Privacy Policy

Effective date: April 12, 2020

Cook After me (“I”, “us”, “we”, or “our”) operates the cookafterme.com website (the “Service”, “website”, “site”).

This page informs you of our policies regarding the collection, use, and disclosure of personal data when you use our Website and the choices you have associated with that data.

We use your data to provide and improve our website (cookafterme.com), our marketing, functionality, and performance. By navigating within our pages, you agree to the collection and use of information under this privacy policy. Unless otherwise defined in this Privacy Policy, terms used in this Privacy Policy have the same meanings as in our Terms and Conditions, accessible from cookafterme.com.

Who am I

Hello, I’m Susan from CookAfterMe, a person who likes to prepare great meals, likes to write, creating new recipes or revamping existing ones.  My website address is https://cookafterme.com and this page for the privacy policies is for cookafterme.com only.

Information Collection And Use of Data

We collect several & different types of information for various purposes to provide and improve our Service to you.

CookAfterMe.com uses the collected data for various purposes:

• To provide and maintain the Service.
• To notify you about changes to our Service.
• To allow you to participate in interactive features of our Service when you choose to do so.
• To provide customer care and support.
• To provide analysis or valuable information so that we can improve the Service.
• To monitor the usage of the Service.
• To detect, prevent and address technical issues.

While visiting our online store:

• Recipes, posts, or products you’ve seen: We’ll use this to show you, for example, the recently viewed recipes
• Location, IP address, and browser type: we will use them for various purposes, such as estimating taxes (fees) and for delivery, if any
• Delivery address/Location: we will ask you to enter it, so we can estimate, for example, where the delivery should be made before you place an order and we will send it to you!
• We will also use cookies to track your cart contents while browsing our site. More about Cookie Policy here!

When you purchase from us, we will ask you to provide information, including name, billing address, delivery address, email address, telephone number, credit card/payment details, and optional account information such as your name, username, and password. We will use this information for many purposes, such as:

• We send you information about your account and your order
• We respond to your requests, including refunds and complaints
• We process payments and prevent fraud
• We initialize your account for our store/website
• We comply with all legal obligations we have, such as calculating taxes (fees)
• We are improving our store offers
• We send you marketing messages if you choose to receive them
• If you create an account, we will store your name, address, email and phone number, which will be used when completing future orders.

Generally, we store information about you for as long as we need them for the purposes for which we collect and use them, but we will not keep them anymore (if unneeded) unless we are legally obligated. For example, we will store order information for 10 years or more for tax and accounting purposes. They include name, email address and billing and delivery addresses.

We will also store comments or reviews if you choose to leave them.

Personal Data

While using our Service, we may ask you to provide us with certain personally identifiable information that can be used to contact or identify you (“Personal Data”). Personally, identifiable information may include, but is not limited to:

• Email address
• First name and last name
• Cookies and Usage Data
• Location and address

When using our services, you entrust us with your information. We understand that it is a great responsibility and we strive to protect them and to give you decision-making power over them.

The purpose of this Privacy Policy is to explain to you what information we collect, why we collect it and how you can update, manage, export and delete it.

You can use our services in various ways to manage your privacy. For example, you can create an Account if you want to create and manage content (if you are a provider/participant), such as emails and photos, or the name displayed on the website, email, phone number. In addition, within our website, you can adjust your privacy settings to control the information we collect and how they are used. The information we collect is used differently, depending on how you use our services and how you manage your privacy options. This data can be collected by creating an account, forms, comments, cookies, analytics, and third party embeds. If you have any questions about this Privacy Policy, please contact us.

Usage Data

We may also collect information about how the Service is accessed and used (“Usage Data”). This Usage Data may include information such as your computer’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. We use this data to give our users the best services and functionalities.

How long we keep your data

If you leave a comment, its comment and metadata are kept indefinitely. So we can automatically recognize and approve all the following comments instead of keeping them in a queue for moderation.

For users (if any) who register on our website, we also store the personal information they provide in their user profile. All users can view, edit or delete their personal information at any time (but cannot change their username). Also, website administrators can view and edit this information.

What rights do you have over your data?

If you have an account or have left comments on this website, you may request that you receive an export file containing the personal data we hold about you, including all the data you have provided to us. You can also ask us to delete all personal information we hold about you. These do not include all the data we are obliged to keep for administrative, legal or security purposes.

