Effective Date: December 17, 2023

For Carbs’ Sake cares about your privacy. We present this Privacy Policy to enable you to understand how we collect, use, disclose, and secure your information when you use our website or interact with our content.

By accessing our website and interacting with us, you consent to our use of your information as described in this Privacy Policy. If otherwise — i.e., you do not consent to our practices — you should stop accessing our website and stop interacting with us.

Note: Your use of our website is also conditioned on your agreement with our Terms of Use and applicable disclaimers. Please read this Privacy Policy along with our Terms of Use to learn about the conditions you must agree to when using our website.

About For Carbs’ Sake

For Carbs’ Sake (“we,” “us,” or “our”) is a food blog website dedicated to sharing information about delicious recipes, cooking tips, ingredients, and other culinary inspirations. We provide the website and services from North Carolina. When you use our services or submit personal information to us, we will handle it in accordance with the privacy laws in North Carolina and the United States.

The Information We Collect and How

We collect the information necessary to provide you with our services, use sections on the website, comply with applicable laws, and improve your usage experience. Depending on how you interact with us, we will collect the following categories of information:

The information you submit

We collect any information you submit to us willingly. This information may include your name, email address, and any information shared when you interact with our content or community. You may submit personal information when you opt in to receive marketing emails from us, use our contact form, comment, or leave any other applicable content on our website.

You are not obligated to submit any personal information to us. However, be aware that it may be impossible to enjoy certain features without your information (For example, you cannot receive our newsletters without submitting your email address.)

The information we automatically collect

To personalize your experience or learn about how users generally interact with our website and content, we may use certain technologies — including cookies, beacons, tags, pixels, etc., as well as third-party tools like Google Analytics — to gather information about users’ device properties, behaviors, and other analytics. The information we collect may include:

  • Device properties: This may include your device IP Address, browser type, operating system, and other identifiers.
  • Usage information: This may include your behaviors on the website and our content. This records the content you interact with, your reactions, your period of access, the URL that refers you to our website, and similar usage information.

Individuals Under 13 Years of Age

The website is targeted at people over 13 years of age. We do not knowingly collect and solicit information from people under 13 years of age. If you are under 13 years of age, do not submit personal information to us. We reserve the right to restrict your access to the website if we discover that you are under 13 years of age.

Using Your Information

The information we collect may be used for the following purposes:

  • To communicate with you. This includes where you submit your email address for our offers and news, or where you reach out to us for inquiries, questions, concerns, or queries.
  • To improve our content. We collect your behaviors to enable us to identify which content or features interest you. This also includes personalizing your experience on the website.
  • To display third-party products and services we think match your interests.
  • To analyze and enhance the functionality and performance of our website and content.
  • To identify errors and bugs on the website and any portion you may have poor experiences with.
  • To comply with applicable laws and enforce our Terms of Use.

Sharing Your Information

For Carbs’ Sake understands the importance of maintaining your privacy. We do not sell your information to third parties for their marketing purposes. However, your information may be available to third parties under the following circumstances:

Third-party service providers

We work with third-party companies to perform certain tasks concerning our website. These tasks may include email sending, website hosting, and analytics gathering. We may share personal information about you with these entities in connection with the provision of these services. For example, if you subscribe to receive emails from us, Mailchimp (our third-party email sender) may require your email address to send the emails to you on our behalf.

Employees and staff of For Carbs’ Sake

We may work with individuals to perform our services, including with respect to support services. These individuals may have access to your information on a need-to-know basis. However, they will be bound by confidentiality agreements.

Law enforcement and third-party private and public entities

To comply with legal requests and the law, we may share information with law enforcement with respect to legal requests, including court orders, subpoenas, or other lawful summonses.

We may share information with public or private entities if the disclosure is necessary to:

  • Protect our rights, privacy, property, or safety, or those of other users.
  • Enforce our Terms of Use.
  • Prevent any illegal actions.
  • Comply with applicable laws and regulations.

Other businesses during a business transfer

In the event of a merger, consolidation, acquisition, or other business transfer transaction involving For Carbs’ Sake, your information may be one of the assets transferred in the transaction. In the event of any business transfer transaction, we will endeavor to notify you about any changes in ownership or control of your information.

Business involved in a survey or promotion

We may engage in surveys and promotions organized by third-party entities. If any survey or promotion requires you to submit personal information, please be aware that you may be directly submitting such information to their providers or organizers.

Other users and the public

If you submit comments or other content on our content or posts, your name and any information you include may be available publicly to other users. Please take caution on the type of personal information you share in public portions of the website as we have no control over who sees them.

