Privacy Policy and Legal

This policy is valid from 3-11-11 and last updated 6-20-18.
This blog is a collaborative blog written by Niki Meiners and a group of individuals. For questions about this blog, please contact Niki Meiners. Our website address is: nikimeiners.com

We are 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.

This blog accepts forms of cash advertising, sponsorship, paid insertions or other forms of compensation.

The apps we use collect data – we however do not. Please read to the bottom if you have questions about your privacy and everything we could legally think to cover.  Any inspiration you find from this webite is in your hands and what you do with it is out of our control so you are legally responsible for your actions.

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.

We will always be 100% honest in our reviews. If we don’t like something, we probably won’t give it any attention on the site. And we will NEVER accept payment to compromise our craft and food philosophy, so you won’t see us recommending or promoting products that go against what we believe.  Now for the really boring legal stuffs.  We don’t like to write about it but it our legal and moral obligation to explain how we work.

1. Terms of Use

All information provided on and taken from this site blog is at your own risk and you are reading this blog of your own free will. Please only use alcohol in your recipes if you are over the age of 21.  If you are drinking please do not drive. Be responsible and don’t let others drink and drive too.

2. Copyright Policy

Unless otherwise noted, 365 Days of Recipes/365 Days of Crafts is the legal copyright holder of all material on this blog and that others cannot use it to reprint or publish without our written consent.

3. Hold Harmless

All the information provided on 365 Days of Recipes/365 Days of Crafts is for entertainment purposes only and that we are not providing medical, legal or other profession advice.  You are reading and/or using any of the information from your 365 Days of Recipes/365 Days of Crafts at your own risk.

4. Privacy Statement

Your privacy is very important to us and we are committed to protecting it. We do ask for your email address when you leave a comment. This is used to verify comments, and is never sold or shared unless you are the winner of a giveaway. Only then will we use the information to contact you to inform you of your winning submission, and all appropriate information may be forwarded to that particular sponsor so they can send you your prize.

5. Reserve Rights

We, 365 Days of Recipes/365 Days of Crafts, reserve the right to change the focus on our site, to shut it down, sell it or to change the terms of use at our own discretion.

6. Advertisers and SponsorsWe, 365 Days of Recipes/365 Days of Crafts, are not responsible for the actions of advertisers or sponsors. For example, when you buy a product of service based upon a link from this blog, you must take action with that exact company to resolve any issues, not with 365 Days of Recipes/365 Days of Crafts.

7. Letters to the Editor

Any letters, messages, or e-mails sent to 365 Days of Recipes/365 Days of Crafts will remain property of the sender. They will not be used or referenced without express written permission. Tweets may be retweeted without permission.

Disclosures:

Most post will contain one or more of the following types of disclosure. Know that this will not sway the opinion no matter what. (Even though they may want to!) This costs you nothing and helps pay for this blog’s overhead. Occasionally we will also do sponsored posts as we cannot afford to spend so much time on the blog (as much as we love it, and as much as we love food and crafting) without a little something extra. While they aren’t our favorite thing to do, we really cannot afford to keep this blog running without doing the occasional sponsored post. Something about being paid to write about a subject bothers us, but we will always be completely honest. We will NEVER accept payment to write something that we do not agree with and we will only accept sponsored posts that fit into our  philosophy.

We will post about events or products that we like and agree with. This does not always mean we are paid for promoting it (and we will specifically tell you on the post if we are), it usually just means that we like whatever it is the post is about.

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 not contain any content which might present a conflict of interest.

Disclosure 1: Affiliate Links.

Disclosure of Material Connection:
Some of the links in the post above are “affiliate links.” This means if you click on the link and purchase the item, I will receive an affiliate commission. Regardless, I only recommend products or services I use personally and believe will add value to my readers. I am disclosing this in accordance with the Federal Trade Commission’s 16 CFR, Part 255: “Guides Concerning the Use of Endorsements and Testimonials in Advertising.”

Disclosure 2: Review or Sample Copy.

Disclosure of Material Connection: I received one or more of the products or services mentioned above for free in the hope that I would mention it on my blog. Regardless, I only recommend products or services I use personally and believe will be good for my readers. I am disclosing this in accordance with the Federal Trade Commission’s 16 CFR, Part 255: “Guides Concerning the Use of Endorsements and Testimonials in Advertising.”

Disclosure 3: Sponsored Post.

Disclosure of Material Connection: This is a “sponsored post.” The company who sponsored it compensated me via a cash payment, gift, or something else of value to write it. Regardless, I only recommend products or services I use personally and believe will be good for my readers. I am disclosing this in accordance with the Federal Trade Commission’s 16 CFR, Part 255: “Guides Concerning the Use of Endorsements and Testimonials in Advertising.”

