What personal data do we collect and why we collect it
Personally identifiable information
While using this website, you may be asked to provide us with certain personally identifiable information that can be used to contact or identify you. Personally identifiable information may include, but is not limited to:
- Name
- Email address
Log Data
We collect information that your browser sends whenever you visit our website (“Log Data”). This Log Data may include information such as your computer’s IP address, browser type, browser version, the pages of our website that you visit, the time and date of your visit, the time spent on those pages, and other statistics. These data help us understand and analyze how well the website performs and where it needs improvement, also to detect spam when you leave comments.
Location Data
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.
How long do 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.
What rights do you have over your data
If you have left comments on this website, 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.
Who we share your data with
We share your data with third party service providers only to to ensure safety of our website and to detect spam. We do not sell your personal data to anyone.
If you leave a comment, it may be checked through an automated spam detection service.
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/
Children’s Privacy
We do not knowingly collect personally identifiable information from children under 14. If you are a parent or guardian and you are aware that your child has provided us with personal information, please contact us. If we discover that a child under 14 has provided us with personal information, we will delete such information from our servers immediately.
Cookie policy
Cookies are small text files that are used to store small pieces of information. They are stored on your device when the website is loaded on your browser. These cookies help us make the website function properly, make it more secure, provide a better user experience, and understand how the website performs, and analyze what works and where it needs improvement.
How do we use cookies
Like most websites, our website uses first-party and third-party cookies for several purposes. First-party cookies are mostly necessary for the website to function the right way, and they do not collect any of your personally identifiable data. The third-party cookies used on our website are mainly for understanding how the website performs, how you interact with our website, providing you with a better and improved user experience and help speed up your future interactions with our website.
What types of cookies do we use
Essential: Some cookies are essential for you to be able to experience the full functionality of our site. They allow us to maintain user sessions and prevent any security threats. They do not collect or store any personal information.
Statistics: These cookies store information like the number of visitors to the website, the number of unique visitors, which pages of the website have been visited, the source of the visit, etc. These data help us understand and analyze how well the website performs and where it needs improvement. To collect statistical information we use Google Analytics. Their privacy policy is available here: https://policies.google.com/privacy
Functional: These are the cookies that help certain non-essential functionalities on our website. These functionalities include embedding content like videos or sharing content of the website on social media platforms.
Preferences: These cookies help us store your settings and browsing preferences like language preferences so that you have a better and efficient experience on future visits to the website.
Marketing: Our website displays advertisements. These cookies are used to personalize the advertisements that we show to you so that they are meaningful to you. These cookies also help us keep track of the efficiency of these ad campaigns. You may opt out of personalized advertising by visiting Ads Settings.
The information stored in these cookies may also be used by third-party ad providers to show you ads on other websites on the browser as well.
Our advertising partners include:
– Google Adsense
DoubleClick DART Cookie
– Google, as a third party vendor, uses cookies to serve ads on this website.
– Google’s use of the DART cookie enables it to serve ads to you based on your visit to cakesperiments.com and other sites on the Internet.
– You may opt out of the use of the DART cookie by visiting the Google ad and content network privacy policy at the following URL – http://www.google.com/privacy_ads.html.
These third-party ad servers or ad networks use technology to the advertisements and links that appear on cakesperiments.com send directly to your browsers. They automatically receive your IP address when this occurs. Other technologies ( such as cookies, JavaScript, or Web Beacons ) may also be used by the third-party ad networks to measure the effectiveness of their advertisements and / or to personalize the advertising content that you see.
cakesperiments.com has no access to or control over these cookies that are used by third-party advertisers.
You should consult the respective privacy policies of these third-party ad servers for more detailed information on their practices as well as for instructions about how to opt-out of certain practices. cakesperiments.com’s privacy policy does not apply to, and we cannot control the activities of, such other advertisers or web sites.
How can you control the cookie preferences
Should you decide to change your preferences later through your browsing session, you can manage your consent by clicking the link below. This will display the consent notice again enabling you to change your preferences or withdraw your consent entirely.
In addition to this, different browsers provide different methods to block and delete cookies used by websites. You can change the settings of your browser to block/delete the cookies. To find out more about how to manage and delete cookies, visit wikipedia.org, www.allaboutcookies.org.
Contact information
If you have any questions please contact us via email rasa@cakesperiments.com