Privacy Policy for Pantry Alchemy

Last Updated: 21st March 2025

Welcome to Pantry Alchemy! We are committed to protecting your privacy. This Privacy Policy outlines how we collect, use, and protect your information when you¹ visit our website (https://pantry-alchemy.com).

1. Information We Collect

• Comments: 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.
• 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.
• Contact Forms: If you use our contact form, we collect the information you provide, such as your name and email address, to respond to your inquiries.
• Cookies: We use cookies to enhance your browsing experience. Cookies are small files stored on your device that track, save, and store information about your interactions and usage of the website.
• We may use cookies for:

• Remembering your preferences.
• Analysing website traffic.
• Improving website functionality.
• You can choose to disable cookies through your browser settings. However, this may affect your experience on our website.

• 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: We may use third-party analytics services (like Google Analytics) to collect information about website traffic and usage.

2. How We Use Your Information

• To respond to your comments and inquiries.
• To improve our website and user experience.
• To analyse website traffic and trends.
• To personalise your experience.
• To prevent spam.

3. Sharing Your Information

• We will not sell, rent, or share your personal information with third parties except as described in this policy.
• We may share your information with:

• Service providers who assist us in operating our website.
• Law enforcement or government agencies when required by law.

4. Data Retention

• 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.

5. Your Rights

• You have the right to access, correct, or delete your personal information.
• 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.
• To exercise these rights, please contact us.

6. Security

• We take reasonable measures to protect your information from unauthorized access, use, or disclosure.
• However, no internet transmission is completely secure.

7. Children's Privacy

• Our website is not intended for children under the age of 13. We do not knowingly collect personal information from children under 13.

8. Changes to This Policy

• We may update this Privacy Policy from time to time. We will notify you of any changes by posting the new policy on this page.

9. Contact Us

• If you have any questions about this Privacy Policy, please contact us:

• Legal Basis for Processing:
• We process your personal data based on the following legal grounds:

GDPR Compliance (For Users in the European Economic Area)

• Consent: For certain activities, such as using non-essential cookies or sending marketing emails, we will obtain your explicit consent.
• Contractual Necessity: If you enter into a contract with us (e.g., to purchase a product or service), we will process your data as necessary to fulfil that contract.
• Legitimate Interests: We may process your data based on our legitimate interests, such as improving our website, preventing fraud, or responding to inquiries. We will always balance our legitimate interests with your rights and freedoms.
• Legal Obligation: We may process your data to comply with legal obligations.
• Data Subject Rights:
• In addition to the rights mentioned above, under GDPR, you have the following rights:

• Right to Restriction of Processing: You can request that we restrict the processing of your data in certain circumstances.
• Right to Data Portability: You can request¹ to receive your data in a structured, commonly used, and machine-readable format and transmit it to another controller.
• Right to Object: You² can object to the processing of your data based on legitimate interests or direct marketing.
• Right to Lodge a Complaint: You have the right to lodge a complaint with a supervisory authority in your country of residence.
• Data Transfers:
• If we transfer your personal data outside the European Economic Area (EEA), we will ensure that appropriate safeguards are in place,³ such as standard contractual clauses⁴ or adequacy decisions.

CCPA Compliance (For California Residents)

• Your California Privacy Rights:
• Under the California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA), California residents have the following rights:

• Right to Know: You have the right to request that we disclose the categories and specific pieces of personal information we have collected about you, the categories of sources⁵ from which the personal information is collected, the business or commercial purpose for collecting or selling personal information, and the categories of third parties with whom⁶ we share personal information.
• Right to Delete: You have the right to request that we delete personal information we have collected⁷ from you.
• Right to Opt-Out of Sale: If we sell your personal information, you have the right to opt-out. (Note: many blogs do not sell information, but if third party advertisement is used, this may be neccesary)
• Right to Non-Discrimination: You have the right not to receive discriminatory treatment for exercising your CCPA rights.
• Exercising Your CCPA Rights:

• To exercise your CCPA rights, please contact us.
• Please specify which CCPA right you wish to exercise.
• We will verify your identity before processing your request.

• Categories of Information Collected:
• We collect the following categories of personal information:

• Identifiers (e.g., name, email address, IP address).
• Internet or other electronic network activity information (e.g., browsing history, search history).
• Any information you post in comments.

• Categories of Information Sold:
• We do not sell personal information.