Who We Are
Our website address is: https://cookwithzucchini.com. It is managed by Pierre Réguer, À l’Ouest Éditions, 39 rue Gambetta, 29600 Morlaix, France, who is the point of contact for privacy and data protection matters.
Collection and Use of Personal Data
Comments
When you leave a comment on our website, the data entered in the comment form, as well as your IP address and your browser’s user agent, are collected to help us detect unwanted comments.
An anonymized string created from your email address (also known as a hash) may be sent to the Gravatar service to check if you are using it. The Gravatar privacy policy can be found here: https://automattic.com/privacy/. After your comment is approved, your profile picture will be publicly visible next to your comment.
Contact Forms
When you send us a message via our contact form, the data is not stored on the site. The form generates an email that is sent to us.
Cookies
If you leave a comment on our site or use our contact form, you will be offered to save your name, email address, and website in cookies. This is for your convenience so you don’t have to re-enter this information if you leave another comment later. These cookies expire after one year.
If you have an account and log in to this site, a temporary cookie will be created to determine if your browser accepts cookies. It contains no personal data and is discarded when you close your browser.
When you log in, we will set up several cookies to save your login information and screen preferences. The login cookie lasts for two days, and the screen option cookie lasts for one year. If you check « Remember Me, » your login cookie will be stored for two weeks. If you log out of your account, the login cookie will be cleared.
When you edit or publish an article, an additional cookie will be saved in your browser. This cookie contains no personal data and simply indicates the ID of the article you just edited. It expires after one day.
Google AdSense
This site uses Google AdSense, a service that includes advertising by Google Inc. Google AdSense uses “cookies,” text files that are stored on your computer and help analyze site traffic. Google AdSense also uses “web beacons” (invisible graphics). These web beacons help evaluate information such as visitor traffic on these pages. The information generated by cookies and web beacons about your use of this site (including your IP address) and the delivery of advertising formats is transmitted to a Google server. This information may be shared by Google with its partners. However, Google will not combine your IP address with any other data it has collected.
You can learn more on Google’s AdSense site: https://policies.google.com/technologies/ads?hl=en
You can prevent the installation of cookies by adjusting your browser settings, but please note that in this case, you may not be able to access all features of this site. By using this site, you consent to Google processing the data about you in the manner and for the purposes stated.
Embedded Content from Other Sites
Articles on this site may include embedded content (e.g., videos, images, articles, maps). Embedded content from other sites behaves in the same way as if the visitor has visited the other site.
These websites may collect data about you, use cookies, embed third-party tracking tools, and monitor your interactions with the embedded content if you have an account logged in on those websites.
Analytics
Google Analytics code is integrated into the site. We use it to measure site traffic, detail pages viewed, visit times, geographic origin, hardware used, etc. The data provided by Google Analytics is comprehensive and detailed, and remains completely anonymous. We have requested Google to retain this data indefinitely.
Newsletter Subscription
Subscribing to the newsletter requires registration on the site. This registration requests minimal personal data: an email address for sending and a name, which can be real or fictitious, at the user’s choice.
Each newsletter includes a link to modify this data.
This data is stored on the online service sendinblue.com (see Sendinblue’s privacy policy here: https://fr.sendinblue.com/legal/privacypolicy/).
Your data may be retained after you unsubscribe. If you wish to have it deleted (right to be forgotten), please send us a request via the site’s contact form or by postal mail.
Use and Disclosure of Your Personal Data
The personal data collected during your visit to the site, as described above, is not used by Cookwithzucchini or shared with third parties.
The data collected from your newsletter subscription is used solely for sending informational emails from Cookwithzucchini. It is not shared with third parties.
Data Retention
If you leave a comment, the comment and its metadata are retained indefinitely. This allows us to recognize and approve subsequent comments automatically rather than holding them in a moderation queue.
For users who register on our site, we also store the personal data provided in their profile. All users can view, edit, or delete their personal information at any time (except for their username, which cannot be changed). Site administrators can also view and edit this information.
Your Rights Regarding Your Data
If you have an account, have left comments on the site, or have subscribed to our newsletter, you can request to receive a file containing all the personal data we hold about you, including data you have provided. You can also request the deletion of your personal data. This does not include data stored for administrative, legal, or security reasons.
Contact Information
The site Cookwithzucchini is managed by Pierre Réguer, 39 rue Gambetta, 29600 Morlaix – France
You can contact us at this postal address or through our contact form.