Welcome to 3Recipes. We are committed to protecting your personal information and your right to privacy. This Privacy Policy explains how we collect, use, disclose, and safeguard your information when you visit our website tipes.3recipes.com, including any other media form, media channel, mobile website, or mobile application related or connected to it. Please read this policy carefully. If you disagree with its terms, please discontinue use of our site.
We reserve the right to make changes to this Privacy Policy at any time and for any reason. We will alert you about any changes by updating the “Last Updated” date of this policy. You are encouraged to periodically review this policy to stay informed of updates. Your continued use of the site after any changes indicates your acceptance of the revised policy.
Information We Collect
We may collect information about you in a variety of ways. The information we may collect on the site includes:
Personal Data: Personally identifiable information, such as your name, email address, and demographic information that you voluntarily give to us when you register on the site, subscribe to our newsletter, submit a recipe, or when you choose to participate in various activities related to the site. You are under no obligation to provide us with personal information of any kind; however, your refusal to do so may prevent you from using certain features of the site.
Derivative Data: Information our servers automatically collect when you access the site, such as your IP address, browser type, operating system, access times, and the pages you have viewed directly before and after accessing the site. This data is used solely for operational and analytical purposes.
Financial Data: Financial information, such as data related to your payment method (e.g., valid credit card number, card brand, expiration date) that we may collect when you purchase, order, or request information from our site. We store only very limited, if any, financial information that we collect. Otherwise, all financial information is stored by our payment processors, and you are encouraged to review their privacy policies and contact them directly for responses to your questions.
Data From Social Networks: User information from social networking sites, such as Facebook, Instagram, Pinterest, and Twitter, including your name, your social network username, location, gender, birth date, email address, profile picture, and public data for contacts, if you connect your account to such social networks. This information may also include the contact information of anyone you invite to use and/or join our site.
Mobile Device Data: Device information such as your mobile device ID number, model, and manufacturer, and information about the location of your device, if you access the site from a mobile device.
Third-Party Data: Information from third parties, such as personal information or network friends, if you connect your account to the third party and grant the site permission to access this information.
Data From Contests, Giveaways, and Surveys: Personal and other information you may provide when entering contests or giveaways and/or responding to surveys that we run from time to time.
How We Use Your Information
Having accurate information about you permits us to provide you with a smooth, efficient, and customized experience. Specifically, we may use information collected about you via the site to:
We use your information to create and manage your account, send you newsletters and recipe updates you have subscribed to, respond to your comments and questions, and provide customer support. We may also use your information to send you administrative information, such as updates about our website, changes to our terms or policies, and other similar notices.
We use your data to improve and personalize your experience on our site, to understand how our users interact with our content, and to develop new recipes, features, and functionality. Your feedback and interactions help us understand what types of content are most valuable to our community of home cooks.
We may use your information to send you promotional communications, such as newsletters, special offers, recipes of the week, cooking tips, and information about new features or services. You may opt out of receiving marketing communications from us at any time by clicking the “unsubscribe” link in any email we send or by contacting us directly.
We use your information to monitor and analyze usage and trends on our website, to improve the site, and to improve your experience. We may also use your information to detect, investigate, and prevent fraudulent transactions and other illegal activities, and to protect the rights and property of 3Recipes and others.
Disclosure of Your Information
We may share information we have collected about you in certain situations. Your information may be disclosed as follows:
By Law or to Protect Rights: If we believe the release of information about you is necessary to respond to legal process, to investigate or remedy potential violations of our policies, or to protect the rights, property, and safety of others, we may share your information as permitted or required by any applicable law, rule, or regulation. This includes exchanging information with other entities for fraud protection and credit risk reduction.
Third-Party Service Providers: We may share your information with third parties that perform services for us or on our behalf, including payment processing, data analysis, email delivery, hosting services, customer service, and marketing assistance. These providers are contractually obligated to protect your information and may not use it for any other purpose.
Marketing Communications: With your consent, or with an opportunity for you to withdraw consent, we may share your information with third parties for marketing purposes, as permitted by law.
Interactions with Other Users: If you interact with other users of the site, those users may see your name, profile photo, and descriptions of your activity, including sending invitations to other users, chatting with other users, liking posts, and following blogs.