Liabilities and  all the other stuff we want to tell.

The content of this blog is intended for informational purposes only. In no event shall our company be liable for any direct, indirect, punitive, incidental, special consequential damages, to property or life, whatsoever arising out of or connected with the use or misuse of our recipes or products you purchase.

365 Days of Recipes/365 Days of Crafts provides no endorsement and makes no representations as to accuracy, reliability, completeness, suitability or validity of any information or content on, distributed through or linked, downloaded or accessed from this site.

365 Days of Recipes/365 Days of Crafts will not be liable for any errors, omissions, or delays in this information or any losses, injuries, or damages arising from its display or use of the information on this site. All information is provided on an as-is basis without any obligation to make improvements or to correct errors or omissions. This site may contain links to other web sites.

365 Days of Recipes/365 Days of Crafts makes no guarantees or promises regarding these web sites and does not necessarily endorse or approve of their content.

Social Sharing

You may print a copy of any part of this blog for your own personal, noncommercial use, but you may not copy any part of the blog for any other purposes, and you may not modify any part of the blog. Inclusion of any part of this blog in another work, whether in printed or electronic or other form, or inclusion of any part of the blog in another web site by , framing or otherwise without the express permission unless you are sharing on social media outlets like FaceBook, Pinterest and Instagram.

If you’d like to share a recipe/craft originally from 365 Days of Recipes/365 Days of Crafts, please do! But please also give us credit if we originally made it. Thank you! We love that you want to pin our recipes and posts to Pinterest or post them on your tumblr. Go ahead and pin any photos that you want or add my photos to your tumblr, but please do not copy the post or the recipe into the pin or tumblr post and be sure that the pictures links back to 365 Days of Recipes/365 Days of Crafts.

This site may not be used for any illegal or illicit purpose and 365 Days of Recipes/365 Days of Crafts reserves the right, at its sole discretion and without notice of any kind, to remove anything posted to this site. You may contact 365 Days of Recipes/365 Days of Crafts with any questions or to make requests regarding this site or its contents. By using this site, you hereby acknowledge that any reliance upon any materials shall be at your sole risk.

Please use best safety practices when using sharp tools, cooking raw meat and working around hot items.

Giveaways

Sometimes a company will offer to sponsor a giveaway, to give our readers some of their product to try. If we like the product we love being able to share some with you! These products are always free to you.

For giveaways, please allow up to 6 weeks for delivery of prize. We are not responsible for sponsors that don’t send prizes or items that are lost in the mail.

For companies interested sending products:

We will not accept any items or products that we wouldn’t use, whether in our personal life or on the blog. We will not accept any items or products that do not fit into our food philosophy and we do not guarantee a positive review or a review at all. If we do not like a product, we will not write about it, but if you’d like we will give our personal opinion to you in a private email. We will also not return any products sent to me for review. If you have something you think I’d enjoy please send an email to nikimeiners at gmail dot com

The fine print about Nutrition: 

This website is written and produced for informational purposes only.   We are not professional nutritionist, dietitians, or doctors.  Statements within this site have not been evaluated or approved by the Food and Drug Administration. This website is not intended to diagnose, treat, cure or prevent any disease. Content should not be considered a substitute for professional medical expertise or treatment.

The reader assumes full responsibility for consulting a qualified health professional regarding health conditions or concerns, and before starting a new diet or health program. The writer(s) and publisher(s) of this site are not responsible for adverse reactions, effects, or consequences resulting from the use of any recipes or suggestions herein or procedures undertaken hereafter.

This website, 365 Days of Recipes/365 Days of Crafts, occasionally offers nutritional information for recipes contained on this site. This information is provided as a courtesy and should not be construed as a guarantee. This information is a product of online calculators such as MyFitnessPal.com. Although 365 Days of Recipes/365 Days of Crafts  attempts to provide accurate nutritional information, these figures should be considered estimates. Varying factors such as product types or brands purchased, natural fluctuations in fresh produce and the way ingredients are processed change the effective nutritional information in any given recipe. Under no circumstances will 365 Days of Recipes/365 Days of Crafts be responsible for any loss or damage resulting for your reliance on nutritional information.

To obtain the most accurate representation of the nutritional information in a given recipe, you should calculate the nutritional information with the actual ingredients used in your recipe. You are solely responsible for ensuring that any nutritional information provided is accurate, complete and useful.

Additionally you are responsible if you burn stuff.  It happens to us too.

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.

An anonymized string created from your email address (also called a hash) may be provided to the Gravatar service to see if you are using it. The Gravatar service privacy policy is available here: https://automattic.com/privacy/. After approval of your comment, your profile picture is visible to the public in the context of your comment.

