Madden Makes is a personal website maintained by Julie Madden. It uses WordPress as its content management system with third-party plugins, WP Recipe to manage recipe collections, and Askimet to combat spam. I’m pouring my heart and soul out here on this website. If you would like to comment, do so. If you type in a comment, you are giving this website permission to display it and your words will be visible to all who visit this site. See details about comments, cookies, and how your data is used below.
WordPress
Comments
When visitors leave comments on the site we collect the data shown in the comments form, and also the visitor’s IP address and browser user agent string to help spam detection.
Cookies
If you leave a comment on our site 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.
How long we retain your data
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.
Where your data is sent
Visitor comments may be checked through an automated spam detection service.
WP Recipe Maker
Comments
When comment ratings are enabled we store the rating a user has given to a recipe along with the personal data WordPress core stores
Cookies
When user ratings are enabled we store a cookie that contains the rating this user has given to a particular recipe. This cookie is used as one of the measures to prevent spam.
IP Address
When user ratings are enabled we store the IP address upon voting. This is used as (one of the) measures to prevent rating spam.
How long we retain your data
Our cookies are stored for 30 days. User submitted data is stored indefinitely in the local database.
Askimet
We collect information about visitors who comment on Sites that use our Akismet Anti-spam service. The information we collect depends on how the User sets up Akismet for the Site, but typically includes the commenter’s IP address, user agent, referrer, and Site URL (along with other information directly provided by the commenter such as their name, username, email address, and the comment itself).