Online Postings: When you post comments, contributions, or other content to the site, your posts may be viewed by all users and may be publicly distributed outside the site in perpetuity.
Business Transfers: We may share or transfer your information in connection with, or during negotiations of, any merger, sale of company assets, financing, or acquisition of all or a portion of our business to another company.
Affiliates: We may share your information with our affiliates, in which case we will require those affiliates to honor this Privacy Policy. Affiliates include our parent company and any subsidiaries, joint venture partners, or other companies that we control or that are under common control with us.
Cookies and Tracking Technologies
We may use cookies, web beacons, tracking pixels, and other tracking technologies on the site to help customize the site and improve your experience. When you access the site, your personal information is not collected through the use of tracking technology. Most browsers are set to accept cookies by default. You can remove or reject cookies, but be aware that such action could affect the availability and functionality of the site.
Cookies: A cookie is a small file placed on your device. You may instruct your browser to refuse all cookies or to indicate when a cookie is being sent. However, if you do not accept cookies, you may not be able to use some portions of our site. We use both session cookies (which expire once you close your web browser) and persistent cookies (which stay on your device until you delete them).
Web Beacons: Pages of our website and our emails may contain small electronic files known as web beacons (also referred to as clear gifs, pixel tags, and single-pixel gifs) that permit 3Recipes, for example, to count users who have visited those pages or opened an email, and for other related website statistics.
Google Analytics: We may use Google Analytics or similar services to analyze traffic and user behavior on our site. Google Analytics collects information such as how often users visit the site, what pages they visit, and what other sites they used prior to coming to our site. We use this information to improve the site. Google Analytics collects only the IP address assigned to you on the date you visit the site, rather than your name or other identifying information.
You can opt out of Google Analytics by installing the Google Analytics opt-out browser add-on, available at tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout.
Third-Party Websites
The site may contain links to third-party websites and applications of interest, including advertisements and external services that are not affiliated with us. Once you have used these links to leave the site, any information you provide to these third parties is not covered by this Privacy Policy, and we cannot guarantee the safety and privacy of your information.
Before visiting and providing any information to any third-party websites, you should inform yourself of the privacy policies and practices of the third party responsible for that website, and should take those steps necessary to, in your discretion, protect the privacy of your information. We are not responsible for the content or privacy and security practices and policies of any third parties, including other sites, services, or applications that may be linked to or from the site.
Security of Your Information
We use administrative, technical, and physical security measures to help protect your personal information. While we have taken reasonable steps to secure the personal information you provide to us, please be aware that despite our efforts, no security measures are perfect or impenetrable, and no method of data transmission can be guaranteed against any interception or other type of misuse.
Any information disclosed online is vulnerable to interception and misuse by unauthorized parties. Therefore, we cannot guarantee complete security if you provide personal information. We encourage you to take steps to protect your personal information online, such as using strong, unique passwords and keeping your login credentials confidential.
Policy for Children
We do not knowingly solicit information from or market to children under the age of 13. If we learn that we have collected personal information from a child under age 13 without verification of parental consent, we will delete that information as quickly as possible. If you believe we might have any information from or about a child under 13, please contact us at contact@tipes.3recipes.com.
Your Privacy Rights
Depending on your location and applicable law, you may have certain rights regarding your personal information. These may include the right to access, correct, update, or request deletion of your personal information. You also have the right to object to the processing of your personal information, ask us to restrict processing of your personal information, or request portability of your personal information.
If you wish to exercise any of these rights, please contact us using the details provided at the end of this policy. We will consider and act upon any request in accordance with applicable data protection laws. Please note that we may ask you to verify your identity before responding to such requests.
You have the right to complain to a data protection authority about our collection and use of your personal information. For more information, please contact your local data protection authority.
Email Communications and Newsletter
If you subscribe to our newsletter or opt in to receive marketing emails, we will use your email address to send you recipe updates, cooking tips, promotional offers, and other content we think you may find valuable. Each marketing email we send will contain an “unsubscribe” link that allows you to opt out of future marketing communications at any time.
