Privacy Policy

Updated: 04/08/2023

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General Conditions

This Privacy Policy and any separate agreement whereby we provide services and/or products shall be governed by and construed by the laws of New Zealand.

As the owner of this website (Salty Ginger - the “Site”), [Mary-Lou Watkins] (“we” or “us”) understand that your privacy is of critical importance. This Privacy Policy describes what information we collect from you via the Site and how we use and disclose such information.

No Warranty

SALTYGINGER.COM DOES NOT MAKE WARRANTIES OF ANY KIND.

The Website is provided on an “as is” and “as available” basis. Salty Ginger disclaims all warranties, express and implied, including but not limited to fitness for a particular purpose, merchantability, non-infringement, availability, or security.

We make a reasonable effort to provide accurate information, but cannot warrant that any information provided is accurate, complete, reliable, or current. We provide no warranty or assume liability for any information on the Website.

Salty Ginger makes no warranty or representation, express or implied, as to the continuity of service. It reserves the right to suspend, terminate or otherwise alter access to some or all of the site’s services and/or products at any time and without notice.

Collection of Information from Children

Our Website, products, and services are all directed to people who are at least 18 years old or older. If you are under 18 years of age, you may only use Our Website with the involvement of a parent or guardian.

What Information Do We Collect?

Any of the information we collect from you may be used in one of the following ways:

To personalize your experience: your information helps us to better respond to your individual needs.
To improve our website: we continually strive to improve our website offerings based on the information and feedback we receive from you.
To administer a contest, promotion, survey or other site feature.
To send periodic emails.
The email address you provide may be used to send you information, respond to inquiries, and/or other requests or questions.

We collect information from you when you subscribe to a newsletter, fill out a form, enter information on our site, or simply browse the site.

We may collect personal information from you that you’ve voluntarily submitted to us, such as your name or email address. For example, you may voluntarily submit information to this website when signing up for newsletters or submitting a comment, or submitting an inquiry via our contact form.

We may also collect anonymous information such as your IP address. Anonymous information consists of non-personally identifiable data. For example, when you use our website, we can log your IP address, the device you are using, operating system, browser type, referring website, pages you viewed, time spent on our site, and when you came to our site. We may also collect information on actions you take while visiting our website, such as what links or buttons you clicked on.

How Do We Use Your Information?

We use information about you in the following ways:

To verify your identity and to assist you if you have forgotten your username or password
To communicate with you and to send you information by email, browser notifications, or other means about our products, services, and promotions, where you agree to receive such information
To help us learn more about your browsing and shopping preferences and personalize offers to you
To analyze trends and statistics
To improve or update our website and our products/services
To protect the security or integrity of our website and our business
To respond to your inquiries and communicate with you if necessary

We will not use your information for any other purpose unless legally required.

Our Use of Cookies

A cookie is a file containing an identifier (a string of letters and numbers) that is sent by a web server to a web browser and is stored by the browser. The identifier is then sent back to the server each time the browser requests a page from the server. Cookies may be either "persistent" cookies or "session" cookies: a persistent cookie will be stored by a web browser and will remain valid until its set expiry date unless deleted by the user before the expiry date; a session cookie, on the other hand, will expire at the end of the user session, when the web browser is closed. Cookies do not typically contain any information that personally identifies a user, but personal information that we store about you may be linked to the information stored in and obtained from cookies.

We use cookies for the following purposes:

Authentication - we use cookies to identify you when you visit our website and as you navigate our website.
Status - we use cookies to help us determine if you are logged in to our website.
Personalization - we use cookies to store information about your preferences and to personalize the website for you
Security - we use cookies as an element of security measure to not only protect the Website, but user accounts, and general services.
Advertising - we use cookies to help display advertisements that will be relevant to you
Analysis - we use cookies to help us analyze the use and performance of our website and services.
Affiliate links - we use cookies to track sales for the purpose of commissions.

