Who we are

Our website address: https://abyssiniaeats.com. At Abyssiniaeats.com, we are committed to protecting the privacy of our users. This Privacy Policy explains how we collect, use, and disclose information when you visit our website. By using our website, you agree to the terms outlined in this policy.

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.

Newsletters and Updates

With your consent, we may use your email address to send you newsletters, updates, and promotional materials about Abyssiniaeats.com. 

You can unsubscribe from these communications at any time by following the instructions provided in the emails or by contacting us directly.

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 visit our login page, 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 tracking your interaction with the embedded content  if you have an account and are logged in to that website.

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

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.

Where your data is sent

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

Advertisements

Our website displays ads through AdSense. These ads may collect certain information, such as your IP address and browsing behavior, 

to provide personalized and relevant advertisements. Please refer to the AdSense Privacy Policy for more information about their data collection and usage practices.

Affiliate Links

Some articles on our website may contain affiliate links to trusted sites like Amazon. If you click on these links and make a purchase, we may receive a small commission paid by the retailers. These affiliate links do not affect your privacy and are solely for the purpose of supporting our website.

Third Party Applications/website

Our websites may include links to websites or applications that are owned or operated by third parties.  Please note, we have no control over the privacy practices of websites or applications that we do not own. 

We encourage you to review the privacy policies of any third-party website or application for details about what information is collected and how it is used and/or disclosed.

Social sharing

We embed a Facebook widget to allow you to see number of likes/shares/recommends and “like/share/recommend” our webpages. This widget may collect your IP address, your web browser User Agent, store and retrieve cookies on your browser, embed additional tracking, and monitor your interaction with the widget, including correlating your Facebook account with whatever action you take within the widget (such as “liking/sharing/recommending” our webpage), if you are logged in to Facebook. For more information about how this data may be used, please see Facebook’s data privacy policy: https://www.facebook.com/about/privacy/update

We use Pinterest Save widget at our website to allow you to pin images to Pinterest from our webpages. These requests may track your IP address in accordance with their data privacy policy: https://policy.pinterest.com/en/privacy-policy

We use a Linkedin Share widget at our website to allow you to share our webpages on Linkedin. These requests may track your IP address in accordance with their data privacy policy: https://www.linkedin.com/legal/privacy-policy

Google Analytics

Goggle Analytics allow us to understand more about how many visitors we have to our Services, how many times they visit us, and how many times a user viewed specific pages within our Services. Although analytics cookies allow us to gather specific information   we cannot use them to find out details such as your name or address. We use Google Analytics. For more information about Google Analytics, please refer to “How Google Uses Information From Sites or Apps that Use Our Services,” which can be found at https://policies.google.com/technologies/partner-sites, or any other URL Google may provide from time to time.

Legal Compliance

We comply with applicable laws and regulations regarding the collection, usage, and disclosure of personal information, including the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), CCPA and other relevant privacy laws.

Contact Us

If you have any questions, concerns, or requests regarding our Privacy Policy or the handling of your personal information, please contact us at [email protected]

   This Privacy Policy was last updated on March 10,2024