Disclaimer & Privacy Policy

Last Updated: September 18, 2023

Contents

1. Disclaimer
   1. Content
   2. Amazon
   3. Affiliate Programs
   4. Comments
2. Privacy Policy
   1. Advertising
   2. Website Visitors
   3. Embedded Content
   4. Sponsored Content Tracking Pixels
   5. Gathering of Personally Identifying Information
   6. Google Analytics
   7. CDN
   8. Protection of Information
   9. Cookies
   10. Business Transfers
   11. Email
   12. International Transfers
   13. Data Retention
   14. Data Rights
   15. Security
   16. Privacy Policy Changes
3. Contact
4. Sub Processors

Disclaimer

1. Content

The recipes and guides on cookingperfected.com are published in good faith and are for general information purpose only. While we strive to keep our information up to date, we do not make any warranties about the completeness, reliability and accuracy of this information. Any action you take upon the information on this website is strictly at your own risk. We will not be liable for any losses and damages in connection with the use of our website.

From this website you may find advertising and other links to other sites. While we strive to only provide links to useful and ethical websites. We also have no control over the content and nature of these websites. The links we provide to these other websites do not imply a recommendation for all of the content found on these websites.

2. Amazon

Cooking Perfected is a participant in the Amazon Services LLC Associates Program, an affiliate advertising program designed to provide a means for sites to earn advertising fees by advertising and linking to amazon.com.

3. Affiliate Programs

Cooking Perfected participates in affiliate marketing programs. This means we may post customized links, provided by retailers, to track referrals to their websites, and we may earn an advertising fee from any purchases made through these links. This program uses cookies to track visits for the purposes of assigning commission on these sales.

4. Comments

Whilst we encourage you to leave comments on Cooking Perfected it’s important to know this doesn’t guarantee it will be published.

All comments are placed into a moderation queue and is also cross-checked with anti-spam technologies.

We will not notify you if the comment is approved or removed. If your comment was removed it is likely to be because of one or multiple of the following reasons.

• Harassment: Having a conversation is encouraged but keep in mind to be respectful towards other commenters and the authors of the content posted on this website. Comments in all caps will also be removed.
• Toxic: Comments that are toxic and offer no real feedback will not be approved.
• Promotional: If your comment comes across to be super promotional then it is likely to be removed. Try not to speak in a promotional language and drop lots of links.
• Out of context: Try to keep comments within the context of the page you’re commenting on.
• Caught in the spam filter: Sometimes our anti-spam filters will have false positives and your comment can be automatically removed without us knowing. This is likely to happen if your IP has been flagged as a spammer or the contents of your message is consistent with typical spam.

We reserve the right to remove any comment, even if it does not fit in the categories above.

Privacy Policy

Cooking Perfected (“Cooking Perfected”) operates cookingperfected.com and may operate other websites. It is Cooking Perfected policy to respect your privacy regarding any information we may collect while operating our websites.

1. Advertising

This Site is affiliated with CMI Marketing, Inc., d/b/a Raptive (“Raptive”) for the purposes of placing advertising on the Site, and Raptive will collect and use certain data for advertising purposes. To learn more about Raptive’s data usage, click here: https://raptive.com/creator-advertising-privacy-statement

2. Website Visitors

Like most website operators, Cooking Perfected collects non-personally-identifying information of the sort that web browsers and servers typically make available, such as the browser type, language preference, referring site, and the date and time of each visitor request. Cooking Perfected purpose in collecting non-personally identifying information is to better understand how Cooking Perfected visitors use its website.

Cooking Perfected also collects potentially personally-identifying information like Internet Protocol (IP) addresses for logged in users and for users leaving comments on cookingperfected.com. Cooking Perfected only discloses logged in user and commenter IP addresses under the same circumstances that it uses and discloses personally-identifying information as described below, except that commenter IP addresses and email addresses are visible and disclosed to the administrators of the blog/site where the comment was left.

3. Embedded content from other websites

These websites may collect data about you, use cookies, embed additional third-party tracking, and monitor your interaction with that embedded content, including tracing your interaction with the embedded content if you have an account and are logged in to that website.

4. Sponsored Content Tracking Pixels

Cooking Perfected’s may engage in sponsored campaigns with various influencer networks, brands, and agencies. All sponsored content is duly disclosed in accordance with the FTC’s requirements. From time to time, these sponsored campaigns utilize tracking pixels (aka web beacons), which may contain cookies to collect data regarding usage and audience. This information is collected by the sponsoring company to track the results of the campaign. No personally identifiable information collected by Cooking Perfected is used in conjunction with these tracking pixels.

5. Gathering of Personally-Identifying Information

Certain visitors to Cooking Perfected websites choose to interact with Cooking Perfected in ways that require Cooking Perfected to gather personally-identifying information. The amount and type of information that Cooking Perfected gathers depends on the nature of the interaction.

Cooking Perfected does not disclose personally-identifying information other than as described below. And visitors can always refuse to supply personally-identifying information, with the caveat that it may prevent them from engaging in certain website-related activities such as commenting.

6. Google Analytics

We use Google Analytics to analyze the use of our website. Google Analytics gathers information about website use by means of cookies. The information gathered relating to our website is used to create reports about the use of our website.

Google’s privacy policy is available at: Google Privacy Policy

7. CDN

Cooking Perfected makes use of Bunny (Content Delivery Network) to optimize file delivery. We may use Bunny to gather and temporarily store visitor log information such as anonymized IP, web address, country code and user agent for the purpose of analyzing, processing, testing and security. For more information visit their privacy policy: Bunny Privacy Policy.

