Privacy Policy

Introduction

Cupcake Coloring (“the Corporation”) operates the website cupcakecoloring.com. This Privacy Policy informs you of our policies regarding the collection, use, and disclosure of personal data when you use our website and the choices you have associated with that data. We are committed to protecting your privacy and ensuring the security of your personal information.

1. Information We Collect

We collect several different types of information for various purposes to provide and improve our service to you.

Personal Data:

  • Contact Information: Such as name, email address, and any other information you voluntarily provide when you contact us or subscribe to our newsletter.
  • Usage Data: Information on how you access and use the website, such as your IP address, browser type, browser version, the pages you visit, the time and date of your visit, the time spent on those pages, and other diagnostic data.

Cookies and Tracking Technologies:

  • We use cookies and similar tracking technologies to track activity on our website and hold certain information. Cookies are files with a small amount of data which may include an anonymous unique identifier.

2. Use of Data

Cupcake Coloring uses the collected data for various purposes:

  • To provide and maintain our website
  • To notify you about changes to our website
  • To allow you to participate in interactive features of our website when you choose to do so
  • To provide customer support
  • To gather analysis or valuable information so that we can improve our website
  • To monitor the usage of our website
  • To detect, prevent, and address technical issues
  • To send you newsletters, marketing, or promotional materials, and other information that may be of interest to you (you can opt out of receiving these communications by following the unsubscribe link or instructions provided in any email we send).

3. Advertising

We may use third-party Service Providers to show advertisements to you to help support and maintain our website.

Third-Party Advertising and Analytics:

  • Third-party vendors, including Google, use cookies to serve ads based on your prior visits to our website or other websites.
  • Google’s use of advertising cookies enables it and its partners to serve ads to you based on your visit to our website and/or other sites on the Internet.
  • You may opt-out of personalized advertising by visiting Ads Settings for Google, or by visiting the Network Advertising Initiative Opt-Out page.

We also use third-party service providers for analytics, such as Google Analytics, to monitor and analyze the use of our website.

Behavioral Remarketing:

  • Cupcake Coloring uses remarketing services to advertise to you on third-party websites after you visited our website. We, and our third-party vendors, use cookies to inform, optimize, and serve ads based on your past visits to our website.

4. Data Transfer and Storage

Your information, including Personal Data, may be transferred to – and maintained on – computers located outside of your state, province, country, or other governmental jurisdiction where the data protection laws may differ from those of your jurisdiction.

Cupcake Coloring will take all steps reasonably necessary to ensure that your data is treated securely and in accordance with this Privacy Policy, and no transfer of your Personal Data will take place to an organization or a country unless there are adequate controls in place including the security of your data and other personal information.

5. Data Disclosure

We my share your data when:

  • Comply with a legal obligation
  • Protect and defend the rights or property of Cupcake Coloring
  • Prevent or investigate possible wrongdoing in connection with the website
  • Protect the personal safety of users of the website or the public
  • Protect against legal liability

Comments

Comment Data Collection

  • Data Collected: When someone leaves a comment, the website collects the information provided in the comment form. This typically includes the comment itself, the visitor’s name, email address, and sometimes a website URL.
  • IP Address and Browser User Agent String: Additionally, the site collects the visitor’s IP address and browser user agent string (which provides information about the visitor’s browser and operating system). This data is used primarily for spam detection, helping to identify and filter out automated spam comments.

Gravatar Integration

  • Email Hashing for Gravatar: If you provide an email address, the site may create an anonymized string (or hash) from it. This hash is sent to the Gravatar service to check if you have a Gravatar profile picture associated with that email address.
    • Anonymized String (Hash): This is a way of encoding your email so that it can’t be easily read or used by others. It’s a one-way conversion that protects your email from being exposed.
    • Gravatar Service: Gravatar is a service that allows you to create a profile picture that follows you from site to site when you comment or interact online. If you have a Gravatar account linked to your email, your Gravatar image will appear next to your comment.
    • Privacy Policy Link: The privacy policy of Gravatar is provided so that users can understand how their data is handled by Gravatar. You can read it here.

Comment Approval and Visibility

Profile Picture Visibility: If you have a Gravatar linked to your email, your profile picture will also be visible alongside your comment.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.

