Privacy Policy

This website, serves4.com, is written and maintained by myself, Wendy Liu Penderis.

I am dedicated to protecting your data and privacy.

I recognise that your privacy is important. This document outlines the types of personal information I receive and collect when you use serves4.com, as well as some of the steps I take to safeguard information. This will help you make an informed decision about sharing personal information with me.

serves4.com strives to maintain the highest standards of decency, fairness and integrity in all its operations. Likewise, I am dedicated to protecting my customers' and online visitors' privacy on my website.

About Cookies

A cookie is a string of information that serves4.com stores on your computer, which your browser provides to serves4.com each time you return to the site. The site uses cookies to help me identify and track visitors, their use of my website, and their website access preferences.

Google Analytics Cookies

serves4.com uses Google Analytics to analyse the use of this website. Google Analytics collects demographic and interest data, and generates statistical and other information about website use, by means of cookies. These cookies are kept on your computer. I share this information with Google, who will store and use this information on its servers. Google's privacy policy is available at: https://policies.google.com/privacy.

serves4.com uses information from Google Analytics to track the number of visits to the website, browsers and operating systems. No personally identifiable information is obtained from these cookies. I use the information that Google Analytics generates relating to my website to create reports about the use of the site. These reports allow me to update the site and improve your usage of it.

If you do not wish your data to be collected via Google Analytics, you can install its opt-out browser extension or add-on: https://tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout/.

Advertising Cookies

I use third-party advertising companies to serve ads on my website. These companies use cookies and web beacons in their ads to ascertain how many times you've seen an advertisement. I share this information with these companies, but do not provide them with any personally identifiable information for cookie or web beacon use, so they cannot personally identify you with that information from my website.

You may opt out of personalised ads for over 125 different ad networks. Click here to do that.

Some third-party advertisements are served by Google. Google's cookie enables it to serve ads to my visitors based on their visits to other sites on the Web. You may opt out of personalised ads by visiting the Google ad opt-out page.

This link from Google provides more information about how Google manages data in its ad products.

Affiliate products and Services

From time to time, I may recommend products on my site that have been valuable to me in developing and making recipes for serves4.com. I may receive an affiliate commission for some of the products and/or services sold on the site.

Find out more about our affiliates disclosure policy.

Refusing Cookies

You can set your browser to accept or refuse all cookies automatically, or notify you when a cookie is being requested. Taking this action should not cause a problem with the continued use of my site. Consult the Help section of your browser for guidance on how to refuse all cookies or to notify you when a cookie is requested.

If you choose to refuse serves4.com's cookies, you may not be able to fully experience the interactive features of the site.

California Consumer Privacy Act Statement

The California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA), enacted in 2018, creates new consumer rights relating to the access to, deletion of, and sharing of personal information that is collected by businesses.

serves4.com has not sold any personal information from visitors to the site in the past 12 months.

Personally Identifiable Information

serves4.com may collect and use your personal information for the following purposes:

  • To run and operate the site.
  • To display content on the site correctly.
  • To improve customer service.
  • To help me respond to your customer service requests and support your needs more efficiently.
  • To personalise your user experience.
  • To understand how the site's users, as a group, use the services and resources provided on the site.
  • To improve the site.
  • To improve the products and services offered.
  • To run a promotion, contest, survey or other site feature.
  • To send information to you that you agreed to receive about topics I think will be of interest to you.
  • To send periodic emails, which may include electronic newsletters and/or auto-responder series of emails.
  • To respond to your enquiries, questions, and/or other requests.

serves4.com may collect personally identifiable information from you in a variety of ways, including, but not limited to, when you visit our site, register on the site, or fill out a form, and in connection with other activities, services, features or resources we make available on our site.

Specifically, if you subscribe to my newsletter, I will ask for your first name and will require your email address.

If you complete a form, I will require your name and your email address, and will ask for information relevant to the purpose of the form.

If you submit content to me, I will ask for your name and email address. Photos you include with your submission, or details in your submission, may personally identify you.

