Privacy Policy and Terms - It's a Veg World After All®

It’s a Veg World After All^® respects your privacy and is committed to protecting it. The purpose of this page is to inform you of how and why your information is used. We have also put together some disclaimers and terms of use for your review.

Privacy Policy

By visiting our site (www.itsavegworldafterall.com), you consent to our Privacy Policy, agree to it without modification, and acknowledge reading it. Use of the site and any of the digital products, services, or materials provided by the site is subject to our Privacy Policy. This policy applies to all visitors, customers, and users of the site.

In the following policy, the use of “us”, “we”, and “our” refers to the company It’s a Veg World After All^®LLC and its members. “You”, “user”, and “your” refers to any visitor or customer of the site.

What personal data we collect and why we collect it:

Comments, Contact Forms, Newsletter: Data shown in the comments, contact forms, and newsletter sign-up forms, such as name and email address that you voluntarily provide to us, are collected. If you opt-in to the newsletter, the option to unsubscribe will always be included in newsletter emails (at the bottom of the email).
Automatically Collected Data: When you visit this site, your IP address and browser user agent string are collected to help spam detection. Information about the referring website, what links you click while visiting this site, and what pages and posts you view are also collected.
Demographic Information: Via Google Analytics, the site may also collect demographic information about users, such as age, gender, location, and interests. This information is non-identifiable. We use this information, and the aggregate demographic information in Google Analytics, to produce relevant content for our readers and to identify our audience and your interests for sponsored content opportunities.
Cookies: Cookies are data files about this website that can be stored on your browser (if you allow). They help provide you with a better experience of the website, for example by saving your name and email address in comment forms so you do not have to enter these again in the future. Cookies are used to compile data to help us offer better and more personalized site experiences in the future. You may disable cookies via your Internet browser. Cookies may also be used by third party systems, such as Google Analytics.
Online Payments: If you purchase something via this site or a link on this site, your information will be collected by a third party payment system, such as Amazon, E-junkie, Stripe, or PayPal. We do not store this information on our site.

How your information may be used:

To operate and maintain this website to offer you the best user experience.
To create your account and save information (such as in the comment forms) for future use.
To send newsletters and promotional information (if you opted into this). Each email promotion is generated via MailChimp and includes options to opt-out.
To respond to questions or comments you have.
To detect and protect against any unauthorized or illegal activity.
To track advertising.
Aggregate demographic information may be shared with third parties for sponsored content opportunities.

Embedded content from other websites:

Embedded content from other websites used in posts on this site 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.

Who we share your information with:

Occasionally, your information may be shared with trusted third parties that this website uses. However, we never sell information for profit to third parties.

MailChimp: this service has access to your name and email for use in newsletters and promotional emails.
Google Analytics: this services captures your IP address, referring websites, and user activities. We use this service to understand site navigation, user sessions, and demographics.
PayPal: we may use this service to process payments.
Stripe: we may use this service to process payments.
E-junkie: we may use this service to sell digital products and process payments.
Gumroad: we may use this service to sell digital products and process payments.

The use of your information by these services is dictated by their own privacy policies. To the best of our knowledge, these companies are using best GDPR practices. We have the authority to change and update this list as needed.

Unless we are required by law or for the safety of ourselves or others, we will never sell, distribute or otherwise reveal any identifiable information or your email address without your consent to parties other than the aforementioned trusted third parties. However, anonymous data that does not identify you alone, such as that collected by cookies, may be used by third parties for advertising, marketing or other purposes.

If links to third parties are included on this site, they are covered by the privacy policy of that site. Our privacy policy only covers content and information that we produce for this site.

Rights to your information:

At any time you can opt-out of newsletters and promotional emails by clicking the unsubscribe links, or by sending an email to [email protected] to remove your information.
You can also request to access or amend your personal information, or receive more information about how we use your data, by contacting [email protected]

Advertising

Mediavine Programmatic Advertising

The Website uses Mediavine to manage all third-party advertising 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. The cookie may collect information relating to your use of the Website, information about your device such as the device’s IP address and browser type, demographic data and, if you arrived at the Website via a link from a third-party site, the URL of the linking page.

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 www.allaboutcookies.org/manage-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.

The Website may collect IP addresses and location information to serve personalized ads and pass it to Mediavine. 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 http://www.networkadvertising.org/managing/opt_out.asp. You may also visit http://optout.aboutads.info/#/ and http://optout.networkadvertising.org/# to learn more information about interest-based advertising. You may download the AppChoices app at http://www.aboutads.info/appchoices to opt out in connection with mobile apps, or use the platform controls on your mobile device to opt out.

