Privacy Policy for cakes and colors

This privacy policy explains the what, how, and why of the information we collect when you visit or use our website: https://cakesandcolors.com/ It also explains the specific ways we use and disclose that information. We take your privacy extremely seriously, and we never sell lists or email addresses.

Information We Collect

(a) Information you voluntarily provide to us When you sign up for our newsletter or push notifications, send us an email, post on our blog or communicate with us in any way, you are voluntarily giving us information that we collect. That information may include your: name, email address, IP address, as well as details including gender, location, and other demographic information. By giving us this information, you consent to this information being collected, used, disclosed, transferred to the United States and stored by us, as described in our Terms of Use and in this Privacy Policy. (b) Information we collect automatically When you browse our Website, we may collect information about your visit to our Website. That information may include your IP address, your operating system, your browser ID, your browsing activity, and other information about how you interacted with our Website. We may collect this information as a part of log files as well as through the use of cookies or other tracking technologies. Our use of cookies and other tracking technologies is discussed more below, and in more detail in our Cookie Statement below. (c) Cookies and tracking We and our partners may use various technologies to collect and store information when you use our Website, and this may include using cookies and similar tracking technologies on our Website, such as pixels and web beacons, to analyze trends, administer the website, track users’ movements around the website, serve targeted advertisements, and gather demographic information about our user base as a whole. Users can control the use of cookies at the individual browser level. We partner with third parties to display advertising on our website or to manage and serve our advertising on other sites. Our third party partners may use cookies or similar tracking technologies in order to provide you advertising or other content based upon your browsing activities and interests. If you wish to opt out of interest-based advertising click http://preferences-mgr.truste.com/ (or if located in the European Union click http://www.youronlinechoices.eu/). Please note you might continue to receive generic ads. For more information about our use of cookies and other tracking technologies, as well as how to opt out of the use of cookies, please refer to our Cookie Statement below. (d) Web beacons We use web beacons in our emails. When we send emails to our newsletter subscribers, we may track behavior such as who opened the emails and who clicked the links. This allows us to measure the performance of our email campaigns. To do this, we include single pixel gifs, also called web beacons, in emails we send. Web beacons allow us to collect information about when you open the email, your IP address, your browser or email client type, and other similar details. We use the data from those Web Beacons to create reports about how our email campaign performed and what actions our subscribers took. Reports are also available to us when we send email to you, so we may collect and review that information. (e) Information from other sources From time to time we may obtain information about you from third party sources, such as public databases, social media platforms, third party data providers and our joint marketing partners. We take steps to ensure that such third parties are legally permitted or required to disclose such information to us. Examples of the information we may receive from other sources include: demographic information, device information (such as IP addresses), location, and online behavioral data (such as information about your use of social media websites, page view information and search results and links). We use this information, alone or in combination with other information (including Personal Information) we collect, to enhance our ability to provide relevant marketing and content to you and to develop and provide you with more relevant products features, and services.

 Use and Disclosure of Personal Information

We may use and disclose Personal Information only for the following purposes:

(a) To send you informational and promotional content in accordance with your marketing preferences.

You can stop receiving our promotional emails by following the unsubscribe instructions included in every email.

(b) To communicate with our newsletter subscribers and customers about their account and provide customer support.

(c) To enforce compliance with our Terms of Use and applicable law.

This may include developing tools and algorithms that help us prevent violations.

(d) To protect the rights and safety of our website visitors, newsletter subscribers, customers and third parties, as well as our own.

(e) To meet legal requirements, including complying with court orders, valid discovery requests, valid subpoenas, and other appropriate legal mechanisms.

(f) To provide information to representatives and advisors, including attorneys and accountants, to help us comply with legal, accounting, or security requirements.

(g) To prosecute and defend a court, arbitration, or similar legal proceeding.

(h) To respond to lawful requests by public authorities, including to meet national security or law enforcement requirements.

(i) To provide, support, and improve the Products and Services we offer.

