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What’s Cooking America – Privacy Policy

What’s Cooking America is committed to maintaining the privacy and protection of your personal information. This privacy policy tells you about the information we collect on our website and how we use that information.

We care about protecting the privacy of children. We will not knowingly allow anyone under 16 to provide us any personally identifying information. Children should always get permission from their parents before sending any information about themselves (such as their names, email addresses, and phone numbers) over the Internet, to us or to anyone else. If you are under 16, please do not provide us with any personally identifying information (such as your name, your email address or your phone number).

Use of Cookies on What’s Cooking America:

What is a cookie?

A cookie is a small text file that is placed on your computer or mobile device to help ensure that you get the best possible experience when you visit a website. The following cookies can be found on our web site.

Web site Third Party Apps:

Yoast SEO“ A tool that helps make whatscookingamerica.com site as search engine-friendly as possible.

Newsletter Service: MailChimp

Privacy Policy for Mailchimp

You have the right to be forgotten: If you would like your email removed from the newsletter mailing list please contact welcometowhatscookingamerica@gmail.com.

Google Analytics

Web Site Analytics Cookies

Anonymous Information: We use anonymous information to analyze our Site traffic, but we do not examine this information for individually identifying information. In addition, we may use anonymous IP addresses to help diagnose problems with our server, to administer our site, or to display the content according to your preferences. Traffic and transaction information may also be shared with business partners and advertisers on an aggregate and anonymous basis.

We use Google Analytics for the following purposes:

Tracking Information: Cookies to help us learn which areas of our site are useful and which areas need improvement.

Click Tracking: Gathers certain information automatically and stores it in log files. This information includes internet protocol (IP) addresses, browser type, internet service provider (ISP), referring/exit pages, operating system, date/time stamp, and clickstream data. We use this information to analyze trends, administer the site, track users movements around the site and gather demographic information about our user base as a whole. Except as noted herein, we do not link this automatically-collected data to personal information.

IP Addresses:Each user’s IP address is logged with each visit and each action performed on our web site. This information is never provided to the third parties, except as otherwise stated in this Privacy Policy, and is logged only for a temporary period of time. IP address information is linked to personal information and may be used in an effort to block a banned user from accessing the Site.

Google analytics data is stored indefinitely so that we can track the traffic of our web site.

Visiting our Website from outside the US

If you are visiting the Sites from outside the United States, please be aware that information we collect through the Sites will be transferred to and stored on our servers in the United States. By using this Sites, you acknowledge and consent to the transfer and processing of your personal data in the United States as described in this online privacy policy. Please be aware that the data protection laws and regulations applicable to your personal data transferred to the United States may be different from the laws in your country of residence. We will utilize appropriate safeguards governing the transfer and usage of your personal information. If you would like further detail on the safeguards we have in place, please contact using the information in the “How to contact us” section below.

California Privacy Rights

Subject to certain limits, under California law California residents may ask us to provide them with a list of the categories of personal information that we have disclosed to third parties for those third parties’ direct marketing purposes during the preceding calendar year, as well as the identity of those third parties. California residents may contact us as using the “How to contact us” section below to request this information.

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.

Children’s Online Privacy Protection Act Compliance:

We are in compliance with the requirements of COPPA (Children’s Online Privacy Protection Act), we do not knowingly collect any information from anyone under 13 years of age. Our website, products and services are all directed to people who are at least 13 years old or older. We care about protecting children’s privacy. We won’t knowingly allow anyone under 13 to provide personally identifying information. Children who are under 13 should not provide any information about themselves on the internet (including names, email addresses, and phone numbers).

Third Party Advertising:

We also use third party advertisements on What’s Cooking America to support our site. Some of these advertisers may use technology such as cookies and web beacons when they advertise on our site, which will also send these advertisers (such as Google through the Google AdSense program) information including your IP address, your ISP, the browser you used to visit our site, and in some cases, whether you have Flash installed.  This is generally used for geotargeting purposes in order to: help manage ad campaigns, understand user interests and trends and deliver personalized content and advertising to you while you are on the Site or on other sites. PLEASE NOTE THAT WE ARE NOT RESPONSIBLE OR LIABLE FOR THE ACTS AND/OR OMISSIONS OF THIRD PARTY VENDORS.

If you would like more information about this practice and to know your choices about not having this information used by these companies, please see: http://www.networkadvertising.org/managing/opt_out.asp  and/or 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.

Affiliate Program Participation

The Website may engage in affiliate marketing, which is done by embedding tracking links into the Website. If you click on a link for an affiliate partnership, a cookie will be placed on your browser to track any sales for purposes of commissions.

Our Affiliate Partners

Thermoworks

• https://www.thermoworks.com/privacy-policy/

Amazon Associates Program Disclosure

What’s Cooking America, Chehalem Publishing, LLC,  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.com. As part of this Amazon Associates program, the 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. If affiliate links are used in a post, it will be disclosed and can be identified by the use of green text.

Privacy Policy: https://www.amazon.com/gp/help/customer/display.html?ie=UTF8&nodeId=468496

Our Advertising partners:

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.

For specific information about Mediavine Partners, the data each collects and their data collection and privacy policies, please visit Mediavine Partners.

