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Privacy Policy

Privacy Policy for dailyfoodjournal.net

Last Updated: [04/02/2025]

1. Introduction

dailyfoodjournal.net (“we,” “us,” or “our”) is committed to protecting the privacy of our users (“you” or “your”). This Privacy Policy explains how we collect, use, disclose, and safeguard your information when you visit our website [www.dailyfoodjournal.net] (the “Site”). It also describes your rights regarding your personal information and how you can exercise them. This policy is designed to comply with applicable data protection laws, including the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), the California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA), and other relevant regulations.   

Please read this Privacy Policy carefully. By accessing or using our Site, you acknowledge that you have read, understood, and agree to be bound by the terms of this Privacy Policy. If you do not agree with the terms of this Privacy Policy, please do not access the Site.   

2. Information We Collect

We may collect information about you in a variety of ways. The information we may collect on the Site includes:   

  • 2.1 Personal Data:
    • (a) Contact Information: such as your name and email address, which you voluntarily provide when you sign up for our newsletter, submit a contact form, or leave a comment on a recipe.
    • (b) 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.   
  • 2.2 Derivative Data:
    • (a) Log Files and Usage Data: Information our servers automatically collect when you access the Site, such as your IP address, browser type, operating system, referring URLs, pages viewed, links clicked, and the dates and times of your visits. This may include information about your interaction with the Site, such as the recipes you view or save.   
    • (b) Cookies and Tracking Technologies: We may use cookies, web beacons, and similar tracking technologies to collect information about your interactions with the Site. This helps us improve your experience, understand how our Site is being used, and deliver relevant content and advertising. We will obtain your consent to use cookies where required by law.   

3. How We Use Your Information

We may use the information we collect about you for various purposes, including to:

  • 3.1 Provide and Improve the Site: To operate, maintain, and enhance the functionality and content of the Site.
  • 3.2 Personalization: To tailor your experience on the Site, such as recommending recipes you may like based on your browsing history.
  • 3.3 Communication: To respond to your inquiries, comments, and requests, and to provide customer support.
  • 3.4 Marketing: To send you our newsletter and other promotional materials, if you have subscribed to them. You can opt-out of receiving marketing communications at any time.
  • 3.5 Analytics: To monitor and analyze usage and trends, to improve the Site’s performance and user experience.
  • 3.6 Security: To detect, investigate, and prevent security breaches, fraud, and other illegal activities.
  • 3.7 Legal Compliance: To comply with applicable laws, regulations, legal processes, and governmental requests.

4. Legal Basis for Processing (GDPR)

If you are located in the European Economic Area (EEA), we will only process your personal data based on a valid legal ground, including:

  • 4.1 Consent: Where you have given us your explicit consent to process your personal data for specific purposes (e.g., for marketing communications).
  • 4.2 Contractual Necessity: Where processing is necessary for the performance of a contract with you (e.g., to provide you with access to the Site).
  • 4.3 Legitimate Interests: Where processing is necessary for our legitimate interests, such as improving the Site, preventing fraud, and conducting analytics, provided that such interests are not overridden by your data protection rights.
  • 4.4 Legal Obligation: Where processing is necessary to comply with a legal obligation to which we are subject.

5. Disclosure of Your Information

We may share your information in the following situations:

  • 5.1 Third-Party Service Providers: We may share your information with third-party service providers who perform services on our behalf, such as email marketing, website analytics (e.g., Google Analytics), payment processing, and hosting services. These service providers are obligated to protect your information and only use it for the purposes for which we disclose it to them. They are authorized to use your personal data only as necessary to provide these services to us.   
  • 5.2 Legal Requirements: We may disclose your information if required to do so by law or in response to valid legal requests by public authorities (e.g., a court order or a government agency).   
  • 5.3 Protection of Rights: We may disclose your information if we believe it is necessary to investigate, prevent, or take action regarding potential violations of our policies, suspected fraud, situations involving potential threats to the safety of any person, or illegal activities.   
  • 5.4 Business Transfers: If we are involved in a merger, acquisition, asset sale, bankruptcy, or other business transaction, your information may be transferred as part of that transaction. We will notify you via email and/or a prominent notice on our Site of any change in ownership or uses of your personal data, as well as any choices you may have regarding your personal data.   
  • 5.5 With Your Consent: We may share your information with third parties with your consent.

6. International Data Transfers

If we transfer your personal data outside of the EEA, we will ensure that appropriate safeguards are in place to protect your data, such as:

  • 6.1 Standard Contractual Clauses: We may use Standard Contractual Clauses approved by the European Commission.
  • 6.2 Adequacy Decisions: We may transfer data to countries that have been deemed to provide an adequate level of data protection by the European Commission.   

