Privacy Policy

Last updated: 18 June 2020

The following Privacy Policy outlines what Personal Information is collected from The Culinary Letter (“this site”, “this website”, “us”, “our” or “we”) and how such information is disclosed and used while using www.theculinaryletter.com.

We endeavour to ensure and understand that your privacy is of the utmost importance. Your Personal Information is used only to improve this website. By using this site, you agree to the collection and use of information in accordance with this policy.

Information Collection and Use

While on this site, we may ask you to provide us with certain personally identifiable information that can be used to identify or contact you. This is dependent on what you choose to provide.

Personally, identifiable information may include, but is not limited to the following:

Contact information including your name and email address.
Demographic information such as interests, preferences or postcode
Usage Data

Usage Data

Usage Data is collected automatically when using the Service.

Usage Data may include information such as Your Device’s Internet Protocol address (e.g. IP address), browser type, browser version, the pages of our Service that You visit, the time and date of Your visit, the time spent on those pages, unique device identifiers and other diagnostic data.

When You access the Service by or through a mobile device, We may collect certain information automatically, including, but not limited to, the type of mobile device You use, Your mobile device unique ID, the IP address of Your mobile device, Your mobile operating system, the type of mobile Internet browser You use, unique device identifiers and other diagnostic data.

We may also collect information that Your browser sends whenever You visit our Service or when You access the Service by or through a mobile device.

How your information is collected

When you sign up to receive our emails
Requests or questions you submit to the site via email or our contact form
Your communication and dealings with the site

This site uses Activecampaign to collect email addresses to send weekly updates to you as a third party collecting Personal Information.

What we do with the information we gather

We use your personal data for reasons including understanding how our visitors engage with our site. This ultimately allows us to create content that is useful for you. In particular, this includes the following reasons:

Improving your experience on our site and giving us an idea of what articles and content help you best.
Helping develop new services and improve existing services
Sending out emails about new content, updates or other information that we think you may find interesting using the email addressed you have provided
Personalising your session on this site to better fit your interests such as offering you tailored, relevant content.
We may also use your information for market research purposes and contact you via email. This information may be used to customise the website based on your preferences and interests.

Log Data

Information that your browser sends when you visit this site is collected and referred to as “Log Data”.

This Log Data may include information such as your computer’s Internet Protocol (“IP”) address, browser version and type, the time and date of your visit, the page/s of this site that you visit and time spent on those pages and other statistics.

Analytics

We may use third-party Service providers to monitor and analyze the use of our Service.

Google Analytics provided by Google. Google Analytics helps us improve the functionality of this site and gain insights. It may also be used to provide you with suggestions about content that may interest you.

For more information on what type of information Google Analytics collects, please visit their Privacy Policy page: https://www.google.com/policies/privacy

For more about Google Analytics and cookies on this site refer to our Cookies Policy.

Opting out of Google Analytics

You have the right and ability to opt-out of having cookies placed for the purposes of Google Analytics. If you would like to do so, there is an opt-out browser add on from Google that will allow you do to so found at https://tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout

Advertising

We may use Service providers to show advertisements to You to help support and maintain Our Service.

Sovrn. Sovrn is provided by Sovrn Holdings Inc. If you’d like to opt-out from Sovrn service, please visit the Sovrn Opt-out page: https://www.viglink.com/opt-out. If you’d like to learn more about Sovrn, please visit the Privacy Policy page of Sovrn: https://www.sovrn.com/privacy-policy/#pills-2

Google Adsense is also in use on this site. To opt-out of Google’s use of cookies or device identifiers visit Google ad settings. Alternatively opt-out of third-party vendor’s use of cookies by visiting the Network Advertising Initiative opt-out page or control the use of your device’s identifiers by using your device’s settings.
If you’d like to learn more about Google, please visit the Privacy Policy page of Google

Children’s Privacy

Our Service does not address anyone under the age of 13. We do not knowingly collect personally identifiable information from anyone under the age of 13. If You are a parent or guardian and You are aware that Your child has provided Us with Personal Data, please contact Us. If We become aware that We have collected Personal Data from anyone under the age of 13 without verification of parental consent, We take steps to remove that information from Our servers.

If We need to rely on consent as a legal basis for processing Your information and Your country requires consent from a parent, We may require Your parent’s consent before We collect and use that information.

Communications

We may use your Personal Information to contact you with newsletters, promotional or marketing material and other information that we think may be suitable for you.

Links to Other Sites

This site may link to other websites outside of our ownership and control. Therefore, we cannot be responsible for the privacy and protection of any information you provide when using such sites. Such sites are not governed by this privacy statement. You are advised to read the Privacy Policy of each website that you visit and to exercise caution.

Security

The security of your Personal Information is important to us. However, it is important to remember that no method of electronic storage or transmission over the internet is one hundred per cent secure. While we strive to use commercially acceptable means to protect your Personal Information, we cannot guarantee its absolute security.

Changes to This Privacy Policy

This Privacy Policy is effective as of 9th March 2019 and will remain in effect except with respect to any changes in its provision in the future, which will be in effect immediately after being posted on this page.

This site reserves the right to change or update our Privacy Policy at any time and you should check this Privacy Policy periodically. After any modifications have been posted to the privacy on this page, your continued use of this site thereafter will constitute your acknowledgement of the modifications and your consent to abide and be bound by the modified Privacy Policy.

We will either notify you by placing a prominent notice on our website or through the email address you have provided to us if we make any material changes to our Privacy Policy.