Privacy Policy - Traditional Plant-Based Cooking

Updated on the 11th October 2023.

Who we are

Our website address is: https://traditionalplantbasedcooking.com. The terms ‘traditionalplantbasedcooking' or ‘us’ or ‘we’ refer to the owner/s of the website.

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💬 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.

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. The Gravatar service privacy policy is available here: https://automattic.com/privacy/.

After approval of your comment, your profile picture is visible to the public in the context of your comment.

🎥 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.

🍪 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.

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.

When you log in, we will also set up several cookies to save your login information and your screen display choices. Login cookies last for two days, and screen options cookies last for a year. If you select "Remember Me", your login will persist for two weeks. If you log out of your account, the login cookies will be removed.

If you edit or publish an article, an additional cookie will be saved in your browser. This cookie includes no personal data and simply indicates the post ID of the article you just edited. It expires after 1 day.

⭐ Embedded content from other websites

Articles on this site may include embedded content (e.g. videos, images, articles, etc.). 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.

If you request a password reset, your IP address will be included in the reset email.

⭐ 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.

⭐ What rights you have 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.

⭐ Where your data is sent

Visitor comments may be checked through an automated spam detection service. Traditional plant based cooking uses Anti-spam Bee to filter all comments and identify spam comments.

Antispam bee does not send your information to any third party services. The information we collected may include the commenter's IP address, user agent, referrer, and Site URL as well as other information added manually by the commenter such as their name, username, email address, and the comment they provide.

📋 Word Press Recipe Maker

We use WP Recipe Maker as a means to provide visitors with a structured recipe card and to collect star ratings.

Bootstrapped Ventures, the developer of WP Recipe Maker, does not have access to any of the data collected by the plugin. This is all stored in your local database and not communicated back to us.

🧾 What personal data we collect and why we collect it

⭐ 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 WPRM_User_Voted_%recipe% cookie (with %recipe% the ID of the recipe) that contains the rating this user has given to a particular recipe. This cookie is used as (one of the) measures to prevent rating 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.

⭐ Their own manually input information

With the Recipe Submission feature personal data can be collected, depending on the fields that were added to the form. This can include the user email and name. When using the reCAPTCHA feature you will be agreeing to their terms of use and privacy policy.

⭐ How long we store your data

Our cookies are stored for 30 days. User submitted data is stored indefinitely in the local database.

⭐ How we protect your data

We are committed to ensuring that your information is secure. In order to prevent unauthorised access or disclosure, we have put in place suitable physical, electronic and managerial procedures to safeguard and secure the information we collect online.

🥬 Amazon affiliate links

traditionalplantbasedcooking is an Amazon Affiliate and provides links that when clicked directs your browser to Amazon UK. Amazon uses a 24 hour cookie on your browser. After 24 hours the cookie will be deleted.

If you purchase an item during those 24 hours, on the browser that clicked the link from traditionalplantbasedcooking then I may receive a small commission. This is at no extra cost to your purchase.

The price of goods that are advertised on traditionalplantbasedcooking are correct at the time of embedding the link onto traditionalplantbasedcooking and due to the nature of online purchases the cost of the item may increase or decrease.

The following is a link to Amazon.co.uk help and customer service page: https://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/help/customer/display.html?nodeId=201890250

📖 Google analytics

We use Google Analytics, a web analytics service provided by Google, to collect information about how visitors use our blog. Google Analytics uses cookies, which are small text files placed on your computer's hard drive, to collect information about your visit, such as your IP address,the specific pages on the blog you browse, and the duration of your stay on each page. Google Analytics does not collect any personally identifiable information about you, such as your name or email address.

The information collected by Google Analytics is used to generate reports that help us to understand how visitors use our blog and to make improvements. For example, we use Google Analytics reports to see which pages are most popular, how visitors find our blog, and how long they stay on our blog.

Google Analytics uses the information it collects to generate reports and to provide other services to us. Google may also share this information with its advertisers or other partners. Google's privacy policy is available here: [link to Google's privacy policy].

You have the option to opt out from Google Analytics tracking by installing the Google Analytics Opt-out Browser Extension, which is freely accessible for download via the Google Chrome Web Store.

If you have any questions about how we use Google Analytics, please contact us at [email protected].

We collect your public profile data only from your consent that you grant before initiating Social Login, from the social network used to login at our website. This data includes your first name, last name, email address, link to your social media profile, unique identifier, link to social profile avatar. This data is used to create your user profile at our website. You can revoke this consent at any time by sending us an email.