Most browsers allow you to refuse to accept cookies and to delete cookies. The methods for doing so vary from browser to browser, and from version to version. You can however obtain up-to-date information about blocking and deleting cookies via these links:

(a) https://support.google.com/chrome/answer/95647?hl=en (Chrome);

(b) https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/enable-and-disable-cookies-website-preferences (Firefox);

(d) https://support.microsoft.com/en-gb/help/17442/windows-internet-explorer-delete-manage-cookies (Internet Explorer);

(e) https://support.apple.com/en-gb/guide/safari/sfri11471/mac (Safari); and

(f) https://privacy.microsoft.com/en-us/windows-10-microsoft-edge-and-privacy (Edge).

Please note that blocking cookies may have a negative impact on the functions of many websites, including our Site. Some features of the Site may cease to be available to you.

Google Analytics

We use Google Analytics to gather information about the use of our website utilizing cookies. This information gathered is used to create reports about the use of our website. This information is pseudonymized and stored on Google servers. This information is only used for the purpose of evaluating your use of our website.

You can find out more about Google’s use of information by visiting https://www.google.com/policies/privacy/partners/ and you can review Google’s privacy policy at https://policies.google.com/privacy.

Microsoft/Bing Analytics

We use Bing Webmaster Tools to gather information about the use of our website utilizing cookies. This information gathered is used to create reports about the use of our website. This information is pseudonymized and stored on Microsoft servers. This information is only used for the purpose of evaluating your use of our website.

You can find out more about Microsoft's use of information by visiting https://privacy.microsoft.com/en-us/privacystatement.

We partner with Microsoft Clarity and Microsoft Advertising to capture how you use and interact with our website through behavioral metrics, heatmaps, and session replay to improve and market our products/services. Website usage data is captured using first and third-party cookies and other tracking technologies to determine the popularity of products/services and online activity. Additionally, we use this information for site optimization, fraud/security purposes, and advertising. For more information about how Microsoft collects and uses your data, visit the Microsoft Privacy Statement

This service is used for the delivery of email updates and newsletters. We store your name and email address for the purposes of delivering such communications. Each email communication will offer the chance to opt out of future mailings. For more information, please see Mailerlite's Privacy Policy.

Security/Wordfence

We use Wordfence for added security on Salty Ginger. You can find out more about wordfence by visiting https://www.wordfence.com/privacy-policy/

We use Grow Social by Mediavine to allow the sharing of posts or pages to your social media accounts, and have Grow, and application that allows you to like and bookmark posts and pages. For more information, please see https://www.mediavine.com/privacy-policy/

Affiliate Program Participation

Salty Ginger may engage in affiliate marketing, which is done by embedding tracking links into the Website. If you click on a link for an affiliate partnership, a cookie will be placed on your browser to track any sales for purposes of commissions.

Salty Ginger Participates in the following programs:

AMAZON - As an Amazon Associate, I earn from qualifying purchases. We are a participant in the Amazon Services LLC Associates Program, an affiliate advertising program designed to provide a means for us to earn fees by linking to Amazon.com and affiliated sites. As part of this program, Salty Ginger can post customized links, provided by Amazon, to track the referrals to their websites. This program utilizes cookies to track visits for the purpose of assigning commissions on these sales.
CLOUDWAYS - Salty Ginger is a participant in the Cloudways affiliate program, an affiliate network that provides a means for us to earn commissions by linking to affiliated sites and products. For more information, please see Cloudways Privacy Policy.
SHAREASALE - Salty Ginger is a participant in the ShareASale affiliate program, an affiliate network that provides a means for us to earn commissions by linking to affiliated sites and products. For more information, please see ShareASale’s Privacy Policy.
UPDRAFT PLUS - Salty Ginger is a participant in the Updraft Plus affiliate program, an affiliate network that provides a means for us to earn commissions by linking to affiliated sites and products. For more information, please see Updraft Plus Privacy Policy.
WORDFENCE - Salty Ginger is a participant in the WordFence affiliate program, an affiliate network that provides a means for us to earn commissions by linking to affiliated sites and products. For more information, please see Wordfence's Privacy Policy.
CJ- Salty Ginger is a participant in the CJ affiliate program, an affiliate network that provides a means for us to earn commissions by linking to affiliated sites and products. For more information, please see CJ Privacy Policy.
FEAST DESIGN - Salty Ginger is a participant in the Feast Design affiliate program, an affiliate network that provides a means for us to earn commissions by linking to affiliated sites and products. For more information, please see Feast Design Privacy Policy.
On occasion, Salty Ginger will participate in other non-specified affiliate programs, which have the capability to track the referrals to their websites and utilize cookies to track visits for the purposes of assigning commission on these sales.

