Privacy Policy:
At My Cooking Journey, the privacy of our visitors is of extreme importance to us. This privacy policy document outlines the types of personal information received and collected by us and how it is used.
Our fully secured website address is https://mycookingjourney.com/
Emails & Comments:
At https://mycookingjourney.com/ we collect your email Ids to communicate with you and to keep you updated on new recipes and weekly digests. We use Flodesk as our email marketing platform and you can unsubscribe or opt-out anytime. We do not share your email ID with any other third parties. 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.
You can find Flodesk's Privacy Policy, Data Processing Policy, and GDPR policy here, here, and here.
Cookies and Web Beacons
https://mycookingjourney.com/ does use cookies to store information about visitor's preferences, record user-specific information on which pages the user accesses or visits, and customize Web page content based on visitor's browser type or other information that the visitor sends via their browser.
If you leave a comment on our site you may opt-in to save 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.
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.
Analytics
Like many other Websites, https://mycookingjourney.com/ makes use of log files and analytics. 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 the number of clicks to analyze trends, administer the site, track user’s movement around the site, and gather demographic information. IP addresses and other such information are not linked to any information that is personally identifiable.
At https://mycookingjourney.com/, we use both Google and Pinterest Analytics. To learn more about Google Analytics’s Data Practices, please visit the link here. and for Pinterest here.
Where do we send your data?
All your data (comments and email entered) is saved and protected securely on our hosting site – Inmotion Hosting. Also, visitor comments are checked through an automated spam detection service – Askimet.
How we protect your data
https://mycookingjourney.com/ uses an encryption program and we use the SSL – Secure Sockets Layer to transfer the information.
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. The emails are retained until the user opts out or unsubscribes. The Analytics records are retained for a 26-month time frame.
Mediavine Programmatic Advertising (Ver 1.1)
The Website works with Mediavine to manage third-party interest-based advertising appearing on the Website. Mediavine serves content and advertisements when you visit the Website, which may use first and third-party cookies. A cookie is a small text file which is sent to your computer or mobile device (referred to in this policy as a “device”) by the web server so that a website can remember some information about your browsing activity on the Website.
First party cookies are created by the website that you are visiting. A third-party cookie is frequently used in behavioral advertising and analytics and is created by a domain other than the website you are visiting. Third-party cookies, tags, pixels, beacons and other similar technologies (collectively, “Tags”) may be placed on the Website to monitor interaction with advertising content and to target and optimize advertising. Each internet browser has functionality so that you can block both first and third-party cookies and clear your browser’s cache. The "help" feature of the menu bar on most browsers will tell you how to stop accepting new cookies, how to receive notification of new cookies, how to disable existing cookies and how to clear your browser’s cache.
Without cookies you may not be able to take full advantage of the Website content and features. Please note that rejecting cookies does not mean that you will no longer see ads when you visit our Site. In the event you opt-out, you will still see non-personalized advertisements on the Website.
The Website collects the following data using a cookie when serving personalized ads:
- IP Address
- Operating System type
- Operating System version
- Device Type
- Language of the website
- Web browser type
- Email (in hashed form)
Mediavine Partners (companies listed below with whom Mediavine shares data) may also use this data to link to other end user information the partner has independently collected to deliver targeted advertisements. Mediavine Partners may also separately collect data about end users from other sources, such as advertising IDs or pixels, and link that data to data collected from Mediavine publishers in order to provide interest-based advertising across your online experience, including devices, browsers and apps. This data includes usage data, cookie information, device information, information about interactions between users and advertisements and websites, geolocation data, traffic data, and information about a visitor’s referral source to a particular website. Mediavine Partners may also create unique IDs to create audience segments, which are used to provide targeted advertising.
If you would like more information about this practice and to know your choices to opt-in or opt-out of this data collection, please visit National Advertising Initiative opt out page. You may also visit Digital Advertising Alliance website and Network Advertising Initiative website to learn more information about interest-based advertising. You may download the AppChoices app at Digital Advertising Alliance’s AppChoices app to opt out in connection with mobile apps, or use the platform controls on your mobile device to opt out.
For specific information about Mediavine Partners, the data each collects and their data collection and privacy policies, please visit Mediavine Partners.
What data breach procedures do we have in place
https://mycookingjourney.com/ uses Askimet to prevent spam comments and we do receive notifications regarding spam comments.
Affiliates | Sponsored Posts:
I may earn a small commission from my recommendation, testimonial and/or link to any products or services from this website. I test each product thoroughly and the opinions expressed here are my own. Also, https://mycookingjourney.com/ is a participant in the Amazon Services LLC Associates Program, an affiliate advertising program designed to provide a means for sites to earn advertising fees by advertising and linking to Amazon.com.
Opting Out:
We do not share any of the personal information with any other third-party applications. We will not distribute, or reveal your email addresses or other personal information without your consent except when required by the law.
You can opt out of any of our services at any time.
Contact information
If you require any more information or have any questions about our privacy policy, please feel free to contact us by email at sandhya.ramakrishnan@mycookingjourney.com or
My Cooking Journey LLC.
P.O.Box 1416
Guthrie, OK 73044
USA
Industry regulatory disclosure requirements
https://mycookingjourney.com/ is based out of Oklahoma, USA, we strictly follow the FTC Rules and Regulations set by the American Government and also the online privacy policy set by the State of Oklahoma, and also the Federal law.
Copyright Policies
All recipes, original text, images, and other materials hosted on https://mycookingjourney.com/are copyrighted to My Cooking Journey, unless otherwise noted (e.g., news articles and licensed photos).
My Cooking Journey allows you to copy, distribute, display, or make derivative works provided that you
- Credit My Cooking Journey
- Do not use it for commercial purposes
- Release any derivative works under this same license.