Privacy Policy
Small Pantry is a non-commercial, personal blog dedicated to sharing original, professionally tested recipes. Currently Our website address is: https://small-pantry.com.
Small Pantry will never, under any circumstances, sell any information collected. Any personally identifiable information is submitted voluntarily by site users, such as when signing up for email newsletters or leaving a comment.
For users that register on our website (if any), any personal information they provide will be stored 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. Also, if you request a password reset, your IP address will be included in the reset email.
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.
Changes to this privacy policy
The Owner reserves the right to make changes to this privacy policy at any time by notifying its Users on this page and/or - as far as technically and legally feasible - sending a notice to Users via any contact information available to the Owner. It is strongly recommended to check this page often, referring to the date of the last modification listed at the bottom.
Should the changes affect processing activities performed on the basis of the User’s consent, the Owner shall collect new consent from the User, where required.
Please see below for more details about how data is collected and used by third-party websites or applications, such as spam-blockers or ad services.
Comments and Anti-Spam Plug-ins
When visitors leave comments on Small-Pantry.com, we collect the data entered into the comments form, and also the visitor’s IP address and browser user agent string to help spam detection. If you leave a comment, the comment and its metadata are retained indefinitely. This is only so we can recognize and approve any follow-up comments automatically instead of holding them in a moderation queue.
Visitor comments may be checked through an automated spam detection service. Small-Pantry.com currently uses the Akismet anti-spam plug-in. From Akismet:
We collect information about visitors who comment on Sites that use our Akismet anti-spam service. The information we collect depends on how the User sets up Akismet for the Site, but typically includes the commenter’s IP address, user agent, referrer, and Site URL (along with other information directly provided by the commenter such as their name, username, email address, and the comment itself).
Small Pantry also allows site visitors to use their Gravatar profile image when leaving comments. 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 Terms of Service page is available here: https://en.gravatar.com/site/terms-of-service. 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 Small-Pantry.com, you may opt-in to saving your name, email address and website via 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 unless deleted by the visitor.
Small Pantry also allows Google to use cookies to track and better understand site traffic via Google Analytics. The information collected is not personally identifiable. From Google:
Some cookies help sites understand how their visitors engage with their properties. For example, Google Analytics, a Google product that helps site and app owners understand how people engage with a service, uses a set of cookies to collect information and report site usage statistics without personally identifying individual visitors to Google. ‘_ga’ is the main cookie used by Google Analytics. ‘_ga’ enables a service to distinguish one user from another and lasts for 2 years. It’s used by any site that implements Google Analytics, including Google services.
For more information about how Google Services uses cookies, see How Google uses cookies. (Opens in a new tab.)
You can choose to disable or selectively turn off our cookies or third-party cookies in your browser settings, or by managing preferences in programs such as Norton Internet Security. However, this can affect how you are able to interact with our site as well as other websites. This could include the inability to login to services or programs, such as logging into forums or accounts.
Deleting cookies does not mean you are permanently opted out of any advertising program. Unless you have settings that disallow cookies, the next time you visit a site running the advertisements, a new cookie will be added.
Ads and Other Embeded Content
Pages on this site may occasionally include embedded content (e.g. videos, images, articles, 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, according to their own privacy policies and independently from Small-Pantry.com.
Any ads placed on Small-Pantry.com are generated automatically through Google AdSense Services. While Small Pantry can control the placement of these ads, the content is automatically generated by Google’s services. To personalize these ads, Google may place and read cookies on your browser, or use web beacons to collect information as a result of ad serving on this website. This is generally used for geotargeting purposes (showing New York real estate ads to someone in New York, for example) or showing certain ads based on specific sites visited (such as showing cooking ads to someone who frequents cooking sites). For detailed information regarding how Google uses data please refer to this link: How Google uses data when you use our partners’ sites or apps. (Opens in a new tab.)
Affiliate Marketing
This blog may contain affiliate links. There is no cost to you, but if you buy something from these links I may earn a small commission, which helps keep my stove hot and small pantry stocked–thank you! Any affiliate links shared are for products that I personally recommend, although I have no control of the quality of service or shipping associated with purchasing these products.
An affiliate link may be an endorsement of the product, but is not an endorsement of the company selling the product. Where possible I will also direct readers to stores that are/support small businesses and treat their employees in a kind and humane way. While I strongly encourage consumers to find alternatives to Amazon, I realize that not everybody has that luxury. This is why I have decided to participate in their affiliate program. Basically, if you are going to buy it on Amazon anyway, I am grateful for the small commission I earn from referring the product to my readers.
"As an Amazon Associate I earn from qualifying purchases."
This Privacy Policy was last updated on 7/11/2023. Users may contact the Site Owner with any questions at hello@small-pantry.com.