Mediavine partners with the following data processors:

Pubmatic. You may find Pubmatic’s privacy policy through this link. The data collected on the Website may be transferred to Pubmatic and its demand partners for interest-based advertising. Statistical information and other non-cookie technologies (such as eTags and web or browser cache) may be used by third parties on this Website. Browser settings that block cookies may have no effect on these technologies, but you may clear your cache to delete such trackers. Data collected from a particular browser or device may be used with another computer or device that is linked to the browser or device on which such data was collected.
Criteo. You may find Criteo’s privacy policy through this link. The data collected on the Website may be transferred to Criteo and its demand partners for interest-based advertising. Criteo may collect, access, and use non-identifying data to improve the Criteo Technology and other Criteo products, programs, and/or services. This non-identifying data may include on-site user behavior and user/page content data, URLs, statistics, or internal search queries. The non-identifying data are collected through the ad call and stored with a Criteo cookie for a maximum period of 13 months.
Pulsepoint. You may find Pulsepoint’s privacy policy through this link.
LiveRamp. You may find LiveRamp’s privacy policy through this link. When you use the Website, we share information that we may collect from you, such as your email (in hashed, de-identified form), IP address or information about your browser or operating system, with LiveRamp Inc, and its group companies (‘LiveRamp’). LiveRamp may use a cookie on your browser and match your shared information to their on- and offline marketing databases and those of its advertising partners to create a link between your browser and information in those other databases. This link may be shared by our partners globally for the purpose of enabling interest-based content or advertising throughout your online experience (e.g. cross device, web, email, in-app, etc.) by third parties unaffiliated with our website. These third parties may in turn link further demographic or interest-based information to your browser. To opt out of LiveRamp’s targeted advertising, please go here: https://liveramp.com/opt_out/
RhythmOne. You may view RhythmOne’s privacy policy through this link. RhythmOne uses cookies and similar tracking technologies (such as mobile device identifiers and digital fingerprinting) to provide its services. RhythmOne may use aggregated information (not including your name, address, email address or telephone number) about your visits to this and other Websites in order to provide advertisements about goods and services of interest to you. If you would like more information about this practice and to know your choices about not having this information used by these companies, please visit the following webpage: http://www.networkadvertising.org/managing/opt_out.asp.
District M. You may find District M’s privacy policy through this link.
YieldMo. You may find YieldMo’s privacy policy through this link. If you want to opt out of receiving interest based ads from Yieldmo or exercise your right under the California Consumer Privacy Act (“CCPA”) to opt-out of the sale of your personal information, you may do so through this link.
The Rubicon Project. You may find Rubicon’s privacy policy through this link. If you want to opt out of receiving interest based ads from Rubicon or exercise your right under the California Consumer Privacy Act (“CCPA”) to opt-out of the sale of your personal information, you may do so through this link. You may also utilize the Network Advertising Initiative’s opt-out page, the Digital Advertising Alliance’s opt-out page, or the European Interactive Digital Advertising Alliance’s opt-out page.
Amazon Publisher Services. You may find Amazon Publisher Services’ privacy policy through this link.
AppNexus. You may find the AppNexus privacy policy through this link.
OpenX. You may find OpenX’s privacy policy through this link.
Verizon Media formerly known as Oath. You may find Verizon Media’s privacy policy through this link. You may also utilize the Network Advertising Initiative’s opt-out page, the Digital Advertising Alliance’s opt-out page, or the European Interactive Digital Advertising Alliance’s opt-out page to opt-out of the use of cookies for interest-based advertising.
TripleLift. You may find TripleLift’s privacy policy through this link. To opt out of receiving interest-based advertising (including retargeting) from TripleLift’s services through the use of cookies in your current browser and for more information on what it means to opt-out, please go to www.triplelift.com/consumer-opt-out.
Index Exchange. You may find Index Exchange’s privacy policy through this link. You may also utilize the Network Advertising Initiative’s opt-out page, the Digital Advertising Alliance’s opt-out page, or the European Interactive Digital Advertising Alliance’s opt-out page to opt-out of the use of cookies for interest-based advertising.
Sovrn. You may find Sovrn’s privacy policy through this link.
GumGum. You may find GumGum’s privacy policy through this link. GumGum may (i) use place and use cookies on end users’ browsers or use web beacons to collect information about end users who visit such Publisher Websites and (ii) link such collected end user information to other end user information provided by third parties in order to deliver targeted Advertisements to such end users.
Digital Remedy. You may find Digital Remedy’s privacy policy through this link.
MediaGrid. You may find MediaGrid’s privacy policy through this link. MediaGrid may collect and store information about end-user interactions with this website through cookies, advertising IDS, pixels and server-to-server connections. MediaGrid was receive the following information: the page an End-User has requested and the referring/exit pages; Timestamp information (i.e., the date and time the End-User has visited the page); IP address; mobile device identifier; device model; device operating system; browser type; carrier; gender; age; geolocation (including GPS coordinates); clickstream data; cookie information; first-party identifiers’; and hashed email addresses; demographic and inferred interest information; and post-conversion data (from both online and offline behaviour). Some of this data is gathered from this website and others is gathered from advertisers. MediaGrid uses this data to provide its services. You may also utilize the Network Advertising Initiative’s opt-out page, the Digital Advertising Alliance’s opt-out page, or the European Interactive Digital Advertising Alliance’s opt-out page to opt-out of the use of cookies for interest-based advertising or review their privacy policy for more information.
RevContent – You may find RevContent’s privacy policy through this link. RevContent may collect information about your browser or device, including browser type, IP Address, device type, user agent string, and operating system. RevContent also collects information about the websites you visit through their services, such as date and time of access and specific pages accessed and the content and ads you click on. You may opt-out of any personalization track by opting-out of RevContent’s data collection.
Centro, Inc. – You may find Centro’s privacy policy through this link. You may find opt-out information for Centro’s services through the privacy policy link.
33Across, Inc. – You may find 33Across’s privacy policy through this link. To opt-out of personalized advertising, please visit https://optout.networkadvertising.org/?c=1.
Conversant. LLC – You may find Conversant’s privacy policy through this link. Conversant uses information that does not directly identify you, such as information about your browser type, time and date of visit, your browsing or transaction activity, the subject of advertisements clicked or scrolled over, and a unique identifier (such as a cookie string, or a unique advertising identifier provided by your mobile device) during your visits to this and other websites and apps in order to provide advertisements about goods and services likely to be of greater interest to you. Conversant may use technologies such as cookies and other tracking technologies to collect this information. To learn more about interest-based advertising, or to opt-out, you can visit www.youronlinechoices.eu or https://www.networkadvertising.org/.

