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Privacy Policy

Last Updated: January 13, 2026

This Privacy Policy explains how In Search of Yummy-ness ("we," "us," or "our"), owned and operated by Shareba Abdul, collects, uses, discloses, and protects your information when you visit or interact with InSearchOfYummyness.com (the "Website").

By using this Website, you agree to the practices described in this Privacy Policy.

Should we ask you to provide certain information by which you can be identified when using this Website, it will be used in accordance with this Privacy Policy.

By visiting this Website, you acknowledge that we may collect, retain, disclose, and use information as described in this Privacy Policy to operate the Website and better serve you.

We may change this policy from time to time by updating this page. You should check this page periodically to ensure that you are happy with any changes.

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Who We Are

This Website, https://InSearchOfYummyness.com, is run by Shareba Abdul, owner of In Search of Yummy-ness. You can contact Shareba by email if you have any questions about this Privacy Policy.

What We Collect

We use analytics tools (such as Google Analytics) to collect information about visitors and how this Website is used.

Your information may also be collected through comment forms, surveys, and third-party services/applications.

The following information may be automatically collected when you visit this Website:

  • your name (if you submit it via forms)
  • your IP address
  • your operating system and browser
  • the date and time you visited
  • the referring websites that sent you here
  • the pages you viewed
  • links you may have clicked while visiting this Website
  • contact information, including email address (if you provide it)
  • demographic information such as postcode, preferences and interests (where available via analytics/advertising tools)
  • other information relevant to customer surveys and/or offers
  • information collected when leaving comments
  • pseudonymous identifiers (such as hashed values or subscriber IDs) that may be included in newsletter links you click

Comments

When visitors leave comments on the site, we collect the data shown in the comments form, and also the visitor's IP address and browser user agent string to help with spam detection.

If you choose to leave a comment, you have the option of providing your name and email address, in addition to your comment. This information becomes a part of the Website when you provide it.

The name you share can be seen by other visitors to the site. Your email is required, but is not displayed.

Data protection (Antispam Bee language detection): To detect the language, Antispam Bee uses franc. It sends the comment to the service via HTTPS. Other data about the commentator (like IP or email address) are not sent.

How long we retain your data

If you leave a comment, the comment (along with your name and email) and its metadata are retained indefinitely unless you request deletion. This is so we can recognize and approve any follow-up comments automatically instead of holding them in a moderation queue.

What rights you have over your data

If you have left comments, you can request to receive an exported file of the personal data we hold about you, including any data you have provided to us. You can also request that we erase any personal data we hold about you. This does not include any data we are obliged to keep for administrative, legal, or security purposes.

Where we send your data

Visitor comments may be checked through an automated spam detection service.

Sensitive Personal Information

At no time should you submit sensitive personal information to the website.

This includes your social insurance/social security number, information regarding race or ethnic origin, political opinions, religious beliefs, health information, criminal background, or trade union memberships. If you elect to submit such information to us, it will be subject to this Privacy Policy.

How We May Collect Your Data

This Website may use third-party service providers to service various aspects of the Website. Each third-party service provider's use of your personal information is dictated by their respective privacy policies.

The following services may be used on this Website and may collect information, depending on how you interact with the Website:

Where applicable, third parties may serve content and advertisements, collect information directly from you, and place or recognize cookies on your browser. These cookies may store preferences, record user-specific information on pages you visit, and adjust the way ads or content is displayed according to location and preferences.

What We Do with the Information We Gather

We may use information for purposes such as:

  • To conduct market research and improve our content and services
  • To gauge interest in the topics we cover, so we can create more content that appeals to you
  • To understand how users interact with the Website on mobile and desktop devices
  • To deliver advertisements and measure their performance
  • To understand reader interests and improve the Website experience
  • To send newsletters or promotional emails (if you have subscribed)
  • To respond to inquiries you send us

Data Retention

We retain personal information only for as long as necessary to fulfill the purposes described in this policy or as required by law.

  • Comment data and recipe ratings are retained indefinitely unless you request deletion.
  • Analytics data is retained according to our service providers' settings/policies.
  • Email subscriber data is retained until you unsubscribe.

Your Right to Request Access/Deletion: You can request access to or deletion of personal information by emailing us. We will respond within a reasonable timeframe, generally within 45 days. Please note we may need to retain certain information for legal compliance, security purposes, or to complete transactions.

