store or crafts product. Cookies may also be used to detect if you’ve seen a particular ad on another site recently, to avoid showing you the same thing over and over. The cookies collect non-personal data such as your browser type, operating system, web pages visited, time of visits, ads clicked. The cookies, web beacons, or similar technologies by the advertising service vendors are subject to their own privacy policy and not the Savoring Spoon policy. But in general the cookies are there not to collect directed personal information about you, but rather to analyze user trends to give you the best possible experience. If you would not like tailored ads, you can disable cookies as mentioned above.

Savoring Spoon is also a participant in the Amazon Services LLC Associates program, an affiliate advertising program designed to provide a means for sites to earn advertising fee when linking to amazon.com. This means that if you see a product I recommend from Amazon (I purchase the vast majority of my baking and cooking equipment on Amazon), and proceed to purchase that product on Amazon, I will earn a nominal fee for linking to that product on Savoring Spoon. The fee I earn has no impact on the price you pay for the product, and the product costs the same if you found it on Amazon and not through my site. The products I recommend are all products I have personally used, unless otherwise stated.

Links to other sites

Savoring Spoon may have links to other sites of interest. This may include other blogs, other food-related websites, or places to purchase specific ingredients for example Amazon. Once you click on the link to leave the Savoring Spoons site, you should know that Savoring Spoon does not have any control on the other website. Thus we are not responsible for protection and privacy of information you provide while visiting such sites, and such sites do not fall under this privacy statement. You should read the privacy statements of those sites for more information on what analytics they may be collecting from you through cookies or similar technologies.

Controlling your information

You can at any time choose to restrict the collection of information in the following ways:

1) Disable cookies through your web browser

2) Opting out of Gourmet Ads advertising. For more information see the Gourmet Ads privacy policy.

On a closing note, Savoring Spoon will not sell your information or distribute it to anyone. When you leave me a comment and provide that email, the sole purpose of that email is for me to email you to followup on a comment if it requires longer explanation than through a reply comment. Similarly when you contact me through the contact box, that email is only there to help me email you back.