Privacy Policy & Terms of Service

What information do we collect?

We collect information from you when you register on our site or fill out a form.

When registering or commenting on our site, as appropriate, you may be asked to enter your: name and/or e-mail address and your IP address may be recorded. You may, however, visit our site anonymously.

Our advertising partner, Mediavine and its partners use cookies to serve ads on Kristine’s Kitchen. Our advertising partners’ use of cookies enable them to serve ads based on this site and other sites you visit on the internet.

Our website uses Google Analytics to provide us with feedback on how visitors are engaging with our website. Google Analytics does not identify individual users. Google provides a tool to opt-out of Analytics which you can find here: https://tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout?hl=en

What do we use your information for?

Any of the information we collect from you may be used in one of the following ways:

To personalize your website experience including the advertising shown on the site or in email communication

To see how users are interacting with our website and improve our website based on information and feedback received from users

To administer a contest, promotion, survey, or other site feature

Do we use cookies?

Yes (Cookies are small files that a site or its third-party partners transfers to your web browser (if you allow) that enables the site or service providers systems to recognize your browser and capture and remember certain information

We use cookies to understand and save your preferences for future visits, our advertising partners use cookies to keep track of advertisements and compile aggregate data about site traffic and site interaction so that we can offer better site experiences and tools in the future. We may contract with third-party service providers to assist us in better understanding our site visitors. These service providers are not permitted to use the information collected on our behalf except to help us conduct and improve our business.

Do we disclose any information to outside parties?

We do not sell, trade, or otherwise transfer to outside parties your personally identifiable information. This does not include trusted third parties who assist us in operating our website, conducting our business, or servicing you, so long as those parties agree to keep this information confidential. We may also release your information when we believe release is appropriate to comply with the law, enforce our site policies, or protect ours or others rights, property, or safety. However, non-personally identifiable visitor information may be provided to other parties for marketing, advertising, or other uses.

Mediavine Programmatic Advertising (Ver 1.0)

The Website works with Mediavine to manage third-party interest-based advertising appearing on the Website. Mediavine serves content and advertisements when you visit the Website, which may use first and third-party cookies. A cookie is a small text file which is sent to your computer or mobile device (referred to in this policy as a “device”) by the web server so that a website can remember some information about your browsing activity on the Website.

First party cookies are created by the website that you are visiting. A third-party cookie is frequently used in behavioral advertising and analytics and is created by a domain other than the website you are visiting. Third-party cookies, tags, pixels, beacons and other similar technologies (collectively, “Tags”) may be placed on the Website to monitor interaction with advertising content and to target and optimize advertising. Each internet browser has functionality so that you can block both first and third-party cookies and clear your browser’s cache. The “help” feature of the menu bar on most browsers will tell you how to stop accepting new cookies, how to receive notification of new cookies, how to disable existing cookies and how to clear your browser’s cache. For more information about cookies and how to disable them, you can consult the information at https://www.allaboutcookies.org/manage-cookies/.

Without cookies you may not be able to take full advantage of the Website content and features. Please note that rejecting cookies does not mean that you will no longer see ads when you visit our Site. In the event you opt-out, you will still see non-personalized advertisements on the Website.

The Website collects the following data using a cookie when serving personalized ads:

• IP Address
• Operating System type
• Operating System version
• Device Type
• Language of the website
• Web browser type
• Email (in hashed form)

Mediavine Partners (companies listed below with whom Mediavine shares data) may also use this data to link to other end user information the partner has independently collected to deliver targeted advertisements. Mediavine Partners may also separately collect data about end users from other sources, such as advertising IDs or pixels, and link that data to data collected from Mediavine publishers in order to provide interest-based advertising across your online experience, including devices, browsers and apps. This data includes usage data, cookie information, device information, information about interactions between users and advertisements and websites, geolocation data, traffic data, and information about a visitor’s referral source to a particular website. Mediavine Partners may also create unique IDs to create audience segments, which are used to provide targeted advertising.

If you would like more information about this practice and to know your choices to opt-in or opt-out of this data collection, please visit Opt Out – NAI: Network Advertising Initiative. You may also visit http://optout.aboutads.info/#/ and http://optout.networkadvertising.org/# to learn more information about interest-based advertising. You may download the AppChoices app at YourAdChoices.com | AppChoices to opt out in connection with mobile apps, or use the platform controls on your mobile device to opt out.

For specific information about Mediavine Partners, the data each collects and their data collection and privacy policies, please click here.

Mailing List

If you sign-up for our recipes emails / newsletters, your name, email address, IP address and other preferences may be stored at our mailing list provider and may be used to customize emails and information you receive from us. You can view ConvertKit’s privacy policy here: https://convertkit.com/privacy/

You can unsubscribe from our mailing list at any time by using the unsubscribe link at the bottom of each email. You can also contact us as described below to request removal and deletion of any data associated with your subscription.

Third party links

Occasionally, at our discretion, we may include or offer third party products or services on our website. These third party sites have separate and independent privacy policies. We therefore have no responsibility or liability for the content and activities of these linked sites. Nonetheless, we seek to protect the integrity of our site and welcome any feedback about these sites.

External links from this site may also be affiliated by an affiliate partner or through the use of cookies. If you make a purchase through an affiliated link on this site, I may receive a commission for your purchase.

Sponsored Posts

Occasionally, content posted on this site may be paid for or sponsored by brands or advertisers. All sponsored content is clearly displayed with a conspicuous disclaimer within the sponsored content.

Comment Policy

This website is not a public forum, all rights are reserved. The site is paid for and operated by its owner(s), administrator(s), editor(s) and author(s) who reserve the right to moderate, edit, delete, move, or mark as spam any and all comments, reviews, ratings or other content generated by the site’s users at any time and for any reason at the site operator’s sole discretion. This site also reserves the right to block access to anyone or group from commenting or from the entire site. This website is “family-friendly” and comments which are offensive or inappropriate, at the sole discretion of the operator of this site will be removed. Email addresses are required for commenting, and they are not published on the blog, nor shared. They may be used by the blog owner to privately contact the commenters or to notify

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.

California Online Privacy Protection Act Compliance

Because we value your privacy we have taken the necessary precautions to be in compliance with the California Online Privacy Protection Act. We therefore will not distribute your personal information to outside parties without your consent.

Children’s Online Privacy Protection Act Compliance

We are in compliance with the requirements of COPPA (Children’s Online Privacy Protection Act), we do not collect any information from anyone under 13 years of age. Our website, products and services are all directed to people who are at least 13 years old or older and this site does not knowingly collect information from children. If a parent or guardian of a child believes personally identifiable information has been collected or posted on this website, please contact us at the email address listed at the end of this privacy policy. 

Your Consent

By using our site, you consent to this website privacy policy.

Changes to our Privacy Policy

If we decide to change our privacy policy, we will post those changes on this page, and/or update the Privacy Policy modification date below.

The above policy and terms were last modified on 04/25/2022