Last Updated: May 30, 2026
This Privacy Policy explains how Cook Simple Food (“Company,” “we,” “us,” or “our”) collects, uses, discloses, and protects information when you visit https://cooksimplefood.com (the “Website”) and use our related content, features, forms, email communications, advertising, and services (collectively, the “Service”).
By using this Website, you agree to the collection and use of information as described in this Privacy Policy. If you do not agree with this Privacy Policy, please do not use the Website.
1. Who We Are
Cook Simple Food is a recipe and food content website created to share practical recipes, cooking tips, meal ideas, kitchen guidance, and related food content for home cooks.
Our Website may include recipe articles, email sign-up forms, comments, contact forms, advertising, affiliate links, analytics tools, and links to third-party websites or services.
2. Information We Collect
We may collect information from you in the following ways:
Information You Provide Directly
We may collect personal information when you choose to:
- Subscribe to our email newsletter
- Leave a comment
- Contact us through a form or by email
- Participate in surveys, promotions, or reader feedback features
- Submit information through any interactive feature on the Website
This information may include:
- Your name or display name
- Your email address
- Your website URL, if you provide one
- Your comments, questions, or messages
- Any other information you choose to submit
You are not required to provide personal information to browse most areas of the Website.
Information Collected Automatically
When you visit the Website, certain information may be collected automatically, including:
- Your IP address
- Browser type and version
- Device type
- Operating system
- Referring website or search engine
- Pages viewed
- Date and time of visit
- Time spent on pages
- Clicks and interactions with the Website
- General location information, such as country, region, or city
This information helps us understand how visitors use the Website, improve our content, protect the Website, and support advertising and analytics.
Information From Cookies and Similar Technologies
We and our third-party partners may use cookies, pixels, tags, scripts, web beacons, local storage, and similar technologies to collect information about your browsing activity.
These technologies may be used to:
- Keep the Website working properly
- Remember preferences
- Measure traffic and performance
- Understand which content readers find helpful
- Provide and measure advertisements
- Prevent fraud, spam, or misuse
- Improve user experience
You can manage or disable cookies through your browser settings. Some parts of the Website may not work properly if cookies are disabled.
3. How We Use Your Information
We may use the information we collect to:
- Operate, maintain, and improve the Website
- Provide recipe content, guides, and related resources
- Respond to your comments, questions, or messages
- Send newsletters or email updates if you subscribe
- Analyze Website traffic and performance
- Understand reader interests and improve content strategy
- Display, personalize, and measure advertisements
- Track affiliate link performance
- Protect the Website from spam, fraud, abuse, and security threats
- Comply with legal obligations
- Enforce our terms, policies, and rights
We do not sell your personal information for money.
4. Legal Bases for Processing Information
If you are located in the European Economic Area, the United Kingdom, Switzerland, or another region with similar privacy laws, we process personal information only when we have a valid legal basis to do so.
These legal bases may include:
- Your consent, such as when you accept cookies or subscribe to emails
- Our legitimate interests, such as improving the Website, preventing fraud, and understanding reader engagement
- Performance of a service you request, such as responding to your message
- Compliance with legal obligations
- Protection of our rights, users, and Website security
You may withdraw your consent where processing is based on consent, including by adjusting cookie settings, unsubscribing from emails, or contacting us.
5. Cookies and Tracking Technologies
Cookies are small files placed on your device that help websites operate, remember preferences, and understand visitor behavior.
We may use the following categories of cookies:
Essential Cookies
These cookies are necessary for the Website to function properly, support security, prevent spam, and allow basic features to work.
Analytics Cookies
These cookies help us understand how visitors use the Website, which pages are visited, and how content performs.
Advertising Cookies
Advertising cookies may be used by third-party advertising partners to show ads, measure ad performance, limit repeated ads, detect fraud, and personalize advertising where allowed by law.
Preference Cookies
These cookies may remember settings such as cookie choices, display preferences, or other Website preferences.
You can control cookies through your browser settings. You may also see cookie consent tools or privacy controls depending on your location.
Where legally required, we honor valid opt-out preference signals, such as Global Privacy Control (GPC), when detected by our Website or supported privacy tools.
6. Google Advertising and Third-Party Ads
The Website may use third-party advertising services, including Google advertising products such as Google AdSense, Google Ad Manager, or similar services.
Third-party vendors, including Google, may use cookies to serve ads based on your prior visits to this Website or other websites.
Google’s use of advertising cookies enables Google and its partners to serve ads to users based on visits to this Website and/or other sites on the internet.
