terms of use and privacy policy

Updated November 5, 2021

The content and images presented on the Site appear courtesy of the Friendship Bread Kitchen (“Kitchen”) as well as the many food bloggers and readers who choose to share their gorgeous images and experiences with Amish Friendship Bread. In the interest of protecting every member of this community, we’re including the following Terms of Use. Thank you for being part of the Friendship Bread Kitchen.

Please read these Terms of Use and Disclosure Policy (“Terms”) carefully before using this website (“Site”). Using this site indicates that you (“User”) accept these Terms. If you do not accept these Terms, please do not use this site.

This Site is owned and operated by the Friendship Bread Kitchen. As the owner of this website, we understand that your privacy is of critical importance. This Privacy Policy describes what information we collect from you via the Site and how we use and disclose such information. The Kitchen reserves the right to revise or remove any part of the Terms in its sole discretion at any time and without prior notice to you by updating this posting. This Site is continually under development and changes in this Site may be made at any time. Any changes are effective upon posting to this Site. If you disagree with the Terms, your sole remedy is to discontinue your use of this Site. Your continued use after a change has been posted constitutes your acceptance of those changes.

How We Use Collected Information

Information You Voluntarily Submit to the Site. We may collect personal information from you such as your name or email address. For example, you may voluntarily submit information to the Site by leaving a comment, subscribing to a newsletter, or submitting a contact form. In addition, we may ask you to create a user profile, which would allow you to create a username and password. We will store the username, but your password will not be visible in our records.
Information We Collect from Others. We may receive information about you from other sources. For example, if you use a third-party software through the site, they may transfer information to us for fulfillment.
Automatically-Collected Information. We automatically collect certain information about you and the device with which you access the Website. For example, when you use the Website, we will log your IP address, operating system type, browser type, referring website, pages you viewed, and the dates/times when you accessed the Website. We may also collect information about actions you take when using the Website, such as links clicked.
Cookies. We may log information using cookies, which are small data files stored on your browser by the Website. We may use both session cookies, which expire when you close your browser, and persistent cookies, which stay on your browser until deleted, to provide you with a more personalized experience on the Website. See more information below (“Use of Cookies”).

What Information Do We Collect?

The Site collects and uses Users personal information for the following purposes:

To process transactions: We may use the information Users provide about themselves when placing an order only to provide service to that order. We do not share this information with outside parties except to the extent necessary to provide the service.
To send emails: The email address Users provide for order processing, will only be used to send them information and updates pertaining to their order. It may also be used to respond to their inquiries, and/or other requests or questions. If User decides to opt-in to our mailing list, they will receive emails that may include company news, updates, related product or service information, etc. If at any time the User would like to unsubscribe from receiving future emails, we include detailed unsubscribe instructions at the bottom of each email or User may contact us via our Site.
For comments and to verify any submitted images or recipes.

Different ways we collect information are detailed below. We reserve the right to change this list in our sole discretion.

General

Friendship Bread Kitchen makes no warranty on the availability of this site or its content. Friendship Bread Kitchen may, at any time, restrict access to users on an individual or group basis if we deem there to be inappropriate use of this site. Under no circumstances may you attempt to auto-download, or mass-download, content from this site. Using software that attempts to connect to our site and copy large amounts of data is prohibited. We routinely monitor traffic on the site and suspicious or excessive activity will be blocked and reported.

You may not post or transmit any material or content on or through Friendship Bread Kitchen:

that violates or infringes in any way upon the rights of others (we’re so not okay with that);
that solicits, encourages, or promotes the use of illegal substances or activities;
which is unlawful, threatening, abusive, harassing, defamatory, libelous, derogatory, degrading, invasive of privacy or publicity rights, fraudulent or tortious, vulgar, obscene, bigoted or hateful, intimidating, profane, scandalous, pornographic, indecent or otherwise objectionable;
that is protected by copyright, trademark, trade secret or any other proprietary right;
that expresses or implies that any statements you make are endorsed by us, without our prior written consent; or
that gives rise to civil or criminal liability, encourages conduct that constitutes a criminal offense or otherwise violates any local, state, or federal law.