Cookies

This site uses cookies and similar technologies - small text files placed on your device - to help the Website function, improve your experience, and support analytics and advertising.

Cookies may be used to retain user preferences, store information for things like comment forms, and provide aggregated tracking data to third-party applications like Google Analytics and advertising partners.

You may prefer to disable cookies on this site and on others. The most effective way to do this is to disable cookies in your browser settings.

How We Use Cookies

If you leave a comment on our site you may opt-in to saving your name and email address in cookies. These are for your convenience so that you do not have to fill in your details again when you leave another comment. These cookies will last for one year.

We also use cookies for analytics to understand how the Website is used and to improve the Website.

Where required by law (for example, in certain jurisdictions), we and our partners may request consent for certain cookies and similar technologies through a consent tool.

Opt-Out of Cookies

You can use your internet browser to automatically or manually delete cookies. You can also specify that certain cookies may not be placed. Another option is to change the settings of your internet browser so that you receive a message each time a cookie is placed.

Please note that our Website may not work properly if all cookies are disabled. If you do delete cookies in your browser, they may be placed again when you visit our Website again.

We suggest taking a look at the About Cookies website, which offers guidance for all modern browsers

To opt-out of cookies for Google ads, visit: https://www.google.com/privacy_ads.html

If you would like more information about this practice, and to learn your choices about not having this information used by these companies, please visit these resources: 
https://www.networkadvertising.org/managing/opt_out.asp 
https://www.aboutads.info/choices/
https://www.aboutcookies.org/

(Availability and options vary by region and device.)

Akismet Anti-Spam Plugin:

Akismet collects information about visitors who comment on sites that use the Akismet anti-spam service, including this Website. The information collected depends on how Akismet is configured, but typically includes the commenter's IP address, user agent, referrer, and Site URL (along with other information directly provided by the commenter such as name, username, email address, and the comment itself).

Microsoft Clarity Plugin:

We partner with Microsoft Clarity and Microsoft Advertising to capture how you use and interact with our website through behavioural 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.

WP Recipe Maker Recipe Card Plugin:

Bootstrapped Ventures, the developer of WP Recipe Maker, does not have access to any of the data collected by the plugin. This is all stored in our local database and is not communicated back to Bootstrapped Ventures.

WHAT PERSONAL DATA WE COLLECT AND WHY WE COLLECT IT

Comments: When you leave a comment rating, we store the rating each user has given to a recipe, along with the personal data WordPress core stores.

Cookies: User ratings are enabled on this website, so we store a WPRM_User_Voted_%recipe% cookie (with %recipe% the ID of the recipe) that contains the rating this user has given to a particular recipe. This cookie is used as (one of the) measures to prevent rating spam.

IP Address: When a user rates a recipe, we store the IP address upon voting. This is used as (one of the) measures to prevent rating spam.

Manually Added Data: The Recipe Submission feature (when used) allows for users to manually input information. This personal data can be collected, depending on the fields that were added to the form. This can include the user email and name. When using the reCAPTCHA feature, you will be agreeing to the terms of use and privacy policy.

How long we retain your data: Our cookies are stored for 30 days. User-submitted data is stored indefinitely in the local database unless you request deletion. We retain personal information only as long as necessary for the purposes outlined in this policy, unless a longer retention period is required by law.

Advertising

CMI Marketing, Inc., d/b/a Raptive ("Raptive") is a service provider of this Site for the purposes of placing advertising on the Site, and Raptive will collect and use certain data for advertising purposes. To learn more about Raptive's data usage, click here: https://raptive.com/creator-advertising-privacy-statement

We use third-party advertising companies to serve ads when you visit our Website. Advertising partners may use cookies, web beacons, pixels, and similar technologies to collect information about your visits to this and other websites to provide ads, measure performance, and limit repeated ads.

For example, if you arrive on our Website by clicking a link from our email newsletter, our advertising partners may receive pseudonymous identifiers included in the link (such as a hashed value) to help measure advertising performance and improve ad relevance.

We do not control cookies or data collection performed by third-party advertisers, and their practices are governed by their own privacy policies.

Retargeting / Remarketing

From time to time, we may engage in remarketing with third-party companies (such as Google or social platforms) to market the Website. These companies may use cookies to serve ads based on someone's past visits to the Website.

