Last Updated: 9th March 2019
The Culinary Letter (“This site”, “this website”, the “Service”, “our”, “us” or “we”) uses cookies. By using this site, you consent to the use of cookies.
This Cookies Policy explains what cookies are, how we use cookies, how third parties we may partner with may use cookies on this site, your choices in regards to cookies and further information about cookies.
What is a Cookie?
A cookie is a small text file (containing a string of letters and numbers) which can be placed on your device and used as an identifier. To track website activity, this text file is sent by the web server to your web browser and stored. Information that is obtained and stored from cookies may contain personal information.
Cookies can be either “persistent” or “session”. Persistent cookies are stored by a web browser until either the browser deletes them after it has reached its set expiry date or the user manually deletes them before the expiry date. Meanwhile, session cookies are temporary cookie files that are erased once the user closes the web browser.
How we use Cookies
When you access and use this site, we may place a number of cookies files in your web browser.
Cookies on this site are used for:
- Analysis and statistical reasons. This gives us an idea of how much traffic our pages receive and where this traffic originates from. Therefore allowing us to create content that is directed at our readers best interests.
- Security and authentication as you navigate the website.
- Personalisation and to store user preferences in order to make this site better for users. This is mainly to monitor which pages you find useful on this site and to analyse web page traffic.
To run this site, we use persistent and session cookies as well as different types of other cookies. This may include essential cookies to authenticate users and prevent fraudulent use of user accounts.
This Service uses Google Analytics and Adsense to gather information and creates reports about how you found and use the website through cookies. Google’s Privacy Policy is available at https://www.google.com/policies/privacy/
Interest reporting and Google Analytics Demographics are in use on this site. Collected data such as your interests guide content to better serve visitors and their interests and may also be referenced in discussions with potential collaborations or partnerships and media packages. As your privacy is important and is taken seriously, our Google Analytics set-up anonymises IP Addresses. More information about this can be found at: https://support.google.com/analytics/answer/2763052
Jetpack is also in use on this Service. To find out more about cookies associated with this please refer to: https://automattic.com/cookies/
Third-Party Cookies
Additional to our own cookies, we may also use various third-parties cookies to report usage statistics of the service, deliver advertisements on and through the Service, and so on.
Your Choices Regarding Cookies
If you would like to delete cookies or instruct your web browser to refuse or delete cookies, please visit the help pages of your web browser.
However, please note that if you refuse to accept cookies or delete them, you may not be able to use all the features that we offer, some of our pages may not display properly or you may not be able to store your preferences.
Where to Find Out More About Cookies
You can learn more about cookies and the following third-party websites:
- AllAboutCookies: http://www.allaboutcookies.org/
- Network Advertising Initiative: http://www.networkadvertising.org/
Email Addresses
Your email address may be collected, if you chose to voluntarily provide it to us through ways that may include, for example, leaving a comment, entering a promotion or signing up to receive our email newsletters. Your email address will be used for the purposes in which you provided it to us. For example, if you choose to sign up to receive our email notifications, we will share new blog posts, special updates and content that we believe may be of interest to you.
You are able to opt out of such email communications at any time by clicking the “unsubscribe” button in the email.
Your email address may also be shared with the technology provider we use in relation to the purpose in which you provided it.
As we use ActiveCampaign to deliver email newsletters, the information provided is transferred to ActiveCampaign for processing. This follows their Privacy Policy and terms which can be found at https://www.activecampaign.com/legal/privacy-policy
Comments
If you voluntarily leave a comment on this site, it will record your name as provided. If you do not want your name published alongside the comment, you are welcome to use an appropriate nickname.
Contact Us
If you have any questions about this Cookies Policy, please contact us at hello@theculinaryletter.com.
