We value and respect your privacy. Below, you’ll find more information about what data we collect and how we use it. By using this website, you agree to the terms of this Privacy Policy.
You may also contact us any time by emailing us at cookingwithconks@gmail.com.
Who we are
Our website address is: https://cookingwithconks.com.
Rachel and Emily Conklin (“we,” “us,” or “our“) operate the https://cookingwithconks.com website (“Website“).
This privacy notice for Cooking with Conks describes how and why we might collect, store, use, and/or share (“process“) your information when you use our services (“Services“), such as when you:
- Visit our website at https://cookingwithconks.com, or any website of ours that links to this privacy notice;
- Engage with us in other related ways, including any sales, marketing, or events.
We use your data to provide and improve this Website. By using the Website, you agree to the collection and use of information in accordance with this privacy policy.
Questions or concerns? Reading this privacy notice will help you understand your privacy rights and choices. If you do not agree with our policies and practices, please do not use our Services. If you still have any questions or concerns, please contact us at cookingwithconks@gmail.com.
Summary of Key Points
This summary provides key points from our privacy notice, but you can find out more details about any of these topics by reviewing the rest of the privacy notice below.
What personal information do we process? When you visit, use, or navigate our Website, we may process personal information depending on how you interact with us and the Website, the choices you make, and the products and features you use.
Do we process any sensitive personal information? We do not process sensitive personal information.
Do we receive any information from third parties? This Website may contain advertisements from third parties that are not affiliated with us and which may link to other websites, services, or applications, but we do not receive information from third parties.
How do we process your information? We process your information to provide and improve our Website, communicate with you, for security and fraud prevention, and to comply with the law. We may also process your information for other purposes with your consent. We process your information only when we have a valid legal reason to do so.
In what situations and with which types of parties do we share personal information? We may share information in specific situations and with specific categories of third parties.
What are your rights? Depending on where you are located, there may be applicable privacy laws that may mean you have certain rights regarding your personal information. More information about your privacy rights is included below.
How do you exercise your rights? The easiest way to exercise your rights is by contacting us at cookingwithconks@gmail.com. We will consider and act upon any request in accordance with applicable data protection laws.
Want to learn more? Review the Privacy Policy in full by reading the information below.
Personal data we collect and why we collect it
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.
Contact forms
Contact form submissions are submitted via Ninja Forms. Submissions are stored in our website database.
Cookies
What are cookies?
Cookies are small text files that are used to store small pieces of information. They are stored on your device when the website is loaded on your browser. These cookies help us make the website function properly, make it more secure, provide better user experience, and understand how the website performs and to analyze what works and where it needs improvement.
How do we use cookies?
As most of the online services, our website uses first-party and third-party cookies for several purposes. First-party cookies are mostly necessary for the website to function the right way, and they do not collect any of your personally identifiable data.
The third-party cookies used on our website are mainly for understanding how the website performs, how you interact with our website, keeping our services secure, providing advertisements that are relevant to you, and all in all providing you with a better and improved user experience and help speed up your future interactions with our website.
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.
Manage cookie preferences
Cookie SettingsYou can change your cookie preferences any time by clicking the above button. This will let you revisit the cookie consent banner and change your preferences or withdraw your consent right away.
In addition to this, different browsers provide different methods to block and delete cookies used by websites. You can change the settings of your browser to block/delete the cookies. Listed below are the links to the support documents on how to manage and delete cookies from the major web browsers.
Chrome: https://support.google.com/accounts/answer/32050
Safari: https://support.apple.com/en-in/guide/safari/sfri11471/mac
Internet Explorer: https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/topic/how-to-delete-cookie-files-in-internet-explorer-bca9446f-d873-78de-77ba-d42645fa52fc
If you are using any other web browser, please visit your browser’s official support documents.
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.
Analytics
Who we share your data with
We may use third-party Website Providers to monitor and analyze the use of our Website.
