Who we are
Our website address is: https://kitchenpostcards.com.
Kitchenpostcards is a blog that focuses on creating and disseminating original content such as recipes, how-to guides and nonfiction creative writing in the realm of food, culture and lifestyle. Our aim is to provide visitors and readers with useful information that will help them enrich their lives by cooking nutritious and delicious food. The website does not sell any products or services.
If you are concerned about your privacy or have any questions, please write to us at info@kitchenpostcards.com and we will respond as soon as we can.
What personal information do we collect and how do we process it to ensure privacy?
Comments
When visitors leave comments on the site we collect the data shown in the comments form, 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.
Media
If you upload images to the website, for example as an attachment to a comment, you should avoid uploading images with embedded location data (EXIF GPS) included. Visitors to the website may be able to download and extract any location data from images on the website.
Subscription
If you submit a subscription form on our site you will be opting in for us to save your name and email address.. These subscriptions are used to notify you about newly published content. You can opt out or unsubscribe at any time in the future by clicking link in the bottom of any email.
Pop-up form
We use anonymous cookies to prevent users from seeing the same popup repetitively in an attempt to make our users’ experience more pleasant while still delivering time sensitive messaging.
How will we use your data?
Kitchenpostcards collects data so that we can:
- Send you a newsletter Process your order and manage your account.
- Email you in response to your queries.
- Or respond to your comments on the website.
Cookie Policy:
This site uses cookies – small text files that are placed on your machine to help the site provide a better user experience. In general, cookies are used to retain user preferences, store information for things like shopping carts, and provide anonymised tracking data to third party applications like Google Analytics. As a rule, cookies will make your browsing experience better. However, you may prefer to disable cookies on this site and on others. The most effective way to do this is to disable cookies in your browser. We suggest consulting the Help section of your browser.
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.
Online advertising:
- Third party vendors, including Google, use cookies to serve ads based on a user’s prior visits to your website or other websites.
- Google’s use of advertising cookies enables it and its partners to serve ads to your users based on their visit to your sites and/or other sites on the Internet.
- Users may opt out of personalized advertising by visiting Ads Settings. (Alternatively, you can opt out of a third-party vendor’s use of cookies for personalized advertising by visiting www.aboutads.info.)
Embedded content from other websites
Articles 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 data protections offered by any other website that might link to or be linked by content on Kitchenpostcards.com.
Analytics
This website uses tools to improve website performance. Tools currently in use are Google Analytics, Google Search Console and Jetpack. These tools provide de-identified information about user behaviour and interaction with the website – for example which search term or keyword directs users to Kitchenpostcards.com or how many pages do visitors scroll/read on average. In no ways are these tools collecting personal information. You can read about these services here:
How long we retain your data
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. If you have subscribed to email updates from the blog you information is held indefinitely until you unsubscribe. For all other purposes such as analytics, we periodically erase data.
What rights you have over your data
If you have an account on this site, or have left comments, you can request to receive an exported file of the personal data we hold about you, including any data you have provided to us. You can also request that we erase any personal data we hold about you. This does not include any data we are obliged to keep for administrative, legal, or security purposes.
Where we send your data
Visitor comments may be checked through an automated spam detection service to prevent any phishing attempts and breach of privacy for our users.
We DO NOT send data to any other third parties.
How we protect your data
We take privacy very seriously and aim to provide a secure browsing experience to our users. The website is protected by encryption. We use an anti-spam software to filter and prevent all phishing attacks. Our administrators are trained to be vigilant and responsive toward any messages from users signalling a breach.
Contact
If you have concerns please write to us at info@kitchenpostcards.com.