Privacy Policy - emkayskitchen

Here, at emkayskitchen.com, we respect your privacy and are committed to protecting it. Our website is governed by the following Privacy Policy and details the information we collect and how we use it.

INFORMATION WE COLLECT

Information You Submit to us: We may collect personal information from you such as your name or email address when you leave a comment, subscribe to our newsletter or submit a contact form. If you wish to opt out of email newsletters, you can do this any time by using the unsubscribe link in the newsletter.

Note on Comments: When you leave comments on our website, we collect the data shown in the comments form. Your comments may be checked by Antispam Bee, our current automated spam detection plugin for this website. If you leave a comment, the comment and its metadata are retained indefinitely. This is so we can recognize and approve any follow-up comments automatically instead of holding them in a moderation queue.

Automatically Collected Information: We automatically collect certain information about you and the device with which you access emkayskitchen.com. In addition, when you use our website, we will log your IP address, operating system type, browser type, referring website, pages you viewed, and the dates/times when you accessed our website. We may also collect information about actions you take when using our website, such as clicking a link.

Cookies: We use cookies to store your preferences, record user-specific information about what pages you visit, ensure that you are not repeatedly sent the same banner ads, and customize website content based on your browser type or other information that you send us. You may prevent the setting of cookies by our website at any time by changing the cookie preferences when you first visit the website or by using a corresponding setting of your internet browser. Please note, if you deactivate the setting of cookies in your Internet browser, not all functions of our website may work properly.

Web Beacons: We may use web beacons (or similar programming technology) on our website or email messages. The purpose of this technology is to track how users are navigating our website, count visitors, and monitor success of our email campaigns.

HOW WE USE YOUR INFORMATION

In accordance with our Privacy Policy, we may use the information collected in the following ways:

To operate and maintain emkayskitchen.com
To send you promotional information, such as newsletters (Each email gives you the option to unsubscribe)
To respond to your questions or comments
To provide you with user support
To track and measure advertising on emkayskitchen.com

THIRD-PARTY USE OF PERSONAL INFORMATION

We use third-party service providers to run various aspects of emkayskitchen.com. Each third-party service provider has their own privacy policy which dictates their use of your personal information.

The third-party service providers used by this website include:

Google Analytics – We use Google Analytics to collect traffic data. All websites which collect traffic data have the ability to monitor visitor information such as IP addresses, browser type, operating system, location, date/time of visit, and information about which areas of the site are visited. The data is anonymous and does not personally identify you. We use this data solely for improving the user experience of our audience as a whole. To read more on how Google uses information from sites that use their services, visit the following page: How Google uses data when you use our partners’ sites or apps.

MailerLite – We use MailerLite to deliver email updates and newsletters to our subscribers. We store your name and email address for purposes of delivering such communications. Please refer to MailerLite’s Privacy Policy for information on their privacy policy.

Caching – This Website uses cache technology to ensure that you can view this blog as fast as possible, so this necessitates the use of cookies. These save frequently used parts of our site to your device’s cache so it does not need to be drawn from the web server by ascertaining your general location to deliver our website from a local server that’s closer to you.

Security – we also use additional plugins to help secure our website. Such plugins use cookies to identify IP addresses so that we can protect our website and ward off malicious attacks, if necessary (See ‘Cookies’ paragraph above).

ADVERTISING

Display Ads

We may use third-party advertising companies/networks to serve content and advertisements when you visit our website. These networks may use aggregated, non-personally identifiable information about your visits to this and other websites in order to provide advertisements about goods and services of interest to you.

Our current ad network is Google AdSense (in setup process) which allows third party vendors, including Google, to use cookies to serve ads based on a user’s prior visits to this website. See How Google uses data when you use our partners’ sites or apps, for information on Google’s policies.

Affiliate Program Participation

We participate in the Amazon Services LLC Associates Program, an affiliate advertising program designed to provide a means for sites to earn advertising fees by having links to Amazon.com. Our website contains links to products offered by Amazon.com. If you click on these links, we will use data collected about your activity on our site to direct you to the third party site. We and Amazon may collect data to show us the link you click on and if you purchase a product. As an Amazon Associate we earn a very small commission from qualifying purchases. The price remains the same for you. You can view the Amazon Privacy Policy here: Amazon.com Privacy Notice.

Newsletters

When you subscribe to our newsletter, we may use the newsletters for advertising purposes. All newsletters sent may contain tracking pixels. The pixels are embedded in emails and allow us to analyze the success of online marketing campaigns. Because of these tracking pixels, we may see if and when you open an email and which links within the email you click. This allows us to adapt the content of future newsletters to the interests of the user. we do not pass this information on to third parties.

RIGHTS RELATED TO YOUR PERSONAL INFORMATION

We do not sell, distribute, or reveal your email addresses or other personal information without your consent.

Opt-out – You may opt-out of future email communications by following the unsubscribe links in our emails. For any data that resides on your computer, such as cookies or push notification opt-in, you would need to remove it yourself.

CHILDREN’S INFORMATION

The Website does not knowingly collect any personally identifiable information from children under the age of 13.

NUTRITION DISCLAIMER

I am not a professional chef, nutritionist, dietician, or medical professional. This blog is a reflection of my opinions and general knowledge that I’ve gained from personal experience and information I’ve come across, and it’s accurate to the best of my knowledge. Please consult a medical professional and/or doctor if you need specific help on healthy eating and/or cooking.

CONTENT POLICY

We own the rights to the recipes and photos on this blog. As such, all recipe photography on this site is our own, unless otherwise indicated with a source link. Please do not republish any recipe or post without our permission. If you want to use one of our photos with a link back for a roundup style post, that’s fine. Contact us at emkayskitchen (at) pm.me, if you have any questions.

LINKS TO OTHER WEBSITES

This Website may contain links to other websites of interest. However, once you have used these links to leave our site, you should note that our privacy policy no longer applies, as each site has their own policies.

This website is GDPR compliant.

Updated July 19th, 2022