PRIVACY, COPYRIGHT, TERMS OF SERVICE, & LEGAL POLICIES • FIVEheartHOME

By using FiveHeartHome.com and its content, you agree to the below policies and terms:

PRIVACY POLICY

Effective date: April 11, 2020:

Five Heart Home ("us", "we", or "our") operates the https://www.fivehearthome.com website (the "Service").

This page informs you of our policies regarding the collection, use, and disclosure of personal data when you use our Service and the choices you have associated with that data.

We use your data to provide and improve the Service. By using the Service, you agree to the collection and use of information in accordance with this policy. Unless otherwise defined in this Privacy Policy, terms used in this Privacy Policy have the same meanings as in our Terms and Conditions, accessible from https://www.fivehearthome.com

DEFINITIONS

SERVICE ~ Service is the https://www.fivehearthome.com website operated by Five Heart Home
PERSONAL DATA ~ Personal Data means data about a living individual who can be identified from those data (or from those and other information either in our possession or likely to come into our possession).
USAGE DATA ~ Usage Data is data collected automatically either generated by the use of the Service or from the Service infrastructure itself (for example, the duration of a page visit).
COOKIES ~ Cookies are small pieces of data stored on your device (computer or mobile device).
DATA CONTROLLER ~ Data Controller means the natural or legal person who (either alone or jointly or in common with other persons) determines the purposes for which and the manner in which any personal information are, or are to be, processed.For the purpose of this Privacy Policy, we are a Data Controller of your Personal Data.
DATA PROCESSOR (OR SERVICE PROVIDER) ~ Data Processor (or Service Provider) means any natural or legal person who processes the data on behalf of the Data Controller.We may use the services of various Service Providers in order to process your data more effectively.
DATA SUBJECT (OR USER) ~ Data Subject is any living individual who is using our Service and is the subject of Personal Data.

INFORMATION COLLECTION & USE

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

Types of Data Collected

Personal Data

While using our Service, we may ask you to provide us with certain personally identifiable information that can be used to contact or identify you ("Personal Data"). Personally identifiable information may include, but is not limited to:

Email address
First name and last name
Cookies and Usage Data

We may use your Personal Data to contact you with newsletters, marketing or promotional materials and other information that may be of interest to you. You may opt out of receiving any, or all, of these communications from us by following the unsubscribe link or instructions provided in any email we send.

Usage Data

We may also collect information how the Service is accessed and used ("Usage Data"). This Usage Data may include information such as your computer's Internet Protocol address (e.g. IP address), browser type, browser version, the pages of our Service that you visit, the time and date of your visit, the time spent on those pages, unique device identifiers and other diagnostic data.

Tracking & Cookies Data

We use cookies and similar tracking technologies to track the activity on our Service and hold certain information.

Cookies are files with small amount of data which may include an anonymous unique identifier. Cookies are sent to your browser from a website and stored on your device. Tracking technologies also used are beacons, tags, and scripts to collect and track information and to improve and analyze our Service.

You can instruct your browser to refuse all cookies or to indicate when a cookie is being sent. However, if you do not accept cookies, you may not be able to use some portions of our Service.

Examples of Cookies we use:

Session Cookies. We use Session Cookies to operate our Service.
Preference Cookies. We use Preference Cookies to remember your preferences and various settings.
Security Cookies. We use Security Cookies for security purposes.

USE OF DATA

Five Heart Home uses the collected data for various purposes:

To provide and maintain our Service
To notify you about changes to our Service
To allow you to participate in interactive features of our Service when you choose to do so
To provide customer support
To gather analysis or valuable information so that we can improve our Service
To monitor the usage of our Service
To detect, prevent and address technical issues
To provide you with news, special offers and general information about other goods, services and events which we offer that are similar to those that you have already purchased or enquired about unless you have opted not to receive such information

If you are from the European Economic Area (EEA), Five Heart Home legal basis for collecting and using the personal information described in this Privacy Policy depends on the Personal Data we collect and the specific context in which we collect it.

Five Heart Home may process your Personal Data because:

We need to perform a contract with you
You have given us permission to do so
The processing is in our legitimate interests and it's not overridden by your rights
To comply with the law

RETENTION OF DATA

Five Heart Home will retain your Personal Data only for as long as is necessary for the purposes set out in this Privacy Policy. We will retain and use your Personal Data to the extent necessary to comply with our legal obligations (for example, if we are required to retain your data to comply with applicable laws), resolve disputes, and enforce our legal agreements and policies.