8. Protection of Certain Personally-Identifying Information

Cooking Perfected discloses potentially personally-identifying and personally-identifying information only to those of its employees, contractors and affiliated organizations that (i) need to know that information in order to process it on Cooking Perfected behalf or to provide services available at Cooking Perfected websites, and (ii) that have agreed not to disclose it to others. Some of those employees, contractors and affiliated organizations may be located outside of your home country; by using Cooking Perfected websites, you consent to the transfer of such information to them.

Cooking Perfected will not rent or sell potentially personally-identifying and personally-identifying information to anyone. Other than to its employees, contractors and affiliated organizations, as described above, Cooking Perfected discloses potentially personally-identifying and personally-identifying information only in response to a subpoena, court order or other governmental request, or when Cooking Perfected believes in good faith that disclosure is reasonably necessary to protect the property or rights of Cooking Perfected, third parties or the public at large.

9. Cookies

A cookie is a string of information that a website stores on a visitor’s computer, and that the visitor’s browser provides to the website each time the visitor returns. Cooking Perfected uses cookies to help Cooking Perfected identify and track visitors, their usage of Cooking Perfected website, and their website access preferences. Cooking Perfected visitors who do not wish to have cookies placed on their computers should set their browsers to refuse cookies before using Cooking Perfected websites, with the drawback that certain features of Cooking Perfected websites may not function properly without the aid of cookies.

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 comm

To summarize, we use cookies for the following purposes:

(a) Authentication: We use cookies to identify you when you visit our website and as you navigate our website;

(b) Email: We use cookies to help us to send relevant emails to users who have subscribed to our email list;

(c) Security: We use cookies as an element of the security measures used to protect user accounts, including preventing fraudulent use of login credentials, and to protect our website and services generally;

(d) Advertising: We use cookies to help us to display advertisements that will be relevant to you; and

(e) Analysis: We use cookies to help us to analyze the use and performance of our website and services. These cookies will last for up to one year.

Most browsers allow you to refuse to accept cookies and to delete cookies. The methods for doing so vary from browser to browser, and from version to version.

10. Business Transfers

If Cooking Perfected, or substantially all of its assets, were acquired, or in the unlikely event that Cooking Perfected goes out of business or enters bankruptcy, user information would be one of the assets that is transferred or acquired by a third party. You acknowledge that such transfers may occur, and that any acquirer of Cooking Perfected may continue to use your personal information as set forth in this policy.

11. Email

On Cooking Perfected, you may subscribe to our newsletter, which may be used for advertising purposes. All newsletters sent may contain tracking pixels and links. The pixel is embedded in emails and allows an analysis of 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. Also, this allows Cooking Perfected to adapt the content of future newsletters to the interests of the user. This behavior will not be passed on to third parties and is only collected by our email processor, ConvertKit.

12. International Transfers

Cooking Perfected may transfer and process Customer Data anywhere in the world where Cooking Perfected or its Sub-processors maintain data processing operations. Cooking Perfected’s shall at all times provide an adequate level of protection for the Customer Data processed, in accordance with the requirements of Data Protection Laws.

13. Data Retention

Generally, data is retained until it is no longer useful. For example, we keep the web server logs that record information about a visitor to Cooking Perfected website, such as the visitor’s IP address, browser type, and operating system, for approximately 30 days. We retain the logs for this period of time in order to, among other things, investigate issues if something goes wrong on one of our websites.

14. What rights you have over your data

If you have an account on Cooking Perfected, or have left comments, signed up to our email list, purchased a product, you can request to receive an exported file of the personal data we hold about you, including any data you have provided to us. You can also request that we erase any personal data we hold about you. This does not include any data we are obliged to keep for administrative, legal, or security purposes.

If you are located in certain countries, including those that fall under the scope of the European General Data Protection Regulation (AKA the “GDPR”), data protection laws give you rights with respect to your personal data, subject to any exemptions provided by the law, including the rights to:

• Request access to your personal data;
• Request correction or deletion of your personal data;
• Object to our use and processing of your personal data;
• Request that we limit our use and processing of your personal data; and
• Request portability of your personal data.

You can usually access, correct, or delete your personal data using your account settings and tools that we offer, but if you aren’t able to do that, or you would like to contact us about one of the other rights, scroll down to contact us.

EU individuals also have the right to make a complaint to a government supervisory authority.

15. Security

While no online service is 100% secure, we work very hard to protect information about you against unauthorized access, use, alteration, or destruction, and take reasonable measures to do so, such as monitoring our Services for potential vulnerabilities and attacks.

To enhance security, Cooking Perfected use of security settings such as two-step authentication (When Available). We also make use of randomized complicated passwords.

16. Privacy Policy Changes

Although most changes are likely to be minor, Cooking Perfected may change its Privacy Policy from time to time, and in Cooking Perfected sole discretion. Cooking Perfected encourages visitors to frequently check this page for any changes to its Privacy Policy.

If you have a cookingperfected.com account, you might also receive an alert informing you of these changes. Your continued use of Cooking Perfected after any change in this Privacy Policy will constitute your acceptance of such change.

Contact

If you have any questions about this Privacy Policy or the practices of Cooking Perfected, please contact us at [email protected]

Cooking Perfected Sub Processors

Cooking Perfected’s currently uses the following sub processors