Privacy Policy

Effective from 25th May 2018

Who we are

Natalie l The Genetic Chef
P.O. Box 345
Hathorne, MA

Our website address is: http://www.thegeneticchef.com.

Affiliate Program Participation

The Genetic Chef is an Amazon affiliate. If you click through to Amazon from my website, I get a small commission at no cost to you which helps me keep this site going. Thank you for your support!

What personal data we collect and why we collect it

The Genetic Chef uses limited personal data such as name, email address, and cookies. This data is necessary and mandatory for running our website (see details below).

We keep your personal information personal and private. We do not sell, rent, share or disclose your personal information to anyone except as necessary to provide our services as described in this Privacy Policy.

We collect this data to:

• Optimize your experience with thegeneticchef.com
• Send newsletters and emails
• Provide ads based on interest to you by the use of cookies which will be explained below.
• Reply to any comments or questions that were entered by you

This site was created using WordPress which is open source software used to create this website and blog. You can find their  policy here.

By default WordPress does not collect any personal data about visitors, and only collects the data shown on the User Profile screen from registered users.

Comments

When visitors leave comments on the site we collect the data shown in the comments form, and also the visitor’s IP address and browser user agent string to help spam detection.

An anonymized string created from your email address (also called a hash) may be provided to the Gravatar service to see if you are using it. The Gravatar service privacy policy is available here. After approval of your comment, your profile picture is visible to the public in the context of your comment.

Cookies

This website uses cookies to store information when visiting this site. You can turn off or disable cookies by changing it in your browser’s settings. By turning cookies off, it will affect your abilities of use and interactions with this and other websites.

In layman’s terms – What are cookies? Every time you visit a website, a little text file or data file is downloaded onto your computer. If you visit that site again, it knows you’ve been there before and tailors your experience based on your past experience.

For example, when you log in to amazon and search for blenders, that information gets stored. The next time you visit amazon, you’ll notice it has a recently viewed items on the page and you might see the blenders you looked at before. Same thing goes for if you are looking for a certain dog food. Next time you go onto a site, you’ll see ads for dog food pop up. You can delete cookies if you go to your browser and search on how to delete cookies. If you turn cookies off, you’ll notice some sites won’t function properly. The cookie isn’t there to hurt you, it was developed to make your experience better.

If you leave a comment on our site you may opt-in to saving your name, email address and website in cookies. These are for your convenience so that you do not have to fill in your details again when you leave another comment.

Third party vendors, including Google, use cookies to serve ads based on a user’s prior visits to thegeneticchef.com. This site uses Google AdSense to monetize. Google’s use of advertising cookies enables it and its partners to serve ads to you based on your visit to this site and/or other sites on the Internet.

Google’s use of the DoubleClick cookie enables it and its partners to serve ads to users based on their visit to thegeneticchef.com.

Users may opt out of the use of the DoubleClick cookie for interest-based advertising by visiting aboutads.info

Website Analytics

Thegeneticchef.com uses Google Analytics to optimize our website. Cookies are used by Google Analytics which tracks, measures, collects, and analyzes web data. It’s used to optimize web usage to improve the user’s experience. Your IP address (location) is anonymized. All data collected is purged by Google Analytics every 14 months. You can read their policy here.

Who we share your data with

We use the following third party providers with whom we share site data:

Mailchimp

Mailchimp is an email database manager software used to collect your name and/or email when subscribing to thegeneticchef.com for emails, newsletters, and/or updates. Along with your name and/or email, your IP address, geolocation (which country), and avatar is collected, if using and avatar. As stated above, the Gravatar service privacy policy is available here: https://automattic.com/privacy/. You can read Mailchimp’s Privacy Policy here.

Pinterest “Pin It” Button

As a visitor to thegeneticchef.com, you can pin our content to Pinterest. Cookies are used to allow you to login to your Pinterest account. You can read Pinterest’s Privacy Policy here.

FaceBook

You can link to your FaceBook account from this website, therefore, you can review FaceBook’s privacy policy here.

Instagram

You can link to your Instagram account from this website, therefore, you can review Instagram’s privacy policy here.

How long we retain your data

If you leave a comment, the comment and its metadata are retained indefinitely. This is so we can recognize and approve any follow-up comments automatically instead of holding them in a 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 see, edit, or delete their personal information at any time (except they cannot change their username). Website administrators can also see and edit that information.

What rights you have over your data

If you have an account on this site, or have left comments, you can request to receive an exported file of the personal data we hold about you, including any 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 data we are obliged to keep for administrative, legal, or security purposes.

Where we send your data

Visitor comments may be checked through an automated spam detection service.

Children’s Information

The Website does not knowingly collect any personally identifiable information from children under the age of 16. Please contact us immediately at natalie@thegeneticchef.com and we will do our best to promptly remove such information from our records.

Contact Information

The Genetic Chef www.thegeneticchef.com
natalie@thegeneticchef.com
P.O. Box 345
Hathorne, MA