Privacy Policy

Last Updated: June 18, 2026

1. Introduction

Recipe Harbor (“we,” “us,” or “our”) operates the website https://recipeharbor.com (the “Site”). This Privacy Policy explains how we collect, use, disclose, and safeguard your personal information when you visit our Site. By accessing or using the Site, you agree to the terms of this Privacy Policy. If you do not agree, please discontinue use of the Site immediately.

2. Information We Collect

We collect information in the following ways:

2.1 Information You Provide Voluntarily

We do not require personal information to browse our website. However, if you voluntarily contact us (for example, via email or a contact form), we may collect:

  • Your name
  • Email address
  • Any message or content you send to us

2.2 Information Collected Automatically

When you visit our Site, we automatically collect certain information using cookies, log files, and similar tracking technologies. This includes:

  • IP address
  • Browser type, version, and language
  • Device type, model, and operating system
  • Screen resolution and color depth
  • Internet service provider (ISP)
  • Referring website, search terms, or social media source
  • Pages visited, time spent on each page, and scroll depth
  • Click patterns, hover behavior, and interaction data
  • Approximate geographic location (country, region, city level)
  • Date, time, and duration of visits
  • Session ID and unique device identifiers

3. Legal Basis for Processing (GDPR)

Under the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), we process your personal data based on the following legal grounds:

  • Consent: For the use of non-essential cookies, personalized advertising, marketing emails, and newsletter subscriptions
  • Legitimate Interest: For website analytics, security monitoring, fraud prevention, service improvement, and technical troubleshooting
  • Contract: For responding to your inquiries, providing requested services, and fulfilling any agreements
  • Legal Obligation: For compliance with applicable laws, regulations, and court orders

4. How We Use Your Information

We use the information we collect for the following specific purposes:

  • To operate, maintain, secure, and improve our Site
  • To analyze website traffic, user behavior, and content performance using Google Analytics
  • To display relevant advertisements through Google AdSense and other advertising partners
  • To remember your preferences, settings, and display choices
  • To respond to your inquiries, comments, and feedback
  • To send newsletters or updates (only if you have opted in)
  • To detect, prevent, and address technical issues, security threats, and fraudulent activity
  • To comply with legal obligations and enforce our Terms and Conditions
  • To personalize content recommendations and user experience

5. Cookies and Tracking Technologies

We use cookies, web beacons, pixels, local storage, session storage, and similar technologies to enhance your browsing experience and collect information about how you use our Site. For detailed information about the cookies we use, please see our Cookie Policy.

5.1 Types of Cookies We Use

  • Strictly Necessary Cookies: Essential for the Site to function properly. These enable core features such as security, network management, load balancing, user authentication, and accessibility. These cookies cannot be disabled.
  • Analytics Cookies: Help us understand how visitors interact with our Site by collecting and reporting information anonymously. We use Google Analytics for this purpose.
  • Advertising Cookies: Used to deliver advertisements that are more relevant to you and your interests. They also help us and our partners measure the effectiveness of advertising campaigns. We use Google AdSense and may use other advertising networks.
  • Preference Cookies: Remember your settings, language preferences, display options, and other choices to enhance your browsing experience on future visits.
  • Social Media Cookies: Allow you to share content on social media platforms and may track your interactions with embedded social media content.

5.2 Managing Cookies

You can manage your cookie preferences at any time through our cookie consent banner, which appears when you first visit our Site. You may also adjust your browser settings to block or delete cookies. Please note that disabling certain cookies may affect the functionality and user experience of our Site.

6. Third-Party Services and Advertising Partners

We use the following third-party services that may collect and process personal information:

6.1 Google Analytics

We use Google Analytics to analyze website traffic and user behavior. Google Analytics collects information such as your IP address, browser type, device information, pages visited, time on site, and interactions with content. This data is processed in accordance with Google’s Privacy Policy. We have enabled IP anonymization where technically possible. For more information, visit Google’s Privacy Policy and Google Analytics Data Privacy.

