Privacy Policy.

Last updated: 27 November 2025

Tasty Recipe Zone (“Tasty Recipe Zone”, “we”, “us”, or “our”) operates the website https://tastyrecipezone.com (the “Site”). This Privacy Policy explains how we collect, use, disclose, and safeguard your information when you visit or use the Site.

This Privacy Policy is intended to meet the requirements of the EU/UK General Data Protection Regulation (“GDPR”) and the California Consumer Privacy Act (“CCPA”), as amended by the California Privacy Rights Act (“CPRA”), where they apply.

By accessing or using the Site, you acknowledge that you have read and understood this Privacy Policy. If you do not agree with any part of this Privacy Policy, please do not use the Site.

1. Who We Are (Data Controller / Business)

For purposes of the GDPR, Tasty Recipe Zone is the “data controller” of your personal data.

For purposes of the CCPA/CPRA, Tasty Recipe Zone is a “business” that may collect, use, and disclose “personal information” of California residents.

Contact details

If you have questions about this Privacy Policy or our privacy practices, you may contact us at:

• Email: tastyrecipezone@gmail.com
• Website: https://tastyrecipezone.com
  
  

2. Information We Collect

We may collect and process the following categories of information:

2.1 Information You Provide Directly

When you interact with the Site, you may choose to provide us with:

• Contact information (e.g., name, email address) when you:
  
  
  • Subscribe to our newsletter
  • Leave comments on recipes or blog posts
  • Contact us via forms or email
    
    
• Account information (if we offer registration), such as username and password
• User-generated content, such as recipe comments, ratings, feedback, or other content you post
• Preferences and interests, such as favorite recipes or dietary preferences, where you choose to provide them

2.2 Information Collected Automatically

When you visit the Site, we and our service providers automatically collect certain information through cookies, log files, and similar technologies (see also Sections 5 and 6), including:

• IP address
• Browser type and version
• Device identifiers and device type
• Operating system and platform
• Referring/exit pages, and URLs
• Date and time of access
• Approximate location (e.g., city, region, country) inferred from IP address
• Clickstream data and usage details (pages visited, time spent, links clicked, scrolling, and other actions on the Site)

This information is generally collected in a way that does not directly identify you by name, but it may be associated with other data we hold about you.

Additionally, we follow a standard procedure of using log files. These files log visitors when they visit websites—a common part of hosting services’ analytics. The information collected includes internet protocol (IP) addresses, browser type, Internet Service Provider (ISP), date and time stamp, referring/exit pages, and possibly the number of clicks. These are not linked to any information that is personally identifiable. The purpose of the information is for analyzing trends, administering the site, tracking users’ movement on the website, and gathering demographic information.

2.3 Information from Third Parties

We may receive information about you from:

• Analytics providers (e.g., Google Analytics), which provide aggregated or pseudonymized insights about how users interact with the Site.
  
  
• Advertising partners and networks, including Google AdSense, which may provide information about your interactions with our ads or the Site.
  
  
• Social media platforms when you interact with our pages or share our content, as permitted by your settings with those platforms.
  
  

3. How We Use Your Information

We use the information we collect for the following purposes:

• To provide and operate the Site
  • Display content, recipes, and features
  • Enable commenting and interactive features

• To communicate with you
  • Respond to your inquiries and requests
  • Send newsletters or marketing communications (where permitted by law and your preferences)

• To personalize your experience
  • Remember your preferences and settings
  • Provide content and recommendations that may be of interest to you

• For analytics and performance
  • Understand how the Site is used
  • Improve the Site’s design, content, and user experience

• For advertising and monetization
  • Display non-personalized or personalized ads through Google AdSense and other partners
  • Measure the effectiveness of advertising campaigns

• For security, fraud prevention, and legal compliance
  • Protect the security and integrity of the Site
  • Detect and prevent fraud and abuse
  • Comply with legal obligations and respond to lawful requests by public authorities

3.1 Legal Bases for Processing (GDPR)

Where the GDPR applies, we process your personal data under one or more of the following legal bases:

• Consent: For example, when you subscribe to our newsletter or consent to cookies for analytics or advertising (via a cookie banner or similar mechanism).
  
