1. Introduction
Welcome to Gourmet Recipe Box (https://gourmetrecipebox.com). We respect your privacy and are committed to protecting the personal information you share with us. This Privacy Policy explains what information we collect, how we use it, and your rights regarding your data.
By using our website, you agree to the collection and use of information in accordance with this policy.
2. Information We Collect
A. Comments
When visitors leave comments on the site, we collect the data shown in the comments form (such as your Name and Email Address), and also the visitor’s IP address and browser user agent string to help spam detection.
An anonymized string created from your email address (also called a hash) may be provided to the Gravatar service to see if you are using it. After approval of your comment, your profile picture is visible to the public in the context of your comment.
- Gravatar Privacy Policy: https://automattic.com/privacy/
B. Media
If you upload images to the website, you should avoid uploading images with embedded location data (EXIF GPS) included. Visitors to the website can download and extract any location data from images on the website.
C. Cookies
We use cookies to improve your experience.
- Comments: 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.
- Login: If you visit our login page, we will set a temporary cookie to determine if your browser accepts cookies. This cookie contains no personal data and is discarded when you close your browser.
- Analytics & Ads: We may use third-party cookies (such as Google Analytics or advertising partners) to track visitor behavior and display relevant ads.
D. Embedded Content from Other Websites
Articles on this site may include embedded content (e.g., videos from YouTube, images, Instagram posts). Embedded content from other websites 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 tracking your interaction with the embedded content if you have an account and are logged in to that website.
3. How We Use Your Data
We use the collected data for the following purposes:
- To allow you to leave comments and interact with our recipes.
- To analyze website traffic and user behavior to improve our content (e.g., seeing which recipes are most popular).
- To prevent spam and improve website security.
- [Optional: To send you our newsletter, if you have subscribed.]
4. Who We Share Your Data With
We do not sell or trade your personal identification information to others. However, visitor comments may be checked through an automated spam detection service (such as Akismet).
We may also share generic aggregated demographic information not linked to any personal identification information regarding visitors and users with our business partners, trusted affiliates, and advertisers for the purposes outlined above.
5. 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.
For users that register on our website (if any), we also store the personal information they provide in their user profile. All users can see, edit, or delete their personal information at any time (except they cannot change their username). Website administrators can also see and edit that information.
6. Your Rights 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.
7. Third-Party Services
We may use the following third-party services to improve our site functionality. We recommend reviewing their privacy policies:
- Google Analytics: We use this to understand how our audience interacts with our site. (Google’s Privacy Policy: https://policies.google.com/privacy)
- [Optional: Advertising Partners]: We may display ads from third-party networks (like Google AdSense or Mediavine) which may use cookies to serve ads based on your prior visits to our website.