Privacy Policy
Last updated: October 27, 2026
This Privacy Policy explains what information Captivate Recipes (captivaterecipes.com) collects when you browse the site, send us a message or rate and comment on a recipe, how we use that information, which third-party services are involved, and what choices you have. We have tried to keep it specific and short. If something is unclear, you can reach us through the Contact Us page.
1. Information We Collect
Information you give us
- Contact form: When you write to us, the form asks for your name, your email address and your message. We use this information only to reply to you.
- Recipe ratings and comments: When you rate or comment on a recipe, we receive the name you enter and the text you submit. Comments may be displayed publicly on the recipe page, so please do not include personal details such as your address or phone number.
Information collected automatically
- Server logs: Like most websites, our web server records standard technical data for every request: your IP address, your browser and the pages requested. We use these logs for security and troubleshooting.
- Visit statistics: We measure visits with a first-party system that runs on our own server. It records which page was viewed and the referrer (the page or site you came from). Raw visit records are kept for 7 days; after that, only daily totals remain.
- Cookies and similar technologies: See the next section.
3. How We Use Your Information
- To reply to messages sent through the contact form.
- To display your rating and comment on the recipe you submitted it for.
- To keep the site secure, detect abuse and fix technical problems.
- To understand which pages and recipes are visited, so we can improve the site.
- To show advertising that helps cover the cost of running the site, with your consent where the law requires it.
We do not sell your personal information.
4. Legal Basis for Processing (EEA, UK and Switzerland)
If you visit from the EEA, the UK or Switzerland, we process your data on these grounds:
- Consent for personalized advertising cookies, which you can withdraw at any time through the Google consent message.
- Legitimate interests for server logs, security through Cloudflare and our own visit statistics, which are needed to run and protect the site.
- Our interest in responding to you when you send a message, and in publishing the ratings and comments you choose to submit.
5. How Long We Keep Data
- Raw visit records from our first-party statistics: 7 days, after which only daily totals are kept.
- Contact form messages: kept only as long as needed to answer you and handle any follow-up.
- Ratings and comments: kept with the recipe page until you ask us to remove them or we remove them ourselves.
- Server logs: kept for a limited period for security and troubleshooting.
Data held by Google and Cloudflare is governed by their own retention practices.
6. Your Data Protection Rights
GDPR rights (EEA, UK and Switzerland)
If you are in one of these regions, you have the right to:
- Access the personal data we hold about you.
- Rectification: ask us to correct information that is inaccurate.
- Erasure: ask us to delete your personal data, under certain conditions.
- Restriction: ask us to limit how we process your data.
- Objection: object to processing based on our legitimate interests.
- Portability: request your data in a commonly used format, where applicable.
- Withdraw consent at any time, for example for personalized ads.
- Complain to your local data protection authority.
CCPA/CPRA rights (California residents)
If you are a California resident, you have the right to:
- Know what categories and specific pieces of personal information we have collected about you, and how they are used.
- Request deletion of personal information we have collected from you, subject to legal exceptions.
- Request correction of inaccurate personal information.
- Opt out of the sale or sharing of personal information. We do not sell personal information. Advertising cookies from Google AdSense may count as "sharing" for cross-context behavioral advertising under California law; you can limit this at adssettings.google.com.
- Not be treated unfavorably for exercising any of these rights.
How to make a request
To exercise any of these rights, send us a request through the Contact Us page. We may need to confirm your identity before acting on it, and we will respond within the time required by applicable law (generally within one month, or 45 days for California requests).
7. Children's Privacy
Captivate Recipes is intended for a general audience and is not directed at children under 13. We do not knowingly collect personal information from children under 13. If you believe a child has sent us personal information, please contact us and we will delete it.
8. Security
We use Cloudflare's security services and limit the personal data we keep, for example by reducing raw visit records to daily totals after 7 days. No method of transmission or storage on the internet is completely secure, so we cannot guarantee absolute security.
9. Changes to This Policy
We may update this Privacy Policy when our practices or the services we use change. The "Last updated" date at the top shows when the policy was last revised. Please check back from time to time.
10. Contact Us
If you have questions about this Privacy Policy or want to make a privacy request, please use our Contact Us page. For the rules that govern use of the site itself, see the Terms of use.