Privacy Policy isn’t just a legal requirement; it’s a promise from us to you. Imagine a sanctuary where your personal information is treated with the utmost respect and care. That’s what we offer at Home Kitchen Magazine. Our privacy policy is designed to give you peace of mind, ensuring that your data is not just secure, but also handled transparently and ethically.
In a world brimming with data breaches and privacy concerns, we stand out by prioritizing your trust. Our policy is more than words on a page—it’s a reflection of our dedication to maintaining your confidence every step of the way. Dive into the details of our Privacy Policy and see how we turn our commitment into action
Privacy Policy for https://homekitchenmagazine.com
Home Kitchen Magazine is committed to protecting your privacy and ensuring that your personal information is handled in a safe and responsible way. This policy outlines how we collect, use, and protect your information when you visit our website or use our services.
By using our website or services, you agree to the terms of this policy and consent to the collection and use of your information as described in this policy.
This privacy policy notice is for this website; https://homekitchenmagazine.com and served by Home Kitchen Magazine and governs the privacy of those who use it. The purpose of this policy is to explain to you how we control, process, handle and protect your personal information while browsing or using this website, including your rights under current laws and regulations. If you do not agree to the following policy, you may wish to cease viewing / using this website.
Policy key definitions
- “I”, “our”, “us”, or “we” refer to the business, Home Kitchen Magazine.
- “You”, “the user” refer to the person(s) using this website.
- GDPR means a General Data Protection Act.
- PECR means Privacy & Electronic Communications Regulation.
- ICO means Information Commissioner’s Office.
- Cookies mean small files stored on a users computer or device.
The privacy of our visitors to https://homekitchenmagazine.com is important to us.
At https://homekitchenmagazine.com, we recognize that privacy of your personal information is important. Here is information on what types of personal information we receive and collect when you use and visit https://homekitchenmagazine.com, and how we safeguard your information. We never sell your personal information to third parties.
What information do we collect?
We collect information from you when you visit our website, subscribe to our newsletter, contact us, or use our services. The information we collect may include:
- Personal information: This is information that can identify you as an individual, such as your name, email address, phone number, or postal address.
- Non-personal information: This is information that cannot identify you as an individual, such as your IP address, browser type, device type, operating system, referral source, pages viewed, time spent, etc.
- Cookies and similar technologies: These are small files or pieces of data that are stored on your device when you visit our website. They help us remember your preferences, improve your user experience, and deliver relevant ads. You can learn more about how we use cookies and how you can manage them in our Cookie Policy.
How do we use your information?
We use your information for various purposes, such as:
- Providing our services: We use your information to provide our services, such as sending you our newsletter, responding to your inquiries, or fulfilling your orders.
- Improving our website: We use your information to analyze and improve our website, content, and services, and to measure and optimize our performance and user satisfaction.
- Marketing and advertising: We use your information to send you promotional messages, offers, or surveys that may be of interest to you, and to display personalized ads on our website or other platforms. You can opt out of receiving marketing communications from us at any time by following the instructions in each message or contacting us.
- Complying with legal obligations: We use your information to comply with the laws and regulations that apply to us, such as responding to requests from authorities, enforcing our terms and conditions, or protecting our rights and interests.
What is the legal basis for processing your information?
We process your information based on one or more of the following legal bases:
- Consent: You have given us your consent to process your information for a specific purpose, such as sending you our newsletter or displaying personalized ads. You can withdraw your consent at any time by contacting us or changing your settings.
- Contract: You have entered into a contract with us or requested us to take steps before entering into a contract, such as placing an order or signing up for our services. We need to process your information to perform our obligations under the contract or to provide you with the requested services.
- Legitimate interests: We have a legitimate interest to process your information for our business purposes, such as improving our website, marketing our services, or protecting our rights and interests. We always balance our interests with your rights and interests and ensure that our processing does not cause you any harm or distress.
- Legal obligations: We have a legal obligation to process your information, such as complying with the laws and regulations that apply to us or responding to requests from authorities.
Who do we share your information with?
We do not sell, rent, or trade your information with any third parties for their own purposes. We only share your information with third parties that help us provide our services or that we work with, such as:
- Service providers: These are companies that provide services on our behalf, such as hosting, payment processing, email delivery, analytics, advertising, etc. We only share the information that is necessary for them to perform their services and we require them to protect your information and comply with this policy and the applicable laws.
- Partners: These are companies that we collaborate with, such as affiliates, sponsors, or advertisers. We only share the information that is relevant for our partnership and we require them to respect your privacy and comply with this policy and the applicable laws.
- Authorities: These are government agencies or other entities that have the legal authority to request or access your information, such as courts, regulators, or law enforcement. We only share your information when we are required or permitted by law or when we believe that it is necessary to protect our rights and interests or those of others.