  
• Performance of a contract: Where processing is necessary to provide you with services you request (e.g., managing your account or responding to your inquiries).
  
  
• Legitimate interests: For example, to improve the Site, ensure security, prevent fraud, or show advertising (where not overridden by your rights and interests).
  
  
• Legal obligation: Where processing is necessary to comply with laws or regulatory requirements.

You may withdraw your consent at any time where consent is the legal basis for processing, without affecting the lawfulness of processing based on consent before its withdrawal.

4. Cookies and Similar Technologies

We use cookies and similar tracking technologies (such as web beacons and pixels) to:

• Operate and secure the Site
• Remember your preferences and settings
• Analyze Site traffic and usage
• Deliver, measure, and improve advertisements

4.1 Types of Cookies We Use

• Strictly Necessary Cookies: Required for basic site functionality and security (e.g., load balancing, session management).
• Performance and Analytics Cookies: Help us understand how visitors use the Site (e.g., which pages are most popular).
• Functional Cookies: Remember your preferences (e.g., language, cookie choices).
• Advertising and Targeting Cookies: Used by us and our advertising partners (including Google AdSense) to deliver relevant ads and track ad performance.

4.2 Managing Cookies

You can control or disable cookies through:

• Browser settings: You may configure your browser to refuse all or some cookies, or to alert you when cookies are being sent. If you disable cookies, some features of the Site may not function properly.
• Cookie banners or preference tools (where available): To manage consent for optional cookies, particularly for users in the EEA/UK.
• Ad-specific tools:
  • Google Ads Settings: https://adssettings.google.com
  • Network Advertising Initiative opt-out: https://optout.networkadvertising.org
  • Digital Advertising Alliance opt-out: https://www.aboutads.info/choices
    
    

5. Google AdSense and Third-Party Advertising Partners

We display advertisements on the Site using Google AdSense and may work with other third-party advertising partners and ad networks.

5.1 Google AdSense

Third-party vendors, including Google, use cookies to serve ads based on your prior visits to our Site and other websites.

• Google’s use of advertising cookies enables it and its partners to serve ads to you based on your visits to our Site and/or other sites on the internet.
  
  
• You may opt out of personalized advertising by visiting Google’s Ads Settings page: https://adssettings.google.com
  
  
• For more information on how Google uses information from sites or apps that use its services, please see: https://policies.google.com/technologies/ads

Where required by law (e.g., in the EEA/UK), we request your consent before using cookies for personalized advertising.

5.2 Other Third-Party Advertising Partners

Our other advertising partners may also use cookies, web beacons, or similar technologies to personalize the advertising content that you see on the Site and other websites, and to measure the effectiveness of their ads.

These third-party ad servers or ad networks automatically receive your IP address and other identifiers when this occurs. They may also use cookies and other technologies to collect information about your device and browsing activities over time and across different websites.

We do not control the cookies or tracking technologies used by these third parties. We encourage you to review the privacy policies of each advertising partner for more detailed information about their practices and your options.

6. Affiliate Disclosure

Tasty Recipe Zone participates in the Amazon Services LLC Associates Program, an affiliate advertising program designed to provide a means for sites to earn advertising fees by advertising and linking to Amazon.com.

As an Amazon Associate, we earn from qualifying purchases.

This means that when you click on links to various products on this site and make a purchase, this can result in a commission that is credited to this site. This does not result in any additional cost to you. The affiliate money we earn helps pay the fees to keep this site up and running.

7. How We Share Your Information

We may share your information with:

• Service providers and vendors: Companies that help us operate the Site and provide services (e.g., hosting providers, analytics providers, email delivery services, customer support tools).
  
