Privacy Policy
Effective as of 01/06/2025
Welcome to kitchenslovers.com (the “Site”). This Site is owned and operated by Kate Thompson (“we,” “us,” or “our”). We are committed to protecting the privacy of our visitors and users. This Privacy Policy outlines how we collect, use, disclose, and safeguard your information when you visit our website kitchenslovers.com, including any other media form, media channel, mobile website, or mobile application related or connected thereto. Please read this privacy policy carefully. If you do not agree with the terms of this privacy policy, please do not access the site.
1. Information We Collect
We may collect information about you in a variety of ways. The information we may collect on the Site includes:
Personally Identifiable Information (PII):
Comments: When visitors leave comments on the site, we collect the data shown in the comments form (such as name, email address), 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.
Contact Forms: If you contact us through a contact form, we will collect your name, email address, and any message you send.
Newsletter Subscriptions: If you subscribe to our newsletter, we will collect your name (optional) and email address.
Non-Personally Identifiable Information / Usage Data:
Log Files and Analytics: Like many other Web sites, kitchenslovers.com makes use of log files. The information inside the log files includes internet protocol (IP) addresses, type of browser, Internet Service Provider (ISP), date/time stamp, referring/exit pages, and number of clicks to analyze trends, administer the site, track user’s movement around the site, and gather demographic information. We may use third-party analytics services (such as Google Analytics) to help us understand how users engage with our Site. These services may collect information sent by your browser as part of a web page request, including your IP address or cookies.
Cookies and Web Beacons: kitchenslovers.com uses cookies to store information about visitors’ preferences, to record user-specific information on which pages the site visitor accesses or visits, and to personalize or customize our web page content based upon visitors’ browser type or other information that the visitor sends via their browser. Our advertising partners, including Google AdSense and Ezoic, also use cookies as described below. You can instruct your browser to refuse all cookies or to indicate when a cookie is being sent. However, if you do not accept cookies, you may not be able to use some portions of our Site.
2. How We Use Your Information
Having accurate information about you permits us to provide you with a smooth, efficient, and customized experience. Specifically, we may use information collected about you via the Site to:
Operate and maintain the Site.
Respond to your comments or inquiries.
Send you newsletters or other promotional communications, if you have opted-in.
Improve our Site and services.
Display personalized advertising through third-party ad networks like Google AdSense and Ezoic.
Monitor and analyze usage and trends to improve your experience with the Site.
Detect, prevent, and address technical issues or potential spam.
Fulfill any other purpose for which you provide it.
3. Disclosure of Your Information
We do not sell, trade, or otherwise transfer to outside parties your Personally Identifiable Information unless we provide users with advance notice. This does not include website hosting partners and other parties who assist us in operating our website, conducting our business, serving our users, or providing advertising services (like Google AdSense and Ezoic), so long as those parties agree to keep this information confidential or process it in accordance with their privacy policies. We may also release information when its release is appropriate to comply with the law, enforce our site policies, or protect ours or others’ rights, property or safety.
However, non-personally identifiable visitor information may be provided to other parties for marketing, advertising, or other uses.
4. Third-Party Websites & Services
The Site may contain links to third-party websites and applications of interest, including advertisements and external services, that are not affiliated with us. Once you have used these links to leave the Site, any information you provide to these third parties is not covered by this Privacy Policy, and we cannot guarantee the safety and privacy of your information. Before visiting and providing any information to any third-party websites, you should inform yourself of the privacy policies and practices (if any) of the third party responsible for that website, and should take those steps necessary to, in your discretion, protect the privacy of your information. We are not responsible for the content or privacy and security practices and policies of any third parties, including other sites, services or applications that may be linked to or from the Site.
Advertising:
Google AdSense: We use Google AdSense to display ads on kitchenslovers.com. Google, as a third-party vendor, uses cookies to serve ads on our Site. Google’s use of the DART cookie enables it to serve ads to our users based on their visit to our Site and other sites on the Internet. Users may opt out of the use of the DART cookie by visiting the Google ad and content network privacy policy. You can find more information about Google’s practices here: https://policies.google.com/technologies/ads
Ezoic: This Site is affiliated with Ezoic Inc. (“Ezoic”) for the purposes of placing advertising on the Site, and Ezoic will collect and use certain data for advertising purposes. To learn more about Ezoic’s data usage, please see Ezoic’s Privacy Policy here: https://g.ezoic.net/privacy/kitchenslovers.com (Note: Replace kitchenslovers.com in that Ezoic link with your actual domain if it’s different, though Ezoic often generates a publisher-specific link).
Ezoic may use cookies, web beacons, and other technologies to collect information about your use of this site and other websites, including your IP address, web browser, pages viewed, time spent on pages, links clicked, and conversion information. This information may be used by Ezoic and other companies to, among other things, analyze and track data, determine the popularity of certain content, deliver advertising and content targeted to your interests on other websites, and better understand your online activity.
5. Cookies Policy
As mentioned above, we use cookies to enhance your experience. Our advertising partners, including Google AdSense and Ezoic, also utilize cookies to serve personalized ads. Cookies are small files that a site or its service provider transfers to your computer’s hard drive through your Web browser (if you allow) that enables the site’s or service provider’s systems to recognize your browser and capture and remember certain information.
You can choose to disable or selectively turn off our cookies or third-party cookies in your browser settings. For more information on how to manage cookies, please refer to your browser’s help documentation. For information on how Google uses information from sites or apps that use their services, visit https://policies.google.com/technologies/partner-sites. For Ezoic’s data usage, please refer to their privacy policy linked above.
6. Data Security
We use commercially reasonable methods to secure your personal information. However, no system is completely secure, and we cannot guarantee the absolute security of your information. Any transmission of personal information is at your own risk.
7. Data Retention
We will retain your information only for as long as is necessary for the purposes set out in this Privacy Policy. 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. Data collected by our advertising partners is retained according to their respective privacy policies.
8. Children’s Privacy
This Site is not intended for use by children under the age of 13 (or 16 in certain jurisdictions like the EEA). We do not knowingly collect personally identifiable information from children under this age. If you are a parent or guardian and you believe that your child has provided us with personal information, please contact us. If we become aware that we have collected personal information from a child without verification of parental consent, we will take steps to remove that information from our servers.
9. Your Data Rights (GDPR/CCPA and Other Jurisdictions)
If you are a resident of the European Economic Area (EEA), California (CCPA/CPRA), or other jurisdictions with applicable data protection laws, you have certain data protection rights. These may include the right to:
Access, update, or delete the information we have on you.
Rectification if that information is inaccurate or incomplete.
Object to our processing of your personal data.
Restrict the processing of your personal data.
Data portability.
Withdraw consent at any time where we relied on your consent to process your personal information.
Please note that we may ask you to verify your identity before responding to such requests. You have the right to complain to a Data Protection Authority about our collection and use of your Personal Data.
For more information or to exercise these rights, please contact us.
Ezoic Service Privacy: This Site uses Ezoic’s consent management platform. Users can update their consent preferences with Ezoic at any time via the link provided by Ezoic (often found in the site footer or through Ezoic’s privacy tools).
10. Changes to This Privacy Policy
We may update this Privacy Policy from time to time. We will notify you of any changes by posting the new Privacy Policy on this page and updating the “Effective Date” at the top. You are advised to review this Privacy Policy periodically for any changes. Changes to this Privacy Policy are effective when they are posted on this page.
11. Contact Us
If you have any questions or suggestions about our Privacy Policy, do not hesitate to contact us Here.
Kate Thompson
kitchenslovers.com
Email: [email protected]