Privacy Policy

(the “Privacy Policy”)

Girl Heart Food Inc. (“GHF”, “we”, “us”, or “our”) takes the security of your personal information very seriously. This Privacy Policy describes GHF’s privacy practices in relation to how we collect, use, store, disclose and protect your personal information, as well as your choices regarding use, access, correction, and deletion of your personal information. To this end, we fully endorse and adhere to the principles of Canada’s Personal Information Protection and Electronic Documents Act (PIPEDA).

Scope of this Privacy Policy

This Privacy Policy applies to information we may collect from visitors through https://girlheartfood.com (the “Website“) or any of our websites or services which link to this Privacy Policy.

GHF may change all or part of this Privacy Policy from time to time. An up-to-date version of our Privacy Policy will be posted on https://girlheartfood.com. Whenever we update the Privacy Policy, we will change the “Last Updated” date to indicate when the changes were made.

We encourage you to periodically review our Privacy Policy to stay informed of updates. Your continued use of any of the Website or other services after the date of any such revision or replacement constitutes your consent to our collection, use and disclosure of your personal information in accordance with the revised or replaced Privacy Policy.

What Information We Collect

This Privacy Policy distinguishes between “personal information” and “non-personal information”. Personal information is information that can be used to identify an individual person. Non-personal information means data in a form that does not, on its own, permit direct association with any specific individual. The types of information we collect are set out below.

Personal Information

When you contact us through our Website (for example, by leaving a comment, submitting a contact form, or subscribing to our newsletter), we collect personal information. This personal information may include your name, email address, contact preferences and any other personal information you choose to provide to us.

At no time should you submit sensitive personal information to the Website. This includes, but is not limited to, your social security number, information regarding race or ethnic origin, political opinions, religious beliefs, health information, criminal background, or trade union memberships. If you elect to submit such information to us, it will be subject to this Privacy Policy.

Online Navigational Information

Our Website, emails and advertisements, as well as third-party service providers, may use log data, cookies, tracking pixels (web beacons) and other similar technologies to collect online navigational information, such as information about your web browser, your Internet Protocol (IP) address, your Internet Service Provider, your operating system, referring and exit websites and applications, date/time stamps, clickstream data and the actions you take on our Website, such pages viewed and links clicked. When you access our Website or open our emails, this information may be automatically collected through the use of these technologies. At times, online navigational information may be aggravated to, for example, help us understand and analyze usage and trends in order to improve your experience with the Website.

Non Personal Information

Aggregated data with respect to online navigational information is considered non-personal information for the purposes of this Privacy Policy. If we do combine non-personal information with personal information, the combined information will be treated as personal information for as long as it remains combined. To the extent that IP addresses or similar identifiers are considered personal information, we also treat these identifiers as personal information for the purposes of this Privacy Policy. We may anonymize and aggregate the data we collect across many users and may provide this anonymized, aggregated data (non-personal information) to third parties. Such data will not identify you or be able to be de-anonymized such that it could identify you personally.

How Your Information Is Used

We may use information collected about you to:

Deliver our newsletter or other updates about our company or Website when you opt-in to our mailing list. When you subscribe to our newsletter, we use the information provided by you to deliver our emails. You can unsubscribe from our newsletter at anytime by following the “unsubscribe from this list” link in our emails or by emailing us at [email protected].
Create, develop, operate, deliver, and improve our products, services, content and advertising.
Allow comments on the Website.
Administer promotions, contests and giveaways.
Administer surveys or request feedback about your use and views of the Website.
Respond to comments or inquiries. For example, when expressing an interest in obtaining additional information about us, our products and services or contacting us, GHF may collect and use personal information, such as your contact information, to assist us in performing the request.
Provide user support.
For loss prevention and anti-fraud purposes and other legal purposes.
Administer the Website.
Deliver targeted advertising, newsletters, promotions, offers and other information to you.
Gather anonymous and aggregated statistical data about our user base as a whole for use internally and/or with third parties.
Help us understand and analyze usage and trends in order to improve your experience with the Website.
Help us to understand and analyze the effectiveness of our marketing.

Disclosure and Use

Other than as set out in this Privacy Policy, we do not use your personal information internally for any other purposes and we do not share it with anyone outside of GHF or its affiliated companies.

As described herein, we may share your personal information with third-party service providers who we have engaged to perform business functions, as permitted or required by applicable law, with third parties involved in business transitions, with business partners and with other third parties when you have specifically given us your consent to disclose such information for a designated purpose. Also, please note that any comments you voluntarily leave on our Website are public and may be read, collected or used by anyone.

