A Canadian Foodie Privacy Policy
A Canadian Foodie found at https://www.acanadianfoodie.com/ (“Website”) is governed by the following privacy policy (“Privacy Policy”).
What personal data we collect and why we collect it
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.
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.
Contact forms
When you contact us via the Contact page, we will collect your name and address for the sole purposes of responding to your message. Your data is not stored by or shared with a third-party plugin, rather it’s stored in the Website database.
Cookies
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 that you do not have to fill in your details again when you leave another comment. These cookies will last for one year.
Embedded content from other websites
Articles on the 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 tracing your interaction with the embedded content if you have an account and are logged in to that website.
Analytics
This Website uses Google Analytics to track Website usage and provides information such as referring websites and user actions on the Website. Google Analytics may capture your IP address.
MailChimp
This service is currently used for delivery of email updates from the Website. We store your name and email address for purposes of delivering these updates. Please refer to the Mail Chimp Privacy Policy for further information here: https://mailchimp.com/legal/privacy/
This list may be amended from time to time at the Website’s sole discretion.
Advertising
Display Ads
The Website uses Mediavine to manage all third-party advertising on the Website. Mediavine serves content and advertisements when you visit the Website, which may use cookies. Mediavine may collect IP addresses and location to serve personalized ads. If you would like more information about this practice and to know your choices to opt-in or opt-out of this data collection, please visit http://www.networkadvertising.org/managing/opt_out.asp.
Retargeting Ads
From time to time, the Website may use third-party companies, such as Google, Facebook, or Instagram, in order to advertise the Website. These companies use cookies to serve ads based on someone’s past visits to the Website.
Affiliate Program Participation
The Website engages in affiliate marketing, which is done by embedding tracking links into the Website. This means that if you click on an affiliate link (recommended product etc…) a cookie will be placed on your browser to track any sales for purposes of commissions on these sales.
The Website 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 sites (Canada, UK, France, Italy, Germany and Japan). As part of this Amazon Associates program, the Website will post customized links, provided by Amazon, to track referrals.
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.
For users that register on our website (if any), we also store the personal information they provide in their user profile. All users can see, edit, or delete their personal information at any time (except they cannot change their username). Website administrators can also see and edit that information.
What rights you have over your data
If you have an account on this site 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.
Please contact Valerie@acanadianfoodie.com to access/ amend/ update or remove any personal data stored on this Website.
You may opt-out of future email updates by following the unsubscribe links at the bottom of our emails.
Where we send your data
Visitor comments may be checked through an automated spam detection service.
Your contact information
Please contact Valerie@acanadianfoodie.com with questions regarding this Privacy Policy.
Additional information
How we protect your data
This is a secure site. HTTPS. Stands for “HyperText Transport Protocol Secure.” HTTPS is the same thing as HTTP, but uses a secure socket layer (SSL) for security purposes. … Therefore, secure websites use the HTTPS protocol to encrypt the data being sent back and forth with SSL encryption. Encryption prevents the easy collection and analysis of web traffic.
Last Updated May 30, 2018