Where we send your data

Visitor comments can be verified through an automatic spam detection service. Cookafterme.com ensures that your data is stored properly on our web hosting, with increased protection against data extraction attacks and security provided by the hosting provider.

What procedures are in place for breaching data security?

Thanks to our web host, if we receive attacks regarding the theft of your data, cookafterme.com will automatically close until the problem is solved. The attacker will no longer be able to access the IP address of our website, but this will also apply to users (you will not be able to access cookafterme.com until the problems have been solved.

Transfer Of Data

Your information, including Personal Data, may be transferred to — and maintained on — computers located outside of your state, province, country or other governmental jurisdiction where the data protection laws may differ than those from your jurisdiction.

Your consent to this Privacy Policy followed by your submission of such information represents your agreement to that transfer.

Cook After me will take all steps reasonably necessary to ensure that your data is treated securely and in accordance with this Privacy Policy and no transfer of your Personal Data will take place to an organization or a country unless there are adequate controls in place including the security of your data and other personal information.

Disclosure Of Data & Legal Requirements

CookAfterMe.com may disclose your Personal Data in the good faith belief that such action is necessary to:

• To comply with a legal obligation.
• To protect and defend the rights or property of Cook After Me.
• To prevent or investigate possible wrongdoing in connection with the Service.
• To protect the personal safety of users of the Service or the public.
• To protect against legal liability.

Security Of Data

The security of your data is important to us, but remember that no method of transmission over the Internet, or method of electronic storage is 100% secure. While we strive to use commercially acceptable means to protect your Personal Data, we cannot guarantee its absolute security, but we try our best to secure your data as good as possible. We use secured servers, SSL, dedicated protocols to keep your data safe.

Service Providers

We may employ or make use of third party companies and individuals to facilitate our Service (“Service Providers”), to provide the Service on our behalf, to perform Service-related services or to assist us in analyzing how our Service is used.

These third parties have access to your Personal Data only to perform these tasks on our behalf and are obligated not to disclose or use it for any other purpose.

Cookies

We use cookies and similar tracking technologies to track the activity on our Website and hold certain information.

Cookies are files with a small amount of data which may include an anonymous unique identifier. Cookies are sent to your browser from our website and stored on your device. Tracking technologies also used are beacons, tags, and scripts to collect and track information and to improve and analyze our Service to you and our website. Cookies are also used, for example, to increase the speed of the pages you have accessed in the past.

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 Service within our website because most of them are used for better performance, design or functionality. Anyhow, you have the possibility to restrict the access from your browser.

Examples of Cookies we use:

• Session Cookies. We use Session Cookies to operate our Service.
• Preference Cookies. We use Preference Cookies to remember your preferences and various settings such as autofill the forms.
• Security Cookies. We use Security Cookies for security purposes.

When you are not signed in to an Account, we store the information we collect using unique identifiers associated with the browser, application or device you use. Thus, we can do things like placing cookies to increase the speed of the website cookafterme.com, using the affiliate links with cookies that expire after a limited period (for example, on the Amazon platform the average expiration time is 20-30 days) or cookie for Google Adsense advertising. All of this is necessary for us to provide CookAfterMe services free of charge to all our users.

When you are signed in, we also collect the information we store in your Account and treat it as personal information. You can find more information about cookies in the Cookies Policy.

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 or more, depending on the website’s section.

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 or more (depending on the setup of your browser), and screen options cookies last for a year (or more if you choose so and do not restrict this possibility). If you select “Remember Me”, your login will persist for two weeks (in general) or more, depending on what browser you use. If you log out of your account, the login credentials will remain, but you will not be logged in because most of the login cookies will be erased.

If you edit or publish a post/recipe, an additional cookie will be saved in your browser. This cookie includes no personal data and simply indicates the post/recipe ID of the article you just edited. It expires in general after 1 day.

Analytics Service

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

We use Google Analytics, so by accessing our website, Google will indirectly retain certain information in order to be viewed by us and to be used to improve our services and website. This information may be the location from which you access cookafterme.com, the page you are on (both real-time and stored), what type of browser you use, how long you stay on our website, your preferred language and other demographic data. More about Google Analytics and its Privacy Policy here.

Google Analytics is a web analytics service offered by Google that tracks and reports website traffic. Google uses the data collected to track and monitor the use of our Service, using cookies also. This data is shared with other Google services. Google may use the collected data to contextualize and personalize the ads (for example) of its own advertising network. Please know: if you accessed cookafterme.com, we can see what pages you accessed, links, location, scroll depth, clicks, the device used, time spent. Once you exit our site, this tracking will STOP.

