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This privacy policy describes how Southern Discourse uses and protects information you give while at www.southerndiscourse.com.
If you are asked to provide certain information by which you can be identified (specifically gift basket winners who must supply mailing addresses to receive their prizes) when using this website, then you can be assured that it will be used in only in the strictest accordance with this privacy statement.
A Southern Discourse may change this policy as different needs and requirements arise. All changes will be noted on this page as they occur. You should check this page from time to time to ensure that you are happy with any changes that are made. This policy is effective April 8, 2022.
What We Collect
We may collect the following information:
- contact information, specifically email address (should you choose to subscribe to receive our email via the subscriber opt-in)
- demographic information such as postcode, preferences, and interests
- other information relevant to customer surveys and/or offers
What We Do With Information We Gather
We require this information to understand your needs and provide you with a better website experience, specifically for the following reasons:
- We may use the information to improve our products and services. We may use the information to customize the website and its function according to your interests.
- We may periodically send emails about new products, special offers or other information which we think you may find interesting using the email address which you have provided.
- From time to time, we may also use your information to contact you by email for market research purposes.
Security
We are committed to ensuring that your information is secure. In order to prevent unauthorized access or disclosure, we have put in place suitable physical, electronic and managerial procedures to safeguard and secure the information we collect online.
How we use cookies
A cookie is a small file that asks permission to be placed on your computer’s hard drive. Once you agree, the file is added and the cookie helps analyze web traffic or lets you know when you visit a particular site. Cookies allow web applications to respond to you as an individual. The web application can tailor its operations to your needs, likes, and dislikes by gathering and remembering information about your preferences.
We use traffic log cookies to identify which pages on our site that are being used. This helps us analyze data about web page traffic and improve our website in order to tailor it to customer needs. We only use this information for statistical analysis purposes and then the data is removed from the system.
Overall, cookies help us provide you with a better website by enabling us to understand which pages you find useful and which you do not. A cookie in no way gives us access to your computer or any information about you, other than the data you choose to share with us.
Most web browsers automatically accept cookies; however, you can modify your browser setting to decline cookies, if you prefer. However, this may prevent you from taking full advantage of the website. The choice to accept or decline cookies is yours.
See our Cookies Policy Disclosure here.
Google Analytics
We use Google Analytics to analyze the use of our website. Google Analytics gathers information about website use by means of cookies. The information gathered relating to our website is used to create reports about the use of our website. Google’s privacy policy is available at: https://www.google.com/policies/privacy/
Links to other websites
Our website may contain links to other websites of interest. However, once you have used these links to leave our site, you should note that we do not have any control over other websites. Therefore, we cannot be responsible for the protection and privacy of any information that you provide while visiting such sites and such sites are not governed by this privacy statement. You should exercise caution and look at the privacy statement applicable to the websites you choose to visit via links or otherwise.
Affiliate Links
You will find affiliate links in different posts throughout Southern Discourse. When you purchase items using my affiliate links, you are NOT charged extra for the item. However, when you do use those links, I earn a small commission. This is a great way to show your support for Southern Discourse, as this money goes back into the maintenance of the website and the creation of new content.
The affiliate links do use cookies to track visits for the purposes of assigning commission on these sales.
We are affiliates with Williams Sonoma (through Raptive), Broadlawn Farms, The Preppy Stitch, Hen House Linens and LemonDaisy Designs.
We are also 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.
No AI
The owner of this website does not consent to the content on Southern Discourse 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 Southern Discourse’s Terms of Use.
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.
Contacting Us
If you have any questions about this Privacy Policy or Terms of Use please contact us at Stacey@SouthernDiscourse.com.
The recipes and information on this website are intended for personal use/ to be used by the home cook and host/hostess. If you are interested in making and selling Southern Discourse recipes in your business, we would love to make that possible. Please contact Stacey at the above email address.