Advertisements and Third-Party Links

We use third party service providers on saltyginger.com to support our site. These advertisements pay for the costs of running a large website and support the content that we provide to you for free.

Display Ads: we may use a third-party vendor to serve content and advertisements on our website, which may use cookies, as noted above. The use of cookie enables it to serve ads to our users based on previous visits to our site and other sites on the Internet.

Retargeting Ads: from time to time, we may engage in remarketing efforts with third-party companies like Google, Facebook, or Instagram, in order to market the website. These companies use cookies to serve ads based on someone’s past visits to the website. You can find out more about their usage of cookies by locating their privacy policy.

Internet-Based Advertising: Mediavine

We use third-party software from Mediavine, Inc. to serve ads on the Website. This third-party software may use cookies or similar tracking technology to help manage and optimize your online experience with us. For more information about opting out of internet-based ads, visit the third-party network or review the Digital Advertising Alliance Opt-Out Tool.

Mediavine Programmatic Advertising (Ver 1.1)

The Website works with Mediavine to manage third-party interest-based advertising appearing on the Website. Mediavine serves content and advertisements when you visit the Website, which may use first and third-party cookies. A cookie is a small text file which is sent to your computer or mobile device (referred to in this policy as a “device”) by the web server so that a website can remember some information about your browsing activity on the Website.

First party cookies are created by the website that you are visiting. A third-party cookie is frequently used in behavioral advertising and analytics and is created by a domain other than the website you are visiting. Third-party cookies, tags, pixels, beacons and other similar technologies (collectively, “Tags”) may be placed on the Website to monitor interaction with advertising content and to target and optimize advertising. Each internet browser has functionality so that you can block both first and third-party cookies and clear your browser’s cache. The "help" feature of the menu bar on most browsers will tell you how to stop accepting new cookies, how to receive notification of new cookies, how to disable existing cookies and how to clear your browser’s cache. For more information about cookies and how to disable them, you can consult the information at All About Cookies.

Without cookies you may not be able to take full advantage of the Website content and features. Please note that rejecting cookies does not mean that you will no longer see ads when you visit our Site. In the event you opt-out, you will still see non-personalized advertisements on the Website.

The Website collects the following data using a cookie when serving personalized ads:

IP Address
Operating System type
Operating System version
Device Type
Language of the website
Web browser type
Email (in hashed form)

Mediavine Partners (companies listed below with whom Mediavine shares data) may also use this data to link to other end user information the partner has independently collected to deliver targeted advertisements. Mediavine Partners may also separately collect data about end users from other sources, such as advertising IDs or pixels, and link that data to data collected from Mediavine publishers in order to provide interest-based advertising across your online experience, including devices, browsers and apps. This data includes usage data, cookie information, device information, information about interactions between users and advertisements and websites, geolocation data, traffic data, and information about a visitor’s referral source to a particular website. Mediavine Partners may also create unique IDs to create audience segments, which are used to provide targeted advertising.