(m) Third Parties – We may disclose Personal Information to the following types of third parties for the purposes described in this policy: (i) Service Providers. Sometimes, we share your information with our third party Service Providers, who help us provide and support our Services. Examples of Service Providers include payment processors, hosting services and content delivery services. (ii) Advertising partners. We may partner with third party advertising networks and exchanges to display advertising on our Websites or to manage and serve our advertising on other sites and may share Personal Information with them for this purpose. All third parties with which we share this information are required to use your Personal Information in a manner that is consistent with this policy. We and our third party partners may use cookies and other tracking technologies, such as pixels and web beacons, to gather information about your activities on our Websites and other sites in order to provide you with targeted advertising based on your browsing activities and interests. For more information about cookies and other tracking technologies, please see our Cookie Statement below.

 Combined Information

We may combine Personal Information with other information we collect or obtain about you (such as information we source from our third party partners), to serve you specifically, such as to deliver a product or service according to your preferences or restrictions, or for advertising or targeting purposes in accordance with this Privacy Policy.When we combine Personal Information with other information in this way, we treat it as, and apply all of the safeguards in this Privacy Policy applicable to, Personal Information.

 Cookie Statement – how we use cookies and similar technologies

This Cookie Statement explains how we use cookies and similar technologies in the course of our business, including through our websites that link to this Cookie Statement, such as https://cakesandcolors.com/ , or any website or mobile application owned, operated or controlled by us (collectively, “Websites” or “websites”). It explains what these technologies are and why we use them, as well as your rights to control our use of them. This Cookie Statement is and will be treated as part of our Terms of Use, and is automatically incorporated therein. In some cases we may use cookies and other tracking technologies described in this Cookie Statement to collect Personal Information, or to collect information that becomes Personal Information if we combine it with other information. For more information about how we process your Personal Information, please consult our Privacy Policy. What are cookies? Cookies are small data files that are placed on your computer or mobile device when you visit a website. Cookies are widely used by online service providers in order to (for example) make their websites or services work, or to work more efficiently, as well as to provide reporting information. Cookies set by the website owner or service provider (in this case, cakesandcolors) are called “first party cookies”. Cookies set by parties other than the website owner are called “third party cookies”. Third party cookies enable third party features or functionality to be provided on or through the website or service you are using (such as advertising, interactive content and analytics). The third parties that set these third party cookies can recognize your computer both when it visits the website or service in question and also when it visits certain other websites or services. Why do we use cookies and other tracking technologies? We use first party and third party cookies for several reasons. Some cookies are required for technical reasons in order for our Websites and Services to operate, and we refer to these as “essential” or “strictly necessary” cookies. Other cookies enable us and the third parties we work with to track and target the interests of visitors to our Websites, and we refer to these as “performance” or “functionality” cookies. For example, we use cookies to tailor content and information that we may send or display to you and otherwise personalize your experience while interacting with our Websites and to otherwise improve the functionality of the Services we provide. We also enable our users to employ cookies and similar tracking technologies in connection with their use of our Services in order to allow us and our users to track their subscribers. Finally, third parties serve cookies through our Websites and Services for advertising, analytics, and other purposes. This is described in more detail below.

 Cookies served through our Website

The specific types of first and third party cookies served through our Websites and the purposes they perform are described in further detail below.The website cakesandcolors.com places cookies on your computer as soon as you visit it. By using the website you are agreeing to our use of cookies. Cookie declaration last updated on 05/31/2018 by Cookiebot: Necessary (2) Necessary cookies help make a website usable by enabling basic functions like page navigation and access to secure areas of the website. The website cannot function properly without these cookies.

Name	Provider	Purpose	Expiry	Type
CookieConsent	cakesandcolors.com	Stores the user’s cookie consent state for the current domain	1 year	HTTP Cookie

Statistics (5) Statistic cookies help website owners to understand how visitors interact with websites by collecting and reporting information anonymously.

Name	Provider	Purpose	Expiry	Type
@@History/@@scroll|#	cakesandcolors.com	Unclassified	Session	HTML Local Storage
_ga	cakesandcolors.com	Registers a unique ID that is used to generate statistical data on how the visitor uses the website.	2 years	HTTP Cookie
_gat	cakesandcolors.com	Used by Google Analytics to throttle request rate	Session	HTTP Cookie
_gid	cakesandcolors.com	Registers a unique ID that is used to generate statistical data on how the visitor uses the website.	Session	HTTP Cookie
_pinterest_cm	pinterest.com	Used by Pinterest to track the usage of services.	1 year	HTTP Cookie

Marketing (5) Marketing cookies are used to track visitors across websites. The intention is to display ads that are relevant and engaging for the individual user and thereby more valuable for publishers and third party advertisers.