In connection with your use of Friendship Bread Kitchen, you may not:

engage in, or encourage or provide instructional materials relating to, any activity that restricts or inhibits any other user from using or enjoying the page such as “hacking,” “cracking,” “spoofing,” or defacing any portion of the page;
harvest or collect information about visitors or friends without their express consent;
use Friendship Bread Kitchen to defame, abuse, stalk, threaten or otherwise violate the legal rights of others or for any fraudulent purpose;
reproduce, duplicate, copy, sell, resell or otherwise exploit for any commercial purposes, any portion of, use of, or access to the Friendship Bread Kitchen;
create a database by systematically downloading and storing Friendship Bread Kitchen content;
frame or mirror any part of Friendship Bread Kitchen without our prior written consent;
remove any copyright, trademark or other proprietary rights notice from the Friendship Bread Kitchen or materials originating from Friendship Bread Kitchen.

Website and Forum Conduct

You have the opportunity to post, transmit or otherwise make available information, opinions, ideas, images or other content on Friendship Bread Kitchen. Decisions as to whether such content violates our standards may be made in our sole discretion, after we have actual notice of such posting. Without limiting our rights hereunder, we have attempted to provide guidelines to those posting on our pages. Without limitation, your use of these pages are conditioned on your compliance with the guidelines set forth in this section, as well as any rules and guidelines that may be posted on particular sections of the page, and any failure to comply with such guidelines may result in termination of your access to Friendship Bread Kitchen.

Post Comments

If you have left a public comment on a recipe post, we reserve the right to use and reprint the comment without additional permissions.

Submissions, Emails and Contest Entries

Any content, comment, or media submitted to Friendship Bread Kitchen via email, our message submit form, the Kitchen Table may be used for the purposes of marketing and promoting the Kitchen. When possible we attribute copyright to the owner. Please do not make comments or submit media that you do not want to appear on our site for the larger benefit of our Kitchen community or to help promote the Kitchen or any subsequent publications and/or downloads.

Images

Images are copyright protected and belong to the photographer as indicated. Please do not “grab” or “borrow” an image without asking permission first. All images include the photographer’s credit along with a link to their website or blog. It will only take a minute to send a courteous email and in many cases you’ll receive permission. But do please ask first. Any images without a credit may be assumed to be property of the Kitchen.

Ownership of Recipes

Amish Friendship Bread and its many variations have been around for a couple of decades at least. The web and news media have published numerous Amish Friendship Bread recipes, all based off the same basic recipe. In the Friendship Bread Kitchen, we’re sharing recipes that we acknowledge have come to us from others, who in turn got them from others, and that the recipes may have been tweaked or dabbled with, torn apart and rebuilt, gone vegan, gone low cholesterol, gone chocolate mania, whatever. Ultimately we leave them all in the great Amish Friendship Bread Recipe Box (we’re speaking metaphorically here) and acknowledge that the mere listing of ingredients is not exclusive to our humble kitchens.

Recipes posted to Friendship Bread Kitchen are listed as being submitted by the individual that submitted the recipe. By submitting a recipe to the website (in either method mentioned above), you are giving Friendship Bread Kitchen the rights to use the recipes in its websites, mailing lists and in other promotional means. If you wish to have your name removed from a recipe, we will gladly oblige. Please note, we reserve the right to remove a recipe from our archive in the case of corporate trademark or copyright issues. If you have a question about what constitutes copyright infringement, please visit the US Copyright website at www.copyright.gov.

Recipe Disclaimer

Friendship Bread Kitchen is not responsible for the outcome of any recipe you try from this, or any website or related pages in our network (Friendship Bread Kitchen on Allrecipes, Pinterest, Ziplist, Instagram, Twitter, YouTube, etc.). While we try to review each recipe carefully, you may not always achieve the results desired due to variations in ingredients, cooking temperatures, typos, errors, omissions, or individual cooking abilities. Please always use your best judgment when cooking with raw ingredients including milk and dairy-free products.

