Who We Are
Our website address is https://britishfoodie.co.uk.
If you require any more information or have any questions about our privacy policy, please feel free to contact us by email at [email protected].
At British Foodie, the privacy of our visitors is of utmost importance. This document outlines the types of personal information that we collect and how we use it.
What Personal Data We Collect and Why
Comments
When visitors leave comments on the site, we collect the data shown in the comments form, along with the visitor’s IP address and browser user agent to help detect spam. An anonymized string (hash) created from your email address may be sent to the Gravatar service to check if you’re using it. The Gravatar service privacy policy is available here. Once your comment is approved, your profile picture may be visible in the context of your comment.
Media
If you upload images to the website, avoid uploading images with embedded location data (EXIF GPS). Visitors to the site can download and extract location data from images on the website.
Cookies
If you leave a comment on our site you may opt-in to saving your name, email, and website in cookies. These are for your convenience, so you don’t have to fill in your details again for future comments. These cookies will last for one year.
Login Page
We will set a temporary cookie to determine if your browser accepts cookies. This cookie contains no personal data and is discarded when you close your browser. Upon logging in, cookies will be set to save your login information and screen preferences. Login cookies last for two days, screen preferences for one year. If you select “Remember Me,” your login persists for two weeks. Logging out will remove the login cookies.
Google Analytics
We use Google Analytics to analyze website usage via cookies. The information gathered helps us create reports and improve our content. Google’s privacy policy is available here.
Log Files
Like many websites, we use log files. These include IP addresses, browser type, ISP, date/time stamps, referring/exit pages, and clicks to track user movement and gather demographic information. This data is not linked to personally identifiable information.
Advertising Cookies
As a third-party vendor, Google uses cookies (e.g., DART cookie) to serve ads on our site based on users’ visits. You can opt out of the DART cookie by visiting Google’s privacy policy.
Third-party ad networks may use technologies like cookies and web beacons to serve personalized ads. British Foodie has no control over these cookies, so we recommend reviewing the privacy policies of third-party ad servers for more details.
Embedded Content
Articles on British Foodie may include embedded content (e.g., videos, images, articles) from other websites. Embedded content behaves as if the visitor is visiting the other site, which may collect data, use cookies, and track your interactions.
How Long We Retain Your Data
If you leave a comment, both the comment and its metadata are retained indefinitely. This is to streamline the approval of any future comments. For users that register on our site, we store their personal information in their profile. Users can edit or delete their information anytime, except for their username.
What Rights You Have Over Your Data
If you have an account or have left comments, you can request an exported file of the personal data we hold about you or request that we erase any data we hold about you. This does not include data we are obliged to keep for administrative, legal, or security purposes.
Where We Send Your Data
Visitor comments may be checked through an automated spam detection service.