Disclosure & Private Policy

At SemiSweetDesigns.com, my goal is to share my designs, as well as helpful tips, tools and tutorials for those wanting to get their hands dirty with decorated cookies. I try my best to create quality content and I am encouraged to know many find the site helpful.

It’s amazing how much time and energy goes into this blog with all the baking, decorating, photo-taking, photo-editing, and post writing. As such, I feel it is permissible to be compensated. I accept advertising and participate in various affiliate programs which provide some income.

I truly promise to only promote products I personally use or can recommend without hesitation.

What is an affiliate link?

Sometimes I mention that a link is an affiliate link. This simply means sometimes I recommend a product or service and if you choose to purchase that product or service via my recommendation link, I will get a small referral commission. Of course, there is absolutely no extra cost to you, but it does help keep my decorating supplies stocked so I can keep bringing you great posts! I truly appreciate your support in this way. Thank you.

Additional Disclosures

This blog is a personal blog written and edited by me. This blog accepts forms of cash advertising, sponsorship, paid insertions or other forms of compensation.

The compensation received may influence the advertising content, topics or posts made in this blog. That content, advertising space or post may not always be identified as paid or sponsored content.

The owner(s) of this blog is compensated to provide opinion on products, services, websites and various other topics. Even though the owner(s) of this blog receives compensation for our posts or advertisements, we always give our honest opinions, findings, beliefs, or experiences on those topics or products. The views and opinions expressed on this blog are purely the bloggers’ own. Any product claim, statistic, quote or other representation about a product or service should be verified with the manufacturer, provider or party in question.

This blog does not contain any content which might present a conflict of interest.

Log Files

Like many other Web sites, www.semisweetdesigns.com makes use of log files. The information inside the log files includes internet protocol (IP) addresses, type of browser, Internet Service Provider (ISP), date/time stamp, referring/exit pages, and number of clicks to analyze trends, administer the site, track user’s movement around the site, and gather demographic information. IP addresses, and other such information are not linked to any information that is personally identifiable.

Cookies and Web Beacons

Cookies are very small text files that are stored on your computer when you visit some websites. Cookies are used by most websites to tailor content and marketing messages to better suit your needs.

We use cookies on the website to track visitor behavior. If you prefer not to allow the use of cookies, you can change the configuration of your browser to warn you when you receive a cookie or automatically reject them.

If you would like to find out more about cookies you can visit http://www.aboutcookies.org.

Type of cookie I use

Google Analytics – We use Google Analytics to understand how the website is being used in order to improve the user experience. User data is anonymous.

Google Remarketing — Google uses these cookies to show relevant adverts to users who have previously visited our website, as they browse other websites. You can opt-out from Google’s remarketing program, by changing your Google Ad Settings.

Facebook – Cookies and pixels are used to understand and deliver ads and make them more relevant to you. We may also use a cookie to learn whether someone who saw an ad on Facebook later visited our website.

Last updated November 15, 2016.