Privacy Policy:
At the vidhyashomecooking website, the privacy of our visitors is of extreme importance to us. This privacy policy document outlines the types of personal information is received and collected by www.vidhyashomecooking.com and how it is used.
Our fully secured website address is https://www.vidhyashomecooking.com
Emails & Comments:
At www.vidhyashomecooking.com, we collect your email Ids to communicate with you and to keep you updated on new recipes and weekly digests. We use MailChimp as our email marketing platform and you can unsubscribe or opt-out anytime. We do not share your email id with any other third parties. 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: https://automattic.com/privacy/. After approval of your comment, your profile picture is visible to the public in the context of your comment.
You can find MailChimp’s Privacy Policy and GDPR policy here and here.
Contact Forms:
In the Contact Us page, we do collect email information, your name and the feedback. We do not use the information submitted through the contact forms for marketing purposes. We retain the data only for three months period.
Cookies and Web Beacons
www.vidhyashomecooking.com does use cookies to store information about visitors preferences, record user-specific information on which pages the user access or visit, customize Web page content based on visitors browser type or other information that the visitor sends via their browser.
If you leave a comment on our site you may opt-in to save 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. These cookies will last for one year.
Embedded content from other websites
Articles on this site may include embedded content (e.g. videos, images, articles, etc.). Embedded content from other websites behaves in the exact same way as if the visitor has visited the other website.
These 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 in to that website.
Analytics
Like many other Web sites, www.vidhyashomecooking.com makes use of log files and use analytics. The information inside the log files includes internet protocol ( IP ) addresses, type of browser, Internet Service Provider ( ISP ), date/time stamp, referring/exit pages, and the number of clicks to analyze trends, administer the site, track user’s movement around the site, and gather demographic information. IP addresses and other such information are not linked to any information that is personally identifiable.
At www.vidhyashomecooking, we use both Google and Pinterest Analytics. To learn more about Google Analytics’s Data Practices, please visit the link here. and for Pinterest here.
Hotjar:
We use this service to improve the user experience. You can read about the privacy policy here – Hotjar privacy policy.
Where we send your data
All your data (comments and email entered) is saved and protected securely on our hosting site – Agathon. Also, we use Jetpack’s backup service – Vaultpress where the data is stored for backup. Also, visitor comments are checked through an automated spam detection service – Askimet.
How we protect your data
www.vidhyashomecooking uses encryption program and we use the SSL – Secure Sockets Layer to transfer the information.
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. The emails are retained until the user opts out or unsubscribes. The Analytics records are retained for 26 months time frame.
What data breach procedures we have in place
www.vidhyashomecooking.com uses Askimet to prevent spam comments and we do receive notifications regarding spam comments.
Advertising.
CMI Marketing, Inc., d/b/a Raptive (“Raptive”) is a service provider of this Site for the purposes of placing advertising on the Site, and Raptive will collect and use certain data for advertising purposes. To learn more about Raptive’s data usage, click here: https://raptive.com/creator-advertising-privacy-statement/
Affiliates | Sponsored Posts:
I may earn a small commission of my recommendation, testimonial and/or link to any products or services from this website. I test each product thoroughly and the opinions expressed here are my own. Also, www.vidhyashomecooking.com is a participant in the Amazon Services LLC Associates Program, an affiliate advertising program designed to provide a means for sites to earn advertising fees by advertising and linking to Amazon.com.
Opting Out:
We do not share any of the personal information with any other third-party applications. We will not distribute, or reveal your email addresses or other personal information without your consent except when required by the law.
You can opt-out of any of our services at any time. You can also email us using the contact form to check/update or delete your personal information.
Contact information
If you require any more information or have any questions about our privacy policy, please feel free to contact us by email at vidhya@vidhyashomecooking.com or
Vidhya’s Vegetarian Kitchen
PO Box 73
Fanwood, NJ 07023
USA
Industry regulatory disclosure requirements
www.vidhyashomecooking.com is based out of California, USA, we strictly follow the FTC Rules and Regulations set by the American Government and also the online privacy policy set by the State of New Jersey and also the Federal law.
Copyright Policies
All recipes, original text, images and other materials hosted on vidhyashomecooking.com are copyrighted to 2009–2022 © VVK – Vidhya’s Vegetarian Kitchen, unless otherwise noted (e.g., news articles and licensed photos).
VVK allows you to copy, distribute, display or make derivative works provided that you
- Credit Vidhya’s Vegetarian Kitchen
- Do not use it for commercial purposes
- release any derivative works under this same license.
