At Foodarina (accessible from foodarina.com), the privacy of our visitors is one of our main priorities. This Privacy Policy document outlines the types of information collected and recorded by Foodarina and how we use it.
Comments
When visitors leave comments on Foodarina, we collect the data shown in the comments form, as well as the visitor’s IP address and browser user agent string to assist with automated spam detection.
An anonymized string created from your email address (also called a hash) may be provided to the Gravatar service to verify if you are using it. You can review the Gravatar service privacy policy here: https://automattic.com/privacy/. After your comment is approved by our team, your profile picture will be visible to the public in the context of your comment alongside your recipe feedback or question.
Media
If you upload images to the website (for example, sharing a photo of a recipe you recreated in the comments section), you should avoid uploading images with embedded location data (EXIF GPS) included. Visitors to the website can potentially download and extract any location data from images hosted on the web.
Cookies
To ensure a fast, premium, and seamless browsing experience, Foodarina utilizes a lightweight, built-in cookie consent framework provided natively by our website theme, avoiding heavy external tracking scripts.
- Comment Cookies: If you leave a comment on our site, you may opt-in to saving your name, email address, and website in cookies. These are strictly for your convenience so that you do not have to fill in your details again when you leave another comment. These cookies will last for one year.
- Login & Session Cookies: If you visit our 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. When you log in, we also set up several cookies to save your login information and your screen display choices. Login cookies last for two days, and screen options cookies last for a year. If you select “Remember Me”, your login will persist for two weeks. If you log out of your account, the login cookies will be removed.
- Editorial Cookies: If you edit or publish an article, an additional cookie will be saved in your browser. This cookie includes no personal data and simply indicates the post ID of the article you just edited. It expires after 1 day.
Embedded Content From Other Websites
Articles and recipe posts on Foodarina may include embedded content (such as videos, images, Pinterest pins, or social media links). Embedded content from other websites behaves in the exact same way as if the visitor has visited the source website directly.
These third-party websites may collect data about you, use cookies, embed additional third-party tracking, and monitor your interaction with that embedded content—including tracking your interaction with the embedded content if you have an account and are logged into that specific third-party website.
Who We Share Your Data With
We value your trust and do not sell or trade your data. However, for administrative and operational security:
- If you request a password reset, your current IP address will be included automatically in the reset verification email.
- Visitor comments may be processed through an automated, secure spam detection service.
How Long We Retain Your Data
If you leave a comment or recipe review, the comment and its metadata are retained indefinitely. This allows us to automatically recognize and approve any follow-up comments instead of holding them in a manual moderation queue.
For users that register on our website (if any), we also store the personal information they provide in their user profile. All users can view, edit, or delete their personal information at any time (except they cannot change their unique username). Website administrators can also view and edit that administrative information.
What Rights You Have Over Your Data
If you have a registered account on Foodarina, or have left comments across our posts, you can request to receive an exported file of the personal data we hold about you, including any specific data you have provided to us.
You can also request that we erase any personal data we hold about you. This does not include any underlying data we are legally or administratively obliged to keep for security, legal, or administrative logging purposes.