Blog Information
My website name is Homemade In LA – The Blog.
My website address is homemadeinla.blog.
- Homemade In LA cares very much about the individuals who read and support this blog.
- Homemade In LA is committed to protecting the privacy of its users’ personal information.
- Homemade In LA does not sell any personal information collected on its website nor will it ever.
What information do we collect & why?
USER COMMENTS
This blog collects the Name, Email Address, & Comment itself of every user who chooses to “Leave A Reply” under a post. This allows the author/owner of Homemade In LA to know exactly who is interacting with this blog. The collection of this information also helps aid in the prevention of spam. Homemade In LA uses Akismet to help in the reduction of spam in the comment sections of this website. To learn more about Akismet and how a user’s comment data is processed visit akismet.com, or simply click the link under any comment box on the Homemade In LA blog site.
SUBSCRIBE / FOLLOW
This blog collects the Name & Email Address of every user who chooses to subscribe to Homemade In LA and the WordPress Username of everyone who chooses to follow Homemade In LA while logged into wordpress.com. This information allows Homemade In LA to automatically email subscribers and notify followers whenever a new post is published to the website.
CONTACT FORM
This blog collects the Name & Email Address of any user who submits a question, comment, or concern via the blog’s contact form. This allows Homemade In LA to reply via email to any user who submits an inquiry. The collection of this information also helps aid in the prevention of spam.
TECHNICAL DATA
This blog collects the information that web browsers, mobile devices, and servers typically make available about visitors to a website such as the IP address, browser type, unique device identifiers, language preference, referring site, the date and time of access, operating system, and mobile network information. Technical data helps run this website.
ANALYTICS
Homemade In LA uses Jetpack to monitor the blog’s traffic. Jetpack is built into many WordPress sites. Jetpack provides the author/owner useful statistics such as number of views and “likes” a post receives, the number of clicks a link gets, and the approximate geographic region of this blog’s visitors.
What is Automattic?
Automattic is the parent company who owns and operates WordPress, Akismet, and Jetpack among other businesses. Homemade In LA – The Blog is powered by WordPress.
Cookies
The following cookie information has been sourced from both WordPress and Automattic with their permission as a courtesy to their users (website owners).
WHAT ARE COOKIES
Cookies are small pieces of data, stored in text files, that are stored on your computer or other devices when websites are loaded in a browser. They are widely used to ‘remember’ you and your preferences, either for a single visit (through a ‘session cookie’) or for multiple repeat visits (using a ‘persistent cookie’). They ensure a consistent and efficient experience for visitors, and perform essential functions such as allowing users to register and remain logged in. Cookies may be set by the site that you are visiting (known as ‘first party cookies’), or by third parties, such as those who serve content or provide advertising or analytics services on the website (‘third party cookies’).
WHY WE USE COOKIES
WordPress websites like Homemade In LA use cookies for a number of different purposes. Some cookies are necessary for technical reasons; some enable a personalized experience for both visitors and registered users; and some allow the display of advertising from selected third-party networks. Some of these cookies may be set when a page is loaded, or when a visitor takes a particular action (clicking the ‘like’ or ‘follow’ button on a post, for example).
TYPES OF COOKIES
The table below explains the types of cookies we use on our website and why we use them.
| Strictly Necessary | These cookies are essential for websites on our services to perform their basic functions. |
| Functionality | These cookies are used to store preferences set by users such as account name, language, and location. |
| Security | We use these cookies to help identify and prevent potential security risks. |
| Analytics & Performance | Performance cookies collect information on how users interact with our websites, including what pages are visited most, as well as other analytical data. We use these details to improve how our websites function and to understand how users interact with them. |
| Third Party / Embedded Content | Sites hosted on WordPress.com make use of different third party applications and services to enhance the experience of website visitors. These include social media platforms such as Facebook and Twitter (through the use of sharing buttons), or embedded content from Youtube and Vimeo. As a result, cookies may be set by these third parties, and used by them to track your online activity. We have no direct control over the information that is collected by these cookies. Homemade in LA – The Blog contains links to other websites. This blog provides these links for your convenience, but it do not review, control, or monitor the privacy practices of websites operated by third parties. Homemade In LA is not responsible for the performance of websites operated by third parties or for any user’s business dealings with them. Anytime a user clicks a link pasted within the Homemade In LA blog – it is highly recommended that the user reviews that particular website’s privacy policy and cookies policy. |
CONTROLLING COOKIES
Visitors to Homemade In LA may wish to restrict the use of cookies or completely prevent them from being set. Most browsers provide for ways to control cookie behavior such as the length of time they are stored – either through built-in functionality or by utilizing third party plugins. If you disable cookies, please be aware that some of the features of Homemade In LA may not function correctly. To find out more on how to manage and delete cookies, please visit aboutcookies.org.
