Inquiring Chef is dedicated to maintaining your privacy privacy and the protection of your personal information. This privacy policy details what information we collect on Inquiringchef.com (Website) and how that information is used. It also includes your opt-out options. By using this Website, you are consenting to the practices and collection of information detailed in this privacy policy.
What information do we collect?
The information we collect falls into two categories: (1) information you supply when you subscribe to receive emails, enter giveaways or leave comments on the website, and (2) tracking information collected as you navigate through our site.
When registering on our site, you may be asked to enter your: name, e-mail address or website. You may, however, visit our site anonymously.
What do we use your information for?
Any of the information we collect from you may be used in one of the following ways:
1. To personalize your experience (your information helps us to better respond to your individual needs)
2. To improve our website (we continually strive to improve our website offerings based on the information and feedback we receive from you)
3. To improve our customer service (your information helps us to more effectively respond to your customer service requests and support needs)
4. To administer a promotion, contest, survey or other site feature
Signing up to receive email newsletters:
When you fill out one of the emails subscription opt-in boxes, we will send you the email series you signed up for which consists of 3 to 5 emails. Following that, emails are sent monthly with new recipes and posts, roundups and news from Inquiringchef.com. If you subscribe to our email newsletters through our subscription box, you consent to store and process your data in order to receive our newsletters. The email you provide is used only for email subscription communication purposes and never shared or distributed to third parties. Your email is stored with our subscription service provider who has certain levels of security to protect your personal data.
To change your subscription preferences, click the “update your preferences” button that is included with the email you receive from us then follow the steps in the email that you receive once you click the “update your preferences” button.
If you no longer wish to receive newsletters, please click the “unsubscribe” button at the bottom of the newsletters you receive in your inbox or email: frank AT inquiringchef DOT com and let me know that you would like to be removed. You may also request to have your data entirely erased from our subscription service.
Push Notifications:
Not currently enabled.
What information is tracked?
Cookies: We may use “cookies” from time to time which is a feature of major browser applications that allows us to store information such as your personal preferences when you visit our site. This may include only showing each visitor a popup once during our visit to the Website. We do not collect any personally identifiable information in cookies. We do not employ any mechanisms on our site to capture data other than cookies.You can turn off cookies or third-party cookies in your browser settings or by managing these preferences in programs such as Norton Internet security or similar security programs, however doing so can affect how you are able to interact with our Website as well as other sites.
Your Browser Information: As with most sites, Inquiringchef.com, may gather and store information such as IP addresses, MAC addresses, type of browser, ISP, how you arrived at our Website via referring and exit pages, your operating system, date and time of your visits and click stream data or how you navigate our Website. Tracking user navigation around the site allows us to analyze trends and demographic information about our entire base of users as a whole. This data is never linked to personal information.
Your Device Addresses: Every user’s computer has an assigned IP address or device MAC address which is logged upon each visit and action performed on our Website. Your device address is only logged for a temporary period of time and is never provided to third parties unless otherwise stated in this privacy policy. If, at our sole discretion, a visitor is deemed abusive, a device address may be used to block and ban abusive users from viewing the site.
Web Beacons are programing code that may be included on our Website or in email messages. We may use web beacons or similar technologies for the purposes of tracking how users are navigating our Website, count visitors, and monitor effectiveness of email campaigns (how many emails were actually opened, which links were clicked).
Do we disclose information to outside parties?
We do not sell, trade, or otherwise transfer to outside parties your personally identifiable information. This does not include trusted third parties who process information on our behalf and assist us in operating our website, conducting our business, or servicing you (including prize fulfillment in a giveaway), so long as those parties agree to keep this information confidential. We may release your information only when we believe release is appropriate for compliance with the law, enforcing our site policies, or protecting ours or others rights, property, or safety. However, non-personally identifiable visitor information may be provided to other parties for marketing, advertising, or other uses.
Third Party Links:
Occasionally, at our discretion, we may include or offer links to other websites including social sharing buttons, links, graphics or banners. These third party sites have separate and independent privacy policies. We therefore have no responsibility or liability for the content and activities of these linked sites. It is your responsibility to review the privacy policies at those websites to ensure you agree with their privacy policies. Nonetheless, we seek to protect the integrity of our site and welcome any feedback about these sites.
Children's Online Privacy Protection Act Compliance:
We are in compliance with the requirements of COPPA (Children’s Online Privacy Protection Act), we do not knowingly collect any information from anyone under 13 years of age. Our website, products and services are all directed to people who are at least 13 years old or older. We care about protecting children’s privacy. We won’t knowingly allow anyone under 13 to provide personally-identifying information. Children who are under 13 should not provide any information about themselves on the internet (including names, email addresses, and phone numbers).
