Last Updated: August 1, 2023
Welcome to Cake Gourmet Sugar Service (“we,” “our,” “us,” or “CAKE”). Our website address is: https://gourmetsugarservice.com. This Privacy Policy outlines how we collect, use, disclose, and protect your information when you interact with our pastry design service and visit our website. Your privacy is very important to us. To this end, there are a few basic principles that we follow:
- We won’t ask you for personal information unless we truly need it.
- We won’t share your personal information with anyone, except to comply with the law, or protect our rights.
- We won’t store personal information on our servers unless required for the on-going operation of our site, or our service.
If you have any questions about CAKE’s Privacy Policy, please contact us through this website. By using this website, you consent to CAKE’s Privacy Policy and agree to its terms.
1. Information We Collect
We may collect the following types of personal information when you use our services or visit our website:
- Contact Information: Name, email address, phone number, and other similar information.
- Financial Information: Financial and transaction data relevant to our pastry design services.
- Log Data: Information about your device, IP address, browser type, and pages you visit on our website.
- Cookies and Similar Technologies: We may use cookies, web beacons, and other tracking technologies to enhance your browsing experience and gather analytics.
CAKE collects non-personally-identifying information of the kind that web browsers and servers typically make available, such as language preference, browser type, referring site, and the date and time of each visitor request. CAKE collects non-personally identifying information to better understand how CAKE’s visitors use its website.
CAKE also collects potentially personally-identifying information like Internet Protocol (IP) addresses for logged in users and for users leaving comments on our blog. CAKE only discloses logged in user and commenter IP addresses under the same circumstances that it uses and discloses personally-identifying information as described below, except that blog commenter IP addresses are visible and disclosed to the administrators of the blog where the comment was left.
The amount and type of personally-identifying information that CAKE gathers depends on the nature of the interaction. For example, we ask visitors who comment on our blog to provide a username and email address. Those who wish to receive gourmetsugarservice.com updates via email, we collect their email address. In each case, CAKE collects such information only insofar as is necessary or appropriate to fulfill the purpose of the visitor’s interaction with CAKE. Visitors can always refuse to supply personally-identifying information, however, it may prevent them from engaging in certain website-related activities.
2. Protection of Certain Personally-Identifying Information
CAKE discloses potentially personally-identifying and personally-identifying information only to those of its employees, contractors and affiliated organizations that (i) need to know that information in order to process it on CAKE’s behalf, and (ii) have agreed not to disclose it to others. Some of those employees, contractors and affiliated organizations may be located outside of your home country; by using CAKE’s website, you consent to the transfer of such information to them.
CAKE will not rent or sell potentially personally-identifying and personally-identifying information to anyone. Other than to its employees, contractors and affiliated organizations, as described above, CAKE discloses potentially personally-identifying and personally-identifying information only in response to a subpoena, court order or other governmental request, or when CAKE believes in good faith that disclosure is reasonably necessary to protect the property or rights of CAKE, third parties or the public at large.
If you are a registered user of the CAKE website and have supplied your email address, CAKE may occasionally send you an email to tell you about new features, solicit your feedback, or just keep you up to date with what’s going on with CAKE and our products. We primarily use our various product blogs to communicate this type of information, so we expect to keep this type of email to a minimum.
If you send us a request (for example via a support email or via one of our feedback mechanisms), we reserve the right to publish it in order to help us clarify or respond to your request or to help us support other users. CAKE takes all measures reasonably necessary to protect against the unauthorized access, use, alteration or destruction of potentially personally-identifying and personally-identifying information.
We employ industry-standard security measures to protect your information. However, no data transmission over the internet can be guaranteed to be completely secure.
3. How We Use Your Information
We may use your information for the following purposes:
- Provide and improve our services.
- Communicate with you about our services, updates, and promotions.
- Process payments and manage financial transactions.
- Analyze website usage and improve user experience.
- Comply with legal obligations and protect our rights.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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 one day.
4. Your Choices
You can:
- Opt out of receiving marketing communications.
- Manage cookies and tracking technologies through your browser settings.
- Access, update, or delete your personal information.
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.
5. Third-Party Links
Our website may contain links to third-party websites. We are not responsible for their privacy practices. Please review their privacy policies before providing any personal information.
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.
6. Children’s Privacy
Our services are not intended for children under 13. We do not knowingly collect personal information from individuals under 13 years of age.
7. Business Transfers
If CAKE or its assets were acquired user information would be one of the assets that is transferred or acquired by a third party. You acknowledge that such a transfer may occur, and that any acquirer of CAKE may continue to use your personal information as set forth in this policy.
8. Changes to this Privacy Policy
CAKE may change its Privacy Policy from time to time, and in CAKE’s sole discretion. CAKE encourages visitors to frequently check back for any changes to its Privacy Policy. Your continued use of this site after any change in this Privacy Policy will constitute your acceptance of such change.
9. Contact Us
If you have any questions or concerns about this Privacy Policy, please contact us at [email protected].
Please review this Privacy Policy periodically for any updates. Your continued use of our website constitutes your acceptance of these terms.
Effective Date: August 1, 2023
This Privacy Policy is provided in compliance with applicable laws and regulations.