We embed a Facebook widget to allow you to see number of likes/shares/recommends and “like/share/recommend” our webpages. This widget may collect your IP address, your web browser User Agent, store and retrieve cookies on your browser, embed additional tracking, and monitor your interaction with the widget, including correlating your Facebook account with whatever action you take within the widget (such as “liking/sharing/recommending” our webpage), if you are logged in to Facebook. For more information about how this data may be used, please see Facebook’s data privacy policy:

https://www.facebook.com/about/privacy/update

We use a Twitter Tweet widget at our website. As a result, our website makes requests to Twitter’s servers for you to be able to tweet our webpages using your Twitter account. These requests make your IP address visible to Twitter, who may use it in accordance with their data privacy policy:

https://twitter.com/en/privacy#update

We use Pinterest Save widget at our website to allow you to pin images to Pinterest from our webpages. These requests may track your IP address in accordance with their data privacy policy:

https://policy.pinterest.com/en/privacy-policy

📋 Your contact 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, you will always be given the opportunity to unsubscribe or be removed from any mailings or marketing.

If you have previously agreed to us using your personal information for direct marketing purposes, you may change your mind at any time by writing to or emailing us at : [email protected]

🥬 Third party vendors

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.

⭐ Information collected

We collect email addresses from visitors who willingly subscribe to our newsletter.

⭐ Purpose of collection

We collect email addresses to provide you with a variety of content, including updates on new blog posts, access to valuable free resources, and alerts for newly published recipes. Additionally, if we have paid resources or products to offer, we may send you information about those as well.

⭐ Third-party service providers

We use MailerLite a third-party service to collect and store our email list. You can access the MailerLite privacy policy over on their website: https://www.mailerlite.com/legal/privacy-policy

⭐ Opt-out options

If you have subscribed to our email list and wish to unsubscribe, you can opt out at any time. Each email you receive from us includes an 'unsubscribe' button at the bottom, which you can click to remove yourself from our mailing list instantly. Alternatively, you can directly email us at [email protected] to request that we remove you from the email list.

⭐ Security measures

We are committed to ensuring the security of your personal information. To prevent unauthorized access or disclosure, we have implemented a range of physical, electronic, and managerial measures. Specifically, all collected email addresses are stored securely with MailerLite, a third-party service provider. Access to this data is restricted to authorized personnel at traditionalplantbasedcooking.com and is protected by a secure password, known only to us. MailerLite also has its own stringent data protection protocols, which you can review (Link to MailerLite's privacy policy).

⭐ Data retention

We will retain your email address for the purposes of sending you newsletters, updates, and other communications as described in this policy. Your email address will be stored until you choose to unsubscribe from our email list, or until you request us to remove your information. To unsubscribe, you can click on the 'unsubscribe' link located within our emails, or you can contact us directly at: [email protected] Upon receiving an unsubscribe request, we will promptly remove your email address from our records.

We take your privacy seriously and will never sell your email address. Except for MailerLite, which we use for managing our email list, we will not share your email address with third parties unless explicitly stated or under specific conditions, such as:

Legal Requirements: If we are required by law, court order, or legal process to disclose your information.
Business Transfers: In the event of a merger, acquisition, reorganization, or sale of all or a portion of our assets, your data may be transferred as part of that transaction.
Consent: If you have explicitly consented to the sharing of your data with third parties for specific purposes.

Please note that MailerLite also has its own privacy policies in place, which you can review- https://www.mailerlite.com/legal/privacy-policy

⭐ User rights

As a subscriber to our email list, you have various rights regarding your personal data:

Right to Access: You have the right to request a copy of the personal data we hold about you.
Right to Rectify: You have the right to correct any inaccurate or incomplete personal data we hold about you.
Right to Erasure: You can ask us to delete your email address and other personal data from our records.
Right to Restrict Processing: You have the right to request that we limit how we use your personal data.
Right to Object: You can object to our use of your personal data for direct marketing purposes at any time.
Right to Data Portability: You have the right to request a copy of your personal data in a commonly used electronic format.
Right to Withdraw Consent: If you have provided consent for any specific use of your data, you have the right to withdraw that consent.

To exercise any of these rights, you can click the 'unsubscribe' link on any email we send to you, or contact us directly at [email protected]. We will respond to your request in accordance with applicable laws.

💭 Contact information

If you have any questions or concerns regarding the use of your personal data, please don't hesitate to get in touch with us at [email protected]. We are committed to resolving any issues you may have about your privacy and our handling of your data.