Five Heart Home will also retain Usage Data for internal analysis purposes. Usage Data is generally retained for a shorter period of time, except when this data is used to strengthen the security or to improve the functionality of our Service, or we are legally obligated to retain this data for longer time periods.

TRANSFER OF DATA

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 than those from your jurisdiction.

If you are located outside United States and choose to provide information to us, please note that we transfer the data, including Personal Data, to United States and process it there.

Your consent to this Privacy Policy followed by your submission of such information represents your agreement to that transfer.

Five Heart Home 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.

DISCLOSURE OF DATA

Legal Requirements

Five Heart Home may disclose your Personal Data in the good faith belief that such action is necessary to:

To comply with a legal obligation
To protect and defend the rights or property of Five Heart Home
To prevent or investigate possible wrongdoing in connection with the Service
To protect the personal safety of users of the Service or the public
To protect against legal liability

SECURITY OF DATA

The security of your data is important to us, but remember that no method of transmission over the Internet, or method of electronic storage is 100% secure. While we strive to use commercially acceptable means to protect your Personal Data, we cannot guarantee its absolute security.

"DO NOT TRACK" SIGNALS

We do not support Do Not Track ("DNT"). Do Not Track is a preference you can set in your web browser to inform websites that you do not want to be tracked.

You can enable or disable Do Not Track by visiting the Preferences or Settings page of your web browser.

If you are a resident of the European Economic Area (EEA), you have certain data protection rights. Five Heart Home aims to take reasonable steps to allow you to correct, amend, delete, or limit the use of your Personal Data.

If you wish to be informed what Personal Data we hold about you and if you want it to be removed from our systems, please contact us.

In certain circumstances, you have the following data protection rights:

The right to access, update or to delete the information we have on you. Whenever made possible, you can access, update or request deletion of your Personal Data directly within your account settings section. If you are unable to perform these actions yourself, please contact us to assist you.
The right of rectification. You have the right to have your information rectified if that information is inaccurate or incomplete.
The right to object. You have the right to object to our processing of your Personal Data.
The right of restriction. You have the right to request that we restrict the processing of your personal information.
The right to data portability. You have the right to be provided with a copy of the information we have on you in a structured, machine-readable and commonly used format.
The right to withdraw consent. You also have the right to withdraw your consent at any time where Five Heart Home relied on your consent to process your personal information.

Please note that we may ask you to verify your identity before responding to such requests.

You have the right to complain to a Data Protection Authority about our collection and use of your Personal Data. For more information, please contact your local data protection authority in the European Economic Area (EEA).

SERVICE PROVIDERS

We may employ third party companies and individuals to facilitate our Service ("Service Providers"), to provide the Service on our behalf, to perform Service-related services or to assist us in analyzing how our Service is used.

These third parties have access to your Personal Data only to perform these tasks on our behalf and are obligated not to disclose or use it for any other purpose.

Analytics

We may use third-party Service Providers to monitor and analyze the use of our Service.

Google Analytics Google Analytics is a web analytics service offered by Google that tracks and reports website traffic. Google uses the data collected to track and monitor the use of our Service. This data is shared with other Google services. Google may use the collected data to contextualize and personalize the ads of its own advertising network.You can opt-out of having made your activity on the Service available to Google Analytics by installing the Google Analytics opt-out browser add-on. The add-on prevents the Google Analytics JavaScript (ga.js, analytics.js, and dc.js) from sharing information with Google Analytics about visits activity.For more information on the privacy practices of Google, please visit the Google Privacy & Terms web page: http://www.google.com/intl/en/policies/privacy/

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

Advertising Privacy Statement

This Site is affiliated with CMI Marketing, Inc., d/b/a CafeMedia (“CafeMedia”) for the purposes of placing advertising on the Site, and CafeMedia will collect and use certain data for advertising purposes. To learn more about CafeMedia’s data usage, click here: raptive.com/creator-advertising-privacy-statement/

For European Economic Area Residents

If you reside in a country in the European Economic Area (EEA), then under the GDPR and applicable data protection laws you have the rights, among other things, to access your personal data, have us erase it, and/or restrict its further processing. If you wish to access or delete your personal data (if any) maintained by us or Raptive related to advertising on the Site, you can contact us at samantha {at} fivehearthome {dot} com and contact Raptive at info@raptive.com. If you wish to see a list of the advertising partners we work with or change which of those partners track your behavior using cookies, click the ad preferences link at the bottom of the site. (Available in the EU.)