Copyright and Trademark

The design, images, text content and overall layout contained in this website are protected under U.S. and international law as copyrighted materials, whether registered or unregistered. All trademarks, service marks, logos and trade names displayed on this Site, whether registered or unregistered, are the exclusive property of the Kitchen or other companies where so indicated, and are protected under U.S. and international trademark law. Use of any of these marks without prior written permission of the Kitchen or the appropriate owner is strictly prohibited.

Third-Party Content

This Site may contain content supplied by parties other than the Kitchen. Any opinions, advice, statements, services, offers, or other information or content expressed or made available by such third parties, including information providers and users, are those of the respective author(s) or distributor(s) and not of the Kitchen. Neither the Kitchen nor any third-party provider of information guarantees the accuracy, completeness, or usefulness of any content, nor its merchantability or fitness for any particular purpose.

Some of our advertising partners may use cookies and web beacons on our site. Our advertising partners include, but are not limited to, AdThrive, Google Adsense, and Amazon.

For information about opting out of Gourmet Ads and any other ad serving partner, please visit http://www.networkadvertising.org/choices/.

These third-party ad servers or ad networks use technology to the advertisements and links that appear on www.friendshpibreadkitchen.com send directly to your browsers. They automatically receive your IP address when this occurs. Other technologies (such as cookies, JavaScript, or Web Beacons) may also be used by the third-party ad networks to measure the effectiveness of their advertisements and / or to personalize the advertising content that you see.

You should consult the respective privacy policies of these third-party ad servers for more detailed information on their practices as well as for instructions about how to opt-out of certain practices. www.friendshipbreadkitchen.com’s privacy policy does not apply to, and we cannot control the activities of, such other advertisers or web sites.

Use of Cookies

A cookie is a file containing an identifier (a string of letters and numbers) that is sent by a web server to a web browser and is stored by the browser. The identifier is then sent back to the server each time the browser requests a page from the server. Cookies may be either “persistent” cookies or “session” cookies: a persistent cookie will be stored by a web browser and will remain valid until its set expiry date, unless deleted by the user before the expiry date; a session cookie, on the other hand, will expire at the end of the user session, when the web browser is closed. Cookies do not typically contain any information that personally identifies a user, but personal information that we store about you may be linked to the information stored in and obtained from cookies.

We use cookies for the following purposes:

Authentication: We use cookies to identify you when you visit our website and as you navigate our website
Email: We use cookies to help us to send relevant emails to users who have subscribed to our email list
Security: We use cookies as an element of the security measures used to protect user accounts, including preventing fraudulent use of login credentials, and to protect our website and services generally
Advertising: We use cookies to help us to display advertisements that will be relevant to you
Analysis: We use cookies to help us to analyze the use and performance of our website and services

By using the Kitchen, you consent to the use of such cookies and the sharing of data captured by such cookies with AdThrive, Google, and our other third-party partners. You can view, delete or add interest categories associated with your browser by visiting: https://adssettings.google.com. You can also opt out of the network cookie using those settings or using the Network Advertising Initiative’s multi-cookie opt-out mechanism at: http://optout.networkadvertising.org. However, these opt-out mechanisms themselves use cookies, and if you clear the cookies from your browser your opt-out will not be maintained.

We use Google Analytics to analyze the use of our website. Google Analytics gathers information about website use by means of cookies. The information gathered relating to our website is used to create reports about the use of our website. Visitors can opt-out of Google Analytics for Display Advertising and customize Google Display Network ads using Google’s Ad Settings page. Users can completely block Google Analytics tracking using Google’s Analytics Opt-out browser add-on.

