Shared Appetite (www.sharedappetite.com) is a personal blog written and edited by me. For questions about this blog, please contact me by email (chris@sharedappetite.com) or by filling out this form.
First, let’s be real…
Sometimes I’ll link to and talk about products I love. And sometimes I will receive a nominal affiliate fee for that product. It’s not a lot (trust me), and it doesn’t cost you anything extra. If I’m talking about how much I love so and so’s product, then I honestly and truly do. If I don’t like something, I’ll tell you. I’m not in it for the free stuff. Trust me. It’s not worth it.
And this blog does accept forms of cash advertising, sponsorship, paid insertions or other forms of compensation on occasion. I only work on projects and campaigns that I want to participate in and I think are a good fit for you, my awesome readers. No form of compensation is going to influence my opinions on a product or the content on Shared Appetite.
And now the mandatory stuff the FTC makes me say:
Disclosure: Shared Appetite is a personal blog written and edited by me. This blog accepts forms of advertising, sponsorship, or other forms of compensation. The compensation received will never influence the content, topics or posts made in this blog. The views and opinions expressed on this blog are, and always will be, purely my own. Any product claim, statistic, quote or other representation about a product or service should be verified with the manufacturer, provider or party in question. All advertising is in the form of advertisements generated by a third party ad network. Those advertisements will be identified as paid advertisements.
This blog does not contain any content which might present a conflict of interest.
Amazon Associates disclosure: I am 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 blog does have affiliate links. When you click on that link and purchase the item, we may receive compensation.
Privacy Policy: Shared Appetite does not store any information about your visit to this blog other than to analyze and optimize your content and reading experience through the use of cookies. You can turn off the use of cookies at anytime by changing your specific browser settings. We are not responsible for republished content from this blog on other blogs or websites without our permission. This privacy policy is subject to change without notice. We allow third-‐party companies to serve ads and/or collect certain anonymous information when you visit our web site 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 cookie 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, you can visit http://www.networkadvertising.org/.
We use third-party advertising companies to serve ads when you visit our Web site. These companies may use aggregated information (not including your name, address, email address or telephone number) about your visits to this and other Web sites in order to provide advertisements about goods and services of interest to you. If you would like more information about this practice and to know your choices about not having this information used by these companies, please see: http://www.networkadvertising.org/managing/opt_out.asp
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WHAT INFORMATION IS COLLECTED AND HOW IT’S USED:
Voluntarily Submitted: Personal information from you may be collected such as your name or email address (i.e. leaving a comment, subscribing to a newsletter, or submitting a contact form).
Automatically-Collected: Certain information is automatically collected about you and the device with which you access the Website (i.e. IP address, operating system, browser, referring website, pages you viewed, and the dates/times when you accessed the Website, links clicked, etc).
Cookies: We may log information using cookies, which are small data files stored on your browser by the Website. We may use both session cookies, which expire when you close your browser, and persistent cookies, which stay on your browser until deleted, to provide you with a more personalized experience on the Website.
This collected information may be used in the following ways:
- To operate and maintain this website;
- To respond to your comments or inquiries;
- To track and measure advertising on the Website;
- To protect, investigate, and deter against unauthorized or illegal activity.
THIRD-PARTY USE OF PERSONAL INFORMATION
We may share your information with third parties when you explicitly authorize us to share your information.
Additionally, the Website may use third-party service providers to service various aspects of the Website. Each third-party service provider’s use of your personal information is dictated by their respective privacy policies.
The Website currently uses the following third-party service providers:
Google Analytics – this service tracks Website usage and provides information such as referring websites and user actions on the Website. Google Analytics may capture your IP address, but no other personal information is captured by Google Analytics.
Mail Chimp – this service is used for delivery of email updates and newsletters. We store your name and email address for purposes of delivering such communications. Please refer to Mail Chimp’s privacy policy for further information.
This list may be amended from time to time in the Website’s sole discretion.
Except when required by law, we will not sell, distribute, or reveal your email addresses or other personal information without your consent; however, we may disclose or transfer personal information collected through the Website to third parties who acquire all or a portion of our business, which may be the result of a merger, consolidation, or purchase of all or a portion of our assets, or in connection with any bankruptcy or reorganization proceeding brought by or against us.
ANONYMOUS DATA
From time to time, we may use anonymous data, which does not identify you alone, or when combined with data from other parties. This type of anonymous data may be provided to other parties for marketing, advertising, or other uses. Examples of this anonymous data may include analytics or information collected from cookies.
PUBLICLY VISIBLE INFORMATION
If you leave a comment, certain information may be publicly visible.
COOKIES
The Website uses cookies to store visitors’ preferences, record user-specific information on what pages users access or visit, ensure that visitors are not repeatedly sent the same banner ads, customize Website content based on visitors’ browser type or other information that the visitor sends. Cookies may also be used by third-party services, such as Google Analytics, as described herein.
Users may, at any time, prevent the setting of cookies, by the Website, by using a corresponding setting of your internet browser and may thus permanently deny the setting of cookies. Furthermore, already set cookies may be deleted at any time via an Internet browser or other software programs. This is possible in all popular Internet browsers. However, if users deactivate the setting of cookies in your Internet browser, not all functions of our Website may be entirely usable.
CHILDREN’S INFORMATION
The Website does not knowingly collect any personally identifiable information from children under the age of 16. If a parent or guardian believes that the Website has personally identifiable information of a child under the age of 16 in its database, please contact us immediately.
Last updated: May 2, 2018
