Affective as of January 1/16/2025
Your privacy is very important to us. At The Menu Maid, we have a few fundamental principles that we follow:
Mediavine Programmatic Advertising (Ver 1.1)
The Website works with Mediavine to manage third-party interest-based advertising appearing on the Website. Mediavine serves content and advertisements when you visit the Website, which may use first and third-party cookies. A cookie is a small text file which is sent to your computer or mobile device (referred to in this policy as a “device”) by the web server so that a website can remember some information about your browsing activity on the Website.
First party cookies are created by the website that you are visiting. A third-party cookie is frequently used in behavioral advertising and analytics and is created by a domain other than the website you are visiting. Third-party cookies, tags, pixels, beacons and other similar technologies (collectively, “Tags”) may be placed on the Website to monitor interaction with advertising content and to target and optimize advertising. Each internet browser has functionality so that you can block both first and third-party cookies and clear your browser’s cache. The “help” feature of the menu bar on most browsers will tell you how to stop accepting new cookies, how to receive notification of new cookies, how to disable existing cookies and how to clear your browser’s cache. For more information about cookies and how to disable them, you can consult the information at All About Cookies.
Without cookies you may not be able to take full advantage of the Website content and features. Please note that rejecting cookies does not mean that you will no longer see ads when you visit our Site. In the event you opt-out, you will still see non-personalized advertisements on the Website.
The Website collects the following data using a cookie when serving personalized ads:
- IP Address
- Operating System type
- Operating System version
- Device Type
- Language of the website
- Web browser type
- Email (in hashed form)
Mediavine Partners (companies listed below with whom Mediavine shares data) may also use this data to link to other end user information the partner has independently collected to deliver targeted advertisements. Mediavine Partners may also separately collect data about end users from other sources, such as advertising IDs or pixels, and link that data to data collected from Mediavine publishers in order to provide interest-based advertising across your online experience, including devices, browsers and apps. This data includes usage data, cookie information, device information, information about interactions between users and advertisements and websites, geolocation data, traffic data, and information about a visitor’s referral source to a particular website. Mediavine Partners may also create unique IDs to create audience segments, which are used to provide targeted advertising.
If you would like more information about this practice and to know your choices to opt-in or opt-out of this data collection, please visit National Advertising Initiative opt out page. You may also visit Digital Advertising Alliance website and Network Advertising Initiative website to learn more information about interest-based advertising. You may download the AppChoices app at Digital Advertising Alliance’s AppChoices app to opt out in connection with mobile apps, or use the platform controls on your mobile device to opt out.
For specific information about Mediavine Partners, the data each collects and their data collection and privacy policies, please visit Mediavine Partners.
- We don’t ask you for personal information unless we truly need it.
- We don’t share your personal information with anyone except to comply with the law, develop our products, or protect our rights.
- We don’t store personal information on our servers unless required for the on-going operation of our site.
It is The Menu Maid policy to respect your privacy regarding any information we may collect while operating our websites.
Website Visitors
Like most website operators, The Menu Maid collects non-personally-identifying information of the sort that web browsers and servers typically make available, such as the browser type, language preference, referring site, and the date and time of each visitor request. The Menu Maid’s purpose in collecting non-personally identifying information is to better understand how The Menu Maid’s visitors use its website. From time to time, The Menu Maid may release non-personally-identifying information in the aggregate, e.g., by publishing a report on trends in the usage of its website.
The Menu Maid also collects potentially personally-identifying information like Internet Protocol (IP) addresses for logged in users and for users leaving comments on our blogs. The Menu Maid only discloses logged in user and commenter IP addresses under the same circumstances that it uses and discloses personally-identifying information as described below, except that blog commenter IP addresses are visible and disclosed to the administrators of the blog where the comment was left.
Gathering of Personally-Identifying Information
Certain visitors to The Menu Maid website choose to interact with The Menu Maid in ways that require The Menu Maid to gather personally-identifying information. The amount and type of information that The Menu Maid gathers depends on the nature of the interaction. For example, we ask visitors who comment on our blog to provide a username and email address. Those who wish to receive updates via email, we collect their emails. In each case, The Menu Maid collects such information only insofar as is necessary or appropriate to fulfill the purpose of the visitor’s interaction with The Menu Maid. The Menu Maid does not disclose personally-identifying information other than as described below. And visitors can always refuse to supply personally-identifying information, with the caveat that it may prevent them from engaging in certain website-related activities.
Aggregated Statistics
The Menu Maid may collect statistics about the behavior of visitors to its websites. For instance, The Menu Maid may monitor the most popular pages on the list25.com site or use spam screened by the Akismet service to help identify spam. The Menu Maid may display this information publicly or provide it to others. However, The Menu Maid does not disclose personally-identifying information other than as described below.
Protection of Certain Personally-Identifying Information
The Menu Maid discloses potentially personally-identifying and personally-identifying information only to those of its employees, contractors and affiliated organizations that we need to know that information in order to process it on The Menu Maid’s behalf or to provide services available at The Menu Maid website, and we that have agreed not to disclose it to others. Some of those employees, contractors and affiliated organizations may be located outside of your home country; by using The Menu Maid website, you consent to the transfer of such information to them. The Menu Maid will not rent or sell potentially personally-identifying and personally-identifying information to anyone. Other than to its employees, contractors and affiliated organizations, as described above, The Menu Maid discloses potentially personally-identifying and personally-identifying information only in response to a subpoena, court order or other governmental request, or when The Menu Maid believes in good faith that disclosure is reasonably necessary to protect the property or rights of The Menu Maid, third parties or the public at large. If you are a registered user of an The Menu Maid website and have supplied your email address, The Menu Maid may occasionally send you an email to tell you about new features, solicit your feedback, or just keep you up to date with what’s going on with The Menu Maid and our products. We primarily use our various product blogs to communicate this type of information, so we expect to keep this type of email to a minimum. If you send us a request (for example via a support email or via one of our feedback mechanisms), we reserve the right to publish it in order to help us clarify or respond to your request or to help us support other users. The Menu Maid takes all measures reasonably necessary to protect against the unauthorized access, use, alteration or destruction of potentially personally-identifying and personally-identifying information.
Cookies
A cookie is a string of information that a website stores on a visitor’s computer, and that the visitor’s browser provides to the website each time the visitor returns. The Menu Maid uses cookies to help The Menu Maid identify and track visitors, their usage of The Menu Maid website, and their website access preferences. The Menu Maid visitors who do not wish to have cookies placed on their computers should set their browsers to refuse cookies before using The Menu Maid’s website, with the drawback that certain features of The Menu Maid’s website may not function properly without the aid of cookies.
Business Transfers
If The Menu Maid, or substantially all of its assets were acquired, or in the unlikely event that The Menu Maid goes out of business or enters bankruptcy, user information would be one of the assets that is transferred or acquired by a third party. You acknowledge that such transfers may occur, and that any acquirer of The Menu Maid may continue to use your personal information as set forth in this policy.
Comments
Comments and other content submitted to Akismet anti-spam service are not saved on our servers unless they were marked as false positives, in which case we store them long enough to use them to improve the service to avoid future false positives.
Privacy Policy Changes
Although most changes are likely to be minor, The Menu Maid may change its Privacy Policy from time to time, and in The Menu Maid’s sole discretion. The Menu Maid encourages visitors to frequently check this page for any changes to its Privacy Policy. Your continued use of this site after any change in this Privacy Policy will constitute your acceptance of such change.