Service Providers

We may engage third-party service providers to assist us in performing business functions such as hosting and backing up the Website, Website maintenance, gathering and tracking user online navigational information as described above, advertising, delivering email updates and newsletters, Website optimization and security, social media sharing, monitoring user content to detect and prevent spam, information processing, managing user data, providing customer service, assessing your interest in our products and services, and conducting user research or satisfaction surveys.

To the extent a service provider has access to your personal information for such a purpose, we will use commercially reasonable efforts to ensure that they are obligated to use your personal information only for such purpose and that they are obligated to protect your information to standards at least as protective as those set out in this Privacy Policy. Also, each third-party service provider’s use of your personal information is dictated by their respective privacy policies.

These third-party service providers may be located outside of Canada (or in jurisdictions outside your jurisdiction of residence). As such, you acknowledge and agree that any personal information you provide to us may be processed and stored by third-party service providers outside of Canada (or in jurisdictions outside your jurisdiction of residence) and may be accessible by the courts, law enforcement and national security authorities in such foreign jurisdictions in accordance with their local laws.

Our Website currently uses the following third-party service providers:

Google Analytics: This service provider tracks Website usage and provides information such as referring websites and user actions on our Website. This service uses cookies. Google Analytics may capture your IP address, browser type, operating system, location, date and time of visit and information about which areas of the site are visited. We use the information provided by this service provider to better understand our audience as a whole, enhance user experience and tailor our content to our users’ interests. Users can opt out of Google Analytics tracking by using the Google analytics opt-out browser add-on. Furthermore, Google has their own privacy policy.
MonsterInsights: This service provider allows our Website to manage its Google Analytics. This third-party service provider syncs with Google Analytics. Our Website has activated the option to anonymize IP addresses. MonsterInsights’ privacy policy can be found here.
Mailchimp: This service provider is used for the delivery of email updates and newsletters. Your e-mail address is stored for the purposes of delivering such communications. Along with the information you provide, Mailchimp collects IP addresses and geolocation data. By subscribing to our newsletter/mailing list, you acknowledge and agree that this information will be transferred to Mailchimp for processing. Mailchimp’s privacy policy can be found here.
Cloudflare: This service provider is used for Website optimization and security. This third-service party service provider may collect user IP addresses, system configuration information, and other information about traffic to and from our Website (“log data”) in order to detect new threats, identify malicious third parties, and provide security protection of our Website. Cloudflare’s privacy policy can be found here.
Grow Social Pro by Mediavine: This service provider is used for social sharing buttons so a particular blog post, for example, can be shared via social media should a user wish to do so. When a user presses one of these buttons, their social network login is sent to the appropriate network (such as Facebook, Twitter and Pinterest) to enable the share to happen. For example, if a user wants to share a blog post on our Website via Twitter, the login prompt for Twitter will appear so the user can log into their Twitter account to share. Each of these social media networks has their own privacy policy. Please use your own discretion when providing any login information or sharing to any social network site. Grow Social Pro by Mediavine’s privacy policy can be found here. Furthermore, here is Facebook’s privacy policy, here is Twitter’s privacy policy, and here is Pinterest’s privacy policy.
Akismet Anti-Spam: This service provider checks user comments against a global database of spam to prevent our Website from publishing malicious content. Information typically collected includes the commenter’s IP address, user agent, referrer, and Site URL (along with other information directly provided by the commenter such as name, username, email address, and the comment itself). Akismet’s privacy policy can be found here.
VaultPress: This service provider backs up our Website and provides security scanning. VaultPress’ privacy policy can be found here.
WPopt: This service provider provides web hosting and maintenance for our Website. Wpopt’s privacy policy can be found here.
Grow: This service provider allows users to save, share and search for their favourite content. Grow’s privacy policy can be found here.
Mediavine: This service provider is used to manage our display advertisements as described herein. Mediavine’s privacy policy can be found here.
Wordfence Security: This service provider is used for Website security. It uses cookies and collects IP addresses. Wordfence Security’s privacy policy can be found here.

Please note, this list may be amended from time to time at the Website’s sole discretion.

Legal Process

It may be necessary by law, litigation or other legal process for us to disclose your personal information. Our policy is to notify you of any such legal process seeking access to your personal information unless we are prohibited by law from doing so or when the request is an emergency. We may also disclose information about you if we determine that disclosure is reasonably necessary to enforce our terms and conditions or protect our operations or users.

Business Transitions

If we are involved in a reorganization, merger, or the actual or prospective sale of our business or company (or a unit or division), or in the event of an insolvency, bankruptcy or receivership, we may disclose or transfer personal information to the relevant third-party as part of the transaction.

Business Partners

At your request or if you otherwise provide your consent to such disclosure, we may disclose your personal information with our business partners to offer you certain products, services or promotions that may be of interest to you.

