Privacy Policy

1. Introduction & Overview

Welcome to MealCraft ("we," "our," or "us"), accessible at https://mealcraft.avrprogrammers.com. We are deeply committed to protecting your personal privacy, honoring your data choices, and providing transparent information regarding how data is collected, stored, and shared.

This Privacy Policy details the types of personal and non-personal data collected when you visit our website, how we utilize Google AdSense programmatic advertising partners, and how you can exercise your statutory consumer rights under the California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA) and the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR).

2. Log Files & Standard Web Analytics

Like most modern digital publishing platforms, MealCraft follows standard hosting and analytics procedures utilizing log files. The information collected by log files includes:

• Internet Protocol (IP) addresses (anonymized where applicable)
• Browser user-agent string and operating system platform
• Internet Service Provider (ISP) and generalized geographical location
• Date, timestamp, and referring/exit page URLs
• Clickstream patterns and content engagement time metrics

This information is used exclusively to analyze traffic trends, administer site infrastructure, debug routing performance, and improve the user reading experience. Log file data is not linked to any personally identifiable information.

4. Third-Party Advertising Partners & Web Beacons

MealCraft may collaborate with third-party ad exchanges, header bidding partners, and supply-side platforms (SSPs) to deliver display advertisements (such as our 728x90 billboards, 300x250 sidebar rectangles, and 320x50 mobile anchor banners).

These third-party ad servers or networks use technologies such as cookies, JavaScript, or web beacons in their respective advertisements and links that appear on MealCraft, which are sent directly to your browser. They automatically receive your IP address when this occurs.

Note that MealCraft has no direct access to or control over these cookies used by third-party advertisers. Please consult the respective privacy policies of these third-party ad servers for more detailed information.

5. CCPA Privacy Rights (California Consumer Privacy Act)

Under the California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA) and the California Privacy Rights Act (CPRA), California residents are entitled to specific statutory data privacy rights:

• Right to Know: You have the right to request disclosure of the categories and specific pieces of personal data that we have collected about you over the past 12 months.
• Right to Delete: You have the right to request that we delete any personal data collected from you, subject to legal compliance exceptions.
• Right to Opt-Out ("Do Not Sell or Share My Info"): You have the right to opt out of the sale or cross-context behavioral sharing of your personal information.
• Right to Non-Discrimination: We will never discriminate against you, deny services, or charge differentiated rates for exercising any of your statutory CCPA rights.

If you wish to submit a verifiable consumer request under CCPA, please contact our compliance desk at [email protected]. We will respond within 45 calendar days.

6. GDPR Data Protection Rights (European Economic Area & UK)

If you are a resident of the European Economic Area (EEA) or the United Kingdom, you are entitled to full protection under the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR). Our legal basis for processing personal data includes legitimate interests (running an online food blog and testing kitchen) and user consent where explicitly provided.

Your statutory rights under GDPR include:

To exercise your GDPR rights, please submit a written request to our Data Protection Officer. We will fulfill verifiable requests within one calendar month.

7. COPPA Compliance (Children's Online Privacy Protection)

Protecting the privacy of young children on the internet is of paramount importance to MealCraft. In compliance with the Children's Online Privacy Protection Act (COPPA), MealCraft does not knowingly solicit or collect any Personally Identifiable Information from children under the age of 13.

If a parent or guardian believes that MealCraft has inadvertently gathered personally identifiable information from a child under 13 in our database, please contact us immediately at [email protected]. We will immediately remove all such records from our servers.