Maters Taters Toast is a food lifestyle blog that focuses on all things kitchen and food. We offer tips and hacks regarding saving money on food, kitchen products, recipes tips, and cooking tips.
We have several policies that comprise the “legal” side of running our blog. If you are visiting our blog, you should read each of the policies to make sure that you agree with each policy. If you do not agree with our policies, then you should not continue on to our blog and posts.
PRIVACY POLICY
We have a full privacy policy. Please read our full privacy policy here.
COOKIE POLICY
We have a full Cookie Policy. Please read our full Cookie Policy here.
Maters Taters Toast uses cookies to collect information about your visit to this blog. We do not store any information about your visit other than what is needed to analyze and optimize your content and reading experience. We go into full detail on our privacy policy and list links to the privacy and opt-out pages of the third-party service providers that we use.
The use of cookies can be turned off at any time by changing your specific browser settings.
The third party vendors that we promote, which includes Google, use cookies in order to serve ads that are based on a user’s prior visit.
Google’s use of advertising cookies enables it and its partners to serve ads based on visits to other websites on the Internet. You may opt out of personalized advertising by visiting Ads Settings.
NEWSLETTER POLICY
At this time, we do not offer users a newsletter. This is in part because we are concentrating on building our readership and also because of the GDPR regulations. We do, however, intend to start one in the near future. We are making this newsletter privacy policy to declare our intended policy that will be in force when we do offer a newsletter.
Our newsletter will offer free content to the subscribers of our mail list. In order to subscribe to our mail list, readers will be required to provide a name and email address. We will not share that information with anyone. We will never send spam email.
We will offer informative emails on a variety of topics. Subscribers will be able to unsubscribe from the list they sign up for by clicking “unsubscribe” at the bottom of the email that is received from us.
When we start offering a newsletter, we will use MailerLite.
CORRESPONDENCE POLICY
Maters Taters Toast has a contact form on our website on the page “Contact Us”. We collect the following information from users who send us communications via this page — Your name and email address.
There are two boxes that must be ticked in order to send a communication via this page and a box for GDPR consent. They are:
- “By ticking this box you express your consent to us processing your personal data for the purpose of communicating with you via email.”
- “By ticking this box you declare that you have read and accepted our privacy policy and terms of service.”
- “I consent to having this website store my submitted information so they can respond to my inquiry.”
All boxes must be ticked in order for the communication to be sent.
COMMENTS POLICY
At this time, Maters Taters Toast has turned off the feature to leave a comment on our website.
We may turn this feature back on at some time in the future. The same rules that have always been used for our comments will be used at that time.
- Readers are encouraged and welcome to leave a comment on our posts.
- Readers are expected to be kind and respectful in the way comments are left.
- Comments are reviewed and must be approved in order to be posted. Comments that are rude, sexist, racist or deemed hateful toward religion or lifestyle will not be approved.
- Comments that are not approved will be deleted and the commenter may be banned,. This is solely at the discretion of the website’s moderators.
CALIFORNIA CONSUMER PRIVACY ACT (CCPA) POLICY
The California Consumer Privacy Act is a California privacy law that will be effective beginning January 1, 2020. It will hereafter be referred to in our policies as “CCPA”. Maters Taters Toast has made every effort to be in compliance with this law. You can read our CCPA policy here. By continuing to use our Site, you are agreeing that have read the policy and accept the terms of the policy.
DO NOT SELL MY PERSONAL INFORMATION
The California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA), gives residents of the state of California the right to prevent businesses from selling their personal information. By continuing to use our Site, you are agreeing that you have read our “DO NOT SELL MY PERSONAL INFORMATION” policy.
THE RIGHT TO BE FORGOTTEN
It is a GDPR mandate that allows users to ask that the data associated with them be deleted. You may request at any time that we delete all data associated with our emails. We will delete it in its entirety to the extent required by law.
At the bottom of our emails, we will remind you why you are receiving an email from us and also reminding you where you opted in to receive an email from us in the first place.
EU CITIZENS
Maters Taters Toast is aware that an EU citizen could be living abroad in a non-EU country. In this case, it is impossible for Maters Taters Toast to identify them as EU citizens. We are compliant in our efforts to be within all the GDPR laws and have to the best of our ability used the tools that are available to identify EU citizens.
GDPR COMPLIANCE
We are to the best of our knowledge GDPR compliant.
Therefore, we are applying the GDPR compliance rules to everyone that uses Maters Taters Toast, no matter their citizenship.
YOUR ACCEPTANCE OF THESE TERMS
By using this Site, Maters Taters Toast, you are agreeing that you accept the terms of this policy. If you do not agree to the terms of this policy, please do not continue to use our Site. We reserve the right to make changes to this policy as needed to comply with the law. Your continued use of the Site following any changes will be deemed as your acceptance of the changes that are made.
CHANGES TO OUR TERMS AND CONDITIONS AND OTHER POLICIES
The terms and conditions of use in this policy, along with our other policies are subject to change without notice. Notification of changes will be announced here on this page.
This policy was created on September 20, 2020. If you have any questions regarding our policies, please use our contact form or email us at policies@materstaterstoast.com .