Privacy Policy for YummlyRecipes.com

Effective Date: 29/08/2024

1. Introduction

Welcome to YummlyRecipes.com (The YUMMLY RECIPES). We are committed to protecting your privacy and ensuring that your personal information is handled in a safe and responsible manner. This Privacy Policy outlines how we collect, use, and safeguard your information when you visit our Website.

2. Information We Collect

Personal Information: We may collect personal information such as your name, email address, and any other information you voluntarily provide when you subscribe to our newsletter, comment on posts, or contact us via our contact form.

Non-Personal Information: We may also collect non-personal information such as your IP address, browser type, referring/exit pages, and other usage information through cookies or similar tracking technologies.

Additional Information: If you contact us directly, we may receive additional information about you such as your name, email address, phone number, the contents of the message and/or attachments you may send us, and any other information you may choose to provide.

3. How We Use Your Information

We may use the information we collect from you in the following ways:

To personalize your experience on our Website.

To improve our Website and its content.

To develop new products, services, features, and functionality.

To send periodic emails, newsletters, and updates (if you have opted in).

To respond to your comments, questions, and inquiries.

To monitor and analyze usage and trends to improve our Website's functionality.

To find and prevent fraud.

4. Cookies

Cookies are small files that a site or its service provider transfers to your computer's hard drive through your web browser (if you allow) that enable the site's or service provider's systems to recognize your browser and capture and remember certain information.

Types of Cookies We Use: We use both session cookies, which expire once you close your web browser, and persistent cookies, which stay on your device until you delete them.

Third-Party Cookies: We may also allow third-party service providers, such as Google Analytics, to use cookies to collect and analyze non-personal information about visitors to our Website.

5. Sharing Your Information

We do not sell, trade, or otherwise transfer to outside parties your personally identifiable information unless we provide users with advance notice. This does not include website hosting partners and other parties who assist us in operating our Website, conducting our business, or serving our users, so long as those parties agree to keep this information confidential.

6. Third-Party Links

Our Website may contain links to third-party websites. We do not control or endorse these websites and are not responsible for their privacy practices. We encourage you to review the privacy policies of any third-party sites you visit.

7. Security

We take reasonable precautions to protect your personal information. However, no method of transmission over the internet or electronic storage is 100% secure, and we cannot guarantee absolute security.

8. Children's Privacy

Our Website is not intended for children under the age of 13. We do not knowingly collect personal information from children under 13. If we discover that we have collected personal information from a child under 13, we will delete that information promptly.

9. Legal Compliance and User Rights

CCPA Privacy Rights (Do Not Sell My Personal Information): Under the California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA), California consumers have the right to:

Request that a business that collects a consumer's personal data disclose the categories and specific pieces of personal data that a business has collected about consumers.

Request that a business delete any personal data about the consumer that a business has collected.

Request that a business that sells a consumer's personal data not sell the consumer's personal data.

If you make a request, we have one month to respond to you. If you would like to exercise any of these rights, please contact us.

GDPR Data Protection Rights: If you are a resident of the European Economic Area (EEA), you have certain data protection rights under the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR):

The right to access – You have the right to request copies of your personal data. We may charge you a small fee for this service.

The right to rectification – You have the right to request that we correct any information you believe is inaccurate or incomplete.

The right to erasure – You have the right to request that we erase your personal data, under certain conditions.

The right to restrict processing – You have the right to request that we restrict the processing of your personal data, under certain conditions.

The right to object to processing – You have the right to object to our processing of your personal data, under certain conditions.

The right to data portability – You have the right to request that we transfer the data we have collected to another organization or directly to you, under certain conditions.

If you make a request, we have one month to respond to you. If you would like to exercise any of these rights, please contact us.

10. Google AdSense

We use Google AdSense, a web advertising service provided by Google Inc. ("Google"). Google AdSense uses cookies to serve ads based on a user's prior visits to our Website or other websites.

Google's Use of Advertising Cookies: Google and its partners use cookies to serve ads to our users based on their visit to our Website and/or other sites on the internet. Users may opt out of personalized advertising by visiting Google's Ads Settings.

Third-Party Vendors and Ad Networks: Third-party vendors, including Google, may show ads on our Website. These third-party vendors may use cookies and other technologies to collect non-personally identifiable information about your visits to this and other websites to provide advertisements about goods and services of interest to you.

Opting Out: Users can opt out of some third-party vendors' use of cookies for personalized advertising by visiting www.aboutads.info.

For more information on Google's privacy practices, please visit Google's Privacy & Terms.

11. Changes to This Privacy Policy

We may update this Privacy Policy from time to time. We will notify you of any changes by posting the new Privacy Policy on this page with the updated effective date.