Who we are
Our website address is http://cookingwithsapana.com.
This privacy policy sets out how we (Cookingwithsapana, Owner Sapana Behl) use and protects any information that you give while using the website Cookigwithsapana. Should we ask you to provide certain information by which you can be identified when using this website, then you can be assured that it will be treated with confidentiality and only be used by this privacy statement.
Cookingwithsapana 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 November 20, 2015.
What Information we collect
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 offers
What we do with the information we gather
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.
Google Analytics
We may record information relating to your use of the Site, such as the searches you undertake, the pages you view, how long you are on the Site, how you got here, what you click on, information about your browser type, IP address, requested URL, referring URL, and timestamp information. Google Analytics plants a permanent cookie on your web browser to identify you as a unique user the next time you visit this Site.
In addition, you may prevent the collection by Google of the data generated by the cookie and related to your use of the website (including your IP address) as well as the processing of this data by Google by downloading the browser plug-in available under the following link and install. Additionally, you can also disable cookies on your browser.
We use this type of information to administer the Site and provide the highest possible level of service to you. We also use this information in the aggregate to perform statistical analyses of user behavior and characteristics in order to measure interest in and use of the various areas of the Site.
At http://cookingwithsapana.com, we use both Google (We have stopped tracking demographics information starting May 25th, 2018) and Pinterest Analytics. To learn more about Google Analytics’s Data Practices, please visit the link here. Moreover, for Pinterest here.
Email and Newsletter Subscription
We use MailChimp as our email marketing platform, and you can unsubscribe or opt out anytime. We do not share your email address with any other third parties. 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.
Subscribers to Cookingwithsapana can remove their names from our subscriber list at any time by clicking on the unsubscribe link included at the bottom of each e-mail message. Alternatively, you can contact us at [email protected] for the same.
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.
You can find MailChimp’s Privacy Policy and GDPR policy here and here.
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. Also, visitor comments are checked through an automated spam detection service – Askimet
Logfiles
Like many other websites, http://cookingwithsapana.com makes use of log files. These files merely log visitors to the site – usually a standard procedure for hosting companies and a part of hosting services’ analytics (Hostgator). The information inside the log files includes Internet protocol (IP) addresses, browser type, Internet Service Provider (ISP), date/time stamp, referring/exit pages, and possibly the number of clicks. This information is used 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 personally identifiable information.
Social Media
This Site uses various social media platforms like Facebook, Pinterest, Instagram, Google+ & Twitter, which uses cookies to track user behavior (through like and share buttons). Please understand that we do not receive knowledge of the content of the transmitted data and their use. Hence, please read the privacy policy of the respective social media platforms to understand better.
Contact Form
In the Contact Us page, we do collect email information, your name and the feedback. We do not use the information submitted through the contact forms for marketing purposes. We retain the data only for three months period.
Ninja Form
If you are using Ninja Forms to collect personal information, you should consult a legal professional for your use case.
Media Files
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.
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 analyze web traffic or lets you know when you visit a particular site. Cookies allow web applications to respond to you as an individual. The web application can tailor its operations to your needs, likes, and dislikes by gathering and remembering information about your preferences.
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 have an account and you log in to this site, 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.
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, one of which is http://www.gourmetads.com.
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 to 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 this advertising service vendors is subject to their privacy policies, not ours, and Service Provider disclaims all liability in connection in addition to that.
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 or outside of http://cookingwithsapana.com. Therefore, we cannot be responsible for the protection and privacy of any information which you provide whilst 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.
Articles on this site may include embedded content (e.g. videos, images, articles, etc.). Embedded content from other websites behaves in the 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.
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.
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 on 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.
Security and Data Protection
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.
http://cookingwithsapana.com uses encryption program and we use the SSL – Secure Sockets Layer to transfer the information.
Opt-Out
For information about opting out of Gourmet Ads and ad serving partners, please visit http://www.gourmetads.com/about/privacy-policy.
If you believe that any information we are holding on you is incorrect or incomplete, please contact us at [email protected]
UPDATED- 20 MAY 2018
WP Recipe Maker
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. Take note of the following topics for your own privacy policy.
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 retain your data
Our cookies are stored for 30 days. User submitted data is stored indefinitely in the local database.
Ninja Forms allows you to collect personal information
If you are using Ninja Forms to collect personal information, you should consult a legal professional for your use case.
Hustle
What personal data do we collect and why?
When visitors or users submit a form or view a module, we capture the IP Address for analyisis purposes. We also capture the email address and might capture other personal data included in the form fields.
How long we retain your data
When visitors or users submit a form or view a module we retain the data for 30 days.
Where we send your data
All collected data might be shown publicly and we send it to our workers or contractors to perform necessary actions based on the form submission.
Third Parties
We use ActiveCampaign to manage our subscriber lists. Their privacy policy can be found here : https://www.activecampaign.com/privacy-policy/.
We use Aweber to manage our subscriber. Their privacy policy can be found here : https://www.aweber.com/privacy.htm.
We use Campaign Monitor to manage our subscriber. Their privacy policy can be found here : https://www.campaignmonitor.com/policies/#privacy-policy.
We use Constant Contact to manage our subscriber. Their privacy policy can be found here : https://www.endurance.com/privacy.
We use ConvertKit to manage our subscriber. Their privacy policy can be found here : https://convertkit.com/privacy/.
We use e-Newsletter to manage our subscriber. You can learn more about it here https://premium.wpmudev.org/project/e-newsletter/.
We use GetResponse to manage our subscriber lists. Their privacy policy can be found here : https://www.getresponse.com/legal/privacy.html?lang=en.
We use HubSpot to manage our subscriber. Their privacy policy can be found here : https://legal.hubspot.com/legal-stuff.
We use iContact to manage our subscriber. Their privacy policy can be found here : https://www.icontact.com/legal/privacy.
We use Infusionsoft to manage our subscriber. Their privacy policy can be found here : https://www.infusionsoft.com/legal/privacy-policy.
We use Mad Mimi to manage our subscriber. Their privacy policy can be found here : https://madmimi.com/legal/terms.
We use MailChimp to manage our subscriber list. Their privacy policy can be found here : https://mailchimp.com/legal/privacy/.
We use MailerLite to manage our subscriber. Their privacy policy can be found here : https://www.mailerlite.com/privacy-policy.
We use Mautic to manage our subscriber. Their privacy policy can be found here : https://www.mautic.org/privacy-policy/.
We use SendGrid to manage our subscriber. Their privacy policy can be found here : https://sendgrid.com/policies/privacy/.
We use SendinBlue to manage our subscriber. Their privacy policy can be found here : https://www.sendinblue.com/legal/privacypolicy/.
We use Sendy to manage our subscriber. Their privacy policy can be found here : https://sendy.co/privacy-policy.
We use MailChimp to manage our subscriber list. Their privacy policy can be found here : https://mailchimp.com/legal/privacy/.
We use Zapier to manage our integration data. Their privacy policy can be found here : https://zapier.com/privacy/.
Cookies
By default Hustle uses cookies to count how many times each module is visualized. Cookies might be used to handle other features such as display settings, used when a module should not be displayed for a certain time, whether the user commented before, whether the user has subscribed, among others, if their related settings are enabled.
Contact Us
Please feel free tot contact us anytime at [email protected]. This privacy policy is subject to change anytime without notice and last updtaed 08/08/2019