Website: www.cooksimply.co.uk
Owner: Ting Dalton
Contact: ting@cooksimply.co.uk
This privacy policy explains how we handle your personal information. It complies with UK and EU data protection laws (GDPR and the Data Protection Act 2018).
Your Rights
You have the right to:
- Know what data we collect and why
- Get a copy of your data (free of charge)
- Correct inaccurate data
- Delete your data (the “right to be forgotten”)
- Stop us using your data
- Object to how we use your data
- Move your data to another service
To exercise any of these rights, email ting@my-travelmonkey.com. We’ll respond within one month.
To complain: Contact us first. If we can’t resolve it, contact the Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) at www.ico.org.uk.
What Information We Collect
Information you give us: Your name, email address, and any messages or enquiries you send us. If you subscribe to our newsletter, we’ll keep your email and preferences.
Information collected automatically: Your IP address, browser type, device type, which pages you visit, and how you found our site. We use cookies to collect this (see Cookies section below).
How We Use Your Information
- To run the website and respond to your enquiries
- To send you our newsletter (only if you’ve subscribed – you can unsubscribe anytime)
- To understand how people use our site and improve it
- To show you relevant advertising (see Advertising section)
- To comply with legal requirements
Legal basis: We use your data based on your consent (like newsletter subscriptions), our legitimate business interests (like improving the site), or legal obligations (like keeping financial records).
How Long We Keep Your Data
- Newsletter subscriptions: Until you unsubscribe
- Contact enquiries: 3 years
- Transaction records: 7 years (legal requirement)
- Website analytics: 26 months
Keeping Your Data Safe
Your data is stored on secure, password-protected servers with encryption. However, no internet transmission is 100% secure, so please keep your passwords private.
Sharing Your Information
We only share it with:
- Service providers: Web hosting, email services, Google Analytics, and advertising partners (see Advertising section). These companies must keep your data secure.
- Legal requirements: If required by law or to protect our rights
- Business transfers: If we sell the business, your data may transfer to the new owner
International transfers: Some services (like Google Analytics) are based in the USA. We ensure proper safeguards are in place for international transfers.
Children’s Privacy
This site isn’t for children under 16. If you’re a parent concerned your child has shared data with us, please contact us.
Cookies
Cookies are small files that help our website work and remember your preferences.
We use cookies for:
- Essential website functions
- Understanding how people use the site (Google Analytics)
- Showing relevant ads
Cookies we use: Google Analytics cookies, advertising cookies from Pinterest, Doubleclick, Pubmatic, Taboola, and Skimlinks for affiliate links.
Managing cookies: You can block or delete cookies in your browser settings (usually under Settings > Privacy). Note: Blocking cookies may affect how the site works.
Learn more at www.allaboutcookies.org or opt out of Google Analytics at https://tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout.
Third-Party Websites
Our site links to other websites. We’re not responsible for their privacy practices, so check their policies before sharing your information.
Changes to This Policy
We may update this policy occasionally. Check this page for the latest version. If we make major changes, we’ll let you know.
Advertising
CMI Marketing, Inc., d/b/a Raptive (“Raptive”) is a service provider of this Site for the purposes of placing advertising on the Site, and Raptive will collect and use certain data for advertising purposes. To learn more about Raptive’s data usage, click here: https://raptive.com/creator-advertising-privacy-statement
Third-Party Advertising
We may have third-party advertising companies serving ads to you when you visit our website. These companies may store information about your visits to our website and to other websites in order to provide you with relevant advertisements about goods and services.
These companies may employ cookies and other identifiers to gather information which measures advertising effectiveness. The information is generally not personally identifiable unless, for example, you provide personally identifiable information to them through an ad or an e-mail message.
Information Gathered by Third-Party Advertisers
Cookies enable advertisers to learn about what ads you see, what ads you click, and other actions you take on our site and other sites. This allows advertisers to provide you with more useful and relevant ads. For example, if they know what ads you are shown while visiting our site, they can be careful not to show you the same ones repeatedly.
Advertisers and other third-parties (including the ad networks, ad-serving companies, and other service providers they may use) may assume that users who interact with or click on a personalised ad or content are part of the group that the ad or content is directed towards (for example, readers in the Pacific Northwest who read certain types of articles). Also, some third-party cookies may provide them with information about you (such as the sites where you have been shown ads or demographic information) from offline and online sources that they may use to provide you more relevant and useful advertising.
If you would like to learn more about what options you have about limiting the gathering of information by third-party ad networks, you can consult the website of the Network Advertising Initiative.
You can opt out of participating in interest-based advertising networks, but opting out does not mean you will no longer receive online advertising. It does mean that the companies from which you opted out will no longer customise ads based on your interests and web usage patterns using cookie-based technology.