If you would like more information about this practice and to know your choices to opt-in or opt-out of this data collection, please visit National Advertising Initiative opt out page. You may also visit Digital Advertising Alliance website and Network Advertising Initiative website to learn more information about interest-based advertising. You may download the AppChoices app at Digital Advertising Alliance’s AppChoices app to opt out in connection with mobile apps, or use the platform controls on your mobile device to opt out.

For specific information about Mediavine Partners, the data each collects and their data collection and privacy policies, please visit Mediavine Partners.

Email Addresses

We may collect your email address, but only if you voluntarily provide it to us. This may occur, for example, if you sign up to receive an email newsletter, submit a comment, or enter a promotion.

If you have provided your email address to us, we promise to use it only for the purposes for which it is provided. We will not use your email address to contact you for unrelated reasons.

We will not share your email address with any third parties.

If you are a resident of a country in the European Economic Area (EEA), we do not wish to receive your email address and will delete it if you have provided it inadvertently.

Sale of Business of Assets

In the event that the Site or substantially all of its assets is sold or disposed of as a going concern, whether by merger, sale of assets or otherwise, or in the event of an insolvency, bankruptcy or receivership, the information we have collected about you may be one of the assets sold or merged in connection with that transaction.

Limitations and Permission

You may not use the logo(s), photographs, or content on the website without attribution. You may link to the website from any other website provided that you agree to immediately remove the link if requested by Salty Ginger.

Copyright

This website, including all images, text, software, and other content is the property of Salty Ginger (Mary-Lou Watkins) and is protected by New Zealand and international copyright laws. All rights reserved.

We own or license all intellectual property rights in this website and all content contained on it, including but not limited to all products, brand names, logos, trademarks, designs, artwork, photographs, text, visual effects, graphics, and source code.

You may have the opportunity to download ebooks or other digital products from our Website or newsletter. If you decide to do this, we grant you a limited, non-exclusive, personal, non-transferable license to use the product(s). You agree that you are not allowed to modify, distribute, sell, share, republish, or create derivative content from any information provided to you without express consent from Salty Ginger.

You have our permission to use a link to our Website from your website. You may use one photo or excerpt (up to 100 words) from any post, with a mandatory link back to the post on our Website where it originated. We do not allow re-posting an entire recipe or more than one paragraph of a post, using photos without linking back, or presenting any of our content as your own. Any distribution of content from Salty Ginger beyond what is described herein constitutes copyright infringement.

You may view and print any content displayed on the Website for personal, non-commercial use, provided that all copyright and attribution notices remain intact.

By using this website you agree to not reproduce, publish, transmit, sell, license, distribute, or create derivative content from this Website or any part of it, without written consent from Salty Ginger.

The framing, scraping, data-mining, extraction, or collection of the content from the Website in any form and by any means whatsoever is strictly prohibited. This includes the use of content (blog posts, photographs, and video) for the teaching/machine learning used in Artificial Intelligence programs.

This would indicate that content from this website cannot be extracted, mirrored, or used for any other purpose than personal.

Nutrition Information

Salty Ginger provides approximate nutrition information for convenience and as a courtesy only. Nutrition data is gathered from online calculators and can vary for a recipe based on the precision of measurements, brands, as well as a source of nutrition data. We strive to keep the information as accurate as possible, but make no warranties in terms of accuracy and encourage the readers to use their own calculators.

The author of Salty Ginger is not a dietitian or nutritionist, and nutrition data cannot be construed as medical or nutritional advice. You are fully responsible for your own action and consequence as a result of anything you read and/or make from this Website.

Salty Ginger, nor Mary-Lou Watkins shall not be held liable for any adverse reactions or any other outcome resulting from the use of recipes or recommendations on the Website or actions you take as a result.

Revisions to These Terms of Use

We reserve the right to change this privacy policy from time to time by publishing the revised privacy policy on our website. We encourage you to check this policy regularly for any modifications or updates. Your continued use of our Services after any changes have been posted on our Website indicates your acceptance of those changes.