Approval Process: Once your comment is approved by the site moderators, it becomes visible to the public.

Media

EXIF GPS Data in Images

  • EXIF Data: EXIF (Exchangeable Image File Format) data is metadata stored within image files. This data can include various details about the photo, such as the camera settings, date and time the photo was taken, and potentially, the geographic location where the photo was captured (GPS coordinates).
  • Embedded Location Data: When your camera or smartphone takes a photo, it may embed GPS location data into the image if location services are enabled. This means the exact coordinates of where the photo was taken are stored within the image file.

Privacy Risks

  • Extractable Data: When you upload an image with embedded location data to a website, anyone who views that image can potentially download it and extract this location information. This could reveal private details about your whereabouts, such as your home, workplace, or places you frequently visit.

Recommendation

Avoid Uploading Images with EXIF GPS Data: To protect your privacy, it’s advised to remove any embedded location data from images before uploading them to the website. Many photo editing tools and apps offer features to strip EXIF data from images, ensuring that location information is not included when the image is shared online.

Cookies

Comment Cookies

  • Opt-in for Convenience: If you leave a comment, you can choose to save your name, email address, and website in cookies.
    • Purpose: This is for convenience so you don’t have to re-enter your details for future comments.
    • Duration: These cookies will last for one year.

Login Page Cookies

  • Temporary Cookie: When you visit the login page, the site sets a temporary cookie.
    • Purpose: This is to check if your browser accepts cookies.
    • Personal Data: This cookie contains no personal data.
    • Duration: It is discarded when you close your browser.

Login and Display Cookies

  • Login Cookies: When you log in, several cookies are set up to save your login information.
    • Duration: These cookies last for two days.
    • “Remember Me” Option: If selected, your login will persist for two weeks.
    • Logout: When you log out, the login cookies are removed.
  • Screen Display Cookies: Cookies are also set to save your screen display preferences.
    • Duration: These cookies last for one year.

Article Editing Cookies

  • Duration: It expires after one day.
  • Editing or Publishing: If you edit or publish an article, an additional cookie is saved in your browser.
  • Purpose: This cookie indicates the post ID of the article you just edited.
  • Personal Data: It includes no personal data.

Embedded content from other websites

Embedded Content

  • Definition: Embedded content refers to media or elements like videos, images, articles, or other elements from external websites that are included within the site’s articles.
    • Examples: A video from YouTube, an image from Instagram, or an article from another news site.

How Embedded Content Works

  • Behavior: When you interact with embedded content, it functions exactly as if you had visited the external website directly.
    • Functionality: For example, if you watch a YouTube video embedded in an article, it behaves like you are watching it on YouTube’s site.

Data Collection and Tracking

Interaction Monitoring: If you are logged into the external site (e.g., a YouTube or Facebook account), the site might track your interactions with the embedded content.

Data Collection: The external websites hosting the embedded content may collect data about you.

Cookies and Tracking: These websites might use cookies to track your activity and may include additional tracking technologies.

Who we share your data with

If you request a password reset, your IP address will be included in the reset email.

How long we retain your data

Data Retention for Comments

  • Indefinite Retention: When you leave a comment on the site, both the comment itself and its associated metadata (such as the time and date of the comment) are stored indefinitely.
    • Purpose: This helps the site automatically recognize and approve any follow-up comments from the same user without having to go through a moderation queue again.

Data for Registered Users

Administrator Access: Website administrators have the ability to see and edit user profiles and information.

User Profiles: If you register on the website, the personal information you provide (such as your name, email address, and other details) is stored in your user profile.

Access and Management:

User Control: As a registered user, you can view, edit, or delete your personal information at any time. However, you cannot change your username once it’s set.

What rights you have over your data

Rights Over Your Data

Export Your Data: If you have an account on the site or have left comments, you can request a copy of all the personal data the site holds about you.

Format: The data will be provided in a downloadable file format.

What’s Included: This includes any information you’ve provided, such as profile details.

Where your data is sent

Data Handling: This means that the content of your comments, along with any associated data, is sent to this external spam detection service for analysis.

Automated Spam Detection: When visitors leave comments on the site, those comments may be reviewed by an automated spam detection service.

Purpose: The automated service helps to identify and filter out spam or unwanted comments before they appear publicly.