Privacy Policy & Disclosures

Last Updated: June 2020

This Privacy Policy (“Policy”) document contains types of information that is collected and recorded by Lily Muffins (“us” or “we”) and how we use it. At Lily Muffins, accessible from https://lilymuffins.com/ (“Site” or “Service”), one of our main priorities is the privacy of our visitors. 

This Policy covers what Data we collect, how we use it, with whom we share it, what choices are available to you with respect to Data collection, usage, and sharing, and what types of safety measures protect your Data under our control.

It does not apply to information collected about you through any other means, including information collected by third parties, social media, or through non-electronic or offline means. 

You accept the terms of this Policy when you access, use, click on, link to, or otherwise take steps to accept the terms of service. If you do not agree to this Policy, you must immediately leave the Site and not engage with it.

If you have additional questions or require more information about this Policy, do not hesitate to contact us at lily @ lilymuffins (.) com.

Affiliate Disclosures

Lily Muffins is an ad and affiliate friendly website. Some sections of this site will allow you to purchase various products and services online provided by other merchants. Some of these links that are posted on this site are “affiliate links” which means if you click on the link and purchase the item, we receive a commission.

Brands and advertisers will never influence the content of blog posts. Any views or opinions expressed on this blog are always our own. Any relationships with brands will always be disclosed when writing about a product. 

Copyright & Attribution

Content found throughout this site is public information. However, all images and text on this Site are the property of Lily Muffins (unless indicated otherwise). You are welcome to share content on your own blog or social media pages and use one photo provided that a link back to our original post is included. All free printables are offered for personal use only. 

Comment Policy

When commenting throughout this site please express any ideas with respect for other members or this online community, including fellow commenters. We do reserve the right to delete comments that appear spammy or disrespectful in nature without notifying the commenter. 

Newsletters

On the Website, you may subscribe to our newsletter, which may be used for advertising purposes. All newsletters sent may contain tracking pixels. The pixel is embedded in emails and allows an analysis of the success of online marketing campaigns. Because of these tracking pixels, we may see if and when you open an email and which links within the email you click. Also, this allows the Website to adapt the content of future newsletters to the interests of the user. This behavior will not be passed on to third parties.

Log Files

Lily Muffins follows a standard procedure of using log files. These files log visitors when they visit websites. All hosting companies do this and a part of hosting services’ analytics. The information collected by log files include internet protocol (IP) addresses, browser type, Internet Service Provider (ISP), date and time stamp, referring/exit pages, and possibly the number of clicks. These are not linked to any information that is personally identifiable. The purpose of the information is for analyzing trends, administering the site, tracking users’ movement on the website, and gathering demographic information.

Cookies and Web Beacons

Like any other website, Lily Muffins uses ‘cookies’. These cookies are used to store information including visitors’ preferences, and the pages on the website that the visitor accessed or visited. The information is used to optimize the users’ experience by customizing our web page content based on visitors’ browser type and/or other information.

For more general information on cookies, please read “What Are Cookies”.

Additionally when you make a purchase or attempt to make a purchase through the Site, we collect certain information from you, including your name, billing address, shipping address (if applicable), payment information (including credit card numbers, email address, and phone number). We refer to this information as “Order Information.”

We also collect communication data that includes any communication that you send to us whether that be through the contact form on our website, through email, text, social media messaging, social media posting or any other communication that you send us. We process this data for the purposes of communicating with you, for record keeping and for the establishment, pursuance or defence of legal claims. Our lawful ground for this processing is our legitimate interests which in this case are to reply to communications sent to us, to keep records and to establish, pursue or defend legal claims.

We may use this data to deliver relevant website content and advertisements to you and to measure or understand the effectiveness of the advertising we serve you. Our lawful ground for this processing is legitimate interests which is to grow our business. We may also use such data to send other marketing communications to you. Our lawful ground for this processing is either consent or legitimate interests.

Sensitive Data

We do not knowingly collect any Sensitive Data about you. Sensitive data refers to data that includes details about your race, ethnicity, religion, political affiliations, or sexual orientation.

Privacy Policies

You may consult this list to find the Privacy Policy for each of the advertising partners of Lily Muffins. Our Privacy Policy was created with the help of the Free Privacy Policy Generator and the Privacy Policy Generator Online.

Third-party ad servers or ad networks uses technologies like cookies, JavaScript, or Web Beacons that are used in their respective advertisements and links that appear on Lily Muffins, which are sent directly to users’ browser. They automatically receive your IP address when this occurs. These technologies are used to measure the effectiveness of their advertising campaigns and/or to personalize the advertising content that you see on websites that you visit.

Note that Lily Muffins has no access to or control over these cookies that are used by third-party advertisers.

Third Party Privacy Policies

Lily Muffins’s Privacy Policy does not apply to other advertisers or websites. Thus, we are advising you to consult the respective Privacy Policies of these third-party ad servers for more detailed information. It may include their practices and instructions about how to opt-out of certain options. You may find a complete list of these Privacy Policies and their links here: Privacy Policy Links.

You can choose to disable cookies through your individual browser options. To know more detailed information about cookie management with specific web browsers, it can be found at the browsers’ respective websites. 

This Site currently uses the following third-party service providers:

Google Analytics – this service tracks Website usage and provides information such as referring websites and user actions on the Website. Google Analytics may capture your IP address, but no other personal information is captured by Google Analytics.

Mail Chimp – this service is used for delivery of email updates and newsletters. We store your name and email address for purposes of delivering such communications.  Please refer to Mail Chimp’s privacy policy for further information.

Children’s Information

Another part of our priority is adding protection for children while using the internet. We encourage parents and guardians to observe, participate in, and/or monitor and guide their online activity.

Lily Muffins does not knowingly collect any Personal Identifiable Information from children under the age of 13. If you think that your child provided this kind of information on our website, we strongly encourage you to contact us immediately and we will do our best efforts to promptly remove such information from our records.

Online Privacy Policy Only

This Privacy Policy applies only to our online activities and is valid for visitors to our website with regards to the information that they shared and/or collect in Lily Muffins. This policy is not applicable to any information collected offline or via channels other than this website.

Data Security

We have put in place security measures to prevent your personal data from being accidentally lost, used, altered, disclosed, or accessed without authorization. We also allow access to your personal data only to those employees and partners who have a business need to know such data.

Changes

We may update this privacy policy from time to time in order to reflect, for example, changes to our practices or for other operational, legal or regulatory reasons.

Consent

By using our website, you hereby consent to our Privacy Policy and agree to its Terms and Conditions.