Effective January 1, 2023.
Who we are
This Simple Kitchen is found at https://thissimplekitchen.com/ (“Website”) and is governed by the following privacy policy (“Privacy Policy”).
We respect your privacy and are committed to protecting it. The purpose of this Privacy Policy is to inform you what personally identifiable information we may collect and how it may be used. This statement only applies to this Website.
Your consent
By visiting and using our Website, you (the User) consent to the following policies and terms of use. If you do not accept these policies and terms, you should cease visiting this Website immediately.
Comments
When visitors leave comments on the site, we collect the data shown in the comments form, 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.
Newsletters
On the Website you may subscribe to our newsletter, which may be used for advertising purposes. All newsletters sent may contain tracking pixels. The pixel is embedded in emails and allows an analysis of the success of online marketing campaigns.
Because of these tracking pixels, we may see if and when you open an email and which links within the email you click. Also, this allows the Website to adapt the content of future newsletters to the interests of the user.
The results of individual users’ tracking pixels will not be shared with third parties by the Website, although anonymous analytics derived from tracking pixels may be shared with third parties for purposes of evaluating the efficacy of our email campaigns.
Cookies
A cookie is a small text file which is sent to your computer or mobile device by the web server so that a website can remember some information about your browsing activity on the Website.
If you leave a comment on the Website 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.
The Website works with SHE Media to manage third-party interest-based advertising. SHE Media serves content and advertisements when you visit the Website, which uses cookies.
SHE Media Programmatic Advertising
This Site is affiliated with SHE Media for the purposes of placing advertising on the Site. SHE Media will collect and use certain data for advertising purposes. To learn more about SHE media’s data usage, click here: https://www.shemedia.com/ad-services-privacy-policy
By using this Site, you consent to the use of such cookies and the sharing of data captured by such cookies with SHE Media and other third party partners. You can view, delete or add interest categories associated with your browser by visiting: https://adssettings.google.com. You can also opt out of the network cookie using those settings or using the Network Advertising Initiative’s multi-cookie opt-out mechanism at: http://optout.networkadvertising.org. However, these opt-out mechanisms themselves use cookies, and if you clear the cookies from your browser your opt-out will not be maintained.
Affiliate Program Participation
The Website may engage in affiliate marketing, which is done by embedding tracking links into the Website. If you click on a link for an affiliate partnership, a cookie will be placed on your browser to track any sales for purposes of commissions.
Analytics
This Website uses Google Analytics – a service that tracks usage and provides information such as referring websites and user actions on the Website.
Refer to Google Analytics’ privacy policy (found here) for more 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.
Rights to your information
If you have have left comments on the Website, 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.
Email opt-out: you may opt-out of future email communications by following the unsubscribe link in all our emails. You may also email us at [email protected] to be removed from the mailing list at any time.
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.
Changes to the Privacy Policy
We may update our Privacy Policy from time to time. The effective date is listed at the top of this Privacy Policy.
You are advised to review this Privacy Policy periodically for any changes, which are effective when they are posted on this page.
Copyright & Attribution
©This Simple Kitchen. All rights reserved. Unless otherwise noted, all photos and content on this Website are our own and therefore protected by copyright.
This Website does not allow republication of posts or recipe text without prior consent.
Contact Us
If you have any questions about this Privacy Policy, please contact us at [email protected].
Date last modified: September 8, 2023.