You can opt-out of having made your activity on the Service 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 web page: https://policies.google.com/privacy?hl=en

You can also opt-out by modifying the privacy settings from our website.

Embedded content from other websites

Articles/posts/pages/recipes 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. We are not responsible for the data they are collecting. We use other sites’ videos, images, articles for a better understanding and information for our users.

Links To Other Sites

Our Service may contain links to other sites 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. We also try to keep a low-risk for you regarding these links, and most of the time we are linking to popular and trustworthy websites. But we are not perfect.

Maintaining and improving our services

We also use your information to make sure that our services are working properly, for example by tracking down issues or fixing any issues you report to us. We also use this information to improve our services, for example, what you are looking for or what category of items/recipes or suppliers you are interested in.

Development of new services

We use the information we collect from existing services or recipes to help us develop new services or recipes. For example, free support, where you voluntarily send us information about your personal data, information that we need for giving you the best support (this information will not be publicly displayed, but will be used to reply to all your questions), or signing up to a new account, where we facilitate the registration on cookafterme.com by filling some fields with personal information, which you want to display publicly or check the radio button to not be displayed (cookafterme.com is not responsible for the pictures, telephone number or email publicly displayed if you choose to be shown).

Communicating with you

By using the contact forms from our pages (contact, submit recipe, register), the data will be retained by default in order to get in touch with you. By checking the box at the end of any form, you agree that the data noted in it will be stored for later use.

We use the information we collect, such as your email address or phone number, to interact directly with you. For example, we can send you an email with the requested services/answers or, we can call or email you to request additional information necessary to recipe submission or any other kind of info.

Protecting CookAfterMe.com, our users and the public

We use information to help improve the security and reliability of our services. This includes detecting, preventing and combating fraud, abuse, security risks and technical issues that could harm our website, our users or the public.

Ads settings

Although cookafterme.com does not control what ads are displayed on its pages (if any or if we choose to add them), we do allow them to display (for example, we can use Google Adsense) to monetize the website and maintain our free services, we offer our users the ability to manage the preferences for the advertisements. You can change your interests, choose whether your personal information can be used to make ads more relevant, and enable or disable certain advertising services. To do so, please click the link below and change this info.

Open Google Ads Settings >

We can also refer to our partners with ingredients used, links, referral links, videos, or any other kind of publicity. For example, we can use a branded ingredient within our recipes’ ingredient list, with a link attached to that particular ingredient. Another type of ads we have is the affiliate marketing and the special links we get from them. If you choose to click on these links, Cookafterme.com is not responsible for your privacy once you left our site.

Export, delete and delete information

You can export a copy of the content from your Account if you want to back up or use it with a service outside cookafterme.com

You may also request the removal of content from our website, in accordance with applicable laws.

To delete the information, you can:

• Delete your content from certain pages within cookafterme.com;
• Search for and delete certain items, personal info, orders in your account;
• Delete your cookafterme.com Account completely;
• If you would like us to do this for you, you can send us an email at cookafterme [ at ] gmail.com.

There are other ways to control the information collected by us, whether or not you have logged in to your Account, including:

1. Browser settings: For example, you can configure your browser to let you know when cookafterme.com places a cookie. You can also configure your browser to block all cookies for a particular domain or for all domains. Please note, however, that our services rely on cookies to function properly, for example for browsing speed within our pages.
2. Device level settings: Your device may have commands that determine what information we collect. For example, you can change the location settings on your Android device.

When you share your information

Certain cookafterme.com services allow you to send information to others, and you have control over how you access them. For example, you can publicly share items/recipes/products or save your favorite recipe/item/product privately. Please note that when you publicly submit information, it may be accessible through search engines, including Google Search, Bing, Yahoo, Ask, or Yandex.

When Cookafterme.com allows access to your information?

We do not send your personal information to companies, organizations, suppliers or persons outside of our Website, except in the following situations:

With your consent

We will send personal information outside cookafterme.com when we have your consent. We will ask for your explicit consent for the distribution of any special categories of personal information.

For legal reasons

We will give personal information outside cookafterme.com if we believe in good faith that the access, use, storage or disclosure of such information is reasonably necessary for:

• Compliance with applicable law, regulations, legal procedure or enforceable government requests. We distribute information on the number and type of requests received from governments in the Information Transparency Report.
• Implementation of the Terms and Conditions in force, including investigating their possible violations.
• Detecting, preventing or otherwise combating fraud, security or technical issues.
• Protection against the violation of rights, property or security of our website, our users or the public, as stipulated or permitted by law.
• We may allow certain partners to collect information from your browser or device for advertising and research purposes, using their own cookies or similar technologies (for example through affiliate links used on the blog or recipes).