Media

If you upload images to the website, you should avoid uploading images with embedded location data (EXIF GPS) included. Visitors to the website can download and extract any location data from images on the website.

Cookies

If you leave a comment on our site you may opt-in to saving your name, email address and website in cookies. These are for your convenience so that you do not have to fill in your details again when you leave another comment. These cookies will last for one year.

If you have an account and you log in to this site, we will set a temporary cookie to determine if your browser accepts cookies. This cookie contains no personal data and is discarded when you close your browser.

When you log in, we will also set up several cookies to save your login information and your screen display choices. Login cookies last for two days, and screen options cookies last for a year. If you select “Remember Me”, your login will persist for two weeks. If you log out of your account, the login cookies will be removed.

If you edit or publish an article, an additional cookie will be saved in your browser. This cookie includes no personal data and simply indicates the post ID of the article you just edited. It expires after 1 day.

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 tracing your interaction with the embedded content if you have an account and are logged in to that website.

How long we retain your data

If you leave a comment, the comment and its metadata are retained indefinitely. This is so we can recognize and approve any follow-up comments automatically instead of holding them in a moderation queue.

For users that register on our website (if any), we also store the personal information they provide in their user profile. All users can see, edit, or delete their personal information at any time (except they cannot change their username). Website administrators can also see and edit that information.

What rights you have over your data

If you have an account on this site, or have left comments, you can request to receive an exported file of the personal data we hold about you, including any data you have provided to us. You can also request that we erase any personal data we hold about you. This does not include any data we are obliged to keep for administrative, legal, or security purposes.

Visitor comments may be checked through an automated spam detection service.

Activity Log

This feature only records activities of a site’s registered users.

Data Used: To deliver this functionality and record activities around site management, the following information is captured: user email address, user role, user login, user display name, WordPress.com and local user IDs, the activity to be recorded, the WordPress.com-connected site ID of the site on which the activity takes place, the site’s Jetpack version, and the timestamp of the activity. Some activities may also include the actor’s IP address (login attempts, for example) and user agent.

Activity Tracked: Login attempts/actions, post and page update and publish actions, comment/pingback submission and management actions, plugin and theme management actions, widget updates, user management actions, and the modification of other various site settings and options. Retention duration of activity data depends on the site’s plan and activity type. See the complete list of currently-recorded activities (along with retention information).

Data Synced: Successful and failed login attempts, which will include the actor’s IP address and user agent.

Comment Likes

This feature is only accessible to users logged in to WordPress.com.

Data Used: In order to process a comment like, the following information is used: WordPress.com user ID/username (you must be logged in to use this feature), the local site-specific user ID (if the user is signed in to the site on which the like occurred), and a true/false data point that tells us if the user liked a specific comment. If you perform a like action from one of our mobile apps, some additional information is used to track the activity: IP address, user agent, timestamp of event, blog ID, browser language, country code, and device info.

Activity Tracked: Comment likes.

Contact Form

Data Used:  Akismet is enabled on the site, the contact form submission data — IP address, user agent, name, email address, website, and message — is submitted to the Akismet service (also owned by Automattic) for the sole purpose of spam checking. The actual submission data is stored in the database of the site on which it was submitted and is emailed directly to the owner of the form (i.e. the site author who published the page on which the contact form resides). This email will include the submitter’s IP address, timestamp, name, email address, website, and message.

Data Synced (?): Post and post meta data associated with a user’s contact form submission.  Akismet is enabled on the site, the IP address and user agent originally submitted with the comment are synced, as well, as they are stored in post meta.

Gravatar Hovercards

Data Used: This feature will send a hash of the user’s email address (if logged in to the site or WordPress.com — or if they submitted a comment on the site using their email address that is attached to an active Gravatar profile) to the Gravatar service (also owned by Automattic) in order to retrieve their profile image.

Jetpack Comments

Data Used: Commenter’s name, email address, and site URL (if provided via the comment form), timestamp, and IP address. Additionally, a jetpack.wordpress.com IFrame receives the following data: WordPress.com blog ID attached to the site, ID of the post on which the comment is being submitted, commenter’s local user ID (if available), commenter’s local username (if available), commenter’s site URL (if available), MD5 hash of the commenter’s email address (if available), and the comment content.  Akismet (also owned by Automattic) is enabled on the site, the following information is sent to the service for the sole purpose of spam checking: commenter’s name, email address, site URL, IP address, and user agent.

Activity Tracked: The comment author’s name, email address, and site URL (if provided during the comment submission) are stored in cookies. Learn more about these cookies.

Data Synced (?): All data and metadata (see above) associated with comments. This includes the status of the comment and,  Akismet is enabled on the site, whether or not it was classified as spam by Akismet.