Other Third Parties

We may disclose your personal information to other third parties at your request or if you otherwise provide your consent to such disclosure.

Other Users

The Website offers users the option to leave comments on its posts. Any comments you choose to leave on our Website are public and may be read, collected or used by anyone. Your name, website (if applicable) and date/time of comment will be displayed. However, your email address and IP address is not publicly visible. You accept these risks when providing personal information and posting comments to our Website. By submitting comments, you grant us a world-wide, royalty-free, perpetual, irrevocable and fully assignable and sub-licensable right to use, copy, modify, adapt, edit, publish, translate, distribute and display such comments without attribution.

Tracking Technologies

As mentioned above, our Website, emails and advertisements, as well as third-party service providers, may use log data, cookies, tracking pixels (web beacons) and other similar technologies to collect online navigational information.

Cookies are small data files that are stored on your computer browser by the Website. There are many different types of cookies that perform different functions. Some are necessary or essential for the functioning of our Website, while others may be declined through your browser’s settings.

We use cookies for the following reasons:

To help make the Website usable, to prevent fraudulent activity, to improve security, to improve the operation and performance of our Website and to make our Website easier and more convenient to use for our users.
For Website analytics to gather aggregate information about our user base as a whole, such as number of users, average time spent on a particular post and similar statistics. This allows us to, for example, understand the performance of our content. To allow tracking technologies, our Website uses third-party service providers, such as Google Analytics. Google Analytics uses both first-party cookies and third-party cookies to, among other things, analyze and track users’ use of the Website. We use the information provided by this service provider to better understand our audience as a whole, enhance user experience, tailor our content to our users’ interests and understand the effectiveness of our marketing. Users can opt out of Google Analytics tracking by using the Google Analytics Opt-out Browser Add-on. Furthermore, Google has their own privacy policy.
For display advertising. GHF and third-party advertisers used by us may use cookies when serving advertisements. For example, we use a third-party service provider, Mediavine, to serve ads on the Website. This third-party service provider may use cookies and similar tracking technologies to help manage and optimize your online experience with us to, for example, display ads that are relevant to you. Please refer to the Mediavine privacy policy for more information. In addition, for more information about opting out of internet-based ads, visit the Digital Advertising Alliance website. You can also refer to the section “Advertising” for further information.
To gather and remember information about user preferences so the Website can tailor its operations to your needs, likes or dislikes. If you have visited the Website before, this enables the Website to remember certain information, which helps to provide a better user experience. For example, if you leave a comment on our Website, 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.

Periodically, we may need to include a tracking pixel to monitor the effectiveness of information or materials we share. For instance, you may subscribe to our newsletter. All newsletters sent to you may contain tracking pixels. The pixel is embedded in emails and allows us to do an analysis of the success of our newsletters. Because of these tracking pixels, we may see if and when you open an email from us and which links (if any) within the email you click. This allows us to adapt the content of future newsletters to the interests of our users.

In addition, from time to time, GHF may be compensated by brands or companies to feature their products in blog posts. These sponsored posts may utilize tracking pixels. The pixel is embedded in the sponsored post and allows us to do an analysis of the success of the sponsored post. Because of these tracking pixels, we may see if and when you click on a specific link within the sponsored post. This allows us to adapt the content of future posts to the interests of our users. Aggregated information pertaining to the performance of a sponsored post may be passed onto these third parties.

You can choose to accept or decline cookies. Most web browsers automatically accept cookies, but you can usually modify your browser’s settings to decline cookies if you prefer. The method of doing so can vary from browser to browser and from version to version.

However, if you decline cookies in your browser, please note that not all functions on this Website may not work properly or be entirely usable.

Furthermore, already set cookies may be deleted at any time via an Internet browser or other software programs. This is possible in all popular Internet browsers. More information about cookies can be found here.

Some tracking pixels can be rendered ineffective by declining certain cookies or modifying your browser’s settings to notify you each time a cookie is tendered, thereby permitting you to accept or decline cookies on an individual basis.

Please note that if you get a new computer, install a new browser, upgrade an existing browser, or erase or alter your browser’s cookies files, this may also clear certain opt-out cookies, plugins or settings.

Advertising

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 Website. 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 click here for Mediavine Partners. Additionally, click here for Mediavine’s privacy policy.

Comments

When you choose to leave comments on our Website, we collect the data shown in the comment form, the date/time of comment, the web page being commented on, and also your IP address and browser user agent string to help spam detection.

When user ratings are enabled, we store a WPRM_User_Voted_%recipe% cookie (with %recipe% the ID of the recipe) that contains the rating you have given to a particular recipe. This cookie is used as one of the measures to prevent rating spam. Additionally, we store the IP address upon voting. Again, this is used as one of the measures to prevent rating spam.

