Find the disclosure, AI statement, and privacy policy for the blog barefootandaproned.com here.
Disclosure
Our website, barefootandaproned.com, is a personal blog written by me, Meredith. If you have any questions, you can use the contact form located on our website.
This website earns small commissions from affiliate marketing. As an Amazon Associate, I earn from qualifying purchases. I also earn small commissions from certain Azure Standard orders.
All of the items linked, products advertised, or sponsorships on this website are based on blog owners’ personal experience. Any recommended product is something used by the blog owners’ and believed to be valuable and worth endorsing. Additionally, any link or advertisement will be clearly marked for users.
Any product claim, statistic, quote or other representation about a product or service should be verified with the manufacturer or provider.
Statement on Use of AI
All the recipes, articles, and content on Barefoot and Aproned are completely created, tested, and photographed by my husband and I. We test all of the recipes ourselves before putting them on our site, and we do not use AI to create any of our content. You can know that anything on Barefoot and Aproned is created by real people who really believe in what is being shared.
Find more about the owners of this blog on the About page.
Personal Data We Collect And Why We Collect It
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.
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.
Media
If you upload images to the website, you should avoid uploading images with embedded location data (EXIF GPS) included. Visitors to the website can download and extract any location data from images on the website.
Contact forms
Contact form submissions are submitted via Ninja Forms. Submissions are stored in our website database.
Cookies
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 for one year.
If you visit our login page, we will set a temporary cookie to determine if your browser accepts cookies. This cookie contains no personal data and is discarded when you close your browser.
When you log in, we will also set up several cookies to save your login information and your screen display choices. Login cookies last for two days, and screen options cookies last for a year. If you select “Remember Me”, your login will persist for two weeks. If you log out of your account, the login cookies will be removed.
If you edit or publish an article, an additional cookie will be saved in your browser. This cookie includes no personal data and simply indicates the post ID of the article you just edited. It expires after 1 day.
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
Who we share your data with
This site uses Google Analytics to track progress and is shared with our advertising partners.
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.
For users that register on our website (if any), we also store the personal information they provide in their user profile. All users can see, edit, or delete their personal information at any time (except they cannot change their username). Website administrators can also see and edit that information.
What rights you have over your data
If you have an account on this site, or have left comments, 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.
Where we send your data
Visitor comments may be checked through an automated spam detection service.