You may opt out of personalized advertising by visiting Google’s ad settings. You may also manage advertising choices through industry opt-out tools where available in your region.
Third-party advertising partners may collect information such as:
- IP address
- Browser and device information
- Pages visited
- Ad impressions and clicks
- General location
- Cookie identifiers
- Information about interactions with ads and content
Advertising partners may use this information to provide, measure, personalize, and improve advertising.
7. Google Analytics and Website Analytics
We may use Google Analytics or similar analytics tools to understand how visitors interact with the Website.
Google Analytics may collect information such as your IP address, browser type, device type, pages visited, time spent on pages, referring pages, and interactions with the Website.
This information helps us improve content, understand reader behavior, and maintain the Website.
You can learn more about how Google collects and processes data through Google’s privacy resources. You may also be able to opt out of certain analytics tracking through browser settings, cookie consent tools, or browser add-ons.
8. Email Newsletters
If you subscribe to our newsletter, we may use your email address to send recipe updates, cooking ideas, seasonal content, blog news, or promotional messages.
We may use an email service provider to manage subscriptions and deliver emails.
You can unsubscribe at any time by clicking the unsubscribe link included in our emails or by contacting us directly.
We do not add you to our email list unless you voluntarily subscribe or otherwise give permission where required.
9. Comments and User Content
If you leave a comment on the Website, we may collect the information shown in the comment form, your IP address, and browser information to help detect spam and protect the Website.
Comments may be publicly visible. Please do not submit private, sensitive, or confidential information in public comments.
We reserve the right to remove comments that are spam, abusive, misleading, unlawful, promotional, or otherwise inappropriate.
10. Contact Forms
When you contact us through a form or by email, we may collect your name, email address, message content, and any other information you choose to provide.
We use this information to respond to your request, provide support, maintain records, and protect our Website.
11. Affiliate Links and Sponsored Content
Some articles on Cook Simple Food may include affiliate links. This means we may earn a small commission if you click a link and make a purchase, at no extra cost to you.
Affiliate links help support the Website and allow us to continue creating free recipe content.
We may also publish sponsored content, brand collaborations, or product mentions. When content is sponsored or includes a material relationship, we aim to disclose that relationship clearly.
Our opinions, recipe notes, and recommendations are intended to remain honest, practical, and useful for readers.
12. How We Share Information
We may share information with trusted third parties who help us operate and improve the Website, including:
- Website hosting providers
- Email newsletter providers
- Analytics providers
- Advertising networks and ad technology partners
- Affiliate networks
- Spam detection and security providers
- Technical support providers
- Legal, accounting, or professional advisors
- Government authorities if required by law
These third parties may process information only as needed to provide their services, comply with legal obligations, protect rights, or support the operation of the Website.
We may also share information:
- If required by law, subpoena, court order, or legal process
- To protect our rights, property, users, or Website security
- In connection with a business transfer, merger, sale, or acquisition
- With your consent or at your direction
We do not rent or sell your personal information to third parties for money.
13. Advertising Partners and “Sale” or “Sharing” Under Privacy Laws
Although we do not sell personal information for money, some privacy laws may define certain advertising, analytics, or tracking activities as a “sale,” “sharing,” or “targeted advertising.”
Depending on your location, you may have the right to opt out of:
- Targeted advertising
- Sale of personal information
- Sharing of personal information for cross-context behavioral advertising
- Certain profiling activities
You may exercise these rights by using available cookie tools on the Website, adjusting your browser settings, enabling Global Privacy Control where supported, or contacting us.
14. Your Privacy Rights
Depending on where you live, you may have certain rights regarding your personal information.
These rights may include the right to:
- Request access to the personal information we hold about you
- Request correction of inaccurate information
- Request deletion of personal information
- Request a copy of your information
- Object to or restrict certain processing
- Withdraw consent where processing is based on consent
- Opt out of targeted advertising
- Opt out of sale or sharing of personal information
- Limit the use of sensitive personal information, where applicable
- Appeal a privacy rights decision, where applicable
To submit a privacy request, contact us at:
Email: contact@cooksimplefood.com
Subject Line: Privacy Request
We may need to verify your identity before fulfilling your request. We will respond within the time required by applicable law.
We will not discriminate against you for exercising your privacy rights.
15. California Privacy Rights
If you are a California resident, you may have rights under the California Consumer Privacy Act, as amended by the California Privacy Rights Act.
