WHO WE ARE:
The Rustic Foodie® | Owned and Operated by Christine Rooney
Our website address is: https://www.therusticfoodie.com.
WHAT PERSONAL DATA WE COLLECT AND WHY WE COLLECT IT:
If you sign up for our newsletter by email, your email address will be collected by ConvertKit and stored on ConvertKit's servers for the sole purpose of sending out recipes by email and other relevant content. The data will only be kept as long as you subscribe to this service. I won’t share your data with any other third parties than those used to provide this service and you can unsubscribe at any time.
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.
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.
CONTACT FORMS:
If you contact me with a question or comment, your email address and any other information you submit will be used solely in order to reply to your query and kept as long as is necessary to resolve your query or deal with any other requests you make.
COOKIES:
If you leave a comment on our site 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.
If you have an account and you log in to this site, we will set a temporary cookie to determine if your browser accepts cookies. This cookie contains no personal data and is discarded when you close your browser.
When you log in, we will also set up several cookies to save your login information and your screen display choices. Login cookies last for two days, and screen options cookies last for a year. If you select “Remember Me”, your login will persist for two weeks. If you log out of your account, the login cookies will be removed.
If you edit or publish an article, an additional cookie will be saved in your browser. This cookie includes no personal data and simply indicates the post ID of the article you just edited. It expires after 1 day.
EMBEDDED CONTENT FROM OTHER 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.
ANALYTICS:
Analytics for this website are tracked with Google Analytics, which tracks aggregated data. Any data associated with user identifiers such as cookies will be retained for no more than 14 months. All tracking is done using anonymised IP addresses, however should you wish to block tracking via google analytics you can install this browser add on: https://tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout.
Read Google Analytic’s Privacy Policy here: https://policies.google.com/privacy?hl=en-GB
WHO WE SHARE YOUR DATA WITH:
Data is only ever shared with third parties for the sole purpose of administering the relevant service.
If you comment on my blog, your data will be shared with Automattic who produce the Vaultpress back-up plugin and Akismet spam detection plugin I use.
If you subscribe to The Rustic Foodie newsletter your email address will be shared with ConvertKit.
Browsing analytics about your visit are shared with Google.
Privacy policies of the relevant organisations are referenced in the hyperlinks above.
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.
Data submitted via our content form will be retained for as long as necessary and if you subscribe to our mailing list your details will be kept only as long as you subscribe.
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.
WHERE WE SEND YOUR DATA:
Visitor comments may be checked through Akismet – An automated spam detection service.
YOUR CONTACT INFORMATION:
For privacy-related concerns related to The Rustic Foodie please contact Christine Rooney: [email protected]
ADDITIONAL INFORMATION:
The Rustic Foodie is committed to protecting the personal data of all global visitors to this website. We believe all companies should act in a moral and ethical manner regarding visitors’ information and that process should be transparent.
The Rustic Foodie uses very limited personal data. This data is necessary and mandatory for running our website (see details below). On the other hand, we use general anonymous data to improve our content, our website and to serve you better.
We keep your personal information personal and private. We do not sell, rent, share or disclose your personal information to anyone except as necessary to provide our services as described in this Privacy Policy.
You must give explicit consent for us to store and process your personal data. We achieve this by notifying you about our use of Cookies (that store and collect data) before you enter our site. By clicking accept and continuing to use our website you consent to our use of Cookies.
HOW WE PROTECT YOUR DATA:
We take reasonable and appropriate measures to protect personal information. The Rustic Foodie and all of the third-party applications we use require a username and password to log in. This login information is never shared. Data is anonymised if not essential to our operations. We only collect the information we need.
In the event of a security breach, The Rustic Foodie will notify you as soon as possible and report the actions taken in response.
You have the right to access any Personal Information we hold about you, with no charge. Please allow us 30 days to formulate this report, as this will be done manually for you on request.
You have the right to request your personal data to be deleted or “forgotten”.
YOUR INFORMATION: WHAT PERSONAL DATA WE COLLECT AND WHY
The Rustic Foodie only processes personal information in a way that is compatible with and relevant for the purpose for which it was collected or authorized. We may use the information we collect to:
· Provide, operate, maintain and improve The Rustic Foodie website
· Send marketing messages depending on your communication preferences
· Monitor and analyse website trends, usage and activities to optimize the user experience
· Personalize the website by publishing content that meets your interests and preferences
· Comply with legal obligations
Website Hosting:
BigScoots
Purpose: The company and servers that host the database of our website
Personal Data: May collect and share encrypted personal information on our site visitors only to comply with legal processes (e.g. court orders, subpoena, law enforcement, regulation authorities).
Stored indefinitely to our knowledge.
WordPress (Automattic)
Purpose: Content Management System that helps us build the front-end of our website.
Personal Data: WordPress uses Cookies. You may opt to share personal data such as your name, email address and personal communications when you leave a comment on The Rustic Foodie.
This data is stored indefinitely.
Vaultpress by Automattic
Purpose: Plugin that saves a backup of our database
Personal Data: Will store any personal data that you opted to share with WordPress, locally on our own WordPress site. The Rustic Foodie does not store our backups off-site with a third party.
Backup files are purged every 6 months.
WEBSITE ANALYTICS:
We use the following 3rd party applications and plugins to analyse aggregate website data. This enables us to optimise the function of our website for visitors, improve our content, and serve you better:
Google analytics:
Purpose: Collects and analyses website data
Personal Data: Uses cookies with consent to collect general data. No personal data is collected. Your IP address is anonymized prior to collection.
All data is purged by Google Analytics every 14 months.
PLAUSIBLE ANALYTICS
SOCIAL MEDIA MANAGEMENT:
We use the following 3rd party applications and plugins to integrate social sharing on our website and enhance the visitor experience:
ConvertKit:
Purpose: Our email database manager
Personal Data: Your email address, IP address, geolocation, name if supplied, an avatar if you’re a Gravatar user, general location. “Pixels” or “Web Beacons” are used to track email performance and collate email campaign reports.
Data is stored in the US by ConvertKit indefinitely.
Pinterest “Pin It” Button
Purpose: Lets visitors pin our content to Pinterest with ease
Data: Uses cookies to allow you to login to your Pinterest account and “Pin” an image.
Data is stored by Pinterest indefinitely.
DISCLOSURE OF PERSONAL INFORMATION:
We may have to disclose personal information to comply with legal requirements, such as court orders, subpoenas, public authorities and issues of national security.
The Rustic Foodie includes links to external websites, including affiliate links, whose privacy policies may be different from ours. If you submit Personal Data to any of those sites, your information is governed by their privacy policies.
DATA AGGREGATION:
We may compile anonymous visitor data to determine website statistics. The statistics from the anonymised data may be shared with blog networks, ad networks, affiliate networks, PR Agencies or brands. This data helps The Rustic Foodie secure funding, advertising and income to run this website and continue to deliver content to our visitors. No personal identifying information is shared at any time.
Advertising:
Display Ads:
We use third-party advertising companies to serve content/ads when you visit this site. These companies may use cookies, however no personal information is shared by this website and the advertising companies.
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.
Mediavine Programmatic Advertising
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 first and third-party cookies. A cookie is a small text file which is sent to your computer or mobile device (referred to in this policy as a “device”) by the web server so that a website can remember some information about your browsing activity on the Website. The cookie may collect information relating to your use of the Website, information about your device such as the device’s IP address and browser type, demographic data and, if you arrived at the Website via a link from a third-party site, the URL of the linking page.
First party cookies are created by the website that you are visiting. A third-party cookie is frequently used in behavioral advertising and analytics and is created by a domain other than the website you are visiting. Third-party cookies, tags, pixels, beacons and other similar technologies (collectively, “Tags”) may be placed on the Website to monitor interaction with advertising content and to target and optimize advertising. Each internet browser has functionality so that you can block both first and third-party cookies and clear your browser’s cache. The "help" feature of the menu bar on most browsers will tell you how to stop accepting new cookies, how to receive notification of new cookies, how to disable existing cookies and how to clear your browser’s cache. For more information about cookies and how to disable them, you can consult the information at www.allaboutcookies.org/manage-cookies/.
Without cookies you may not be able to take full advantage of the Website content and features. Please note that rejecting cookies does not mean that you will no longer see ads when you visit our Site.
The Website may collect IP addresses and location information to serve personalized ads and pass it to Mediavine. 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. You may also visit http://optout.aboutads.info/#/ and http://optout.networkadvertising.org/# to learn more information about interest-based advertising. You may download the AppChoices app at http://www.aboutads.info/appchoices to opt out in connection with mobile apps, or use the platform controls on your mobile device to opt out.
Mediavine partners with the following data processors:
- Pubmatic. You may find Pubmatic’s privacy policy through this link. The data collected on the Website may be transferred to Pubmatic and its demand partners for interest-based advertising. Statistical information and other non-cookie technologies (such as eTags and web or browser cache) may be used by third parties on this Website. Browser settings that block cookies may have no effect on these technologies, but you may clear your cache to delete such trackers. Data collected from a particular browser or device may be used with another computer or device that is linked to the browser or device on which such data was collected.
- Criteo. You may find Criteo’s privacy policy through this link. The data collected on the Website may be transferred to Criteo and its demand partners for interest-based advertising. Criteo may collect, access, and use non-identifying data to improve the Criteo Technology and other Criteo products, programs, and/or services. This non-identifying data may include on-site user behavior and user/page content data, URLs, statistics, or internal search queries. The non-identifying data are collected through the ad call and stored with a Criteo cookie for a maximum period of 13 months.
- Pulsepoint. You may find Pulsepoint’s privacy policy through this link.
- LiveRamp. You may find LiveRamp’s privacy policy through this link. When you use the Website, we share information that we may collect from you, such as your email (in hashed, de-identified form), IP address or information about your browser or operating system, with LiveRamp Inc, and its group companies (‘LiveRamp’). LiveRamp may use a cookie on your browser and match your shared information to their on- and offline marketing databases and those of its advertising partners to create a link between your browser and information in those other databases. This link may be shared by our partners globally for the purpose of enabling interest-based content or advertising throughout your online experience (e.g. cross device, web, email, in-app, etc.) by third parties unaffiliated with our website. These third parties may in turn link further demographic or interest-based information to your browser. To opt out of LiveRamp’s targeted advertising, please go here: https://liveramp.com/opt_out/
- RhythmOne. You may view RhythmOne’s privacy policy through this link. RhythmOne uses cookies and similar tracking technologies (such as mobile device identifiers and digital fingerprinting) to provide its services. RhythmOne may use aggregated information (not including your name, address, email address or telephone number) about your visits to this and other Websites in order to provide advertisements about goods and services of interest to you. If you would like more information about this practice and to know your choices about not having this information used by these companies, please visit the following webpage: http://www.networkadvertising.org/managing/opt_out.asp.
- District M. You may find District M’s privacy policy through this link.
- YieldMo. You may find YieldMo’s privacy policy through this link. If you want to opt out of receiving interest based ads from Yieldmo or exercise your right under the California Consumer Privacy Act (“CCPA”) to opt-out of the sale of your personal information, you may do so through this link.
- The Rubicon Project. You may find Rubicon’s privacy policy through this link. If you want to opt out of receiving interest based ads from Rubicon or exercise your right under the California Consumer Privacy Act (“CCPA”) to opt-out of the sale of your personal information, you may do so through this link. You may also utilize the Network Advertising Initiative’s opt-out page, the Digital Advertising Alliance’s opt-out page, or the European Interactive Digital Advertising Alliance’s opt-out page.
- Amazon Publisher Services. You may find Amazon Publisher Services’ privacy policy through this link.
- AppNexus. You may find the AppNexus privacy policy through this link.
- OpenX. You may find OpenX’s privacy policy through this link.
- Verizon Media formerly known as Oath. You may find Verizon Media’s privacy policy through this link. You may also utilize the Network Advertising Initiative’s opt-out page, the Digital Advertising Alliance’s opt-out page, or the European Interactive Digital Advertising Alliance’s opt-out page to opt-out of the use of cookies for interest-based advertising.
- TripleLift. You may find TripleLift’s privacy policy through this link. To opt out of receiving interest-based advertising (including retargeting) from TripleLift’s services through the use of cookies in your current browser and for more information on what it means to opt-out, please go to www.triplelift.com/consumer-opt-out.
- Index Exchange. You may find Index Exchange’s privacy policy through this link. You may also utilize the Network Advertising Initiative’s opt-out page, the Digital Advertising Alliance’s opt-out page, or the European Interactive Digital Advertising Alliance’s opt-out page to opt-out of the use of cookies for interest-based advertising.
- Sovrn. You may find Sovrn’s privacy policy through this link.
- GumGum. You may find GumGum’s privacy policy through this link. GumGum may (i) use place and use cookies on end users’ browsers or use web beacons to collect information about end users who visit such Publisher Websites and (ii) link such collected end user information to other end user information provided by third parties in order to deliver targeted Advertisements to such end users.
- Digital Remedy. You may find Digital Remedy’s privacy policy through this link.
- MediaGrid. You may find MediaGrid’s privacy policy through this link. MediaGrid may collect and store information about end-user interactions with this website through cookies, advertising IDS, pixels and server-to-server connections. MediaGrid was receive the following information: the page an End-User has requested and the referring/exit pages; Timestamp information (i.e., the date and time the End-User has visited the page); IP address; mobile device identifier; device model; device operating system; browser type; carrier; gender; age; geolocation (including GPS coordinates); clickstream data; cookie information; first-party identifiers'; and hashed email addresses; demographic and inferred interest information; and post-conversion data (from both online and offline behaviour). Some of this data is gathered from this website and others is gathered from advertisers. MediaGrid uses this data to provide its services. You may also utilize the Network Advertising Initiative’s opt-out page, the Digital Advertising Alliance’s opt-out page, or the European Interactive Digital Advertising Alliance’s opt-out page to opt-out of the use of cookies for interest-based advertising or review their privacy policy for more information.
- RevContent - You may find RevContent’s privacy policy through this link. RevContent may collect information about your browser or device, including browser type, IP Address, device type, user agent string, and operating system. RevContent also collects information about the websites you visit through their services, such as date and time of access and specific pages accessed and the content and ads you click on. You may opt-out of any personalization track by opting-out of RevContent’s data collection.
- Centro, Inc. - You may find Centro’s privacy policy through this link. You may find opt-out information for Centro’s services through the privacy policy link.
- 33Across, Inc. - You may find 33Across’s privacy policy through this link. To opt-out of personalized advertising, please visit https://optout.networkadvertising.org/?c=1.
- Conversant. LLC - You may find Conversant’s privacy policy through this link. Conversant uses information that does not directly identify you, such as information about your browser type, time and date of visit, your browsing or transaction activity, the subject of advertisements clicked or scrolled over, and a unique identifier (such as a cookie string, or a unique advertising identifier provided by your mobile device) during your visits to this and other websites and apps in order to provide advertisements about goods and services likely to be of greater interest to you. Conversant may use technologies such as cookies and other tracking technologies to collect this information. To learn more about interest-based advertising, or to opt-out, you can visit www.youronlinechoices.eu or https://www.networkadvertising.org/.
Retargeting Ads:
This website may engage in targeting efforts with third-party companies (eg. Google, Facebook, Instagram) to market this website. These companies use cookies to serve ads based on your past visits to the website.
Sponsored Content:
The Rustic Foodie engages in sponsored campaigns with various influencer brands, networks and agencies. This content is disclosed in accordance with the FTC’s requirements. These sponsored campaigns utilize tracking pixels (beacons) which may contain cookies to collect data to track usage and audience. This information is collected by the companies, and no personal information is collected by this website in conjunction with these tracking pixels.
The Rustic Foodie works with the following Influencer Networks:
Linqia, Ahalogy, Social Fabric by Collective Bias
Affiliate Participation:
The Rustic Foodie engages in affiliate marketing. Tracking links are embedded in this website. If you click on an embedded link for an affiliate partnership, a cookie will be placed on your browser. This allows the company to track sales for the purposes of commissions on the sales.
AFFILIATE LINK PRIVACY POLICY:
NEVER submit sensitive information on this website. This would include information like social security number, social insurance number, race/ethnic origin, political opinions, religious beliefs, health information, or ANYTHING that you do not want people to have access too. If you choose to submit this type of information, it will be subject to the Privacy Policy on this website.
Regarding Children and Minors:
If you are under the age of 18 (or the age of majority in your jurisdiction/country) you may use our websites only with the consent of a parent or guardian. We ask minors (people under the age of 18 or under the age of majority in their jurisdiction/country) not to send any personal information to our website without the consent of a parent(s) or guardian(s). Parent(s) and guardian(s) are fully responsible to instruct their children in the safe and responsible use of personal information on the Internet.
This site does not KNOWINGLY collect personal, identifiable information from anyone under the age of 16. Please contact christine@therusticfoodie if you feel we need to remove any information from our records.
CALIFORNIA PRIVACY RIGHTS
California Civil Code Section 1798.83, also known as the “Shine The Light” law, permits our users who are California residents to request and obtain from us, once a year and free of charge, information about categories of personal information (if any) we disclosed to third parties for direct marketing purposes and the names and addresses of all third parties with which we shared personal information in the immediately preceding calendar year. If you are a California resident and would like to make such a request, please submit your request in writing to us using the contact information provided below.
If you are under 18 years of age, reside in California, and have provided your personal information with the Site, you have the right to request removal of unwanted data that you publicly post on the Site. To request removal of such data, please contact us using the contact information provided below, and include sufficient detail about the public post(s) and a statement that you reside in California. We will make sure the data is not publicly displayed on the Site, but please be aware that the data may not be completely or comprehensively removed from our systems, nor can we guarantee any cached or archived version of the site will remove such data.
CONTACT: [email protected]
This Privacy Policy was updated May 10, 2022.
Mediavine Programmatic Advertising (Ver 1.1)
The Website works with Mediavine to manage third-party interest-based advertising appearing on the Website. Mediavine serves content and advertisements when you visit the Website, which may use first and third-party cookies. A cookie is a small text file which is sent to your computer or mobile device (referred to in this policy as a “device”) by the web server so that a website can remember some information about your browsing activity on the Website.
First party cookies are created by the website that you are visiting. A third-party cookie is frequently used in behavioral advertising and analytics and is created by a domain other than the website you are visiting. Third-party cookies, tags, pixels, beacons and other similar technologies (collectively, “Tags”) may be placed on the Website to monitor interaction with advertising content and to target and optimize advertising. Each internet browser has functionality so that you can block both first and third-party cookies and clear your browser’s cache. The "help" feature of the menu bar on most browsers will tell you how to stop accepting new cookies, how to receive notification of new cookies, how to disable existing cookies and how to clear your browser’s cache. For more information about cookies and how to disable them, you can consult the information at All About Cookies.
Without cookies you may not be able to take full advantage of the Website content and features. Please note that rejecting cookies does not mean that you will no longer see ads when you visit our Site. In the event you opt-out, you will still see non-personalized advertisements on the Website.
The Website collects the following data using a cookie when serving personalized ads:
- IP Address
- Operating System type
- Operating System version
- Device Type
- Language of the website
- Web browser type
- Email (in hashed form)
Mediavine Partners (companies listed below with whom Mediavine shares data) may also use this data to link to other end user information the partner has independently collected to deliver targeted advertisements. Mediavine Partners may also separately collect data about end users from other sources, such as advertising IDs or pixels, and link that data to data collected from Mediavine publishers in order to provide interest-based advertising across your online experience, including devices, browsers and apps. This data includes usage data, cookie information, device information, information about interactions between users and advertisements and websites, geolocation data, traffic data, and information about a visitor’s referral source to a particular website. Mediavine Partners may also create unique IDs to create audience segments, which are used to provide targeted advertising.
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 National Advertising Initiative opt out page. You may also visit Digital Advertising Alliance website and Network Advertising Initiative website to learn more information about interest-based advertising. You may download the AppChoices app at Digital Advertising Alliance’s AppChoices app to opt out in connection with mobile apps, or use the platform controls on your mobile device to opt out.