Privacy Policy for Easy Mediterranean Recipes
Last updated: June 6, 2026
Welcome to Easy Mediterranean Recipes (“we,” Our,” or “Website”). Your privacy is critically important to us. This Privacy Policy explains how we collect, use, disclose, and safeguard your information when you visit our website at https://easymediterraneanrecipes.blog/, with a particular focus on how data is handled regarding third-party programmatic advertising networks, social media tracking pixels, and analytics providers.
By using this Website, you agree to the terms of this Privacy Policy. If you do not agree, please discontinue use of the Website.
1. Who We Are
Website Name: Easy Mediterranean Recipes
Entity Type: Individual
We operate a food and recipe website focused on Mediterranean cuisine, cooking tips, and digital products such as cookbooks.
2. Information We Collect
We collect information you provide directly to us and information automatically collected through automated tracking mechanisms when you interact with our platform.
A. Information You Voluntarily Provide
We may collect personal information that you voluntarily submit to us, including:
- First name and last name
- Email address (e.g., when subscribing to newsletters or purchasing products)
- User-generated content (such as comments, recipe reviews, or images you choose to upload/share with us)
B. Information Collected Automatically (Granular Technical Data)
When you access the Website, we, our web servers, and our authorized third-party advertising technology and social media partners automatically collect technical data transmitted by your device. This includes:
- Internet Protocol (IP) Address: The full, unmasked IP address of your device.
- Device & Browser Identifiers: Unique device tokens, hardware identifiers, operating system version, browser type, and browser language settings.
- Precise Geolocation Data: Location information derived from your IP address or mobile device permissions, isolating location down to the neighborhood or zip code level.
- Usage Behavior: Pages visited, reading history, scrolling metrics, click data, time spent on specific recipe pages, and referring URLs.
3. How We Use & Process Your Information
We process the collected information for various essential business and technical operations:
- Operating, optimizing, and maintaining the recipe website.
- Processing purchases of digital cookbooks and products.
- Sending newsletters or recipe updates when you explicitly opt in.
- Security & Fraud Prevention: Utilizing granular technical data (such as full IP addresses) to identify, investigate, and mitigate sophisticated invalid traffic (IVT), non-human automated engagement, click farms, and ad fraud.
- Precise Ad Personalization & Retargeting: Processing technical identifiers to determine geographic relevance, serve customized social media content, and deliver tailored, interest-based advertising to users.
- Ad Delivery & Attribution: Measuring ad performance, tracking conversions from social media platforms, and managing frequency capping so you do not see the same advertisement repetitively.
4. Programmatic Third-Party Advertising & Cookies
This Website displays digital advertisements served by Google Ad Manager (GAM), its real-time bidding partners, demand-side platforms (DSPs), and associated ad technology providers.
A. Cookies and Tracking Technologies
We and our advertising partners use cookies, web beacons, and unique device tokens (such as the DoubleClick cookie) to track user reading behavior and page interaction across multiple platforms. These technologies allow our partners to build automated interest-based audience segments and serve personalized or non-personalized advertisements based on your visits to this and other websites across the web.
B. Mandatory Google Disclosure
As a mandatory requirement for utilizing Google’s advertising infrastructure, users must review how Google manages data. Please read Google’s official transparency document here: How Google uses information from sites or apps that use our services.
C. Data Sharing & Recipients
Your technical identifiers, tracking cookies, and unmasked IP addresses are shared in real-time via automated ad-bidding auctions with authorized third-party vendors. These third-party vendors are legally bound and restricted from processing or utilizing this data for any purposes other than the advertising and fraud mitigation protocols disclosed within this policy.
5. Social Media Platforms & Tracking Pixels
We maintain active communities and interact with users on various social networking channels. Your interactions on these platforms are completely governed by the privacy guidelines of their respective host corporations.
