General Introduction
feedthepins is all about simple, welcoming recipes, making cooking easy for everyone. You won’t find user accounts here, and we never ask for your personal details directly. That means your private info isn’t being sold or passed around by feedthepins.
Still, we want you to know that certain third-party tools might automatically collect some data when you use feedthepins (like tracking site visits, displaying personalized ads, or playing embedded videos). This privacy policy is here to give you the full rundown, so you’ll know how feedthepins keeps your browsing experience safe while explaining what gets collected and why.
Third-party services used
feedthepins relies on a few outside partners to keep things running smoothly and to continue offering free recipe content. These collaborators help us track how our site’s used, support the platform financially through advertising, and allow us to share video recipes right on our pages. Here’s a snapshot of the main third-party services integrated on feedthepins:
- Cloudflare Analytics: This tool from Cloudflare lets us gauge how the site’s performing by monitoring site visitors and speed, without using cookies tied to your identity. It gathers general info—like IP addresses or what’s being browsed—but it’s always in bulk and never points to you personally.
- YouTube: Occasionally, we showcase recipe videos from YouTube (owned by Google). Watching these videos on feedthepins could let YouTube/Google create cookies to remember views and gather stats (such as how many folks have hit play). If you’re already signed into Google, this might link up with your account, but feedthepins doesn’t see or access any of this info. Take a look at the YouTube/Google privacy policy if you’d like to know more.
- Google AdSense: Google’s advertising platform helps cover the cost of running feedthepins by sharing ads you might find interesting. AdSense uses cookies to pick relevant content based on your activity. Rest assured, feedthepins never gets ahold of the personal details Google uses for ad customization. Details are in Google’s privacy policy.
- Google Analytics: This Google tool helps us learn more about our visitors—like which recipes people linger over or where traffic comes from—by collecting anonymized stats (such as visited pages, visit length). It might use cookies to do so, but no identifying info is ever gathered by feedthepins itself.
Cookies and consent
Cookies are small text files that get saved on your device when you visit feedthepins.com. Both feedthepins and some third-party partners depend on cookies to make your time here smoother:
- Advertising cookies: Google AdSense uses these to show you ads that might match your interests or past web activity.
- Analytics cookies: Google Analytics and Cloudflare Analytics use these to track how the site’s performing and how people use feedthepins (everything’s grouped together and not linked to you directly). Thanks to this, we know what works best and how to improve our site.
- Functional cookies: These are crucial for the site to run, like remembering your preferences (language, for instance) or the cookie choices you’ve set. If these aren’t active, some features could break.
When you keep using feedthepins, that means you’re cool with the cookie setup as described. You’re always free to adjust or delete cookies using your web browser’s options—most browsers let you block them, delete existing ones, or warn you before any are added. Just remember that turning off cookies could change how feedthepins (and other sites) work for you.
Changes to this policy
The way feedthepins handles your privacy may shift as new services come in, legal rules change, or we adjust our practices. If big updates happen, we’ll make sure you see an announcement right on feedthepins—for example, with a message on our homepage or a specific notification.
Look for the date at the top of this page to see when we last updated things. We recommend checking here every so often so you’re always in-the-know about how your data is protected at feedthepins.
Contact
Got questions, suggestions, or concerns about how feedthepins handles your privacy? Feel free to drop us a line anytime! You can reach out by email at legal@feedthepins.com. We love hearing from our community and are always here to lend a hand or get back to you with answers.
Conclusion
Thanks for diving into feedthepins’s privacy details! By choosing feedthepins, you’re agreeing with everything we’ve outlined above about how we care for your data. We hope all of this sets your mind at ease, so you can focus on enjoying all the delicious recipes. We appreciate your trust—happy cooking!