Google’s privacy policy is available at: https://www.google.com/policies/privacy/

Most browsers allow you to refuse to accept cookies and to delete cookies. The methods for doing so vary from browser to browser, and from version to version. More detailed information about cookie management with specific web browsers can be found at the browsers’ respective websites.

Advertising Privacay Statement

Advertising Privacy Statement

Advertising.

This Site is affiliated with CMI Marketing, Inc., d/b/a CafeMedia (“CafeMedia”) for the purposes of placing advertising on the Site, and CafeMedia will collect and use certain data for advertising purposes. To learn more about CafeMedia’s data usage, click here: www.cafemedia.com/publisher-advertising-privacy-policy

We publish interest-based advertisements on the Site; that is, ads that are tailored to reflect your interests. To help understand your interests, our other advertising partners will track your behavior on our website and on other websites across the Internet using cookies.

By using this Site, you consent to the use of such cookies and the sharing of data captured by such cookies with AdThrive, Google, and our other third party partners. You can view, delete or add interest categories associated with your browser by visiting: https://adssettings.google.com. You can also opt out of the network cookie using those settings or using the Network Advertising Initiative’s multi-cookie opt-out mechanism at: http://optout.networkadvertising.org. However, these opt-out mechanisms themselves use cookies, and if you clear the cookies from your browser your opt-out will not be maintained.

For European Economic Area Residents

If you reside in a country in the European Economic Area (EEA), then under the GDPR and applicable data protection laws you have the rights, among other things, to access your personal data, have us erase it, and/or restrict its further processing. If you wish to access or delete your personal data (if any) maintained by us or AdThrive related to advertising on the Site, you can contact us at hello /at/ friendshipbreadkitchen /dot/ com and contact AdThrive at info@adthrive.com. If you wish to see a list of the advertising partners we work with or change which of those partners track your behavior using cookies, click the ad preferences link at the bottom of the site. (Available in the EU.)

For California Residents

California law gives residents the right to opt out of the “sale” of their personal information to third parties, including for advertising purposes. Under California law, the sharing of your information with a service provider for advertising purposes could be considered a “sale.” To opt out of the sharing of your information for advertising information, click the opt out link provided at the end of the post]. You also have the right to request from us the categories of personal information that we have shared and the categories of third parties to whom the information was provided. To make such a request, please contact us at info@adthrive.com. To be clear we do not share your name, contact information, or any other sensitive information with third parties, and the categories of third parties that we share information with for advertising purposes are supply side platforms, programmatic advertising exchanges, and demand side platforms.

European Economic Area Residents (EEA)

Email Addresses

We may collect your email address, but only if you voluntarily provide it to us. This may occur, for example, if you sign up to receive an email newsletter, or enter a promotion. We will use your email address for the purposes for which you provided it to us, and also from time to time to send you emails regarding the Site or other products or services that we believe may be of interest to you. You may opt out of such email communications at any time by clicking the “unsubscribe” button in the email.

We will not share your email address with any third parties.

If you are a resident of a country in the European Economic Area (EEA), please refer to the section below entitled “Additional Rights of EEA Residents.”

Registration/Account Data

We may collect other information from you when you register with the Kitchen in order to use various features. Such information could include your name, birthday, postal code, screen name, and password (if applicable). As you use the Kitchen, we could collect other data that you provide voluntarily (such as comments that you post).

We may also collect information about you through other methods, including research surveys, social media platforms, verification services, data services, as well as public sources. We may combine this data with your registration data in order to maintain a more thorough profile.

We may use your personally-identifying information for a variety of our internal business purposes, such as creating a better user experience for the Site, diagnosing and troubleshooting malfunctions on the Site, better understanding how the Site is used, and making personalized recommendations to you.

If you are a resident of a country in the European Economic Area (EEA), please refer to the section below entitled “Additional Rights of EEA Residents.”

