Privacy Policy Mak Family Kitchen is dedicated to maintaining your privacy and the protection of your personal information. This privacy policy details what information we collect on MakFamilyKitchen.com (Website) and how that information is used. It also includes your opt-out options. By using this Website, you are consenting to the practices and collection of information detailed in this privacy policy.

WHAT INFORMATION DO WE COLLECT? The information we collect falls into two categories: (1) information you supply when you subscribe to receive emails, enter giveaways, or leave comments on the website, and (2) tracking information collected as you navigate through our site.

When registering on our site, you may be asked to enter your: name, email address, or website. You may, however, visit our site anonymously.

WHAT DO WE USE YOUR INFORMATION FOR? Any of the information we collect from you may be used in one of the following ways:

1. To personalize your experience (your information helps us to better respond to your individual needs)
2. To improve our website (we continually strive to improve our website offerings based on the information and feedback we receive from you)
3. To improve our customer service (your information helps us to more effectively respond to your customer service requests and support needs)
4. To administer a promotion, contest, survey, or other site feature

SIGNING UP TO RECEIVE EMAIL NEWSLETTERS: When you fill out one of the email subscription opt-in boxes, we will send you the email series you signed up for, which consists of 3 to 5 emails. Following that, emails are sent 2 to 3 times per week with new recipes and posts, roundups, and news from MakFamilyKitchen.com. If you subscribe to our email newsletters through our subscription box, you consent to store and process your data to receive our newsletters. The email you provide is used only for email subscription communication purposes and is never shared or distributed to third parties. Your email is stored with our subscription service provider who has certain levels of security to protect your personal data.

To change your subscription preferences, click the “preferences” button included with the email you receive from us, then follow the steps in the email that you receive once you click the “preferences” button. We track how readers engage, interact, and click through our newsletters. If you wish to disable view and click tracking, you may do so by clicking the “preferences” button as well.

If you no longer wish to receive newsletters, please click the “unsubscribe” button at the bottom of the newsletters you receive in your inbox or email: roman AT makfamilykitchen.com and let me know that you would like to be removed. You may also request to have your data entirely erased from our subscription service.

PUSH NOTIFICATIONS: When you opt-in to receive push notifications, Push Crew is used to send you notifications through your web browser. Information for Push Crew’s privacy policies and practices are located here: Push Crew. If you signed up for push notifications and no longer wish to receive them, find detailed instructions here.

WHAT INFORMATION IS TRACKED? Cookies: We may use “cookies” from time to time, which is a feature of major browser applications that allows us to store information such as your personal preferences when you visit our site. This may include only showing each visitor a popup once during our visit to the Website. We do not collect any personally identifiable information in cookies. We do not employ any mechanisms on our site to capture data other than cookies. You can turn off cookies or third-party cookies in your browser settings or by managing these preferences in programs such as Norton Internet Security or similar security programs; however, doing so can affect how you are able to interact with our Website as well as other sites.

Your Browser Information: As with most sites, MakFamilyKitchen.com may gather and store information such as IP addresses, MAC addresses, type of browser, ISP, how you arrived at our Website via referring and exit pages, your operating system, date and time of your visits and clickstream data or how you navigate our Website. Tracking user navigation around the site allows us to analyze trends and demographic information about our entire base of users as a whole. This data is never linked to personal information.

Your Device Addresses: Every user’s computer has an assigned IP address or device MAC address which is logged upon each visit and action performed on our Website. Your device address is only logged for a temporary period of time and is never provided to third parties unless otherwise stated in this privacy policy. If, at our sole discretion, a visitor is deemed abusive, a device address may be used to block and ban abusive users from viewing the site.

Web Beacons are programming code that may be included on our Website or in email messages. We may use web beacons or similar technologies for the purposes of tracking how users are navigating our Website, count visitors, and monitor the effectiveness of email campaigns (how many emails were actually opened, which links were clicked).

Advertising Privacy Statement This Site is affiliated with CMI Marketing, Inc., d/b/a CafeMedia (“CafeMedia”) for the purposes of placing advertising on the Site, and CafeMedia will collect and use certain data for advertising purposes. To learn more about CafeMedia’s data usage, click here: www.cafemedia.com/publisher-advertising-privacy-policy

DO WE DISCLOSE INFORMATION TO OUTSIDE PARTIES? We do not sell, trade, or otherwise transfer to outside parties your personally identifiable information. This does not include trusted third parties who process information on our behalf and assist us in operating our website, conducting our business, or servicing you (including prize fulfillment in a giveaway), so long as those parties agree to keep this information confidential. We may release your information only when we believe release is appropriate for compliance with the law, enforcing our site policies, or protecting ours or others rights, property, or safety. However, non-personally identifiable visitor information may be provided to other parties for marketing, advertising, or other uses.

THIRD-PARTY LINKS: Occasionally, at our discretion, we may include or offer links to other websites, including social sharing buttons, links, graphics, or banners. These third-party sites have separate and independent privacy policies. We therefore have no responsibility or liability for the content and activities of these linked sites. It is your responsibility to review the privacy policies at those websites to ensure you agree with their privacy policies. Nonetheless, we seek to protect the integrity of our site and welcome any feedback about these sites.

CHILDREN’S ONLINE PRIVACY PROTECTION ACT COMPLIANCE: We are in compliance with the requirements of COPPA (Children’s Online Privacy Protection Act), we do not knowingly collect any information from anyone under 13 years of age. Our website, products, and services are all directed to people who are at least 13 years old or older. We care about protecting children’s privacy. We won’t knowingly allow anyone under 13 to provide personally-identifying information. Children who are under 13 should not provide any information about themselves on the internet (including names, email addresses, and phone numbers).

SECURITY MakFamilyKitchen.com maintains a variety of security measures, including using secured networks, to prevent loss, alteration, or misuse of information that is collected on this Website. We make no assurances to you or any third party about our ability to prevent any loss, alteration, or misuse of information resulting from a third party’s loss, misuse, or alteration of information that is collected.