Affiliate Links
Affiliate links are an example of “third party/embedded content” cookies. Some posts within the Homemade In LA blog contain affiliate links. These affiliate links may provide the owner/author of this website small commissions if/when a user makes a qualifying purchase (at no additional cost to them) after clicking on said links.
Since Homemade In LA believes in full transparency, you can find a disclosure regarding affiliate links in multiple places across this website.
- Here in this Privacy Policy
- On this website’s Disclosure Page
- Within the footer of this website
- At the top of each blog post that contains one or more affiliate links
Homemade In LA only promotes businesses that it genuinely supports and only ever recommends products that the owner/author has actually used.
What information does Automattic share, & how long is information retained?
Automattic, the parent company of WordPress, Akismet, and Jetpack may share the following user information. As previously mentioned, Homemade In LA – The Blog is powered by WordPress. The bullets below describe how Automattic shares and retains site visitor information.
- Subsidiaries, Employees, and Independent Contractors: We may disclose Site visitor information to our subsidiaries, our employees, and individuals who are our independent contractors that need to know the information in order to help us provide our services to our Users and their Sites, or to process the information on our behalf. We require our subsidiaries, employees, and independent contractors to follow this Privacy Notice for information about visitors that we share with them.
- Third Party Vendors: We may share Site visitor information with third party vendors who need to know this information in order to provide their services to us. This group includes vendors that help us provide our services to our Users and their Sites. We require vendors to agree to privacy commitments in order to share information with them.
- Legal Requests: We may disclose Site visitor information in response to a subpoena, court order, or other governmental request.
- To Protect Rights, Property, and Others: We may disclose Site visitor information when we believe in good faith that disclosure is reasonably necessary to protect the property or rights of Automattic, our Users, third parties, or the public at large. For example, if we have a good faith belief that there is an imminent danger of death or serious physical injury, we may disclose information related to the emergency without delay.
- Business Transfers: In connection with any merger, sale of company assets, or acquisition of all or a portion of our business by another company, or in the unlikely event that Automattic goes out of business or enters bankruptcy, Site visitor information would likely be one of the assets that is transferred or acquired by a third party. If any of these events were to happen, this Privacy Notice would continue to apply to Site visitor information and the party receiving this information may continue to use this information, but only consistent with this Privacy Notice.
- Information Shared Publicly: Information that visitors choose to make public is–you guessed it–disclosed publicly. That means, of course, that information like visitor comments and “likes” are all available to others, including information about the visitor that is displayed in connection with a comment or “like” (such as a visitor’s WordPress.com username and Gravatar). We provide a “firehose” stream of public data (including comments) from Sites to provide that data to firehose subscribers, who may view and analyze the content, but do not have rights to re-publish it publicly. Public information may also be indexed by search engines or used by third parties.
o If we are not legally required to keep it, we generally discard information about Site visitors when no longer needed for the purposes for which we collect and use it on behalf of our users.
o For example, we keep the web server logs that record information about a visitor to one of our user’s Sites — such as the visitor’s IP address, browser type, and operating system — for approximately 30 days. We retain the logs for this period of time in order to, among other things, investigate issues if something goes wrong on a user’s Site.
Privacy Statement Revisions
This Privacy Policy was last revised on October 22, 2020. The owner/author may change this Privacy Policy at any time and for any reason. The owner/author encourages you to review this Privacy Policy each time you visit the Homemade In LA blog.
Access to Data & Personal Information
If you would like to know what personal data this blog has collected about you, please reach out to the owner/author via Homemade In LA’s contact form. If you would like your personal information (Name, Email Address, Comments and/or WordPress Username) deleted from the Homemade In LA blog, please also use this blog’s contact form.
How to Reach Us
A link to the Contact Form is located at the footer of the Homemade In LA blog site. You can also just click here to access it.
Please use the Contact Form if you have any questions concerning this website’s Privacy Policy or if you have any requests concerning your personal data and/or information.
Thank you for taking the time to read this.
Homemade In LA – The Blog
Los Angeles, California
HOMEMADE IN LA 