Disclosure and Policy

Disclosure Policy

According to the guidelines from the Federal Trade Commission, here is my disclosure policy.

• This policy is valid from 24 January 2015
• This blog is a personal blog written and edited by me. For questions about this blog, please contact cami {at} tidbits-cami {dot} com.
• This blog accepts forms of cash advertising, sponsorship, paid insertions or other forms of compensation.
• This blog abides by word of mouth marketing standards. We believe in honesty of relationship, opinion and identity. The compensation received may influence the advertising content, topics or posts made in this blog. That content, advertising space or post will be clearly identified as paid or sponsored content.
• The owner(s) of this blog is compensated to provide opinion on products, services, websites and various other topics. Even though the owner(s) of this blog receives compensation for our posts or advertisements, we always give our honest opinions, findings, beliefs, or experiences on those topics or products. The views and opinions expressed on this blog are purely the bloggers’ own. Any product claim, statistic, quote or other representation about a product or service should be verified with the manufacturer, provider or party in question.
• This blog does contain content which might present a conflict of interest. This content may not always be identified.

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 Privacy Policy

• This blog will not share personal information with third parties neither do we store any information about your visit to this blog except to optimize and analyze your content and reading experience through the use of cookies.
• To turn off the use of cookies, locate your specific browser setting.  You can also visit the following sites to help you understand the use of cookies and your options.
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• This blog is not responsible for any republished content from this blog onto other websites/blogs without our permission.
• This policy is subject to change without notice and was last updated on 1/24/2015.
• This site work to provide you ads through The Blogger Network.  Here is the privacy policy as specified by The Blogger network:

This privacy policy sets out how Adthrive  uses and protects any information that you give while using www.tidbits-cami.com

Should we ask you to provide certain information by which you can be identified when using this website, then you can be assured that it will only be used in accordance with this privacy statement.

Adthrive may change this policy from time to time by updating this page. You should check this page from time to time to ensure that you are happy with any changes. This policy is effective from June 23, 2015.

What we collect

We may collect the following information:

• contact information including email address
• demographic information such as postcode, preferences and interests
• other information relevant to customer surveys and/or offers

What we do with the information we gather

We require this information to understand your needs and provide you with a better service, and in particular for the following reasons:

• We may use the information to improve our products and services.
• We may periodically send promotional emails about new products, special offers or other information which we think you may find interesting using the email address which you have provided.  
• From time to time, we may also use your information to contact you for market research purposes. We may contact you by email, phone, fax or mail. We may use the information to customize the website according to your interests.

Security

We are committed to ensuring that your information is secure. In order to prevent unauthorized access or disclosure, we have put in place suitable physical, electronic and managerial procedures to safeguard and secure the information we collect online.

How we use cookies

A cookie is a small file which asks permission to be placed on your computer’s hard drive. Once you agree, the file is added and the cookie helps analyze web traffic or lets you know when you visit a particular site. Cookies allow web applications to respond to you as an individual. The web application can tailor its operations to your needs, likes and dislikes by gathering and remembering information about your preferences.

We use traffic log cookies to identify which pages are being used. This helps us analyze data about web page traffic and improve our website in order to tailor it to customer needs. We only use this information for statistical analysis purposes and then the data is removed from the system.

Overall, cookies help us provide you with a better website, by enabling us to monitor which pages you find useful and which you do not. A cookie in no way gives us access to your computer or any information about you, other than the data you choose to share with us.

You can choose 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. This may prevent you from taking full advantage of the website.

Advertising

Some of our advertisers occasionally serve you cookies as well. We do not have control over cookies placed by advertisers. We may use advertising service vendors to help present advertisements on the website. These vendors may use cookies, web beacons, or similar technologies to serve you advertisements tailored to interests you have shown by browsing on this and other sites you have visited, to determine whether you have seen a particular advertisement before and to avoid sending you duplicate advertisements. In doing so, these vendors may collect non-personal data such as your browser type, your operating system, Web pages visited, time of visits, content viewed, ads viewed, and other clickstream data. The use of cookies, web beacons, or similar technologies by these advertising service vendors is subject to their own privacy policies, not ours, and Service Provider disclaims all liability in connection therewith.  To learn more about Adthrive’s Policy’s and Privacy Statements, please visit this site here:  http://www.adthrive.com/adthrive-privacy-statement/

Links to other websites

Our website may contain links to other websites of interest. However, once you have used these links to leave our site, you should note that we do not have any control over that other website. Therefore, we cannot be responsible for the protection and privacy of any information which you provide whilst visiting such sites and such sites are not governed by this privacy statement. You should exercise caution and look at the privacy statement applicable to the website in question.

Controlling your personal information

You may choose to restrict the collection or use of your personal information in the following ways:

• whenever you are asked to fill in a form on the website, look for the box that you can click to indicate that you do not want the information to be used by anybody for direct marketing purposes
• if you have previously agreed to us using your personal information for direct marketing purposes, you may change your mind at any time by contacting us.  

We will not sell, distribute or lease your personal information to third parties unless we have your permission or are required by law to do so. We may use your personal information to send you promotional information about third parties which we think you may find interesting if you tell us that you wish this to happen.

Opt Out + More Information

For information about opting out of Adthrive and ad serving partners please visit http://www.adthrive.com/adthrive-privacy-statement/

If you believe that any information we are holding on you is incorrect or incomplete, please contact us.

Comment Policy

I welcome (and love) any comments/questions/remarks you desire to publish on my blog in the comment section of each post.  However, I reserve the right to delete any comments which I feel do not benefit the kind of environment I desire to create on my blog.  I encourage positive, kind, and helpful comments – and if needed any further clarification or helpful tips on the types of posts I write that may benefit other readers.

Thank you!

Affiliate Information

*Tidbits 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.

We also use other 3rd party services for affiliate type links.  This all means that if you click on my links that direct you to a product of service, I will receive a small commission for referring that sale.  This comes at absolutely no extra cost to you, and allows me to keep this blog going and being able to share content for free.  It is much appreciated!