Affiliate Program Participation

The Website may engage in affiliate marketing, which is done by embedding tracking links into the Website. If you click on a link for an affiliate partnership, a cookie may be placed on your browser to track any sales for purposes of commissions.

Our affiliate partners may include:

  • West Coast Seeds
  • BigScoots
  • Feast Design Co.
  • Thermoworks
  • Keywords with Aleka
  • Eva Kosmas Flores

Newsletters

We use Kit to manage our email marketing subscriber list and to send emails to our subscribers. Kit is a third-party provider, which may process your data using industry-standard technologies to help us monitor and improve our newsletter.

Kit's privacy policy is available at https://kit.com/privacy.

You can unsubscribe from our newsletter by clicking on the unsubscribe link provided at the end of each newsletter.

Newsletters may contain tracking pixels. These pixels allow us to understand whether an email was opened and whether links were clicked. This helps us measure performance and improve email content. This information is used for our own email marketing analytics.

For example, when you click a link in one of our emails, Kit may automatically add tracking parameters to the link. These parameters can include a subscriber ID, UTM parameters for analytics, and a hashed (one-way encrypted) version of your email address. The hashed value does not display your email address and cannot be reversed to reveal it. We and our partners (including advertising and analytics partners) may use these parameters to better understand newsletter performance, attribute site activity to email campaigns, and support advertising measurement and personalization.

Links to Other Websites

Our Website may contain links to other websites of interest. Once you have used these links to leave our Website, you should note that we do not have any control over that other website.

Therefore, we cannot be responsible for the protection and privacy of any information which you provide whilst visiting such sites and such sites are not governed by this Privacy Policy. You should exercise caution and look at the privacy statement applicable to the website in question.

Controlling Your Personal Information

If you have previously agreed to us using your personal information for direct marketing purposes, you may change your mind at any time by contacting us or by using unsubscribe links in emails.

  • Opt-out: You may opt-out of future email communications by following the unsubscribe links in our emails.
  • Access: You may request access to personal information we have about you by emailing us.
  • Amend: You may email us to amend or update your personal information.
  • Delete: In certain situations, you may request that we erase personal information. To do so, please email us. We will respond within a reasonable timeframe, generally within 45 days.

Please note that we may need to retain certain information for record-keeping purposes, security, completing transactions, or where required by law.

Children's Information

We do not knowingly collect personally identifiable information from children or minors. If a parent or guardian believes that the Website has personally identifiable information of a child under the age of majority in its database, please email us, and we will use reasonable efforts to remove such information from our records.

Global Privacy Control (GPC)

Some browsers provide a "Global Privacy Control" (GPC) signal. Where required by applicable law, we treat GPC as a request to opt out of certain data disclosures used for targeted advertising.

Contact Information

In Search Of Yummy-ness is located in Ontario, Canada. For questions related to this Privacy Policy, please email:

Email: [email protected]

Do Not Sell or Share My Personal Information

Under certain US state privacy laws, the sharing of information with advertising partners may be considered a "sale" or "sharing" of personal information, even if we do not receive money in exchange for the information.

What Information May Be Shared

Through advertising partners and related technologies, the following types of information may be collected and used for advertising purposes:

  • Online identifiers (like cookies and device IDs)
  • Internet or network activity (pages you visit, links you click)
  • General geolocation (such as approximate location based on IP address)

Your Right to Opt-Out

You may have the right to opt out of such "sale" or "sharing" where required by law. To exercise this right:

For advertising on this site:

Note: Opting out will not reduce the number of ads you see, but the ads may be less relevant to your interests.

EEA/UK (GDPR) Notice

If you are located in the European Economic Area (EEA) or the United Kingdom, we and certain service providers may process personal data under legal bases such as:

  • Consent (for example, where required for certain cookies and personalized advertising), and/or
  • Legitimate interests (for example, site security, fraud prevention, and understanding how the Website is used)

Where consent is required, you can withdraw consent at any time using the consent/choices tool shown on the Website where applicable.

You may have rights to access, correct, delete, object to processing, restrict processing, and data portability, and you may lodge a complaint with your local data protection authority. To exercise rights, contact us at [email protected].

Governing Law

This Privacy Policy shall be governed by the laws of Ontario, Canada. Any disputes relating to this Privacy Policy shall be subject to the jurisdiction of Ontario, Canada.