At Smells Like Delish the privacy of our visitors is of extreme importance to us. We are committed to protecting your privacy. This privacy policy document outlines the types of personal information that is received and collected by Smells Like Delish, and how it is used and protected.
Should we ask you to provide certain information by which you can be identified when using this Website, then you can be assured that it will only be used in accordance with this privacy statement.
Smells Like Delish may change this policy from time to time by updating this page. You should check this page from time to time to ensure that you are happy with any changes.
What we collect and what we do with the information we gather.
We may collect the following information:
- contact information including email address and name.
- demographic information such as post-code, preferences, and interests
- other information relevant to customer surveys and/or offers
This information can get collected in various forms. For example, you may voluntarily submit information by leaving a comment, subscribing to a newsletter, or submitting a contact form.
Some of the information is collected from other sources outside of this Website. You may link your social media accounts such as Facebook, Instagram, Pinterest, and/or Google accounts to your user profile. If you choose to link your any such accounts, we will receive your name, email address, profile picture and other information associated with that account.
Some information is automatically collected when you access our Website. For example, when you use our Website, we will log your IP address, browser type, referring Website, operating system type, pages you viewed, the dates and times when you accessed the Website. We may also collect information about actions you take when using our Website, such as how long you stay on a page and what links you click.
Cookies:
A cookie is a small file which asks permission to be placed on your computer’s hard drive. Once you agree, the file is added and the cookie helps analyze web traffic or lets you know when you visit a particular site. Cookies allow web applications to respond to you as an individual. The web application can tailor its operations to your needs, likes, and dislikes by gathering and remembering information about your preferences.
We may use some cookies which expire when you close your browser and others that stay in your browser until deleted.
We use traffic log cookies to identify which pages are being used. This helps us analyze data about web page traffic and improve our Website in order to tailor it to customer needs
Cookies may also be used by third-party services, such as Google Analytics.
Overall, cookies help us provide you with a better Website, by enabling us to monitor which pages you find useful and which you do not. A cookie in no way gives us access to your computer or any information about you, other than the data you choose to share with us.
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.
We may use the information collected in the following ways:
- To operate and maintain the Website;
- To create your account, identify you as a user of the Website, and customize the Website for your account.
- To send you emails for promotional information, such as newsletters, administrative communication, updates, technical notices and security alerts. Each email promotion will provide information on how to opt-out of future mailings.
- To respond to your comments or inquiries.
- To provide you with user support and customer service.
- To track and measure advertising on the Website;
- To protect, investigate, and deter against any unauthorized or illegal activity.
Third-Party Use of Personal Information
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 third parties which we think you may find interesting if you tell us that you wish this to happen.
Additionally, the Website may use third-party service providers to service various aspects of the Website. Each third-party service provider’s use of your personal information is dictated by their respective privacy policies.
The Website currently uses the following third-party service providers:
Google Analytics – this service tracks and reports the traffic on our Website. It gives information about user traffic and referrals. Google Analytics may capture your IP address.
MailOptin – MailOptin is a marketing and email platform. Our Website also uses Mail Chimp to deliver emails, newsletters, and promotional information. Through this service, we store your name and email address. Please refer to MailOptin’s and Mail Chimp's privacy policy for further information.
Except when required by law, we will not distribute, sell, or reveal your email addresses or other personal information without your consent. We may, however, disclose or transfer personal information collected through our Website to third parties who acquire all or a portion of our business. This could happen if there is a merger, consolidation, or purchase of all or a portion of our assets, or in the event of a bankruptcy or reorganization proceeding brought by or against us.
Anonymous Data
Occasionally, we may use anonymous data collected from cookies and analytics. This anonymous data may be given to other parties for uses such as advertising and marketing.
Publicly Visible Information
If you leave a comment on our Website, that comment and other information such as links, and avatars may be publicly visible. If you choose to link your social media accounts, those links will be publicly visible. This Website will not make your email address visible to the public.
Advertising
Display Ads
We use third-party advertising companies to serve content and advertisements when you visit the Website. These companies may use cookies.
Retargeting Ads
We may also use third-party companies, such as Google, Facebook, Pinterest, or Instagram, to market our Website. These companies also use cookies to serve ads.
Affiliate Program Participation
Our Website occasionally engages in affiliate marketing. This is done by using tracking links on our Website. If you click on an affiliate link, a cookie will be placed on your browser to track any sales for purposes of commissions.
Smells Like Delish is a participant in the Amazon Services LLC Associates Program, an affiliate advertising program designed to provide a means for us to earn advertising fees by linking to Amazon.com and affiliated sites. As part of this Amazon Associates program, this Website will post customized links, provided by Amazon, to track the referrals to their Website. This program utilizes cookies to track visits for the purposes of assigning commission on these sales. As an Amazon Associate, we earn from qualifying purchases.
Newsletters
Our Website has a newsletter that you may subscribe to voluntarily. Our newsletter may be used for advertising and may contain tracking pixels that help analyze marketing campaigns. The tracking pixels allow us to see when you open an email and what links you click within the email.
Rights Related to your Personal Information
If you believe that any information we are holding on you is incorrect or incomplete, please contact us at [email protected]. You may also amend or access any of your personal information we have on you by contacting us at [email protected].
If you would like us to erase or forget any personal information we have on you, please contact us at [email protected]
You may opt-out of future email communication by following the unsubscribe link in our emails.
Please note that we may need to retain certain information for record-keeping purposes or to complete transactions, or when required by law.
Sensitive Personal Information
You should never submit sensitive personal information to our Website. This includes your social security number, information regarding race or ethnic origin, political opinions, religious beliefs, health information, criminal background, or trade union memberships. We will never ask you for any of this information. If you choose to give us such information, it will be subject to this Privacy Policy.
Children's Information
Our Website does not knowingly collect any personally identifiable information from children under the age of 16. If a parent or guardian believes that our Website has personally identifiable information of a child under the age of 16 in its database, please contact us at [email protected]. We will make our best effort to remove such information from our records.
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.