How do we protect your information?
We take appropriate technical and organizational measures to protect your information from unauthorized access, use, disclosure, loss, or alteration. These measures include:
- Using secure servers and encryption technologies to store and transfer your information
- Limiting the access to your information to authorized personnel who need it to perform their duties
- Implementing policies and procedures to ensure the confidentiality, integrity, and availability of your information
- Monitoring and testing our systems and processes to detect and prevent any security breaches or incidents
However, no method of transmission or storage is 100% secure and we cannot guarantee the absolute security of your information. You are also responsible for keeping your account details and passwords confidential and for notifying us immediately if you suspect any unauthorized access or use of your account or information.
How long do we keep your information?
We only keep your information for as long as it is necessary for the purposes for which we collected it or as required by law. The retention period may vary depending on the type of information, the purpose of processing, and the applicable laws and regulations.
When we no longer need your information, we will delete it or anonymize it in accordance with our data retention policy and the applicable laws and regulations.
Your individual rights
Under the GDPR your rights are as follows. You can read more about your rights in details here;
- the right to be informed;
- the right of access;
- the right to rectification;
- the right to erasure;
- the right to restrict processing;
- the right to data portability;
- the right to object; and
- The right not to be subject to automated decision-making including profiling.
You also have the right to complain to the ICO [www.ico.org.uk] if you feel there is a problem with the way we are handling your data.
We handle subject access requests in accordance with the GDPR.
Log Files As with most other websites, we collect and use the data contained in log files.
The information in the log files includes your IP (internet protocol) address, your ISP (internet service provider, such as AOL or Shaw Cable), the browser you used to visit our site (such as Internet Explorer or Firefox), the time you visited our site and which pages you visited throughout our site.
Internet cookies
We use cookies on this website to provide you with a better user experience.
We do this by placing a small text file on your device / computer hard drive to track how you use the website, to record or log whether you have seen particular messages that we display, to keep you logged into the website where applicable, to display relevant adverts or content, referred you to a third party website.
Some cookies are required to enjoy and use the full functionality of this website.
We use a cookie control system which allows you to accept the use of cookies, and control which cookies are saved to your device / computer.
Some cookies will be saved for specific time periods, where others may last indefinitely. Your web browser should provide you with the controls to manage and delete cookies from your device, please see your web browser options.
Cookies and Web Beacons
We do use cookies to store information, such as your personal preferences when you visit our site. This could include only showing you a popup once in your visit, or the ability to login to some of our features, such as forums.
Data security and protection
We ensure the security of any personal information we hold by using secure data storage technologies and precise procedures in how we store, access and manage that information. Our methods meet the GDPR compliance requirement.
Transparent Privacy Explanations
We have provided some further explanations about user privacy and the way we use this website to help promote a transparent and honest user privacy methodology.
Sponsored links, affiliate tracking & commissions
Our website may contain adverts, sponsored and affiliate links on some pages. These are typically served through our advertising partners; Google Adsense, or is self served through our own means.
We only use trusted advertising partners who each have high standards of user privacy and security. However, we do not control the actual adverts seen / displayed by our advertising partners.
Clicking on any adverts, sponsored or affiliate links may track your actions by using a cookie saved to your device. You can read more about cookies on this website above. Your actions are usually recorded as a referral from our website by this cookie.
In most cases we earn a very small commission from the advertiser or advertising partner, at no cost to you, whether you make a purchase on their website or not.
We use advertising partners in these ways to help generate an income from the website, which allows us to continue our work and provide you with the best overall experience and valued information.
If you have any concerns about this we suggest you do not click on any adverts, sponsored or affiliate links found throughout the website.
We also use third party advertisements on https://homekitchenmagazine.com to support our site.
Some of these advertisers may use technology such as cookies and web beacons when they advertise on our site, which will also send these advertisers (such as Google through the Google AdSense program) information including your IP address, your ISP , the browser you used to visit our site, and in some cases, whether you have Flash installed.
This is generally used for geotargeting purposes (showing New York real estate ads to someone in New York, for example) or showing certain ads based on specific sites visited (such as showing cooking ads to someone who frequents cooking sites).
DoubleClick DART cookies
We also may use DART cookies for ad serving through Google’s DoubleClick, which places a cookie on your computer when you are browsing the web and visit a site using DoubleClick advertising (including some Google AdSense advertisements). This cookie is used to serve ads specific to you and your interests (“interest based targeting”).
The ads served will be targeted based on your previous browsing history (For example, if you have been viewing sites about visiting Las Vegas, you may see Las Vegas hotel advertisements when viewing a non-related site, such as on a site about hockey).
DART uses “non personally identifiable information”. It does NOT track personal information about you, such as your name, email address, physical address, telephone number, social security numbers, bank account numbers or credit card numbers.