Using Cookies and Other Tracking Technologies

We and some of our third-party service providers may use cookies and similar tracking technologies (including without limitations, pixels, clear gifs, tags, and beacons) to enhance users’ usage experience, their behavior, and improve our content and services. This section explains how we use these tracking technologies and how you can manage your preferences.

What are cookies and similar tracking tools?

Cookies are tiny text files that are stored on your browsing device — including if you are using a computer, smartphone, or tablet — when you visit our website and interact with certain pages. These tracking technologies serve various purposes, including providing you with a personalized experience, analyzing how you interact with us, monitoring violations, and hosting our content.

What types of cookies are stored on your device?

The following types of cookies may be used in relation to our website:

Essential cookies: These are cookies that are necessary for the functioning of the website and our services. They are responsible for basic features like page navigation and access to secure areas. You cannot reject these types of cookies.

Performance cookies: These cookies help us understand how visitors use our website by collecting and reporting information anonymously. This information helps us to improve our website’s performance and user experience.

Functional cookies: Functional cookies allow our website to remember choices you make (such as language preferences) and provide enhanced features and personalized content.

Third-party cookies: As previously mentioned, some of our third-party service providers set their cookies to perform their services for us (For example, Google embeds cookies in Google Analytics to gather usage information.)

How long do cookies last?

Cookies are classified under either session or persistent in terms of how long they stay on your device. Session cookies are designed to expire immediately after you close your browser. Persistent cookies, on the other hand, have their assigned expiry dates. They may exist from minutes to months — unless you manually delete them before their expiry dates.

How do I control cookies?

Aside from essential or necessary cookies, you can decide to reject cookies by using the privacy settings on your device.

Third-party Analytics Tools

We gather analytics and usage information through the help of a third-party analytics tool, Google Analytics (an analytics gathering tool from Google). Google embeds cookies and similar technologies in Google Analytics, which helps it gather anonymous information about the number of users who visit the website for a specified period, the engagement on our content, and other information that aids future marketing. Google also provides an opt-out means in the event you do not want to be tracked anonymously by Google Analytics. All you need to do is install the Google Analytics Opt-out Add-on on your browser extension.

Securing Your Information

For Carbs’ Sake recognizes the importance of your privacy. We work with third parties with adequate data protection practices. Any information you input through our website is transmitted securely using a Secure Socket Layer (SSL) Encryption. We do not share information unless as described above. And we do not collect any information we do not need.

However, be aware that no data protection mechanism is 100% foolproof as technology advances daily. Therefore, we cannot guarantee that our security measures will always be enough to arrest all threats.

Retaining Your Personal Information

The information we collect is retained until the purpose for which we collect it is achieved. However, the retention period may depend on the type of information collected. We may retain the following information for the following periods:

  • We retain the information you submit to receive our newsletters until you opt out.
  • The information collected through tracking tools is retained for the periods described in our cookies policy above.
  • The information you submit when you leave comments or other content is retained indefinitely unless you request its removal.
  • We retain your communication with us for the period of our conversation and additional periods required by law.

Your Rights and Choices

You have certain rights and choices with the way we handle your information. These rights and choices may include:

Opting out of email newsletters

If you have submitted your email address in the newsletter box and we send you occasional marketing emails, you have the right to opt out at any time by using the unsubscribe instructions in any email we send to you.

Requesting the deletion of your information

You may request that we delete your information at any time by reaching out to us at hello [at] forcarbssake [dot] com.

Third-party Products, Links, and Services

We engage in affiliate marketing where we embed links to third-party products that are from third-party services for a commission. Likewise, parts of the website and content may contain links and services that lead to third-party websites and services. Such affiliate products and third-party services are not governed by this Privacy Policy. When you click on the links, they take you to the websites and apps of their respective owners where you can review their privacy practices. By clicking and linking to third-party websites and apps, you are aware that the information you submit to them is governed by the respective providers of such websites and apps.

Our Major Third-party Service Providers

The following third parties are our major third-party service providers and links to how they handle personal information:

  • Google: They help us with a tool that gathers anonymous analytics and usage information.
  • WordPress: They help us with website hosting and data storage.
  • Mailchimp: They help us with the sending of mass emails to users. For example, they securely help us roll out any mass marketing emails we need to send to our subscribers.

Contacting Us

If you have any questions, inquiries, concerns, or complaints about our privacy practices as described in this Privacy Policy, please reach out to us at hello [at] forcarbssake [dot] com or use the “Contact” button on the website.