Effective Date: April 11, 2025
At Tasty Tinkerer, we take privacy seriously and respect the privacy concerns of our community of users. This Privacy Policy describes how Tasty Tinkerer (“we,” “us,” or “our”) collects, uses, discloses, and otherwise processes personal information in connection with our website (www.tastytinkerer.com) and the related content, services, and other features and functionality offered on or through our website (collectively, the “Services”).
What Personal Information Do We Collect?
Information You Provide to Us
The personal information we collect from you may include:
- Contact Information, including your email address and communication preferences.
- Inquiry Information, including information provided in messages sent through forms or surveys, to our email addresses, or via phone.
- Newsletter Information, including your email address when you sign up for our recipe newsletters.
Information Automatically Collected
As is true of many digital properties, we and our third-party partners may automatically collect information about your device and use of the Service when you visit or interact with our Services. We, and our third-party partners, use cookies and other tracking technologies to collect and store information.
The type of information automatically collected includes:
- Device data, including internet protocol (IP) address, operating system, device type and version, browser type and version, the URL entered, the referring page, date/time of visit, and other user agent string data.
- Analytics/Usage data, including the path taken to our Services, pages visited, links clicked, recipes viewed, and metrics on how many emails we send are actually opened and which links are clicked.
- Location data, including general geographic location based on your IP address.
- Advertising data, including data associated with your view of, or your clicks on, advertisements served on our Services.
Note that we and our third-party partners may combine information that each of us collects automatically with other information about you, including information you choose to provide.
How Do We Use Personal Information?
We may use your information for various purposes, including:
- To provide our Services to you: This includes making our recipes and content available to you, responding to requests and questions, and providing user support.
- To personalize your experience on our Services: This includes providing you with content or recipes you might be interested in.
- For marketing purposes: We may send you communications about new recipes, cooking tips, and special offers. We may also use your information to serve you ads about our content or services we think you might find interesting.
- To communicate with you: For example, we may communicate with you about your account activities or to share new content.
- To monitor, improve, and develop our products and services: We may use your information to understand our users and to tailor or optimize our Services.
- To protect the security and integrity of our business, comply with legal requirements and obligations, or as otherwise permitted by law.
How Do We Share Personal Information?
The personal information we collect from you may be shared with third parties, including:
- Marketing and Advertising Partners: We may share information with marketing/advertising, analytics, and other business partners to provide you with information about products or services that may interest you and to help us improve our advertising effectiveness.
- Service Providers: Personal information may be shared with third-party vendors and other service providers who perform services for us or on our behalf, such as email providers, hosting services, and analytics providers.
- Law Enforcement, Regulators and Other Parties For Legal Reasons: Personal information may be disclosed to third parties, as required by law or subpoena, or if we reasonably believe that such action is necessary to comply with the law or protect our rights.
What Are Our Third-Party Data Collection and Online Advertising Practices?
General
We, and our third-party partners, use information that we receive about you to serve advertisements more relevant to your interests, to optimize marketing and advertising campaigns, as well as to generate analytics and provide marketing/advertising-related services. These third-party partners may include online advertising networks, measurement companies, social media companies, or other advertising technology services.
How We Collect This Information
The information used for these advertising practices is typically collected through tracking technologies, such as cookies, web beacons/pixels, scripts, and similar technologies, which recognize the device you are using and collect information, including clickstream information, browser type, time and date you visited the site, and other information.
Social Media Platforms and Advertising
Our Services may include social media features, such as the Facebook “Like” button or other widgets. These social media companies may recognize you and collect information about your visit to our Services, and they may set a cookie or employ other tracking technologies.
We may display targeted advertising to you through social media platforms and other websites.
What Controls Do I Have Over My Information?
You may control your information in the following ways:
Marketing E-mail Preferences
You can manage your marketing email preferences by using the unsubscribe link at the bottom of marketing messages.
Cookies and Other Tracking Technologies
To manage cookies, you have the ability to change your browser settings to:
- Notify you when you receive a cookie, so you can choose whether or not to accept it
- Disable existing cookies
- Automatically reject cookies
Online Ads
To learn more about interest-based advertising and how you may be able to opt-out of some of this advertising, you may wish to visit the Digital Advertising Alliance’s (DAA) resources at https://www.aboutads.info/choices or the Network Advertising Initiative’s (NAI) online resources at https://www.networkadvertising.org/choices/.
You can also opt-out of some interest-based advertising on mobile apps by visiting https://www.aboutads.info/appchoices.
How Do We Protect Personal Information?
We maintain reasonable administrative, technical, and physical safeguards designed to protect the personal information you provide against accidental, unlawful, or unauthorized destruction, loss, alteration, access, disclosure, or use. That said, no security system is impenetrable and we cannot guarantee the security of our systems at all times.
What About Links to Third-Party Websites or Services?
Our Services may provide links to other digital properties that are controlled by third parties. Linked digital properties may have their own privacy notices or policies, which we suggest you review. We are not responsible for the content, usage terms, or privacy policies of digital properties that we do not own or control.
What’s Our Policy With Respect to Children’s Personal Information?
Our Services are not designed for or directed to children under the age of 13, and we do not knowingly collect or solicit personal information from children under the age of 13. If we become aware that we have inadvertently collected personal information from a child under the age of 13, we will endeavor to delete any such information promptly.
How Will We Inform You About Changes to This Privacy Policy?
We may update this Privacy Policy periodically to reflect changes to our privacy practices. If we make any material changes to our privacy practices, we will indicate at the top of the Privacy Policy the date when it was most recently updated. We encourage you to periodically review this page for the latest information on our privacy practices.
How Can You Contact Us?
If you have questions about this Privacy Policy or about our privacy practices, you may contact us by emailing [email protected].
California Privacy Rights
For California residents, please note that we collect various categories of personal information as described in the “What Personal Information Do We Collect?” section and may disclose this information to third parties for business purposes. California residents may have the right to request access to their personal information, request deletion of their personal information, and request to opt out of the “sale” of their personal information.
To exercise these rights, please contact us at [email protected].