Privacy Policy

Your privacy is very important to us. At Perfectionist Wannabe we have a few fundamental principles that we follow:

  • We don’t ask you for personal information unless we truly need it. (We can’t stand services that ask you for things like your gender or income level for no apparent reason.)
  • We don’t share your personal information with anyone except to comply with the law, develop our products, or protect our rights.
  • We don’t store personal information on our servers unless required for the on-going operation of our site.

Who we are

Our website address is: https://www.perfectionistwannabe.com.

What personal data we collect and why we collect it

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.

Cookies

If you leave a comment or recipe rating on this 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 have an account and you log in to this site, 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.

When user ratings are enabled on recipes, Bootstrapped Ventures stores the IP address upon voting.  This is used as (one of the) measures to prevent rating spam.  Cookies are stored for 30 days.  User submitted data is stored indefinitely in the local database.

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 tracing your interaction with the embedded content if you have an account and are logged in to that website.

Website Visitors

Like most website operators, Perfectionist Wannabe collects non-personally-identifying information of the sort that web browsers and servers typically make available, such as the browser type, language preference, referring site, and the date and time of each visitor request. Perfectionist Wannabe’s purpose in collecting non-personally identifying information is to better understand how Perfectionist Wannabe’s visitors use its website. From time to time, Perfectionist Wannabe may release non-personally-identifying information in the aggregate, e.g., by publishing a report on trends in the usage of its website.

Perfectionist Wannabe also collects potentially personally-identifying information like Internet Protocol (IP) addresses for logged in users and for users leaving comments on our blogs. Perfectionist Wannabe only discloses logged in user and commenter IP addresses under the same circumstances that it uses and discloses personally-identifying information as described below, except that blog commenter IP addresses are visible and disclosed to the administrators of the blog where the comment was left.

Gathering of Personally-Identifying Information

Certain visitors to Perfectionist Wannabe’s website choose to interact with Perfectionist Wannabe in ways that require Perfectionist Wannabe to gather personally-identifying information. The amount and type of information that Perfectionist Wannabe gathers depends on the nature of the interaction. For example, we ask visitors who comment on our blog to provide a username and email address. Those who wish to receive updates via email, we collect their emails. In each case, Perfectionist Wannabe collects such information only insofar as is necessary or appropriate to fulfill the purpose of the visitor’s interaction with Perfectionist Wannabe.  Perfectionist Wannabe does not disclose personally-identifying information other than as described below. And visitors can always refuse to supply personally-identifying information, with the caveat that it may prevent them from engaging in certain website-related activities.

Aggregated Statistics

Perfectionist Wannabe may collect statistics about the behavior of visitors to its website. For instance,Perfectionist Wannabe may monitor the most popular pages on the site through Google Analytics or use spam screened by the Akismet service to help identify spam. Perfectionist Wannabe may display this information publicly or provide it to others. However, Perfectionist Wannabe does not disclose personally-identifying information other than as described below.

Protection of Certain Personally-Identifying Information

Perfectionist Wannabe discloses potentially personally-identifying and personally-identifying information only to those of its employees, contractors and affiliated organizations that (i) need to know that information in order to process it on Perfectionist Wannabe’s behalf or to provide services available at Perfectionist Wannabe’s website, and (ii) that have agreed not to disclose it to others. Some of those employees, contractors and affiliated organizations may be located outside of your home country; by using Perfectionist Wannabe’s website, you consent to the transfer of such information to them. Perfectionist Wannabe will not rent or sell potentially personally-identifying and personally-identifying information to anyone. Other than to its employees, contractors and affiliated organizations, as described above, Perfectionist Wannabe discloses potentially personally-identifying and personally-identifying information only in response to a subpoena, court order or other governmental request, or when Perfectionist Wannabe believes in good faith that disclosure is reasonably necessary to protect the property or rights of Perfectionist Wannabe, third parties or the public at large. If you are a registered user of Perfectionist Wannabe and have supplied your email address, Perfectionist Wannabe may occasionally send you an email to tell you about new features, solicit your feedback, or just keep you up to date with what’s going on with Perfectionist Wannabe and our products. We primarily use our various product blogs to communicate this type of information, so we expect to keep this type of email to a minimum. If you send us a request (for example via a support email or via one of our feedback mechanisms), we reserve the right to publish it in order to help us clarify or respond to your request or to help us support other users. Perfectionist Wannabe takes all measures reasonably necessary to protect against the unauthorized access, use, alteration or destruction of potentially personally-identifying and personally-identifying information.

Ads

Ads appearing on Perfectionist Wannabe may be delivered to users by advertising partners such as Google AdSense, Forever 21, Amazon, Sure Trader, Shopstyle or Naked Zebra, who may set cookies. These cookies allow the ad server to recognize your computer each time they send you an online advertisement to compile information about you or others who use your computer. This information allows ad networks to, among other things, deliver targeted advertisements that they believe will be of most interest to you. This Privacy Policy covers the use of cookies by Perfectionist Wannabe and does not cover the use of cookies by any advertisers.

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 (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.

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.

Where we send your data

Visitor comments may be checked through an automated spam detection service. Comments and other content submitted to Akismet anti-spam service are not saved on our servers unless they were marked as false positives, in which case we store them long enough to use them to improve the service to avoid future false positives.

Privacy Policy Changes

Although most changes are likely to be minor, Perfectionist Wannabe may change its Privacy Policy from time to time, and in Perfectionist Wannabe’s sole discretion. Perfectionist Wannabe encourages visitors to frequently check this page for any changes to its Privacy Policy. Your continued use of this site after any change in this Privacy Policy will constitute your acceptance of such change.