Privacy Policy for RecipesShift

Welcome to RecipesShift, your go-to source for delicious recipes, cooking tips, and culinary inspiration. At RecipesShift, we respect your privacy and are committed to protecting your personal data. This Privacy Policy outlines how we collect, use, and protect your information when you visit our website, engage with our content, or interact with our services.

1. Introduction

This Privacy Policy is designed to inform you about our practices regarding the collection, use, and disclosure of personal information that we receive from users of our website. It applies to all personal data collected through our website, including information you provide directly and information we collect automatically.

2. Information We Collect

2.1 Personal Information

When you visit RecipesShift, we may ask you to provide us with certain personally identifiable information that can be used to contact or identify you. This includes, but is not limited to:

• Name
• Email Address
• Username and Password (for account creation)
• Comments or messages you send us

2.2 Non-Personal Information

We may also collect non-personal information that your browser sends whenever you visit our site. This may include information such as your computer's Internet Protocol address (e.g., IP address), browser type, browser version, the pages of our site that you visit, the time and date of your visit, and the time spent on those pages.

3. How We Use Your Information

RecipesShift uses the collected data for various purposes, including:

• To provide and maintain our website and services
• To notify you about changes to our website or services
• To allow you to participate in interactive features of our website when you choose to do so
• To provide customer support
• To gather analysis or valuable information so that we can improve our website
• To monitor the usage of our website
• To detect, prevent, and address technical issues
• To communicate with you about promotions, news, or events related to our content

4. Legal Basis for Processing Personal Data

RecipesShift processes your personal data based on the following legal bases:

• Consent: You have provided consent for us to process your personal information for specific purposes.
• Contract: Processing is necessary for the performance of a contract with you.
• Legal Obligation: We are required to comply with a legal obligation.
• Legitimate Interests: Processing is necessary for our legitimate interests, except where such interests are overridden by your rights and interests.

5. Disclosure of Your Information

We may share your personal information in the following situations:

• With Service Providers: We may share your personal information with service providers to monitor and analyze the use of our website.
• For Business Transfers: We may share or transfer your personal information in connection with, or during negotiations of, any merger, sale of company assets, financing, or acquisition of all or a portion of our business to another company.
• With Affiliates: We may share your information with our affiliates, in which case we will require those affiliates to honor this Privacy Policy.
• With Business Partners: We may share your information with our business partners to offer you certain products, services, or promotions.
• For Legal Obligations: We may disclose your personal information if required to do so by law or in response to valid requests by public authorities.

6. Data Retention

RecipesShift will retain your personal information only for as long as is necessary for the purposes set out in this Privacy Policy. We will retain and use your personal information to the extent necessary to comply with our legal obligations (for example, if we are required to retain your data to comply with applicable laws), resolve disputes, and enforce our legal agreements and policies.

7. Cookies and Tracking Technologies

Cookies are files with a small amount of data which may include an anonymous unique identifier. Cookies are sent to your browser from a website and stored on your device. Tracking technologies also used are beacons, tags, and scripts to collect and track information and to improve and analyze our website.

You can instruct your browser to refuse all cookies or to indicate when a cookie is being sent. However, if you do not accept cookies, you may not be able to use some portions of our site.

8. Your Data Protection Rights

RecipesShift aims to take reasonable steps to allow you to correct, amend, delete, or limit the use of your personal information. If you wish to be informed about what personal data we hold about you and if you want it to be removed from our systems, please contact us.

Under certain circumstances, you have the following data protection rights:

• The right to access – You have the right to request copies of your personal data.
• The right to rectification – You have the right to request that we correct any information you believe is inaccurate.
• The right to erasure – You have the right to request that we erase your personal data, under certain conditions.
• The right to restrict processing – You have the right to request that we restrict the processing of your personal data, under certain conditions.
• The right to object to processing – You have the right to object to our processing of your personal data, under certain conditions.
• The right to data portability – You have the right to request that we transfer the data that we have collected to another