Privacy Policy for dailyrecipesjournal.com

Last Updated: June 12, 2025

At DailyRecipesJournal.com (referred to as “we,” “us,” or “our”), we understand that your privacy is important. This Privacy Policy explains how we collect, use, disclose, and protect your information when you visit our website, www.dailyrecipesjournal.com (the “Site”). It also details your rights regarding your personal information and how you can exercise them. We are committed to complying with applicable data protection laws, including the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), the California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA), and other relevant regulations.

Please read this Privacy Policy carefully. By accessing or using our Site, you confirm that you have read, understood, and agree to be bound by its terms. If you do not agree with this Privacy Policy, please do not use our Site.

1. Information We Collect

We may collect information about you in various ways, depending on how you interact with our Site.

1.1 Personal Data

This includes information you voluntarily provide to us:

Contact Information: This could be your name and email address, which you provide when you sign up for our newsletter, submit a contact form, or leave a comment on a recipe.
Comments: When you leave comments on our Site, we collect the data shown in the comments form, your IP address, and your browser’s user agent string to help detect spam. An anonymized string created from your email address (also called a hash) may be provided to the Gravatar service to check if you are using it. You can review the Gravatar service privacy policy here: https://automattic.com/privacy/. Once your comment is approved, your profile picture (if associated with Gravatar) will be visible to the public in the context of your comment.

1.2 Derivative Data

This refers to information our servers automatically collect when you access the Site:

Log Files and Usage Data: Our servers automatically record information such as your IP address, browser type, operating system, referring URLs, pages viewed, links clicked, and the dates and times of your visits. This may also include information about your interaction with the Site, like the recipes you view or save.
Cookies and Tracking Technologies: We use cookies, web beacons, and similar tracking technologies to gather information about your interactions with our Site. This helps us enhance your experience, understand how our Site is being used, and deliver relevant content and advertising. We will obtain your consent to use cookies where required by law.

2. How We Use Your Information

We use the information we collect about you for several purposes:

To Provide and Improve the Site: To operate, maintain, and enhance the functionality and content of our Site, ensuring a smooth and enjoyable experience for you.
Personalization: To tailor your experience on the Site, for example, by recommending recipes you might enjoy based on your Browse history.
Communication: To respond to your inquiries, comments, and requests, and to provide customer support.
Marketing: To send you our newsletter and other promotional materials, if you have subscribed to them. You always have the option to opt out of receiving these communications at any time.
Analytics: To monitor and analyze usage patterns and trends, which helps us improve the Site’s performance and user experience.
Security: To detect, investigate, and prevent security breaches, fraud, and other illegal activities, keeping our Site safe for everyone.
Legal Compliance: To comply with applicable laws, regulations, legal processes, and governmental requests.

3. Legal Basis for Processing (for EEA Residents)

If you are located in the European Economic Area (EEA), we will only process your personal data when we have a valid legal basis to do so:

Consent: When you have given us your explicit consent to process your personal data for specific purposes (e.g., for marketing communications). You can withdraw your consent at any time.
Contractual Necessity: When processing is necessary for the performance of a contract with you (e.g., to provide you with access to the Site).
Legitimate Interests: When processing is necessary for our legitimate interests, such as improving the Site, preventing fraud, and conducting analytics, provided that these interests do not override your data protection rights.
Legal Obligation: When processing is necessary to comply with a legal obligation to which we are subject.

4. Disclosure of Your Information

We may share your information in the following situations:

Third-Party Service Providers: We may share your information with trusted third-party service providers who perform services on our behalf. These services include, but are not limited to, email marketing, website analytics (e.g., Google Analytics), payment processing, and hosting. These providers are contractually obligated to protect your information and only use it for the specific purposes for which we disclose it to them. They are authorized to use your personal data only as necessary to provide these services to us.
Legal Requirements: We may disclose your information if required by law or in response to valid legal requests by public authorities (e.g., a court order or a government agency).
Protection of Rights: We may disclose your information if we believe it’s necessary to investigate, prevent, or take action regarding potential violations of our policies, suspected fraud, situations involving potential threats to the safety of any person, or illegal activities.
Business Transfers: If we are involved in a merger, acquisition, asset sale, bankruptcy, or other business transaction, your information may be transferred as part of that transaction. We will notify you via email and/or a prominent notice on our Site of any change in ownership or uses of your personal data, as well as any choices you may have regarding your personal data.
With Your Consent: We may share your information with third parties when we have your explicit consent to do so.

