This Privacy Policy details the types of personal information that is received and collected as well as how it is used. A Clean Plate will never share your email address or personal information without your consent. When you visit acleanplate.com (“the site”), comment on a post, subscribe to the newsletter, click on a link, or engage with other activities, services, features, or resources available on the site, information is collected such as your name and e-mail address. You can always refuse to supply this information, though it may prevent you from engaging in certain activities on the site. Your use of this site, in any and all forms, constitutes an acceptance of this Privacy Policy.

Information may be used to improve customer service, personalize the user experience, improve our site, run a promotion or contest, or to send periodic newsletter e-mails to those who opt-in. Acleanplate.com does not knowingly collect or solicit Personally Identifiable Information from or about children under 13 except as permitted by law. If we discover we have received any information from a child under 13 in violation of this policy, that information will be deleted immediately. If you believe acleanplate.com has any information from or about anyone under 13, please send me an e-mail.

Log Files

Like many other websites, we use anonymous log files to help learn about when, from where, and how often traffic flows to this site. The information in the log files includes Internet Protocol addresses (IP), types of browser, Internet Service Provider (ISP), date and time stamp, referring and exit pages, and number of clicks.

Cookies

This site stores “convenience” cookies on your computer when you leave a comment. The cookies record the name, email address, and URL that you enter when you submit a comment so that you won’t have to re-enter that information next time you leave a comment. Cookies are also used by Google Analytics to display anonymous user data that helps acleanplate.com better understand how users engage with the site. If you wish to disable cookies, you may do so in your web browser’s settings or review Google Analytics’ privacy policy at its site.

Affiliate Programs

A Clean Plate is a participant in the Amazon Services LLC Associates Program, an affiliate advertising program designed to provide a means for sites to earn advertising feed by advertising and linking to Amazon.com. Amazon and other third-party affiliate marketing networks use cookies and/or web beacons to track commissions acleanplate.com earns when you purchase a product marketed through their site. Each program has their own privacy policy which can be reviewed at their respective sites.

Advertising

We allow third-party companies to serve ads and/or collect certain anonymous information when you visit our website or mobile application. These companies may use non-personally identifiable information (e.g., click stream information, browser type, time and date, subject of advertisements clicked or scrolled over) during your visits to this and other websites in order to provide advertisements about goods and services likely to be of greater interest to you. These companies typically use a cooked or third-party web beacon to collect this information. To learn more about this behavioral advertising practice or to opt out of this type of advertising, see here. For information about opting out of Gourmet Ads and ad serving partners, see here.

Comments and Newsletter

Users may choose to receive e-mail blog updates via MailPoet by submitting a name and e-mail address to the email subscription form. I use a secure opt-in subscription system and subscribers may unsubscribe anytime via the “Unsubscribe” link contained at the bottom of every e-mail. When leaving a comment, users must submit a name and e-mail address. To combat spam, the WordPress blogging platform also records the IP address of anyone submitting a comment.