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Disclosure Policy
This policy is valid from January 26, 2021
The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) guidelines are in place to protect you (the public) from being purposely misled by advertising that has been paid for by another company. In the interest of full disclosure and transparency and since this blog is a source of income, please be aware of the following:
This blog is a collaborative blog written by a group of individuals. For questions about this blog, please contact Beth @ FoodBloggerHelp.com.
This blog may accept forms of cash advertising, sponsorship, paid insertions, or other forms of compensation, such as affiliate income.
Any compensation received may influence the advertising content, topics or posts made in this blog. That content, advertising space or post will be clearly identified as paid or sponsored content.
The owners of this blog may be compensated to provide opinion on products, services, websites, and various other topics. Even though the owners of this blog receive compensation for our posts or advertisements, we always give our honest opinions, findings, beliefs, or experiences on those topics or products. We believe in honesty and integrity and hold ourselves to the highest standard. The views and opinions expressed on this blog are purely the bloggers’ 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. But whether or not we are getting paid for something, we will always give our 100% honest opinion.
Any product claim, statistic, quote or other representation about a product or service should be verified with the manufacturer or provider.
All links that stem from an advertisement or sponsored conversation will have the “nofollow” attribute added to it so that it is in compliance with Google’s guidelines and policies. By placing any and all advertising orders with Food Blogger Help, the Advertiser agrees to our Advertising Policy.
We may use a third-party advertising company to serve ads on this site. The companies provide ads based on your interests generated by your visits across various sites. For more information about this please see the Network Advertising Initiative.
This blog may contain cookies; third parties (i.e., Google) may be placing and accessing cookies on their browsers (i.e., Chrome) or using Web beacons to collect information.
This blog does not contain any content which might present a conflict of interest. To get your own policy, go to http://www.disclosurepolicy.org
Privacy Policy
Food Blogger Help believes very strongly in keeping your personal information confidential. The following policy describes what information we collect and how it is used and shared.
Information Collected
Food Blogger Help typically collects a name (either real or alias), personal website, and e-mail address. In addition, Food Blogger Help collects names (real or alias) and email addresses when signing up for email notices.
Cookies / IP Address tracking
Food Blogger Help uses cookies to uniquely identify users for the purpose of log files, posting comments, and voting on the site. No personal information is stored in these cookies and is simply a way to identify your computer.
Shared Information
None of your shared information will be shared with third parties. Food Blogger Help may use your e-mail address in the future to contact you regarding the site, however, an opt-out will always be provided. Your name and website may be displayed on the site if you post a comment or a message in the forum. However, your e-mail address and privacy will always be kept secure.
Opting Out
If Food Blogger Help chooses to send out newsletter updates in the future and we have your email address on file, you may receive a copy of our newsletter. However, at the bottom of every newsletter will be an easy way to opt-out. The editors of our site hate SPAM as much as you and have no intention of filling up e-mail boxes with unwanted messages.
To have your personal information removed or to review the information collected and to whom we have disclosed this information to, if any, by going to our contact page and filling out the form with your request.
Third-Party Advertising
We may allow third-party companies to serve ads and/or collect certain anonymous information when you visit our website. These companies may use non-personally identifiable information (e.g., click stream information, browser type, time and date, the subject of advertisements clicked or scrolled over) during your visits to this and other Web sites in order to provide advertisements about goods and services likely to be of greater interest to you. These companies typically use a cookie or third party web beacon to collect this information.
Advertising Privacy Statement
This section deliberately left blank. Food Blogger Help does not currently use any advertising management companies but may choose to do so in the future and such disclosures will be added in this space.
Disclaimers
Links to other websites
This website may contain links to other websites of interest. However, once you have used these links to leave our site, you should note that we do not have any control over that other website. Therefore, we cannot be responsible for the protection and privacy of any information which 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.
Liability:
We are not experts in all matters and our recipes, blogging advice, and tips and tricks are not error-proof. They are based on our experiences. If you need more information, do your own research and take appropriate precautions. This blog nor any author shall be held responsible for any loss, injury, your personal safety, or the outcome of any methods, projects, or information learned from this blog.
Blog Policies
Terms & Conditions of Use
These Terms and Conditions of Use apply to you when you view, access or otherwise use the blog located at foodbloggerhelp.com. This blog is a personal blog owned by Elaine Benoit and Elizabeth Mueller. We grant you a non-exclusive non-transferable, limited right to access, use and display the blog and the materials provided hereon, provided that you comply fully with these Terms and Conditions of Use listed below.
Content:
All content was originally posted at foodbloggerhelp.com. All text and content is our property and is rights protected. We can change, replace or remove any content, comments or images without notice at our discretion. Any and all text duplication is strictly prohibited without express written permission. You may link back to this blog and are free to discuss it in a respectful manner. We are not responsible for republished content used without our permission. The use of our exact wording constitutes a copyright violation. It also results in search engine penalties for both sites.
Abbreviated articles with a link back, like the ones commonly used by scrapers, are not permitted use of our material. Sites choosing to use Food Blogger Help content in this manner will have a DMCA filed against them immediately.
Images:
All photos are taken by the owners or are freely-usable images from unsplash.com. The photos on Food Blogger Help taken by the owners are our property and are rights protected. All other uses of those images require express written permission and credit must be given to Food Blogger Help. Failure to link back and credit Food Blogger Help as the source of the photo constitutes a copyright violation.
Photos may not be edited, changed, or cropped in any way if written permission for use and changes is not given.
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.
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 visit our login page, 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. If 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.
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
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 an automated spam detection service.