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.

By submitting comments, you grant us a world-wide, royalty-free, perpetual, irrevocable and fully assignable and sub-licensable right to use, copy, modify, adapt, edit, publish, translate, distribute and display such comments without attribution.

Any comments you leave on our Website are public and may be read, collected or used by anyone. Your name, website (if applicable) and date/time of comment will be displayed. However, your email address and IP address is not publicly visible. You accept these risks when providing personal information and posting comments to our Website.

Email Newsletters

Our Website has a voluntary newsletter subscription used to inform subscribers about products, services and/or content supplied by our Website. You can subscribe through an online automated process should you wish, but do so at your own discretion.

Our Website uses Mailchimp (a third-party service provider) to send out email updates and newsletters. Your email address is stored for purposes of delivering such communications. Along with the information you provide, Mailchimp collects IP addresses and geolocation data. By subscribing to our newsletter/mailing list, you acknowledge and agree that the information you provide will be transferred to Mailchimp for processing in accordance with Mailchimp’s privacy policy.

All newsletters sent to you may contain tracking pixels. The pixel is embedded in emails and allows us to do an analysis of the success of our newsletters. Because of these tracking pixels, we may see if and when you open an email from us and which links (if any) within the email you click. This allows us to adapt the content of future newsletters to the interests of our users.

If you subscribe to our newsletter, you can unsubscribe at anytime by following the “unsubscribe from this list” link in our emails or by emailing us at [email protected].

Third Party Links

Our Website may contain links to third-party websites, applications, contents, advertisements, products, and services. When you click on one of these third-party links, you are contacting another website or internet resource. These third-party companies may use cookies, tracking pixels or similar technologies. The information collected by third parties is governed by their privacy policies. GHF is not responsible for these third-party websites, applications, contents, advertisements, products, or services and encourages you to review the privacy policies of such third parties to understand their information practices.

Retention and Protection

We will retain your personal information for the period consistent with the purposes outlined in this Privacy Policy unless a longer retention period is required or permitted by law. We take the security of your personal information very seriously. We use technical, administrative, and physical controls to maintain the security of your data. While we use security protocols to protect personal information, we cannot guarantee the safety of personal information from hacking or theft. If you have a security-related concern, please contact us at [email protected].

Controls for Do Not Track Features

Your web browser or mobile operating system may have a “Do Not Track” setting that you can activate to signal your privacy preference to not have data about your online browsing activities monitored and collected. Since there is not yet a common understanding of how to interpret the Do Not Track Signal, this Website (like many websites), is not designed to respond to Do Not Track signals received from browsers. For more information, click here to learn more about Do Not Track signals.

Controlling Your Personal Information

You have certain rights pertaining to the personal information we have about you. In particular, you can exercise any of the following rights:

Access: Upon your request, we will provide you with access to your personal information that we retain for any purpose.
Correct: Upon your request, we will correct your personal information that we retain if it is inaccurate, or have it fully completed if the information is not complete.
Forget: Upon your request, we will delete or forget your personal information that we retain if we are not required to retain it by law or for legitimate business purposes.
Opt-out: If you subscribe to our newsletter, you may opt out (or unsubscribe) at any time by following the “unsubscribe from this list” link in our emails or by emailing us at [email protected].

If you are within the European Union, you are entitled to certain information and have certain rights with regard to your personal information under the General Data Protection Regulation (“GDPR”). Under GDPR, you also have the following rights:

Right to restrict the processing of your personal information: You have the right to ask for the restriction or suppression of the processing of your personal information.
Right to data portability: You have the right to obtain a copy of your personal information and the right to transfer that personal information to another party’s service.
Right to object: You have the right to object to your personal information being used for marketing reasons and the right to object how your personal information is being processed.
Right not to be subject to automated decision-making: You have the right to not be subject to a decision based solely on automated decision-making, including profiling, where the decision would have a significant effect on you.

You can exercise your rights by emailing [email protected]. We may request additional personal information for the purpose of verifying your identity before we can respond to your request to exercise your rights. To opt-out of our newsletter, you can also follow the “unsubscribe from this list” link in our emails.

We may need to retain certain personal information where it is required by law or for legitimate business purposes. We may decline to process requests that are frivolous, that jeopardize the privacy of others, are impractical, or for which access is not otherwise required by local law.

Children and Our Website

Our Website is directed to adults over 18 years of age. We do not knowingly collect any personally identifiable information from children. If you learn that your child has provided us with personal information without your consent, please contact us at [email protected] and we will use our best efforts to promptly remove such information from our records.

Privacy Questions

If you have any questions or concerns about our Privacy Policy or associated practices, please contact our Data Protection Officer at [email protected].

Last Updated: May 10, 2023