GDPR

GDPR Privacy Policy

Effective Date: 21.01.2025

At Lea’s Recipes, we respect your privacy and are committed to protecting your personal data. This GDPR Privacy Policy explains how we collect, use, disclose, and safeguard your personal information when you visit our blog. It also outlines your rights under the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR).

1. Who We Are

Lea’s Recipes is a personal blog focused on sharing recipes and cooking tips. For the purposes of data protection law, we are the “data controller” of your personal information.

2. Personal Data We Collect

We may collect, use, store, and transfer different kinds of personal data about you, which can include:

  • Identity Data: Such as name or username if you register or leave a comment.
  • Contact Data: Such as email address if you subscribe to our newsletter or contact us.
  • Technical Data: Internet protocol (IP) address, browser type, time zone setting, location, and other technology details on the devices you use to access this site.
  • Usage Data: Information about how you use our website, pages visited, and links clicked.
  • Marketing and Communications Data: Your preferences in receiving marketing information or communications from us.

3. How We Collect Your Data

We use different methods to collect data from and about you, including:

  • Direct Interactions: When you subscribe to our newsletter, comment on a post, contact us through email or contact forms, or request information.
  • Automated Technologies: As you interact with our website, we automatically collect Technical and Usage Data using cookies, server logs, and other similar technologies.
  • Third Parties: We may receive personal data about you from analytics providers or from third-party plugins/services that operate on our website.

4. How We Use Your Personal Data

We will only use your personal data when the law allows us to. Most commonly, we use your personal data to:

  • Provide you with the services or information you request (e.g., newsletter subscriptions).
  • Personalize and improve your experience on our website.
  • Communicate with you, including responding to comments or inquiries.
  • Send you marketing communications if you have opted in.
  • Analyze website usage and trends to enhance our offerings.

We process your personal data under one or more of the following lawful bases:

  • Consent: You have given clear consent to process your personal data for a specific purpose (e.g., email marketing).
  • Legitimate Interests: Processing is necessary for our legitimate interests (e.g., to maintain security of our website, prevent fraud).
  • Contractual Necessity: Processing is necessary to fulfill a contract or to take steps linked to a contract (e.g., providing services you request).
  • Legal Obligation: Compliance with a legal or regulatory obligation.

6. Cookies and Similar Technologies

We use cookies and similar technologies to:

  • Remember your preferences and settings.
  • Understand how our website is being used.
  • Provide relevant content and advertising.

You can set your browser to refuse all or some cookies or to alert you when websites set or access cookies. If you disable or refuse cookies, some parts of our website may become inaccessible or not function properly.

7. Data Sharing and Disclosure

We do not sell or rent your personal data to third parties. We may share your data with:

  • Service Providers: Third-party vendors who provide website hosting, analytics, email marketing, or other services necessary to operate our site.
  • Legal Requirements: Government authorities, courts, or law enforcement agencies if disclosure is required by law or if it is necessary to protect our rights.

All third parties are required to respect the security of your personal data and to treat it in accordance with the law.

8. International Data Transfers

Your personal data may be transferred to and stored in locations outside of your country of residence, including countries outside the European Economic Area (EEA). Where we transfer your data outside the EEA, we ensure a similar degree of protection is afforded to it by implementing appropriate safeguards (e.g., standard contractual clauses or by ensuring the recipient is Privacy Shield certified if in the US, although Privacy Shield is no longer considered valid by the EU, so we rely on other accepted mechanisms).

9. Data Retention

We will only retain your personal data for as long as reasonably necessary to fulfill the purposes we collected it for, including for the purposes of satisfying any legal, regulatory, tax, accounting, or reporting requirements. We may retain anonymized data for longer periods for research or statistical purposes, in which case we ensure it cannot be used to identify you.

10. Your Rights Under the GDPR

Under GDPR, you have specific rights regarding your personal data, including:

  • Right of Access: Request a copy of your personal data we hold about you.
  • Right to Rectification: Request correction of any incomplete or inaccurate data.
  • Right to Erasure: Ask us to delete or remove personal data where there is no lawful reason for us to continue processing it.
  • Right to Object: Object to processing of your personal data when we are relying on legitimate interests.
  • Right to Restriction of Processing: Request restriction of processing of your personal data in certain circumstances.
  • Right to Data Portability: Request the transfer of your data to you or a third party.
  • Right to Withdraw Consent: Where we rely on consent to process your personal data, you have the right to withdraw that consent at any time.

If you wish to exercise any of these rights, please contact us at [Your Contact Email].

11. Security

We take reasonable steps to secure your personal data and protect it from unauthorized access, alteration, or disclosure. However, no transmission over the internet can be guaranteed to be 100% secure. We encourage you to take additional measures to protect yourself online.

Our website may include links to third-party websites, plug-ins, or applications. Clicking on those links or enabling those connections may allow third parties to collect or share data about you. We do not control these third-party sites and are not responsible for their privacy policies.

13. Changes to This Privacy Policy

We may update this GDPR Privacy Policy from time to time to reflect changes in legal requirements or our data processing practices. The updated version will be indicated by an updated “Effective Date.” Your continued use of our website after such changes constitutes acceptance of these changes.

14. Contact Us

If you have questions, concerns, or requests regarding this GDPR Privacy Policy or our data practices, please contact

Lea’s Recipes
Email: [Insert Contact Email Address]
Address: [Insert Business/Blog Address if applicable]

Last Updated: 21.01.2025

By using Lea’s Recipes, you acknowledge you have read and understood this GDPR Privacy Policy. Thank you for trusting us with your information and enjoy exploring our recipes!