Privacy Policy for Food Taste Life
Last Updated: [11/09/2025]
Welcome to Food Taste Life ("we," "our," or "us"). We are committed to protecting your privacy and being transparent about how we handle your personal information. This Privacy Policy explains how we collect, use, disclose, and safeguard your data when you visit our website, www.foodtastelife.com (the "Blog").
By using our Blog, you consent to the practices described in this policy.
1. Information We Collect
We collect information to provide a better experience for our readers. The types of information we collect include:
a) Information You Voluntarily Provide:
Comments: When you leave a comment on our Blog, we collect the data shown in the comments form, your IP address, and browser user agent string to help spam detection.
Contact Forms: If you contact us via a contact form or directly at our email address, we collect your name, email address, and the content of your message.
Newsletter Subscription: If you subscribe to our newsletter, we collect your email address and name (if provided).
b) Information Collected Automatically:
Log Data: When you visit the Blog, our servers automatically record information ("log data"), including your IP address, browser type, operating system, referring web pages, pages visited, device information, and the time and date of your visit.
Cookies and Similar Technologies: We use cookies, web beacons, and other tracking technologies to collect information about your interactions with our Blog. For more details, please see our Cookies Section below.
c) Information from Third Parties:
We may receive information about you from third-party services. For example, if you use a social media feature to comment or share a post, that platform may provide us with your public profile information.
2. How We Use Your Information
We use the information we collect for the following purposes:
To operate, maintain, and improve the Blog.
To respond to your comments, questions, and requests.
To send you administrative communications, such as updates to our policies.
To send you promotional information, such as newsletters, but only if you have explicitly consented to receive them. You can opt-out at any time.
To monitor and analyze trends, usage, and activities in connection with our Blog (e.g., through Google Analytics).
To detect, prevent, and address technical issues and fraudulent or illegal activities.
To personalize your experience on our Blog, including showing you relevant advertisements.
3. Cookies and Tracking Technologies
Our Blog uses cookies to distinguish you from other users. This helps us provide you with a good experience and allows us to improve the site.
What are cookies? Cookies are small data files stored on your browser or device.
Why we use cookies:
Essential Cookies: Necessary for the operation of the Blog (e.g., to remember your consent preferences).
Performance/Analytics Cookies: Allow us to recognize and count the number of visitors and see how they move around the site. This helps us improve the way the Blog works.
Functionality Cookies: Enable us to personalize content and remember your preferences.
Advertising Cookies: Used to make advertising messages more relevant to you and your interests. They are also used to limit the number of times you see an ad and help measure the effectiveness of advertising campaigns.
Third-Party Cookies: Third-party services, such as Google AdSense and Google Analytics, place their own cookies on your device to serve ads and analyze traffic.
Your Consent: Upon your first visit to our Blog, a cookie banner will ask for your consent to use non-essential cookies, as required by GDPR. You can change your cookie preferences at any time through your browser settings. Please note that disabling cookies may affect the functionality of the Blog.
4. Third-Party Disclosure and Advertising
We share your information with third parties only in the ways described in this policy.
a) Google AdSense: We use Google AdSense to serve advertisements on our Blog.
Third-party vendors, including Google, use cookies to serve ads based on a user's prior visits to our website or other websites.
Google's use of advertising cookies enables it and its partners to serve ads to you based on your visit to our sites and/or other sites on the Internet.
You can opt out of personalized advertising by visiting Google's Ads Settings. Alternatively, you can opt out of a third-party vendor's use of cookies for personalized advertising by visiting www.aboutads.info.
b) Service Providers: We employ third-party companies and individuals to facilitate our Blog (e.g., newsletter services, analytics, hosting). These third parties have access to your information only to perform specific tasks on our behalf and are obligated not to disclose or use it for any other purpose.
c) Legal Requirements: We may disclose your information if required to do so by law or in response to valid requests by public authorities.
5. Data Retention
We will retain your personal information only for as long as is necessary for the purposes set out in this Privacy Policy, to comply with our legal obligations, resolve disputes, and enforce our policies.
6. Your Data Protection Rights
Depending on your location (e.g., if you are in the European Economic Area or California), you have certain rights regarding your personal data:
Right to Access: You can request copies of the personal data we hold about you.
Right to Rectification: You can request that we correct any information you believe is inaccurate or complete information you believe is incomplete.
Right to Erasure ("Right to be Forgotten"): You can request that we erase your personal data, under certain conditions.
Right to Restrict Processing: You can request that we restrict the processing of your personal data, under certain conditions.
Right to Data Portability: You can request that we transfer the data we have collected to another organization, or directly to you, under certain conditions.
Right to Object to Processing: You have the right to object to our processing of your personal data for certain purposes, such as direct marketing.
Right to Opt-Out of Sale (CCPA): California residents have the right to opt-out of the "sale" of their personal information. While we do not sell data in the traditional sense, we enable Google AdSense, which uses cookies for personalized ads, which may be considered a "sale" under CCPA. You can opt-out using the links provided in Section 4.
To exercise any of these rights, please contact us at foodtastelife@gmail.com. We will respond to your request within the timeframes required by applicable law.
7. Children's Privacy
Our Blog is not intended for children under the age of 13. We do not knowingly collect personally identifiable information from children under 13. If you are a parent or guardian and believe your child has provided us with personal information, please contact us, and we will delete such information from our systems.
8. Data Security
We implement reasonable security measures designed to protect your information from unauthorized access, alteration, disclosure, or destruction. However, no method of transmission over the Internet or electronic storage is 100% secure, and we cannot guarantee its absolute security.
9. Changes to This Privacy Policy
We may update our Privacy Policy from time to time. We will notify you of any changes by posting the new Privacy Policy on this page and updating the "Last Updated" date. We encourage you to review this Privacy Policy periodically for any changes.
10. Contact Us
If you have any questions about this Privacy Policy, your data, or your rights, please do not hesitate to contact us at:
Email: foodtastelife@gmail.com
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