Here at The Schizo Chef, the privacy of our visitors is of extreme importance to us. This privacy policy document outlines the types of personal information that is received and collected by The Schizo Chef website and how it is used.
Our fully secured website address is https://www.theschizochef.com.
Emails & Comments:
At The Schizo Chef, we collect your emails to communicate with you and to keep you updated on new content including recipes, travel and blogging posts.. We use Convert Kit as our email marketing platform and you can unsubscribe or opt out at any time. We do not share your email with any other third parties. 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.
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. After approval of your comment, your profile picture is visible to the public in the context of your comment.
You can find Convert Kit’s Privacy Policy here.
Contact Forms:
In our Contact Forms here and here, we collect your name and email address to respond to your inquiries. We do not use the information submitted through the contact forms for marketing purposes. We retain the data only for a three month period.
Cookies and Web Beacons
The Schizo Chef website does use cookies to store information about visitors preferences, record user-specific information on which pages the user accesses or visits, customize Web page content based on visitors browser type or other information that the visitor sends via their browser.
If you leave a comment on our site you may opt-in to save 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.
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 tracking your interaction with the embedded content if you have an account and are logged in to that website.
Analytics
Like many other Web sites, The Schizo Chef website makes use of log files and use analytics. The information inside the log files includes internet protocol ( IP ) addresses, type of browser, Internet Service Provider ( ISP ), date/time stamp, referring/exit pages, and the number of clicks to analyze trends, administer the site, track user’s movement around the site, and gather demographic information. IP addresses and other such information are not linked to any information that is personally identifiable.
At The Schizo Chef, we use both Google (We do not track demographics information starting May 21st 2018) and Pinterest Analytics. To learn more about Google Analytics’s Data Practices, please visit the link here. and for Pinterest here.
Where we send your data
All your data (comments and email entered) is saved and protected securely on our hosting site – Site Ground. Also, we use Jetpack’s backup service – Vaultpress where the data is stored for backup. Also, visitor comments are checked through an automated spam detection service – Askimet.
How we protect your data
The Schizo Chef website uses an encryption program and we use the SSL – Secure Sockets Layer to transfer the information.
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. The emails are retained until the user opts out or unsubscribes. The Analytics records are retained for 26 months.
What data breach procedures we have in place
The Schizo Chef website uses Askimet to prevent spam comments and we receive notifications regarding spam comments. Also, we use SG Site Scanner – a malware detection and early warning system. If any issue is detected the scanner will send an immediate notification mail. This allows for an immediate remedial action to protect our customers, business reputation and revenue.
Advertising Partners:
Some of our advertising partners may use cookies and web beacons on our site. Our advertising partners include –
Media Net, Gourmet Ads, Chicory, Social Fabric, Activate
These third-party ad servers or ad networks use technology to the advertisements and links that appear on www.theschizochef.com send directly to your browsers. They automatically receive your IP address when this occurs. Other technologies ( such as cookies, JavaScript, or Web Beacons ) may also be used by the third-party ad networks to measure the effectiveness of their advertisements and/or to personalize the advertising content that you see.
www.theschizochef.com has no access to or control over these cookies that are used by third-party advertisers.
You should consult the respective privacy policies of these third-party ad servers for more detailed information on their practices as well as for instructions about how to opt-out of certain practices. The Schizo Chef’s website privacy policy does not apply to, and we cannot control the activities of, such other advertisers or websites.
If you wish to disable cookies, you may do so through your individual browser options. More detailed information about cookie management with specific web browsers can be found at the browsers’ respective websites.
Affiliates | Sponsored Posts:
I may earn a small commission of my recommendation, testimonial and/or link to any products or services from this website. I test each product thoroughly and the opinions expressed here are my own. Also, The Schizo Chef is a participant in the affiliate advertising programs for Target, Booking.com, World Market and other clients at CJ Affiliate. A small commission may or may not be earned by any purchases you make via affiliate links.
Contact information
If you require any more information or have any questions about our privacy policy, please feel free to contact us by email at [email protected]
Industry regulatory disclosure requirements
www.theschizochef.com is based in Brooklyn, NY, USA. We strictly follow the FTC Rules and Regulations set by the US Government and also the online privacy policy set by the State of New York and also the Federal law.
Copyright Policies
All recipes, original text, images and other materials hosted on theschizochef.com are copyrighted to 2007–2018© 2018 The Schizo Chef, unless otherwise noted.
The Schizo Chef allows you to copy, distribute, display or make derivative works provided that you
- Credit The Schizo Chef
- Do not use it for commercial purposes
- release any derivative works under this same license.
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