Effective date: April 27, 2025
Last updated: April 27, 2025
At The Chef de Partie (https://thechefdepartie.com), we respect your privacy and are committed to protecting it. This policy outlines the types of personal information we collect, how it’s used, and your choices regarding your data.
Who We Are
Our website address is: https://thechefdepartie.com. This blog is maintained by a solo chef and recipe creator sharing culinary content, including original recipes, images, and food photography.
Comments
When visitors leave comments on the site, we collect the data shown in the comments form, as well as the visitor’s IP address and browser user agent string to help detect spam.
An anonymized string (hash) from your email address may be shared with the Gravatar service to check if you’re using it. The Gravatar privacy policy is available here: https://automattic.com/privacy. After approval, your profile picture becomes publicly visible alongside your comment.
Media
If you upload images to the website, avoid uploading images with embedded location data (EXIF GPS). Visitors may be able to extract this data from images.
Cookies
If you leave a comment, you may opt-in to save your name, email, and website in cookies for convenience. These cookies last for one year.
If you log in to our site (admin use), cookies may be used to remember your session and screen preferences. Login cookies last for two days (or two weeks if “Remember Me” is selected).
Editing or publishing an article will store a temporary cookie indicating the post ID; it expires after one day.
Embedded Content from Other Websites
Articles on this site may include embedded content (e.g., videos, images, social posts). Embedded content behaves as if the visitor had visited the source website. These third-party websites may collect data, use cookies, and track your interaction, especially if you’re logged in to their platform.
Who We Share Your Data With
If you request a password reset, your IP address will be included in the reset email.
How Long We Retain Your Data
Comments and their metadata are stored indefinitely. Registered users (if any) can edit or delete their personal information (excluding username). Admins can also edit this information.
What Rights You Have Over Your Data
If you have an account or have left comments, you may request an export of the personal data we store about you, or request its deletion. This excludes any data we’re required to keep for legal, security, or administrative purposes.
Where Your Data Is Sent
Visitor comments may be checked through an automated spam detection service.
WP Recipe Maker
We use WP Recipe Maker to display and organize recipes. Bootstrapped Ventures, the plugin developer, does not access or store your data.
Personal Data Collected:
- Ratings (when comment ratings are enabled)
- IP addresses (for spam prevention)
- Cookies:
WPRM_User_Voted_%recipeID%to remember votes
Retention:
Cookies are stored for 30 days. Any submitted data is stored indefinitely in our local database.
WP Smush
Images on this site are optimized using WP Smush, which sends images to WPMU DEV’s servers. EXIF data may be stripped or returned but is not stored.
CDN Usage:
Smush uses Stackpath CDN, which may log IPs, browser details, and general location for up to 7 days.
Learn more here: https://www.stackpath.com/legal/privacy-statement/
Smush may also use Drip for admin-only email notifications.
LiteSpeed Cache
This site uses LiteSpeed Cache to improve speed and performance. Caching stores temporary duplicates of pages and may use QUIC.cloud for delivery.
More info: https://quic.cloud/privacy-policy/
Contact
For questions regarding this policy, or to request data removal, please contact us at: