Flipped-Out Food

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Disclosure and Privacy Policy

Disclosure

This statement serves as full disclosure of my partnership with brands as required by the FTC.

Flipped-Out Food, by Adeptify, LLC is a personal blog that is owned, photographed, written, edited, and published by me, Erin Michelle Frank (please call me “Michelle”!). This blog is completely based on my personal opinions and experiences. Unless stated otherwise, all content is my own. If, as in the case of a guest blog, the content is not my own, this information will be disclosed at the beginning of the post.

Like most food bloggers out there, I sometimes receive compensation for recipe development, product reviews, and affiliate links. If you click on an affiliate link on my site and buy a product or service, I will receive a small commission, which helps me cover the overhead of running this site, creating recipes, and bringing you great content. (Let me just say—if you do end up making a purchase through an affiliate link—that I really appreciate your support!)

I may also promote products through my various social media accounts (Twitter, Facebook, Instagram, Google+). Rest assured, though, that any compensation for these promotions will not influence my view of the product in any way: I will still give you my honest assessment. Please also know that I will only promote those products that I believe in and use myself, and that I think will be interesting to my readers. If I’m not a fan, you won’t see it promoted on Flipped-Out Food. But you might see a snarky review.

I am a participant in affiliate advertising programs designed to provide a means for this site to earn fees by linking to affiliated sites. My current affiliations are as follows:

  • Amazon.com:
    • As an Amazon Associate I earn from qualifying purchases.
  • Bluehost
  • Codeable
  • CJ Affliliates
  • Dexam
  • Food52
  • Food Blogger Pro (Pinch of Yum)
  • Mediavine
  • ShareASale
  • Social Pug/Grow by Mediavine
  • StudioPress
  • Tasty Food Photography (Pinch of Yum)
  • Thrive Market

Privacy

In order to operate better and provide our services to you, it is sometimes necessary for Flipped-Out Food to collect or process information about You. Generally speaking, this information will take one or more of the following forms:

Log files
FlippedOutFood.com uses log files, as do many websites: these include internet protocol (IP) addresses, the type of web browser used, the Internet Service Provider used (ISP), date/time stamp of visits, referring and exit pages, and the length of visits.

Why do this? It helps Flipped-Out Food analyze trends, continually improve the site, track users’ movement on Flipped-Out Food, and gather demographic information. All of this information helps Flipped-Out Food adapt content, layout, and navigation to improve the user experience for its visitors. Note: the IP address and other information gathered is not linked to any personally identifiable information.

How we use cookies

A cookie is a small file that requests permission to be placed on your computer’s hard drive. When you agree, the file is added and the cookie helps analyze web traffic (or it lets you know when you visit a particular site). Cookies let web applications respond to you individually by tailoring its operations to your needs, likes, and dislikes based on the information it has gathered and remembered regarding your preferences.
Flipped-Out Food uses traffic log cookies to see which pages are being used. This helps us analyze data about web page traffic and improve our website in order to tailor it to your (and other visitors’) needs. We only use this information for statistical analysis purposes; data is then removed from the system.

These cookies help us make Flipped-Out Food better by showing us which pages you find useful and which you do not (for example: if you leave a page immediately, that tells us the page wasn’t very useful, or something is wrong with it!). In no way do cookies give Flipped-Out Food access to your computer or any personal information about you (other than what you choose to share with us [e.g., your email address, if you’d like, when you comment on a post]). NOTE: Flipped-Out Food will never share your email address or any private information with anyone else without your express permission.

You may either accept or decline cookies. Most web browsers accept cookies by default, but it’s usually possible to modify your browser settings to decline cookies if you’d prefer; however, these changes may prevent you from taking full advantage of Flipped-Out Food.

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Cookie Policy for Flipped-Out Food
This is the Cookie Policy for Flipped-Out Food, accessible from https://www.flippedoutfood.com

What Are Cookies?

As is common practice with almost all professional websites, this site uses cookies, which are tiny files that are downloaded onto your computer to improve your experience. This page describes what information they gather, how we use it and why we sometimes need to store these cookies. We will also share how you can prevent these cookies from being stored; however, this may downgrade or ‘break’ certain elements of the site’s functionality.

For more general information on cookies see the Wikipedia article on HTTP Cookies.

How We Use Cookies

Flipped-Out Food uses cookies for a variety of reasons detailed below. Unfortunately, in most cases, there are no industry standard options for disabling cookies without completely disabling the functionality and features they add to this site. It is recommended that you leave on all cookies if you are not sure whether you need them or not in case they are used to provide a service that you use.

Disabling Cookies

You can prevent the setting of cookies by adjusting the settings on your browser (see your browser Help for how to do this). Be aware that disabling cookies will affect the functionality of this and many other websites that you visit. Disabling cookies will usually also result in disabling certain functionality and features of the this site. Therefore, it is recommended that you do not disable cookies.

The Cookies We Set

Email newsletters related cookies

This site offers newsletter or email subscription services: cookies may be used, for example, to remember if you are already registered, so that you don’t have to see annoying notifications that might only be relevant to unsubscribed users.

Forms related cookies

When you submit data to through a form such as those found on contact pages or comment forms, cookies may be set to remember your user details for future correspondence (however, in order to send you emails of any kind, you must opt-in to subscribe to our newsletter).

Third Party Cookies

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:

  1.  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.
  2. 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.
  3. Pulsepoint.  You may find Pulsepoint’s privacy policy through this link.
  4. 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/
  5. 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.
  6. District M.  You may find District M’s privacy policy through this link.
  7. 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.
  8. 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.
  9. Amazon Publisher Services.   You may find Amazon Publisher Services’ privacy policy through this link.
  10. AppNexus.   You may find the AppNexus privacy policy through this link.
  11. OpenX.  You may find OpenX’s privacy policy through this link.
  12. 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.
  13. 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.
  14. 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.
  15. Sovrn.  You may find Sovrn’s privacy policy through this link.
  16. 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.
  17. Digital Remedy.   You may find Digital Remedy’s privacy policy through this link.

More Information

Hopefully that has clarified things for you; as mentioned above, if you’re unsure, it’s usually safer to leave cookies enabled in case it does interact with one of the features you use on our site. This Cookies Policy was created with the help of the CookiePolicyGenerator.com to comply with the heightened data security standards being implemented under the General Data Protection Regulation in the EU.

However, if you are still looking for more information then you can contact us through one of our preferred contact methods:

By visiting this link: https://www.flippedoutfood.com/contact/

 

Google Analytics
Flipped-Out Food uses Google Analytics Demographics and Interest Reporting. You may use Googles Ad Settings page, if you’d like, to opt-out of Google Analytics for Display Advertising and to customize Google Display Network ads. If you wish, you can also use Google’s Opt-Out add-on to completely block Google Analytics tracking.
Flipped-Out Food will never share your email address or other private information with anyone without your permission. You must leave your email address if you leave a comment, but it will never be shared or displayed. That said, your comments are publicly displayed, so make sure not to include private information. If you choose to receive email updates from Flipped-Out Food, you may opt out from future mailings at any time.

Security
Flipped-Out Food is committed to ensuring the security of your information. To prevent unauthorized access or disclosure of this information, we have established appropriate procedures to safeguard and secure the information Flipped-Out Food collects from you online. Flipped-Out Food’s systems and services are designed with privacy in mind, and we operate according to a ‘data minimization’ principle wherever possible, meaning that we will only ever ask you for the minimum amount of information required to provide our services efficiently; we have no desire to retain (and therefore maintain) any more information than is necessary. We aspire to comply to the fullest extent possible with applicable data protection regulations, in particular the European Union’s General Data Protection Regulation (‘GDPR’) and ePrivacy Directive, where applicable.

Access to your data

In situations for which you have directly provided personal information to us (for example, by completing an online form or contacting us for further information), you have a number of rights regarding the personal data that we hold:

  • You have the right to obtain confirmation from us that any such data is being held;
  • You have the right to request that Flipped-Out Food provide you with whatever data we are holding/processing about you, including the right for that data to be transferred to another data controller;
  • You have the right, at any time, to withdraw the permission you granted Flipped-Out Food to use your personal data as described above;
  • You have the right to request that Flipped-Out Food rectify any incomplete or incorrect information held about you;
  • You have the right to require Flipped-Out Food to erase any data held about you (the ‘right to be forgotten’);

For situation in which Flipped-Out Food collects personal data automatically (such as from your internet browser or via internet Cookies or other similar technologies):

  • You have the right to object to the legal basis upon which we are collecting this data, and Flipped-Out Food has the obligation to consider and respond to that objection;
  • You have the right to request the prevention of further processing of your data while your objection is considered;
  • You have the right to make a complaint to the relevant data protection authority (which, in the US, is the Federal Trade Commission)
  • In most circumstances, you can exercise these rights without paying a fee to us.

Who we are

In terms of your use of this website, We, Flipped-Out Food, act in the capacity of Data Controller, and should you have any questions or concerns about the data we hold about you, we can be contacted using the information below:

Data Controller: Flipped-Out Food

Email correspondence: flippedoutfood@gmail.com. Or use our contact form.

All information on Flipped-Out Food, including text, recipes, photographs, and all other content is copyrighted and registered with copyrighted.com. Unauthorized use and/or duplication of this material without my express, written permission is strictly forbidden. That being said, you may certainly feature content (for example, by linking to a recipe) on your site. To do so, you must provide a direct link back to my original content here on Flipped-Out Food—you may not reproduce the content. I am also a big fan of including images on Twitter if you decide to tweet my content to your followers: again, please link directly back to my original content and include @FlippedOutFood in your tweet (and THANK YOU! After all, caring is sharing).

If you have questions, please use Flipped-Out Food’s Contact Form to be sure that you’re following all copyright requirements and site policies.