Who we are: Our website address is: https://simplyasianhome.com/. This is a recipe blog and we use a few services to help us better our blog to improve its content, get user feedback and improve traffic to the blog.
While no online service is 100% secure, we depend on BlueHost, WordPress, WPZoom Recipe Card Blocks, Gravatar, RatingWidget, and MailPoet to format, organize and serve information to you. We also use Advertising networks to serve relevant advertising to you. We depend on these services to monitor the services it provides to us and the data we publish for potential vulnerabilities and attacks.
As a content publisher, we currently only collect email subscriber information to send our recipe posts. We allow our readers to rate recipes and share our content through social media.
The advertising networks and affiliates use are: Amazon Associates, Bluehost, Shareaholic, and Infolinks to automatically collect information using cookies and similar tracking technologies (such as pixel tags and web or browser caches) about our site’s visitors and their devices to serve more relevant ads to our readers. See below on how to opt-out of these cookies.
Shareaholics Social Media Sharing and Advertising Network: We use Shareaholics services to enable our users to share our content on their favorite social media sites. We also use their services to serve relevant advertising to our readers. In order to keep ads relevant, we allow Shareaholic to use cookies on our website to personalize information for our readers. If you would like to opt-out of this, you can click here. Click here for Shareaholic’s privacy policy.
Infolinks Advertising Network: Simplyasianhome.com may also use Infolinks’ Advertising Network. If you wish to opt-out of this ad network, you can go to this link and click “Manage My Browser’s Opt-outs”.
Please be aware that we are also not responsible for the information you choose to share with Infolinks or its advertiers. We are also not responsible for the collection, usage and disclosure policies and practices (including the data security practices) of other organizations, Facebook, Apple, Google, Microsoft or any other digital properties, app developer, app provider, social media platform provider, operating system provider, wireless service provider or device manufacturer, including any personal information you disclose to other organizations through or in connection with the Ad Services or Infolinks Properties.
Please take a look at Infolink’s Privacy Policy. Infolinks may collect data for the purpose of Interest-Based Advertising on this site to serve relevant ads to you.
Infolinks states in its Privacy Policy that “Some of this information (including, for example, unique identifiers stored in a cookie or mobile advertising IDs) may identify a computer or device and may be “personal data” in some jurisdictions, including the EU. However, our Ad Services and Technology are designed to process information in such a manner that the information cannot be directly attributed to a specific, identifiable individual without the use of additional information (such as your name, address, or email address). In addition, we adhere to individual privacy laws in each jurisdiction. We (and our partners or vendors) may collect this information the first time an End User interacts with a Publisher Client’s Digital Property that uses our Ad Services, and we may combine and associate this information with information we (or our partners) may collect about the End User’s interactions with other ads served through our Platform.”
The information Infolinks may collect includes:
- Browser and Device information, such as the device type and model, manufacturer, operating system type and version (e.g. iOS or Android), web browser type and version (e.g., Chrome or Safari), user-agent, carrier name, time zone, network connection type (e.g., Wi-Fi or cellular), IP address, general location inferred from IP address, information about our Publisher Client’s apps and versions currently active on a device (but not any other apps), and identifiers assigned to a device, such as its iOS Identifier for Advertisers (IDFA), Android/Google Advertising ID (AAID or GAID), or other unique device identifier (typically an alphanumeric string allocated to a device by the device manufacturer, a Publisher Client’s Digital Property, or Infolinks, including identifiers stored in a cookie, or browser or web cache).
- Information about an End User’s behavior on our Publisher Clients’ Digital Properties, such as information about the activities or actions on those Digital Properties, session start/stop time, and geolocation (including latitude and longitude coordinates, but only if the Publisher Client’s Digital Property (like an app) has enabled location services on the device and the End User has granted the Publisher Client permission to collect and share this information for advertising purposes).
- Information about ads served, viewed, or clicked on, such as the type of ad, where the ad was served, whether the End User clicked on it, the number of times an End User has seen the ad, and whether the End User visited the Media Buyer’s website or relevant app store and/or purchased or installed the product or service advertised.
Amazon Associates Affiliate Advertising: Simplyasianhome.com serves ads by Amazon and receives a share of income earned from our readers who click-through to Amazon and make a purchase. We do not retain our readers’ personal information associated with clicks on these ads. Please read Amazon’s Privacy Policy with regards to customers who visit Amazon’s websites.
Bluehost Affiliate Advertising: Simplyasianhome.com serves ads by Bluehost Hosting Services and receives payment for readers who click-through and sign up for Bluehost services. We do not retain our readers’ personal information associated with clicks on these ads. Please read Bluehost’s Privacy Policy with regards to customers who visit Bluehost’s website: Bluehost Privacy Policy
WordPress Publishing & Analytics Service: This website is published through a WordPress template and traffic is tracked through the JetPack Service. Automatic’s (WordPress & JetPack’s) Privacy Policy and data collection notice.
MailPoet Plugin: We use MailPoet forms to collect subscribers’ names and email address in order to email recipe postings directly to our readers. We do not share nor sell this subscriber list and MailPoet does not sell or share the list to third parties. Please read MailPoet’s Privacy Policy.
WPZoom Recipe Card Block plugin: We use WPZoom’s Recipe Card Blocks to publish our recipes. These card blocks do use JSON-LD Schema markup and is GDPR-compliant.
Ratings Service: We also use RatingWidget as a feedback mechanism for our visitors, providing them with an easy way to cast their opinion. The service is using cookies to avoid duplicate votes from the same device. Here’s a link to RatingWidget’s privacy policy. You can opt-out from their voter tracking cookies by clicking the Opt out button on their privacy page.
Website Hosting Service: This website is hosted by Bluehost.com: Bluehost.com’s Privacy Policy.
Blog Post 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. 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.
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.
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.
Our website will also track traffic statistics through WordPress’s Jetpack (see WordPress above) and our affiliate advertisers and Infolinks advertising network track click-throughs to their websites or advertisers through cookies. As mentioned above under Infolink’s Advertising Network section, you can opt-out of these cookies.
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.
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.
