Privacy Policy

Terms of Use

Information provided on Good Gourds is for entertainment purposes only – I am not a chef nor a nutrition expert. Recipes and information provided on and taken from Good Gourds are to be used at your own risk.  

Unless otherwise stated, Good Gourds is the legal copyright holder of photos and recipes found on goodgourds.com. Do not republish without my written permission.

I am not responsible for the actions of advertisers or sponsors found on Good Gourds; if you buy a product or service based upon an ad or link from Good Gourds, you must take action with that company directly to resolve issues.

Privacy Policy

Who we are

Our website address is: https://www.goodgourds.com.

What personal data we collect and why we collect it

Google Analytics

We use Google analytics to record information about the pages a user has seen, for example the URL of the page, time of day, device used, country of origin, etc. The information that we collect is anonymized and then sent to Google Analytics. Google Analytics mainly uses first-party cookies to report on visitor interactions on this website.

In addition, Google Analytics supports an optional browser add-on that – once installed and enabled – disables measurement by Google Analytics for any site a user visits. Note that this add-on only disables Google Analytics measurement.

Google Analytics also collects Internet Protocol (IP) addresses to provide and protect the security of the service, and to give website owners a sense of which country, state, or city in the world their users come from (also known as “IP geolocation”).

More information at https://policies.google.com/privacy

Cookies

As with most other websites, we collect and use the data contained in log files. The information collected is used for analytical purposes, such as to determine how many visits and pageviews per day we receive, or to help us improve site content and navigation in order to improve the user experience. Information gathered in log files includes your IP (internet protocol) address, your (internet service provider, such as Verizon or Comcast), the browser you used to visit our site (such as Chrome or Safari), the time you visited our site and which pages you visited throughout our site.

You can chose to disable or selectively turn off our cookies or third-party cookies in your browser settings, or by managing preferences in programs such as Norton Internet Security.

Comments

When visitors leave comments on the site we collect the data shown in the comments form, and also the visitor’s IP address and browser user agent string to help spam detection.

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 indefinitely.

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.

Contact form

When visitors use the contact form provided on this website, we collect the data shown in the form for the purposes of reading and replying to the message sent.

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 tracing your interaction with the embedded content if you have an account and are logged in to that website.

What rights you have over your data

If you have left comments on this website, 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.

Advertising

This Site is affiliated with CMI Marketing, Inc., d/b/a Raptive (“Raptive”) for the purposes of placing advertising on the Site, and Raptive will collect and use certain data for advertising purposes. To learn more about Raptive’s data usage, click here: https://raptive.com/creator-advertising-privacy-statement/

Good Gourds also works with affiliates such as Amazon Associates, which means if you click a link that directs you to Amazon.com and you make a purchase, Kitchen Treaty, LLC may receive a portion of the proceeds.

We never sell your personal information to third parties.

Contact information

Your privacy as a visitor to Good Gourds (goodgourds.com) is very important to us, and we want to be as transparent as possible about how we earn money to support our blog as well as how we receive/collect your personal information when you visit. If you have any questions or concerns, please feel free to Contact Us for more information.