  
• Advertising partners and networks: Including Google AdSense and other ad technology providers, for the purposes described above.
  
  
• Legal and regulatory authorities: When we believe disclosure is necessary to comply with a legal obligation, respond to lawful requests, protect our rights, property, or safety, or prevent fraud or abuse.
  
  
• Business transfers: In connection with any merger, sale of company assets, financing, or acquisition of all or a portion of our business, your information may be transferred as part of that transaction.

We do not sell your personal information in the traditional sense (i.e., for money). However, under the CCPA/CPRA, some of our use of cookies and advertising tools may be considered a “sale” or “sharing” of personal information for cross-context behavioral advertising. See Section 10 for information about your rights and choices.

We do not knowingly sell or share personal information of minors under 16 years of age.

8. International Data Transfers

Our Site is operated from Sri Lanka. Your information may be transferred to and processed in countries other than your country of residence, which may have data protection laws that are different and, in some cases, less protective.

Where required by law (for example, for data transferred from the EEA/UK), we implement appropriate safeguards, such as:

• Standard Contractual Clauses approved by the European Commission or UK authorities, or
• Other appropriate mechanisms recognized by applicable data protection laws.

You may contact us for more information about these safeguards.

9. Data Retention

We retain personal information for as long as necessary to fulfill the purposes described in this Privacy Policy, including:

• As long as you maintain an account or subscription with us
• As long as needed to provide the Site and related services
• As needed to comply with our legal obligations (e.g., tax, accounting, or regulatory requirements)
• As needed to resolve disputes and enforce our agreements

When we no longer need personal information, we will delete or anonymize it, or if this is not possible (for example, because the information is stored in backup archives), we will securely store it and isolate it from further processing until deletion is possible.

10. Your Rights – California Residents (CCPA/CPRA)

If you are a California resident, you may have the following rights under the CCPA/CPRA, subject to certain exceptions:

• Right to Know / Access
  To request that we disclose the categories and specific pieces of personal information we have collected about you in the preceding 12 months, as well as the categories of sources, purposes for collection, and categories of third parties with whom we share the information.
  
  

• Right to Delete
  To request that we delete personal information we have collected from you, subject to certain exceptions (e.g., to comply with legal obligations).
  
  

• Right to Correct
  To request that we correct inaccurate personal information that we maintain about you.
  
  

• Right to Opt Out of Sale or Sharing
  To direct us not to “sell” or “share” your personal information for cross-context behavioral advertising, as those terms are defined under CCPA/CPRA.
  Some of our use of cookies and advertising technologies may be considered such a sale or sharing. You can typically exercise this right by:
  
  

  • Adjusting your cookie preferences via any cookie banner or preference center we provide, and/or
  • Using the advertising opt-out tools listed in Section 5.2, and
  • Contacting us as described in Section 12 and indicating that you wish to “opt out of sale/sharing.”
    
    

• Right to Limit Use of Sensitive Personal Information
  If we collect “sensitive personal information” as defined by CCPA/CPRA (we generally do not), you may have the right to limit its use and disclosure to certain purposes.
  
  

• Right to Non-Discrimination
  We will not discriminate against you for exercising any of your CCPA/CPRA rights (for example, by denying services, charging different prices, or providing a different level of service), except as permitted by law.
  
  

10.1 Categories of Personal Information (California)

In the past 12 months, we may have collected the following categories of personal information, as defined by CCPA:

• Identifiers (e.g., IP address, email address)
• Internet or other electronic network activity information (e.g., browsing history on our Site, interactions with ads)
• Approximate geolocation (e.g., inferred from IP address)
• Inferences drawn from the above (e.g., interests related to recipes or food topics)

We may disclose these categories to:

• Service providers (e.g., hosting, analytics, email services)
• Advertising partners (e.g., Google AdSense)
• Legal and regulatory authorities (where required)

   

11. Your Rights – EEA/UK and Other GDPR Jurisdictions

If you are located in the European Economic Area (EEA), the United Kingdom, or other jurisdictions with similar data protection laws, you may have the following rights, subject to certain conditions and exceptions:

• Right of access: To obtain confirmation as to whether we process your personal data and to access that data.
  