If cookafterme.com is involved in a merger, acquisition or sale, we will continue to ensure the confidentiality of personal information and notify affected users before personal information is transferred or is the subject of another privacy policy.

Our services incorporate security features to protect your information

The data we obtain from the administration of our services helps us to automatically identify and block security threats. And if we identify risks that we believe you need to know, we will inform you and provide you with instructions to increase protection.

We endeavor to protect you and cookafterme.com from unauthorized access, modification, disclosure or unauthorized destruction of the information we hold, including:

• We use encryption to keep your data private during transmission (SSL – HTTPS);
• We review our practices for collecting, storing and processing information, including physical security measures, to prevent unauthorized access to our systems;

COMPLIANCE AND COOPERATION WITH REGULATORY AUTHORITIES

We regularly review the privacy policy and process the information regarding this information under regulatory laws.

European & US requirements

If European Union (E.U.) or United States (U.S.) Law for protecting personal data applies to the processing of your information, we provide you with the options described in this privacy policy so that you exercise your right to request access, update, deletion and restriction of processing your information. You also have the right to object to the processing of your information or to export the information to another service.

We process this information for the purposes described in this privacy policy, based on the following legal reasons:

Your consent

We ask for your agreement to process your information regarding your purposes and you can withdraw it at any time. For example, we ask your consent for advertising. We also ask for your consent to collect the email address required to sign up for the newsletter. You can manage these settings from your account.

When pursuing legitimate interests

We process your information for our legitimate interests and those of third parties, applying appropriate precautions that protect your privacy. Therefore, we process information for things like:

• Providing, maintaining and improving services, to meet the needs of our users;
• Development of new products and functions useful to our users;
• Understanding how users use our pages within the cookafterme.com website, to ensure and improve its performance;
• Customizing our services to provide a better user experience;
• Marketing or for informing users about our services;
• Post/recipes ads to make cookafterme.com’s services available to users free of charge;
• Detecting, preventing or otherwise combating fraud, abuse, security or technical problems in our services;
• Protecting against the violation of your rights, for property or safety, our users or the public, as stipulated or permitted by law;
• Carrying out researches that improve our services for users and which are for the benefit of the public;
• Fulfillment of obligations towards our partners, such as developers and rights holders;
• Exercise of legal rights, including investigating potential violations of the Terms and Conditions in force.

When we provide a service

We process your data to provide a service you have requested under a contract, form, or telephone. For example, we process your information when you want to advertise with us and we need your email to send the bills, discounts, etc.

When we comply with the legal obligations

We will process your data when we have a legal obligation to do so, for example, when we respond to a legal procedure or enforceable government request. If you have any questions, you can contact us, you can also contact your local data protection authority if you have questions about your rights under local law.

When this policy is applied

This Privacy Policy applies to all services offered by cookafterme.com and its partners, including providers present on this website, and to services offered from third party sites, such as advertising services. This Privacy Policy does not apply to services that have separate privacy policies that do not incorporate this Privacy Policy. This Privacy Policy does not apply to information practices of other companies and organizations that advertise our services!

Children’s Privacy

Our Service does not address anyone under the age of 18 (“Children”).

We do not knowingly collect personally identifiable information from anyone under the age of 18. If you are a parent or guardian and you are aware that your Children has provided us with Personal Data, please contact us. If we become aware that we have collected Personal Data from children without verification of parental consent, we take steps to remove that information from our servers as fast as we can.

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.

This Privacy Policy may be changed from time to time. Your rights under this Privacy Policy will not be diminished without your explicit consent. We always indicate the date when the last changes were published. If the changes are important, we will provide a notification with greater visibility.

We will let you know via email and/or a prominent notice on our Service, regarding the change, the “effective date” at the top of this Privacy Policy.

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. We recommend also to visit the following pages: Terms and Conditions, Your Data, Cookie Policy and Use, and Confidentiality and its Terms.

EU & US Data Protection Regulation

Cookafterme.com comply with EU and US law on data protection regulations and privacy policy. We take seriously the fact that your data is important and we strictly protect it. We also welcome the new European law and support its implementation along with the US law.