Welcome to wafflemakerguide.com. Your privacy is of utmost importance to us. This Privacy Policy outlines how we collect, use, and protect your personal information when you visit our website. We are committed to complying with both the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) and the California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA) to ensure your data is handled responsibly and transparently.
Information We Collect
We collect several types of information from and about users of our website, including:
- Personal Information: This includes information that can be used to identify you, such as your name, email address, and any other information you voluntarily provide when you subscribe to our newsletter, leave comments, or contact us through our website.
- Log Data: Our servers automatically record information created by your use of our website. This may include your IP address, browser type, referring/exit pages, operating system, date/time stamp, and clickstream data. This data helps us analyze trends, administer the site, track user movement, and gather broad demographic information for aggregate use.
- Cookies and Web Beacons: We use cookies and web beacons to collect information about your browsing activity on our website. This information may include the pages you visit, the links you click, and the time you spend on each page. We use this information to personalize your experience, improve our website, and deliver targeted advertising.
- Device Information: We collect information about the device you use to access our website, including the hardware model, operating system and version, unique device identifiers, and mobile network information.
- 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.
- Embedded content from other websites: 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. 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.
Cookies & Web Beacons
A cookie is a small file placed on your computer’s hard drive that allows a website to recognize you as a unique user. A web beacon is a small, invisible graphic image that is used to track your activity on a website.
We use the following types of cookies:
- Strictly Necessary Cookies: These cookies are essential for you to browse the website and use its features.
- Performance Cookies: These cookies collect information about how you use our website, such as which pages you visit most often and if you receive error messages from web pages. This data helps us to optimize our website and make it easier to use.
- Functionality Cookies: These cookies allow our website to remember choices you make (such as your language or region) and provide enhanced, more personal features.
- Targeting/Advertising Cookies: These cookies are used to deliver advertisements that are more relevant to you and your interests. They are also used to limit the number of times you see an advertisement as well as help measure the effectiveness of the advertising campaign.
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. However, this may prevent you from taking full advantage of the website. You can also delete existing cookies from your browser. Please refer to your browser’s help documentation for instructions on how to manage cookies.
Amazon Associates Program Disclosure
wafflemakerguide.com 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 Amazon.com. As an Amazon Associate I earn from qualifying purchases. This means that when you click on links to Amazon.com and make a purchase, we may receive a commission. This does not affect the price you pay for the product.
Advertising Partners Privacy Policies
We use third-party advertising companies to serve ads when you visit our website. These companies may use information (not including your name, address, email address, or telephone number) about your visits to this and other websites in order to provide advertisements about goods and services of interest to you. These companies may also use cookies, JavaScript, and web beacons to measure the effectiveness of their advertisements and to personalize advertising content to you.
Some of our advertising partners may include:
- Google AdSense: Google’s advertising policies can be found on their website. They may use cookies to serve ads based on a user’s prior visits to our website or other websites. You can opt out of personalized advertising by visiting Google’s Ads Settings.
- Mediavine: Mediavine also utilizes cookies and other tracking technologies to serve ads on our site. You can learn more about Mediavine’s data collection and privacy practices on their website.
- Other Advertising Networks: We may also work with other advertising networks to display ads on our website. Each of these networks has its own privacy policy, which you should review if you are concerned about your data being used for advertising purposes.
We do not provide any personally identifiable information to these third-party advertising companies without your consent.
CCPA & GDPR Rights
We respect your rights regarding your personal information under the California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA) and the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR). These rights include:
CCPA Rights (California Residents)
- Right to Know: You have the right to request information about the categories and specific pieces of personal information we have collected about you, the sources of the information, the purposes for collecting it, and the categories of third parties with whom we share it.
- Right to Delete: You have the right to request that we delete personal information that we have collected from you, subject to certain exceptions.
- Right to Opt-Out of Sale: While we do not directly sell your personal information, you have the right to opt-out of any future sales of your personal information, should we engage in such activities.
- Right to Non-Discrimination: We will not discriminate against you for exercising your CCPA rights.
GDPR Rights (European Union Residents)
- Right to Access: You have the right to request access to your personal data and information about how we process it.
- Right to Rectification: You have the right to request that we correct any inaccurate or incomplete personal data we hold about you.
- Right to Erasure (“Right to be Forgotten”): You have the right to request that we erase your personal data under certain circumstances, such as when the data is no longer necessary for the purposes for which it was collected.
- Right to Restriction of Processing: You have the right to request that we restrict the processing of your personal data under certain circumstances, such as when you contest the accuracy of the data.
- Right to Data Portability: You have the right to receive your personal data in a structured, commonly used, and machine-readable format and to transmit that data to another controller.
- Right to Object: You have the right to object to the processing of your personal data under certain circumstances, such as when we are processing your data for direct marketing purposes.
- Right to Withdraw Consent: If we are processing your personal data based on your consent, you have the right to withdraw your consent at any time.
To exercise any of these rights, please contact us using the contact information provided below. We will respond to your request within the timeframes required by applicable law.
Contact Us
If you have any questions or concerns about this Privacy Policy, please contact us at: [email protected]
We may update this Privacy Policy from time to time. We will post any changes on this page, and we encourage you to review this Privacy Policy periodically. Your continued use of our website after any changes to this Privacy Policy constitutes your acceptance of the revised policy.