Retargeting Ads:

Occasionally, the website may use retargeting efforts through Facebook or Instagram. You can opt out of Facebook retargeting here.

Affiliate Programs:

This website also participates in affiliate marketing for products that It’s a Veg World After All^® truly believes in and endorses. Affiliate programs use links that track referrals to their website. These programs often use cookies to track referring links and sales to provide commission to It’s a Veg World After All^®.

We are a participant in the Amazon Services LLC Associates Program and earn from qualifying purchases. This advertising program is designed to provide a means for sites to earn fees by linking to Amazon.com. If we include a link to a product from Amazon, and you click on this link and purchase the product, we will make a small commission.

We may also participate in other affiliate programs that provide us with commission in a similar way.

Newsletter Pixels:

Newsletters we send may include tracking pixels which can tell us information about what links you click and if you open the emails. This information helps inform our newsletter campaigns in the future.

Terms of Use

Nutrition Disclaimer

The general information, recipes, and blog posts on this site are not to be considered as medical advice, medical nutrition therapy, or individualized nutrition counseling, even though they are produced by a licensed Registered Dietitian. The information and recipes on this site, including the meal plans, are for informational purposes only and may not be suited for your needs or circumstances.

The information on this site is not a substitute for a consultation with a licensed health practitioner, nor is it intended to diagnose or treat medical conditions. Please consult your physician or qualified health professional with any concerns about your health and wellbeing. Before you make any changes to your diet, or make any attempts to lose weight, please consult with your physician and dietitian to ensure that these changes are safe for you. It’s a Veg World After All^®LLC and Lizzie Streit, MS, RDN, LD are not liable for any injury or harm that comes from accessing the posted information and recipes.

If nutritional information for recipes or foods is included, the information is estimated and may not be exact. Specifically, nutritional information is compiled via the WP Recipe Maker plugin that It’s a Veg World After All^®LLC has purchased. It’s a Veg World After All^®LLC and Lizzie Streit, MS, RDN, LD are not liable for any injury or harm that comes from accessing the posted nutrition information.

Reproduction and Use of Content

You may cite a recipe or post by crediting Lizzie Streit or It’s a Veg World After All^® and linking back to the original post and home page if possible. You may use up to one original image with the proper credit and link back to the original content. However, you may not repost the recipe in its entirety with ingredients and directions.

You may not in any way alter or sell any content from this site, including recipes and images.

Intellectual Property Rights

This website and various aspects of this website may be protected by federal statutory and common law copyright protection, federal statutory and common law trademark and service mark protection, federal statutory and common law trade dress protection and federal patent protection. Any infringement of the intellectual property rights of this website will be aggressively prosecuted. Verification of such may be made by the patent, trademark, and copyright law firm of Johnson and Phung LLC, website www.mnpatentlaw.com and more specifically, Thomas Phung of www.mnpatentlaw.com.

It’s a Veg World After All^® and Veg World^® are registered trademarks of Elizabeth Streit.

Consent, Changes to Policy, and Contact Information

By using this website, you consent to the privacy policy and terms.

If you have any questions or concerns, please contact [email protected]

When changes to this page are made, they will be reflected in the date below.

Last updated: June 1, 2020