Privacy Policy and Disclosure Statement
Privacy Policy
Protecting your private information is our priority. This Statement of Privacy applies to https://refreshingbites.com, and Refreshing Bites and governs data collection and usage. For the purposes of this Privacy Policy, unless otherwise noted, all references to Refreshing Bites include https://refreshingbites.com. The Refreshing Bites website is a food blog site. By using the Refreshing Bites website, you consent to the data practices described in this statement.
Collection of your Personal Information
In order to better provide you with products and services offered, Refreshing Bites may collect personally identifiable information, such as your:
– First and Last Name
– E-mail Address
Please keep in mind that if you directly disclose personally identifiable information or personally sensitive data through Refreshing Bites’s public message boards, this information may be collected and used by others.
We do not collect any personal information about you unless you voluntarily provide it to us. However, you may be required to provide certain personal information to us when you elect to use certain products or services. These may include: (a) registering for an account; (b) entering a sweepstakes or contest sponsored by us or one of our partners; (c) signing up for special offers from selected third parties; (d) sending us an email message; (e) submitting your credit card or other payment information when ordering and purchasing products and services. To wit, we will use your information for, but not limited to, communicating with you in relation to services and/or products you have requested from us. We also may gather additional personal or non-personal information in the future.
Use of your Personal Information
Refreshing Bites collects and uses your personal information to operate and deliver the services you have requested.
Refreshing Bites may also use your personally identifiable information to inform you of other products or services available from Refreshing Bites and its affiliates.
Sharing Information with Third Parties
Refreshing Bites does not sell, rent or lease its customer lists to third parties.
Refreshing Bites may share data with trusted partners to help perform statistical analysis, send you email or postal mail, provide customer support, or arrange for deliveries. All such third parties are prohibited from using your personal information except to provide these services to Refreshing Bites, and they are required to maintain the confidentiality of your information.
Refreshing Bites may disclose your personal information, without notice, if required to do so by law or in the good faith belief that such action is necessary to: (a) conform to the edicts of the law or comply with legal process served on Refreshing Bites or the site; (b) protect and defend the rights or property of Refreshing Bites; and/or (c) act under exigent circumstances to protect the personal safety of users of Refreshing Bites, or the public.
Health and Wellness
All content on this website is to be accepted as informational and for educational purposes only. This is not medical or nutritional advice or instruction. Please consult with a medical practitioner or doctor before making any decisions that may impact your health or well being. The information provided on this site and any social media profiles related to this website, is believed to be true and accurate at the time of writing. As a reader of this content, you must be responsible for actions taken as a result of reading this blog. I, the author of Refreshing Bites, will not accept responsibility for damage to health, well-being or property of any kind as a result of action taken by the reader of this blog. This Refreshing Bites is not an authority on vegetarian or vegan eating. I reserve the right to share information on any topic on this website. If you have any questions about the statements made on this page, please contact me
Tracking User Behavior
Refreshing Bites may keep track of the websites and pages our users visit within Refreshing Bites, in order to determine what Refreshing Bites services are the most popular. This data is used to deliver customized content and advertising within Refreshing Bites to customers whose behavior indicates that they are interested in a particular subject area.
Automatically Collected Information
Information about your computer hardware and software may be automatically collected by Refreshing Bites. This information can include: your IP address, browser type, domain names, access times and referring website addresses. This information is used for the operation of the service, to maintain quality of the service, and to provide general statistics regarding use of the Refreshing Bites website.
Use of Cookies
The Refreshing Bites website may use “cookies” to help you personalize your online experience. A cookie is a text file that is placed on your hard disk by a web page server. Cookies cannot be used to run programs or deliver viruses to your computer. Cookies are uniquely assigned to you, and can only be read by a web server in the domain that issued the cookie to you.
One of the primary purposes of cookies is to provide a convenience feature to save you time. The purpose of a cookie is to tell the Web server that you have returned to a specific page. For example, if you personalize Refreshing Bites pages, or register with Refreshing Bites site or services, a cookie helps Refreshing Bites to recall your specific information on subsequent visits. This simplifies the process of recording your personal information, such as billing addresses, shipping addresses, and so on. When you return to the same Refreshing Bites website, the information you previously provided can be retrieved, so you can easily use the Refreshing Bites features that you customized.