Name	Provider	Purpose	Expiry	Type
__gads	cakesandcolors.com	Used to register what ads have been displayed to the user.	2 years	HTTP Cookie
DSID	doubleclick.net	Used by Google DoubleClick for re-targeting, optimisation, reporting and attribution of online adverts.	Session	HTTP Cookie
GoogleAdServingTest	cakesandcolors.com	Used to register what ads have been displayed to the user.	Session	HTTP Cookie
IDE	doubleclick.net	Used by Google DoubleClick to register and report the website user’s actions after viewing or clicking one of the advertiser’s ads with the purpose of measuring the efficacy of an ad and to present targeted ads to the user.	1 year	HTTP Cookie
test_cookie	doubleclick.net	Used to check if the user’s browser supports cookies.	Session	HTTP Cookie

Essential Website Cookies

These cookies are strictly necessary to provide you with services available through our websites and to use some of its features, such as access to secure areas. Because these cookies are strictly necessary to deliver the websites, you cannot refuse them without impacting how our websites function. You can block or delete them by changing your browser settings, as described under the heading “How can I control cookies?”. Session cookies – We use a session cookie to remember your log-in for you when logging into our Client Area. You can learn more about session cookies and what they are used for at http://www.allaboutcookies.org/cookies/session-cookies-used-for.html

Analytics and Customization Cookies

These cookies collect information that is used either in aggregate form to help us understand how our websites are being used or how effective our marketing campaigns are, or to help us customize our websites and application for you in order to enhance your experience. Google Analytics Cookies gathers information allowing us to understand interactions with our websites and ultimately refine that experience to better serve you. Advertising (Targeting) Cookies These cookies are used to make advertising messages more relevant to you and your interests. They also perform functions like preventing the same ad from continuously reappearing, ensuring that ads are properly displayed, and in some cases selecting advertisements that are based on your interests. For further information, see the section of the Cookie Statement entitled “Targeted online advertising”. Google/DoubleClick Cookie – We use remarketing codes to log when users view specific pages, allowing us to provide targeted advertising in the future. Google Adwords Conversion Tracking Cookie – This allows us to make better use of our paid search budget. Facebook Advertising  – We use Facebook advertising conversion tracking and re-targeting pixels.

 Other tracking technologies

We and our third party partners may use other, similar technologies from time to time, like web beacons, pixels (or “clear gifs”) and other tracking technologies. These are tiny graphics files that contain a unique identifier that enable us to recognise when someone has visited our Websites or, in the case of web beacons, opened an e-mail that we have sent them.This allows us, for example, to monitor the traffic patterns of users from one page within our Websites to another, to deliver or communicate with cookies, to understand whether you have come to our Websites from an online advertisement displayed on a third-party website, to serve targeted advertisements to you and others like you, to improve site performance, and to measure the success of marketing campaigns. While you may not have the ability to specifically reject or disable these tracking technologies, in many instances, these technologies are reliant on cookies to function properly; accordingly, in those instances, declining cookies will impair functioning of these technologies.

 Targeted online advertising

We have engaged one or more third party service providers to track and analyse both individualized usage and volume statistical information from interactions with our Websites. We also partner with one or more third parties (such as advertisers and ad networks) to display advertising on our Websites and/or to manage and serve advertising on other sites.These third parties use cookies, web beacons, pixel tags and similar tracking technologies to collect and use certain information about your online activities, either on our Websites and/or other sites or mobile apps, to infer your interests and deliver you targeted advertisements that are more tailored to you based on your browsing activities and inferred interests (“Interest Based Advertising”). For more information about this practice, click here: http://www.aboutads.info/choices/. Our third party service providers may also use cookies or web beacons to collect information about your visits to our Websites and/or other sites to measure and track the effectiveness of advertisements and our online marketing activities (for example, by collecting data on how many times you click on one of our ads).

 How can I control cookies?

