Privacy Policy/Disclaimers

Last Updated: 2024-02-01 12:33:20 

Disclaimer

This Influencer Disclosure Policy is valid as of February 1, 2024. This policy covers the below social channels owned and managed by Country Roads Sourdough :

  • Instagram Handle : @countryroadssourdough
  • Facebook Handle : @countryroadssourdough
  • Blog : www.countryroadssourdough.com

These channels strive to abide by the FTC Guidelines for online influencers. The owner believes in honesty of relationship, opinion, and identity. The compensation the owner receives from marketers may influence our content, topics or posts made to our social channels. That content, advertising space or post will be clearly identified as paid or sponsored content in accordance with the FTC Guidelines.

The owner of these social channels may be compensated to provide opinion on products, services, websites and various other topics. Even though the owner of these social media channels sometimes 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 through these channels 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.

Some of the sections of this site will allow you to purchase different products and services online provided by other merchants, and not us. Some of the links that I post on our site are “affiliate links.” This means if you click on the link and purchase the item, I will receive an affiliate commission.*

We are not responsible for the quality, accuracy, timeliness, reliability or any other aspect of these products and services. In addition, a merchant will likely have privacy and data collection practices that are different from ours. If you make a purchase from a merchant on their site or on a site that we have posted a link to, the information obtained during your visit to that merchant’s online store or site, and the information that you give as part of the transaction, such as your name, e-mail address, street address, telephone number, and credit card number, may be collected the merchant and us. For more information regarding a merchant, its online store, its privacy policies, and/or any additional terms and conditions that may apply, visit that merchant’s website and click on its information links or contact the merchant directly.

We are a participant in the Amazon Services LLC Associates Program, an affiliate advertising program designed to provide a means for us to earn fees by linking to Amazon.com and affiliated sites.

*Disclosed in accordance with the Federal Trade Commission’s 16 CFR, Part 255: “Guides Concerning the Use of Endorsements and Testimonials in Advertising.”

SECTION 1: WHO WE ARE 

Our website address is https://countryroadssourdough.com/. 

Privacy information is controlled by Emily Christensen who can be reached at [email protected]. 

SECTION 2: WHAT PERSONAL DATA WE COLLECT AND WHY WE COLLECT IT 

In Short: We collect personal information that you provide to us. Some information  such as your Internet Protocol (IP) address and/or browser and device characteristics  is collected automatically when you visit our website. 

EMBEDDED CONTENT FROM OTHER WEBSITES 

Articles on this site may include embedded content (e.g. YouTube, Pinterest, WordPress.org, Ads 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 tracing your interaction with the embedded content if you have an account and are logged into that website. 

TRACKING TECHNOLOGIES 

We may use cookies and similar tracking technologies (like web beacons and pixels) to access or store information. A cookie is a file containing an identifier (a string of letters and numbers) that is sent by a web server to a web browser and is stored by the browser. The identifier is then sent back to the server each time the browser requests a page from the server. Cookies may be either “persistent” cookies or “session” cookies: a persistent cookie will be stored by a web browser and will remain valid until its set expiry date, unless deleted by the user before the expiry date; a session cookie, on the other hand, will expire at the end of the user session, when the web browser is closed.  Cookies do not typically contain any information that personally identifies a user, but personal information that we store about you may be linked to the information stored in and obtained from cookies.

We use cookies for the following purposes:

  1. authentication – we use cookies to identify you when you visit our website and as you navigate our website;
  2. personalization – we use cookies [to store information about your preferences and to personalize the website for you
  3. security – we use cookies [as an element of the security measures used to protect user accounts, including preventing fraudulent use of login credentials, and to protect our website and services generally];
  4. advertising – we use cookies [to help us to display advertisements that will be relevant to you]; and
  5. analysis – we use cookies [to help us to analyze the use and performance of our website and services];

We use Google Analytics to analyze the use of our website. Google Analytics gathers information about website use by means of cookies. The information gathered relating to our website is used to create reports about the use of our website. Google’s privacy policy is available at: https://www.google.com/policies/privacy/

Most browsers allow you to refuse to accept cookies and to delete cookies. The methods for doing so vary from browser to browser, and from version to version. You can however obtain up-to-date information about blocking and deleting cookies via these links:

(a) https://support.google.com/chrome/answer/95647?hl=en (Chrome);

(b) https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/enable-and-disable-cookies-website-preferences (Firefox);

(c) http://www.opera.com/help/tutorials/security/cookies/ (Opera);

(d) https://support.microsoft.com/en-gb/help/17442/windows-internet-explorer-delete-manage-cookies (Internet Explorer);

(e) https://support.apple.com/en-gb/guide/safari/sfri11471/mac (Safari); and

(f) https://privacy.microsoft.com/en-us/windows-10-microsoft-edge-and-privacy (Edge).

Please note that blocking cookies may have a negative impact on the functions of many websites, including our Site. Some features of the Site may cease to be available to you.

SECTION 3: WHO WE SHARE YOUR DATA WITH 

The data collected may be shared with service providers and others who help with our business operations and assist in the delivery of our products and services including, but not limited to: 

  • application development, 
  • site hosting, 
  • maintenance, 
  • data analysis, 
  • infrastructure provision, 
  • IT services, 
  • customer service, 
  • email delivery services, 
  • payment processing, 
  • marketing, 
  • analytics, and enforcement of our Terms of Service Agreement and other agreements; 
  • Other users of the site to identify you to anyone to whom you send messages or make comments through the Services; 
  • Persons or entities with whom you consent to have your Personal Data shared; 
  • Third parties in order to prevent damage to our property (tangible and intangible), for safety reasons, or to collect amounts owed to us; 
  • Merchants and payment processors; and 
  • Third parties as we believe necessary or appropriate, in any manner permitted under applicable law, including laws outside your country of residence. 

We do this to: 

  1. comply with legal process; 
  2. respond to requests from public and government authorities, including public and government authorities outside your country of residence; 
  3. enforce our Terms of Service Agreement and other agreements; 
  4. protect our operations; 
  5. protect our rights, privacy, safety or property, and/or that of our affiliates, you, or others; 6. and allow us to pursue available remedies or limit the damages that we may sustain.  

We will never sell, rent, or lease your Personal Data to a third party. 

SECTION 4: HOW LONG WE RETAIN YOUR DATA 

If you leave a comment, the comment and its metadata are retained for one year. 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. 

Analytics data is retained indefinitely. 

Contact forms are held for one year. 

SECTION 5: 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. 

SECTION 6: WHERE WE SEND YOUR DATA 

Visitor comments may be checked through an automated spam detection service. Third parties have access to your data as noted within this agreement.

ADDITIONAL INFORMATION 

We will retain your Personal Data for the period necessary to fulfill the purposes outlined in this Privacy Policy unless a longer retention period is required or allowed by law. 

INFORMATION FROM MINORS 

We do not knowingly collect data from or market to children under 18 years of age. 

Advertising.

This Site is affiliated with CMI Marketing, Inc., d/b/a Raptive (“Raptive”) for the purposes of placing advertising on the Site, and Raptive will collect and use certain data for advertising purposes. To learn more about Raptive’s data usage, click here: https://raptive.com/creator-advertising-privacy-statement/ 

Contact Us

If you have any questions about this Privacy Policy, or the practices of this Site, please contact us at [email protected]