Privacy Policy

The Privacy Policy covers all of Bakers Royale (“BR Site”) and any associated content, including, but not limited to, email and RSS feeds. Your use of Bakers Royale indicates you have read and understood this privacy policy and indicates your agreement to abide by the Terms of Use in effect.

1. Information Collection – Bakers Royale is the sole owner of the information collected on the site. Bakers Royale may collect information from users at several different points on the site.

1. a. Comments – In order to enhance their use of the site, users can choose to leave comments on particular posts and page of interest. Commenters may register anonymously. However, if a third party complains that a comment breaches our Terms of Use (e.g. libels them), then in accordance with our Terms of Use, we will make reasonable efforts to contact the commenter and alert them to the situation. If we are required to by law to disclose commenters’ contact information, we will attempt to contact commenters to give them the opportunity to respond to such requests. Please refer to our Terms of Use for more information.
2. b. Mailing Lists & Service Emails – Bakers Royale may launch a mailing list, in order to provide subscribers with relevant information. In order to sign up to receive regular emails from a site’s mailing list, users must submit information including a valid email address and demographic information such as location and interests. This information will be used in aggregate form only in order to assess general user interest in various internal and third party products and services, and your personal and contact information will not be passed to any other organization. Users who choose to sign up for a mailing list will receive regular emails from the site. Bakers Royale may from time to time track user email usage in a continued effort to improve our services.
3. d. Links – Bakers Royale links to other sites. Please be aware that Bakers Royale is not responsible for the privacy practices of such other sites. We encourage our users to be aware when they leave our site and to read the privacy statements of each and every Web site that collects personally identifiable information. This Privacy Policy applies solely to information collected by Bakers Royale.
4. e. Log Files – Like most standard Web site servers we use log files. This includes internet protocol (IP) addresses, browser type, internet service provider (ISP), referring/exit pages, platform type, date/time stamp, and number of clicks to analyze trends, administer the site, track user’s movement in the aggregate, and gather broad demographic information for aggregate use. IP addresses, etc. are not linked to personally identifiable information. We may use a tracking utility that uses log files to analyze user movement.

2. Advertising

1. a. First Party Ad Serving – The ads appearing on this website are delivered to you by various web advertising vendors. Bakers Royale uses only first party data about your visits to these sites to serve ads to you. First party data only includes information collected during your current search or visit to our websites. First party data that we collect is not shared with any other third parties and is only used for proprietary ad delivery, ad reporting, and contextual advertising. As such, Bakers Royale is not a participant in online behavioral advertising as defined by the Digital Advertising Alliance and FTC.
2. b. Third Party Advertising and Cookies – Some of our third party advertising partners may distribute cookies to users in advertisements that are provided to us. Bakers Royale has no access to or control over these cookies once we have received the advertisements from third parties. These advertisers may be engaging in online behavioral advertising as defined by the Digital Advertising Alliance and FTC.
3. c. Cookie Opt Out – Bakers Royale primary ad server is Appnexus and you can opt out of cookies from them by visiting: http://appnexus.com/platform-policy#choices and Opting Out. You can also opt out of cookies using the Network Advertising Initiative opt-out page at this page: http://www.networkadvertising.org/choices/ Finally, you can choose to disable or selectively turn off cookies or third-party cookies in your browser settings.

3. Legal Disclaimer – Though we make every effort to preserve user privacy, Bakers Royale may need to disclose personal information when required by law wherein we have a good-faith belief that such action is necessary to comply with a current judicial proceeding, a court order or legal process served on Bakers Royale.

4. Information Security – Bakers Royale has technical, administrative and physical safeguards in place to help protect against unauthorized access to, use or disclosure of user information we maintain. Under our security practices and policies, access to personally identifiable information is authorized only for those who have a business need for such access, and sensitive records are to be retained only as long as necessary for business or legal needs and destroyed before disposal. Although we work hard to protect personal information that we collect and store, no program is one hundred percent secure and we cannot guarantee that our safeguards will prevent every unauthorized attempt to access, use or disclose personal information.

If you become aware of a security issue, please email us at legal info@bakersroyale.com. We will work with you to address any problems.

5. Notification of Changes – Whenever Bakers Royale changes its privacy policy, we will post those changes to this Privacy Policy page, and other places we deem appropriate so our users are always aware of what information we collect, how we use it, and under what circumstances, if any, we disclose it.

6. Effective Date – This Privacy Policy is effective May 2, 2013.