Privacy Policy

1. Information We Collect

Information You Provide

• Contact form: if you write to us through the contact form, we receive your name, email address and the message you type. We use this only to reply to you.
• Ratings and comments: if you rate a recipe or leave a comment, we receive the name you enter and the text you submit. Comments may be displayed publicly on the recipe page, so please do not include anything you would not want others to read, such as your email address or phone number.

Information Collected Automatically

• Server logs: like most websites, our web server records standard log data, including your IP address, browser type and the pages requested. We use these logs for security and troubleshooting.
• Visit statistics: we run first-party visit statistics on our own server. They record the page viewed and the referrer (the page or site that sent you to us). Raw visit records are kept for 7 days and are then reduced to daily totals.

2. How We Use Your Information

We use the information described above to:

• Reply to messages sent through the contact form
• Display ratings and comments on recipe pages
• Keep the site secure, and find and fix technical problems
• Understand which pages are read, so we can improve the recipes and the site
• Show advertising that helps cover the costs of running the site
• Meet our legal obligations

Where the GDPR applies, our legal bases are your consent (for example, for personalized advertising), our legitimate interests (security, troubleshooting, basic statistics and replying to you), and, where relevant, compliance with legal obligations.

3. Cookies

Cookies are small text files stored on your device. On Ki Recipe they come from the following sources:

• Google AdSense: advertising cookies, described in the next section.
• Cloudflare: may set technical cookies that support content delivery and security.

You can block or delete cookies in your browser settings. The site will generally still work, though some features may behave differently, and you will still see ads, which may be less relevant to you.

4. Advertising and Consent

Ki Recipe shows ads served by Google AdSense. Google and its partners use cookies to deliver ads and measure how they perform.

Visitors in the European Economic Area, the United Kingdom and Switzerland see a Google consent message. Personalized ads are shown only if you give consent, and you can change or withdraw your choice at any time through that consent message. If you do not consent, you may still see ads, but they will not be personalized.

You can manage or turn off ad personalization in Google Ad Settings. To learn how Google uses data from sites and apps that use its services, see How Google uses information from sites or apps that use our services.

5. Third-Party Services

Some of the data described above is handled by outside providers. Each has its own privacy policy, which applies to its own processing:

• Google AdSense: advertising, as described above.
• Cloudflare: content delivery and security. Requests to our site pass through Cloudflare's network, so it processes technical data such as your IP address.
• Pinterest: we link to our Pinterest profile. If you follow that link, Pinterest's own privacy policy governs what happens on its platform.

6. Sharing and Disclosure

We do not sell your personal information. We share data only in these situations:

• Service providers listed in this policy, to the extent needed to deliver ads, deliver the site and keep it secure.
• Legal requirements: when we are required by law, or need to protect our rights, our visitors or the site from abuse.

7. How Long We Keep Data

• Raw visit records from our first-party statistics are kept for 7 days. After that, only daily totals remain, which do not identify individual visitors.
• Contact form messages are kept for as long as needed to answer you and handle any follow-up, and then deleted.
• Ratings and comments remain on the recipe page until you ask us to remove them or we remove them for moderation reasons.
• Server logs are kept for a limited period for security and troubleshooting purposes.
• Data held by Google and Cloudflare is kept according to their own policies.

8. Your Privacy Rights

Visitors in the EEA, UK and Switzerland (GDPR)

You have the right to:

• Access the personal data we hold about you
• Rectify data that is inaccurate
• Erase your data, where the law allows
• Restrict how we use your data
• Receive your data in a portable format
• Object to processing based on our legitimate interests
• Withdraw consent at any time, without affecting processing that took place before withdrawal

You also have the right to lodge a complaint with your local data protection authority.

California Residents (CCPA/CPRA)

If you are a California resident, you have the right to:

• Know what personal information we collect, use and disclose
• Request access to the personal information we hold about you
• Request deletion of your personal information, with certain legal exceptions
• Request correction of inaccurate personal information
• Opt out of the sale or sharing of your personal information for cross-context behavioral advertising
• Not be treated unfairly for exercising any of these rights

We do not sell personal information. Advertising cookies from our ad partner may count as "sharing" for advertising purposes under California law. You can limit personalized advertising through Google Ad Settings and your browser's cookie controls.

How to Make a Request

To exercise any of these rights, send us a request through the Contact Us page. We may need to confirm that the request comes from you before acting on it. Since our visit statistics are reduced to anonymous daily totals after 7 days, we may not be able to locate data that no longer identifies an individual.

9. Data Security

We take reasonable technical and organizational steps to protect the information we hold, and our traffic passes through Cloudflare's security services. No method of transmission or storage is completely secure, so we cannot guarantee absolute security.

10. Children's Privacy

Ki Recipe is not directed at children under 13, and we do not knowingly collect personal information from them. If you believe a child has sent us personal information through the contact form or a comment, please contact us and we will delete it.

11. Links to Other Sites

Recipe pages and our social profile links may lead to other websites. We are not responsible for the content or privacy practices of those sites, so please read their policies when you leave Ki Recipe.

12. Changes to This Policy

We may update this Privacy Policy when our practices or the services we use change. The "Last updated" date at the top shows when the current version took effect. Please check this page from time to time. For related information, see our Terms of Use and the About Us page.

13. Contact Us

If you have questions about this Privacy Policy or want to exercise your privacy rights, please use our Contact Us page.