The following describes the Privacy Policy for my Frosting n' Glaze website.
Your Privacy
Your privacy is important to me. To better protect your privacy I provide this notice explaining my online information practices and the choices you can make about the way your information is collected and used. You agree to agree to these policies by virtue of using my website in a way that leads to you providing me with personal information.
State Law & Accompanying Rights
Please understand that you may have additional rights originating from State laws based on where you live. These State-based rights may augment, strengthen, or otherwise somehow compliment any privacy rights you have inherently or under Federal law. my policy is to comply fully with the privacy policies of every jurisdiction in which I operate. Accordingly, you are free to use my Contact information to reach me at any time to assert any State rights.
my Commitment To Children’s Privacy
Protecting the privacy of the very young is especially important. For that reason, my website will never collect or maintain information at my website from those I actually know are under 18, and no part of my website is structured to attract anyone under 18.
Under my Terms of Service and Conditions of Use, children under 18 are not allowed to use my website and access my services. It is not my intention to offer products or services to minors.
Google Analytics
my Frosting n' Glaze website uses Google Analytics to help analyse how users use the site. The tool uses “cookies,” which are text files placed on your computer, to collect standard Internet log information and visitor behavior information in an anonymous form. The information generated by the cookie about your use of the website (including your IP address) is transmitted to Google. This information is then used to evaluate visitors’ use of this website and to compile statistical reports on website activity.
I will never (and will not allow any third party to) use the statistical analytics tool to track or to collect any Personally Identifiable Information of visitors to my site. Google will not associate your IP address with any other data held by Google. Neither I nor Google will link, or seek to link, an IP address with the identity of a computer user.
You may refuse the use of cookies by selecting the appropriate settings on your browser, however please note that if you do this you may not be able to use the full functionality of this website. By using this website, you consent to the processing of data about you by Google in the manner and for the purposes set out above.
Other Collection of Personal Information
When visiting my website, the IP address used to access my website may be logged along with the dates and times of access. This information is purely used to analyze trends, administer my website, track users movement, and gather broad demographic information for internal use such as statistical assessments and website improvement. Most importantly, any recorded IP addresses are not linked to personally identifiable information.
Other information may be collected as well, which is rather typical of most websites. For instance, the source that referred you to this website is generally known. Likewise, your duration on the website, and your destination when you leave the website can also be tracked. Other common data collected includes the type of operating system the computer you are using to access my website has. Similarly, the type of web browser is often noted. Again, this is common data collection, and helps ultimately produce a better end-user experience.
Cookies are another common internet practice. Cookies are a key means of improving user experience by allowing me to customize your use of my website. Simple information is transferred to your computer to allow the content and experience to reflect your actions, preferences, and so on. You should simply make the assumption that my website uses cookies, and note that you are free to make adjustments in your web browser to disable these or otherwise receive notification of cookies so you can take whatever desired action you so choose. Please understand that refusing cookies may cripple some of my website features and render some aspects useless to you.
At times, you will be fully aware of information received, as you are the direct source providing it. For instance, you may comment on a blog post, reply to an email (whether broadcast message or autoresponder), provide an email address, complete a survey, requests SMS, or otherwise. Likewise, purchases necessarily involve collecting certain information, such as credit card information, Paypal addresses, your physical address for billing and/or shipping, phone number, and so on. Refusing to provide some of this information may lead to me being unable to provide you with the products or services you’ve requested.
A prime example of limited access to my website is where content may be protected by a username and password. Whether a username and password is generated by the website, or created by you, these will almost always be connected with some other information related to or connected with you. This is true since much content that is protected on the internet is subscription based, often paid for. Thus, the username and password must necessarily be tied to your other account data. Usernames and passwords, by their very nature, should be kept private.
Handling of Personal Information
Note that any personal information you provide to others apart from me or my vendors is wholly optional. As an example, you might disclose something in a blog post comment. That “private” information is now “public,” and I have no control over that. In like fashion, you sharing information with any other third party not functioning as a service provider to me puts that information beyond my control and becomes subject to the policy that party has in place.
my primary intention for collecting personal and private information from you is simply to conduct my business. I can use this internally to better serve you. Accordingly, I see no reason to share your personal information with other parties and outside interests unless you have authorized me to do so.
Of course, there are instances where your information is stored with third party service providers, such as email service providers, as they provide services that are industry-leading in quality and security and are far more beneficial to my end user than attempting such services “in-house.” However, you are never required to deal with any such third party directly, they are limited in how they use your information, and they cannot sell or transfer it to others in any way.
However, of course, your information does comprise part of an overall whole. This aggregate of information, by contrast, may be used to understand my overall user base. Further, I may share this information about my website visitors as a whole, not individually, with third parties for various purposes, in my sole discretion.
While I am in full support of privacy rights and policies, there are times when even I may be forced to abandon these ideals. Just as major search engines face ongoing compulsion to provide data against their will, so too may the same occur with my website. Illegal activity or other serious acts or allegations could create legal liability for my website. In those cases, I reserve the right to share your information, or else may simply be compelled to do so by law.
On the other hand, there may be times when I would need to share your private information in order to protect my own interests. For instance, in cases of suspected or alleged copyright infringement or other intellectual property violations, it may be necessary to share personal information.
Google Adsense and the DoubleClick DART Cookie
Google, as a third party advertisement vendor, may use cookies to serve ads on this website. The use of DART cookies by Google enables them to serve adverts to visitors that are based on their visits to this website, including past visits, as well as other websites on the internet.
To opt out of the DART cookies you may visit the Google ad and content network privacy policy at the following url https://www.google.com/privacy_ads.html Tracking of users through the DART cookie mechanisms are subject to Google’s own privacy policies.
Other Third Party ad servers or ad networks may also use cookies to track users activities on this website to measure advertisement effectiveness and other reasons that will be provided in their own privacy policies, my website has no access or control over these cookies that may be used by third party advertisers. However, you can opt out of some, though likely not all, of these cookies in one easy location at http://ww.networkadvertising.org/managing/opt_out.asp
Links to Third Party Websites
I have included links on this website for your use and reference. I am not responsible for the privacy policies on these websites. You should be aware that the privacy policies of these websites may differ from my own.
CHANGE NOTICE: As with any of my administrative and legal notice pages, the contents of this page can and will change over time. Accordingly, this page could read differently as of your very next visit. These changes are necessitated, and carried out by Frosting n' Glaze, in order to protect you and my Frosting n' Glaze website. If this page is important to you, you should check back frequently as no other notice of changed content will be provided either before or after the change takes effect.
QUESTIONS/COMMENTS/CONCERNS: If you have any questions about the contents of this page, or simply wish to reach me for any other reason, you may do so by following this link: https://frostingnglaze.com/contact