Foodie Toolbox Privacy Policy

Here at the Foodie Toolbox we take your privacy seriously and are committed to protecting your personal information.

This Privacy Policy explains how we collect, use and share personal information in the course of our activities in delivering great recipes, useful guides and helpful foodie tools.

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The personal data we collect and why

The only personal information we directly collect and use from you is your email address and you must voluntarily provide this to us by subscribing to our mailing list.

This email address is then used to send you our latest recipes, news and tools.

Should you no longer wish to receive emails from us then you can use the unsubscribe link included in every email. Once unsubscribed we will remove your email address from our records.

We will never share this information with anyone else.

We use the email platform Mail Chimp to deliver this service to you. Please refer to Mail Chimp’s privacy policy for further information on Mail Chimp.

Sometimes our articles will include an option for you to leave comments and this will require you to enter your name, email address and if you have one a website. However, this is voluntary and only limited validation takes place on this data to avoid spam cluttering up the website.

The Foodie Club

To ensure you don’t miss out on our latest recipes we offer you the chance to join the foodie club.

The foodie club is essentially a mailing list where you will receive regular emails including our latest recipes and foodie tool enhancements, and also share other relevant content from across the web.

Cookies and Affiliate Marketing

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.

If you visit our login page, we will set a temporary cookie to determine if your browser accepts cookies. This cookie contains no personal data and is discarded when you close your browser.

When you log in, we will also set up several cookies to save your login information and your screen display choices. Login cookies last for two days, and screen options cookies last for a year. If you select “Remember Me”, your login will persist for two weeks. If you log out of your account, the login cookies will be removed.

If you edit or publish an article, an additional cookie will be saved in your browser. This cookie includes no personal data and simply indicates the post ID of the article you just edited. It expires after 1 day.

We do engage in affiliate marketing with preferred providers such as Amazon.co.uk. Affiliate marketing is where we include tracking links on our webpages or via social media and may receive a fee if you as the user should click on the link and purchase a related product or service.

When you click on an affiliate link a cookie will be placed on your browser to track any sales by our affiliate partner or third party agency e.g. AWIN.

We also place adverts in some areas of this website through Google Adsense and this may use cookie information on your browsing history to serve up the most relevant adverts to you. For more information of this see the Google Adsense privacy policy.

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, if you have an account and are logged in to that website.

Google Analytics

Google Analytics is a service we use that tracks our website usage and provides information such as referring websites and user actions on our website. Google Analytics may capture your IP address, but no other personal information is captured by Google Analytics. We use this service to continually monitors the success of The Foodie Toolbox and make continuous improvements to help provide the best service to our visitors.

Your Rights

You may opt-out of future email communications by following the unsubscribe links in our emails or you can notify us directly at carl@foodietoolbox.com.

You may request access to the personal information we have about you by submitting a data access request to carl@foodietoolbox.com but in line with GDPR we will need proof you are who you say you are.

You may request an amendment to your personal information by contacting us at carl@foodietoolbox.com but in line with GDPR we will need proof you are who you say you are.

In certain situations, you may request that we erase or forget your personal data. To do so, please submit a request to carl@foodietoolbox.com but in line with GDPR we will need proof you are who you say you are.

Please note that we may need to retain certain information for record keeping purposes e.g.company accounts to complete transactions, or when required by law and we do have the right to refuse any of the above on these grounds.

Sensitive Personal Information

At no time should you submit sensitive personal information to the Website. This includes items like your national insurance number, information regarding race or ethnic origin, political opinions, religious beliefs, health information, criminal background, or trade union memberships. If you elect to submit such information to us e.g. via comment contents you do so at your own risk

Children’s Information

The Website does not knowingly collect any personally identifiable information from children under the age of 16. If a parent or guardian believes that the Website has personally identifiable information of a child under the age of 16, please contact us immediately at carl@foodietoolbox.com and we will use our best efforts to promptly remove such information from our records.

Contact The Foodie Toolbox Team

If you have any questions regarding the above then please contact us at carl@foodietoolbox.com.