If you request to be notified about comments on any content you submit to me, or request to be notified when others submit content, I will require your first name and your email address.

This site lets you share content with your friends and followers on various social media platforms. Below are links to the privacy policies of:

AddThis Privacy Policy

serves4.com utilises the AddThis social media sharing platform, which provides online tools that leverage data to help publishers understand their audiences and drive traffic to their sites. Your data may be transferred on a global basis.

AddThis will transfer this data to countries (including to the United States) where data protection laws may differ from those in the originating country. Transfers of personal information to countries outside the European Economic Area will be subject to the requirements of the European Union Standard Contractual Clauses. If you do not wish your data to be collected by AddThis, you may opt out here: http://optout.aboutads.info/?c=2#!/ or via the NAI opt out program here: http://optout.networkadvertising.org/?c=1#!/.

serves4.com also uses Facebook commenting. Facebook stores all of your comments and may show them on your timeline, depending on your Facebook settings.

serves4.com offers RSS as a way to easily follow content updates. I use FeedBurner to let you subscribe to these updates via your email address. I also provide links for easy access to My Yahoo! and Feedly. Before you choose to use either as your RSS reader, review its privacy policy.

You can always refuse to supply personally identifiable information and visit our site anonymously. However, it may prevent you from engaging in certain site-related activities.

If I make material changes in the collection of personally identifiable information, I will inform you by placing a notice on my site. I will use personal information received from you for internal purposes only and will not sell it or provide it to third parties.

serves4.com also collects each visitor's IP address, which helps me combat spam and fraud. I do not use IP addresses for any other purpose.

serves4.com contains links to other websites that may be of interest to you. However, once you have used them to leave our site, we do not have any control over that other website. Therefore, we cannot be responsible for the protection and privacy of any information you provide while visiting such sites. These sites are not governed by this privacy statement. Always exercise caution by reviewing the privacy statement of the website in question before continuing to use it.

Non-Personally Identifiable Information

I may collect non-personally identifiable information about you whenever you interact with my site. Non-personally identifiable information may include the browser name, the type of computer and technical information about your method of connecting to my site, such as the operating system and the Internet service provider you used, and other similar information.

Children's Privacy Protection

This website is directed to adults. It is not directed to children under the age of 16. I operate my site in compliance with current regulations. Anyone under the age of 16 must have a parent or guardian provide consent to use this site. I do not knowingly collect or use personally identifiable information from anyone under 16 years of age.

Release of Information

If I sell serves4.com, the information I have obtained from you through your voluntary participation in my site may transfer to the new owner as a part of the sale so that the service provided to you may continue. In that event, you will receive notice through my website of that change in control and practices, and I will make reasonable efforts to ensure that the purchaser honours any opt-out requests you might make.

Data Storage

Personally identifiable information and non-personally identifiable information collected by this site is stored on our host's servers. That host is SiteSell Inc., located at 1000 Saint-Jean Boulevard, Suite 702, Pointe-Claire, QC H9R 5P1, Canada.

How You Can Correct or Remove Information

I provide this privacy policy as a statement to you of our commitment to protect your personally identifiable information. If you have submitted personally identifiable information through our website and would like to download and review that information, click on this link.

You can also request to edit or delete any of your information from the servers by clicking on this link.

Updates and Effective Date

serves4.com reserves the right to make changes in this policy. If there is a material change in its cookie and privacy practices, I will indicate on my site that those practices have changed and provide a link to the updated privacy policy. I encourage you to periodically review this policy so that you will know what information I collect and how I use it.

Agreeing to Terms

If you do not agree to serves4.com's privacy policy as posted here on this website, please do not consent to the setting of cookies and the collection and storage of your personally identifiable information.

Your explicit consent indicates acceptance of this privacy policy in its entirety.

It is very important to me that your experience on serves4.com is the best that it can be. If you have any questions or comments, please feel free to contact me.

Last updated: 17th March 2021


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