6.2 Google AdSense

We use Google AdSense to display advertisements on our Site. Google and its partners use cookies (including the DoubleClick cookie) and similar technologies to serve ads based on your prior visits to our Site and other websites. This enables personalized or non-personalized advertising based on your browsing history, interests, and demographics.

How Google Uses Your Information for Advertising:

  • Google uses cookies to recognize your browser and device across sessions
  • Google may use your browsing history to show you relevant, targeted ads
  • Google may collect information about your interactions with ads (impressions, clicks, conversions)
  • Google may use your approximate location to show geographically relevant ads
  • Google may share aggregated, non-personally identifiable data with advertisers
  • Google may combine data from multiple sources to build advertising profiles

How to Opt Out of Personalized Advertising:

For more information about Google’s advertising practices, visit Google’s Advertising Policies and Google’s Privacy Policy.

6.3 Other Third-Party Services

We may use additional third-party services for hosting, content delivery, email management, social media integration, and other operational purposes. These services may collect and process data in accordance with their own privacy policies. We encourage you to review the privacy policies of any third-party services you interact with through our Site.

7. Third-Party Links

Our Site may contain links to external websites, applications, or services that are not owned, operated, or controlled by Recipe Harbor. These links are provided for informational purposes, reference, or convenience. We have no control over the content, privacy policies, security practices, or data collection practices of third-party websites.

By clicking on a third-party link, you acknowledge that you are leaving our Site and that we are not responsible for any content, practices, or consequences arising from your use of external websites. We strongly encourage you to review the privacy policies and terms of service of any third-party websites you visit.

8. Data Retention

We retain your personal information only for as long as necessary to fulfill the purposes for which it was collected, comply with legal obligations, resolve disputes, and enforce our agreements. Specific retention periods are as follows:

  • Contact form submissions and email correspondence: Up to 24 months from the date of submission, or until you request deletion
  • Analytics data: 26 months (Google Analytics default retention period), after which data is automatically deleted or anonymized
  • Server logs and security records: Up to 12 months for security monitoring, troubleshooting, and legal compliance
  • Advertising and conversion data: As determined by Google AdSense’s data retention policies, typically up to 9 months for click data
  • Cookie consent records: Up to 12 months to demonstrate compliance with consent requirements
  • Newsletter subscriber data: Until you unsubscribe or request deletion

9. Your Rights

Depending on your location and applicable data protection laws, you may have the following rights regarding your personal data:

9.1 GDPR Rights (EU/EEA Residents)

If you are located in the European Union or European Economic Area, you have the following rights under the General Data Protection Regulation:

  • Right to Access: Request a copy of the personal data we hold about you, along with information about how we process it
  • Right to Rectification: Request correction of inaccurate or incomplete personal data
  • Right to Erasure (“Right to Be Forgotten”): Request deletion of your personal data when it is no longer necessary for the purposes for which it was collected
  • Right to Restrict Processing: Request limitation of how we use your data in certain circumstances
  • Right to Data Portability: Receive your data in a structured, commonly used, machine-readable format and transmit it to another controller
  • Right to Object: Object to processing based on legitimate interests or direct marketing, including profiling for advertising purposes
  • Right to Withdraw Consent: Withdraw consent for cookie usage, marketing, or data processing at any time without affecting the lawfulness of processing based on consent before its withdrawal
  • Right to Lodge a Complaint: File a complaint with your local data protection authority if you believe we have violated your rights

9.2 CCPA/CPRA Rights (California Residents)

If you are a resident of California, you have the following rights under the California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA) and California Privacy Rights Act (CPRA):

  • Right to Know: Request disclosure of the specific categories and specific pieces of personal information we have collected about you in the preceding 12 months
  • Right to Delete: Request deletion of your personal information, subject to certain exceptions
  • Right to Opt-Out of Sale/Sharing: Opt out of the sale or sharing of your personal information for targeted advertising purposes
  • Right to Non-Discrimination: We will not discriminate against you for exercising any of your privacy rights
  • Right to Correct: Request correction of inaccurate personal information
  • Right to Limit Use of Sensitive Personal Information: Restrict how we use sensitive personal information
  • Right to Know About Automated Decision-Making: Request information about automated decision-making and profiling

We do not sell your personal information. However, we may share certain information with third-party advertising partners for targeted advertising purposes, which may be considered “sharing” under California law. You have the right to opt out of this sharing at any time.

