Privacy Policy FacebookTweetPinEmail Updated January 2024 Who I am My name is Anna & Bite Size Hostess is my business which can be found at www.bitesizehostess.com This privacy policy sets out how Bite Size Hostess uses and protects any information that you give us while using www.bitesizehostess.com Should you be asked to provide certain information by which you can be identified when using this website, then you can be assured that it will only be used in accordance with this privacy statement. Bite Size Hostess may update this policy periodically by updating this page. You should check this page from time to time to ensure that you are happy with any changes. This policy is effective from January 2024 The website may collect the following information: Contact information including name & e-mail address Other information relevant to customer surveys and/or offers The website requires this information to understand your needs and provide you with a better service, and in particular for the following reasons: Bite Size Hostess may use the information to improve our products and services & may periodically send promotional emails about new products, special offers or other information which we think you may find interesting using the email address which you have provided. Security Bite Size Hostess is committed to ensuring that your information is secure. In order to prevent unauthorised access or disclosure, I have put in place suitable electronic procedures to safeguard and secure the information collected online. Publicly Visible Information If you leave a comment on a post on this website, certain information may be publicly visible. You may also add an avatar, a profile description, and a link to your website. You may also choose to link your Facebook, Instagram, Pinterest and Google Account. Users may see your username, avatar, profile description and website information. How cookies are used A cookie is a small file which asks permission to be placed on your computer’s hard drive. Once you agree, the file is added and the cookie helps analyse web traffic or lets you know when you visit a particular site. Cookies allow web applications to respond to you as an individual. The web application can tailor its operations to your needs, likes and dislikes by gathering and remembering information about your preferences. Bite Size Hostess uses traffic log cookies to identify which pages are being used. This helps to analyse data about web page traffic and improve the website in order to tailor it to customer needs. This information is used for statistical analysis purposes and then the data is removed from the system. Overall, cookies help to provide you with a better website, by enabling us to monitor which pages you find useful and which you do not. A cookie in no way gives us access to your computer or any information about you, other than the data you choose to share with us. Cookies are used for the following purposes: (a) Authentication: The site uses cookies to identify you when you visit & navigate the website; (b) Email: The site uses cookies to help to send relevant emails to users who have subscribed to Bite Size Hostess‘ email list; (c) Security: The site uses cookies as an element of the security measures used to protect user accounts, including preventing fraudulent use of login credentials, and to protect the website and services generally; (d) Advertising: Bite Size Hostess uses cookies to help to display advertisements that will be relevant to you; and (e) Analysis: The site uses cookies to help analyse the use and performance of the website and services; Most browsers allow you to refuse to accept cookies and to delete cookies. The methods for doing so vary from browser to browser, and from version to version. You can, however, obtain up-to-date information about blocking and deleting cookies on google. You can choose to accept or decline cookies. Most web browsers automatically accept cookies, but you can usually modify your browser settings to decline cookies if you prefer. This may prevent you from taking full advantage of the website. Please note that blocking cookies may have a negative impact on the functions of many websites, including this Site. Some features of the Site may cease to be available to you. Advertising Some advertisers will be used on this site and occasionally they serve you cookies as well. Bite Size Hostess does not have control over cookies placed by advertisers. Advertising service vendors may be used to help present advertisements on the website. These vendors may use cookies, web beacons, or similar technologies to serve you advertisements tailored to interests you have shown by browsing on this and other sites you have visited, to determine whether you have seen a particular advertisement before and to avoid sending you duplicate advertisements. In doing so, these vendors may collect non-personal data such as your browser type, your operating system, Web pages visited, time of visits, content viewed, ads viewed, and other clickstream data. The use of cookies, web beacons, or similar technologies by these advertising service vendors is subject to their own privacy policies, not Bite Size Hostess‘, and Service Provider disclaims all liability in connection therewith. Links to other websites The Bite Size Hostess website may contain links to other websites of interest. However, once you have used these links to leave Bite Size Hostess, you should note that this site does not have any control over that other website. Therefore, Bite Size Hostess cannot be responsible for the protection and privacy of any information which you provide whilst visiting such sites and such sites are not governed by this privacy statement. You should exercise caution and look at the privacy statement applicable to the website in question. Controlling your personal information You may choose to restrict the collection or use of your personal information in the following ways: Whenever you are asked to fill in a form on the website, look for the box that you can click to indicate that you do not want the information to be used by anybody for direct marketing purposes (if one is available). If you have previously agreed to Bite Size Hostess using your personal information for direct marketing purposes, you may change your mind at any time by contacting us. Bite Size Hostess will not sell, distribute or lease your personal information to third parties without your permission or are required by law to do so. Bite Size Hostess may use your personal information to send you promotional information about third parties which we think you may find interesting unless you tell us that you do not wish this to happen. Affiliate Program Participation This website may engage in affiliate marketing, which is done by embedding tracking links into the website. If you click on a link for an affiliate partnership, a cookie will be placed on your browser to track any sales for purposes of commissions. Any purchases made through affiliate links may attract a small commission paid to Bite Size Hostess at no additional cost to you. Sensitive Personal Information At no time should you submit sensitive personal information to the website. This includes information regarding race or ethnic origin, political opinions, religious beliefs, health information, criminal background, or trade union memberships for instance. If you elect to submit such information to Bite Size Hostess, 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 [email protected] and we will use our best efforts to promptly remove such information from our records. If you believe that any information Bite Size Hostess is holding on you is incorrect or incomplete, please contact us. Comments When visitors leave comments on this site, Bite Size Hostess collects the data shown in the comments form, and also the visitor’s IP address and browser user agent string to help spam detection. An anonymised string created from your email address (also called a hash) may be provided to the Gravatar service to see if you are using it. If using a Gravatar, 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 this website, you should avoid uploading images with embedded location data (EXIF GPS) included. Visitors to Bite Size Hostess can download and extract any location data from images on the website. 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. How long we retain your data If you leave a comment, the comment and its metadata are retained indefinitely. This is so we can recognise and approve any follow-up comments automatically instead of holding them in a moderation queue. Where your data is sent Visitor comments may be checked through an automated spam detection service. Third parties Hummingbird uses the Stackpath Content Delivery Network (CDN). Stackpath may store web log information of site visitors, including IPs, UA, referrer, Location and ISP info of site visitors for 7 days. Files and images served by the CDN may be stored and served from countries other than your own. Stackpath’s privacy policy can be found here. Akismet We collect information about visitors who comment on Sites that use our Akismet Anti-spam service. The information we collect depends on how the User sets up Akismet for the Site, but typically includes the commenter’s IP address, user agent, referrer, and Site URL (along with other information directly provided by the commenter such as their name, username, email address, and the comment itself). See full Disclosure Here Google Analytics When you use our services, you’re trusting us with your information. We understand that this is a big responsibility and we work hard to protect your information and put you in control. See full Disclosure here MonsterInsights We 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. MonsterInsights’s purpose in collecting non-personally identifying information is to better understand how MonsterInsights’s visitors use its website. From time to time, MonsterInsights may release non-personally-identifying information in the aggregate, e.g., by publishing a report on trends in the usage of its website. See full Disclosure here. Any queries, contact us at [email protected] Follow us on Social Mediafacebookinstagrampinterest