You have the right to decide whether to accept or reject cookies.Cookies are not dangerous to your computer in any way. They are not executable programs and they can’t install any virus or malware on your computer. But if you still wish to delete the cookies set by our websites then please follow the instructions below: Website Cookie Preference Tool: You can exercise your Website cookie preferences by visiting the TRUSTe preference center by clicking this link: http://preferences-mgr.truste.com/. Browser Controls: You can set or amend your web browser controls to accept or refuse cookies. If you choose to reject cookies, you may still use our Websites though your access to some functionality and areas of our Websites may be restricted. As the means by which you can refuse cookies through your web browser controls vary from browser-to-browser, you should visit your browser’s help menu for more information. Disabling Most Interest Based Advertising: Most advertising networks offer you a way to opt out of Interest Based Advertising. If you would like to find out more information, please visit http://www.aboutads.info/choices/ or http://www.youronlinechoices.com. Mobile Advertising: You can opt out of having your mobile advertising identifiers used for certain types of Interest Based Advertising, including those performed by us, by accessing the settings in your Apple or Android mobile device and following the most recent published instructions. If you opt out, we will remove all data about you and no further data collection or tracking will occur. The random ID we (or our third party partners) had previously assigned to you will also be removed. This means that if at a later stage, you decide to opt-in, we will not be able to continue and track you using the same ID as before, and you will for all practical purposes be a new user to our system.

 Access to Personal Information

We will give you, access to any Personal Information we hold about you within 30 days of any request for that information. You may request to access, correct, amend or delete information we hold about you by contacting us here. Unless it is prohibited by law, we will remove any Personal Information about you, from our servers at your request. There is no charge to access or update any Personal Information.

 Changes to Privacy Policy

We may change this Privacy Policy at any time and from time to time. This policy was last updated on May 30, 2018. We encourage you to review this Privacy Policy often to stay informed of changes that may affect you, as your continued use of our websites, product or services signifies your continuing consent to be bound by this Privacy Policy.

 Scope

This Privacy Policy is effective with respect to any data that we have collected, or collect, about and/or from you, according to our Terms of Use.

 Questions & Concerns

If you have any questions or comments, or if you want to update, delete, or change any Personal Information we hold, or you have a concern about the way in which we have handled any privacy matter, please use our contact form to send us a message.

 Public Information and Third Party Websites

(a)Blog. We have public blog on our Website https://cakesandcolors.com/ . Any information you include in a comment on our blog may be read, collected, and used by anyone. If your Personal Information appears on our blogs and you want it removed, contact us here. If we are unable to remove your information, we will tell you why. (b) Social media platforms and widgets. Our Websites include social media features, such as the Facebook Like button. These features may collect information about your IP address and which page you are visiting on our Website, and they may set a cookie to make sure the feature functions properly. Social media features and widgets are either hosted by a third party or hosted directly on our Website. We also maintain presences on social media platforms including Facebook, Twitter, and Pinterest. Any information, communications, or materials you submit to us via a social media platform is done at your own risk without any expectation of privacy. We cannot control the actions of other users of these platforms or the actions of the platforms themselves. Your interactions with those features and platforms are governed by the privacy policies of the companies that provide them. (c) Links to third-party websites. Our Websites include links to other websites, whose privacy practices may be different from ours. If you submit Personal Information to any of those sites, your information is governed by their privacy policies. We encourage you to carefully read the privacy policy of any Website you visit.

 Contest and Sweepstakes

We may, from time to time, offer surveys, contests, sweepstakes, or other promotions on our Websites or through social media (collectively “Our Promotions”). Participation in our Promotions is completely voluntary. Information requested for entry may include personal contact information such as your name, address, date of birth, phone number, email address, username, and similar details.We use the information you provide to administer Our Promotions. We may also, unless prohibited by the Promotion’s rules or law, use the information provided to communicate with you, or other people you select, about our Services. We may share this information with our affiliates and other organizations or Service Providers in line with this policy and the rules posted for the Promotion.

 Safeguarding Your Information

We take reasonable and appropriate measures to protect Personal Information from loss, misuse and unauthorized access, disclosure, alteration and destruction, taking into account the risks involved in the processing and the nature of the Personal Information.

 Accuracy and Retention of Data

We do our best to keep your data accurate and up to date, to the extent that you provide us with the information we need to do so. If your data changes (for example, if you have a new email address), then you are responsible for notifying us of those changes. Upon request, we will provide you with information about whether we hold, or process on behalf of a third party, any of your Personal Information.We will retain your information for as long as your account is active or as long as needed to provide you with our Services. We may also retain and use your information in order to comply with our legal obligations, resolve disputes, prevent abuse, and enforce our Agreements.