Overview
Here at The Tolerant Tummy we’re committed to protecting your online privacy. This privacy policy describes the information that we collect through this website (or, “site”), and how this information is used. By visiting this site, TheTolerantTummy.com, you (the “user”) are thereby agreeing to this Privacy Policy and acknowledge reading it. The terms “us”, “we”, and “our” refer to The Tolerant Tummy.
Cookies
A “cookie” is a small file sent from a web server to your computer whenever you visit a website. Once you return to a site, the server can retrieve a cookie from your computer to expedite certain functions such as logging in or retrieving user data. Cookies usually don’t contain any personally identifying information regarding a user, but personal information we store about you may be linked to information stored via cookies.
This website uses cookies for:
- Authentication: to identify you when you visit and navigate throughout our website
- Status: to detect if you’re logged into the website
- Personalization: store information about preferences and personalize the website, if applicable (such as screen display choices)
- Security: to detect and prevent fraudulent activity throughout the website, such as safeguarding user login credentials through tracking failed login attempts
- Comments: your name, email address, and website are collected and cookies will prevent you from having to fill in details again
- Recipe Ratings: if ratings are enabled, cookies prevent rating spam
- Analysis: to help us analyze the performance of our website using Google Analytics
Google Analytics uses cookies to track website use for purposes of data analysis. This information generates reports for us about the use of our website. Google’s privacy policy is available here.
Personal Information
We collect personal information from you only if you voluntarily provide it to us. These instances include:
- Blog subscription: we collect your email address for the purpose of delivering posts to your inbox. This email address will be retained indefinitely.
- Post comments: we collect your name, email address, IP address, browser agent string, and comment preferences for the purpose of providing you with post updates (if opted in) and to detect spam. If you leave a comment, the comment and its metadata are retained indefinitely.
- Contact form: we collect your name and email address to respond to your comment, question, or request, but this information is never used for marketing purposes.
When you comment on a post, an anonymized string created from your email address will provided to the Gravatar (“Globally Recognized Avatar”) service. If you use Gravatar, your profile picture will be visible to the public in the context of your comment. Gravatar’s privacy policy is available here.
Your email address may be shared with the email platform provider we utilize (MailChimp, privacy policy available here). We will only use your name and email address for the purposes you provided it and will not share with other third-parties. We may notify you of events of promotions from time to time, however, you can always unsubscribe from email communications via the link found at the bottom of the email.
We are not currently partnering with any third-party advertisers or payment processors.
Security
We maintain security measures to protect your information, however are unable to 100% guarantee that information won’t be accessed or tampered with by an unauthorized third party. By accessing the site, you agree that we are not responsible for any information intercepted through our site without our knowledge or permission. You also release any claims from or related to unauthorized use of such information.
Your Rights
ff you 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.
If you are a resident of the EEA, you have the following additional rights (among others):
- Access to personal data
- Ensure the privacy of your personal data
- The right to have us delete your personal data
- The right to restrict further processing of your personal data
- The right to complain to a supervisory authority in your country of residence if data is misused
Please address any questions or requests regarding your privacy and the use of your personal data via email to Sarah@TheTolerantTummy.com.
We reserve the right to update the privacy policy as our website offerings, third party relationships, technology, or regulatory requirements change. We will always make the most updated version available on the website. By accessing the website, you are agreeing to the Privacy Policy that was current and active when the information was obtained.
Updated July 2018.
