Privacy Policy for Recipes Darleen

Effective as of Mars 23, 2024

Last updated: September 30, 2026

Welcome to Recipes Darleen (https://recipesdarleen.com). We respect your privacy, and we want to be clear about how we collect, use, and protect your information when you visit our site. This policy explains what data we collect, why we collect it, and how you can manage your preferences.

If you ever have questions or need clarity, reach out to us at contact@recipesdarleen.com .

Information We Collect

We collect both personal and non-personal information to improve your experience and keep our site running smoothly.
This may include:

Name and email address (if you subscribe or contact us), and the email address you enter if you use Email This Recipe
Data about how you use our website (pages viewed, time spent, clicks)
Cookies and similar technologies that remember preferences and measure performance
Device information such as browser type, operating system, and IP address

How We Use Your Data

We use the data we collect to:

Improve our website, recipes, and user experience
Respond to messages, inquiries, or feedback
Send you a recipe you asked us to email (see Email This Recipe below)
Send occasional newsletters (if you opt-in — unsubscribe anytime)
Prevent fraud, spam, or misuse of our services
Show advertising and measure its delivery, through our advertising provider HBAgency (see Advertising below)

We never sell your personal data to third parties.

Email This Recipe

Recipe pages may offer an “Email This Recipe” button. If you use it, you enter an email address and we send that one recipe to it. We use the address only to send that recipe email.

Sending a recipe does not sign you up for anything. Unless you also tick the optional box described below, we do not add the address to any mailing list and do not use it for marketing.
Related recipes for subscribers only. If the address already belongs to a confirmed newsletter subscriber, the recipe email may also include up to three related Recipesdarleen recipes. To decide this, our email service checks the address against our newsletter list at Brevo; nothing from that check is stored, and the answer is never shown on the website. Ticking the newsletter box is not enough on its own: related recipes appear only after the subscription has been confirmed.
Optional newsletter, with double opt-in. The form has a separate box, unticked by default: “Yes, send me new recipes and updates.” Only if you tick it do we ask our email provider to send you a confirmation email. You are subscribed only after you click the confirmation link in that email; if you do not confirm, you are not subscribed.
Who processes it. Emails are sent for us by our email service provider, Brevo (brevo.com). Your request is received by our email service at api.recipesdarleen.com, which runs on Cloudflare Workers.

What is kept, and for how long. Our email service does not store your email address. To prevent abuse, it counts requests using one-way keyed codes (hashes) made from your IP address and from the recipient address, never the address itself, and deletes those counts automatically after one hour (per visitor) and 24 hours (per recipient address). Brevo keeps records of the emails it sends for us, such as whether an email was delivered, opened or clicked, under its own retention settings. If you confirm a newsletter subscription, Brevo keeps your email address on our newsletter list until you unsubscribe or ask us to delete it.

Unsubscribing. You can unsubscribe from newsletter emails at any time using the unsubscribe link in any newsletter email, or by writing to us at contact@recipesdarleen.com. The rights described under Your Rights below also apply to this data.

Pinterest Publishing

We publish our own recipe Pins to the Recipes Darleen Pinterest business account using a private publishing tool that we operate ourselves (“the publisher”). It connects to Pinterest through Pinterest’s official API and Pinterest’s own sign-in (OAuth). It is used only by us, and it does not collect any information about visitors to this website.

Which account. Only our own Pinterest business account, connected by us on Pinterest’s sign-in page. Before the live connection is saved, and again before every Pin is published, the publisher checks that it belongs to our account (username and website; for the live connection also the account type).
Sign-in credentials. Pinterest gives the publisher an access token and a refresh token. They are stored encrypted on our own hosting, separately for our test and live connections, and are used only to keep the connection working and to publish our Pins. They are not displayed in the publisher or written to its logs. The connection renews itself automatically.
What is read from Pinterest, and for how long. When it needs to, the publisher reads our account’s identity, our list of boards (including each board’s name, owner and whether it is shared), and the Pins on our boards, so it can confirm it is using the right account and board and that a published Pin matches exactly what we approved. This information is used for that check and then discarded. We do not keep Pinterest account, board or Pin identifiers, board lists, or Pinterest’s responses.
What we keep. Our own content and settings: the Pins we write (title, description, alt text, link to our recipe and image), the names we give our boards, our approval and schedule for each Pin, and a publishing record (when a Pin was sent and whether it was confirmed). Operational activity logs are deleted after 30 days.
We choose every Pin. Each Pin is reviewed and approved by us individually before it can be published. Importing content does not approve it, and a Pin that changes after approval must be approved again. Approved Pins may be published automatically at the time we schedule them.
Sharing. We do not sell or share information obtained from Pinterest with anyone.
Removing access. Access can be removed at any time in the Pinterest account’s settings, and we can disconnect the publisher ourselves, which deletes the stored credentials. Once access is removed or no longer valid, nothing more is published until the account is connected again.

Questions about this integration can be sent to the address under Contact Us below.

Cookies & Tracking Technologies

Cookies are small text files stored on your device to help our site remember preferences and analyze usage.
You can disable cookies in your browser settings, but some parts of the site may not work properly.

We may also use analytics tools such as Google Analytics to understand visitor behavior and improve content.

Our advertising provider and its advertising partners may also use cookies and similar technologies. See Advertising and Your Consent Choices below.

Advertising

Recipes Darleen shows programmatic advertising provided by HBAgency (hbagency.it). HBAgency and the advertising partners it works with may store or access information on your device, such as cookies, local storage and similar identifiers, and may process information such as your IP address, device and browser details and the pages you view, in order to select, deliver and measure ads.

These partners receive the choices you make in our consent tool, described below.

Your Consent Choices

The consent tool on this site is supplied through our HBAgency integration and uses the IAB Europe Transparency & Consent Framework (TCF). It explains the purposes for which information is used and lists the advertising partners involved. You can agree, disagree, or open “More options” to make choices for individual purposes and partners.

You can change or withdraw your choices at any time using the “Privacy Settings” link at the bottom of the page.

The list of advertising partners is maintained through HBAgency’s configuration and may change over time. The consent tool shows the current list.

Your Rights

You have full control over your data. You can:

Request access to the data we store about you
Ask for corrections or deletion of your data
Opt out of marketing communications
Restrict or object to certain uses of your data

To exercise any of these rights, contact us at contact@recipesdarleen.com.

Third-Party Links

We sometimes link to other websites or blogs. Please note that we are not responsible for the privacy practices or content of those external sites.

Children’s Privacy

Our content is designed for a general audience. We do not knowingly collect information from children under 13 years old.
If you believe a child has provided us with personal information, please contact us immediately and we will remove it.

Updates to This Policy

We may update this Privacy Policy occasionally to reflect changes to our practices or for other operational, legal, or regulatory reasons.
Any updates will be posted here with a revised “Last Updated” date.

Contact Us

If you have any questions, concerns, or feedback about this Privacy Policy, please contact:
📧 contact@recipesdarleen.com

Thanks for trusting Recipes Darleen with your info. We’re committed to keeping it safe and using it responsibly.