PRIVACY POLICY
This policy is valid from 19 January 2016.
This blog is a personal blog written and edited by me. If you need more information or have questions about this blog, please contact me at cookingyoulove@gmail.com
At Cookingyoulove, privacy of my visitors is of utmost importance. This privacy policy will outline the type of personal information that is collected and used by Cookingyoulove.com
Cookingyoulove may change this policy from time to time by updating this page. you should check this page from time to time to ensure that you are happy with any changes. This policy is effective from January 2016.
We may collect the following information:
- Contact information including email address
- Demographic information such as postcode, preferences and interests
- Other information relevant to customer surveys and /or offers
We require this information to understand your needs and provide you with a better service, and in particular for the following reasons:
- We may use the information to improve our products and services.
- We may periodically send promotional emails about new products, special offers or other information which we think you may find interesting using the email address which you have provided.
- From time to time, we may also use your information to contact you for market research purposes. We may contact you by email, phone, fax or mail. We may use the information to customize the website according to your interests.
We are committed to ensuring that your information is secure. In order to prevent unauthorized access or disclosure, we have put in place suitable physical, electronic and managerial procedures to safeguard and secure the information we collect online.
How we use cookies
A cookie is a small file which asks permission to be placed on your computer’s hard drive. Once you agree, the file is added and the cookie helps analyse web traffic or lets you know when you visit a particular site. Cookies allow web applications to respond to you as an individual.
We use traffic log cookies to identify which pages are being used. This helps us analyse data about web page traffic and improve our website in order to tailor it to customer needs. We only use this information about you, other than the data you choose to share with us.
Advertising
Some of our advertisers occasionally serve you cookies as well. We do not have control over cookies placed by advertisers. We may use advertising service vendors to help present advertisements on the website. These vendors may use cookies, web beacons, or similar technologies to serve you advertisements tailored to interests you have shown by browsing on this and other sites you have visited, to determine whether you have seen a particular advertisement before and to avoid sending you duplicate advertisements. In doing so, these vendors may collect non-personal data such as your browser type, your operating system, Web pages visited, time of visits, content viewed, ads viewed, and other clickstream data. The use of cookies, web beacons, or similar technologies by these advertising service vendors is subject to their own privacy policies, not ours, and Service Provider disclaims all liability in connection therewith.
Links to other websites
Our website may contain links to other websites of interest. However, once you have used these links to leave our site, you should note that we do not have any control over that other website. Therefore, we cannot be responsible for the protection and privacy of any information which you have provided when visiting such sites and such sites are not governed by this privacy statement. You should exercise caution and look at the privacy statement applicable to the website in question.
Cookingyoulove is a participant in the Amazon Services LLC Associates Program, an affiliate advertising program designed to provide a means for sites to earn advertising fees by advertising and links to Amazon.com. As a part of this Amazon Associates program, the Website will post customized links, provided by Amazon, to track the referrals to their website. This program utilizes cookies to track visits for the purposes of assigning commission on these sales.
Cookingyoulove is a participant of ShareaSale Affiliate Program. As a part of the program website will have advertisements from ShareaSale merchants. For more information on ShareaSale privacy policy, please read here.
Controlling your personal information
You may choose to restrict the collection or use of your personal information in the following ways:
- Whenever you are asked to fill in a form on the website, look for the box that you can click to indicate that you do not want the information to be used by anybody for direct marketing purposes.
- If you have previously agreed to us using your personal information for direct marketing purposes, you may change your mind at any time by contacting us.
We will not sell, distribute or lease your personal information to third parties unless we have your permission or are required by law to do so. we may use your personal information to send you promotional information about third parties which we think you may find interesting if you tell us that you wish this to happen.
Software used
1. Cookingyoulove uses Google Analytics to track statistics regarding our audience and website traffic. No personally identifiable information is transferred from the Website to Google Analytics. For more information on Google Analytics privacy policies, please visit this site.
2. Cookingyoulove uses a software called Hotjar. Hotjar’s privacy policy explains in detail how Hotjar is used. This information is automatically collected while a visitor navigates and interacts with the content on this site. The sole purpose of collecting this information is to improve the user experience.Through the Hotjar tracking code embedded on our website, the information collected includes:
Device-specific data
The following information may be collected through your device and browser:
- your device’s IP address(collected and stored in an anonymized format)
- device type(unique device identifiers) and browser information
- geographic location (country only)
- preferred language used to display the web page
Log Data
Hotjar automatically records information which is created upon using cookingyoulove.com. Data includes:
- referring domain
- pages visited
- geographic location (country only)
- preferred language used to display the webpage
- date and time when the website were accessed
Cookie Opt Out
Finally, you can choose to disable or selectively turn off cookies or third-party cookies in your browser settings. More detailed information about cookie management with specific web browsers can be found at the browsers respective websites.