Your privacy is very important to us. At Chick & Fluff we have a few fundamental principles that we follow:
We don’t ask you for personal information unless we truly need it. (We can’t stand services that ask you for things like your gender or income level for no apparent reason.)
We don’t share your personal information with anyone except to comply with the law, develop our products, or protect our rights.
We don’t store personal information on our servers unless required for the on-going operation of our site.
It is Chick & Fluff’s policy to respect your privacy regarding any information we may collect while operating our websites.
Who we are
Our website address is: https://chickandfluff.com.
What personal data we collect and why we collect it
Comments
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. The Gravatar service privacy policy is available here: https://automattic.com/privacy/. After approval of your comment, your profile picture is visible to the public in the context of your comment.
Media
If you upload images to the website, you should avoid uploading images with embedded location data (EXIF GPS) included. Visitors to the website can download and extract any location data from images on the website.
Contact forms
Cookies
If you leave a comment on our site you may opt-in to saving your name, email address and website in cookies. These are for your convenience so that you do not have to fill in your details again when you leave another comment. These cookies will last for one year.
If you have an account and you log in to this site, we will set a temporary cookie to determine if your browser accepts cookies. This cookie contains no personal data and is discarded when you close your browser.
When you log in, we will also set up several cookies to save your login information and your screen display choices. Login cookies last for two days, and screen options cookies last for a year. If you select “Remember Me”, your login will persist for two weeks. When you log out of your account, the login cookies will be removed.
If you edit or publish an article, an additional cookie will be saved in your browser. This cookie includes no personal data and simply indicates the post ID of the article you just edited. It expires after 1 day.
Certain visitors to Chick & Fluff’s websites choose to interact with Chick & Fluff in ways that require Chick & Fluff to gather personally-identifying information. The amount and type of information that Chick & Fluff gathers depends on the nature of the interaction. For example, we ask visitors who comment on our blog to provide a username and email address. Those who wish to receive Chick & Fluff updates via email, we collect their emails. In each case, Chick & Fluff collects such information only insofar as is necessary or appropriate to fulfill the purpose of the visitor’s interaction with Chick & Fluff. Chick & Fluff does not disclose personally-identifying information other than as described below. And visitors can always refuse to supply personally-identifying information, with the caveat that it may prevent them from engaging in certain website-related activities
Ads
Ads appearing on any of our websites may be delivered to users by advertising partners, who may set cookies. These cookies allow the ad server to recognize your computer each time they send you an online advertisement to compile information about you or others who use your computer. This information allows ad networks to, among other things, deliver targeted advertisements that they believe will be of most interest to you. This Privacy Policy covers the use of cookies by Chick & Fluff and does not cover the use of cookies by any advertisers.
Embedded content from other websites
Articles on this site may include embedded content (e.g. videos, images, articles, 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.
Analytics
Who we share your data with
We use Google Analytics and WordPress.com stats by Jetpack to analyze the use of our website.
Google’s privacy policy is available at: https://policies.google.com/privacy?hl=en-US
Jetpack’s privacy policy is available at: https://jetpack.com/support/privacy/
This site uses Akismet to reduce spam. Find their information here:
https://akismet.com/privacy/
How long we retain your data
If you leave a comment, the comment and its metadata are retained indefinitely. This is so we can recognize and approve any follow-up comments automatically instead of holding them in a moderation queue.
For users that register on our website (if any), we also store the personal information they provide in their user profile. All users can see, edit, or delete their personal information at any time (except they cannot change their username). Website administrators can also see and edit that information.
What rights you have over your data
If you have an account on this site, or have left comments, you can request to receive an exported file of the personal data we hold about you, including any data you have provided to us. You can also request that we erase any personal data we hold about you. This does not include any data we are obliged to keep for administrative, legal, or security purposes.
Where we send your data
Visitor comments may be checked through Akismet spam detection service.
Your contact information
Like most website operators, Chick & Fluff collects non-personally-identifying information of the sort that web browsers and servers typically make available, such as the browser type, language preference, referring site, and the date and time of each visitor request. Chick & Fluff’s purpose in collecting non-personally identifying information is to better understand how Chick & Fluff’s visitors use its website. From time to time, Chick & Fluff may release non-personally-identifying information in the aggregate, e.g., by publishing a report on trends in the usage of its website.
Chick & Fluff also collects potentially personally-identifying information like Internet Protocol (IP) addresses for logged in users and for users leaving comments on our blogs. Chick & Fluff only discloses logged in user and commenter IP addresses under the same circumstances that it uses and discloses personally-identifying information as described below, except that blog commenter IP addresses are visible and disclosed to the administrators of the blog where the comment was left.
Additional information
How we protect your data
Chick & Fluff discloses potentially personally-identifying and personally-identifying information only to those of its employees, contractors and affiliated organizations that (i) need to know that information in order to process it on Chick & Fluff’s behalf or to provide services available at Chick & Fluff’s websites, and (ii) that have agreed not to disclose it to others. Some of those employees, contractors and affiliated organizations may be located outside of your home country; by using Chick & Fluff’s websites, you consent to the transfer of such information to them. Chick & Fluff will not rent or sell potentially personally-identifying and personally-identifying information to anyone. Other than to its employees, contractors and affiliated organizations, as described above, Chick & Fluff discloses potentially personally-identifying and personally-identifying information only in response to a subpoena, court order or other governmental request, or when Chick & Fluff believes in good faith that disclosure is reasonably necessary to protect the property or rights of Chick & Fluff, third parties or the public at large. If you are a registered user of an Chick & Fluff website and have supplied your email address, Chick & Fluff may occasionally send you an email to tell you about new features, solicit your feedback, or just keep you up to date with what’s going on with Chick & Fluff and our products. We primarily use our various product blogs to communicate this type of information, so we expect to keep this type of email to a minimum. If you send us a request (for example via a support email or via one of our feedback mechanisms), we reserve the right to publish it in order to help us clarify or respond to your request or to help us support other users. Chick & Fluff takes all measures reasonably necessary to protect against the unauthorized access, use, alteration or destruction of potentially personally-identifying and personally-identifying information.
What automated decision making and/or profiling we do with user data
Chick & Fluff may collect statistics about the behavior of visitors to its websites. For instance, Chick & Fluff may monitor the most popular pages on the chickandfluff.com site or use spam screened by the Akismet service to help identify spam. Chick & Fluff may display this information publicly or provide it to others. However, Chick & Fluff does not disclose personally-identifying information other than as described below.
Industry regulatory disclosure requirements
This website is not a member of a regulatory industry.
Privacy policy changes
Although most changes are likely to be minor, Chick & Fluff may change its Privacy Policy from time to time, and in Chick & Fluff’s sole discretion. Chick & Fluff encourages visitors to frequently check this page for any changes to its Privacy Policy. Your continued use of this site after any change in this Privacy Policy will constitute your acceptance of such change.
