Privacy Policy

Who we are

Our website address is: https://booboosbakery.com (the “Website”)

Visiting/use of our Website, including all materials presented herein, are subject to the following terms and conditions. These terms and conditions apply to all website visitors of the Website. By using our Website, you agree to these terms and conditions, without modification, and acknowledge reading them.

The Information We Collect and How It Is Used

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

Different ways we collect information are detailed below. We reserve the right to change this list in our sole discretion.

Comments

When visitors leave comments on the Website 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.

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

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.

Media

If you upload images to the Website, you should avoid uploading images with embedded location data (EXIF GPS) included. Visitors to the Website can download and extract any location data from images on the Website.

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 the Website.

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

Overall, cookies help us provide you with a better user-experience when using our Website by helping us to understand your preferences based on previous or current activity on our Website.

You can choose to accept or decline cookies. Most web browsers automatically accept cookies, but you can usually modify your browser setting to decline cookies if you prefer. This may prevent you from taking full advantage of the Website.

Third Party Service Providers

This Website currently uses the following third-party service providers:

Google Analytics – this service tracks Website usage and provides information such as referring websites and user actions on the Website. The information gathered relating to our Website is used to create reports about the use of our Website. The information is used to analyze the IP address, type of browser, date/time, pages visited, amount of clicks, referring pages, exit pages, and other information that is completely anonymous. Google Analytics may capture your IP address, but no other personal information is captured by Google Analytics. Please refer to Google’s privacy policy for further information.

SendinBlue – this service is used for delivery of email updates and newsletters. We store your name and email address for purposes of delivering such communications.  Please refer to SendinBlue’s privacy policy for further information.

Except when required by law, we will not sell, distribute, or reveal your email addresses or other personal information without your consent; however, we may disclose or transfer personal information collected through the Website to third parties who acquire all or a portion of our business.

Our Website may contain links to other websites of interest. However, once you have used these links to leave our Website, we do not have any control over that other website. We are not responsible for the protection and privacy of any information which you may voluntarily or involuntarily provide whilst visiting third party websites and such websites are not governed by this Privacy Policy. Exercise caution and refer to the privacy policy of the website in question.

Amazon Affiliate Links – our Website is a participant in the Amazon Associates Program, an affiliate advertising program designed to provide a means for sites to earn advertising fees by advertising and linking to Amazon.com. This Website contains links to products on the Amazon website which we have recommended or profiled. When you click through to the Amazon website from one of these product links we make a small amount of commission if you go on to purchase the product. Nevertheless, the price you pay will be exactly the same as if you had gone directly to the Amazon website.

Embedded content from other websites

Articles on this Website 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 tracking your interaction with the embedded content if you have an account and are logged in to that website.

Who we share your data with

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.

If you create a user profile on the Website or leave a comment, certain information may be publicly visible.

How long we retain your data

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.

What rights you have over your data

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

If you are subscribed to our newsletter, every email that we send you contains an unsubscribe link in the footer so that you can unsubscribe from all future emails.

If you have previously agreed to us using your personal information for direct marketing purposes, you may change your mind at any time by contacting us via email at.

We will not sell, distribute or lease your personal information to third parties unless we have your permission or are required by law to do so. We may use your personal information to send you promotional information about our Website or third parties which we think you may find interesting if you tell us that you wish this to happen.

Advertisements

Display Ads – we may use a third-party vendor to serve content and advertisements on our Website, which may use cookies, as noted above. The use of cookie enables it to serve ads to our users based on previous visits to our site and other sites on the Internet. We do not have control over cookies placed by advertisers. These vendors may collect non-personal data such as your browser type, your operating system, web pages visited, time of visits, content viewed, ads viewed, and other clickstream data. The use of cookies, web beacons, or similar technologies by these advertising service vendors is subject to their own privacy policies, not ours.

Retargeting Ads from time to time, we may engage in re-marketing efforts with third-party companies like 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. You can find out more about their usage of cookies by locating their privacy policy.

We occasionally get opportunities to work with companies in various ways, including, but not limited to, creating a recipe using a specific product, hosting a giveaway, and/or reviewing a product. A disclosure will be included within said sponsored post. Even when we are compensated, we will be honest in our opinions. We will only share products that we believe in and are a good fit for the Website and for the Website’s visitors. Any product claim, statistic, quote or other representation about a product or service should be verified with the manufacturer, provider or party in question.

Security

We are committed to ensuring that your information is secure. In order to prevent unauthorized access or disclosure, we have implemented procedures to safeguard and secure the information we collect on this Website.

Opt-Out

If you believe that any information we are holding on you is incorrect or incomplete, please contact us via our Website or send an email to [email protected].

Recipe Disclaimer

Some of my recipes may be adapted for my own use from other vegan bloggers.

Intellectual Property

This Website contains intellectual property owned by Megan Murphy d/b/a Boo Boo’s Bakery, including trademarks, copyrights, proprietary information, and other intellectual property. You may not modify, publish, transmit, participate in the transfer or sale of, create derivative works from, distribute, display, reproduce or perform, or in any way exploit in any format whatsoever any of this Website, content or intellectual property, in whole or in part, without our prior written consent.