You can choose to disable or selectively turn off our cookies or third-party cookies in your browser settings, or by managing preferences in programs such as Norton Internet Security.
However, this can affect how you are able to interact with our site as well as other websites. This could include the inability to login to services or programs, such as logging into forums or accounts.
Deleting cookies does not mean you are permanently opted out of any advertising program. Unless you have settings that disallow cookies, the next time you visit a site running the advertisements, a new cookie will be added.
Google Adsense.
This website uses Google Adsense, a Web-advertising-service of Google Inc., United States (“Google”). Google Adsense uses “cookies” (text files) that are stored on your computer and allows an analysis of the use of thiswebsite by you.
Google Adsense also uses so-called “Web Beacons” (small invisible images) to gather information. Through the use of Web beacons simple actions such as the visitor traffic to the website can be recorded and collected.
The information generated by the cookie and/or Web Beacon is information about your use of this site (Url), including your IP address and will be transferred to a Google server in the U.S. and stored there.
Google will use this information to evaluate your use of the site in order to show and compile reports on website activity and ads for website operators and providing other services with website and internet related services.
Google may also transfer this information to third parties where this is required by law, or where such third parties process the information on Google’s behalf.
Google will not associate your IP address with any other data held by Google.
You canavoid storing cookies on your hard drive and the display of Web Beacons by choosing to accept in your browser settings, “cookies” (in MS Internet Explorer under “Tools> Internet Options> Privacy> Settings”, in Firefox under Tools> Settings> Privacy> Cookies), we would point out however that this may prevent you from using all the features of this website.
By using this site you agree to the processing of data about you by Google in the manner described, and agree to the aforementioned purpose.
Email marketing messages & subscription
Under the GDPR we use the consent lawful basis for anyone subscribing to our newsletter or marketing mailing list. We only collect certain data about you, as detailed in the “Processing of your personal date” above.
Any email marketing messages we send are done so through an EMS, email marketing service provider. An EMS is a third party service provider of software / applications that allows marketers to send out email marketing campaigns to a list of users.
Email marketing messages that we send may contain tracking beacons / tracked clickable links or similar server technologies in order to track subscriber activity within email marketing messages.
Where used, such marketing messages may record a range of data such as; times, dates, I.P addresses, opens, clicks, forwards, geographic and demographic data. Such data, within its limitations will show the activity each subscriber made for that email campaign.
Any email marketing messages we send are in accordance with the GDPR and the PECR. We provide you with an easy method to withdraw your consent (unsubscribe) or manage your preferences / the information we hold about you at any time.
See any marketing messages for instructions on how to unsubscribe or manage your preferences, you can also unsubscribe from all MailChimp lists, by following this link, otherwise contact the EMS provider.
Our EMS provider is; [name of provider here]. We hold the following information about you within our EMS system;
- Email address
- I.P address
- Subscription time & date
- [list other data that is stored]
Resources & further information
- Overview of the GDPR – General Data Protection Regulation
- Data Protection Act 1998
- Privacy and Electronic Communications Regulations 2003
- The Guide to the PECR 2003
- Twitter Privacy Policy
- Facebook Privacy Policy
- Google Privacy Policy
- Linkedin Privacy Policy
- Mailchimp Privacy Policy
- Small business GDPR policy template
What are your rights and choices regarding your information?
You have certain rights and choices regarding your information, such as:
- Access: You have the right to access and obtain a copy of your information that we hold and process.
- Correction: You have the right to correct or update your information that is inaccurate or incomplete.
- Deletion: You have the right to request the deletion of your information that we no longer need or that we process without a valid legal basis.
- Restriction: You have the right to request the restriction of the processing of your information in certain circumstances, such as when you contest the accuracy or legality of the processing or when you object to the processing.
- Objection: You have the right to object to the processing of your information based on our legitimate interests or for direct marketing purposes, unless we have compelling reasons to continue the processing or the processing is necessary for legal claims.
- Portability: You have the right to request the transfer of your information to another service provider in a structured, commonly used, and machine-readable format, where the processing is based on your consent or contract and is carried out by automated means.
- Withdrawal of consent: You have the right to withdraw your consent to the processing of your information at any time, without affecting the lawfulness of the processing before the withdrawal.
- Complaint: You have the right to lodge a complaint with the relevant data protection authority if you believe that we have violated your privacy rights or the applicable laws and regulations.
To exercise your rights and choices, you can contact us using the contact details below or use the tools and settings available on our website or services. We will respond to your request within a reasonable time and in accordance with the applicable laws and regulations.
We may ask you to verify your identity or provide additional information before we process your request. We may also charge a reasonable fee or refuse to process your request if it is manifestly unfounded, excessive, or repetitive.
Privacy Notice Policy Base: v.4.0 May 2018 – Made available without liability by Home kitchen magazine.