A Bite On The Road (the “Site“, the “WebSite“) is a personal blog written and edited by Shelly Rogers Renn. For questions about this blog please email contact: shelly@biteontheroad.coma bite on the road dot com. Our website address is: https://biteontheroad.com/
A Bite On The Road is committed to protecting the privacy and security of your personal information. We have therefore developed this privacy policy to inform you of the data we collect, what we do with your information, what we do to keep it secure as well as the rights and choices you have over your personal information. This Statement of Policy applies to A Bite On The Road website and governs data collection and usage. By using A Bite On The Road website, consent to the data practices described in this statement.
Personal information
“Personal Information” is information that identifies you personally, such as your name, address, telephone number, or email address. We collect and store personal information that you share with us. Below are examples of ways in which we may collect your information:
- When you request information via one of the email addresses identified on our website, or otherwise contact us in person, by phone, or email, with an inquiry. We may then collect information such as your name, address, email, or telephone number in order to respond to that inquiry.
- We may collect your name, email address, telephone number, and other contact information if you register for and/or attend an event.
- We may collect information such as your name, email address, telephone number, and payment information when you make a contribution, either on our website, over the phone, by mailing in a check, or any other manner in which you might make a contribution.
- Information you give us on Payments or other forms (such as your name, address, assets, and credit card number).
- The above list provides a sample of personal information that may be collected by A Bite On The Road. From time to time, we may collect personal information from you in ways not described above.
Collection of your personal information
A Bite On The Road collects personally identifiable information, such as your e-mail address, name, home or work address or telephone number. A Bite On The Road also collects anonymous demographic information, which is not unique to you, such as your ZIP code, age, gender, preferences, interests and favorites.
There is also information about your computer hardware and software that is automatically collected by A Bite On The Road. This information can include: your IP address, browser type, domain names, access times and referring Web site addresses. This information is used by A Bite On The Road for the operation of the service, to maintain quality of the service, and to provide general statistics regarding use of A Bite On The Road website.
Please keep in mind that if you directly disclose personally identifiable information or personally sensitive data through A Bite On The Road public message boards, this information may be collected and used by others. Note: A Bite On The Road only reads messages directly solely to its contact page, social media pages, and email accounts.
A Bite On The Road encourages you to review the privacy statements of Web sites you choose to link to from A Bite On The Road so that you can understand how those Web sites collect, use and share your information. A Bite On The Road is not responsible for the privacy statements or other content on Web sites outside of the A Bite On The Road and A Bite On The Road family of Web sites and social media directly operated by A Bite On The Road.
Use of your personal information
A Bite On The Road collects and uses your personal information to operate A Bite On The Road website and deliver the services you have requested. A Bite On The Road also uses your personal information to inform you of other products or services available from A Bite On The Road and its affiliates. A Bite On The Road may contact you via surveys to conduct research about your opinion of current services or of potential new services that may be offered.
A Bite On The Road does not sell, rent or lease its customer lists to third parties. A Bite On The Road may, from time to time, contact you on behalf of external business partners about a particular offering that may be of interest to you. In those cases, your unique personally identifiable information (e-mail, name, address, telephone number) is not transferred to the third party. In addition, A Bite On The Road may share data with trusted partners to help us perform statistical analysis, send you email or postal mail, provide customer support, or arrange for deliveries. All such third parties are prohibited from using your personal information except to provide these services to A Bite On The Road, and they are required to maintain the confidentiality of your information.
A Bite On The Road does not use or disclose sensitive personal information, such as race, religion, or political affiliations, without your explicit consent.
A Bite On The Road keeps track of the Web sites and pages our customers visit within the A Bite On The Road family of websites and social media, in order to determine what A Bite On The Road services are the most popular. This data is used to deliver customized content and advertising within A Bite On The Road to customers whose behavior indicates that they are interested in a particular subject area.
A Bite On The Road web sites will disclose your personal information, without notice, only if required to do so by law or in the good faith belief that such action is necessary to: (a) conform to the edicts of the law or comply with legal process served on A Bite On The Road or the site; (b) protect and defend the rights or property of A Bite On The Road; and, (c) act under exigent circumstances to protect the personal safety of users of A Bite On The Road, or the public.
Security of your personal information
A Bite On The Road secures your personal information from unauthorized access, use or disclosure. A Bite On The Road secures the personally identifiable information you provide on computer servers in a controlled, secure environment, protected from unauthorized access, use or disclosure. When personal information (such as a credit card number) is transmitted to other Web sites, it is protected through the use of encryption, such as the Secure Socket Layer (SSL) protocol.
Use and disclosure of personal information
A Bite On The Road respects and values the trust you place in us when you give us your personal information and is committed to maintaining the confidentiality of our member’s personal information.
- We will not trade, share, or sell a your personal information, collected on the website or through any business activities, with anyone else.
- Members may opt in to share testimonials with A Bite On The Road, which may be featured on our website or family of websites or social media or other publications.
- We will collect payment information, billing address, and other information necessary to process a purchases, subscriptions, or registrations .
- We will use your information to comply with the law or in the good faith belief that such action is necessary to conform to the requirements of the law or comply with legal process served on us, protect and defend our rights, or act in urgent circumstances to protect the personal safety of others.
- We will use your personal information to protect against potential fraud. We may verify with third parties the information collected in the course of processing a gift, event registration or other donation. If you use a credit card, we may use card authorization and fraud screening services to verify that your card information and address match the information that you supplied to us, and that the card being used has not been reported lost or stolen.
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, 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.
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.
Use of Cookies
The A Bite On The Road web site use “cookies” to help you personalize your online experience. A cookie is a text file that is placed on your hard disk by a web page server. Cookies cannot be used to run programs or deliver viruses to your computer. Cookies are uniquely assigned to you, and can only be read by a web server in the domain that issued the cookie to you.
One of the primary purposes of cookies is to provide a convenience feature to save you time. The purpose of a cookie is to tell the web server that you have returned to a specific page. For example, if you personalize A Bite On The Road pages, or register with A Bite On The Road site or services, a cookie helps A Bite On The Road to recall your specific information on subsequent visits. This simplifies the process of recording your personal information, such as billing addresses, shipping addresses, and so on. When you return to the same A Bite On The Road site, the information you previously provided can be retrieved, so you can easily use the A Bite On The Road features that you customized.
You have the ability to accept or decline cookies. Most web browsers automatically accept cookies, but you can usually modify your browser setting to decline cookies if you prefer. If you choose to decline cookies, you may not be able to fully experience the interactive features of the A Bite On The Road services or Web sites you visit.
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 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.
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.
Third party links / embedded content from other websites
A Bite On The Road may contain links to third party sites on the Internet (“Third Party Sites”). Your use of all third party sites are at your own risk and it is your sole responsibility to evaluate the content and usefulness of the information obtained from third party sites. We are not responsible for the privacy practices or the content of such websites. If you are concerned about the privacy policy of a certain third party, you may contact them directly or visit their individual web site to learn more about their individual privacy policies.
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.
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.
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.
Media
If you upload media to A Bite On The Road or its family of websites and social media, 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.
Changes to this statement
A Bite On The Road will occasionally update this Statement of Privacy to reflect company and customer feedback. A encourages you to periodically review this Statement to be informed of how A Bite On The Road is protecting your information.
Contact Information
A Bite On The Road welcomes your comments regarding this Statement of Privacy. If you believe that A Bite On The Road has not adhered to this Statement, please contact A Bite On The Road at shellyrogersren@gmail.com We will use commercially reasonable efforts to promptly determine and remedy the problem.
July 16, 2021