GDPR Notice

Last updated: October 27, 2026
Website:https://myrecipecritic.com/
Operator: My Recipe Critic
Contact for privacy questions: use the form on our Contact Us page

This page explains how My Recipe Critic handles personal data of visitors in the European Economic Area (EEA), the United Kingdom and Switzerland under the EU and UK General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR). It supplements our Privacy Policy, which describes our data practices for all visitors. It is general information, not legal advice.

1) Who is responsible for your data

My Recipe Critic publishes home-cooking recipes in four categories: main dishes, desserts and sweets, appetizers and snacks, and breakfast and brunch. We decide why and how the personal data described below is processed, so we are the controller for it. Service providers that host the site, deliver pages or serve ads process data for their own stated purposes or on our behalf, depending on the service.

2) What data we process

• Contact form: the name, email address and message you enter. We use them only to reply to you.

• Ratings and comments: the name and the text you submit through the recipe rating and comment form.

• Server logs: standard web server logs with your IP address, browser and the pages requested, kept for security and troubleshooting.

• Visit statistics: first-party statistics on our own server (the page viewed and the referrer). Raw visit records are kept for 7 days, after which only daily totals remain.

• Cookies and advertising data: Google AdSense ads use cookies. Personalized ads are shown only with your consent. Cloudflare, which provides content delivery and security for the site, may set technical cookies.

We do not ask for special category data (such as health data or religion) or precise location, and our forms do not require them. Please do not include such details in comments or messages.

3) Why we process data and on what legal basis

• Running and securing the site (delivering pages, server logs, Cloudflare delivery and security, abuse prevention): legitimate interests, Art. 6(1)(f) GDPR.

• Visit statistics (understanding which recipes are read, using our own server): legitimate interests, Art. 6(1)(f) GDPR.

• Answering your contact messages: legitimate interests, Art. 6(1)(f), or steps you ask us to take, Art. 6(1)(b).

• Publishing your rating or comment: legitimate interests, Art. 6(1)(f), since you submit the text for display on the recipe page.

• Personalized advertising through Google AdSense: your consent, Art. 6(1)(a), given through the Google consent message shown to visitors in the EEA, UK and Switzerland.

Where we rely on legitimate interests, you can object at any time (see section 6).

4) Cookies and your consent choices

Visitors from the EEA, UK and Switzerland see a Google consent message for advertising. You decide there whether personalized ads may be used, and you can change your choice later through the consent options Google provides. Without consent, ads are not personalized. Technical cookies set by Cloudflare serve the secure and fast delivery of the site.

5) Who receives data and transfers outside your country

• Google (AdSense advertising and the consent message).

• Cloudflare (content delivery and security).

• Pinterest, if you follow a link to our social profile. Pinterest is a separate service with its own privacy policy, which applies once you leave our site.

Some of these providers operate outside the EEA, UK or Switzerland, including in the United States. Transfers to them are based on the safeguards the providers use under data protection law, such as standard contractual clauses or an approved data-transfer framework. We do not sell personal data.

6) Your rights

Under the GDPR you have the right to:

• request access to the personal data we hold about you;

• have inaccurate data corrected;

• have your data erased, for example a comment you posted;

• ask us to restrict processing in certain cases;

• receive data you provided to us in a portable format, where applicable;

• object to processing based on legitimate interests;

• withdraw consent at any time, with effect for the future. Withdrawing does not affect processing done before.

To exercise a right, write to us through the Contact Us page and tell us what you need. If you ask about a comment or rating, include the name you used and the recipe page so we can find it. We may ask you to confirm your identity before acting on a request. You also have the right to lodge a complaint with your local data protection authority, for example in the EU country where you live or work, with the Information Commissioner's Office in the UK, or with the Federal Data Protection and Information Commissioner in Switzerland.

7) How long we keep data

• Raw visit records: 7 days, then only daily totals remain.

• Server logs: kept only as long as needed for security and troubleshooting.

• Contact messages: kept as long as needed to answer you and handle follow-up questions.

• Ratings and comments: kept for as long as the recipe page displays them, unless you ask us to remove them.

• Advertising cookies: they expire according to the settings of the provider that sets them.

8) Children

The site is intended for a general audience, not for children under 16. If you believe a child has sent us personal data, contact us and we will remove it.

9) Changes to this notice

We update this page when our data practices change. The date at the top shows the latest revision. For related information, see our Privacy Policy, Terms of use and Disclaimer.