7. Your Data Protection Rights

  • 7.1 Rights Under GDPR (for EEA Residents):

    • (a) Right to Access: You have the right to request a copy of the personal data we hold about you.
    • (b) Right to Rectification: You have the right to request that we correct any inaccurate or incomplete personal data we hold about you.  
    • (c) Right to Erasure (“Right to be Forgotten”): You have the right to request that we delete your personal data, subject to certain exceptions.  
    • (d) Right to Restrict Processing: You have the right to request that we restrict the processing of your personal data under certain circumstances.   
    • (e) Right to Data Portability: You have the right to receive your personal data in a structured, commonly used, and machine-readable format and to transmit it to another controller.   
    • (f) Right to Object: You have the right to object to the processing of your personal data based on legitimate interests or for direct marketing purposes.   
    • (g) Right to Withdraw Consent: If we rely on your consent to process your personal data, you have the right to withdraw your consent at any time.

  • 7.2 Rights Under CCPA (for California Residents):   

    • (a) Right to Know: You have the right to request that we disclose to you the categories and specific pieces of personal information we have collected about you, the categories of sources from which we collected it, the business or commercial purpose for collecting it, and the categories of third parties with whom we share it.   
    • (b) Right to Delete: You have the right to request that we delete any personal information we have collected from you, subject to certain exceptions.   
    • (c) Right to Opt-Out of Sale: We do not sell your personal information.  
    • (d) Right to Non-Discrimination: We will not discriminate against you for exercising any of your CCPA rights.

  • 7.3 Exercising Your Rights:

    • To exercise any of these rights, please contact us at [Your Email Address]. We will respond to your request within the timeframes required by applicable law. We may need to verify your identity before processing your request.

8. Cookies and Tracking Technologies

We use cookies and similar tracking technologies to track the activity on our Site and store certain information. Cookies are files with a small amount of data which may include an anonymous unique identifier. Cookies are sent to your browser from a website and stored on your device. We also use web beacons, tags, and scripts to collect and track information and to improve and analyze our Site.  

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.

You can instruct your browser to refuse all cookies or to indicate when a cookie is being sent. However, if you do not accept cookies, you may not be able to use some portions of our Site.   

Examples of Cookies we use:

  • Session Cookies: We use Session Cookies to operate our Site.
  • Preference Cookies: We use Preference Cookies to remember your preferences and various settings.
  • Security Cookies: We use Security Cookies for security purposes.  

    Advertising Cookies: Advertising Cookies are used to serve you with advertisements that may be relevant to you and your interests.

9. Third-Party Websites   

The Site may contain links to third-party websites 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.   

10. Data Security

We have implemented appropriate technical and organizational measures designed to secure your personal information from accidental loss and from unauthorized access, use, alteration, and disclosure. However, the transmission of information via the internet is not completely secure. Although we will do our best to protect your personal data, we cannot guarantee the security of your data transmitted to our Site; any transmission is at your own risk.   

11. Data Retention

We will retain your personal data only for as long as is necessary for the purposes set out in this Privacy Policy. We will retain and use your information to the extent necessary to comply with our legal obligations (for example, if we are required to retain your data to comply with applicable laws), resolve disputes, and enforce our legal agreements and policies. We will also retain Usage Data for internal analysis purposes. Usage Data is generally retained for a shorter period of time, except when this data is used to strengthen the security or to improve the functionality of our Site, or we are legally obligated to retain this data for longer time periods.   

12. Children’s Privacy   

Our Site is not intended for children under the age of 16. We do not knowingly collect personal information from children under 16. If you are a parent or guardian and believe that your child has provided us with personal information, please contact us. If we become aware that we have collected personal information from a child under 16 without verification of parental consent, we take steps to remove that information from our servers.   

13. Do Not Track

We do not currently respond to “Do Not Track” signals from web browsers.   

14. Changes to This Privacy Policy

We may update our Privacy Policy from time to time. We will notify you of any changes by posting the new Privacy Policy on this page and updating the “Last Updated” date. In some cases, we may provide you with additional notice (such as adding a statement to our homepage or sending you an email notification).   

You are advised to review this Privacy Policy periodically for any changes. Changes to this Privacy Policy are effective when they are posted on this page.   

15. Contact Us

If you have any questions or concerns about this Privacy Policy or our data practices, please contact us at:

admin@dailyfoodjournal.net           dailyfoodjournal.net