Last Updated: April 19, 2025
1. Introduction
Welcome to FOODTEN.com (“we,” “our,” or “us”). We respect your privacy and are committed to protecting your personal data. This Privacy Policy explains how we collect, use, disclose, and safeguard your information when you visit our website foodten.com (the “Site”), including any content, functionality, and services offered on or through the Site.
Please read this Privacy Policy carefully. If you do not agree with the terms of this Privacy Policy, please do not access the Site.
2. Information We Collect
2.1 Personal Information
We may collect personal information that you voluntarily provide to us when you:
- Register on our Site
- Subscribe to our newsletter
- Fill out a contact form
- Participate in contests or promotions
- Submit recipes or comments
- Create a user profile
- Engage with interactive features of our Site
This information may include:
- Name
- Email address
- Postal address
- Phone number
- Username and password
- Profile picture
- Food preferences and dietary restrictions
- Social media profile information (when you connect your account)
- Any other information you choose to provide
2.2 Automatically Collected Information
When you visit our Site, we automatically collect certain information about your device and your interactions with our Site, including:
- IP address
- Browser type and version
- Operating system
- Device information
- Pages you visit
- Time and date of your visit
- Time spent on pages
- Referral source
- Clickstream data
- Other diagnostic data
2.3 Cookies and Similar Technologies
We use cookies, web beacons, pixels, and similar tracking technologies to collect information about your browsing activities.
3. How We Use Your Information
We may use the information we collect for various purposes, including to:
- Provide, maintain, and improve our Site
- Process and fulfill your requests
- Personalize your experience
- Send you administrative information, such as updates to our terms, conditions, and policies
- Send you marketing and promotional communications (you can opt-out at any time)
- Respond to your comments, questions, and requests
- Deliver customized content and recipe recommendations based on your preferences
- Monitor and analyze usage, trends, and activities related to our Site
- Detect, prevent, and address technical issues, fraud, or illegal activities
- For any other purpose disclosed at the time of collection or with your consent
4. Information Sharing and Disclosure
4.1 We May Share Your Information With:
- Service Providers: Companies that perform services on our behalf, such as hosting, data analysis, payment processing, order fulfillment, customer service, and marketing assistance.
- Business Partners: Third parties with whom we partner to offer products, services, or promotions to you.
- Affiliates: Our parent company, subsidiaries, and affiliates for purposes consistent with this Privacy Policy.
- Professional Advisors: Such as lawyers, auditors, bankers, and insurers who provide consultancy, banking, legal, insurance, and accounting services.
- Authorities and Third Parties: Law enforcement, governmental authorities, or third parties if required by law or if we believe in good faith that disclosure is necessary to protect our rights, protect your safety or the safety of others, investigate fraud, or respond to a government request.
- Business Transfers: In connection with any merger, sale of company assets, financing, or acquisition of all or a portion of our business by another company.
4.2 Aggregated and Anonymized Data
We may share aggregated and anonymized information (information that does not directly or indirectly identify and cannot reasonably be used to identify an individual) with third parties for research, marketing, analytics, and other purposes, provided such information does not identify you.
4.3 Contact Information
When you contact us with a question or concern, we may use the information provided by you to respond to your communication. This information is not used for any other purpose.
5. Cookies Policy
5.1 What Are Cookies
Cookies are small data files that are placed on your computer or mobile device when you visit a website. Cookies are widely used by website owners to make their websites work, or work more efficiently, as well as to provide reporting information.
5.2 Types of Cookies We Use
- Essential Cookies: Necessary for the functionality of the Site. They enable core features such as security, network management, and account authentication.
- Analytical/Performance Cookies: Allow us to recognize and count the number of visitors and see how visitors move around our Site. This helps us improve the way our Site works.
- Functionality Cookies: Used to recognize you when you return to our Site. This enables us to personalize our content for you and remember your preferences.
- Targeting/Advertising Cookies: Record your visit to our Site, the pages you have visited, and the links you have followed. We may use this information to make our Site and the advertising displayed on it more relevant to your interests.
5.3 Your Cookie Choices
Most web browsers allow you to control cookies through their settings preferences. However, if you limit the ability of websites to set cookies, you may impact your overall user experience. To find out more about cookies, including how to see what cookies have been set and how to manage and delete them, visit www.allaboutcookies.org.
6. User Rights
Depending on your location, you may have certain rights regarding your personal information. These may include:
6.1 Access and Information
You have the right to request information about how we process your personal data and to obtain a copy of that personal data.
6.2 Rectification
You have the right to request that we correct any inaccurate or incomplete personal information we hold about you.
6.3 Erasure
You have the right to request that we delete your personal information in certain circumstances.
6.4 Restriction of Processing
You have the right to request that we restrict the processing of your personal information in certain circumstances.
6.5 Data Portability
You have the right to request that we provide you with your personal information in a structured, commonly used, and machine-readable format.
6.6 Objection
You have the right to object to our processing of your personal information in certain circumstances.
