Last Updated: April 27, 2025

Welcome to CulinaryCraving!

At CulinaryCraving, we’re passionate about sharing delicious recipes and culinary inspiration. We also care deeply about your privacy. This Privacy Policy explains how we collect, use, and protect your personal information when you visit our food blog.

Information We Collect

Information You Provide to Us:

  • Contact Information: When you subscribe to our newsletter, leave comments, or contact us, we collect your name and email address.
  • Account Information: If you create an account, we collect your username, password, and profile information.
  • User Content: Any recipes, photos, comments, or reviews you share on our platform.
  • Survey Responses: Information you provide when participating in surveys or contests.

Information Automatically Collected:

  • Usage Data: How you interact with our site, including pages visited, time spent, and actions taken.
  • Device Information: Type of device, operating system, browser type, and language preferences.
  • Log Data: IP address, browser type, referring pages, and timestamps.
  • Cookies and Similar Technologies: Information collected through cookies, pixels, and similar technologies (more on this below).

How We Use Your Information

We use your information to:

  • Provide, maintain, and improve CulinaryCraving
  • Process and respond to your comments and inquiries
  • Send you updates, newsletters, and cooking tips (if you’ve subscribed)
  • Personalize recipe recommendations based on your preferences
  • Analyze site usage to improve our content and user experience
  • Prevent fraudulent activity and ensure the security of our platform
  • Comply with legal obligations

Recipe Ratings and Comments

When you rate recipes or leave comments, the information you provide (including your username and comments) becomes publicly visible on our site. Please be mindful of what personal information you include in your comments.

Cookies & Similar Technologies

We use cookies and similar tracking technologies to enhance your browsing experience:

  • Essential Cookies: Required for basic site functionality
  • Preference Cookies: Remember your settings and preferences
  • Analytics Cookies: Help us understand how visitors interact with our site
  • Advertising Cookies: Allow us to show you relevant food and cooking ads

You can manage cookie preferences through your browser settings. However, disabling certain cookies may limit your ability to use some features of our site.

Sharing Your Information

We may share your information with:

  • Service Providers: Companies that help us operate our site (e.g., hosting providers, payment processors for our cookbooks or courses)
  • Analytics Partners: To help us understand site traffic and usage
  • Advertising Partners: To deliver relevant culinary ads and measure their effectiveness
  • Legal Requirements: When required by law or to protect our rights

We do NOT sell your personal information to third parties.

Recipe Collection and Food Preference Data

If you save recipes or indicate food preferences, we use this information to:

  • Create personalized recipe collections
  • Suggest similar recipes you might enjoy
  • Improve our recipe categorization

Your Rights and Choices

Depending on your location, you may have rights to:

  • Access the personal information we hold about you
  • Correct inaccurate information
  • Delete your personal information
  • Object to or restrict certain processing activities
  • Download a copy of your personal data
  • Opt-out of marketing communications

To exercise these rights, please contact us at culinarycraving@gmail.com

Ezoic Services

Ezoic Services
This website uses the services of Ezoic Inc. (“Ezoic”), including to manage third-party interest-based advertising. Ezoic may employ a variety of technologies on this website, including tools to serve content, display advertisements and enable advertising to visitors of this website, which may utilize first and third-party cookies.

A cookie is a small text file sent to your device by a web server that enables the website to remember information about your browsing activity. First-party cookies are created by the site you are visiting, while third-party cookies are set by domains other than the one you’re visiting. Ezoic and our partners may place third-party cookies, tags, beacons, pixels, and similar technologies to monitor interactions with advertisements and optimize ad targeting. Please note that disabling cookies may limit access to certain content and features on the website, and rejecting cookies does not eliminate advertisements but will result in non-personalized advertising. You can find more information about cookies and how to manage them here.
The following information may be collected, used, and stored in a cookie when serving personalized ads:

  • IP address
  • Operating system type and version
  • Device type
  • Language preferences
  • Web browser type
  • Email (in a hashed or encrypted form)

Ezoic and its partners may use this data in combination with information that has been independently collected to deliver targeted advertisements across various platforms and websites. Ezoic’s partners may also gather additional data, such as unique IDs, advertising IDs, geolocation data, usage data, device information, traffic data, referral sources, and interactions between users and websites or advertisements, to create audience segments for targeted advertising across different devices, browsers, and apps. You can find more information about interest-based advertising and how to manage them here.
You can view Ezoic’s privacy policy here, or for additional information about Ezoic’s advertising and other partners, you can view Ezoic’s advertising partners here.

Data Security

We implement reasonable security measures to protect your information. However, no method of transmission over the Internet is 100% secure. We strive to protect your personal information, but we cannot guarantee absolute security.

International Data Transfers

CulinaryCraving is operated from [Your Country]. If you access our site from outside this location, your information may be transferred to and stored on servers in different jurisdictions.

Children’s Privacy

CulinaryCraving is not intended for children under 13. We do not knowingly collect personal information from children under 13. If you believe we might have information from a child under 13, please contact us.

Changes to This Privacy Policy

We may update this Privacy Policy periodically. We will notify you of significant changes by posting a notice on our website or sending you an email (if you’ve subscribed).

Food-Specific Analytics

We may analyze which recipes are most popular, seasonal trends in recipe viewing, and ingredient preferences to improve our content. This analysis is conducted using aggregated data that does not personally identify you.

Contact Us

If you have questions about this Privacy Policy or how we handle your information, please contact us at:

Thank you for trusting CulinaryCraving with your culinary journey!

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