Who we are
Our website address is: https://sparkofsoy.com. We are a hobby project, made out of passion for home cooking.
Subscribers
if you subscribe we collect you email and name to send you recipes and other material. We might keep the database with this information in a third party service to enable mailouts.
Contact form
When using contact forms on the website the information you provide will be sent to our email and will be seen by our admin.
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.
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.
Cookies
As a visitor we might collect cookies if you choose to accept that, this can then be used to gather information such as time of visit, pages visited and location of your device and type of device (mobile, pc, etc).
If you leave a comment on our site you may opt-in to saving your name, email address and website 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 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 edit or publish an article, an additional cookie will be saved in your browser. This cookie includes no personal data and simply indicates the post ID of the article you just edited. It expires after 1 day.
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.
Who we share your data with
If you request a password reset, your IP address will be included in the reset email. Third party services might be used for email services and therefore have access to the information you provide in forms on the website.
How long 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 or subscriptions, we also store the personal information they provide. 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.
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.
As a visitor we might collect cookies if you choose to accept that, this can then be used to gather information such as time of visit, pages visited and location of your device. This can be denied when allowing or disallowing cookies to be used.
as a subscriber you can unsubscribe through the instruction at the end of every email. You can also write to [email protected] and request removal of your details.
Where your data is sent
Visitor comments may be checked through an automated spam detection service.
Some data might be collected for advertising purposes and used in google analytics and adsense aswell as to show visitor data to sponsors (times, locations, devices).