This Privacy Policy describes how Balanced Treats collects, uses, and discloses your information when you visit and use our website, located at balancedtreats.net, and interact with our content across various social media platforms.
By using the Site, you agree to the collection and use of information in accordance with this policy.
1. Information We Collect
We collect several different types of information for various purposes to provide and improve our service to you.
A. Personal Data
While using our Site, we may ask you to provide us with certain personally identifiable information that can be used to contact or identify you (“Personal Data”). This may include, but is not limited to:
- Email Address: Collected when you subscribe to our newsletter, leave a comment, or contact us via a form.
- Name: Collected when you leave a comment or contact us via a form.
- Profile Picture (Gravatar): If you use a Gravatar-enabled email address when commenting.
B. Usage Data
We may also collect information that your browser sends whenever you visit our Site or when you access the Site by or through a mobile device (“Usage Data”). This Usage Data may include information such as:
- Your computer’s Internet Protocol address (IP address)
- Browser type and version
- The pages of our Site that you visit
- The time and date of your visit
- The time spent on those pages
- Unique device identifiers and other diagnostic data.
C. Tracking & Cookies Data
We use cookies and similar tracking technologies to track the activity on our Site and hold certain information.
Third-party cookies: These may be placed by third-party services like Google Analytics, social media sharing buttons, and embedded content (e.g., YouTube videos).
2. How We Use Your Data
Balanced Treats uses the collected data for various purposes:
- To provide and maintain the Site, including displaying recipes and content.
- To notify you about changes to our Site or services.
- To allow you to participate in interactive features of our Site when you choose to do so (e.g., commenting).
- To provide customer support.
- To send you newsletters, updates, and marketing materials (if you have opted in).
- To monitor the usage of the Site and improve content based on user interest (using analytics).
3. Commenting on Balanced Treats (WordPress Specific)
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.
- If you leave a comment, the comment and its metadata are retained indefinitely so we can recognize and approve any follow-up comments automatically instead of holding them in a moderation queue.
4. Embedded Content from Other Websites
Articles on this Site may include embedded content (e.g., videos, images, articles, social media feeds, 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.
5. Disclosure of Data
We may disclose your Personal Data in the good faith belief that such action is necessary to:
- Comply with a legal obligation (e.g., a court order).
- Protect and defend the rights or property of Balanced Treats.
- Prevent or investigate possible wrongdoing in connection with the Site.
- Protect the personal safety of users of the Site or the public.
- Protect against legal liability.
6. Security of Data
The security of your data is important to us, but remember that no method of transmission over the Internet or method of electronic storage is 100% secure. While we strive to use commercially acceptable means to protect your Personal Data, we cannot guarantee its absolute security.
7. Your Data Protection Rights
Depending on your location, you may have the right to:
- Access: Request copies of your Personal Data.
- Rectification: Request that we correct any information you believe is inaccurate or complete information you believe is incomplete.
- Erasure: Request that we erase your Personal Data, under certain conditions.
- Object to Processing: Object to our processing of your Personal Data, under certain conditions.
If you make a request, we have one month to respond to you. Please contact us using the details below if you would like to exercise any of these rights.
8. Changes to This Privacy Policy
We may update our Privacy Policy from time to time. We will notify you of any changes by posting the new Privacy Policy on this page and updating the “Effective Date” at the top of this Privacy Policy.
You are advised to review this Privacy Policy periodically for any changes. Changes to this Privacy Policy are effective when they are posted on this page.
9. Contact Us
If you have any questions about this Privacy Policy, please contact us:
By visiting this page on our website: https://balancedtreats.net/contact/
By email: thebalancedtreats@gmail.com