Please note that even if you opt out of marketing emails, we may still send you transactional emails, such as confirmations of recipe submissions, account updates, or responses to your inquiries. These are necessary for the operation of the site and cannot be opted out of while you maintain an account with us.
Data Retention
We will retain your personal information only for as long as is necessary for the purposes set out in this Privacy Policy, unless a longer retention period is required or permitted by law. When we no longer need your personal information, we will securely delete or anonymize it.
If you request deletion of your personal information, we will delete your data from our active databases. However, some information may be retained in our files to prevent fraud, troubleshoot problems, assist with any investigations, enforce our legal terms, and/or comply with applicable legal requirements.
Do Not Track Signals
Some browsers incorporate a “Do Not Track” feature that signals to websites you visit that you do not want to have your online activity tracked. Currently, there is no uniform technology standard for recognizing and implementing DNT signals. As a result, we do not currently respond to DNT browser signals or any other mechanism that automatically communicates your choice not to be tracked online.
If a standard for online tracking is adopted that we must follow in the future, we will inform you about that practice in a revised version of this Privacy Policy.
California Privacy Rights
California Civil Code Section 1798.83, also known as the “Shine The Light” law, permits our users who are California residents to request and obtain from us, once a year and free of charge, information about categories of personal information (if any) we disclosed to third parties for direct marketing purposes and the names and addresses of all third parties with which we shared personal information in the immediately preceding calendar year.
If you are a California resident and would like to make such a request, please submit your request in writing to us using the contact information provided below. If you are under 18 years of age, reside in California, and have a registered account with the site, you have the right to request removal of unwanted data that you publicly post on the site.
GDPR Rights for European Users
If you are a resident of the European Economic Area (EEA), you have certain data protection rights under the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR). 3Recipes aims to take reasonable steps to allow you to correct, amend, delete, or limit the use of your personal information.
You have the right to be informed about how your data is being used. You have the right to access the personal data we hold about you. You have the right to request correction of inaccurate personal data. You have the right to request that we delete your personal data in certain circumstances. You have the right to object to processing of your personal data. You also have the right to data portability, meaning you can request a copy of your data in a structured, commonly used, and machine-readable format.
If you wish to exercise any of these rights, please contact us at contact@tipes.3recipes.com. We will respond to your request within 30 days.
User-Submitted Content
When you submit recipes, photos, comments, or other content to 3Recipes, you understand that this content may be displayed publicly on our website and shared through our social media channels or newsletters. You retain ownership of any content you submit, but by submitting it, you grant us a non-exclusive, royalty-free, worldwide license to use, display, reproduce, and distribute your content in connection with our services.
We do not sell user-submitted content to third parties. If you wish to have your submitted content removed from our site, please contact us at contact@tipes.3recipes.com and we will make reasonable efforts to comply with your request.
Advertising and Affiliate Disclosure
3Recipes may display advertisements served by third-party ad networks. These networks may use cookies and similar technologies to collect information about your visits to our site and other websites in order to provide you with relevant advertisements. We do not control the information collected by these third-party advertisers.
We may also participate in affiliate marketing programs, which means we may earn a commission when you click on links to products or services and make a purchase. These affiliate relationships do not affect our editorial independence or the integrity of our recipe content.
Changes to This Privacy Policy
We may update this Privacy Policy from time to time in order to reflect changes to our practices or for other operational, legal, or regulatory reasons. We will notify you of any significant changes by posting the new Privacy Policy on this page and updating the effective date. We encourage you to review this Privacy Policy periodically to stay informed about how we are protecting your information.
Your continued use of the site following the posting of changes to this Privacy Policy will be deemed your acceptance of those changes. If you do not agree to the updated policy, please discontinue use of the site and contact us to request deletion of your personal data.
Contact Us
If you have questions or comments about this Privacy Policy, or if you would like to exercise any of your privacy rights, please do not hesitate to contact us:
Email: contact@tipes.3recipes.com
You can also reach us through the contact form available on our website at tipes.3recipes.com. We take all privacy inquiries seriously and will respond to your request as promptly as possible.
Thank you for trusting 3Recipes with your information. We are dedicated to protecting your privacy and providing you with a safe, enjoyable, and inspiring cooking experience.