Privacy Policy

This Privacy Policy outlines how we collect, use, and protect your personal data in compliance with the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR). The GDPR is a regulation designed to strengthen and unify data protection for all individuals within the European Union, aiming to protect the fundamental right to privacy and the protection of personal data.

Our Commitment to GDPR Principles

According to the GDPR, all personal data we hold must adhere to the following principles:

Lawfulness, Fairness, and Transparency: Processed lawfully, fairly, and in a transparent manner in relation to individuals.
Purpose Limitation: Collected for specified, explicit, and legitimate purposes and not further processed in a manner that is incompatible with those purposes.
Data Minimisation: Adequate, relevant, and limited to what is necessary in relation to the purposes for which they are processed.
Accuracy: Accurate and, where necessary, kept up to date; every reasonable step must be taken to ensure that personal data that are inaccurate, having regard to the purposes for which they are processed, are erased or rectified without delay.
Storage Limitation: Retained only for as long as necessary for the purposes for which the personal data are processed.
Integrity and Confidentiality: Processed in a manner that ensures appropriate security of the personal data, including protection against unauthorised or unlawful processing and against accidental loss, destruction, or damage, using appropriate technical or organisational measures.

Information We Collect

We may collect, store, and use the following kinds of personal information:

(a) Website Usage Information: Information about your computer and about your visits to and use of this website (including your IP address, geographical location, browser type and version, operating system, referral source, length of visit, page views, and website navigation).
(b) Subscription Information: Information that you provide to us for the purpose of subscribing to our newsletter or blog.
(c) Form Submission Information: Information that you provide to us by submitting any form on our website.
(d) Other Necessary Information: Any other necessary information that you choose to send to us with legitimate purpose.

Cookies & Tracking Tools

A cookie is a file containing an identifier (a string of letters and numbers) that is sent by a web server to a web browser and stored by the browser. The identifier is then sent back to the server each time the browser requests a page from the server. This enables the web server to identify and track the web browser.

Most browsers allow you to reject all cookies, whilst some allow you to reject just third-party cookies. For example, in Internet Explorer, you can refuse all cookies by clicking “Tools”, “Internet Options”, “Privacy”, and selecting “Block all cookies” using the sliding selector.

Please note: Blocking all cookies will, however, have a negative impact upon the usability of many websites, including this one.

We use Google Analytics to analyse the use of this website. Google Analytics generates statistical and other information about website use by means of cookies, which are stored on users’ computers. The information generated relating to our website is used to create reports about the use of the website. Google will store this information. Google’s privacy policy is available at: www.google.com/privacypolicy.html.

Disclosure of Your Information

We may disclose information about you to any officers, agents, suppliers, or subcontractors insofar as reasonably necessary for the purposes as set out in this privacy policy.

In addition, we may disclose your personal information:

(a) Legal Requirement: To the extent that we are required to do so by law.
(b) Legal Proceedings: In connection with any legal proceedings or prospective legal proceedings.
(c) Protecting Our Rights: In order to establish, exercise, or defend our legal rights (including providing information to others for the purposes of fraud prevention and reducing credit risk).
(d) Business Transactions: To the purchaser (or prospective purchaser) of any business or asset that we are (or are contemplating) selling.
(e) Court/Authority Order: To any person who we reasonably believe may apply to a court or other competent authority for disclosure of that personal information where, in our reasonable opinion, such court or authority would be reasonably likely to order disclosure of that personal information.

Except as provided in this privacy policy, we will not provide your information to third parties.

Security of Your Personal Information

We will take reasonable technical and organisational precautions to prevent the loss, misuse, or alteration of your data. Of course, data transmission over the internet is inherently insecure, and we cannot guarantee the security of data sent over the internet.

Retention of Data

We retain data that you provide to us as long as we consider it necessary for working with you, if you have subscribed to our newsletter or blog, or as needed to comply with any legal obligations. Following this, we will securely delete your data. We will delete your data at an earlier date if you should choose to unsubscribe.

Policy Amendments

We may update this privacy policy from time to time by posting a new version on our website. You should check this page occasionally to ensure you’re happy with any changes.

Your Rights

You have the following rights regarding your personal data:

Right of Access: You may instruct us to provide you with any data we hold about you. Provision of such information will be subject to the supply of appropriate evidence of your identity (for this purpose, we will usually accept a photocopy of your passport certified by a solicitor or bank plus an original copy of a utility bill showing your current address). We may withhold such personal information to the extent permitted by law. We may also refuse nuisance requests, where a person requests their data excessively on multiple occasions without legitimate reason.
Right to Rectification: You have the right to request that inaccurate or incomplete data we hold about you be corrected. Please let us know if the data which we hold about you needs to be corrected or updated.
Right to Erasure (Right to be Forgotten): You have the right to request the deletion of your personal data under certain circumstances.
Right to Restriction of Processing: You have the right to request that we restrict the processing of your personal data under certain circumstances.
Right to Object: You have the right to object to the processing of your personal data under certain circumstances. You may instruct us not to process your data by sending an email to us or unsubscribing at any time.

In practice, you will usually expressly agree in advance to our use of your data for marketing purposes, and we will provide you with an opportunity to withdraw consent of the use of your data at any time.

Third-Party Websites

Our website may contain links to other websites. We are not responsible for the privacy policies or practices of third-party websites.

Contact

If you have any questions about this privacy policy or our treatment of your personal information, please email us via Chef.georgeiscooking@gmail.com.