Who we are
This is the food blog of Cuisine by Kristina. Our website address is: https://cuisinebykristina.com/
Comments
When visitors leave comments on this site, we collect the data shown in the comments form, and 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.
This blog also employs the plugin Akismet to filter spam from comments, trackbacks, and contact form messages. The information we collect depends on how the User sets up Akismet for the Site, but what is typicaly collected and processed through Akismet is: the commenter’s IP address, user agent, referrer, site URl, as well as the information directly provided by the commenter such as their name, username, email address, and the comment itself.
Media
If you upload images to the website, you should avoid uploading images with embedded location data (EXIF GPS) included. Visitors to the website can download and extract any location data from images on the website.
Cookies
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. These cookies will last for one year.
If you visit our login page, we will set a temporary cookie to determine if your browser accepts cookies. This cookie contains no personal data and is discarded when you close your browser.
When you log in, we will also set up several cookies to save your login information and your screen display choices. Login cookies last for two days, and screen options cookies last for a year. If you select “Remember Me”, your login will persist for two weeks. If you log out of your account, the login cookies will be removed.
If you edit or publish an article, an additional cookie will be saved in your browser. This cookie includes no personal data and simply indicates the post ID of the article you just edited. It expires after 1 day.
Google Analytics
This Site employs Google Analytics and other tracking utilities to collect demographic and marketing information. This data is both anonymous and is currently for in-house use only, as it is not shared with any external third parties.
If you prefer to disable Google Analytics, please refer to the Google Analytics Opt-Out Tool.
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.
Who we share your data with
We will not share your personal data with any third-person parties or vendors.
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.
Name and email addresses that are transmitted and collected via the Cuisine by Kristina Contact page for the purpose of questions, comments, feedback, and other reasons are retained as long as it takes to return a response or resolution to the matter in question.
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 our automated spam detection service, like our Akismet plugin.
How we manage data collected via our email newsletter
Name and email addresses that are transmitted and collected via the Cuisine by Kristina Email Newsletter Signup for the purpose of registering for the blog’s email newsletter are first gathered and added to the email distribution list by Mailchimp, a third-party automation and email delivery service. Then, Mailchimp is used to send out notification emails to the distribution list when new posts are published on the Cuisine by Kristina blog. Name and email addresses are kept confidential and are not shared with any third party, only for the purpose of automation, notification, and delivery of emails in conjunction with new posts on the Cuisine by Kristina blog. Any data transmitted by Mailchimp is done so in compliance with their Privacy Policy and Terms of Use.