For California Residents

California law gives residents the right to opt out of the “sale” of their personal information to third parties, including for advertising purposes. Under California law, the sharing of your information with a service provider for advertising purposes could be considered a “sale.” To opt out of the sharing of your information for advertising information, click the opt out link provided in the footer of this page. You also have the right to request from us the categories of personal information that we have shared and the categories of third parties to whom the information was provided. To make such a request, please contact us at info@raptive.com. To be clear we do not share your name, contact information, or any other sensitive information with third parties, and the categories of third parties that we share information with for advertising purposes are supply side platforms, programmatic advertising exchanges, and demand side platforms.

LINKS TO OTHER SITES

Our Service may contain links to other sites that are not operated by us. If you click on a third party link, you will be directed to that third party's site. We strongly advise you to review the Privacy Policy of every site you visit.

We have no control over and assume no responsibility for the content, privacy policies or practices of any third party sites or services.

CHILDREN'S PRIVACY

Our Service does not address anyone under the age of 18 ("Children").

We do not knowingly collect personally identifiable information from anyone under the age of 18. If you are a parent or guardian and you are aware that your Children has provided us with Personal Data, please contact us. If we become aware that we have collected Personal Data from children without verification of parental consent, we take steps to remove that information from our servers.

CHANGES TO THIS PRIVACY POLICY

We may update our Privacy Policy from time to time. We will notify you of any changes by posting the new Privacy Policy on this page.

We will let you know via email and/or a prominent notice on our Service, prior to the change becoming effective and update the "effective date" at the top of this Privacy Policy.

You are advised to review this Privacy Policy periodically for any changes. Changes to this Privacy Policy are effective when they are posted on this page.

CONTACT US

If you have any questions about this Privacy Policy, please contact us:

By email: Samantha {at} FiveHeartHome {dot} com

TERMS OF SERVICE

ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE POLICY

The owner of this FiveHeartHome.com does not consent to the content on this website being used or downloaded by any third parties for the purposes of developing, training or operating artificial intelligence or other machine learning systems (“Artificial Intelligence Purposes”), except as authorized by the owner in writing (including written electronic communication). Absent such consent, users of this website, including any third parties accessing the website through automated systems, are prohibited from using any of the content on the website for Artificial Intelligence Purposes. Users or automated systems that fail to respect these choices will be considered to have breached these Terms of Service.

We have included on the pages of this website a robots meta tag with the “noai” or “noimageai” directive in the head section of the HTML page. Please note that even if such directives are not present on any web page or content file, this website still does not grant consent to use any content for Artificial Intelligence Purposes unless such consent is expressly contained.

COPYRIGHT INFO

I put a lot of time and effort into making sure that the content and photos used in this blog are high-quality, useful, and appealing. I'm so honored when someone finds inspiration in one of my recipes or projects, because I am certainly inspired by all of the amazing talent and ideas of other bloggers! But I would kindly request that you do not directly reprint or republish any of the copyrighted content from this blog without my express written permission. I know and appreciate that most bloggers have good intentions and are sometimes simply unaware of copyright infringement and blog etiquette, so please read below for further explanation. Thanks so much! 🙂

•WRITTEN CONTENT AND IMAGES MAY NOT BE USED, COPIED, REPRINTED, OR PUBLISHED WITHOUT MY WRITTEN CONSENT.

•However, you may feature ONE photograph in a round-up type post without my express permission, but please clearly link back to Five Heart Home and send me trackback, comment, or e-mail to notify me. Please ask before using one photo under any other circumstances.

•If you would like to feature one of my recipes, please adapt it and rewrite the directions in your own words, giving proper attribution for your adaptation back to Five Heart Home by linking back. If you do not wish to rewrite the recipe in your own words, please link directly back to recipe here instead of publishing the recipe on your site.

•You may pin images from this blog to Pinterest, but please do not copy the entire recipe into the text portion of the pin.

COMMENTS/REVIEWS

Comments and recipe reviews are moderated on this website. This is NOT to only publish comments that are positive, but to prevent spam, hateful language, and misleading information, and to ensure that the comments/reviews that are published are helpful to readers and pertinent to the recipe being reviewed.

