Privacy Policy

Thank you for visiting Spoonful of Skinny. I fully respect your privacy and am committed to protecting it.

SSL Certificate

This website has installed a SSL certificate. The SSL protocol encrypts data that is being sent between a user’s browser and this website (or between two servers). This ensures that the data passing between the user and this website is impossible to read, thereby protecting it from being viewed or stolen by hackers.

My web host has several layers of security in place on their servers including a firewall. In addition I have installed additional security plugins including an additional firewall. While we have done all in our power to prevent loss or misuse of visitor’s data, the possibility still exists that there may be an unanticipated security breach that we had no control over.

The information you provide to this site is maintained on a secure web server in what I believe to be a well protected environment. Your information is kept confidential and will not be shared with any outside party.
Your information will never be sold to any outside party.
Further, I will never share you information with anyone without your permission except when required by law where I have a good-faith belief that such action is necessary to comply with a judicial proceeding, court order or legal process.

Registration has been disabled. Therefore, you will not need to sign up and provide your email address to view/use Spoonful of Skinny.

If you subscribe to receive email alerts when a new blog post is published, you will need to provide your email address. I chose a service that is completely hosted on this site (my server). I will not sell your your email to outside companies. See the Security and Confidentially sections above.
You can unsubscribe from receiving these email alerts at anytime and your subscriber email will be promptly removed from this site

Anyone who chooses to leave a comment on a post will be required to provide their name and email address. The comment form is inherent in the wordpress platform. Please use only your first name or a nickname. Your email address will not be displayed to other visitors who read the comments; however, it will be visible to the site owner (admin). While your email address will remain with your comment, it will not be collected or used in any way.
When visitors leave comments on the site, their data shown in the comments form, and their IP address and browser user agent string will be used for 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.

If you should upload an image(s) to the website, you should avoid uploading images with embedded location data (EXIF GPS) included. Other visitors to the website can download and extract any location data from images on the website. There are free software applications available on the open web that you can download and use to remove embedded data from your images.

A cookie is a small piece of text sent to your browser by a website you visit. They help the website remember information about your visit, which can both make it easier to visit the site again and make the site more useful to you. Cookies contain information such as pages visited on a website, search history and language preferences. They can also collect personally identifiable information such as name, email address, other personal data that you may enter on a website forms.
When you visit Spoonful of Skinny, you will be alerted that cookies are used by the site. Without cookies you may not be able to take full advantage of the website content and features.
Every time you visit this website or leave a comment the following information is collected:

In addition to Spoonful of Skinny collecting this data, any security plugin or anti-spam plugin will also be be collecting some or all of the information listed above. Information collected by this website remains on the server within this website’s data table.

Google Analytics is a tracking tool that uses cookies to gathers information about how this website is used by visitors. Google’s privacy policy is available here.
Currently, Google Analytics is not being used but that may change in the future.

Within your browser, you can have various options to manage which cookies are accepted and stored. You can also delete cookies at will and can check a box to have them all deleted when you shut down your browser. Each browser works slightly differently. Instructions for managing and deleting cookies on various browsers are below:

Children under 13 years of age should not be using this website or providing their name or email address with out the consent of their parents or guardian. If you become aware of your child using this website, please contact me so I can ensure that his/her info has been removed.

Spoonful of Skinny contains links to other sites such as content providers, social media sites, affiliate sites, etc. Please be aware that we are not responsible for the privacy practices of the other sites. We encourage our visitors to be aware when they leave our site and to read the privacy statements of each and every website they visit that collects personally identifiable information. This privacy statement applies solely to information collected by Spoonful of Skinny.

If you have any questions about this privacy policy or my practices related to this site, contact the site here.