You have the ability 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. If you choose to decline cookies, you may not be able to fully experience the interactive features of the Refreshing Bites services or websites you visit.
Third Party Links
This website contains links to other sites. Please be aware that we are not responsible for the content or privacy practices of such other sites. We encourage our users to be aware when they leave our site and to read the privacy statements of any other site that collects personally identifiable information.
Right to Deletion
Subject to certain exceptions set out below, on receipt of a verifiable request from you, we will:
• Delete your personal information from our records; and
• Direct any service providers to delete your personal information from their records.
Please note that we may not be able to comply with requests to delete your personal information if it is necessary to:
• Complete the transaction for which the personal information was collected, fulfill the terms of a written warranty or product recall conducted in accordance with federal law, provide a good or service requested by you, or reasonably anticipated within the context of our ongoing business relationship with you, or otherwise perform a contract between you and us;
• Detect security incidents, protect against malicious, deceptive, fraudulent, or illegal activity; or prosecute those responsible for that activity;
• Debug to identify and repair errors that impair existing intended functionality;
• Exercise free speech, ensure the right of another consumer to exercise his or her right of free speech, or exercise another right provided for by law;
• Comply with the California Electronic Communications Privacy Act;
• Engage in public or peer-reviewed scientific, historical, or statistical research in the public interest that adheres to all other applicable ethics and privacy laws, when our deletion of the information is likely to render impossible or seriously impair the achievement of such research, provided we have obtained your informed consent;
• Enable solely internal uses that are reasonably aligned with your expectations based on your relationship with us;
• Comply with an existing legal obligation; or
• Otherwise use your personal information, internally, in a lawful manner that is compatible with the context in which you provided the information.
E-mail Communications
From time to time, Refreshing Bites may contact you via email for the purpose of providing announcements, promotional offers, alerts, confirmations, surveys, and/or other general communication.
If you would like to stop receiving marketing or promotional communications via email from Refreshing Bites, you may opt out of such communications by Customers may unsubscribe from emails by clicking on the UNSUBSCRIBE button..
Full Disclosure Affiliate Policy
Occasionally, we accept forms of cash advertising, sponsorship, paid insertions or other forms of compensation.
The compensation received will never influence the content, topics or posts made on Refreshingbites.com. All advertising is in the form of advertisements generated by a third party ad network.
This blog may be compensated to provide opinion on products, services, websites and various other topics. Even though we receive compensation for our posts or advertisements, we always give our honest opinions, findings, beliefs, or experiences on those topics or products. The views and opinions expressed on this blog are purely our own. Any product claim, statistic, quote or other representation about a product or service should be verified with the manufacturer, provider or party in question.
Refreshingbites.com does not contain any content which might present a conflict of interest.
Nutritional Information Disclosure
Refreshingbites.com occasionally offers nutritional information for recipes contained on this site. This information is provided as a courtesy and should not be construed as a guarantee by Refreshingbites.com. This information is a product of online calculators such as Caloriecount.com. Although Refreshingbites.com attempts to provide accurate Nutritional Information, these figures should be considered estimates. Varying factors such as product types and the way ingredients are processed change the effective Nutritional Information in any given recipe. To obtain the most accurate representation of the Nutritional Information in a given recipe, you should calculate the Nutritional Information with the actual ingredients used in your recipe.
Changes to this Statement
Refreshing Bites reserves the right to change this Privacy Policy from time to time. We will notify you about significant changes in the way we treat personal information by sending a notice to the primary email address specified in your account, by placing a prominent notice on our website, and/or by updating any privacy information. Your continued use of the website and/or Services available after such modifications will constitute your: (a) acknowledgment of the modified Privacy Policy; and (b) agreement to abide and be bound by that Policy.
Contact Information
Refreshing Bites welcomes your questions or comments regarding this Statement of Privacy. If you believe that Refreshing Bites has not adhered to this Statement, please contact Refreshing Bites at:
Refreshing Bites
Florida
Email Address: refreshingbites@gmail.com
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Effective as of January 1, 2021