Google Analytics
Google Analytics is a web analytics Website offered by Google that tracks and reports website traffic. Google uses the data collected to track and monitor the use of our Website. This data is shared with other Google Websites. Google may use the collected data to contextualize and personalize the ads of its own advertising network.
You can opt-out of having your activity on the Website made available to Google Analytics by installing the Google Analytics opt-out browser add-on. The add-on prevents the Google Analytics JavaScript (ga.js, analytics.js and dc.js) from sharing information with Google Analytics about visits activity. For more information on the privacy practices of Google, please visit the Google Privacy & Terms page: https://policies.google.com/privacy?hl=en
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.
We will retain your Personal Data only for as long as is necessary for the purposes set out in this Privacy Policy. We will retain and use your Personal Data to the extent necessary to comply with our legal obligations (e.g. retaining your data to comply with applicable laws), resolve disputes, and enforce legal agreements and policies.
Additionally, we will also retain Usage Data for internal analysis purposes. Usage Data is generally retained for a shorter period of time, except when this data is used to strengthen the security or to improve the functionality of our Website, or we are legally obligated to retain this data for longer periods.
How we protect your data
The security of your information is important to us. However, no electronic transmission over the Internet or electronic storage is 100% secure. We strive to use acceptable means to protect your Personal Data, but we cannot guarantee its complete and absolute security.
Advertising
We may use third-party Website Providers to show advertisements to you to help support and maintain our Website.
Google Adsense
We may use Google Adsense on this Website. Google, a third party vendor, uses cookies to serve ads based on your prior visits to our Website or other websites. Google’s use of advertising cookies enables it and its partners to serve ads to you based on your visit to our Websites and/or other sites on the Internet.
You may opt out of personalized advertising by visiting Google’s Ads Settings.
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 we send your data
Visitor comments may be checked through an automated spam detection service.
Disclosure of Data
We reserve the right to disclose your personally identifiable information as required by law when we believe we have a legal reason to do so and when disclosure is necessary to protect our rights and/or comply with any court order, law, or legal process, including to respond to any government or regulatory request.
We also reserve the right to disclose your personally identifiable information to protect the safety, rights, and property of you, ourselves, and/or others.
Additional information
How we protect your data
The security of your information is important to us. However, no electronic transmission over the Internet or electronic storage is 100% secure. We strive to use acceptable means to protect your Personal Data, but we cannot guarantee its complete and absolute security.
Your California Privacy Rights
California Civil Code Section §1798.83 permits users of this Website who are California residents to request certain information regarding our disclosure of personal information to third parties for direct marketing purposes. If you would like to request this, please send an email to cookingwithconks@gmail.com.
Your European Union Privacy Rights
If you are a resident of the European Economic Area (EEA), you have certain data protection rights under the EU General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR). Those rights include:
- the right to access;
- the right to rectification;
- the right to erasure;
- the right to restrict processing;
- the right to object to processing;
- the right to data portability;
- the right to complain to a supervisory authority; and
- the right to withdraw consent.
We take reasonable steps to allow you to correct, amend, delete or limit the use of your Personal Data.
If you would like to be informed about what Personal Data we hold about you and if you want it to be removed from our systems, please email us at cookingwithconks@gmail.com. Please note that we may ask you to verify your identity before responding to such requests.
If you believe that our processing of your personal information infringes on your data protection laws, you have a legal right to lodge a complaint with a Data Protection Authority about our collection and use of your Personal Data. For more information, please contact your local data protection authority in the European Economic Area (EEA).
If you wish to withdraw your consent for us to process your data, you can opt-out by emailing us at cookingwithconks@gmail.com.
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 the local database and not communicated back to them.
What personal data WP Recipe Maker collects and why it is collected
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.
Akismet
This Website uses Akismet for anti-spam. Akismet collects information about visitors who comment on Sites that use their Akismet Anti-spam service. The information they collect depends on how the User sets up Akismet for the Site, but typically includes the commenter’s IP address, user agent, referrer, and Site URL (along with other information directly provided by the commenter such as their name, username, email address, and the comment itself).