We firmly believe that people have the right to leave reviews on our recipes, either negative or positive, as that is their experience and they deserve to share it.

However, there are some types of comments that may not be published:

spam comments from bots.
libelous, harassing, abusive, obscene, vulgar, or sexually explicit comments.
discriminatory comments with respect to race, gender, sexuality, ethnicity, or another protected class.
clearly false or misleading information.
comments or reviews that are unrelated to the recipe on the same page.
recipe modification requests that I have not tested and cannot advise on.
questions that were already addressed in the post/recipe card.

ADS, AFFILIATE MARKETING PROGRAMS, & SPONSORED POSTS

I love creating high-quality content for my readers, which includes creating, cooking, and writing recipes (and designing printables), staging them for photos, taking and editing photos, writing corresponding blog posts, sharing and networking via social media, and replying/responding to reader questions and comments. I enjoy each step of the process, but hours upon hours of time go into each and every blog post. As my readership has grown, there are many costs associated with running this blog, including but not limited to website hosting fees, e-mail subscription lists, photography equipment, blogger education and training, giveaways, and more.

Therefore, I accept ad placement on my site, participate in affiliate marketing programs to utilize affiliate links, and occasionally partner with select companies in sponsored post opportunities.

Ads are found in the sidebars and between content areas on this website. They generate revenue via views, without the need for clicking or interaction with the ads by visitors and readers. I appreciate your understanding of their presence, in order to earn compensation for all of the time and money that goes into this blog.

An affiliate marketing program means that when I share with my readers a product that I already use and love by linking to it, I receive a small commission from sales or views of that product.

Five Heart Home participates in affiliate marketing programs. This means we may post customized links, provided by retailers, to track referrals to their websites, and we may earn an advertising fee from any purchases made through these links. This program uses cookies to track visits for the purposes of assigning commission on these sales.

AMAZON DISCLOSURE: Five Heart Home 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 and affiliated sites. As an Amazon Associate, I earn from qualifying purchases. I receive commissions for purchases made through links on this site.

A sponsored post is a post or recipe that I create in partnership with a company, using or sharing their product in return for compensation from that company. I only write sponsored posts and work with companies and products that I wholeheartedly endorse and use for myself and my own family.

Please read my Disclosure Policy below for more information on how I will always be honest, up-front, and transparent with my readers.

DISCLOSURE POLICY

This blog is a personal blog written and edited by me. For questions about this blog, please contact Samantha {at} FiveHeartHome {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 of this blog is sometimes compensated to provide opinion on products, services, websites and various other topics. Even though the owners of this blog receives compensation for certain 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 blogger's 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 not contain any content which might present a conflict of interest.

NUTRITIONAL & WEBSITE CONTENT DISCLAIMER

The recipes and information found on this website, FiveHeartHome.com, are not created by certified nutritionists or registered dietitians.

This website and recipes on FiveHeartHome.com are provided and intended for informational purposes only. Statements on this website or on its associated social media channels have not been evaluated or approved by the Food and Drug Administration (FDA).

This website is not intended to cure, prevent, diagnose or treat any disease. Content should not be considered a substitute for knowledge, skill, advice, expertise, or treatment from medical doctors and/or other professional healthcare workers involved in direct patient care. The reader assumes full responsibility for consulting a qualified health professional regarding health conditions or concerns, and before starting a new health program or diet.

The writers and publishers 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 is not intended as nutritional advice and readers of this website are ultimately responsible for all decisions pertaining to their health.

Occasionally, FiveHeartHome.com may offer estimated nutritional information for recipes contained on this website. This information is provided as a courtesy and is not guaranteed to be accurate. This nutritional information comes from online calculators. Although FiveHeartHome.com attempts to provide accurate nutritional information, these figures are only estimates.

Various factors can change the nutritional information in any given recipe. These factors include but are not limited to the actual brands used. Also, different online calculators sometimes provide different results based on their own algorithms and nutrition fact sources. Under no circumstances will FiveHeartHome.com and the recipe creators be responsible for any loss or damage resulting from your reliance on the nutritional information that may be provided.

To obtain the most accurate representation of the nutritional information in any given recipe, you should calculate the nutritional information with the actual ingredients you use in your recipe, using your preferred nutrition calculator, or your own nutritionist or medical professional. You are solely responsible for ensuring that any nutritional information obtained is accurate.

All above legal policies reviewed and updated September 2024.