Transactional Data

We may process information relating to transactions, including purchases of goods and services, that you enter into with us and/or through the Kitchen (“Transactional Data”). The Transactional Data may include your contact details, your card details and the transaction details. The transaction data may be processed for the purpose of supplying the purchased goods and services and keeping proper records of those transactions. Payment processing on our Kitchen is handled by our payment services providers, PayPal and Stripe. We will share transaction data with our payment services providers only to the extent necessary for the purposes of processing your payments, refunding such payments and dealing with complaints and queries relating to such payments and refunds. You can find information about the payment services providers’ privacy policies and practices at https://www.paypal.com/us/webapps/mpp/ua/privacy-full and https://stripe.com/privacy.

Affiliates

We may receive income a nominal commission on advertising or affiliate links on this website. We are an affiliate of 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.

Newsletters

On the Site, you may subscribe to our newsletter, which may be used for advertising purposes. All newsletters sent may contain tracking pixels. The pixel is embedded in emails and allows an analysis of the success of online marketing campaigns. Because of these tracking pixels, we may see if and when you open an email and which links within the email you click. Also, this allows the Site to adapt the content of future newsletters to the interests of the user. This behavior will not be passed on to third parties.

What Rights We Have Over Your Data

If you have an account on this site, or have left comments, you can request to receive an exported file of the personal data we hold about you, including any data you have provided to us. You can also request that we erase any personal data we hold about you. This does not include any data we are obliged to keep for administrative, legal, or security purposes.

Indemnity

You agree to indemnify, defend and hold harmless the Friendship Bread Kitchen, its affiliates, and their respective directors, officers, employees, and agents from and against any and all claims, damages, losses, costs (including without limitation reasonable attorneys’ fees) or other expenses that arise directly or indirectly out of or from (i) your breach of any provision of these Terms; or (ii) your activities in connection with this Site.

Additional Rights of EEA (European Economic Area) Residents

If you are a resident of a country in the EEA, you have the rights, among others, to:

(i) access your personal data

(ii) ensure the accuracy of your personal data

(iii) the right to have us delete your personal data

(iv) the right to restrict further processing of your personal data, and

(v) the right to complain to a supervisory authority in your country of residence in the event that data is misused

If you believe that our processing of your personal information infringes data protection laws, you have a legal right to lodge a complaint with a supervisory authority responsible for data protection. You may do so in the EU member state of your residence, your place of work or the place of the alleged infringement.

You may exercise any of your rights in relation to your personal data by written notice to us addressed to the following:

EU Privacy Complaints
PO Box 383807
Waikoloa, HI 96738

Sale of Business or Assets

In the event that the Site or substantially all of its assets is sold or disposed of as a going concern, whether by merger, sale of assets or otherwise, or in the event of an insolvency, bankruptcy or receivership, the information we have collected about you may be one of the assets sold or merged in connection with that transaction.

Changes to Privacy Policy

We may change this Privacy Policy from time to time. The most recent version of the Privacy Policy will always be posted on the Site, with the “Effective Date” posted at the top of the Policy. We may revise and update this Privacy Policy if our practices change, as technology changes, or as we add new services or change existing ones. If we make any material changes to our Privacy Policy or how we handle your personal information, or we are going to use any personal information in a manner that is materially different from that stated in our Privacy Policy at the time we collected such information, we will give you a reasonable opportunity to consent to the change. If you do not consent, your personal information will be used as agreed to under the terms of the privacy policy in effect at the time we obtained that information. By using our Site or services after the Effective Date, you are deemed to consent to our then-current privacy policy. We will use information previously obtained in accordance with the Privacy Policy in effect when the information was obtained from you.

Disclaimer of Warranties and Limitation of Liability

The Kitchen provides the Site on an as-is basis.The Friendship Bread Kitchen makes no representations or warranties of any kind, express or implied, concerning its content, products, information presented, software, services made available to you through our site or electronic communications from the Kitchen to you. The Kitchen will not be liable for any damages resulting from the use of our Site.

Contact

You are welcome to use the email address to make effective contact, general inquiry, comments and feedback regarding this Site: hello {at} friendshipbreadkitchen {dot} com.