Effective Date: 18/01/2025
DashyRecipes is committed to protecting your privacy and ensuring compliance with the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR). This policy outlines how we collect, use, and safeguard your personal data.
1. Data We Collect
We may collect the following types of personal data:
- Personal Information: Name, email address, and contact details when you sign up for newsletters or create an account.
- Usage Data: Information about how you use our website, including IP address, browser type, and browsing behavior.
- Cookies: Data collected through cookies to enhance your browsing experience (see our Cookie Policy for details).
2. How We Use Your Data
We use your personal data for the following purposes:
- To provide and improve our services.
- To communicate with you about updates, recipes, and promotions (with your consent).
- To ensure website security and monitor usage analytics.
- To comply with legal obligations.
3. Legal Basis for Processing Data
Under GDPR, we process your data based on the following grounds:
- Consent: You have provided clear consent for us to process your data for specific purposes.
- Contract: Processing is necessary to fulfill a contract or provide a service you requested.
- Legal Obligation: Processing is required to comply with legal or regulatory obligations.
- Legitimate Interest: Processing is necessary for our legitimate interests, such as improving website functionality.
4. Sharing Your Data
We do not sell your personal data. However, we may share your data with:
- Service Providers: Trusted third-party companies for hosting, analytics, or email delivery services.
- Legal Authorities: When required by law to protect our rights or comply with legal proceedings.
5. Data Retention
We retain your data only for as long as necessary to fulfill the purposes outlined in this policy or to comply with legal obligations. Once the retention period expires, your data will be securely deleted or anonymized.
6. Your Rights Under GDPR
As an EU resident, you have the following rights:
- Access: Request access to your personal data.
- Correction: Request corrections to inaccurate or incomplete data.
- Erasure: Request deletion of your data (right to be forgotten).
- Objection: Object to processing based on legitimate interests.
- Data Portability: Request a copy of your data in a commonly used format.
- Withdraw Consent: Withdraw consent where processing is based on your consent.
To exercise your rights, please contact us at [Insert Contact Email].
7. Cookies
DashyRecipes uses cookies to enhance your browsing experience. For more details, please see our Cookie Policy.
8. Data Security
We implement appropriate technical and organizational measures to safeguard your data from unauthorized access, alteration, or disclosure.
9. Third-Party Links
Our website may contain links to external websites. DashyRecipes is not responsible for the privacy practices or content of third-party sites.
10. Updates to This Policy
We may update this Privacy Policy from time to time. Significant changes will be communicated to you via email or a notice on our website.
11. Contact Us
For questions, concerns, or to exercise your GDPR rights, contact us at:
DashyRecipes Team
Email: [email protected]