This privacy policy sets out how The Welcoming Table uses and protects any information that you give while using www.thewelcomingtable.com.
Should we ask you to provide certain information by which you can be identified when using this website, you can be assured that it will only be used in accordance with this privacy statement. By using this website, you explicitly accept our practices surrounding the collection, use, and sharing of personal information provided by you as described in this Privacy Policy.
The Welcoming Table may change this policy at any time. You should check this page from time to time to ensure that you are happy with any changes.
This policy is effective from August 27, 2018.
What we collect
We may collect the following information:
- your email address
- demographic information such as zip code, preferences and interests
What we do with the information we gather
We require this information to understand your needs and to provide you with a better service, and in particular for the following reasons:
- to improve our products and services
- to periodically send emails about new products, special offers or other information that we think you may find interesting, using the email address that you have provided.
Security
We are committed to ensuring that your information is secure. In order to prevent unauthorized access or disclosure, we have put in place suitable physical, electronic and managerial procedures to safeguard and secure the information we collect online.
How we use cookies
A cookie is a small file that 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. 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.
We use Google Analytics to analyze the use of our website. Google Analytics gathers information about website use by means of cookies. This helps us analyze data about web page traffic and improve this website in order to tailor it to reader needs.
Google’s privacy policy is available at: https://www.google.com/policies/privacy/
You may opt out of Google Analytics by installing a browser add-on here: https://tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout
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.
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 this website, though.
Advertising & Affiliate Programs
Some of my advertisers occasionally serve you cookies as well. I do not have control over cookies placed by advertisers. Each of these advertising partners has their own privacy policy for their site, which you can review at each of their sties.
Display Ads: I use Gourmet Ads, a third party provider to display ads. http://www.gourmetads.com. They may use cookies, web beacons, or similar technologies to serve you advertisements tailored to interests you have shown by browsing on this and other sites you have visited, to determine whether you have seen a particular advertisement before and to avoid sending you duplicate advertisements. In doing so, Gourmet Ads may collect non-personal data such as your browser type, your operating system, Web pages visited, time of visits, content viewed, ads viewed, and other clickstream data. The use of cookies, web beacons, or similar technologies by these advertising service vendors is subject to their own privacy policies, not ours, and the Website disclaims all liability in connection therewith.
For information about opting out of Gourmet Ads and ad serving partners please visit https://www.gourmetads.com/about/privacy-policy
Retargeting Ads: From time to time, we may engage in remarketing efforts with third-party companies, such as Google, Facebook, or Instagram, in order to market the website. These companies use cookies to serve ads based on someone’s past visits to the website.
Affiliate Program Participation: We 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.
As an Amazon Associate I earn from qualifying purchases.
We also participate in other affiliate programs including Rakuten, CJ Affiliates, and Share a Sale.
Links to other websites
My website may contain links to other websites of interest. However, once you have used these links to leave my site, I don’t have any control over that other website. I assume no responsibility for the protection and privacy of any information that you provide while visiting such sites, and such sites are not governed by this privacy statement. You should exercise caution and look at the privacy statement applicable to the website in question.
Newsletters
You may subscribe to our email list, which may be used for advertising purposes. All emails sent may contain tracking pixels. The pixel is embedded in emails and allows an analysis of the success of online marketing campaigns. Because of these tracking pixels, we any see if and when you open an email and which links within the email you click. This allows us to adapt the content of future emails to the interest of the user. None of this information is shared with third parties.
Your email address used to leave blog comments will never be displayed publicly and is never shared with third parties. It will solely be used to respond to your comment.
You may opt out of my email list at any time by clicking “unsubscribe” within the emails or by emailing me at sandi@thewelcomingtable.com. My newsletter is managed through my email list management provider, Mailerlite.
Controlling your personal information
If you are a citizen of the EU, you may request that we erase or forget your personal information. To do so, please submit a request to sandi@thewelcomingtable.com.
We will not sell, distribute or share your personal information with third parties unless required by law to do so.
If you have any questions, please contact us at sandi@thewelcomingtable.com.