5. International Data Transfers

If we transfer your personal data outside of the EEA, we ensure that appropriate safeguards are in place to protect your data, such as:

Standard Contractual Clauses: We may use Standard Contractual Clauses approved by the European Commission.
Adequacy Decisions: We may transfer data to countries that have been deemed to provide an adequate level of data protection by the European Commission.

6. Your Data Protection Rights

You have certain rights regarding your personal data.

6.1 Rights Under GDPR (for EEA Residents)

If you are a resident of the European Economic Area, you have the following rights:

Right to Access: You have the right to request a copy of the personal data we hold about you.
Right to Rectification: You have the right to request that we correct any inaccurate or incomplete personal data we hold about you.
Right to Erasure (“Right to be Forgotten”): You have the right to request that we delete your personal data, subject to certain exceptions.
Right to Restrict Processing: You have the right to request that we restrict the processing of your personal data under certain circumstances.
Right to Data Portability: You have the right to receive your personal data in a structured, commonly used, and machine-readable format and to transmit it to another controller.
Right to Object: You have the right to object to the processing of your personal data based on legitimate interests or for direct marketing purposes.
Right to Withdraw Consent: If we rely on your consent to process your personal data, you have the right to withdraw your consent at any time.

6.2 Rights Under CCPA (for California Residents)

If you are a California resident, you have the following rights:

Right to Know: You have the right to request that we disclose to you the categories and specific pieces of personal information we have collected about you, the categories of sources from which we collected it, the business or commercial purpose for collecting it, and the categories of third parties with whom we share it.
Right to Delete: You have the right to request that we delete any personal information we have collected from you, subject to certain exceptions.
Right to Opt-Out of Sale: Please note that we do not sell your personal information.
Right to Non-Discrimination: We will not discriminate against you for exercising any of your CCPA rights.

6.3 Exercising Your Rights

To exercise any of these rights, please contact us at admin@dailyrecipesjournal.com. We will respond to your request within the timeframes required by applicable law. We may need to verify your identity before processing your request.

7. Cookies and Tracking Technologies

We use cookies and similar tracking technologies to monitor activity on our Site and store certain information. Cookies are small data files that may include an anonymous unique identifier. They are sent to your browser from a website and stored on your device. We also use web beacons, tags, and scripts to collect and track information, and to improve and analyze our Site.

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 you don’t have to fill in your details again when you leave another comment. These cookies will last for one year.

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, some portions of our Site may not function properly.

Examples of Cookies we use:

Session Cookies: Used to operate our Site.
Preference Cookies: Used to remember your preferences and various settings.
Security Cookies: Used for security purposes.
Advertising Cookies: Used to serve you with advertisements that may be relevant to you and your interests.

8. Third-Party Websites

Our Site may contain links to third-party websites that are not operated by us. If you click on a third-party link, you will be directed to that third party’s site. We strongly advise you to review the Privacy Policy of every site you visit. We have no control over and assume no responsibility for the content, privacy policies, or practices of any third-party sites or services.

9. Data Security

We have implemented appropriate technical and organizational measures designed to secure your personal information from accidental loss and from unauthorized access, use, alteration, and disclosure. However, please remember that the transmission of information via the internet is not completely secure. While we do our best to protect your personal data, we cannot guarantee the absolute security of your data transmitted to our Site; any transmission is at your own risk.

10. Data Retention

We will retain your personal data only for as long as necessary for the purposes outlined in this Privacy Policy. We will retain and use your information to the extent required to comply with our legal obligations (for example, if we are required to retain your data to comply with applicable laws), resolve disputes, and enforce our legal agreements and policies. We will also retain Usage Data for internal analysis purposes. Usage Data is generally retained for a shorter period, unless this data is used to strengthen the security or improve the functionality of our Site, or if we are legally obligated to retain this data for longer periods.

11. Children’s Privacy

Our Site is not intended for children under the age of 16. We do not knowingly collect personal information from children under 16. If you are a parent or guardian and 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 under 16 without verification of parental consent, we will take steps to remove that information from our servers.

12. Do Not Track

We do not currently respond to “Do Not Track” signals from web browsers.

13. Changes to This Privacy Policy

We may update our 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 “Last Updated” date. In some cases, we may provide you with additional notice (such as adding a statement to our homepage or sending you an email notification).

You are encouraged to review this Privacy Policy periodically for any changes. Changes to this Privacy Policy are effective when they are posted on this page.

14. Contact Us

If you have any questions or concerns about this Privacy Policy or our data practices, please contact us at:

admin@dailyrecipesjournal.com

We’re here to help clarify any aspect of our privacy practices. Sources

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