Affiliate Programs:
Inquiring Chef is a participant in the Amazon Associates Program and the RewardStyle Affiliate Program, which are affiliate advertising programs designed to provide a means for sites to earn a commission by advertising and linking to amazon.com (in the case of Amazon Associates) or another site (in the case of Reward Style.) We earn a small percentage when you click on one of our Amazon or Reward Style links - your price doesn't change. Thank you for supporting our blog!
Security:
Inquiringchef.com maintains a variety of security measures, including using secured networks, to prevent loss, alteration or misuse of information that is collected on this Website. We make no assurances to you or any third party about our ability to prevent any loss, alteration or misuse of information resulting from a third parties loss, misuse, or alteration of information that is collected.
Comments:
Inquiring Chef may use forms such as the comments form. Any information that you disclose in these areas becomes public information. This information may be used, collected or read by other users on our site. Please use caution when disclosing your personal information.
Visiting our Website from outside the US:
For visitors outside of the US, please be aware that your information may stored on servers in the US where our websites servers are located and operated. We take steps to assure protection of your privacy but please be aware that your laws may differ than those of the United States. By using our Website, you agree to having your information stored in our US based servers and third parties as stated in this Privacy Policy.
Online Privacy Policy Only:
This online privacy policy applies only to information collected through our website and not to information collected offline.
Your Consent:
By using our site, you consent to our web site privacy policy.
Mediavine Programmatic Advertising (Ver 1.1)
The Website works with Mediavine to manage third-party interest-based advertising appearing on the Website. Mediavine serves content and advertisements when you visit the Website, which may use first and third-party cookies. A cookie is a small text file which is sent to your computer or mobile device (referred to in this policy as a “device”) by the web server so that a website can remember some information about your browsing activity on the Website.
First party cookies are created by the website that you are visiting. A third-party cookie is frequently used in behavioral advertising and analytics and is created by a domain other than the website you are visiting. Third-party cookies, tags, pixels, beacons and other similar technologies (collectively, “Tags”) may be placed on the Website to monitor interaction with advertising content and to target and optimize advertising. Each internet browser has functionality so that you can block both first and third-party cookies and clear your browser’s cache. The "help" feature of the menu bar on most browsers will tell you how to stop accepting new cookies, how to receive notification of new cookies, how to disable existing cookies and how to clear your browser’s cache. For more information about cookies and how to disable them, you can consult the information at All About Cookies.
Without cookies you may not be able to take full advantage of the Website content and features. Please note that rejecting cookies does not mean that you will no longer see ads when you visit our Site. In the event you opt-out, you will still see non-personalized advertisements on the Website.
The Website collects the following data using a cookie when serving personalized ads:
- IP Address
- Operating System type
- Operating System version
- Device Type
- Language of the website
- Web browser type
- Email (in hashed form)
Mediavine Partners (companies listed below with whom Mediavine shares data) may also use this data to link to other end user information the partner has independently collected to deliver targeted advertisements. Mediavine Partners may also separately collect data about end users from other sources, such as advertising IDs or pixels, and link that data to data collected from Mediavine publishers in order to provide interest-based advertising across your online experience, including devices, browsers and apps. This data includes usage data, cookie information, device information, information about interactions between users and advertisements and websites, geolocation data, traffic data, and information about a visitor’s referral source to a particular website. Mediavine Partners may also create unique IDs to create audience segments, which are used to provide targeted advertising.
If you would like more information about this practice and to know your choices to opt-in or opt-out of this data collection, please visit National Advertising Initiative opt out page. You may also visit Digital Advertising Alliance website and Network Advertising Initiative website to learn more information about interest-based advertising. You may download the AppChoices app at Digital Advertising Alliance’s AppChoices app to opt out in connection with mobile apps, or use the platform controls on your mobile device to opt out.
For specific information about Mediavine Partners, the data each collects and their data collection and privacy policies, please visit Mediavine Partners.
Changes to our Privacy Policy:
We reserve the right to change, update or modify our privacy policy at any time without any other notice to you or as required by applicable laws. Any changes will go into effect immediately upon updating on this privacy policy and update the Privacy Policy modification date below. It is your responsibility to review this Privacy Policy periodically to determine if you are still in agreement with all of the terms in this privacy policy.
Contacting Us:
If there are any questions regarding this privacy policy you may contact us using the information below.
Email: frank@inquiringchef.com
This policy was last modified on September 26, 2022