Welcome to ToasterFood.com! Your privacy is important to us. This Privacy Policy outlines how we collect, use, disclose, and safeguard your personal information when you visit our website. We are committed to protecting your privacy in accordance with applicable data protection laws, including the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) and the California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA).
Information We Collect
We collect several types of information from and about users of our website, including:
- Personal Information: This includes information that can be used to identify you personally, such as your name, email address, postal address, and phone number. We collect this information when you voluntarily provide it to us, such as when you subscribe to our newsletter, create an account, leave a comment, or contact us through our website.
- Usage Data: This includes information about how you access and use our website. This may include your IP address, browser type, operating system, referring URLs, pages you visit, and the dates/times of your visits. We collect this information automatically through cookies and other tracking technologies.
- Device Information: We may collect information about the device you use to access our website, including the device type, device ID, and mobile network information.
- Location Data: With your consent, we may collect information about your location, such as your precise or approximate location. This information may be used to provide you with location-based services or content.
- Comments: When visitors leave comments on the site 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.
- Media: 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.
- Contact forms: We keep contact form submissions for a certain period for customer service purposes, but we do not use the information submitted through them for marketing purposes.
We use this information to:
- Provide and maintain our website
- Improve our website and develop new features
- Personalize your experience on our website
- Communicate with you, including responding to your inquiries and sending you newsletters and updates
- Analyze how our website is used
- Prevent fraud and abuse
- Comply with legal obligations
Cookies & Web Beacons
We use cookies and web beacons to collect information about your browsing activity on our website. Cookies are small text files that are stored on your device when you visit a website. Web beacons are small electronic images that are embedded in web pages or emails.
We use the following types of cookies:
- Essential Cookies: These cookies are necessary for the operation of our website. They allow you to navigate our website and use its features.
- Performance Cookies: These cookies collect information about how you use our website, such as which pages you visit most often. This information is used to improve the performance of our website.
- Functionality Cookies: These cookies allow our website to remember your preferences, such as your language settings.
- Advertising Cookies: These cookies are used to deliver ads that are relevant to you and your interests. They are also used to limit the number of times you see an ad and to measure the effectiveness of advertising campaigns.
You can control cookies through your browser settings. Most browsers allow you to block cookies, delete cookies, or be notified when a cookie is being placed on your device. However, please note that if you block cookies, you may not be able to use all of the features of our website.
We may also use web beacons to track your activity on our website and in our emails. Web beacons are small electronic images that are embedded in web pages or emails. They are used to collect information about your browsing activity, such as which pages you visit and which emails you open. We use this information to improve our website and our marketing efforts.
Amazon Associates Program Disclosure
ToasterFood.com 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. This means that we may earn a commission if you click on a link to Amazon.com and make a purchase. As an Amazon Associate I earn from qualifying purchases.
Advertising Partners Privacy Policies
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. ToasterFood.com’s privacy policy does not apply to, and we cannot control the activities of, such other advertisers or web sites.
Our advertising partners may use cookies and web beacons on our site. Our advertising partners include:
- Amazon
These third-party ad servers or ad networks use technology to the advertisements and links that appear on ToasterFood.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.
ToasterFood.com has no access to or control over these cookies that are used by third-party advertisers.
CCPA & GDPR Rights
As a user of ToasterFood.com, you have certain rights regarding your personal information under the CCPA and GDPR. These rights include:
California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA) Rights
- Right to Know: You have the right to request information about the categories and specific pieces of personal information we have collected about you, the sources of the information, the purposes for collecting it, and the categories of third parties with whom we share it.
- Right to Delete: You have the right to request that we delete your personal information, subject to certain exceptions.
- Right to Opt-Out of Sale: You have the right to opt-out of the sale of your personal information. ToasterFood.com does not sell your personal information.
- Right to Non-Discrimination: We will not discriminate against you for exercising your CCPA rights.
General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) Rights
- Right to Access: You have the right to request access to your personal information.
- Right to Rectification: You have the right to request that we correct any inaccurate or incomplete personal information.
- Right to Erasure (Right to be Forgotten): You have the right to request that we delete your personal information, subject to certain exceptions.
- Right to Restriction of Processing: You have the right to request that we restrict the processing of your personal information.
- Right to Data Portability: You have the right to receive your personal information in a structured, commonly used, and machine-readable format and to transmit that data to another controller.
- Right to Object: You have the right to object to the processing of your personal information, including processing for direct marketing purposes.
- Right to Withdraw Consent: If we are processing your personal information based on your consent, you have the right to withdraw your consent at any time.
- Right to Lodge a Complaint: You have the right to lodge a complaint with a supervisory authority if you believe that we have violated your rights under the GDPR.
To exercise any of these rights, please contact us at [insert contact email address here]. We will respond to your request within a reasonable timeframe.
We may update this Privacy Policy from time to time. We will post any changes on our website, and we encourage you to review this Privacy Policy periodically. Your continued use of our website after any changes to this Privacy Policy constitutes your acceptance of the changes.