COOKIE POLICY

OVERVIEW

We use cookies on our site, Maters Taters Toast, and the subdomains associated with (“our site”) for a number of purposes. They help us to provide you with a good experience when you browse our website and also allow us to improve our site. By continuing to browse the site, you are agreeing to our use of cookies.

WHAT IS A COOKIE?

Cookies are small files placed on the hard drive of your computer.  You can refuse to accept cookies by activating the appropriate setting on your web browser.  Please note that if you select to refuse cookies you may not be able to access certain parts of our website.  Unless you have your browser settings to refuse cookies, our system will issue cookies when you direct your browser to our website.

WHAT COOKIES ARE USED?

We use the following cookies:

  • Flash Cookies.  There are certain features of our Site that may use Flash Cookies to collect and store information about your preferences and the navigation to, from and while on our website.  Flash cookies are not managed by the same browser settings as web browser settings.
  • Strictly necessary cookies.  These are cookies that are required for the operation of our website.
    Analytical/performance cookies.  They allow us to recognize and count the number of visitors and to see how visitors move around our website when they are using it.  This helps us to improve the way our website works, for example, by ensuring that users find what they are looking for easily.
  • Functionality cookies.  These are used to recognize you when you return to our website.  This enables us to personalize our content for you and remember your preferences (for example, your choice of language or region).
  • Targeting cookies.  These cookies record your visit to our website, the pages you have visited and the links you have followed.  We will use this information to make our website and the advertising displayed on it more relevant to your interests.  We may also share this information with third parties for this purpose.

THIRD-PARTY COOKIES & ADVERTISER COOKIES

Third-party cookies are placed on our website through the use of advertising.  Maters Taters Toast has no access to or control over the third-party cookies or how they treat the information that they gather from our site.

These third-party ad servers or ad networks use technology in their respective advertisements and links that appear on Maters Taters Toast and which are sent directly to your browser. They automatically receive your IP address when this occurs. Other technologies (such as cookies, JavaScript, or Web Beacons) may also be used by our site’s third-party ad networks to measure the effectiveness of their advertising campaigns and/or to personalize the advertising content that you see on the site.

Some of our advertising partners may use cookies and web beacons on our site. Our advertising partners include:

  • ShareASale — ShareASale is a commercial service provided by ShareASale Inc.  Personal Data collected:  Cookies and Usage Data  — Privacy Policy
  • Amazon Affiliate Program — The Frugal Housewife is a participant in the Amazon Services LLC Associates Program, an affiliate advertising program designed to provide a means for sites to earn advertising fees by advertising and linking to [insert the applicable site name (amazon.com).  Personal Data collected:  Cookies and Usage Data    Amazon Ad Preferences 
  • Media.net — Contextual ads are sometimes placed in our posts using Media.net.  Media.net contextual text ad units are primarily driven by context and not audience data. For EEA users and citizens of the EU, Media.net does not collect, store or use any Personal Data for ad targeting and wherever applicable serves only non-personalized ads across all ad formats. We only send the user IP address to upstream providers for the purpose of fraud identification and mitigation. The upstream providers may use IP addresses for geotargeting not more granular than city or DMA level. For more details, you can read Media.net’s new Privacy Policy here.
  • Google Adsense — Google, as a third-party vendor, uses cookies to serve ads on Maters Taters Toast.  Google’s use of the DART cookie enables it to serve ads to our site’s visitors based upon their visit to materstaterstoast.com and other sites on the Internet.  Users may opt-out of the use of the DART cookie by visiting the Google ad and content network privacy policy at the following URL – http://www.google.com/privacy_ads.html

You should consult the respective privacy policies of these third-party ad servers for more detailed information on their practices as well as for instructions about how to opt-out of certain practices. Maters Taters Toast’s privacy policy does not apply to, and we cannot control the activities of, such other advertisers or websites.

If you wish to disable cookies, you may do so through your individual browser options. More detailed information about cookie management with specific web browsers can be found at the browsers’ respective websites.

Maters Taters Toast is not responsible for the effectiveness of, or compliance with, any third-parties opt-out option or program.

EMBEDDED CONTENT FROM OTHER WEBSITES

From time to time, we may write articles that may include embedded content, such as videos, images, articles, etc. Embedded content from these other websites behaves in the exact same way as if the visitor has visited the other website.