Freestar:

Privacy Policy/Opt Out Information: https://freestar.com/privacy-policy/.

Google AdSense:
Manage your AdSettings
Privacy Policy

RevContent
Privacy Policy: https://help.revcontent.com/knowledge/revcontent-privacy-policy.

Social Media:

Social Media Networks: When an individual interacts with our Services through various social media networks, such as when someone logs in through a social network, “Likes” us on Facebook, or follows us or shares our content on Google, Facebook, Instagram, Twitter, or other social networks, we may receive some information from those social networks including your profile information and any other information you permit the social network to share with third parties. We use this information to allow you to log into your account, to communicate or interact with individuals on the social network, to better understand the demographics of our visitors, and to personalize content and advertising.   Individuals should always review and, if necessary, adjust their privacy settings on third-party websites and social media networks and services before sharing information and/or linking or connecting them to other services.

Social Media Partners

Facebook

Instagram

Twitter

Yummly

Google+/Youtube

Pinterest

The important thing to remember about the use of cookies is; while some cookies are used to track your use of our website, they cannot be used to identify you personally or tell us who you are.

You can choose to disable or selectively turn off our cookies or third-party cookies in your browser settings, or by managing preferences in security programs. Users may opt out of the use of the DoubleClick cookie for interest-based advertising by visiting the ads preference manager. (Alternatively, you can direct users to opt out of a third-party vendor’s use of cookies for interest based advertising by visiting aboutads.info.)

To Learn more about cookies and how to adjust your browser settings: Visit www.aboutcookies.org or www.youronlinechoices.eu

How Your Information Will Be Used:

Personal Information: What’s Cooking America will not share your personal information with any third parties without your consent, except as necessary to provide you with the services offered by us or to comply with the law. We may also use your contact information to inform you of any changes to What’s Cooking America, or to send you additional information about What’s Cooking America. Information may also be shared with the above mentioned third party, advertising and social media partners as a normal function of our income producing business

Disclosure of Personal Information:We may disclose personal information if required to do so by law or in the good-faith belief that such action is necessary to (1) conform to the edicts of the law or comply with legal process served on What’s Cooking America., (2) protect and defend the rights or property of What’s Cooking America or the users of this site, or (3) act under circumstances to protect the safety of the public or users of this site.

Security: What’s Cooking America Recipes has security measures in place to prevent the loss, misuse, and alteration of the information that we obtain from you, but we make no assurances about our ability to prevent any such loss, misuse, to you or to any third party arising out of any such loss, misuse, or alteration. What’s Cooking America is a hosted on a secure connection through a valid security certificate (HTTPS). Your data will be kept secure (or our third-party apps will) and that if a data breach occurs, you will be notified within 72 hours of that breach.  If you are under the age of 16, you must receive parental affirmative consent for you to be on your site.

Third Party Websites: What’s Cooking America Recipes may contain links to other websites. If you choose to visit other websites, we are not responsible for the privacy practices or content of those other websites, and it is your responsibility to review the privacy policies at those websites to confirm that you understand and agree with their policies.

Updates and Changes: We reserve the right, at any time, to add to, change, update, or modify this privacy policy, simply by posting such change, update, or modification on What’s Cooking America and without any other notice to you. Any such change, update, or modification will be effective immediately upon posting on the site. It is your responsibility to review this privacy policy from time to time to ensure that you continue to agree with all of its terms.

Trademark and Copyright Notices:

You are welcome to like us on Facebook, Twitter, Pinterest Pin or Google+ share pages of this web site. You may also forward our emails to friends.

Unless otherwise noted, all content is developed by us and copyright 2023 What’s Cooking America doing business under our parent company as Chehalem Publishing, LLC.

Using our photos:

Please credit any photo you use with two links, one back to the direct recipe post and one back to whatscookingamerica.com.  All photos taken by What’s Cooking America are rights protected.  Failure to link back and credit our site as their source constitutes a copyright violation. Unless otherwise noted, all content and photography is © 2019 What’s Cooking America (doing business under our parent company of Chehalem Publishing, LLC)

For inquiries regarding the use, reproduction or purchase of photography seen here, please contact Nancy.

Disclosures and Disclaimers:

All posts will be made by What’s Cooking America or guest columnist and all opinions contained in any page or post are mine or our columnists unless explicitly stated otherwise.  All information is intended for your general knowledge only and is not a substitute for medical advice or treatment for specific medical conditions. You should seek prompt medical care for any specific health issues. In addition, What’s Cooking America does not accept any responsibility for injury sustained as a result of following the advice or tips offered throughout this blog.  Please consult a medical professional for any specific nutrition, diet advice.

Links From The Sites to Other Websites

The Sites may contain links to other websites that are controlled by third parties, as well as videos, advertisements, and other content served by third parties. Linked websites may have their own privacy notices or policies, which we strongly suggest you review. We are not responsible for the content, terms of use, privacy policies, or any other aspects of any websites, applications, or services that we do not own or control.

How to Contact Us:

What’s Cooking America
3916 NW Fall Creek Pl
Portland, OR 97229

Email: welcometowhatscookingamerica@gmail.com

This policy was last updated on March 30, 2023

 

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