Privacy Policy

Verizon 1.0 – Last updated January 21, 2023.

We believe you should always know what personal data we collect about you, how we use it, and what control you have over this data. We want to be transparent and share this information with you in our privacy policy below.

About Us

I am Lee Jackson operating under the name Cook Eat World («we», «us» or «our»). We are the controller of your personal data.

You can contact us by:

  • e-mail address: lee@cookeatworld.com

About Our Privacy Policy

This privacy policy («Privacy Policy») explains

  • what personal data we collect about you;
  • how we use your personal data;
  • your rights concerning your personal data.

The Privacy Policy applies to the use of the website https://www.cookeatworld.com («Website») and our communication concerning the use of the Website.

Definitions

Authentication data – login information needed to identify you as a system user, e.g., password, username.

Contact information – data needed to contact you, e.g., e-mail address, phone number, postal address.

Identification data – information that allows us to establish and verify who you are, e.g., name, surname, or social media username.

Purchase information – details regarding the delivery of your purchase, e.g., products and services purchased, purchase status, or invoice number.

Payment details – information needed to receive and transfer payments, e.g., payment method, billing address, bank account number, payment card details (including card number, CVV/CVC code, card expiration date).

Payment status – details related to your payment, e.g., whether the payment was successful, payment date, time and place.

Traffic and performance data – information that is used by website or application analytical tools, e.g., IP address, an identifier assigned to you, location, device information, demographic data, and device type.

User IDs – a name, by which a person is identified, e.g., account or user ID, account number, or another identifier.

How Do We Use Your Personal Data and Why?

We use only the minimum amount of personal data needed.

We will indicate where the provision of personal data is voluntary or necessary.

For each topic below, we describe why and how we use your personal data and what is the legal basis.

Marketing – What do we do with your personal data and why?

1. We send you marketing information (e.g., newsletters, information on discounts, sales, new products, or services) to keep you updated about our offers.

What personal data do we use?

  • Identification data
  • Contact information

Legal reason

  • Your consent

2. We analyse your reactions to our messages to understand the effectiveness of our messages and marketing campaigns.

What personal data do we use?

  • Whether you have opened the message or its attachments
  • Whether you have clicked on the links in our message

Legal reason

  • It’s important for us to understand the results of our campaigns (legitimate interests)
  • It’s important for us to provide even better campaigns in the future (legitimate interests)
  • It’s important for us to improve our communication with our users

3. We show you adverts as you browse the web to inform you about our offerings.

What personal data do we use?

  • Traffic and performance data

Legal reason

  • Your consent

4. We use the following marketing tools that process personal data for sending marketing information:

Mailchimp (see their privacy policy here)

Analytics

1. We analyse the Website’s traffic and performance to continuously improve our Website, and the user experience.

We use the following analytical tools:

  • Google Analytics (see their privacy policy here)
  • Cloudflare (see their privacy policy here)

What personal data do we use?

  • Traffic performance and data

Legal reason

  • Your consent

Where Do We Obtain Your Personal Data?

We will obtain your personal data:

  • from e-mail marketing service provider (Mailchimp)
  • directly from you (for example, when you purchase a service, contact us with a question or complaint, create user’s profile, respond to a survey or sign-up to receive marketing communications)

To Whom We Disclose You Personal Data?

We disclose your personal data to the following categories of data recipients:

  • analytical service providers (Google Analytics, Cloudflare)
  • e-mail marketing service provider (Mailchimp)

If we transfer your personal data outside the European Economic Area, we will do so based on one of the following grounds:

  • the European Commission has declared the country, territory or sector to which we are transferring personal data as adequate by an adequacy decision
  • we have provided appropriate safeguards:
    • standard contractual clauses adopted by the European Commission
    • standard contractual clauses adopted by a supervisory authority and approved by the European Commission
    • contractual clauses authorised by a supervisory authority
    • binding corporate rules
    • the recipient has committed to adhere to a code of conduct
    • the recipient has committed to adhere to a certification mechanism
  • we rely on derogations (your explicit consent, the necessity to conclude or perform a contract with you, the necessity to conclude or perform a contract in your interest, public interest, establishment, exercise or defence of legal claims, protection of your or other person’s vital interests, transfer from a register of public information or our legitimate interests).

You can obtain more information on the transfers of your personal data and a copy of the appropriate or suitable safeguards by sending a request to lee@cookeatworld.com.

How Long Do We Store Your Personal Data?

We will not store your personal data longer than it is necessary. Once we have determined that we no longer need to hold your personal data, we will destroy it.

The criteria used to determine the period of storage of your personal data are:

  • the nature of the purpose, why personal data was collected;
  • the length of time, while we have a contractual relationship with you;
  • the existence of a legal obligation under the applicable law;
  • the necessity to store the data in the light of our legal position (such as applicable statutes of limitations, litigation or regulatory investigations).

What Rights Do You Have In Relation to Your Personal Data?

You have various rights in relation to the personal data that we process about you. We have described these rights in the table below. There are some exceptions to these rights, however. If we refuse your request, we will explain to you the reasons for doing so.

