Privacy Policy

As the owner of this website Easy Cookie Recipes (“website”), (“we” or “us”) understand that your privacy is of critical importance.  This Privacy Policy describes what information we collect from you via the Website and how we use and disclose such information.

Site Disclosures

This blog is owned and edited by Julie Blanner based upon personal experiences and preferences. The FTC requires full disclosure of relationships I have with brands when writing about a product.

Easy Cookie Recipes is an ad, affiliate and PR friendly website. Brands and advertisers will never influence the content of blog posts. I carefully select products that I love and use and create all content relevant to the  blog. Sometimes I link to a product or website and may be paid a commission based on the sale of those products. The views and opinions expressed on this blog are always my own.

Copyright + Attribution

Content found throughout this site is public information. However, all information including text, recipes, photographs, etc. is copyrighted and is registered with myfreecopyright.com.  The content on this site (including photos) may not be sold, reprinted, or used for commercial purposes without the written consent of Julie Blanner.

To obtain permission to reproduce the content found at easycookierecipes.com, please contact me.

Reader Contact Information

Julie, writer and owner of easycookierecipes.com, will never share personal information such as name or email address. Anonymous information is tracked to gather information to improve site performance and to help us track site analytics. No personal information is collected except for what is voluntarily provided by the user. Your personally identifiable information is kept secure. All emails and newsletters from this site allow you to opt out of further mailings.

Third Party Advertising
I allow third-party companies to serve ads and/or collect certain anonymous information when you visit our website. 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 networkadvertising.org.

Cookies / IP Address tracking
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.

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.

We use cookies for the following:

• Authentication – to identify you when you visit our and navigate our website
• Status – to determine if you are logged into our website
• Personalization – to store information to personalize the website for you and your preferences
• Security – to protect our website
• Advertising – to display relevant ads
• Analysis – to help us to analyze the use and performance of our website

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.

Display Ads

Mediavine Programmatic Advertising

For information regarding data collection by Mediavine ad partners including how to opt out of data collection, please click here.

Retargeting Ads

From time to time, the Website may engage in remarketing efforts with third-party companies, such as Google, Facebook, or Instagram, in order to market the Website. These companies use cookies to serve ads based on someone’s past visits to the Website.

Affiliate Program Participation

This site is a participant in the Amazon Services LLC Associates Program and Reward Style, affiliate advertising programs designed to provide a means for us to earn fees by linking to Amazon.com and other affiliated sites.

Newsletters

On the Website, you may subscribe to our newsletter, which may be used for advertising purposes. All newsletters sent may contain tracking pixels. The pixel is embedded in emails and allows an analysis of the success of online marketing campaigns. Because of these tracking pixels, we may see if and when you open an email and which links within the email you click. Also, this allows the Website to adapt the content of future newsletters to the interests of the user. This behavior will not be passed on to third parties.

RIGHTS RELATED TO YOUR PERSONAL INFORMATION

Opt-out – You may opt-out of future email communications by following the unsubscribe links in our emails.

Access – You may access the personal information we have about you by submitting a request to julieblanner(at)me(dot)com

Amend – You may contact us at julieblanner(at)me(dot)com to amend or update your personal information.

Forget – In certain situations, you may request that we erase or forget your personal data. To do so, please submit a request to julieblanner(at)me(dot)com.

Please note that we may need to retain certain information for recordkeeping purposes or to complete transactions, or when required by law.

SENSITIVE PERSONAL INFORMATION

At no time should you submit sensitive personal information to the Website. This includes your social security number, information regarding race or ethnic origin, political opinions, religious beliefs, health information, criminal background, or trade union memberships. If you elect to submit such information to us, it will be subject to this Privacy Policy.

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 at julieblanner(at)me(dot)com and we will use our best efforts to promptly remove such information from our records.

CONTACT INFORMATION

At any time, please contact us at julieblanner(at)me(dot)com for questions related to this Privacy Policy.

We reserve the right to change and/or update these policies at any time.  For more information, please read about our Terms of Use.

(c) Julie Blanner