To exercise your CCPA/CPRA rights, please contact us at [email protected] or submit a request through our contact page. We will verify your identity using reasonable methods before processing your request. We will respond within 45 days, or notify you if we need additional time.

9.3 Other Jurisdictions

Residents of other jurisdictions may have additional rights under applicable privacy laws, including but not limited to:

  • Brazil (LGPD): Rights to confirmation, access, correction, anonymization, portability, deletion, and information about sharing
  • Canada (PIPEDA): Rights to access, challenge accuracy, and withdraw consent
  • United Kingdom (UK GDPR): Similar rights to EU GDPR
  • Australia (Privacy Act): Rights to access and correct personal information

Please contact us to inquire about your specific rights under your local data protection laws.

10. International Data Transfers

Your personal information may be transferred to, stored, and processed in countries outside your country of residence, including the United States, where our servers and service providers are located. These countries may have data protection laws that differ from, and may be less protective than, those in your jurisdiction.

We ensure that appropriate safeguards are in place to protect your data during international transfers, including:

  • Standard Contractual Clauses (SCCs): Approved by the European Commission for transfers from the EU/EEA
  • Adequacy Decisions: Where applicable, we rely on adequacy decisions by the European Commission
  • Data Processing Agreements: Legally binding contracts with our service providers that include data protection obligations
  • Privacy Shield Compliance: Where applicable, for transfers involving US-based service providers

By using our Site, you consent to the transfer of your information to countries outside your country of residence, including the United States.

11. Children’s Privacy

Our Site is not directed toward children under the age of 13, and we do not knowingly collect, solicit, or process personal information from children under 13. If we become aware that we have inadvertently collected personal information from a child under 13 without verifiable parental consent, we will take immediate steps to delete that information from our servers and records as soon as possible.

If you are a parent or guardian and believe that your child has provided us with personal information without your consent, please contact us immediately at [email protected] and we will promptly remove such information.

For residents of California, we do not sell the personal information of consumers under 16 years of age.

12. Data Security

We implement reasonable technical, administrative, and organizational measures to protect your personal information from unauthorized access, disclosure, alteration, and destruction. These measures include:

  • SSL/TLS encryption for data transmission
  • Regular security assessments and vulnerability testing
  • Access controls and authentication procedures
  • Regular backups and disaster recovery procedures
  • Employee training on data protection practices

However, no method of transmission over the internet or electronic storage is completely secure. While we strive to use commercially acceptable means to protect your personal information, we cannot guarantee its absolute security. You acknowledge and accept this risk when using our Site.

In the event of a data breach that affects your personal information, we will notify you and applicable regulatory authorities in accordance with applicable laws.

13. Changes to This Privacy Policy

We may update this Privacy Policy from time to time to reflect changes in our practices, legal requirements, service offerings, or for other operational reasons. When we make material changes, we will notify you by:

  • Posting the updated policy on this page with a revised “Last Updated” date at the top
  • Displaying a prominent notice on our Site for a reasonable period
  • Sending an email notification to registered users or newsletter subscribers, if applicable
  • Re-prompting for cookie consent if changes affect cookie usage

We encourage you to review this Privacy Policy periodically to stay informed about how we protect your information. Your continued use of the Site after any changes constitutes your acceptance of the revised Privacy Policy.

14. Contact Us

If you have any questions, concerns, complaints, or requests regarding this Privacy Policy, our data practices, or your rights, please contact us:

We will respond to your inquiry within 30 days. If you are not satisfied with our response, you have the right to lodge a complaint with your local data protection authority or supervisory authority.

For EU residents, you may contact your local data protection authority. A list of EU data protection authorities is available at https://edpb.europa.eu/about-edpb/board/members_en.