Privacy & Cookies
This privacy policy sets out how fooodlove uses and protects any information that you give fooodlove when you use this website.
fooodlove is committed to ensuring that your privacy is protected. Should we ask you to provide certain information by which you can be identified when using this website, then you can be assured that it will only be used in accordance with this privacy statement.
fooodlove may change this policy from time to time by updating this page. You should check this page from time to time to ensure that you are happy with any changes. This policy is effective from 1/1/2021.
What we collect
As a Visitor, you can browse our Website to find out more about our Website. You are not required to provide us with any personal information as a Visitor.
Information You Provide to Us
We collect your personal information when you register with us, when you express an interest in obtaining information about us or our products and services (i.e. subscribe to our mailing list), when you participate in activities on our website or otherwise contacting us.
Generally, you control the amount and type of information you provide to us when using our website. The personal information that we collect depends on the context of your interaction with us and the website, the choices you make and the products and features you use. The personal information we collect can include the following:
- Name
- Email Address
- Contact Data
Automatically Collected Information
When you use our Website, we automatically collect certain computer information by the interaction of your mobile phone or web browser with our Website. Such information is typically considered non-personal information.
Cookies
What are cookies?
Websites you visit use cookies to improve your user experience. These cookies last either for the duration of your visit or for repeat visits and allow functions on a site to work in a more flexible, user-friendly way. Cookies make the interaction between you and the website faster and easier.
Websites may also use cookies to target their content specifically for you by using your location, for example. Cookies may be set by the website you are visiting or they may be set by other websites who run content on the page you are viewing.
What is in a cookie?
A cookie is a text file stored in your browser and only the server that the web site is hosted on will be able to see the contents of that cookie. Cookie files contain some anonymous information, the site name and some text.
What to do if you don’t want cookies to be set
Although cookies are generally quite harmless, you may not want your web browser to store them. If you prefer, it is possible to block or delete them entirely. To do this, you will need to use your browser’s preferences, and more information can be found in your browser’s help files.
Which cookies do we use?
We use the following cookies on our web site:
fooodlove cookies are used to store data between subsequent requests of pages on the same website. This cookie is a session token, a piece of data that is used to determine if someone is still on a website. A session ID is typically given to a visitor on his first visit to a site.
We use this cookie to define sessions on the site to help us keep track of how many visitors we get, whether or not they return and how long they stay on the site – this supports us in our blogging efforts and in creating better content for you.
Google Analytics cookies are set by the tracking code ga.js and are used to provide us with data to analyse the effectiveness of our site. We use Google Analytics to analyse what our visitors like and what they don’t like. We then use this to manage our ongoing content strategy.
Links to other websites
Our website may contain links to other websites of interest. However, once you have used these links to leave our site, you should note that we do not have any control over that other website. Therefore, we cannot be responsible for the protection and privacy of any information which you provide whilst visiting such sites and such sites are not governed by this privacy statement. You should exercise caution and look at the privacy statement applicable to the website in question.
Security
We are committed to ensuring that your information is secure. In order to prevent unauthorised access or disclosure, we have put in place suitable physical, electronic and managerial procedures to safeguard and secure the information we collect online.
General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR)
For the purpose of this Privacy Policy, we are a Data Controller of your personal information.
If you are from the European Economic Area (EEA), our legal basis for collecting and using your personal information, as described in this Privacy Policy, depends on the information we collect and the specific context in which we collect it.
If you are a resident of the European Economic Area (EEA), you have certain data protection rights. In certain circumstances, you have the following data protection rights:
- The right to access, update or to delete the personal information we have on you
- The right of rectification
- The right to object
- The right of restriction
- The right to data portability
- The right to withdraw consent
Please note that we may ask you to verify your identity before responding to such requests.
Analytics
Google Analytics is a web analytics service offered by Google that tracks and reports website traffic. Google uses the data collected to track and monitor the use of our Service. This data is shared with other Google services. Google may use the collected data to contextualize and personalize the ads of its own advertising network.
You can opt-out of having made your activity on the Service available to Google Analytics by installing the Google Analytics opt-out browser add-on. The add-on prevents the Google Analytics JavaScript (ga.js, analytics.js, and dc.js) from sharing information with Google Analytics about visits activity.
For more information on the privacy practices of Google, please visit the Google Privacy & Terms web page.
Accessibility
fooodlove is committed to ensuring digital accessibility for people with disabilities. We continue to make changes to improve the user experience for everyone and apply the relevant accessibility standards.
The Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG) defines requirements for designers and developers to improve accessibility for people with disabilities. It defines three levels of conformance: Level A, Level AA, and Level AAA.
Wherever possible, fooodlove will aim to adhere to level AA of the WCAG 2.0 guidelines, which states that sites should be:
- Perceivable - Information and user interface components must be presentable to users in ways they can perceive.
- Operable - User interface components and navigation must be operable.
- Understandable - Information and the operation of user interface must be understandable.
- Robust - Content must be robust enough that it can be interpreted reliably by a wide variety of user agents, including assistive technologies.
We welcome your feedback on the accessibility of the fooodlove website. If you have experienced any accessibility barriers while using any part of www.fooodlove.com, please let us know.
Contact us
If there are any questions regarding this privacy policy you may contact us.