Privacy Policy
The Tasteful Tribe believes very strongly in maintaining your personal information confidential. The following policy describes what information we collect and how it is used and shared.
Analytic Data
We may collect analytic information about your visit to our website so that we can keep track of how our readers access our site, looking for trends in which content is most popular, etc. This analytic information can include your browser, your IP address, and similar technical data. This information is not directly linked to any personal information.
We use analytic data internally. We may also share with web analytics companies that we partner with to develop or improve our site. When we share analytic data with others, it doesn’t include any of your personal information, and in any case, the companies we share data with will be under contract to keep it all confidential unless it is in the form of aggregated statistics.
Personal Data
We collect your email address when your sign up to receive updates of new content on our website. We use this information to send you copies of these updates, according to your requests.
We collect your name, email address, website, and other information that you choose to submit when you send us a comment about our website through our contact form or when you submit a comment within a page on our website. We use this information to communicate with you about your comments or concerns, and we post your name and comment on our website which is subject to our right to reject any comment that we deem inappropriate.
You can request at any time to have your personal information removed from our active mailing list. We will then discontinue sharing our updates with you. We reserve the right to maintain a copy of your information in our archives for historical and legal documentation.
How we use cookies
A cookie is a tiny data file which asks permission to be placed on your computer’s hard drive. Once you agree, the file is added, and the cookie analyzes web traffic or let you know when you visit a particular website. Cookies enable web applications to respond to you as an individual and can tailor its operations to your needs. Cookies also consider your likes and dislikes by gathering and remembering information about your preferences.
We use traffic log cookies to identify which pages are being used which in turn helps us to understand data about web page traffic and improve our website to tailor it to customer needs. Overall, cookies help us provide you with a better website by enabling us to monitor which pages you find resourceful and which you do not.
Advertising
Some of our advertisers occasionally serve you cookies as well. We do not have control over cookies placed by advertisers. We may use advertising service vendors 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 similar advertisement before and to avoid sending you duplicate advertisements. The use of cookies, web beacons, or similar technologies by these advertising service vendors is subject to their own privacy policies, not ours, and service provider disclaims all liability in connection therewith.
Affiliate Program Participation
The Tasteful Tribe participates in affiliate marketing which is done by embedding tracking links into our website. If you click on a link to an affiliate partnership, a cookie will be placed on your browser to track any sales for purposes of commissions.
The Tasteful Tribe is a participant in the Amazon Services LLC Associates Program, an affiliate advertising program designed to provide a means for sites to earn advertising fees by advertising and links to Amazon.com. As part of the Amazon Associates program, The Tasteful Tribe will post customized links, provided by Amazon, to track the referrals to their website. This program enables cookies to track visits for the purposes of assigning commission to these sales.
Intellectual Property
All content, including photographs and videos, created by The Tasteful Tribe is subject to copyright restrictions. Sometimes we work with third parties to provide photography or video content. If you would like to share any of the recipes, photos, videos, or articles from The Tasteful Tribe website please do so through the share features enabled on the content post. We do our best to make it easy and encourage you to share our content posts on social media. Furthermore, we have made the option to email or print the recipe available for your personal use only.
Health and Nutrition Information
Nothing on The Tasteful Tribe website is offered or intended to be a substitute for professional medical, health, or nutritional advice, diagnosis, and/or treatment. Statements within the website posts have not been evaluated or approved by the Food and Drug Administration. The Tasteful Tribe website is not intended to diagnose, treat, cure, or prevent any disease. The owner, writer(s), and publisher(s) of the website are not responsible for adverse reactions, effects or consequences resulting from the use of any recipes or suggestions provided or procedures undertaken hereafter.
If nutritional information is provided on a recipe, such information is given as a courtesy and should not be consumed as a guarantee. The information provided is a product of online calculators and should be considered estimates. Different online calculators provided varied results depending on their own nutrition fact sources and algorithms. If the accuracy of any nutritional information is important to you, reliance on such information provided on the Tasteful Tribe website is not suggested.
International Users
Our website is hosted in the United States. If you are accessing our site from outside the United States, you understand that we are governed only by U.S. laws. Your personal information will be maintained and used according to U.S. policy. While we respect your desire to control your personal information, we are not subject to the data protection law of other countries.
Children
Our website is not directed at children under the age of 13. In accordance with the federal Children’s Online Privacy Protection Act of 1998 (COPPA), we will never knowingly collect personal information from anyone under the age of 13.
Links to other websites
Our website may contain links to other websites of interest. However, once you have used these links to leave our site, you should note that we do not have any further control over that other website. Therefore, we cannot be responsible for the protection and privacy of any information which you provide while visiting such sites as such sites are not governed by this privacy statement. It is our recommendation to exercise caution and review the privacy statement applicable to the website in question.
Security and Related Issues
We ensure the security of your personal information using industry-standard technologies. We also use service providers who have a reputation for securely handling your personal information. We are committed to maintaining that your information is secure.