A. Social Media Channels
- Facebook: Easy Mediterranean Recipes (Facebook Privacy Policy)
- Instagram: @easymediterraneanrecipes (Instagram Privacy Policy)
- Pinterest: easymediterraneanrecipes (Pinterest Privacy Policy)
B. Conversion Pixels & Retargeting
This website utilizes social tracking scripts, including the Meta Pixel and the Pinterest Tag. These tracking pixels establish a direct link between your browser session on this Website and your profile on social networks. They automatically pass conversion tracking data (such as recipes saved or links clicked) back to Meta and Pinterest to create custom audience matching and behavioral retargeting ads. You can manage or disable ad personalization natively within your personal Pinterest and Instagram/Meta profile settings.
6. Multi-Jurisdictional User Rights & Opt-Out Options
We provide comprehensive methods for users globally to exercise their personal privacy rights and restrict tracking activities.
A. Global Cookie and Tracking Controls
Users can completely disable, block, or clear tracking cookies directly via their native browser configurations. Please note that disabling cookies may alter your browsing layout or limit interactive site features.
B. Personalized Advertising Opt-Out
You can opt out of Google’s personalized advertising profiles at any time by modifying your global settings here: Google Ads Settings.
C. EEA, UK, and Swiss Users (GDPR Compliance)
For visitors located in the European Economic Area (EEA), the United Kingdom, and Switzerland, we deploy an official, Google-Certified Consent Management Platform (CMP) that strictly enforces the IAB Europe Transparency and Consent Framework (TCF v2.2).
- Legal Basis for Security: For security and fraud prevention, technical data is processed under the legal framework of Legitimate Interest (IAB TCF Special Purpose 2).
- Legal Basis for Personalization: For precise geolocation tracking and interest-based ad targeting, data is processed strictly based on your Explicit Consent provided through the CMP (IAB TCF Feature 3).
- You can withdraw or modify your consent choices instantly at any time by clicking the "Privacy Settings" or "Cookie Settings" tab accessible on our web pages.
D. United States & California Residents (CCPA/CPRA)
If you reside in California or US jurisdictions with comprehensive privacy frameworks, you have specific data privileges, including the Right to Access, Correct, and Delete your information.
- You may limit the processing of your data by utilizing the “Do Not Sell or Share My Personal Information” or “Limit the Use of My Sensitive Personal Information” opt-out signals built directly into our footer and Consent Management Platform.
7. Analytics & Performance Partners
This Website uses Google Analytics, an analytical framework provided by Google LLC. Google Analytics drops functional cookies to capture your IP address, hardware properties, and reading behaviors to create aggregated performance analytics dashboards. Google may process and store this information on decentralized cloud servers located outside your country of residency.
8. Data Retention Windows
We retain personal data only for the timeline required to fulfill operational, legal, and financial reporting liabilities.
Advertising & Server Logs: To align with programmatic ad requirements, user technical records, tracking logs, and IP addresses processed by our advertising technology partners are fully anonymized, scrubbed, or completely deleted within 9 to 18 months.
9. Email Communications
We utilize Mailchimp to securely organize our digital subscriber lists and manage email newsletters. By opting into our newsletter, your name and email address are directly handled by Mailchimp under their independent privacy framework. You can opt out instantly by selecting the “unsubscribe” option anchored to any email.
Mailchimp’s Privacy Policy: https://mailchimp.com/legal/privacy/
10. Secure Digital Payments
We offer digital products such as cookbooks. Financial transactions are routed directly through isolated, secure payment processing merchants, including Google Play In-App Payments, Wise, and Payoneer. We do not store or process your full credit card digits or raw financial credentials on our databases; data processing is handled under each payment processor's respective security guidelines.
11. Children’s Privacy Protections
Our cooking and recipe platform is strictly tailored for audiences over the age of 13. We do not intentionally harvest data or track children under 13 years of age. If an unauthorized profile or minor data footprint is reported to us, we will scrub the parameters completely from our servers within 24 hours.
12. Infrastructure Data Security
We implement technical, physical, and administrative web safeguards to block unauthorized exploits, leaks, or data alterations. However, no framework transmitting data over open web protocols is 100% impenetrable; therefore, absolute data isolation cannot be fully guaranteed.
13. Changes to This Privacy Policy
We reserve the right to revise this document to reflect changes in ad tech protocols or legal compliance updates. Any revisions will update the timeline marker at the top of this document.
14. Contact Us
If you wish to access, correct, or request the deletion of your personal technical data footprints, reach out directly via email: