Effective Date: 5/14/2024

Welcome to Honeycomb Homemade. Our website is www.honeycombhomemade.com 

You can contact us at Honeycomb.homeade@gmail.com 

Your privacy is important to us. This Privacy Policy explains in detail how we collect, use, disclose, and protect your personal information when you visit this blog.

Information We Collect
We may collect the following types of information:

  • Personal Information: This includes your name, email address, and any other information you provide when you subscribe to an email  newsletter, leave comments, or contact us.
    We will only collect this information if it is given, in the form of comments that you choose to leave or email to contact us. You may choose not to provide any personal information on this blog. 
  • Non-Personal Information: This includes information that does not personally identify you, such as your IP address, browser type, referring website, and pages visited. This information may be collected automatically through Google Analytics and other tracking technologies.

We may use the information we collect for the following purposes:

  • To provide, operate, and maintain our Blog.
  • To improve, personalize, and expand our Blog.
  • To understand and analyze how you use our Blog.
  • To communicate with you, either directly or through one of our partners, including for customer service, to provide you with updates and other information relating to the Blog, and for marketing and promotional purposes.
  • To prevent spam through an automatic spam detection service.
  • To find and prevent fraud.
  • To comply with legal obligations.

How we use your data

We use cookies to track the activity on our Blog and hold certain information, and also to protect and secure our website. Cookies are files with a small amount of data that are commonly used as anonymous unique identifiers. They help enhance your browsing experience by allowing us to provide personalized content. Cookies can be classified as session cookies, which are temporary and deleted once you close your browser, or persistent cookies, which remain on your device for a set period or until you manually delete them. While cookies can enhance your web experience, they also raise privacy concerns, as they track your online behavior and may be used for targeted advertising.  You can instruct your browser to refuse all cookies or to indicate when a cookie is being sent. However, if you do not accept cookies, you may not be able to use some portions of our Blog.

Analytics

We use Google Analytics to collect and analyze information related to user activity on this blog. For example How often users visit, what pages they visit. We use this information from Google Analytics to enhance our website by better understanding the traffic patterns of our users.

Google Analytics collects only the IP address assigned to you on the date you visit our Blog, rather than your name or other identifying information. We do not combine the information collected through the use of Google Analytics with personally identifiable information. Although Google Analytics plants a permanent cookie on your web browser to identify you as a unique user the next time you visit our Blog, the cookie cannot be used by anyone but Google.  Google’s ability to use and share information collected by Google Analytics about your visits to our Blog is restricted by the Google Analytics Terms of Use and the Google Privacy Policy.  You can read more on the Google Privacy Policy here. Privacy Policy – Privacy & Terms – Google

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.

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.

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.

plug-ins

  • This site uses WP recipe maker which has certain measures in place to prevent spam. This is done by storing the IP address and cookies when ratings are allowed on recipes. This data is stored with the personal WordPress core stores. Cookies from this plug-in are stored for 30 days.
  • This site uses the Adkimry Anti-spam service. 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).

Data Security

We use administrative, technical, and physical security measures to help protect your personal information. While we have taken reasonable steps to secure the personal information you provide to us, please be aware that despite our efforts, no security measures are perfect or impenetrable, and no method of data transmission can be guaranteed against any interception or other type of misuse.

Links to Other Websites

Our Blog contains links to other websites that are not operated by us. If you click on a third-party link, you will be directed to that third party’s site. We strongly advise you to review the Privacy Policy of every site you visit. We have no control over and assume no responsibility for the content, privacy policies, or practices of any third-party sites or services.

Embedded content

This site contains embedded content such as videos and images. This content is the same as if a viewer has visited another website. On this website the most common embedded content is Instagram.

Affiliate disclosure

This blog (honeycomb homemade) contains affiliate links which means that if you make a purchase using my link, I may make a small commission at no extra cost to you.

Amazon affiliate disclosure

Honeycomb homemade is a participant in the Amazon Services LLC Associates Program, an affiliate advertising program designed to provide a way for sites to earn advertising fees by advertising and linking to amazon.com

Children’s Privacy

Our Blog does not address anyone under the age of 13. We do not knowingly collect personally identifiable information from children under 13. If you are a parent or guardian and you are aware that your child has provided us with personal information, please contact us and we will do our best to remove any information that we have.

Changes to This Privacy Policy

We may update our Privacy Policy from time to time, as the blog grows. You are advised to review this Privacy Policy periodically for any changes. Changes to this Privacy Policy are effective when they are posted on this page.

If you have any questions about this Privacy Policy, please contact us:

  • By email: Honeycomb.homeade@gmail.com