If you wish to exercise any of these rights, please contact us. Our contact information is in the privacy policy’s “About us” section.

1. Right to request access

  • You are entitled to ask us if we are processing your data and, if we are, you can request access to your personal data.

2. Right to rectification

  • You may request that we rectify any inaccurate or incomplete personal data that we process about you.

3.Right to erasure (“right to be forgotten”)

  • You have the right to request that we erase your personal data.

4. Right to restrict processing

  • You have the right to request that we restrict our processing of your personal data where: you believe such data to be inaccurate; our processing is unlawful; or we no longer need to process such data for a particular purpose, but where we are not able to delete the data due to a legal or other obligation or because you do not want us to delete it.

5. Right of data portability

  • You have the right to transfer your personal data between data controllers. This means that you can request your personal data we process about you in a structured, commonly used and machine-readable format and transfer this data to a third party.

6. Right to object

  • Where we are processing your personal data based on our legitimate interests (or those of a third party), you have the right to object to such processing on grounds relating to your particular situation.

7. Right to withdraw consent

  • If you have consented to our processing of your personal data, you have the right to withdraw consent at any time, free of charge.

How to complain

If you have any concerns about our use of your personal data, you can make a complaint to us. Our contact information is in the privacy policy’s section “About Us”.

In case you could not solve your problem with us directly, you can also complain to your local data protection authority or the place of the suspected violation. Contact information of these authorities can be accessed at the website of the European Data Protection Board.

Mediavine Programmatic Advertising (Ver 1.1)

The Website works with Mediavine to manage third-party interest-based advertising appearing on the Website. Mediavine serves content and advertisements when you visit the Website, which may use first and third-party cookies. A cookie is a small text file which is sent to your computer or mobile device (referred to in this policy as a “device”) by the web server so that a website can remember some information about your browsing activity on the Website.

First party cookies are created by the website that you are visiting. A third-party cookie is frequently used in behavioral advertising and analytics and is created by a domain other than the website you are visiting. Third-party cookies, tags, pixels, beacons and other similar technologies (collectively, “Tags”) may be placed on the Website to monitor interaction with advertising content and to target and optimize advertising. Each internet browser has functionality so that you can block both first and third-party cookies and clear your browser’s cache. The "help" feature of the menu bar on most browsers will tell you how to stop accepting new cookies, how to receive notification of new cookies, how to disable existing cookies and how to clear your browser’s cache. For more information about cookies and how to disable them, you can consult the information at All About Cookies.

Without cookies you may not be able to take full advantage of the Website content and features. Please note that rejecting cookies does not mean that you will no longer see ads when you visit our Site. In the event you opt-out, you will still see non-personalized advertisements on the Website.

The Website collects the following data using a cookie when serving personalized ads:

  • IP Address
  • Operating System type
  • Operating System version
  • Device Type
  • Language of the website
  • Web browser type
  • Email (in hashed form)

Mediavine Partners (companies listed below with whom Mediavine shares data) may also use this data to link to other end user information the partner has independently collected to deliver targeted advertisements. Mediavine Partners may also separately collect data about end users from other sources, such as advertising IDs or pixels, and link that data to data collected from Mediavine publishers in order to provide interest-based advertising across your online experience, including devices, browsers and apps. This data includes usage data, cookie information, device information, information about interactions between users and advertisements and websites, geolocation data, traffic data, and information about a visitor’s referral source to a particular website. Mediavine Partners may also create unique IDs to create audience segments, which are used to provide targeted advertising.

If you would like more information about this practice and to know your choices to opt-in or opt-out of this data collection, please visit National Advertising Initiative opt out page. You may also visit Digital Advertising Alliance website and Network Advertising Initiative website to learn more information about interest-based advertising. You may download the AppChoices app at Digital Advertising Alliance’s AppChoices app to opt out in connection with mobile apps, or use the platform controls on your mobile device to opt out.

For specific information about Mediavine Partners, the data each collects and their data collection and privacy policies, please visit Mediavine Partners.

Amazon Affiliate Program

As an Amazon Associate I earn from qualifying purchases.

We engage in affiliate marketing, by embedding tracking links into the cookeatworld.com. If you click on a link for an affiliate partnership, a cookie will be placed on your browser to track any sales for purposes of commissions.

We are affiliated with the Amazon Services LLC Associates Program, an affiliate advertising program designed to provide a means for sites to earn advertising fees by advertising and links to Amazon. As an Amazon Associate, we earn from qualifying purchases via customised links, provided by Amazon, to track the referrals to their website. This program utilises cookies to track visits for the purposes of assigning commission on these sales.

You can view Amazon’s full customer Privacy Policy here.

Microsoft Clarity

We partner with Microsoft Clarity and Microsoft Advertising to capture how you use and interact with our website through behavioral metrics, heatmaps, and session replay to improve and market our products/services. Website usage data is captured using first and third-party cookies and other tracking technologies to determine the popularity of products/services and online activity. Additionally, we use this information for site optimization, fraud/security purposes, and advertising. For more information about how Microsoft collects and uses your data, visit the Microsoft Privacy Statement.