Privacy Policy

Privacy Policy For LESLIECOOKS.COM

The privacy of visitors to lesliecooks.com is important to us.

At lesliecook.com, we recognize that privacy of your personal information is important. Here is information on what types of personal information we receive and collect when you use and visit lesliecooks.com, and how we safeguard your information.

Sharing/transfer of personal data to third parties

Lesliecooks.com does not sell the personal data of its visitors/users (except for the case where lesliecooks.com would choose or be forced to sell its business or assets (see further)).

However, lesliecooks.com reserves the right to share the personal data with third parties solely for the purpose of providing its online services. Lesliecooks.com contractually ensures that the necessary measures for the security and confidentiality of personal data processed on its behalf by third parties are taken.

Following is an indicative list of third parties with/to which lesliecooks.com shares/transfers data. We briefly describe the purpose of this sharing/transfer and provide a link to their respective privacy policies:

• PayPal: payment processing (https://www.paypal.com/us/webapps/mpp/ua/privacy-full).
• CMI Marketing, Inc., d/b/a Raptive (“Raptive”): advertising (https://raptive.com/creator-advertising-privacy-statement)
• Hostinger Reach: for email marketing purposes (https://www.hostinger.com/legal/privacy-policy).
• Constantcontact: for email marketing purposes (https://www.constantcontact.com/legal/privacy-center)

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.

Log Files

As with most other websites, we collect and use the data contained in log files. The information in the log files include your IP (internet protocol) address, your ISP (internet service provider, such as AOL or Shaw Cable), the browser you used to visit our site (such as Internet Explorer or Firefox), the time you visited our site and which pages you visited throughout our site.

Cookies and Web Beacons

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.

We use third party advertisements on lesliecooks.com to support our site. Some of these advertisers may use technology such as cookies and web beacons when they advertise on our site, which will also send these advertisers (such as Google through the Google AdSense program) information including your IP address, your ISP , the browser you used to visit our site, and in some cases, whether you have Flash installed. This is generally used for geotargeting purposes (showing New York real estate ads to someone in New York, for example) or showing certain ads based on specific sites visited (such as showing cooking ads to someone who frequents cooking sites).

You can chose to disable or selectively turn off our cookies or third-party cookies in your browser settings, or by managing preferences in programs such as Norton Internet Security. However, this can affect how you are able to interact with our site as well as other websites. This could include the inability to login to services or programs, such as logging into forums or accounts.

Google’s privacy policy is available at: https://www.google.com/policies/privacy/

Most browsers allow you to refuse to accept cookies and to delete cookies. The methods for doing so vary from browser to browser, and from version to version. You can however obtain up-to-date information about blocking and deleting cookies via these links:

(a) https://support.google.com/chrome/answer/95647?hl=en (Chrome);
(b) https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/enable-and-disable-cookies-website-preferences (Firefox);
(c) http://www.opera.com/help/tutorials/security/cookies/ (Opera);
(d) https://support.microsoft.com/en-gb/help/17442/windows-internet-explorer-delete-manage-cookies (Internet Explorer);
(e) https://support.apple.com/kb/PH21411 (Safari); and
(f) https://privacy.microsoft.com/en-us/windows-10-microsoft-edge-and-privacy (Edge).

Please note that blocking cookies may have a negative impact on the functions of many websites, including our Site. Some features of the Site may cease to be available to you.

Transactional data

We may process information relating to transactions, including purchases of goods and services, that you enter into with us and/or through our Site] (“Transactional Data“). The Transactional Data may include your contact details, your card details and the transaction details. The transaction data may be processed for the purpose of supplying the purchased goods and services and keeping proper records of those transactions.

Purpose of processing operation: to supply you with the goods and services, to keep records of transacitons.

Legal basis: processing is necessary for the execution of the contract you conclude with Jo Cooks (Art. 6, §1, b) of the GDPR).

Conservation period: the duration of the contractual relation.

Payment processing on our Site is handled by our payment services providers, Paypal. We will share transaction data with our payment services providers only to the extent necessary for the purposes of processing your payments, refunding such payments and dealing with complaints and queries relating to such payments and refunds. You can find information about the payment services providers’ privacy policies and practices at https://www.paypal.com/us/webapps/mpp/ua/privacy-full.

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.

How long we retain your data

Under the heading ‘conservation period’ (see below), we indicate in each case the period for which we will conserve your personal data for the purposes of the processing concerned. After this period, we will no longer process your personal data, unless this is necessary to comply with a legal obligation or where this is necessary for the validation, exercise or defence of a legal claim or if you give us your consent for a longer conservation.

Conservation period: the duration of the contractual relation or until the withdrawal of your consent or the end of the contractual relation such as unsubscribing from newsletter or other services provided by Site.

• Once you have created an account on the Site, we could collect other data that you provide voluntarily (such as your birthday, postal code, etc. but also e.g. comments that you post, see below). We may also collect information about you through other methods, including research surveys, social media platforms, verification services, data services, as well as public sources. We may combine this data with your registration data in order to maintain a more thorough profile.

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.

Advertising Privacy Statement

This Site is affiliated with CMI Marketing, Inc., d/b/a Raptive (“Raptive”) for the purposes of placing advertising on the Site, and Raptive will collect and use certain data for advertising purposes. To learn more about Raptive’s data usage, click here https://raptive.com/creator-advertising-privacy-statement/

Google Analytics
We use Google Analytics to analyze the use of our website. Google Analytics gathers information about website use by means of cookies. The information gathered relating to our website is used to create reports about the use of our website. Google’s privacy policy is available at: https://policies.google.com/privacy

For European Economic Area Residents

If you reside in a country in the European Economic Area (EEA), then under the GDPR and applicable data protection laws you have the rights, among other things, to access your personal data, have us erase it, and/or restrict its further processing.  If you wish to access or delete your personal data (if any) maintained by us or AdThrive related to advertising on the Site, you can contact us at john@preppykitchen.com. If you wish to see a list of the advertising partners we work with or change which of those partners track your behavior using cookies, click the ad preferences link at the bottom of the site. (Available in the EU.)