Who we are
As the owner of this website (quietbakingday.com, referred to as the “Site”), Quiet Baking Day understands that your privacy is of critical importance. This Privacy Policy describes what information we collect from you via the Site and how we use and disclose such information.
Media
If you upload images to the website, you should avoid uploading images with embedded location data (EXIF GPS) included. Visitors to the website can download and extract any location data from images on the website.
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.
Cookies
If you visit our login page, 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.
If you leave a comment on our 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 and all other preferences will be kept for a year unless we are notified otherwise.
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.
If you edit or publish an article, an additional cookie will be saved in your browser. This cookie includes no personal data and simply indicates the post ID of the article you just edited. It expires after 1 day.
Types of Data We May Collect:
EMAIL ADDRESSES
We may collect your email address, but only if you voluntarily provide it to us. This may occur, for example, if you sign up to receive an email newsletter, or enter a promotion. We will use your email address for the purposes for which you provided it to us, and also from time to time to send you emails regarding the Site or other products or services that we believe may be of interest to you. You may opt out of such email communications at any time by clicking the “unsubscribe” button in the email.
The law requires that we provide additional disclosures to residents of certain countries, regions and states. Please see below for disclosures that may be applicable to you.
REGISTRATION OR ACCOUNT DATA
We may collect other information from you when you register with our Site in order to use various features. Such information could include your name, birthday, postal code, screen name, and password (if applicable). As you use the Site, we could collect other data that you provide voluntarily (such as comments that you post).
We may also collect information about you through other methods, including research surveys, social media platforms, verification services, data services, as well as public sources. We may combine this data with your registration data in order to maintain a more thorough profile.
We may use your personally-identifying information for a variety of our internal business purposes, such as creating a better user experience for the Site, diagnosing and troubleshooting malfunctions on the Site, better understanding how the Site is used, and making personalized recommendations to you.
The law requires that we provide additional disclosures to residents of certain countries, regions and states. Please see below for disclosures that may be applicable to you.
Childrens Data
We do not intend to or knowingly collect identifiable personal information from children who are under 13 years of age. If you are a parent who believes that we have collected
information about a child under age 13, please contact us using the contact information provided below with your child’s name and address, and we will delete the information we
have about your child from our records and provide confirmation in accordance with the Children’s Online Privacy Protection Act.
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.
ADDITIONAL RIGHTS OF EEA (EUROPEAN ECONOMIC AREA) RESIDENTS
If you are a resident of a country in the EEA, you have the rights, among others, to:
(i) access your personal data
(ii) ensure the accuracy of your personal data
(iii) the right to have us delete your personal data
(iv) the right to restrict further processing of your personal data, and
(v) the right to complain to a supervisory authority in your country of residence in the event that data is misused
If you believe that our processing of your personal information infringes data protection laws, you have a legal right to lodge a complaint with a supervisory authority responsible for data protection. You may do so in the EU member state of your residence, your place of work or the place of the alleged infringement.
You may exercise any of your rights in relation to your personal data by written notice to us addressed to the following:
EU Privacy Complaints
Theresa D’Alessandro
78 Spy Pointe Lane, Fletcher, NC 28732
United States
ADDITIONAL RIGHTS OF CALIFORNIA RESIDENTS
If you are a resident of California, you are entitled to certain information and have certain rights under the California Consumer Protection Act (“CCPA”). Throughout this policy, we have disclosed what information we collect, how it is used, and the types of third parties that may receive your information. Under CCPA, you also have the following rights:
Right to Access – You have the right to request that we disclose certain information to you about the personal information we collect and how it has been used over the past 12 months. After we receive and confirm your verifiable consumer request, we will disclose the following:
The categories of your personal information we collected;
The categories of your personal information we sold;
The categories of any third parties to whom we have sold your personal information;
A list of which categories of your personal information we sold to each party; and,
The categories of your personal information we disclose for business purposes.
Right to Deletion – You have the right to request that we delete your personal information.
Please note that this right does not apply when we need to retain your personal information in order to do the following:
Provide goods or services to you;
Detect or resolve security or functionality-related issues;
Comply with the law;
Conduct research in the public interest;
Safeguard the right to free speech; or,
Carry out any actions for internal purposes that you might reasonably expect.
