Spice to Sauce (“we,” “us,” “our”) operates https://spicetosauce.com (the “Website”). This policy explains what personal information we collect when you visit the Website, subscribe to our newsletter, or contact us; how we use and share it; and the choices and rights you have.
For privacy questions or requests, use our contact page.
This policy covers our Website only. It does not cover information collected offline or by other websites we link to, which have their own policies.
Information We Collect
Information you give us
- Newsletter: your email address [and first name, if your form asks for it] when you subscribe.
- Messages: your name, email address, and whatever you write when you use our contact form or email us.
- Comments: your name, email address, website (optional), comment text, and IP address when you leave a comment. Approved comments, with the name you give, are public. Comments may be checked by an automated spam-detection service, and a hashed version of your email address may be sent to an avatar service to display your profile picture.
Information collected automatically
When you visit, we and our partners automatically collect your IP address, browser and device type, operating system, language, referring page, pages viewed, time on page, approximate location (city or region, derived from your IP address), and cookie or device identifiers. This comes from server logs, Google Analytics, Mediavine and its advertising partners, and affiliate partners such as Amazon, as described below.
We do not knowingly collect sensitive personal information such as health, financial account, or precise geolocation data.
How We Use Your Information
- Operate, maintain, and secure the Website, and detect fraud and abuse
- Understand how visitors use the Website so we can improve our recipes and content
- Send the newsletter you signed up for and reply to your messages
- Show ads, including interest-based ads
- Track affiliate referrals
- Comply with the law and enforce our rights
Newsletter
When you subscribe, we use your email address to send recipes, cooking tips, and occasional updates from Spice to Sauce. Our newsletter is managed through Mediavine and Substack, which store subscriber details and send emails on our behalf under their own privacy policies (Mediavine, Substack).
Our emails contain small tracking pixels and tagged links that tell us whether an email was opened and which links were clicked. We use this to improve our emails.
You can unsubscribe at any time with the link at the bottom of every email.
Google Analytics
We use Google Analytics to understand how visitors find and use the Website. Google Analytics uses cookies and other similar tracking technologies.
Google Analytics data is kept for a limited period and then automatically deleted.
Advertising
The Website is supported by ads managed by Mediavine, Inc. Mediavine and its advertising partners use cookies, pixels, and similar technologies to collect information about your device and browsing to show ads, including ads based on your interests, and to measure how those ads perform. Mediavine’s required disclosure appears directly below, including a link to the list of its partners and their privacy policies.
If you opt out of personalized ads, you will still see ads, but they will not be based on your interests.
Affiliate Links
Some links on the Website are affiliate links. If you click one and make a purchase, we may earn a commission at no extra cost to you.
Spice to Sauce is a participant in the Amazon Services LLC Associates Program, an affiliate advertising program designed to provide a means for sites to earn advertising fees by advertising and linking to Amazon.com. As an Amazon Associate, we earn from qualifying purchases.
When you click an affiliate link, the retailer or affiliate network may place cookies on your device to record that you came from our Website. Once you are on a retailer’s site, its privacy policy applies.
Cookies and Your Choices
Cookies are small text files stored on your device. The Website and our partners use cookies and similar technologies to keep the site working, measure visits, show and measure ads, and credit us for affiliate referrals.
Your choices
- Privacy settings: depending on where you live, you may see a consent banner or a “Do Not Sell or Share My Personal Information” link. Use the privacy settings link on the Website to change your choices at any time.
- Browser settings: you can block or delete cookies in your browser. Some features may not work, and you will still see non-personalized ads.
- Google Analytics: use Google’s opt-out add-on linked above.
How We Share Information
We share personal information only with:
- Service providers who help us run the Website, such as hosting, security, spam-filtering, analytics, and newsletter providers. They may use it only to provide their services.
- Advertising partners: Mediavine and its partners, as described above.
- Affiliate partners: Amazon and other retailers or networks, when you click an affiliate link.
- Legal and safety: when required by law, or to protect the rights, property, or safety of us, our visitors, or others.
- Business transfers: if the Website is sold or merged, to the new owner, who must follow this policy for information already collected.
How Long We Keep Information
We keep personal information only as long as needed for the purposes in this policy, for example while you are subscribed to the newsletter or while a comment is published, and then delete it. Our partners keep data according to their own policies.
Security
We take reasonable measures to protect personal information, but no method of transmission or storage is completely secure.
Your Privacy Rights
Depending on where you live, you may have the right to:
- Access the personal information we hold about you and get a copy of it
- Correct inaccurate information
- Delete your information
- Opt out of the sale or sharing of your information and of targeted advertising
- Restrict or object to certain uses of your information
- Withdraw consent you have given, at any time
- Appeal our decision on your request
- Complain to a data protection authority or government regulator
Where information is processed. Your information may be processed in countries other than the one you live in, including the United States.
Children’s Privacy
The Website is not directed to children under 13, and we do not knowingly collect their personal information. If you believe a child has given us personal information, contact us and we will delete it.
Changes to This Policy
We may update this policy from time to time. Changes take effect when posted on this page.
Contact Us
For questions or privacy requests, use our contact page.