Who We Are:

FoodByMaria, foodbymaria.com is owned by FOODBYMARIA INCORPORATED a Inc registered in Calgary, Alberta, Canada .

FOODBYMARIA INCORPORATED understands that your privacy is important to you and that you care about how your information is used and shared online. 

Our site only collects and uses information in ways that are consistent with your rights and our obligations under the law. Namely, data is processed:

• When you give specific and express consent for us to do so
• When necessary for the performance of a contract, where you are a party to that contract (for example, if you buy something we will need to collect payment and delivery information in order to deliver that product to you)
• When necessary for compliance with a legal obligation
• When necessary in order to protect the vital interest of the data subject (you) or of another natural person
• When necessary for the purposes of the legitimate interests pursued by us, except where such interest is overridden by your interest or fundamental rights and freedoms. 

This Policy applies to our use of any and all data collected by us in accordance with your use of our site. 

Please be sure to carefully read this Privacy Policy and ensure that you understand it.

YOU ARE CONSIDERED TO HAVE ACCEPTED OF OUR PRIVACY POLICY WHEN YOU FIRST USE OUR SITE. If you do not agree to and accept our privacy policy, then you must stop using our site. 

By using our site you certify that you are an adult, at least 18 years of age.

What personal data we collect and why we collect it

Personal Information Collected on this Website

No personally-identifiable information is collected on this website from persons that browse our website. The only personally-identifiable information collected on this website is gathered in our comment area and on specified sign up forms, where fields are provided so that you can provide your name and email address to leave a comment or receive a download, newsletter or other emails on updates, giveaways, or other offers. We collect this information so that we can respond to the comments or questions that you post. 

For additional detail on how we collect and use personally identifiable information, please see the table below.

Anonymous Information Collected on this Website

We record anonymous data. Most of the information that we collect from this website is anonymous information, such as the pages you visit. Other anonymous data we may collect might include the name of your internet service provider, the website that you used to link to our site, other interests you have, basic demographic information, the websites that you visit from our site, and your IP address. The data is used for statistical purposes only, but you, as the individual user, remain anonymous. We use this anonymous information to help improve the content of this site and to compile aggregate statistics about individuals using our site for internal market research purposes.

For additional detail on how we collect and use anonymous information, please see the table below.

Cookies

Cookies are small text files placed on your computer or device by our site when you visit certain parts of our site.

When you visit our website, we may assign your computer one or more cookies to facilitate access to our website, personalize your online experience and record information about your visit. 

Through the use of a cookie, we also may automatically collect information about your online activity on our website, such as the web pages you visit, the links or advertisements you click on and other actions you take while on our website. 

The cookies do not store any Personally Identifiable Information (PII) about you. 

Most browsers automatically accept cookies, but you can usually modify your browser setting to decline cookies. 

If you choose to decline cookies, please note that some of the features and services of our website may not function properly.  We also use cookies for purposes such as maintaining continuity during an online session; gathering data about the use of our site; monitoring online promotions; and anti-fraud and information security purposes.

We may allow third-parties, advertising companies and ad networks (“Advertisers”) to display advertisements on our website. Advertisers may use tracking technologies, such as cookies, to collect information about users who view or interact with their advertisements. 

Our website does not provide any PII to these Advertisers, but they may collect information about where you, or others who are using your computer, saw and/or clicked on the advertisements they delivered, and possibly associate this information with your subsequent visits to the advertised websites. They also may combine this information with personal information they collect directly from you. The collection and use of that personal information is subject to the particular Advertiser’s privacy policy. 

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 tracing your interaction with the embedded content if you have an account and are logged in to that website. 

Links to Other Sites

Our website does contain links to affiliate and other websites. Our site does not claim nor accept responsibility for any privacy policies, practices and/or procedures of other such websites. Therefore, we encourage all users and visitors to be aware when they leave our website and to read the privacy statements of each and every website that collects personally identifiable information. The aforementioned Privacy Policy agreement applies only and solely to the information collected by our website.

Through affiliate links, identifying information may be carried over to an outside site to show that you visited that site from our site to ensure proper commissions are issued.

FoodByMaria 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

Service/Tool/Method to collect data	Data Collected	How it’s Collected	Why it’s Collected	Legal Basis for collection
Convertkit	Name, email address, IP address	Form submission	To deliver downloads, newsletters or other emails on updates, giveaways, or other offers.	Consent
KingSumo Giveaways	Name, email address	Form Submission	To allow data subject to enter giveaway and send updates on the giveaway including announcing the winner	consent
Thrive Leads	Name, email address, IP address	Form Submission	To deliver downloads, newsletters or other emails on updates, giveaways, or other offers.	consent
Contact Forms	Name, email address	Form Submission	To allow the data subject to contact our site with any questions, comments, or other information they would like to submit privately	Consent
Comments	Name, email address, website, Ip address, and browser user agent string	Form submission	We collect the data show in the comments form and also the visitor’s IP address and browser user agent string to help spam detection	Consent and necessity
Thrive Ovation	Name, email, website URL	Form Submission	To allow the data subject to contact and submit requests our site with any questions, comments, or other information they would like to submit privately	Consent
Thrive Apprentice	Name, email address	Form Submission	To be able to service course users and contact with any course updates	Consent
Facebook Pixel	Information to help track conversions from facebook to our site	Cookie	Used by Facebook to deliver a series of advertisement products such as real time bidding from third party advertisers	Consent
Google Analytics	Posts and pages visited,name of your internet service provider, the website that you used to link to our site, other interests you have, basic demographic information, the websites that you visit from our site, and your IP address	Cookie	For statistical purposes to provide a better user experience	Consent & Necessity
Jetpack by WP	Posts and pages visited,name of your internet service provider, the website that you used to link to our site, other interests you have, basic demographic information, the websites that you visit from our site, and your IP address	Cookie	For statistical purposes to provide a better user experience	Consent & Necessity
Media.net	Ad impressions, video-related events (i.e. pause, mute, 100% plays, etc.) or errors, and ad click events.	Cookie	Various cookies are used for the following purposes: delivering targeted advertisements to specific visitors, storing user identifiers, and collecting anonymous ad platform stats	Consent
Adsense	Ad impressions, video-related events (i.e. pause, mute, 100% plays, etc.) or errors, and ad click events.	Cookie	Various cookies are used for the following purposes: delivering targeted advertisements to specific visitors, storing user identifiers, and collecting anonymous ad platform stats	Consent
MyFinance	Ad impressions, video-related events (i.e. pause, mute, 100% plays, etc.) or errors, and ad click events.	Cookie	Various cookies are used for the following purposes: delivering targeted advertisements to specific visitors, storing user identifiers, and collecting anonymous ad platform stats	Consent
Share A Sale		Cookie	Used by cloudflare to identify trusted web traffic	necessary
Instagram,		Cookie	Helps prevent cross site request forgery	necessary
Pinterest	Track the usage of services	Cookie	Helps prevent cross site request forgery	necessary
SamCart	Payment and delivery information	Form Submission	To deliver products and process payments	Necessary for performance of a contract
Pinterest Pixel	Information to help track conversions from Pinterest to our site	Cookie	Used by Pinterest to deliver a series of advertisement products such as real-time bidding from third party advertisers	Consent

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