GDPR Compliance

Effective Date of GDPR Policy: September 24, 2024

Privacy is important to us at Recipes to Gather. You can read more about how we handle your information in our GDPR Policy. This page outlines our GDPR Policy, describing the data we gather and the reasons we collect it as well as safeguarding precautions we take to keep your data secure.

1. Information We Collect Under Our GDPR Policy

In order to offer you the best possible experience, we might collect two kinds of information:

The personal information you provide Us directly

This includes information that you actively give us, like:

  • Name details you provide directly.
  • Email address submitted during interactions.
  • Any other information shared when you contact us, subscribe to our newsletters, or leave comments on our blog.

Automatically Collected Non-Personal Information

This is technical data on which you interact with our website, including:

  • Your IP address
  • Browser type and version
  • Device type (such as mobile, desktop, or tablet)
  • Pages visited, time spent on pages, referral URLs

This data allows Recipes to Gather to gauge the performance of our website and improve user experience by customising content and making it more relevant.

2. Purpose of Data Collection in the GDPR Policy

We collect and process your personal and non-personal data for the following purposes:

  • To Answer You: We use your data to communicate with you, whether it’s a question, feedback, or a comment.
  • For Site Improvement: Non-individual data allows Recipes to Gather to analyze how people use our site and improve its design, features and content.
  • To Share Updates and News: If you give your consent, we use your email to send newsletters, updates about recipes, or promotional materials. You may opt-out of email communication at any time.

3. Legitimate Control Over Processing Personal Data

We rely on the following legal bases to process your data:

  • Consent: only in case of explicit consent provided by you, e.g., newsletter subscription.
  • Legitimate Interests: Where processing is required to manage our services and deliver a seamless user experience, so long it does not impede your rights.

4. Data Retention Guidelines in Our GDPR Policy

We will only retain your personal data for as long as is necessary to fulfil the purposes we collected it for, including for the purposes of satisfying any legal, accounting, or reporting requirements. Retention periods vary based on many factors:

  • Requirements under laws (such as tax or regulatory obligations)
  • Business Requirements (e.g. to serve their customers)

They are securely deleted or anonymized when they are no longer needed.

5. Your Rights Under GDPR

You, as a user, have strong rights — under GDPR – to take control of your personal data:

  • Access Rights: Ask for copies of your own data and how it is used.
  • Right to Rectification: Request that we correct inaccurate or incomplete information.
  • Right to Erasure: Request their removal if the data is not necessary anymore, among other reasons.
  • Right to Restrict Processing: Under certain circumstances, you have the right to restrict how we use your data.
  • Right to Data Portability: Request to have your data transferred to another organization or directly transferred from us to you in a structured, commonly used and machine-readable format

To wield these rights, please communicate us through the Contact Us page.

6. How We Protect Your Data Under the GDPR Policy

We take your data security very seriously. We use the following measures to protect your personal information against unlawful access, misuse or loss:

  • Encryption of sensitive data
  • Secure servers and firewalls
  • Conduct regular security audits and updates

We take reasonable measures to protect your data, but no system is 100% secure. We recommend that users take personal precautions including protecting their login credentials.

7. Third-Party Services

We may employ third-party companies and individuals due to the following: analytics, marketing or hosting services. These types of services can track non-personal data (such as website traffic), but they are not allowed to see or use your personal information without your permission.

Tools such as Google Analytics to gain a better understanding of user behavior and optimize our content are some examples.

8. Modification of This GDPR Compliance Page

As we move forward, so will our policies.” Any substantive changes to how we collect or process your data will be reflected on this GDPR page. We recommend checking this page from time to time. The “Effective Date” at the top of this page indicates when these latest updates were made.

9. Contact Us

Anything to ask, tell, or ask about your personal data? We’re here to help! Please contact us via the Contact Us page, and we will get back to you as soon as possible.

Thank you for trusting Recipes to Gather with your personal information. We want every user to have the most safe and fun experience possible.