Privacy Policy for decadesofcooking.com
Effective Date: October 21, 2025
1. Introduction
Welcome to Decades of Cooking (“we,” “us,” “our”). We are committed to protecting the privacy of our visitors. This Privacy Policy outlines the types of personal information that is received and collected by decadesofcooking.com (the “Site”) and how it is used.
This Privacy Policy is designed to help you understand how we collect, use, and safeguard the information you provide to us and to assist you in making informed decisions when using our Site.
2. Information We Collect
We collect information from you when you visit our site, leave comments, subscribe to a newsletter, or interact with our content. The information we collect falls into two categories:
- Voluntarily Submitted Data: We collect personal information from you when you voluntarily provide it, such as your name and email address when leaving a comment or subscribing to our email newsletter.
- Automatically Collected Data: We automatically collect certain information about you and the device with which you access the Site. This includes your IP address, browser type, operating system type, referring websites, pages you viewed, the dates/times when you accessed the Site, and other usage data. We also collect information about actions you take when using the Site, such as links clicked.
- Cookies: We may use cookies to store information, such as your personal preferences when you visit our site. You will find more details in our Cookies section below.
3. How Your Information Is Used
We may use the information collected in the following ways:
- To operate and maintain the Site;
- To improve your experience on the Site and to understand how our audience uses the site;
- To respond to your comments or inquiries;
- To send you promotional information, such as newsletters. Each email promotion will provide information on how to opt-out of future mailings;
- To serve advertisements that are relevant to your interests;
- To protect, investigate, and deter against unauthorized or illegal activity.
4. Third-Party Use of Information
We use third-party services to help operate our Site. The use of your personal information by these third parties is dictated by their respective privacy policies.
- Google Analytics: This Site uses Google Analytics to track website usage and provides information such as referring websites and user actions on the Site. Google Analytics may capture your IP address, but no other personal information is captured by Google Analytics. We use this information to analyze user behavior and improve our content. You can learn about Google’s practices at https://policies.google.com/privacy and opt-out by using the Google Analytics Opt-Out Browser Add-on, available at https://tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout.
- Google AdSense: This Site uses Google AdSense to display ads. Third-party vendors, including Google, use cookies to serve ads based on a user’s prior visits to this website or other websites on the internet.
- Google’s use of advertising cookies (specifically the DoubleClick DART cookie) enables it and its partners to serve ads to our users based on their visit to our Site and/or other sites on the Internet.
- Users may opt out of personalized advertising by visiting Google’s Ad Settings. Alternatively, you can opt out of a third-party vendor’s use of cookies for personalized advertising by visiting www.aboutads.info/choices.
- Affiliate Programs: The Site may engage in affiliate marketing, which is done by embedding tracking links into the Site. If you click on a link for an affiliate partnership, a cookie will be placed on your browser to track any sales for purposes of commissions.
5. Cookies Policy
Cookies are small data files stored on your browser by the Site. We may use both session cookies, which expire when you close your browser, and persistent cookies, which stay on your browser until deleted, to provide you with a more personalized experience on the Site.
Our Site uses cookies to:
- Store visitors’ preferences.
- Record user-specific information on what pages users access or visit.
- Ensure that visitors are not repeatedly sent the same banner ads.
- Customize Site content based on visitors’ browser type or other information that the visitor sends.
You can prevent the setting of cookies by our Site at any time by using a corresponding setting of your internet browser and may thus permanently deny the setting of cookies. Furthermore, already set cookies may be deleted at any time via your browser settings. If you deactivate the setting of cookies in your internet browser, not all functions of our Site may be entirely usable.
6. Children’s Information
This Site is not intended for children under the age of 13. We do not knowingly collect any personally identifiable information from children under 13. If a parent or guardian believes that the Site has personally identifiable information of a child under the age of 13 in its database, please contact us immediately at [your-email-address], and we will use our best efforts to promptly remove such information from our records.
7. Your Data Rights
Depending on your location, you may have rights under data protection laws, including:
- Right to Access: You have the right to request copies of your personal data.
- Right to Rectification: You have the right to request that we correct any information you believe is inaccurate or complete information you believe is incomplete.
- Right to Erasure: You have the right to request that we erase your personal data, under certain conditions.
If you would like to exercise any of these rights, please contact us.
8. Changes to This Privacy Policy
We may change this Privacy Policy from time to time. We will post any privacy policy changes on this page and, if the changes are significant, we will provide a more prominent notice. We encourage you to review the Privacy Policy whenever you access the Site to stay informed about our information practices.
9. Contact Information
If you have any questions or concerns about this Privacy Policy, please contact us at:
cook@decadesofcooking.com