6.7 Withdrawal of Consent
Where we rely on your consent to process your personal information, you have the right to withdraw your consent at any time.
To exercise any of these rights, please contact us at contact@foodten.com or visit our contact page at https://foodten.com/contact-us/.
7. Data Security
We have implemented appropriate technical and organizational security measures designed to protect the security of any personal information we process. However, please also remember that we cannot guarantee that the internet itself is 100% secure. Although we will do our best to protect your personal information, transmission of personal information to and from our Site is at your own risk.
8. Data Retention
We will retain your personal information only for as long as reasonably necessary to fulfill the purposes for which it was collected, including for the purposes of satisfying any legal, regulatory, tax, accounting, or reporting requirements. We may retain your personal information for a longer period in the event of a complaint or if we reasonably believe there is a prospect of litigation.
9. Children’s Privacy
Our Site is not directed to children under the age of 16, and we do not knowingly collect personal information from children under 16. If we learn we have collected or received personal information from a child under 16 without verification of parental consent, we will delete that information. If you believe we might have any information from or about a child under 16, please contact us at contact@foodten.com or through our contact page at https://foodten.com/contact-us/.
10. International Data Transfers
Your personal information may be transferred to, and processed in, countries other than the country in which you are a resident. These countries may have data protection laws that are different from the laws of your country. However, we have taken appropriate safeguards to require that your personal information will remain protected in accordance with this Privacy Policy.
11. Third-Party Links
Our Site may contain links to third-party websites, plug-ins, and 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 websites and are not responsible for their privacy statements. We encourage you to read the privacy policy of every website you visit.
12. Recipe Submissions and User-Generated Content
12.1 Recipe Submissions
When you submit recipes to our Site, you understand that the recipe will be published on our Site along with your username or the name you provide. The recipe will be viewable by the general public. You can request to have your recipe removed at any time by contacting us.
12.2 Comments and Reviews
When you post comments or reviews on our Site, you understand that these will be published on our Site along with your username or the name you provide. Comments and reviews will be viewable by the general public. You can request to have your comments or reviews removed at any time by contacting us.
13. Newsletter and Marketing Communications
13.1 Newsletter
If you subscribe to our newsletter, we will use your email address to send you our newsletter containing recipes, cooking tips, and other information that may be of interest to you. You can unsubscribe from our newsletter at any time by clicking the “unsubscribe” link at the bottom of any newsletter email.
13.2 Marketing Communications
If you have provided your consent, we may use your information to send you marketing communications about our products, services, and promotions. You can opt-out of receiving marketing communications from us at any time by:
- Clicking the “unsubscribe” link in any marketing email
- Contacting us at contact@foodten.com or through our contact page at https://foodten.com/contact-us/
14. Changes to This Privacy Policy
We may update this Privacy Policy from time to time. The updated version will be indicated by an updated “Last Updated” date at the top of this Privacy Policy. We encourage you to review this Privacy Policy frequently to be informed of how we are protecting your information.
15. Contact Us
If you have any questions about this Privacy Policy, or if you would like to exercise your data protection rights, please contact us at:
Email: contact@foodten.com
Contact Page: https://foodten.com/contact-us/
16. California Privacy Rights
If you are a California resident, California law may provide you with additional rights regarding our use of your personal information. California residents have the right to request:
- Information about the categories of personal information we collect, disclose, or sell
- Specific pieces of personal information we collect about you
- Deletion of your personal information (subject to exceptions)
- To opt-out of the sale of your personal information (Note that we do not currently sell personal information)
To make such requests, please contact us using the contact information provided in this Privacy Policy.
17. European Economic Area (EEA) Users
If you are in the European Economic Area (EEA), you have certain rights and protections under the GDPR regarding the processing of your personal data.
Legal Basis for Processing
We will only collect and process your personal information where we have a legal basis to do so. Our legal bases include consent (where you have given consent), contract (where processing is necessary for the performance of a contract with you, such as when you use our services), and our legitimate interests (such as to protect our services and improve our website).
Data Subject Rights
If you are a resident of the EEA, you have the following data protection rights:
- Access to your personal data
- Correction of inaccurate or incomplete data
- Erasure of your personal data
- Restriction of processing of your personal data
- Data portability
- Objection to processing based on legitimate interests
- Withdrawal of consent
To exercise these rights, please contact us using the contact information provided in this Privacy Policy.
18. Do Not Track Signals
Some browsers have a “Do Not Track” feature that lets you tell websites that you do not want to have your online activities tracked. We currently do not respond to “Do Not Track” signals because there is not yet a common understanding of how to interpret these signals. However, you can usually choose to disable cookies or to be notified when a cookie is being stored on your browser.
19. Data Controller
For the purpose of applicable data protection legislation, the data controller of your personal information is FOODTEN.com. You can contact us via email at contact@foodten.com or through our contact page at https://foodten.com/contact-us/.
Thank you for taking the time to understand our Privacy Policy. By using FOODTEN.com, you acknowledge that you have read and understood this Privacy Policy.