In other words, the websites may be able to collect data about you, use cookies, embed third-party tracking, and monitor your interaction with that embedded content. This includes tracking your interaction with the embedded content if you have an account and are logged in to that website.

Some of the embedded content may come from the following:

  • Instagram widget (Instagram, Inc.) — Instagram widget is an image visualization service provided by Instagram, Inc. that allows this Application to incorporate the content of this kind on its pages. Personal Data collected: Cookies and Usage Data — Privacy Policy.
  • Spotify widget (Spotify AB) — Spotify is an audio content delivery service provided by Spotify AB that allows this Application to incorporate the content of this kind on its pages.  Personal Data collected: Cookies and Usage Data. – Privacy Policy.
  • YouTube video widget (Google Inc.) — YouTube is a video content visualization service provided by Google Inc. that allows this Application to incorporate the content of this kind on its pages.   Personal Data collected: Cookies and Usage Data. – Privacy Policy. Privacy Shield participant.

Sharing our content on external social networks through the use of our share buttons

Maters Taters Toast uses Grow by Mediavine.  Grow by Mediavine collects consented personal data (ie personal data such as cookies, IP addresses, device IDs, etc. collected and processed by its publisher partners under consent) from its publishers and will process that data to its downstream partners based on consent.

At the top of each of our posts, you will see buttons that are placed through Grow by Mediavine to share our posts and information to various platforms.  Below are the names of the buttons and the locations of their privacy policies to allow you to see how to opt-in or opt-out of the cookies placed by their respective applications.  We have included the ability to share our content on other social networks through Grow by Mediavine.  Before sharing with those social network platforms, you should always check their privacy policies to see how they are processing and controlling the personal data they are collecting.

  • Facebook Like button and social widgets (Facebook, Inc.) — The Facebook Like button and social widgets are services allowing interaction with the Facebook social network provided by Facebook, Inc. Personal Data collected: Cookies and Usage Data. – Privacy Policy.
  • Pinterest “Pin it” button and social widgets (Pinterest) — The Pinterest “Pin it” button and social widgets are services allowing interaction with the Pinterest platform provided by Pinterest Inc.   Personal Data collected: Cookies and Usage Data. – Privacy Policy.
  • Twitter Tweet button and social widgets (Twitter) — The Twitter Tweet button and social widgets are services allowing interaction with the Twitter social network provided by Twitter Inc. Personal Data collected: Cookies and Usage Data. – Privacy Policy.

HOW YOU CAN CONTROL COOKIES IN YOUR BROWSER

To find out how to stop seeing interest-based ads from other companies and ad networks that participate in self-regulatory programs, visit the following sites:

You can also block cookies by activating the setting on your browser that allows you to refuse the setting of all or some cookies.  However, if you use your browser settings to block all cookies (including essential cookies) you may not be able to access all or parts of our site.

As a courtesy to you, our valued reader, we want to provide you with a list of links where you can go to control the cookies on your browser.

  • Google Chrome:  Clear, enable, and manage cookies in Chrome instructions can be found here.
  • Mozilla Firefox:  Enable and disable cookies that websites use to track your preferences instructions can be found here.
  • Safari:  Manage cookies and website data instructions can be found here.
  • Internet Explorer: Delete and manage cookies Applies to Internet Explorer, Windows 10, Windows 8.1, Windows 7 instructions can be found here.

FLASH COOKIES

There are certain features of our Site that may use Flash Cookies to collect and store information about your preferences and the navigation to, from and while on our website.  Flash cookies are not managed by the same browser settings as web browser settings.

For more information on how to control flash cookies, please see the information provided at Adobe.com.

NOTES ABOUT OPT-OUT

PLEASE NOTE: When you opt-out, you may receive an “opt-out” cookie so that the network will know not to assign you new cookies in the future.  You will continue to receive ads, but not ads that are behaviorally targeted ads.

PLEASE NOTE:  If you erase your browser’s cookies, you may need to perform this process again.

Maters Taters Toast may change its Cookie Policy from time to time and at our discretion.  The date located at the bottom of this Cookie Policy will reflect the most recent version of the Cookie Policy.  All updates and changes become effective immediately upon notice, which may be given by any means, including but not limited to, posting a revised version of this Cookie Policy or other notice on our website.

Please review this Cookie Policy often to stay informed of any changes that may affect you and your continued use of this website.

This Cookie Policy is effective with respect to any data that we have collected or will collect about and/or from you.

Effective Date: September 20, 2020. Updated 7/30/23.