These rights may include:
- The right to know what personal information we collect, use, disclose, sell, or share
- The right to request deletion of personal information
- The right to request correction of inaccurate personal information
- The right to opt out of the sale or sharing of personal information
- The right to limit the use of sensitive personal information, where applicable
- The right to non-discrimination for exercising your privacy rights
Categories of personal information we may collect include:
- Identifiers, such as name, email address, IP address, and online identifiers
- Internet activity, such as pages viewed, referring URLs, and interactions with the Website
- General location information, such as city, region, or country
- Commercial information, such as affiliate link interactions or ad interactions
- Inferences, such as content preferences based on Website activity
We use this information for the purposes described in this Privacy Policy, including operating the Website, analytics, security, advertising, communication, and legal compliance.
To exercise California privacy rights, contact us at:
Email: contact@cooksimplefood.com
Subject Line: California Privacy Request
You may also use applicable opt-out tools available on the Website or in your browser.
16. European, UK, and Swiss Privacy Rights
If you are located in the European Economic Area, the United Kingdom, or Switzerland, you may have rights under applicable data protection laws.
These rights may include:
- The right to access your personal information
- The right to correct inaccurate information
- The right to request deletion
- The right to restrict processing
- The right to object to certain processing
- The right to data portability
- The right to withdraw consent
- The right to lodge a complaint with a data protection authority
Where required, we request consent before using non-essential cookies or similar technologies for analytics, advertising, or personalization.
You may contact us to exercise your rights at:
Email: contact@cooksimplefood.com
Subject Line: EU/UK Privacy Request
17. Data Retention
We keep personal information only for as long as reasonably necessary for the purposes described in this Privacy Policy.
Retention periods may depend on:
- The type of information
- The reason it was collected
- Legal or tax obligations
- Security and fraud prevention needs
- Whether you remain subscribed to emails
- Whether the information is needed to resolve disputes or enforce rights
When information is no longer needed, we may delete it, anonymize it, or securely store it as required by law.
18. Data Security
We use reasonable technical and organizational measures to help protect personal information from unauthorized access, misuse, loss, alteration, or disclosure.
However, no method of transmission over the internet or electronic storage is completely secure. We cannot guarantee absolute security.
You are responsible for using the Website safely and avoiding the submission of sensitive personal information through public comments or unsecured channels.
19. International Data Transfers
Cook Simple Food is operated from the United States or uses service providers that may process information in the United States and other countries.
If you access the Website from outside the United States, your information may be transferred to, stored, or processed in countries that may have different data protection laws than your country.
Where required, we rely on appropriate safeguards or legal bases for international transfers.
20. Children’s Privacy
Cook Simple Food is not directed to children under the age of 13, and we do not knowingly collect personal information from children under 13.
If you believe that a child under 13 has provided personal information through the Website, please contact us and we will take reasonable steps to delete that information.
21. Sensitive Personal Information
We do not intentionally collect sensitive personal information such as Social Security numbers, government ID numbers, financial account details, precise geolocation, health information, race or ethnic origin, religious beliefs, political opinions, or biometric data.
Please do not submit sensitive personal information through comments, forms, or emails.
22. Third-Party Links
The Website may contain links to third-party websites, products, services, social media platforms, affiliate partners, or advertisers.
We are not responsible for the privacy practices, content, policies, or security of third-party websites.
When you click a third-party link, you should review that third party’s privacy policy and terms before providing personal information.
23. Social Media and External Platforms
Cook Simple Food may maintain profiles or share content on third-party platforms such as Pinterest, Facebook, Instagram, YouTube, or similar services.
If you interact with us on those platforms, your activity is governed by the privacy policies and terms of those platforms.
We do not control how third-party platforms collect, use, or share your information.
24. Do Not Track and Global Privacy Control
Some browsers offer “Do Not Track” signals. Because there is no single industry standard for responding to Do Not Track signals, we may not respond to them in all cases.
Where legally required and technically supported, we honor Global Privacy Control or similar opt-out preference signals.
25. Changes to This Privacy Policy
We may update this Privacy Policy from time to time to reflect changes in our practices, legal requirements, advertising partners, analytics tools, or Website features.
When we update this Privacy Policy, we will revise the “Last Updated” date at the top of this page.
Your continued use of the Website after changes are posted means you accept the updated Privacy Policy.
26. Contact Us
If you have questions, requests, or concerns about this Privacy Policy or how your information is handled, contact us at:
Cook Simple Food
Website: https://cooksimplefood.com
Email: contact@cooksimplefood.com