Updated January 15, 2025
Overview
At Bake Angel, we recognize the importance of protecting your privacy and security. We want to be clear to our users about how information is collected and used. This privacy policy describes what information we collect from you while you are using our website and how that information is used. By using our website, you are consenting to our privacy policy.
Our website address is: https://bakeangel.com (the website) and this is a personal baking blog. All information, recipes, techniques and resources posted on this website are based on personal experience and are provided for informational and educational purposes only.
We do not provide nutritional advice and assume no responsibility or liability for any errors or omissions on this website or for any damages you may suffer as a result of failing to seek competent advice from a professional who is familiar with your situation or as the result of the use, or non-use, of the information available on this website.
Collecting and Using Your Personal Data
Personal Data
While using our website, we may ask you 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:
- First and last name
- Email address
- Usage data
We use your personal data to provide, maintain, monitor, analyze trends, usage and improve our service. By using the website, you agree to the collection and use of information in accordance with this Privacy Policy.
Comments
When visitors leave comments on the website 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. Visitor comments may be checked through an automated spam detection service. Any information you include in a comment on our website may be read, collected, and used by anyone.
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
We use cookies and similar tracking technologies to track the activity on our website and store certain information. Cookies are small files placed on your computer, mobile device or any other device by a website, containing the details of your browsing history on that website. You can instruct your browser to refuse all cookies or to indicate when a cookie is being sent. Please note that blocking cookies may have a negative impact on how you are able to interact with our site, as well as other websites. If you do not accept cookies, you may not be able to use some parts of our website, such as logging in to your account.
If you leave a comment on our website you may opt-in to saving your name, email address and website (if any) 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 have an account and 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 request a password reset, your IP address will be included in the reset email.
Log Files
When you use the website, our web host’s servers automatically record certain information in server logs. These server logs may include information such as your web request, Internet Protocol (IP) address, browser type, referring / exit pages and URLs, number of clicks and how you interact with links on the Service, domain names, landing pages, pages viewed, mobile carrier, and other such information. Log files help us to monitor, analyze, improve and maintain the website and to diagnose and fix any website-related issues.
How 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.
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.
How we share your information
We may share the information we collect from you with third party companies as detailed below. These third parties have access to your personal data only to perform these tasks on our behalf and are obligated not to disclose or use it for any other purpose.
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.
Links to other websites
Our website may contain links to other websites of interest that are not operated by us. If you click on a third-party link to leave our website, you will be directed to the third-party website. We have no control over and assume no responsibility for the content, privacy policies or practices of third-party websites or services. Such sites are not governed by this privacy policy. We strongly advise you to exercise caution and to review the privacy policy of every website that you visit.
Analytics
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/
Mediavine Programmatic Advertising (Ver 1.1)
The Website works with Mediavine to manage third-party interest-based advertising appearing on the Website. Mediavine serves content and advertisements when you visit the Website, which may use first and third-party cookies. A cookie is a small text file which is sent to your computer or mobile device (referred to in this policy as a “device”) by the web server so that a website can remember some information about your browsing activity on the Website.
First party cookies are created by the website that you are visiting. A third-party cookie is frequently used in behavioral advertising and analytics and is created by a domain other than the website you are visiting. Third-party cookies, tags, pixels, beacons and other similar technologies (collectively, “Tags”) may be placed on the Website to monitor interaction with advertising content and to target and optimize advertising. Each internet browser has functionality so that you can block both first and third-party cookies and clear your browser’s cache. The “help” feature of the menu bar on most browsers will tell you how to stop accepting new cookies, how to receive notification of new cookies, how to disable existing cookies and how to clear your browser’s cache. For more information about cookies and how to disable them, you can consult the information at All About Cookies.
Without cookies you may not be able to take full advantage of the Website content and features. Please note that rejecting cookies does not mean that you will no longer see ads when you visit our Site. In the event you opt-out, you will still see non-personalized advertisements on the Website.
The Website collects the following data using a cookie when serving personalized ads:
- IP Address
- Operating System type
- Operating System version
- Device Type
- Language of the website
- Web browser type
- Email (in hashed form)
Mediavine Partners (companies listed below with whom Mediavine shares data) may also use this data to link to other end user information the partner has independently collected to deliver targeted advertisements. Mediavine Partners may also separately collect data about end users from other sources, such as advertising IDs or pixels, and link that data to data collected from Mediavine publishers in order to provide interest-based advertising across your online experience, including devices, browsers and apps. This data includes usage data, cookie information, device information, information about interactions between users and advertisements and websites, geolocation data, traffic data, and information about a visitor’s referral source to a particular website. Mediavine Partners may also create unique IDs to create audience segments, which are used to provide targeted advertising.
If you would like more information about this practice and to know your choices to opt-in or opt-out of this data collection, please visit National Advertising Initiative opt out page. You may also visit Digital Advertising Alliance website and Network Advertising Initiative website to learn more information about interest-based advertising. You may download the AppChoices app at Digital Advertising Alliance’s AppChoices app to opt out in connection with mobile apps, or use the platform controls on your mobile device to opt out.
For specific information about Mediavine Partners, the data each collects and their data collection and privacy policies, please visit Mediavine Partners.
Advertisements and Retargeting Ads
We use third-party advertisements on Bake Angel to support our site. Some of our advertisers occasionally serve you cookies as well. We do not have control over cookies placed by advertisers. We may use advertising service vendors to help present advertisements on the website, such as the Google Adsense program. These vendors may use cookies, web beacons, or similar technologies to serve you advertisements tailored to interests you have shown by browsing on this and other sites you have visited, to determine whether you have seen a particular advertisement before and to avoid sending you duplicate advertisements. In doing so, these vendors may collect non-personal data such as your browser type, your operating system, Web pages visited, time of visits, content viewed, ads viewed, and other clickstream data. The use of cookies, web beacons, or similar technologies by these advertising service vendors is subject to their own privacy policies, not ours, and Service Provider disclaims all liability in connection therewith.
From time to time, the website may engage in remarketing efforts with third-party companies, such as Google, Facebook, or Instagram, in order to market the website. These companies use cookies to serve ads based on someone’s past visits to the website.
Affiliate program participation
The website engages in affiliate marketing, which is done by embedding tracking links into the website. If you click on a link for an affiliate partnership, a cookie will be placed on your browser to track any sales for purposes of commissions.
Bake Angel is a participant in the Amazon Services LLC Associates Program, an affiliate advertising program designed to provide a means for sites to earn advertising fees by advertising and linking to Amazon.com. As an Amazon Associate, we share customized links, provided by Amazon, to track the referrals to their website. I earn a small commission from qualifying purchases and this does not impact the price that you pay for the linked products. You may review Amazon’s privacy policy here.
Newsletter
We use MailChimp for the delivery of our email newsletters and updates. When signing up for our newsletter, you agreed to provide your personally identifiable information. In providing and submitting this information, you consented to the acceptance of this privacy policy. Please review MailChimp’s privacy policy at https://mailchimp.com/legal/privacy/ You can opt out of future email communications by following the unsubscribe links in our emails.
CHILDREN’S PRIVACY
Our website does not address anyone under the age of 18. We do not knowingly collect personally identifiable information from anyone under the age of 18. If you are a parent or guardian and are aware that your child has provided us with personal data, please contact us. If we become aware that we have collected personal data from someone under the age of 18 without verification of parental consent, we will take steps to remove it from our servers.
YOUR RIGHTS
If you have an account on this website, have left comments or signed up for our newsletter, 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.
SECURITY
We make every attempt to keep your personally identifiable information secure but we realize that no transmission over the internet is 100% secure. We strive to use commercially acceptable means to protect your personally identifiable information, but can not guarantee absolute security. By using this website, you acknowledge that you understand and agree to assume these risks.
Changes to this Privacy Policy
We may update our Privacy Policy from time to time. If we do, we will revise the date at the top of this policy. We encourage you to review this policy periodically to review any changes. Changes to this privacy policy are effective once they are posted to this page. By continuing to use our services after Privacy Policy changes go into effect, you agree to be bound by the revised policy.
CONTACT US
If you have any questions about our privacy policy, please reach out to us via our contact form.