Privacy Policy
This privacy policy informs the readers of prepareandserve.com how it uses and protects any information you provide while using prepareandserve.com.
Emails
Prepareandserve.com collects information directly from you, the reader when you subscribe. Email addresses are only provided to ConvertKit. I use ConvertKit as my marketing automation platform. ConvertKit processes any information they receive in accordance with their Privacy Policy and Terms.
When using this website, any information you provide that could identify you, (such as your email address), is only used in accordance with my privacy policy.
If you leave a comment on prepareandserve.com, that comment and other information such as links, and avatars will be publicly visible. If you link your social media accounts to the website, those links will be publicly visible. However, this website will not display your email address to the public.
For European Economic Area Residents
If you reside in a country in the European Economic Area (EEA), then under the GDPR and applicable data protection laws you have the rights, among other things, to access your personal data, have prepareandserve.com erase it, and/or restrict its further processing. Please contact [email protected], f you wish to access or delete your personal data (if any) maintained by ConvertKit.
If you are a resident of a country in the EEA, you have the rights, among others, to:
(i) access your personal data.
(ii) ensure the accuracy of your personal data.
(iii) the right to have me delete your personal data.
(iv) the right to restrict further processing of your personal data, and
(v) the right to complain to a supervisory authority in your country of residence in the event of misused data.
If you believe that the processing of your personal information infringes data protection laws, you have a legal right to lodge a complaint with a supervisory authority responsible for data protection. You may do so in the EU member state of your residence, your place of work or the place of the alleged infringement.
Analytics
Prepare & Serve uses Google Analytics and other tracking pixels to collect demographic and advertising information. None of this information is personally identifiable – it is completely anonymous. Prepare & Serve may share this information with third parties, primarily for advertising purposes.
If you would like to opt-out of providing information to Google Analytics, please use the Google Analytics Opt-Out Tool.
Prepare and Serve may change this policy from time to time by updating this page. Check back with this page periodically to ensure that any changes made are acceptable to you. Scroll down to see Terms and Conditions.
The Use of Cookies
Recipes for cookies appear in my blog, but this site also uses cookies!
What Are Cookies?
Cookies are tiny files that download to your computer to track particular aspects of your activity online. Cookies may be either “persistent” cookies or “session” cookies. The web browser stores a persistant cookie where it remains valid until its set expiry date, unless it deletion occurs before the expiry date. A session cookie expires at the end of the user session, when the web browser closes. Cookies do not typically contain any information that personally identifies a user, but personal information that prepareandserve.com stores about you, may be linked to the information stored in and obtained from cookies.
How are Cookies used:
- Email and newsletter related functions use cookies.
- Forms use cookies, when you write a comment on a post, cookies may be set to remember your user details.
- Authentication – cookies identify you when you visit and navigate prepareandserve.com.
- Status – to help determine if you are logged into this website.
- Personalization – cookies will store information about your preferences.
- Security – to protect user accounts, including preventing fraudulent use of login credentials, and to protect this website.
- Analysis – Google Analytics is the tool implemented on this website. It helps me understand how you use the site and ways that I can improve your experience. These cookies may track things such as how long you spend on the site and the pages that you visit so that I can continue to produce engaging content.
- Third party cookies – social media buttons and/or plugins containing cookies, are used on this site. For these to work, the following social media sites including Facebook, Instagram, Twitter, and Pinterest, will set cookies through prepareandserve.com.
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). You can also opt out of tracking by many companies using cookies via the Network Advertising Initiative Consumer Opt-Out.
Disabling cookies, will disable certain functionalities and features of this website. With that in mind please do not disable cookies.
Disclaimer
Be advised, any claims to improving personal health and wellness on prepareandserve.com are suggestions for your consideration. These are not medical claims. Act on them at your own risk.
I assume no responsibility or liability for any consequences resulting directly or indirectly from any action or inaction taken as a result of following information contained on this site or in any linked materials. Meaning, I do not accept any legal liability or responsibility for any injury, loss, or damage incurred by the use of, or reliance upon, or interpretation of any information contained on this site or in any linked materials.
Use your own discretion should you decide to use the recipes on preparedserve.com to cook, bake, and consume the dishes, or follow any of the tips or hospitality advice.
Prepareandserve.com is for users over the age of 18. Users need to be over 21 years old in the U.S.A. (or 18 in European Economic Area), in order to prepare alcoholic beverage recipes.
Prepareandserve.com is part of the Amazon Services LLC Associates Program which is an affiliate advertising program. Prepareandserve.com uses cookies to track visits to permit the earning of commissions. Amazon will track referrals to its site through the use of cookies. Please see Amazon‘s privacy policy for more information.
I may use Gravatar, which uses an anonymized hash, to see your profile picture for display and Akismet for spam protection. Please see Automattic’s privacy policy for more information about both services.
Sometimes I will link to other food blogs or related producers. I do not take any responsibility for the content and links on third party websites referenced on this blog.
Terms and Conditions
Unless otherwise indicated, all content, in any form, on prepareandserve.com is my exclusive property and as such is copyright-protected. This includes, but is not limited to, all written material in any form or content (including all recipes and their methods) and all photographs. Unauthorized use and/or duplication, distribution, or republication in any form of the material on this food blog is strictly prohibited. You will require prior written permission to use or reproduce content, in any form whatsoever, from this blog. However, if you would like to share any recipe, tip or hospitality advice with others through social media accounts (such as Facebook or Twitter), then this is permitted. Please credit Prepare & Serve and provide a clickable link back to the original posting on prepareandserve.com.
These terms and conditions are subject to change at any time with, or without, notice.
Accessibility Policy
It is my strongest intention to create a website that all users will enjoy.
‘Alt text’ included with each image, describes these images on prepareandserve.com for a site visitor who is using a screen reader.
As far as I know, I have not used the term ‘click here’, but rather I have used words that describe where the link will go, when writing text in a blog post.
From what I can tell, I have used a background color for my site that contrasts well with the text font color to enable visually-impaired users.
Please contact me at [email protected] if you have suggestions as to how I can improve. Thank you.