Right to Non-Discrimination – You have the right not to be discriminated against for exercising
your rights under CCPA. In particular, we may not:
Deny you goods or services;
Charge you different prices for goods or services, whether through denying benefits or imposing penalties;
Provide you with a different level or quality of goods or services; or,
Threaten you with any of the above.
How to submit a verifiable consumer request
To exercise these rights, you must submit a verifiable consumer request to us by:
Contacting us at [email protected]
Please note that only you, or a person registered with the California Secretary of State that you authorize to act on your behalf, may make a verifiable consumer request related to your personal information. You may also make a request on behalf of a minor child.
You may only make a request under these rights twice in a twelve-month period. Your verifiable consumer request must:
Provide sufficient information that allows us to reasonably verify you are the person about whom we collected personal information (or that it is an authorized representative acting on your behalf);
Describe your request with sufficient detail that allows us to properly understand and respond to it.
ADDITIONAL RIGHTS OF VIRGINIA AND COLORADO RESIDENTS
Definitions:
“Personal Information” is information that is linked to or could reasonably be linked to an identified or indentifiable individual.
“Sensitive Personal Information” is information that includes data revealing race or ethnicity, the processing of biometric or genetic data for the purpose of uniquely identifying an individual or precise geolocation data.
“Sell” or “Sale” or “Sold” means the exchange of Personal Information for monetary or other valuable consideration.
‘Targeted Advertising” means displaying advertisements to a consumer where the advertisement is selected based on personal data obtained or inferred from a consumer’s activities over time and across nonaffiliated websites or online applications to predict such consumer’s preferences or interests, subject to certain statutory exceptions.Notice of Collection:
Quiet Baking Day has disclosed the categories of Personal Information collected, how this Personal Information may be used, and how the Personal Information may be shared in the
sections above.
Your Rights
Right to Know and Access: You have the right to know how Quiet Baking Day is processing any Personal Information. You also have the right to access such Personal Information, subject to exceptions.
Right to Delete: You have the right to request Quiet Baking Day delete your Personal Information.
Right to Correct: You have the right to request Quiet Baking Day correct the Personal Information it has about you, subject to certain exceptions.
Right to Opt-Out: You have the right to opt-out of the sale or sharing of your Personal Information.
Right to Non-discrimination: You have the right not to be discriminated against for exercising these rights.
To exercise any of these rights, please email your request to [email protected]. To process any of these requests, we will need information to verify your identity. In order to do so, you must provide any requested information, such as your contact information.
Nevada Privacy Of Information Collected On The Internet From Consumers Act
Pursuant to the Nevada Privacy of Information Collected on the Internet from Consumers Act (“NPICICA”), Nevada residents may opt out of the sale of any personal information. As described above, your personal information may be shared with third-party service providers/operators in order to fulfill purchased products or to communicate with you. We do not sell (which is defined in the NPICICA as “the exchange of covered information for monetary consideration by the operator to a person for the person to license or sell the covered information to additional persons”) your covered information, which includes:
Your first and last name;
Your address;
Your email address;
Your phone number;
Your social security number;
Any identifier that would allow you to be contacted either physically or online; or, Any other information concerning you, collected from you by the Website and maintained by us,
in combination with an identifier in a form that makes the information personally identifiable. If you have any questions regarding our usage of your personal information, please email [email protected]
Changes to the Privacy Policy
We may change this Privacy Policy from time to time. The most recent version of the Privacy Policy will always be posted on the Site, with the “Effective Date” posted at the top of the Policy.
We may revise and update this Privacy Policy if our practices change, as technology changes, or as we add new services or change existing ones. If we make any material changes to our Privacy Policy or how we handle your personal information, or we are going to use any personal information in a manner that is materially different from that stated in our Privacy Policy at the time we collected such information, we will give you a reasonable opportunity to consent to the change. If you do not consent, your personal information will be used as agreed to under the terms of the privacy policy in effect at the time we obtained that information. By using our Site or services after the Effective Date, you are deemed to consent to our then-current privacy policy.
We will use information previously obtained in accordance with the Privacy Policy in effect when the information was obtained from you.