Privacy Policy and Other Legal Stuff

Disclaimer

I’m a biologist by training, but that doesn’t make me an expert in health, nutrition, fitness, finance, or anything I may blog about outside of my own experience.  I will provide links as necessary for clarification and make every effort to use trusted sources in my posts.  Take the time to do your own research because ultimately YOU are responsible for any decisions you make regarding YOUR life.

Blog License

Creative Commons License
Life Beyond the Kitchen is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 3.0 Unported License.

We would be thrilled if you linked to one of our posts, or shared it with your friends via social media.  We’ve supplied the means for you to do so, after all. If you are inspired to create your own blog post based on something you see here, please take your own photos and use your own words to describe your experience.

Photos that do not have attribution were taken by us.  Please do not link to them directly, but rather to the post in which it resides.

Other than blog posts and social media (sharing on Facebook, Pinterest, Google+ and the like), you may not use our work in any other type of publication (digital or otherwise) without permission. When in doubt please contact us.

Contact Information

Send an email to Lydia at LifeBeyondTheKitchen dot com.

With Regard to Affiliate Links, Advertising, Reviews, Etc.

Life Beyond the Kitchen is a personal blog written and edited by me. This blog intends to accept various forms of compensation including— but not limited to— cash advertising, sponsorship, affiliate links or paid insertions.

Life Beyond the Kitchen is a participant in the Amazon Services LLC Associates Program, an affiliate advertising program designed to provide a means for us to earn fees by linking to Amazon.com and affiliated sites.

We also belong to other affiliate programs under the similar terms. If you make a purchase after clicking a link I’ll make a commission at no extra charge to you. Thank you for your support!

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.

As the owner(s) of this blog we may be 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 my own.  There’s a lot of misleading information on the internet, I’ll do my best to ensure accuracy, but any product claim, statistic, quote or other representation about a product or service should be verified with the manufacturer, provider or party in question.

In the event this blog does contain content which might present a conflict of interest, I will make every effort to ensure this content will always be identified.

Privacy Policy

This privacy policy sets out how Life Beyond the Kitchen uses and protects any information that you give while using www.lifebeyondthekitchen.com

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

Life Beyond the Kitchen 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 May 18, 2018.

What we collect

We may collect the following information:

  • contact information including email address
  • demographic information such as zip code
  • 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 customise the website according to your interests.

Security

We are committed to ensuring that your information is secure. In order to prevent unauthorised 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 analyse 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 analyse 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.

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

When I reply to a comment you’ve made, you’ll get an email from me with my reply. Other than that, you won’t hear from me via email unless you’re a subscriber to my blog via WordPress and/or my newsletter. In that case you’ll either get an email when a new blog post publishes and/or a weekly digest with a summary of the week’s posts along with some exclusive content I hope you’ll find interesting. At the bottom of the emails there’s a link to unsubscribe if you like.

  • 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.

Terms and Conditions

All content provided on this blog is for informational purposes only. The owner of this blog makes no representations as to the accuracy or completeness of any information on this site or found by following any link on this site. The owner will not be liable for any errors or omissions in this information nor for the availability of this information. The owner will not be liable for any losses, injuries, or damages from the display or use of this information. These terms and conditions of use are subject to change at anytime and without notice.

Comments Policy

Comments are welcomed and encouraged on this site, but there are some instances where comments will be edited or deleted as follows:

  1. Comments deemed to be spam or questionable spam will be deleted. Including a link to relevant content is permitted, but comments should be relevant to the post topic.
  2. Comments including profanity will be deleted.
  3. Comments containing language or concepts that could be deemed offensive will be deleted.
  4. Comments that attack a person individually will be deleted.

The owner of this blog reserves the right to edit or delete any comments submitted to this blog without notice. This comment policy is subject to change at anytime.