  
• Right to rectification: To request correction of inaccurate or incomplete personal data.
  
  
• Right to erasure (“right to be forgotten”): To request deletion of your personal data in certain circumstances.
  
  
• Right to restrict processing: To request that we limit the processing of your personal data in certain circumstances.
  
  
• Right to data portability: To receive your personal data in a structured, commonly used, and machine-readable format and to transmit it to another controller where technically feasible.
  
  
• Right to object: To object to processing based on our legitimate interests, including profiling; and to object to processing for direct marketing at any time.
  
  
• Right to withdraw consent: Where processing is based on your consent, you may withdraw it at any time, without affecting the lawfulness of processing before withdrawal.
  
  
• Right to lodge a complaint: To lodge a complaint with a supervisory authority, in particular in your country of habitual residence, place of work, or place of the alleged infringement.

   

12. Exercising Your Privacy Rights

To exercise any of the rights described above (whether under CCPA/CPRA, GDPR, or other applicable laws), please contact us at:

• Email:tastyrecipezone@gmail.com

When you make a request, we may need to verify your identity to protect your privacy and security. This may involve asking you to provide certain information that we already hold about you (e.g., email address used on the Site).

If you are a California resident, you may also designate an authorized agent to make a request on your behalf, subject to proper authorization and verification.

We will respond to your request within the timeframe required by applicable law.

13. Do Not Track Signals

Some browsers offer a “Do Not Track” (“DNT”) setting that you can activate to signal your privacy preference not to have data about your online browsing activities monitored and collected. There is currently no universally accepted standard for responding to DNT signals, and we do not currently respond to DNT browser signals.

However, you can use the cookie and advertising controls described in Sections 5 and 6 to manage your preferences.

14. Third-Party Websites

The Site may contain links to third-party websites, plug-ins, or services, including social media platforms and external recipe or food-related sites. We are not responsible for the privacy practices of these third parties.

If you follow a link to any of these websites, please note that they have their own privacy policies and we do not accept any responsibility or liability for their policies or processing of your information. We encourage you to read the privacy policies of every website you visit.

15. Children’s Privacy

The Site is not directed to children under the age of 13, and we do not knowingly collect personal information from children under 13 years of age (or a higher age if required by the law of your jurisdiction).

If you are a parent or guardian and believe that your child has provided us with personal information without your consent, please contact us at tastyrecipezone@gmail.com. We will take steps to delete such information as required by law.

Where GDPR applies, if we become aware that we have collected personal data from a child under the age at which consent is valid in their country (typically 16 or lower as defined by local law) without appropriate consent, we will take appropriate steps to delete it.

16. Security of Your Information

We use reasonable technical and organizational measures designed to protect your personal information from unauthorized access, disclosure, alteration, or destruction.

However, no method of transmission over the internet, or method of electronic storage, is 100% secure. While we strive to protect your personal information, we cannot guarantee its absolute security.

17. Changes to This Privacy Policy

We may update this Privacy Policy from time to time to reflect changes in our practices, technologies, legal requirements, or for other reasons.

When we make material changes, we will update the “Last updated” date at the top of this page and, where appropriate, provide additional notice (such as by posting a notice on the Site or sending you a notification).

Your continued use of the Site after any changes to this Privacy Policy constitutes your acceptance of the updated policy.

18. Contact Us

If you have any questions, concerns, or requests regarding this Privacy Policy or our handling of your personal information, please contact us at:

Tasty Recipe Zone
Email: tastyrecipezone@gmail.com
Website: https://tastyrecipezone.com
Address: Colombo, Sri Lanka